(Theme Song) Jesus is worthy
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oh yes, he's
worthy worthy of all...
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all the praise..
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(Music) I will not be a legend
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in my own mind.
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The world is full of
graveyards of people who
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thought the world
couldn't go on without them.
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That's why if a vision is
of God, it will outlive you.
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Without vision, the
Bible says, people what?
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Perish.
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Seeing implies vision
and the reason why some folks
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don't do anything is because
they've never seen anything.
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Vision, first of
all, is hindsight.
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Everybody say hindsight.
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Vision has to know
where you've come from.
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You see, some folk, you've
forgotten where you come from.
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Oh, let me say it again.
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You forgot--I may preach
a little while right now--
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you've forgotten
where you're come from.
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Now, because you've got a
nice little car, a nice house,
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got a little money,
you've forgotten where the Lord
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has brought you from.
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But vision has to remember
how far the Lord brought you,
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through many
dangers, toils, and snares.
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Vision has to remember
where God has brought us
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as a people.
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You haven't always been
able to shop with everybody.
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You haven't always been able
to live in any neighborhood.
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You haven't always
been able to own property.
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And then, when you were
able to own land, all you had
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was forty acres and a mule.
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You haven't always been
able to apply for any job you
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wanted, go to any school.
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You haven't always been able
to vote, haven't always been
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able to own a nice car.
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You haven't always
had the clothes that you
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could pick up and pick
out and be able to say,
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I'm wearing blue
today and black tomorrow.
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Somebody remembers the day
when you knew what you were
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going to wear, black today,
black tomorrow, black the next
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day, and black on Sabbath.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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You knew what you were going
to eat, rice and peas today,
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peas and rice tomorrow.
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Ackee & salt fish the
next day and then you can going
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in a cycle.
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But vision says, I
know from whence I've come.
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God's been good to somebody.
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Has God been good
to somebody up in here?
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(applause) But not only is
vision hindsight, but vision
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is also insight.
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Everybody say insight.
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Aud: Amen.
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Because has to know
what God is doing right now.
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There are some folk just
sitting in this place right
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now, some of you watching
the television right now,
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and you don't
realize what God is doing
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in our midst right now.
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Prophecy is coming to pass.
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In these last days.
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The Bible says that God's
going to pour out his spirits
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upon all flesh.
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There's a mighty
move of God taking place.
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There's a mighty
move of God taking place
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in the Oakwood Church.
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So you have hindsight, you
have insight, but then, number
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three, you've got to have
foresight, because you've got
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to know where God is
getting ready to take you.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Is there anybody in this place
that knows that God is about
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to take them somewhere?
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But I don't know about you.
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You can sit there like a lump
on a log all you want, but God
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is about to do something for me.
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I'm believing God to
do something in my life.
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I'm believing God to do
something in my family's life.
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I'm believing God to do
something in this church's
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life.
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Something in the
life of Breath of Life.
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I'm not worried
about my naysayers.
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Oh, you don't like that.
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Let me give you your vernacular.
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I'm not worried by my haters
in my life, because my Bible
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says that God will make
my enemies my footstool.
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So, my haters are just pouring
the concrete that I'm going
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to walk on,
because my haters are my
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elevators, and God is about
to do something in my life.
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(applause) I've learned
dogs never bark at parked cars.
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Dogs bark at moving vehicles.
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God shows Joshua
and he's showing us
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in verses 2 through 6, vision.
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He says in verse 3 that whatever
the sole of your feet touch,
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I'm a give it to you.
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And that's not a
prosperity gospel either.
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That's just when I
walk in the will of God,
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when I put my will in
harmony with God's will,
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when I put my weight in harmony
with God's weight, God has never
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failed me yet.
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The steps of a good man
are ordered by the Lord.
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Just like I was with
Moses, so shall I be with you.
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You're, Carlton Byrd, you're,
Oakwood University Church,
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you're Oakwood University,
a descendant of the movement.
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An heir of the promise.
