Sermon #S003 - What
keeps You Coming? Part 2
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Pastor Snell: Grettings beloved,
this is the day that the Lord
has made. I don't know about you
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but I going to rejoice and be
glad in it. I am completely
excited and elated for the
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opportunity to bring the gospel
of Jesus Christ right there to
your living room. On last week
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we started the message entitled
"What Keeps You Coming?", where
we began learning about the
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power of God to heal and the
strenght that we gain through
faith. So this week I want to
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encourage you to stay with us
once again. Get comfortable, get
a snack, put your comfortable
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blanket on, as I give you Part 2
of the message - "What Keeps You
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Coming?" Pastor Snell: See, it's
amazing how in diets, on
counselors, and food,
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the prophet literally says that
we've taken health reform. She
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says, we've turned it into
health deform. She says, the
reason we've done this is
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because we have taken a message
of liberation and we've turned
it into a message of bondage.
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The reason you all were sad when
I said it was health day was
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because what we do with health
is we've made it a faulty fake
measuring stick for our
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spirituality. But how many of
us understand that eating right
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doesn't save you? Eating right
simply prospers you on why you
all elected a church?
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How many of us understand that
the Bible says the thief comes
to steal, to kill and to
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destroy. But Jesus says, "I have
come that they might have life
and have it more abundantly."
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See, the problem with the church
in our time is that we've made
the message of health about our
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distinctiveness and not their
deliverance. We've made it about
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our uniqueness, and not their
upliftment. We've made it about
our rightness, and not their
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relief. What the world needs to
know is that if you know the
truth, that the truth shall set
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you free. Are you
hearing me today, saints?
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[Congregation: Clapping]
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See, the reason we've got to
preach this as a message of
liberation is how many of us
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understand that there is a
correlation between black health
and black wealth. See, I need us
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to understand, friends with
mine, that the average American
household spends about eleven
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percent of their annual income
on out-of-pocket health
expenses, like premiums and
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co-pays and prescription drugs,
but the average African American
family spends about twenty
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percent of their income on out
of care pocket health expenses.
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Do you realize that six hundred
billion dollars were spent on
prescription drugs last year
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and about eighty-five billion
of those dollars came from our
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community alone? Do you realize
that almost thirteen billion
dollars come from the African
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American community in visits to
the emergency room annually?
Billions of dollars are taken
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from our community because of
bail when a fifth of those
dollars are related to mental
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issues of our people
who are not being treated.
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Too often we raise the false
narrative that the reason we're
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not doing well is because we are
spending all our money on weed;
and we're spending all our money
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on liquor; and we are spending
all of our money on rum; and we
spending all our money on
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clothes. When the truth is
that every community has its
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indulgences, but what would
happen if we start preaching
this message of liberation?
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What would happen if we took
the money that was going into
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prescription drugs and we start
putting it into land? What would
happen if we start building an
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endowment for Pfizer and start
building an endowment for
historically black colleges?
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What would happen if we took the
money from co-pays and start
putting them into 401(k)?
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What would happen if we took the
money from bail and start
putting them into school?
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What I'm saying today, friends,
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is that we've got to get to a
place where we recognize that
wealth starts with health.
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Are you hearing
me today, saints?
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[Congregation: Clapping]
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Let me just say this, beloved.
See, when we look at financial
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blessings, we are only look
at how much we have coming in.
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But how many of you all
know that when God blesses your
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health, God is keeping your
money from going out. Are you
all hearing me today, church?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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Is there anybody that can just
say "Lord, I thank you that even
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though I don't have a whole lot
going in, you bless me to where
our whole lot didn't have to go
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out."? Listen, if you hadn't had
to go to the emergency room this
year, guess what? You ought to
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praise God. If you had had to go
pay a co-pay, you ought to
praise God. If you ain't under
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cancer treatment, you ought to
praise the Lord. If you hadn't
had to go for a COVID test, you
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ought to praise the Lord. Maybe
there's somebody that makes more
than you, but you live on the
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same level of them, because God
has rebuke the devourer and put
his hand on your body, and kept
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and preserved your health of
your body and mind. Are you all
hearing me today, saints?
