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Sermon #B675 -
Liberty Is Pregnant Again
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Dr. Byrd: If you have your
bibles with you, I invite you to
turn to the book of Galatians,
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book of Galatians,
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Galatians chapter five verse
number one. Galatians chapter
five verse number one.
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We only have one verse today,
Galatians chapter five and verse
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number one. Galatians chapter
five and verse number one. You
have it in your Bibles.
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You have it at home. I want
to invite you to turn there,
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Galatians chapter
five verse number one.
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I am going to read from the
King James version of the Bible.
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I am going to read
from the King James version.
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Just one text, Galatians chapter
five verse number one, the
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Apostle Paul. Galatians chapter
five verse number one, the
Apostle Paul speaking to us
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today. If you were in the
building, I would say if you
have it let me hear you say
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Amen, but you are not in the
building. It is just me and the
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media team and so I trust that
you have it and we are going to
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read now and you are
hearing the word of God says,
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"Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath
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made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of
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bondage.". Let me read that one
more time "Stand fast therefore
in the liberty wherewith Christ
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hath made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of
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bondage. Today, we want to
challenge you with this tax on
the subject, Liberty is
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pregnant. Again. Liberty is
pregnant again. God bless us
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now. We thank you for what you
have done already today in this
worship experience,
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but now speak Lord
your servant heareth.
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Lord bathe me in the Holy Ghost
right now that God people say,
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what is gotten into Pastor
Byrd, but it will not be me,
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but it will be the Holy Ghost
working and living through me
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today. Lord, I feel like
preaching today[?] fire. Shut up
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in my bones. Lord preach, speak,
and teach your people and then
at the end of this sermon Lord,
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I pray that individuals be
willing to give their life to
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you and say what must I do to be
saved, believe in the Lord Jesus
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Christ and thou shalt be saved.
We pray this prayer asking for
forgiveness of sin in Jesus'
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name. Amen.
Liberty is pregnant again.
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Today, as everyone has said is
July fourth, America's birthday.
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July fourth, America's birthday.
Independence Day. Two hundred
and forty-four years ago,
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America got its freedom. America
got its liberty and independence
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from Britain. Now to make sure
you are with me today. I am
going to quickly do a historical
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review. A historical
review of America's history.
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Now, you remember that in the
seventeenth century, that is in
the sixteen hundreds,
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the pilgrims and the Puritans
came to America. So they could
practice religious freedom.
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They wanted to worship as they
wanted. They wanted to preach as
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they wanted. They wanted to sing
as they wanted. They wanted to
serve as they wanted.
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They wanted to be free. You also
remember that it was in the next
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century, the eighteenth
century, the seventeen hundreds,
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that Great Britain established
a number of colonies in America,
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but it was not just the British
who want colonies in America.
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It was also the French who
wanted colonies in America.
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So there was a war between the
British and the French and it
was called the French
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and Indian War. The British won
in this war. They defeated the
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French, but after this war
Britain was in some debt because
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of the war and so Britain wanted
to pay some of its war debts. So
what the Britain decided to do,
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the king of Britain and the
British Parliament believed that
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they had to right, the right
to tax the American colonies,
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but the American colonists
they did not see it this way.
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They did not like the
idea of being taxed by Britain
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and then having no say-so in
their own government affairs.
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And so the phrase and you all
know it, no taxation without
representation became popular.
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As a result, the American
Revolutionary War was fought
from seventeen seventy-five to
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seventeen eighty-three and it
was fought between Great Britain
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and the Thirteen
American Colonies. The colonies,
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one resulting in the overthrow
of British rule in the colonies
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and the establishment of
the United States of America.
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America was born. Freedom
from Britain was realized.
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Independence from Britain was
granted now to consummate this
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Independence, the Declaration
of Independence was adopted
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and signed by the Continental
Congress on July the fourth,
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seventeen seventy-six and the
Thirteen American Colonies broke
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their political connections to
Great Britain. This declaration
said. We all learned it in
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school. We hold these truths to
be self-evident that all men are
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created equal and they have
three basic rights that the
government can not take away,
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life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness, but friends, you
can not take what you have never
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given because over these
two hundred and fifty years.
