Are you looking for an
exciting change in your life?
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Well, get ready for
a breath of new life.
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And now, here he is,
speaker/director of Breath of
Life Ministries, Dr. Carlton
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Byrd. PB: The great E. E.
Cleveland had a powerful impact
on all of our lives.
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In his evangelistic meetings, he
was known for his catchy sermon
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titles. Some of you may not be
old enough to remember them, and
some of your have been around a
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while, and you'll know this
one: "Adam's mother's birthday."
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"The Man Who Returned from
Hell with a Story to Tell."
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"Three Ways to Postpone Your
Funeral." "When Seven Women Take
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Hold of One Man." "When Money Is
Thrown into the Streets and
Nobody Will Pick It Up."
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Or, "The Father Didn't; the Son
Couldn't; the Apostles Wouldn't;
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So Who Did?" But then there was
one I liked, "Three Things God
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Can't Do." And so it's from
that title that we go to Carlton
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Byrd's style in the Back
to School Revival context.
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Three Things God Can't Do. Now,
you will remember quickly that
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God brought the
children out of Egypt.
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He  delivered the children
of Egypt from the Egyptians by
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making the Red Sea a dry
highway. God did this because
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chosen--everybody say chosen.
Israel was God's Aud.:  Chosen. 
  PB:  They were God's blessed.
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Come on, say blessed. Aud.: 
Blessed.    PB:  And when you're
God's chosen and God's blessed,
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no devil in hell can stop
God's blessing on your life.
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Let folk talk about you all they
want. Let folk curse you all
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they want, but God says He'll
bless those that bless you and
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He'll curse those that curse
you. That's why when you're
blessed and folk are cursed,
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and you wonder why they're never
blessed, it's because they're
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cursing God's blessed. Do I
have a witness in this place?
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And just because Israel is God's
blessed, Israel is God's chosen,
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God's look out for them. God
takes care of them. God provides
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for them. In the book of
Numbers, specifically if you
read Numbers 22 and 23,
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the Bible will tell you
that after defeating enemy after
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enemy the Israelites moved to
the Plains of Moab, and the king
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of Moab was a man by the name of
Balak. Balak was intimidated by
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the move of the children of
Israel. Balak had heard about
the children of Israel.
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He had heard about their
military exploits. The
Israelites had just
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defeated the Amorites, and
Balak was concerned about his
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territory. He was concerned,
because he was scared that the
Israelites were going
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to overtake his territory.
That's just like God's people
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today. You've got some folk
intimated, and you don't even
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know it. You've got some folk
scared. It's not your fault,
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it's just a fact that you are
God's chosen. You're God's
blessed. That's why some folk
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look at you like they look at
you. That's why some folk treat
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you like they treat you, because
you've got them intimidated,
you've got them scared.
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But let me give those folks some
help today: Don't hate the
player but hate the game.
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Do I have a witness in this
place? Israel was nothing more
than a preacher and a choir.
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Balak was scared of a preacher
and a choir. Why? Because Balak
knew God had His hand on it.
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So what does Balak do? Balak
calls for Balaam, the prophet of
God, and Balak tells Balaam,
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I want you to infiltrate the
camp of the Israelites. I'm
going to pay you, and I want you
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to go in, and I want you to
curse Israel so we can overtake
Israel, because if you go in and
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pronounce the curse, then I can
go in and I can overtake them.
But Balak was wasting his time
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asking Balaam to curse Israel,
because Israel was God's
blessed. Ellen White says in
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"Patriarchs and Prophets," that
when Balaam was called to curse
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Israel, he could not by all his
enchantment bring evil upon
them, so even if he wanted to
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curse the people of God, he
couldn't do it. But not only
that, if you read the entire
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chapters, 22 and 23, you will
notice that Balak took Balaam to
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several places to try to entice
him to curse the Israelites.
Balak thought a change in
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scenery would change Balaam's
mind. But I'm here to let
somebody know, changing
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locations won't change God's
will. God blesses people not
places, are you hearing what I'm
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saying? When God is walking with
you, when God is taking care of
you, God is with you wherever
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you go. You don't have to worry
about the conspiracies that try
to come up against you.