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Third thing that this story
teaches us, beloved, when it
comes down to healing,
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you can't just have a strong
want. You got to also have a
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strong will.
[Congregation: Amen]
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Now, since I really want you to
understand what actually happens
in this particular story.
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Jesus asked the men this
question, he says, "Do you want
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to be made well?" The man
answers the question, "Well,
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Lord, I ain't got nobody to
put me down in the pool when the
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water stirred." But Jesus didn't
ask him that question. He didn't
ask him about your assistance
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program. He isn't going to ask
who came with you. He isn't
going to ask what government
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agency is designed to
help you get down in the pool.
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He asked him a straightforward
question that deserve a
straightforward answer.
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"Do you want to be made well?" I
need you to understand that the
man is not evaluating whether
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or not he wants to be made well,
he's actually evaluating whether
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or not he wants to give up his
special status as the senior
sick person in the community.
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See, I need you all to
understand, beloved, that this
man actually has a considerable
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amount of faith. How do you say
that, pastor? Do you realize
that Jesus, as people are
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passing by, Jesus is a stranger
to this man. He don't know
Jesus. He didn't realize that
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when Jesus roam through the
streets, he didn't have no halo
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over his head. That there was
not a chorus of angels walking
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behind him, that there was no
harps playing theme music when
Jesus walked down the streets of
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Jerusalem. Are you all hearing
me today, saints? In other
words, Jesus doesn't say, "I am
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that I am." He doesn't say, "I'm
the balm in Gilead." He doesn't
say, "I'm the rose of Sharon."
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He doesn't say, "I'm the lily of
the valley." He doesn't say,
"I'm the bright and morning
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star." He doesn't say, "I'm
the fairest of ten thousand." He
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doesn't say, "I'm the Lamb of
God which has come to take away
the sin of the world."
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He is simply ask the question,
"Do you want to be made whole?"
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It's crazy, because the man has
a lot of faith. Why do you say
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that? Because it takes a
whole lot of faith to be that
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superstitious. You realize that
Superstition is just misplaced
faith. Superstition,
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it is an unscientific belief in
something that is supernatural.
What we do is we say,
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"Men, that's not faith." No,
it's just faith that has been
misapplied to rabbit's foot,
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black eyed peas on New Year's
Day, four-leaf charms, four-leaf
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clovers, amulets, and wearing
something borrowed and blue. But
how many of us know that when
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God is on your side, you ain't
got to eat black eyed peas on
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New Year's Day. You can step on
lines and cracks on the
sidewalk. You don't have to
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avoid black cats. I don't need
something old. I don't need
something new. I don't need
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something borrowed. I ain't got
nothing blue because God is on
my side. Are you all hearing me
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today, saints?
[Congregation: Clapping]
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Jesus isn't connecting with a
man on Facebook. They're not
connected on Instagram.
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They are not boys on LinkedIn.
He don't know who Jesus is.
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But when Jesus
speaks the word to him,
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he says, "Brother. Take up your
mat and walk." Now, watch this.
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I need you to know that as soon
as Jesus speaks the word, that
miracle power is applied.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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I need you to know that the
heavy hand of God, that
liberating power is released as
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soon as God speaks it. But the
man cannot access it until he
obeys the command that has been
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spoken. I need us to understand
that sometimes, we're saying,
"Lord, release the power."
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But maybe the power has been
released, but it hadn't been
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accessed because we haven't
obeyed what God has told us to
do. Are you all hearing me today
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saints? Look at this. I want you
to see what happens. Desire of
Ages 202. Look at this real
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quick. Listen. Listen. Listen
to what she says. She says,
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"Without question the man set
his will to obey the command of
Christ and his muscles respond
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to his." She says his muscles
respond to his will. Springing
to his feet, he finds himself an
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active man. He believed Christ
words and then acting upon it.
He receives strength. Did you
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all catch that,
church? [Congregation: Amen]
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In other words, his muscles
didn't respond to his want. His
muscles respond when he willed.