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Moses is dead, but the
vision God says that I have
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for my people is still alive.
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Frederick Douglas is
dead, but the vision that I have
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for my people is still alive.
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Harriet Tubman is dead,
but the vision that I have
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for my people is still alive.
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Jackie Robinson is dead,
but the vision that I have
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for my people is still alive.
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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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is dead, but the vision
that I have for my people
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is still alive.
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Martin Luther King,
Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers,
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Nelson Mandela are dead,
but the vision that I have
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for my people is still alive.
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Rosa Parks is dead,
Mary McLeod Methune is dead,
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but the vision that I
have for my people, God says,
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is still alive.
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I've traveled up this campus.
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Some of you all don't know
the history of this campus.
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Eva B. Dykes, the
lay building for which
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the library is named
was the first black woman
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to receive the Ph.D. degree.
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She is dead.
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But God says the vision he has
for his people is still alive.
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C. E. Mosley is dead.
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But the vision God has
for his people is still alive.
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Elder E. C. Ward is dead.
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But the vision God has
for his people is still alive.
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Elder Cleveland is dead.
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But the vision God has
for his people is still alive.
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And whenever God gives
a vision, when you keep
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that vision under supervision,
God always makes provision.
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You hear me say it all the time.
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I've never had a
vision for ministry
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that I could afford.
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How are we getting
those rooms out there.
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I don't know.
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Somebody just sent a
check just in the nick of time.
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That's just like God.
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Just when I need
him, Jesus is near.
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I've never had a vision
for ministry I could afford.
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I will never have a vision
for ministry that I can afford,
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because if God shows you
something that you can afford,
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then what do you need of God?
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It's not of God.
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But I believe if it's
God's will, it's God's bill.
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If it's God's
choice, it's God's invoice.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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All I'm saying to you today
is you need to learn how to take
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a walk, because every place
the sole of your feet touch,
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you've got the devil nervous,
because every time you start
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walking, the devil
knows God's up to something.
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Every time you start going
places, the devil knows God
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is about to do
something in your life.
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You see, friends of mine,
I say it all the time, if you
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saw what I saw, you'd
be acting like I'm acting,
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because I praise him not on
what you see, but I praise God
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on what God has shown me.
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But, not only that, verse 5,
God says, "There shall not any
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man," "there shall not any man
be able to stand before ye all
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the days of thy
life: as I was with Moses,
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so I will be with
thee: I will not fail thee,
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nor forsake thee." Which
means God's got your back.
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No weapon formed
against you is going prosper.
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If God be for us,
who can be against us?
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God's got your back.
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We have nothing to
fear, Ellen White says,
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for the future, lest
we forget how God has led
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us in the past,
God's got your back.
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The movement is not over.
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But in Jesus' name we press on.
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God is saying to the
descendants of the movement,
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God is saying to the
Joshua generation, Joshua,
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you need to know that
because you have a covenant
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with me, I have a covering
for you, for there can be no
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covering without covenant.
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That's why shacking and
cohabitation don't work,
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because you want a covering,
but you don't have a covenant.
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God says, Joshua, don't fear.
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Don't fret.
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The same way I took
care of Moses is the same way
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I'm going to take care of you.
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And some of you know,
that if you just testify
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for a little
minute, when you look back
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over your life, you
know that it wasn't you
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that kept you.
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But somebody knows that
it was nobody but Jesus.
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Jesus, bill payer.
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Jesus, financial aid provider.
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Jesus, financial
clearance clearer.
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Jesus, marriage savior.
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Child finder.
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Cancer killer.
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Depression destroyer.
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Slander slaughterer.
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Envy executioner.
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Faith fortifier.
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Addiction assassin.
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Sin forgiver.
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Truth liberator.
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Righteous redeemer.
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Soul savior.
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Coming conqueror.
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Jesus.
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(Applause)
Somebody here has lost
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their mind by now.
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Concerning all you've
been through, you should be
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institutionalized right now.
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But how did you make it?
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Jesus.
