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Sermon #B707 - From
Slavery To Salvation
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Want to go right to the word.
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I'm going to ask if you would
take your Bibles and go with me
to the Book of Numbers.
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Book of Numbers, Numbers Chapter
13 is where we are going. Let us
go there now Numbers Chapter 13,
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and we are going to verse number
26 Numbers Chapter 13 Verse
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number 26, and we are going to
read through verse 33. I am
going to read and your hearing.
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I'm reading from the King
James Version of the Bible.
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Numbers Chapter 13 verse number
26. And we are ready now to read
the word of God, it says,
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"And they went and came to
Moses, and to Aaron, and to all
the congregation of the children
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of Israel, unto the wilderness
of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought
back word unto them, and unto
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all the congregation, and showed
them the fruit of the land."
Verse number 27 "And they told
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him, and said, we came unto the
land whether thou sentest us,
and surely it floweth with milk
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and honey; and this is the fruit
of it." Nevertheless, keyword
right there verse 28
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"Nevertheless the people be
strong that dwell in the land,
and the cities are walled,
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and very great: and moreover,
because the cities are walled
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and very great, we saw the
children of Anak there. The
Amalekites dwell in the land of
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the south: and the Hittites, and
the Jebusites, and the Amorites,
dwell in the mountains:
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and the Canaanites dwell by the
sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
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And Caleb stilled the people
before Moses, and said, "Let us
go up at once, and possess it;
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for we are well able. If you
were in church right now, but
tell you to shout with me able,
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we are well able to overcome
it." But the men that went up
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with him said, We be not able to
go up against the people; for
they are stronger than we.
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And they brought up an evil
report of the land which they
had searched unto the children
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of Israel, saying, "The land,
though which we have gone to
search it, is a land that eateth
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up the inhabitants thereof; and
all the people that we saw in it
are men of a great stature."
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Verse 33, "And there we saw the
giants, the sons of Anak, which
come of the giants: and we were
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in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in
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their sight." Today I just want
to take a couple of minutes to
challenge you on the subject:
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From Slavery to Salvation. From
Slavery to Salvation. God right
now come in this place. Not just
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in this place but Lord over the
airwaves, the internet waves,
the television waves. Wherever
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your people are watching and
listening to this message ,move
even right now. Forgive me my
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sins O Lord, I'm so unworthy to
stand here. But I thank you for
those twins called grace and
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mercy that enable me to stand
here today. I'm grateful to know
that Lord when we are unable you
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are able so speak we pray.
Forgive me of my sins and of the
appeal time Lord move. We pray
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in Jesus name. Amen, Amen. From
Slavery to Salvation. Today we
continue with the celebration of
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Black History Month. Recognizing
today that the entire month of
February is devoted to Black
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History. This celebration
founded by Carter G. Woodson.
Originally began as a negro
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history week in 1926 and took
place during the second week of
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February, as it co-insided with
the birth dates of Frederick
Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
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1976, the year of the
bicentennial for the United
States. The president at that
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time President Gerald Ford,
expanded the week into a full
month. You said that our country
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needed to seize the opportunity
to honor the too-often neglected
accomplishments of Black
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Americans in every area of
endeavor throughout history.
Wow, Black History Month has
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been criticized by some black
people and some people of other
races. Claiming it is unfair to
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devote an entire month to a
single group of people. There
are lessons to be learned from
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remembering Black History,
especially as it relates to our
faith in God. It is during this
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month that we have the
opportunity to reflect on our
rich history and remember the
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price that was paid by others
for us to have the privileges
that we now have. Today do not
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get it twisted just because many
of us are enjoying the fruits of
those who have gone before us.
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Do not you forget the price that
was paid for us. You see there
are many of us making good
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money. But yet, we never once
picked cotton. We live in nice
homes, and we now live in mixed
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subdivisions and developments.
But there was a time when we
were not allowed to live on the
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other side of the railroad
tracks. There was a time let
alone that we could not own our
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own homes. We can now eat in
any restaurant that we choose.