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You don't have to worry about
the silent attacks that you're
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not privy to. My Bible says no
weapon formed against you is
going to prosper. If God be for
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us, who can be against us? But
the Bible says that Balaam goes
in, he looks around the
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Israelite camp, and he notices
how God takes care of Israel.
Balaam comes back to
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Balak and he says, Look, King,
I went in. And I found something
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when I went in. I found out some
things about God. I found number
one, that God can't lie.
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[Aud. reaction]    PB:  You see,
king, you want me to go in and
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you want me to curse them so
that you might come in and
conquer him. But I need you to
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understand that God is faithful
to His children; that it's not
in God's nature, neither is it
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in God's character, to lie.
If God says He's going to do
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something, then God's going to
do it. God said the children of
Israel are blessed.
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God's not a liar, and I can't
change what God has said. God is
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not a man that he should lie nor
the Son of Man that he should
repent. If God said it,
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that settles it. God does not
make declarations without the
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intent to perform. God is not
like the folk in your life who
just say stuff just to be
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getting something. But God says,
When I speak my Word, I don't
take that back. It may look
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sometimes it's not going to
happen, but you've got to
believe it's going to happen.
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And I've learned in my life that
sometimes when God speaks, it
may take years for the
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manifestation to come to
fruition. Am I talking to
anybody in this place? [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  Has God spoken in
somebody's life, and it looks
like it's taking forever and
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ever and ever. But I've come to
remind somebody that delay is
not denial. He m ay not come
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when You want Him, but
He's always right on time. [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  You've got to
hear His Word, receive His Word,
and then to doubt His Word is
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to call God a liar. God is not
a liar. The promises of God are
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yes and amen. So yes is going to
happen; amen, it's already done.
You oughta hear that.
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Yes, it's going to happen; amen,
it's already done. In fact, when
God speaks a thing--
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I believe I've got a witness
that understands it's already
done before you start it.
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[Aud. reaction]    PB:  Which is
why you'd better learn how to
have a "yet" praise.
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The devil's telling you you're
not going to be blessed of God.
You'd better tell the devil, No!
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You just haven't been blessed
yet. If God's going to do it.
you'd better believe
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that God's going to do it. If
God promised you He will heal
you, it's already done.
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If He promised you He's going
to bring you out, it's already
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done. If He promised you
financial clearance, it's
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already done. If He's already
promised you a job, it's already
done. God said if my Word abides
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in you, and you abide in Me, if
you just ask what you will and
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it shall be done. That's why we
don't have to wait till it
happens, we can shout now.
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Because God has already spoken
it in our lives. Do I have a
witness in this place? And so
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God can't lie. I said, God can't
lie. [Aud. reaction]    PB:  And
let me throw this in, 'cause
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I've got to make it practical.
Practical for back to school. If
God can't lie, then His people
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shouldn't lie. [Aud. reaction]  
 PB:  If God can't lie, then His
people shouldn't lie.
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And we've got too much lying in
the church. All right, it's
getting quiet. That's all right.
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It used to be that a man's word
was a man's bond. But too many
of us are prone to fabrication.
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We stretch the truth. People
determine your character by what
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you stand for, what you fall for
and what you life for. An
unconsecrated tongue is like a
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torch fire in barren forest.
Somebody will say something and
we run with it like it's truth.
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But don't be so quick to believe
everything you read, everything
you hear, everything you see.
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Everything on the Internet is
not true. Everything on Facebook
is not true. Some of this stuff
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is photoshopped, phony-shopped,
and fraud-shopped. Everything
somebody tells you may not be
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the way it actually was. I tell
people all the time, there are
three sides to every story.
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Yours. Mine. And the truth. Are
you hearing what I'm saying?
When somebody comes running,
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telling you something, you'd
better consider your source. I
don't care who it is. Do I have
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a witness in this place? Quit
slandering the lives of other
people talking about stuff you
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don't know anything you're
talking about. Talking about
lying, I was on a plane,
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reading, a couple of years ago.
I was reading the USA Today. And
it had an interesting article
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there in the Life Section,
called "Alibis for Purchase."