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Is there anybody in here
that knows that there are some
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things that should have
happened to you, could have
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happened to you, but
didn't happen to you because God
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kept you.
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Jesus.
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Verse 6 says, "Be strong."
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"Good courage: for
unto this people shalt
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thou divide for an inheritance
the land, which I sware
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unto their fathers to
give them." I like the way
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the Clear Word puts it.
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Be strong.
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Full of courage.
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Because I'm
right here beside you.
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Now is the time to lead
the children of Israel into
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the land that I
promised to give thee.
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So, God is calling the
descendants of the movement.
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God is calling
the Joshua generation.
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God is calling us to be
strong in these last days.
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It's time for the people
of God to stand up against
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the enemies of God.
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But more than that,
let me get specific today.
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It's time for the men
of God to stand up against
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the enemies of God.
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The enemies of God
are destroying the man.
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Specifically the black man.
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Oh, let me preach to this.
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You don't want it?
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I'm going to give it anyhow.
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Fifty percent of us black
men are high school dropouts
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compared to less than 25%
of our white counterparts.
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Black male students in
grades K to 12 are nearly two
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and a half times as likely
to be suspended from school
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in comparison to white students.
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One in every 15 black men
is incarcerated in comparison
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to 1 in every 106 white
men, which means that blacks
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are incarcerated at nearly
six times the rate of whites.
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While we're only 13% of
the United States population
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we make up 44% of
the prison population.
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There are more black men
between the ages of 18 to 24
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who are
incarcerated than in schools
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of higher education.
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If current trends continue,
one in three black males born
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today can expect to go
to prison in their lifetime.
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That's black men.
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What about the black women?
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As the number of black women
has increased by 800,000 over
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the last--800% over the last
three decades, women of color
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have become
disproportionately represented.
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While the number of women
incarcerated is relatively
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low, the racial and ethnic
disparities are startling.
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For example, black women
are three times more likely than
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white women to be incarcerated
while Hispanic women are 69%
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more likely than white
women to be incarcerated.
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Black teen girls between
the ages of 15 to 19 accounted
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for 44% of the pregnancies
per 1,000 adolescent females,
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while white teen
girls only accounted for 21%
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of the pregnancies per
1,000 adolescent females.
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In total, men and women, 27%
of all blacks live in poverty
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compared to 10% of whites.
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Thirteen percent of all blacks
are unemployed compared to 6.5%
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for whites.
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And while blacks
represent 13% of the U.S.
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population, blacks accounted
for an estimated 44% of new
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HIV infections in 2010.
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Unless the course of
the academic changes,
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at some point in their lifetime,
an estimated 1 in 16 black men
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and 1 in an estimated 32
black women will be diagnosed
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with HIV infection.
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That's why we've got
to bring our kids here.
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That's why we've got to
put these individuals in front
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of our young people.
00:14:07.30\00:14:08.30
It's time for the people
of God to stand up against
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the enemies of God.
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Moses is dead.
00:14:13.83\00:14:17.46
But the movement must live on.
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But you know what?
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In the spirit of equal
opportunity, the enemies of
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God are not just
against black people.
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They're against all people.
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Because although whites
represent the majority of the
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U.S.
00:14:29.83\00:14:30.83
population, they are
responsible for 54% of murders
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involving an intimate partner,
59% of murders involving a
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family member, 55% of murders
involving infants, 56% of
00:14:36.60\00:14:41.33
murders involving elders,
53% of gang-related murders, 70%
00:14:41.33\00:14:45.46
of workplace-related murders,
55% of arson-related murders,
00:14:45.46\00:14:50.16
80% of poison-related murders,
and 53% of murders involving
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multiple victims.
00:14:54.36\00:14:57.20
So you know what?
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Either we're going to
learn how to live together, work
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together, and play together,
or we will die tragically
00:15:02.93\00:15:09.00
together like fools.