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But there used to be a time when
there was a sign in some of
these same restaurants that we
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eat in today that told us to go
to the back door to be served.
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Go shopping and we try on
all types of clothes in Macy's,
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Belk's, Dillard's. There used to
be a time when we were not
allowed to try on clothes unless
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we bought them first and when we
did buy them, we could not
return them if they did not fit.
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There are many of us today who
never vote because we never had
to fight for the right to vote.
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Because it was something already
available to us when we reach
the appropriate age.
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So its importance has been lost
on us. There are many of us who
approach learning as if learning
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is a chore because we simply do
not remember that there was a
time when blacks were not
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allowed to learn. Were
not allowed to read, were not
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allowed to write. So what do we
have to do? We had to learn in
church. You see many slaves
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heard the salvation stories and
retribution as they listen to
their slave masters read from
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the Bible. And these stories
that they heard, they spread if
you will, like wildfire. Since
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the slaves could not read the
Bible for themselves. They
turned these stories into songs
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and these songs were sang in the
field and they taught the slaves
biblical stories. These songs
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were known to us as Negro
spirituals and we sing these
songs to the present day. So the
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stories of the Bible were
communicated and remembered
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through music. You see, you
know, how we say today God is
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good. And then the chorister
responded all the time then we
say all the time. And then we
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repeat God is good. You know
what I'm talking about. God is
good, all the time and all the
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time, God is good. We
call that in the black church
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call-and-response. This
rhetorical pattern comes from
our ancestors who were slaves.
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This is how they
taught one another the Bible.
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The worship leader would read
from the Bible during the
service and the congregation
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would repeat what was said. God
is good, all the time and all
the time, God is good. This is
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how they learned the word
of God. This is our history.
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So then today in 2021, when the
preacher gets to preaching and
the people start talking back to
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the preacher. Do not tell the
people to be quiet. Do not tell
the people to hush up. Do not
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tell the people to be silent.
Let the people say "Amen". Let
the people say "Hallelujah". Let
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the people say "Thank you,
Jesus". Let them talk back to
the preacher. That is who we
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are. That is what we do in the
Black Church. It is in our DNA.
It is call-and-response. Stop
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letting people tell you that our
black worship is wrong. Our
black worship is not wrong. Our
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worship style has its roots in
our African ancestry not
European ancestry. I told you a
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couple of weeks ago, that we
need to get in touch with the
African side of our identity. We
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need to remember the great
ancient cities that we built.
The many contributions that we
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made to science and medicine,
literature and the arts,
religion and business. We need
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my friends to get in touch with
the African side of us. To know
that we are a great people with
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a great history. Where men are
kings, women are queens and
children affirm every aspect of
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their identity. We are a great
people, with a great history and
we must never forget that God
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has always done great things to
Africans. You see many of us. We
do not understand how real
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important God was to our
ancestors but our ancestors they
really believed in God. I am
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talking about they really
believed in God. When they did
not have any money they
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believed. When they did not have
any food they believed. When
they did not have any respect
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they believed. And they believed
that one day there was going to
be a better day. That one day
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Jesus was going to come. That is
why they were able to sing those
spiritual Swing Low Sweet
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Chariot, Coming For To Carry Me
Home. That is why they were able
to sing Ride the Chariot in the
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Morning. And that' is why they
were able to sing I have Got My
Ticket and Steal Away to Jesus.
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I am not got long to be here. I
know you got a little education
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now. I know you have got a
little money now, but do not
forget where you have come from.
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But just like the children
of Israel had forgotten what God
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had done for them. Too many of
us have forgotten what God has
done for us. We forgotten that
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our ancestors, the God whom our
ancestors serve, they serve with
conviction. We believe but not
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with the same focus. We believe
but not with the same
dedication. We believe but not
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for the same commitment that our
ancestors had but let us double
back to the children of Israel.