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This ideology of Liberty has
been more acceptable in theory
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than in practice. What am I
talking about? In the
Declaration of Independence,
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the founding fathers presented
grand, stately, and lofty
written words of freedom,
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liberty, and equality but these
were nothing more than
hypocritical, sanctimonious,
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self-serving, feel
good, and sound good words
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because while they wrote these
words there were still six
million black people who were
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enslaved in America. So in
seventeen seventy-six America
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was born, but in seventeen
seventy-six, Liberty was
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stillborn. And so today nearly
two hundred and fifty years
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later, I am what I
call a conflicted American,
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there is a conflict between what
I have been taught versus what I
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have been shown. History books
have taught freedom, but actual
history has shown something
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else. Somebody is still not
getting it, so let me break this
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down. Thomas Jefferson,
principal author of the
Declaration of Independence
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and third president of the
United States was a slave owner
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who had an affair with his black
slave mistress, Sally Hemings.
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Their lecherous, lude and lust
-ful, produced six children,
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but if all men were created
equal, why did Thomas Jefferson,
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author of the Declaration
of Independence have slaves.
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If all men were created equal,
why did Native Americans have to
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give up their land and be
relegated to reservations
usually on the worst patches of
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land? If all men were created
equal in seventeen seventy-six,
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then why were blacks counted as
three-fifths of a person at the
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Constitutional Convention in
seventeen eighty-seven? If all
men were created equal,
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then why were black people,
slaves, until the adoption of
the Thirteenth Amendment
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in eighteen sixty-five when
slavery was abolished? If all
men were created equal,
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then why could not black people
vote until the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment
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in eighteen seventy that said
"Voting rights could not be
denied on account of race
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or color."? If all
men were created equal,
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then why could not women vote
until the Nineteenth Amendment
was passed in nineteen
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twenty? If all men
were created equal,
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then why did we have to push
for the Civil Rights Voting Act,
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Civil Rights Act in nineteen
sixty-four and the Voting Right
Act in nineteen sixty-five?
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Jesus wants to know. I want to
know just like all men are
created equal seem to apply
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only to the white property only
males at the time of the
Declaration of Independence
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in seventeen seventy-six.
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There is still a question of
whether we are living up to this
universal standard of
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equality in twenty twenty,
which leaves to the reality that
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America was born, but Liberty
was stillborn. I hear people all
the time, "Pastor, it is twenty
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twenty, the world is different.
Things have changed. Quit
holding on to the past.
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Get over it." but I can not
get over it in twenty twenty.
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When Ahmaud Arbery is shot while
jogging, Breonna Taylor shot
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while sleeping and George
Floyd's got a knee to his neck.
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I can not get over it in
twenty twenty when black persons
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have a COVID-19 hospitalization
rate approximately five times
higher than that of
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their white counterparts and
in a period of the coronavirus
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pandemic, where more than one
hundred and twenty-five thousand
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people have died from this virus
in America and millions of
others have lost their health
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care due to lost jobs. The White
House is trying to end Obamacare
which will leave twenty-three
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million Americans without health
coverage and make it harder for
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sick people to get new coverage
at a time when the coronavirus
is disproportionately impacting
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Black and Latino Americans and
leaving hundreds of thousands
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with potentially lasting health
problems. I can not get over it.
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But what are we going to do?
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So today, I just have one verse
in my text, Galatians five one,
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the Apostle Paul says simply,
"Stand fast therefore in the
Liberty wherewith Christ
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hath made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of
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bondage.". I like the way the
New International Version puts
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it, it says, "It is for freedom,
Hallelujah, that Christ has set
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us free, stand firm then and do
not let yourselves be burdened
again by a yoke of slavery.".
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Now, let me help you understand
what Paul is saying here.
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Paul here is warning the
Galatians not to put the yoke of
the law back on again.
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He is telling the
Galatian church that number one,
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there were people who had
rejected the gospel of grace.