00:15:09.00\00:15:10.06
It's time for black people,
white people, red people,
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yellow people, all people to
take back our homes, take back
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our schools, take back our
neighborhoods, take back our
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communities, take back
our cities, go to church, get
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involved in church.
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Brothers, pull your pants up.
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[applause] Walk like a man,
talk like a man, dress like a
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man, lead like a man.
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You're not a man because you
can make a baby, but you're a
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man if you will rear a child.
00:16:03.30\00:16:04.90
Ladies, show some
respect for yourself.
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[applause] Don't let these
brothers pick over you like
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they pick over cars.
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You're not a car.
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You're a lady.
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Let me help somebody
with that and break that down.
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You know, when a man shops
for a car, the first thing he
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does, he goes to as
many car lots as possible.
00:16:30.93\00:16:35.86
Number two, you always want
to know how that body looks.
00:16:35.86\00:16:39.63
Number three, you want to
test drive before you purchase.
00:16:39.63\00:16:43.16
And number four, you're
curious about how much mileage
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it has and how many
previous owners it has had.
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And number five, you want the
most out of it with the least
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possible cost.
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But when you know how
much you're worth, you'll stop
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giving all these
brothers discounts.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place?
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[applause] Ladies, look at
that brother, unless you're
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married, you don't have to,
but if you're single, look at
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that brother and tell
him, you can't drive this.
00:17:12.86\00:17:17.60
Tell him, I'm not for sale.
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And let me throw this in.
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You've heard me say this, I'm
going to say it again, I feel
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it in my spirit.
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Ladies, because you're not for
sale, you need to take off all
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these for-sale
and on-sale signs.
00:17:37.13\00:17:39.56
[applause] Come to
church with all this out.
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Come on, preach, Pastor Byrd.
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I'm doing the best I can.
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[applause] It's not of God.
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All this, nowadays, I'm going
to, I know I'm a young man,
00:17:50.53\00:17:53.23
but all this come as you are.
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When you come as you are, you
don't come as you are in your
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dress.
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If you were going to see
Barack Obama, you would have a
00:17:58.50\00:18:00.56
new suit, new shirt, new tie.
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You're coming to see the
King of Kings and the Lord of
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Lords.
00:18:04.20\00:18:05.20
When you come as you are,
you're coming with your heart
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as you are.
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I know some of you all
don't like that, but that's all
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right, I'm going
to tell it anyhow.
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Take these for-sale
and on-sale signs off.
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That's why I'm getting
choir robes for all the choirs.
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Come on, say Amen.
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[applause] And while the
old folk are clapping, it's not
00:18:23.73\00:18:27.26
just for the young folk, either.
00:18:27.26\00:18:29.26
We got some old Casanovas up
in Oakwood, come on, say Amen.
00:18:29.26\00:18:32.66
[applause] To our visitors, we
marry at 90, we marry at 80 in
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Oakwood.
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Come on, say Amen.
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We're
descendents of the movement.
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Heirs of salvation.
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Purchased of God.
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Born of His spirit,
washed in His blood.
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We are the Joshua generation.
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We are
descendents of the movement.
00:19:03.43\00:19:06.30
Moses is dead, but your
ice is as cold as anybody's.
00:19:06.30\00:19:11.73
Your sugar is as
sweet as anybody's.
00:19:11.73\00:19:15.03
You are as good as anybody.
00:19:15.03\00:19:17.23
You're as bright, beautiful,
brilliant and blessed as
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anybody.
00:19:20.63\00:19:21.63
People of God, stand up
against the enemies of God.
00:19:21.63\00:19:27.66
Because if they don't stand
up, the church is going to be
00:19:27.66\00:19:31.60
debilitated.
00:19:31.60\00:19:32.93
The community devastated, our
children dominated, our world
00:19:32.93\00:19:36.10
disintegrated and
our globe annihilated.
00:19:36.10\00:19:38.46
We must now be the initiators,
the agitators, the creators,
00:19:38.46\00:19:43.43
inventors and
sustainers of the movement.
00:19:43.43\00:19:47.13
If not us, then who?