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Let us remember today. God had a
plan for Israel, but Israel had
amnesia. Israel had forgotten
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what God had done for them. The
plan for them was to go from
slavery in Egypt to the land of
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milk and honey in the Promised
Land but they forgot. They had
forgotten how God had released
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ten plagues to fight Pharaoh.
They had forgotten how God had
given them a pillar of cloud by
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day and a pillar of fire by
night. They had forgotten how
God had made a Red Sea a dry
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highway. They had forgotten that
God had defeated the most
powerful army on the face of the
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globe. They had forgotten how
God had given them water out of
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a rock. They have forgotten how
God had given them Manna to eat
so they would not go hungry.
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They were slaves one day, but
they were saved the next day.
But now they have amnesia.
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Now, they have forgotten
that God was leading them to the
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Promised Land. So our text says
in Numbers Chapter 13 that when
they were at the brink of the
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Promised Land. Right there at
Kadesh Bible says is that "they
sent out 12 spies to view the
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land. God let them see the
Promised Land." But the Bible
says two reports came back.
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Two spies have one report and
ten spies have another reports.
Two spies see one thing and they
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say yes, it is what God said. It
was, it is a great land. It is
flowing with milk and honey. And
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look at the fruit, there are
grapes everywhere. There is so
much fruit there. Look at all
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the fruit we bought brought
back. But then there is an evil
report by the other 10. We can
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not do it. We can not go in.
The evil report has a downside.
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There are two basic problems
of why we can not go in.
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Number one, there are five
different groups of people
already living in the land
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and there is no room
for us to live among them.
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They say, look the people cover
the entire land There are
Amalekites in the South.
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There are Hittites, there are
Jebusites and Amorites up in the
mountains. And then near the
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Jordan River, there are the
Canaanites. The whole place is
covered. We can not get our two
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and a half million people in
that territory. There is no
place for us to go and pitch our
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tents. There is too many people.
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Number two problem, we would
have to fight all these people
in succession to get this land.
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We are doomed. We can't do it
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Twelve spies see the land. One
report says "we can", the other
report says "we can not."
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One report is positive, the
other report is negative. One
report says it is what God said
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it would be but the other report
is talking about what it can't
be. Twelve spies see the land.
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It is one thing to have heard
about it, but it is another
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thing to see it. Because of the
old expression says, "believe
none of what you hear and half
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of what you see." So God, let
them see it. God, why did he let
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him see it? God let the spies
see the Promised Land so they
would know that what he has
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promised, He is able to perform.
You did not hear me. Let me say
that one more time.
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God let the spies see the
Promise Land so they would know
that what He has promised,
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He is able to perform.
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God let the
children of Israel see it.
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He gave them vision. He gave
them hindsight. He gave them
insight. He gave them foresight.
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But once you see it,
you have got to seize it.
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The Bible says they saw it
but what they said force them to
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missed it. But I believe I have
got a witness in this place who
knows that when God shows you
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something, when God shows you
the Promised Land, you have got
to be careful what comes out of
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your mouth. Because the power of
life and death is in your
tongue. Are you hearing what I
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am saying? The children of
Israel saw it. They saw the
Promised Land but they started
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speaking foolishness. There are
too many people. We can not
fight all these people. They are
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giants and we are grasshoppers.
But notice now the enemy did not
call them grasshoppers. They
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have called themselves
grasshoppers. I said they have
called themselves grasshoppers.
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We can not do it. We are too
small. We do not have enough
money. Our system will not allow
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it. We do not have enough
resources. We are grasshoppers,
but the Giants said we know who
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you are. You are God's chosen.
You are God's blessed. But
because they did not know who
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they were. You do not hear what
I am saying? I am here to tell
somebody, don not you realize
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who you are? Do not you realize
who is you are? You are a child
of the Most High God. You are a
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King's kid. You are God's son.
You are God's daughter. You are
an heir of salvation. Purchase
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of God, born of God's Spirit.