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There were people who had
started saying that believing in
Jesus was not enough
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and then number three, there
were people who were teaching
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that, to be saved they
still need to be circumcised,
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circumcised and obey the
ceremonial law or the law of
ordinances or the Mosaic law.
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So Paul tells them that they
believe all of this then they do
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not believe that Christ's death
on the cross was sufficient to
save them from their sins,
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for the wages of sin is death.
But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ,
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Our Lord. Paul was trying to
stress to them that living under
the ceremonial law not to
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be confused with the Ten
Commandment law but living under
the ceremonial law could never
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bring freedom. That it
can only bring bondage.
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But when Christ Jesus came he
fulfilled the requirement of the
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ceremonial law and was the
atonement, Hallelujah, for our
sins and that through Christ's
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death. There was no longer a
need to kill animals, no longer
need to sacrifice lambs.
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Behold the Lamb of God,
which takes away the sins of the
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world, which means then that the
burden that the yolk was lifted
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from the people because the
requirement of the ceremonial
law had been met by Jesus
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Christ. The Lamb of God was
sacrificed in their place and
put simply, Jesus had set them
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free, Instead of living
in the freedom of Christ.
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The Galatians thought
they needed something more.
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So the Galatians allowed some
folk to come in and spread some
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heresy among them. They allowed
fold to deceive them into
thinking they needed something
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more, in order to earn their
freedom, in order to earn their
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salvation. But let me remind
you today, we can never earn our
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Salvation. Our Salvation in the
sight of God is but as filthy
rags and more than that,
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if we try to earn our Salvation,
we deny the truth of God's
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grace. Paul says, "It is Jesus'
sacrifice that restores us to a
right relationship with God.",
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but do not get it twisted. Yes,
we have been freed from sin,
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but we are not free to sin. Yes,
we have been ransom. Yes, the
debt was paid on Calvary.
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Jesus paid it all. Yes, we have
been saved from a sinful life
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and brought it to freedom
through the precious blood of
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Jesus, but that does
not mean we go out and sin.
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Yes, we are free from the
traditions of the ceremonial
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law, but we are not free to
disregard or break God's Ten
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Commandment law. And so what
does Paul tell us he says, stand
up. He says, stand firm.
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In the freedom which
Christ and Christ along brings.
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He says stand and
when he says stand,
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it is a reminder that freedom
comes at the cost of continued
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vigilance. You got to stand
daily. You got to stand weekly.
You gotta stand monthly.
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You got to stand
yearly. Standing does not stop.
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When you stand for
something, it never stops.
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The Galilean Christians were
beginning to drift they were
beginning to drift.
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They were beginning to drift
away, beginning to drift from
the values of Jesus
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they were beginning to
drift from their priorities
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and their priority that Jesus
that Paul gave them a Galatians
five can be read in verse
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number fourteen, where they
were to love their neighbors as
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themselves. That is the
context of Galatians five,
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but I do not want to limit our
use of the text today to its
just so contextual use,
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but today I also want us
to consider from this text, a
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topical use. Remember, Paul
says, it is for freedom that
Christ has set us free.
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Stand firm and do not let
yourselves be burdened again by
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a yoke of slavery. Today is July
fourth. Two hundred forty four
years ago, today America was
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born. Today America
celebrates its independence.
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Today we are reminded of
the Declaration of Independence.
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Today we are reminded of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
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happiness. And just like the
text tells us, Do not let the
ceremonial law keep you in
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slavery. God told me to tell
somebody. Don't let the law of
supremacy, the law of privilege,
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the law of xenophobic,
chauvinistic, racist,
prejudiced, bigger than
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inequality, keep you in slavery.
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The Galatians had
gotten out of a spiritual
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slavery with the ceremonial
laws, but they were still in a
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salvific slavery because they
did not understand what Jesus
had done for them on Calvary
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and some of us today are
just like the Israelites.
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Some of us today are
just like the Galatians
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but we are not in a physical
slavery per se but many of us
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black and white are
in a supremacy slavery.
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Privileged folk think this
is how it is supposed to be.
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Underprivileged folk think
this is how it always will be.