00:19:47.13\00:19:49.13
If not now, when?
00:19:50.56\00:19:51.56
God is saying to this
generation, the descendents
00:19:51.56\00:19:56.40
of the movement, through what
he said to Joshua, that what
00:19:56.40\00:20:00.06
I spoke to your forefathers,
what I spoke to your ancestors,
00:20:00.06\00:20:04.43
what I spoke to the generation
before you, I will manifest
00:20:04.43\00:20:08.63
in your generation.
00:20:08.63\00:20:11.43
That is, this generation.
00:20:11.43\00:20:14.63
I'm going to bring the
past that I promised and spoke
00:20:14.63\00:20:17.66
about in generations before.
00:20:17.66\00:20:20.83
Now, we talk about the Bible
and we talk about fulfilling
00:20:20.83\00:20:24.73
the prophecies, but what
about modern-day fulfillment?
00:20:24.73\00:20:28.43
We live life with such
cavalier feeling we don't even
00:20:28.43\00:20:31.43
see prophecy being
fulfilled before our very eyes.
00:20:31.43\00:20:33.43
What about the
modern-day fulfillment?
00:20:33.43\00:20:36.56
Who would have
thought that in our lifetime
00:20:36.56\00:20:40.26
a black man, Barack Obama,
00:20:40.26\00:20:46.56
would be the President of
the United States of America?
00:20:46.56\00:20:52.06
Who would have thought it?
00:20:52.06\00:20:55.93
And then not only was he
elected, but he got re-elected.
00:20:55.93\00:21:02.56
But it was
spoken of in a previous
00:21:02.56\00:21:05.90
generation, where
Martin King said that he had
00:21:05.90\00:21:10.16
a dream one day, that
man would not be judged
00:21:10.16\00:21:12.20
by the color of his
skin but by the contents
00:21:12.20\00:21:15.40
of his character.
00:21:15.40\00:21:18.26
And now, in 2008, in 2012,
we all, yes, went out to vote,
00:21:18.26\00:21:26.13
and a good number of us
voted for who we voted for.
00:21:26.13\00:21:29.60
But don't get
this thing twisted.
00:21:29.60\00:21:32.50
Black folk only
make up 13% of the U.S.
00:21:32.50\00:21:35.56
population.
00:21:35.56\00:21:36.66
Which means that somebody
other than black folk had to
00:21:36.66\00:21:41.43
vote for Barack Obama in
order for Barack Obama to win.
00:21:41.43\00:21:49.53
God is calling us to be strong.
00:21:49.53\00:21:54.23
God is calling us to all be
strong, because God's trying
00:21:54.23\00:21:57.30
to wrap this thing up.
00:21:57.30\00:21:59.16
God is getting
ready to give us the land.
00:21:59.16\00:22:01.30
The Promised Land awaits us.
00:22:01.30\00:22:02.83
Prepare to meet thy God.
00:22:02.83\00:22:05.86
Prophecies are
being fulfilled every day.
00:22:05.86\00:22:08.60
Tornadoes, earthquakes,
wars, northeastern winter storms
00:22:08.60\00:22:13.76
like never before.
00:22:13.76\00:22:15.83
Hijacking of a plane yesterday.
00:22:15.83\00:22:19.20
No money, no jobs,
changing marriage partners like
00:22:19.20\00:22:22.96
magazine subscriptions.
00:22:22.96\00:22:25.60
The legalization of same-sex
marriage, the legalization
00:22:25.60\00:22:29.23
of pot, a black President
in the United States, the same
00:22:29.23\00:22:33.03
country that sold black folk
from slave ships 400 years ago
00:22:33.03\00:22:37.46
is the same country
that has a black man
00:22:37.46\00:22:41.50
as President that walks
up on the White House steps.
00:22:41.50\00:22:46.56
Young people, you
have a responsibility
00:22:46.56\00:22:52.16
to be accountable here,
because you're not supposed
00:22:52.16\00:22:55.73
to receive the inheritance
and become intoxicated
00:22:55.73\00:22:58.56
with self-interests,
self-centeredness,
00:22:58.56\00:23:04.33
and selfishness.