Everybody say alibis--come on,
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alibis. Aud.:  Alibis.    PB: 
For purchase. What it was saying
was this: For three hundred
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dollars, you can get on the
Internet and charge up an alibi.
You can get receipts for plane
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tickets, hotels, people that you
met with, business associates,
and you can buy a lie for a mere
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three hundred dollars. And then,
if you send in five hundred
dollars you can get the
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elaborate package. Somebody's
looking at me, talking about
what's the web address. Come on,
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say amen. [Aud. reaction]    PB:
 We have a propensity to lie,
and we lie in all directions.
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We lie to ourselves, we lie to
others. Oh, you don't know what
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I'm talking about. Let me call
the roll. Makeup companies. Make
up companies. Help us lie about
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ourselves. When you take it off,
you see the truth. Do I have a
witness in this place?
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[Aud. reaction]    PB:  I just
saw on Facebook, I don't know if
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it's true. Some dude married
some lady, she took off her
makeup. He divorced her and
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said, This is not what I thought
I married. Extended hair. Don't
look around, look at me.
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[Aud. reaction]    PB:  Extended
nails. Extended eyelashes.
Braids. Weave, and the like.
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Help us lie about our--tell the
truth, shame the devil.    [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  Colognes,
perfumes, deodorants--they also
help us lie about our selves.
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But given their purpose, maybe
they're better than the truth.
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come on, say amen. [Aud.
reaction]    PB:  Clothing also
helps us lie about ourselves.
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Some of us tell the truth, we're
robbing Peter to pay Paul. Oh,
you're ___--on the outside. We
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look good, with Gucci. Prada.
Hugo Boss. St. Johns. Gavana.
But on the inside, we're just as
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broke, running to Taco
Bell. I see you. [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  Sneaking hot sauce packets
for Doritos. Running to
McDonald's, getting napkins for
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our dinner tables. Or better
yet, right there on the corner
of Jordan University,
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going to Popeyes to get jelly.
Come on, say amen.    [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  Don't act like
you haven't done it. Come on,
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say amen. [Aud. reaction]    PB:
 I just have to use the
bathroom, and you go sneak some
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jelly, and, can I just get some
water? And then you head on out.
Don't act like you don't
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know what I'm talking about.
College students, being in
college is a temporary state of
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poverty. But we lie. No truth in
us. But God can't lie. And we
shouldn't lie either.
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Stop lying to yourself. You are
not a size 8 anymore.    [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  You are a 16.
Preach, Pastor Byrd! I'm doing
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the best I can! [Aud. reaction] 
  PB:  So take off that size 8
and go get a size 16.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying? [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  Stop lying.    [Aud.
reaction]    PB:  Amen. Honesty
is of God, and dishonesty of the
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devil. I'm telling these choirs
and praise teams this year, you
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all can't put on size 16 and put
some robes on. Come on, say
amen. Stop lying to yourself.
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The devil was a liar from the
beginning and he's a liar now.
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But God can't lie. And neither
should you lie. Do I have a
witness in this place? But not
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only that, Balaam says, number
two, Balak: God can't force us
to love Him. Balaam tells Balak,
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God can't make them love Him. If
God could make them love Him,
then we could undo it.
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But they love Him voluntarily.
They're loyal voluntarily. So
king, it's going to be hard
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for you to go in, mess with
them, because they love God too
much. It's going to be hard,
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king, for you to pull them away
from church because they love
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God too much. It's going to be
hard for some relationship to
stop them from going to church
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because they love God too much.
It's going to be hard for them
not to return tithe
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because they love God too much.
It's going to be hard for them
to sit up in church
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and be stuck up, because they
love God too much. They don't
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have idols, they don't worship
Baal, like you. But they worship
the God of heaven and the God of
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earth. They've grown up loving
Him. Unlike the folk in Moab who
you force to love you ,
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these folk generally genuinely
love God. You see, friends of
mine, all the way from
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Genesis to Revelation, God never
messes with free will. God
created us with the power of
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choice, that we can love Him or
not love Him. But what I love
about my God is He loves us in
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spite of us. And how God dealt
with Israel is a demonstration
of love. Yes, they were often
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rebellious. Yes, they were
naughty by nature. Yes, they
were unappreciative of God's
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love, but God never left them. I
must confess today, I'm so glad
some of you all are not God.