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But with all that is going
on in our world as of late,
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with all the awareness that has
been brought up to the forefront
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regarding racial inequality, we
now have an opportunity for
Liberty to really be born.
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We have an opportunity
for Independence to be born.
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We now have an opportunity
for Freedom to be born.
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Just like our forefathers could
birth their freedom by severing
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ties with Britain. Today, our
country, our community, our
city, and our church,
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we have the opportunity to birth
Freedom today with our severing
of ties with supremacy,
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racism, oppression, and
inequality. And so my cried
today Liberty is pregnant again.
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But Pastor Byrd, how
can something be born? When
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something is old, it reminds
me of Jesus' conversation with
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Nicodemus, when Jesus told
Nicodemus he had to be born
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again, but how can a man
be born when a man is old?
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How can a man take his old
mature self all the way back to
a one-celled embryo?
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How can life be transformed?
How can something be made new?
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How can something new be seen?
How can politics be transcended?
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How can laws be change?
How can policies be reversed?
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How can practices be reformed?
How can philosophies be
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transformed? How can
perspectives be amended? How can
minds be converted?
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How can supremacy be abolished?
How can racism be eradicated?
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How can oppression be
obliterated? How can slavery be
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eliminated? How
can all men be equal?
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How can we truly be one nation
under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all?
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How can Liberty be born again?
Yes, we need heart changes,
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but we also need some law
changes. We got to get out and
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vote. I said we got to get out
and vote. It is not unchristian
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to vote. I wish I had
a witness in this place.
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We have to vote policies and
we have to vote for the right
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people and some people need
to be voted out. We need godly
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people. We need Christ-like
people. We need law changes and
some time to change the law,
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you got to change the people.
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But we also need the entire
human race to join in this
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birthing process. That is Black
folks. That is White folks. That
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is Hispanic folks. That is Asian
folk. It has all folks join
together to fight for
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and advocate the freedom and
equality of all races, speaking
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of races, in all races when
we thinking here about the Civil
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Rights Movement, we hear a lot
about Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, John
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Lewis, Fred Shuttlesworth,
Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young,
Ralph Abernathy, and Rosa Parks,
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but have you also heard of
William Moore? Pastor Bruce
Klunder? Andrew Goodman?
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Michael Schwerner? Pastor James
Reeb? Viola Liuzzo? Jonathan
Daniels and Juliet Morgan?
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Each of these individuals
that I just named participated
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and died during the
Civil Rights Movement.
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But what makes them stand out is
that each of these individuals,
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each one was white and gave
their lives fighting for racial
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equality. In fact,
they did this in some,
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in place of some black folk who
felt that fighting for equal
rights was not worth their
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own lives. There were some
black folk who did not march.
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There was some White folk who
stood up for us when we would
not stand for ourselves.
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Let me be clear some of the
emails, some of the letters,
some of the hate mail,
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and social media posts that
I have received discouraging me
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from protesting and speaking up
and speaking out have come from
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people of color. But
that does not deter me
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because when I study history I
realized that every black person
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did not agree with
Martin Luther King.
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Every black person did not
believe in the Montgomery Bus
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Boycott. Every black person
did not vote for Barack Obama.
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In fact, when Barack Obama
ran for president two thousand
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eight, blacks only constituted
13 percent of the population,
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but he got fifty-three
percent of the total vote,
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which means that somebody in
addition to black people had to
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vote for him. Are you hearing
what I am saying? I have learned
everybody does not like you.
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Everybody will not like you.
Everybody will not understand
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you. Some people will never like
you because your spirit
irritates their demons.
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Not every black person is woke.
We got some fake woke out there.
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I wish I had time. Every
minority, listen to me good,
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every minority, I do not care
where you have come from. I do
not care where you were born.
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Every minority in the United
States has either directly
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or indirectly benefited from the
Civil Rights struggle, and do
not you forget that.
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So what do we need to do? Number
one. We need some law changes.
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Number two. We need all hands
on deck. All hands on board to
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deliver Liberty, to allow
Liberty be born not stillborn,
but born. But the number three,
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we need God in our lives. I do
not understand people who call
themselves followers of God,
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but ca not speak up against
racism. We need God in our
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lives. I was
working on his sermon.