00:23:04.33\00:23:06.03
You are not to become pompous
or arrogant and talk about
00:23:06.03\00:23:09.63
what you have, because there
is a generation behind us in
00:23:09.63\00:23:14.03
inheritance that
we're supposed to divide the
00:23:14.03\00:23:16.73
blessing in such a way that
you have to realize that other
00:23:16.73\00:23:19.83
people--and I'm very clear
about my role here at Oakwood
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.63
Church, that other people
are waiting on you to step up
00:23:22.63\00:23:29.03
to the plate, because God
is using you to be a conduit
00:23:29.03\00:23:33.66
to bring other
people's blessings to pass.
00:23:33.66\00:23:37.16
Should God delay his coming,
somebody that's not even born
00:23:37.76\00:23:44.33
yet is going to be
blessed because you existed.
00:23:44.33\00:23:50.73
And if you forfeit this
moment, you are hindering
00:23:50.73\00:23:56.60
the blessings of
generations behind us.
00:23:56.60\00:24:01.10
Our parents didn't forfeit.
00:24:01.10\00:24:04.63
We can't forfeit it either.
00:24:04.63\00:24:07.33
I love this church, I
love this school, I love this
00:24:07.33\00:24:14.10
property.
00:24:14.10\00:24:15.10
I will die for it.
00:24:15.10\00:24:16.10
It was ordained by God.
00:24:16.10\00:24:19.93
I can't forfeit it.
00:24:19.93\00:24:21.60
My great-granddaddy
didn't forfeit it, my granddaddy
00:24:21.60\00:24:23.60
didn't forfeit it, my
daddy didn't forfeit it.
00:24:23.60\00:24:25.70
I can't forfeit it.
00:24:25.70\00:24:29.53
They may not
have had a computer,
00:24:29.53\00:24:31.53
but they had character.
00:24:31.53\00:24:33.86
They may not have had an
iPad, but they had intelligence.
00:24:33.86\00:24:37.96
They may not have had a cell
phone, but they had strength.
00:24:37.96\00:24:42.10
They may not have had
Facebook, but they had some
00:24:42.10\00:24:44.33
faith.
00:24:44.33\00:24:45.63
They may not have had
Twitter, but they had trust.
00:24:45.63\00:24:48.63
They may not have had
Instagram, but they had
00:24:48.63\00:24:51.06
ingenuity.
00:24:51.06\00:24:52.40
They may not have had DVDs,
but they knew of a Deliverer.
00:24:52.40\00:24:55.86
They didn't have LinkedIn,
but I tell you, they were linked
00:24:55.86\00:24:59.73
up to Him.
00:24:59.73\00:25:01.10
They may not have had
money, but they had a Master.
00:25:01.10\00:25:05.80
They may not have had
justice, but they had Jesus.
00:25:05.80\00:25:09.83
And that's why they could
sing, ride on, King Jesus.
00:25:09.83\00:25:16.40
That's why they could
sing steal away to Jesus.
00:25:16.40\00:25:21.50
That's why they could sing,
I don't feel no ways tired.
00:25:21.50\00:25:25.26
That's why they could sing,
we shall overcome, someday.
00:25:25.26\00:25:28.26
That's why they
could sing, I got shoes.
00:25:28.26\00:25:35.83
You got shoes.
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.50
All God's children got shoes.
00:25:38.50\00:25:43.86
When I get to heaven, gonna
put on my shoes, and I'm gonna
00:25:43.86\00:25:50.03
walk all over God's heaven.
00:25:50.03\00:25:52.83
I got a crown, you got a
crown, we all God's children got
00:25:52.83\00:26:01.60
a crown.
00:26:01.60\00:26:03.66
Because when I get to heaven
I'm gonna put on my crown,
00:26:03.66\00:26:10.76
and shine all over God's heaven.
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