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Aud.:  Amen.    PB:  Because
some of you all would leave me.
You would leave other folks.
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But God has never left us. God
never cut us off. Hallelujah,
somebody. God allowed
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Israel to go through some stuff
in order that they might
recognize His presence
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and desire a relationship with
Him that was beyond the surface.
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God's allowing some of you right
now in this place, some of you
watching right now on
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television-- God is allowing you
to go through experience after
experience after experience
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until you finally realize what a
real relationship with God is
all about. 'Cause I'm a witness,
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the only way you're going to
understand what a real
relationship with God is all
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about where you really love Him,
is you have to go through stuff.
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I'm talking about some stuff.
Where no one or nothing else can
get you out but God.
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God says I can't force you
to have a personal relationship
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with Me. All I can do is take
you through enough stuff so that
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one day you'll realize where
your real help comes from. God
says, I cannot force you
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to return tithes and offerings.
I just hope one day you'll love
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Me enough to return it. God
says, I can't force you to come
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to church, but I hope you go
through enough stuff where every
Sabbath you realize
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you can't wait till you get
to the house of God. God says, I
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can't force you to praise Me,
but I hope that you go through
enough stuff that you
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will fall in love with Me. That
you will fall in love with Me
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enough that whether there's a
praise team, whether there's a
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choir in the loft, that whether
Anthony Brown comes or not,
where you'll praise Me in your
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car, you'll praise me on your
job, you'll praise Me in the
classroom. God doesn't
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force us to love Him, but
we ought to love Him. Oh, how I
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love Jesus. Now, for the
practical application. God
doesn't force us to love Him.
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Stop trying to force people to
love you. Church, quit trying to
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make people love you who
don't even like you.    [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  In any positive
relationship there must be
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reciprocity. Everybody say
reciprocity. Aud.:  Reciprocity.
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PB:  Reciprocity means give
and take. Reciprocity means,
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if I bring the ice cream,
you've got to bring the cake.
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If I bring the peanut
butter, you bring the jelly.
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If I bring the rice, you gotta
bring the peas. But I'm not
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bringing ice cream, cake, peanut
butter, jelly, rice and peas and
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you're not bringing anything to
the table. Reciprocity means,
you have to love her--
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listen to me, young people--you
have to love her and she has to
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love you. Reciprocity means you
have to love him, and he has to
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love you. Quit trying to force
people to love you. The first
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time you know something is wrong
in your relationship, when
you're trying to get
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somebody to love you, when the
person you're so in love with
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you can't even get them to say
the words. You're talking about
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I love you, and they're talking
about, well, I care about you.  
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[Aud. reaction] PB:  You like
that, Brother Lang? I love you.
Well, I'm really in like with
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you. [Aud. reaction]    PB:  Or
this is the favorite, all-time
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number one: I love you.
Me too.    [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  No. If you love me, tell
me you love me. Are you hearing
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what I'm saying? [Aud. reaction]
   PB:  There's something wrong
when you're the one always
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calling. They've got your home
number, your work number, your
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cell number, but you're always
the one calling. There's
something wrong with that.
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You're always the one that's
giving and they never give
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anything. You're always the one
that's supportive and they never
support you with anything.
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You're always running behind
them and they never run behind
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you. You ought to make up
your mind that I'm coming out of
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these one-sided relationships,
where I've always got to give
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something and I'm not getting
anything in return. If I call
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you, then baby, you can call me,
too. If I email you, then you
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can email me. If I rub your
feet, then you can rub my feet.
If I buy gifts for you,
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you can buy some gifts for
me. If I do nice things for you,
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you ought to do nice things
for me. You've got to make up in
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your mind, I'm going to stop
falling in love with people who
don't even like me. '
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Cause there are some folk
up in here, some folk watching,
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who are in love with
folk that can't stand you.
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I'm going to go some more.
You're in here now. But not only
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that, we're talking about God
can't force people to love Him,
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you can't force him to love you,
you can't force her to love you.