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I said, well, maybe I should say
we need God back in our lives,
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but for some people God was
never in their lives. We need
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God in our lives. If God can
part the Red Sea, if God can
make a way in the wilderness,
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if God can, feel like preaching
now. If God can make rivers in
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the desert, we know that God can
move mountains out of our way,
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if the Lord can use a virgin to
conceive a child then God can
birth Liberty into his
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people, if the Lord can open up
a Red Sea then surely the Lord
can open up bigoted minds,
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if the Lord can heal a woman
with the issue of blood then God
can heal us of this
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dreaded disease called racism.
Liberty is pregnant again,
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but what are we going to do
about it? Are we going to birth
it or we going to ignore it?
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two hundred and fifty years
ago, our country, our nation was
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pregnant. Pregnant with liberty
and it is pregnant now. It is
pregnant with life, liberty,
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and the pursuit of
happiness. Liberty is pregnant
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and every time a woman is about
to give birth, the doctors tell
her to do one thing,
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they tell her to push.
Liberty is pregnant again,
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and it is time I can not
get a witness in this place.
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It is time to PUSH, Pray Until
Something Happens. You got to
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push. Speak up and speak out.
You have got to push. I know you
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are tired, but keep on marching
and push. I know it hurts, but
you got to stand up for the
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right. Push. I know you
feel like giving up but push.
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I know you will think it is
not going to happen but push.
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I know you think you are
not gonna birth it but push.
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The race is not given to
the swift or to the strong
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but to the one that
endures unto the end. So push.
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Jesus has already set us free.
Jesus already won the battle on
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Calvary and if the Son sets you
free, you shall be free indeed.
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So push because if you do
not push the church will be
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debilitated. The community will
be devastated. The world will be
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disintegrated. The race will be
dominated and the globe will be
annihilated. So push.
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You are about to give birth.
I said you are about to give
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birth. We are going to keep
marching because we are about to
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give birth. We got to keep
protesting because we are about
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to give birth. Liberty is
coming. Liberty got it, has its
00:25:08.80\00:25:12.87
head out. Liberty's hands and
feet are coming out. Liberty's
eyes are peeking out.
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Nobody can hold you
down. Nobody can keep you down.
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Nobody can stop
God from blessing you.
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When they build a wall around
you, knock it down. When they
put a mountain before you,
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speak it down. When they lay a
problem in front of you, tear it
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down. When they bring you
prejudice, turn it into praise.
When they bring you grief,
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turn it into gratitude. When
they bring you hurt, turn it
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into hope. When they bring you
trouble, turn it into thanks.
When they bring you a deficit,
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you better turn it into a
surplus. When they laugh at you,
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keep on smiling. When they
slander your name, you just
going to praise God's name
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because this joy that I have the
world did not give it and the
world can not take it away.
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I got the joy joy joy joy. Down
in my heart and it is down in my
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heart to stay. Let me tell
you people can talk about me all
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they want. They can take away
my health but they can not take
00:26:12.53\00:26:16.94
away my hope. They can take away
my job but they can not take
00:26:16.97\00:26:20.24
away my joy. They can take away
my pulpit but they can not take
00:26:20.28\00:26:23.91
away my praise. They can take
away my position but they can
not take away my power.
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They can strip me of my letters
but they can not strip me of my
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life because God is the joy and
the strength of my life. It
moves all pain, misery,
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and strife, He promised
to keep me never to leave me.
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He has never come short of
his word. I have got to fast
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and pray, stay in the narrow
way. Keep my life clean every
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day. I want to go with him when
he comes back because I have
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come too far and I
will never turn back.
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Liberty is pregnant again. What
are you going to do with it?
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You just going to talk
about it? Just text about it?
00:27:19.50\00:27:23.97
Just tweet about it?
Liberty is pregnant again.
00:27:24.01\00:27:29.64
We do not need another
stillbirth, but we need Liberty
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and freedom and equality
to be born for everyone.
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