Washed in God's blood. Do not
you know when you go on your
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job, your devil knows who you
are. The Devil knows who you
are. Do not you know when you go
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to the doctor, the Devil knows
who you are. When you go to the
bank, the Devil knows who you
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are. I dare you to stand there
with your head down talking
about "I do not know what I am
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going to do. I am afraid to do
this. I can not do that". The
Devil knows who you are, why do
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not you? You are a child of God.
You are sitting on a ton of
dynamites. You have got Holy
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Ghost's power. You have got
power. Paul said it best, "And
now unto Him who is able to do
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exceeding, abundantly and above
all we could ever ask or think
according to the power that
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worketh in us". You have got to
speak life over your life. But
praise God for Caleb, I said
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praise God for Caleb, the Bible
says "Caleb stilled the people".
Caleb said "wait a minute do not
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you know who you are, do not you
know who we are, do not you know
that when we were in Egypt God
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was with you when you were in
Egypt God brought you out".
There is an anointing on your
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life God protected you in the
wilderness God brought my water
out of a rock. God gave manna
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from heaven when you were
hungry, you never change your
clothes. God set up a dry
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cleaners in the desert and you
woke up every morning with the
same thing on still smelling
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fresh. Snakes bit you, but you
did not die because Moses lifted
up his rod and you were healed,
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but the problem is you forgotten
and now you walk around talking
about I do not know what I am
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going to do. I do not know how I
am gonna do it. I do not know
how I am gonna get well.
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I do not know how I am going to
finish school. I do not know. I
do not think I would ever have a
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husband. I do not think I may
ever have a wife. I do not think
I am ever going to find a job.
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But Caleb said ''hush, stop all
that negative talk, shut your
mouth". Let us go up at once
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and let us possess it because
we are well able to overcome it
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and I just came to remind
somebody today that you are able
I said you are able
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and you want to know why you are
able? You are able not because
you are able but you are able
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because He is able. He heal the
brokenhearted. He set the
captive free, He made the lame
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to walk again because the blind
to see, He is able he got you
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out of Egypt. He got
you out of the Wilderness.
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He got you water out of a rock
and I come to tell somebody
today that He can get you in
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your Promised Land. He can get
you from slavery to Salvation. I
have come too far to turn back
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now. Let me tell you something.
I have preached too many
sermons. I have sung too many
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songs. I have cried to many
tears. I have returned too much
tithe and offering to miss out
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on Promised Land. I have been
through too much to be tiptoeing
around the promised land.
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I have been through too many
tests too many trials through
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many tribulations. I have had
too many people talk about me. I
have had too many people to
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doubt me and if I have come this
far I made up in my mind that I
am not going to sit around
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and wonder whether or not I am
going in I am going in the
promised land I am going in with
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authority. Devil, you should
have killed me when you had the
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chance devil. You should have
killed me 22 years ago in that
accident when you have the
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chance because I am going in. I
am going in the promised land. I
am not going to hell for
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anybody. God did not promise me
hell, God promised me heaven.
God promised me a long white
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robe. God promised me a sea of
glass. God promised me Gates of
Pearl and streets of gold.
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God called promised me a
mansion. God promised me heaven,
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and I am going in. Let me tell
you I am trying to help somebody
right now. Do not come to church
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and sing and
shout but do not go in.
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Do not know all the Commandments
but do not go in. Don not know
the spirit of Prophecy from
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cover to cover but still do not
go in. Do not study your Sabbath
school lesson, but do not go in.
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Do not be a church leader, but
do not go in. Do not be this
moralist on the outside and do
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not go in. Do not go through
slavery and it is now time to
get your salvation, but you do
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not go in. Do not you let
anything or anybody stop you
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from going in So I close with
this story. There is a story of
a boy who had a father. Who he
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really did not know. He did not
know his father as well as he
should but this father sent his
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son on a long trip, his father
gave him a letter and he said
"now son take this letter and I
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want you to go to this city, and
we need to get to the city,
you'll understand what to do."