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There ought to be some
reciprocity when it comes to
your faith system. Pretty quiet
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now. Your belief system.
Your moral system. Your values
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system. Your love and
understanding for God and the
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things of God. I'm tired of
seeing people with all this
godly promise on their life,
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and as soon as you meet
somebody you can't go to church.
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You don't want to hear anything
about God, and you let them
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bring you down to their level.
Now you're too tired to come to
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church, too tired to come
to Sabbath school, can't go to
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choir rehearsal. Now you don't
have anymore money to return
tithe and offering to give to
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God, because you travel around
the world, hanging out with
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them, going from city to city
buying any and everything for
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them. And God says, Why don't
you bring them up to your level?
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Why don't you say to them,
if you're going to be with me,
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you're going to have to come to
church. Because as for me and my
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house, we're going to serve
the Lord. Do I have a witness in
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this place? You'd better tell
them, I believe in salvation. I
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believe in the Second Coming of
Jesus. I believe in the Sabbath.
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I believe in commitment, I
believe in honesty, I believe in
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integrity, I believe in
good credit. Hello, somebody.   
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[Aud. reaction] PB:  Stop
forcing people to love you that
they don't like you.
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The problem is, you think that
God is giving them to you for
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you to change them. God has
not called you to social work.
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[Aud. reaction]    PB:  Let
me tell you something. Can I be
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real today? You can't change
anybody. You can't do it. Only
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God can change. And you ought to
know by now that if they're not
doing what God says do,
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you should know they're not
going to do what you say do. Do
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I have a witness in this place?
Stop playing yourself. Stop
loving folk who don't love you.
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Men, when the relationship is of
God; women, if the relationship
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is of God, then your goals, your
dreams and your desires that God
has placed within you
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will be the same goals, dreams
and desires that God will place
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in your spouse. There is no way
you can want good credit and
they don't. There's no way you
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can want salvation and they
don't. Are you hearing what I'm
saying? There is no way
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that you can want the best out
of life and they don't. Why?
You're flesh of my flesh,
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bone of my bones. What hurts you
ought to hurt me. What makes you
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happy ought to make me happy.
Stop trying to force people to
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love you. Let me give you some
more. Reciprocity. They must
love you, and you must love
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them. Now, I love contemporary
music. Oo, hallelujah. But I'm
with the old school
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and we're getting away from some
of this stuff, and I'm about to
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bring it back. Somebody going to
get mad, but that's all right, I
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love you anyhow. Pastor Byrd is
convinced that Christians ought
to marry Christians.
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[Aud. reaction]    PB:  Oh, you
don't like that. Christians
ought to date Christians.
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Are you hearing what I--I'm
trying to help somebody. [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  No pun intended
to other faith groups but
Christians ought to marry
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Christians. And notice I said
Christians before I said
Adventists, because there are
00:24:51.89\00:24:54.89
some Adventists that are not
Christians!    [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  Heh-heh-heh-hey!
   [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  Let me tell you something.
If dogs can get with dogs, cats
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can get with cats, and if fish
can get with fish, then
Christians--and even Seventh-day
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Adventist Christians-- ought to
get with Christians. And
Seventh-day Adventist
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Christians. How can two walk
together lest they agree? You
don't have time to be
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changing anybody, you need
to get yourself right.     [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  Stop trying
to force people to love you, who
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can't stand you. If God doesn't
do it, then you can't do it
either. Finally, the last thing.
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God says number three: Balaam
says to Balak, God can't fight
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and lose. God can't fight and
lose. Now look at verse number
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22 one last time. The Bible says
that God brought them out of
Egypt and he has, as it were,
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the strength of a unicorn. God
brought them out of Egypt, and
00:26:25.85\00:26:32.62
he has, as it were, the strength
of a unicorn. Now, Israel was
always the underdog,
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but God--thank You,
Jesus--always delivered them.
Which means, there's nothing
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you're going through that
God can't deliver you up out of.
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Aud.:  Amen!    PB:  Now,
remember: Israel was nothing
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more than a preacher and a
choir. A preacher and a what,
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everybody? Aud.:  Choir. 
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