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And so the boy went you
understand that the boy's
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father. Really did not tell him
where to go. He just told him to
go that way has God ever done
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anybody like that where God just
pointed and said "that way" you
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said "Lord, you did not tell me
how long the trip was going to
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take. You did not tell me what
street to go on you just told me
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to go that way." I wish I had
somebody that knew what I was
talking about. And so the boy
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was on the road and it started
raining the boys started
traveling and walking through
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all of the elements. Snakes were
snapping at him. Lions were
roaring at him but the boy kept
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on going the boy kept on his
journey a year passed and the
young boy was child still trying
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to figure out "what is the
purpose in it all? I still have
not gotten to where my father
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told me where I was supposed to
go." Anybody know what I am
talking about the years just go
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on and on in your life and you
still have not gotten to what
the Lord has sent you after two
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years of traveling the
young boy got to that city.
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You got there about three
o'clock in the morning and there
were some guards standing by the
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gate to the city. Guards were
holding their posts and that
city was on lockdown the boy had
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been through the storm. He had
been through the rain. He have
had some heartaches.
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He have had some pain the boy
was limping the boy could barely
stand at the gates,
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but the soldier just stood there
at attention. The boy stood and
looked at the soldier and he
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said, "Excuse me, Sir. I am
supposed to get in this gates."
The soldier says, "Son,
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You gonna have to come back
Monday. It is Friday now and we
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are locked down. You are going
to have to come back on Monday
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morning." But the boy began to
think about how far he had come
and the boy said "Sir, You do
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not understand. I have been on
this road for two years and you
mean to tell me that I have got
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to wait two more days." Then all
of a sudden the boy then
remembered that his father had
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given him a letter. He did not
know his father like he should
he did not know what the letter
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says, but he took that letter
out and he said to that Soldier,
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"Excuse me, Sir. My daddy told
me to give you this letter." The
soldier opened up the letter
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and he began to read the letter.
And unbeknownst to what was in
the letter to that boy the
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soldier turned around and he
said to his other fellow
soldiers "open up the gates the
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King's son is here." And I just
stopped by to tell somebody on
my way to heaven that I do not
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care what the devil says. All
you have got to do is tell the
devil. I have got a letter from
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my daddy, open up the gates. I
am coming in. I am coming in
with authority. I have been
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through too much. I am coming by
force no weapon formed against
me is going to prosper my God
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shall supply all of my needs. If
God before us who can be against
us? Today who is going in, who
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is going in the promised land?
Better tell somebody, I am Going
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in I am going in some of you
need to go to your job on Monday
morning and tell your boss.
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"I have got a note from my
daddy. I can do all things
through Christ, which
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strengtheneth me." Somebody
needs to go to the doctor this
week and say "Excuse me, Mr.
00:25:59.82\00:26:04.79
Doctor, but have got a note from
my daddy by his stripes I am
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healed." Somebody you have been
through trial and tribulation,
but you need to let somebody
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know. I got a note from my daddy
weeping may endure for a night,
but joy comes in the morning
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time. Somebody is been messing
with you. Somebody is been
talking about you. Somebody is
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been lying to you, but I have
got a note from my daddy, fret
not thyself because of
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evildoers. Neither be thou
envious of the workers of
iniquity. God's gonna cut him
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down but like the grass.
Somebody, you are tired of
bondage. You are tired of
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chains. You have got a note from
your daddy that where the spirit
of the Lord is there is liberty.
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Somebody, you are
tired of this Earth.
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You are tired of sin. You are
tired of the coronavirus. You
are tired of racism.
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Read the note from your daddy,
let not your heart be troubled.
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You believe in God believe
also in Me In My Father's House.
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There are many mansions if it
were not so I would have told
you I go and prepare a place for
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you if I go and prepare a place
for you. I will come again and
receive you unto myself.
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that were I am,there He may be
also. When the troubles of this
world come I dare you to read
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the note from our daddy. So
today God is calling you from
slavery, to Salvation. Are you
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tired of sin? Thank you very
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