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His muscle didn't respond to a
desire. His muscles respond when
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he got determined. His muscles
didn't respond to an emotion.
His muscles responded to
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obedience. See, the reason we
don't experience the miraculous
is we only come with a want,
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but we won't to apply the will.
When we put our will in harmony
with the will of God,
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then the miraculous vivifying
power of the Holy Ghost then
gets released so that the
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abundance flow. It is given to
the people of the most high God.
Are you all hearing me today,
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saints? See, this is why,
beloved, I need you all to hear
this. Because all we come with
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is a prayer, expectation and
emotion, but when is the last
time you put your will on it?
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When is the last time you put
your weight on the word of the
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living? Are you all hearing
what I'm saying today, saints?
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It's amazing because, see, I
need you to understand something
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about faith. Because even God,
even though he is omnipotent and
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omniscient, you realize that
there is one limitation that God
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has given himself. The one thing
or the one threshold that God
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will not cross, He will never
cross the boundary into human
consciousness. He will never
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force your will. Even if God
wants it for you, He can never
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will it for you. In other words,
it cannot be brought into being
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until you submit or apply your
will to the will of the most
high God. Are you all hearing me
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today, saints? I need us to
understand something. That
sometimes, beloved,
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applying the will... Anybody
want to get well today. See, no,
you all don't want it today.
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You just got a prayer. If you're
going to get well, you've got to
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apply your will. Sometimes,
applying the will means I get up
when it's cold outside
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and I go walk around the block
when everybody else is still
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sleeping. See, I knew
you all didn't want it yet.
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See, sometimes applying the
wheel means that I buy water,
instead of Coke or your Mountain
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Dew. Sometimes, applying the
will means I go back to physical
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therapy. Sometimes, applying the
will is the humility to go back
to marital counseling.
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Sometimes, applying the will is
the willingness to admit "I have
a problem with drinking."
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See, the problem is we want
magic. We don't want faith. We
just wanted to have it.
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We don't want to apply the will.
But do I have seven folk that
ain't going to sit there,
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rub an oil lamp with a list of
wishes, but you're saying, "I'm
not just going to pray it.
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I'm going to will it. I'm going
to act on it. I'm going to
believe God for it."
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Are you all hearing me today,
saints? See, I need us to
understand, beloved, that the
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man... This is not a sermon on
willpower. The man doesn't will
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himself better. His will simply
allows him to have access to the
power that Jesus has made
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available. Are you all
hearing me today, saints?
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Last thing, the word
of God teaches us here.
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Bible says... Those of you who
want to know what Jesus says
here in verse number, 8,
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Bible says, "Rise, take up your
bed and walk." The Bible says in
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verse 10, "Therefore the Jews
said to him who was cured, 'It
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is the Sabbath. It's not lawful
for you to carry your bed.'
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Then he answered and said to
him, 'The one said to me, 'Take
up your bed and walk.''
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Then they asked him, 'Who is the
man who said it to you, 'Take up
your bed and walk.''
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The one who was healed did not
know who it was for Jesus had
withdrawn a multitude being in
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that place. Afterward, they
found him..." Where? "...in the
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temple, and said unto him,
'See you have been made well...'
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Jesus says, "...sin no more lest
a worse thing come upon you.'"
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A thing you got to do, friends
of mine, when you get your
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miracle, you got to be a
good steward of your miracle.
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Two things you got to do if
you're going to be a good
steward of your miracle.
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First thing you got to do,
friends of mine, is when God
does something for you...
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You notice what the brother
does. He don't get his little
miracle and go home.
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He doesn't get his miracle and
act like God ain't done nothing.
He gets his miracle
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and the first place he goes,
it's to the temple. Why does he
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go to the temple? So that all of
those that have been walking by
him, all those years, and
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listening to his sad story.
Guess what? When he get into the
temple, he ain't even got to say
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nothing. When they just see he
who was once broken standing and
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holding this. I need you to know
a praise party is going to break
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out simply because he allows
them to see the great things
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that God has done. Guess what
I'm saying, friends of mine,
when God does something for you
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and your life, don't be like the
woman with the issue of blood
that tries to sneak away.
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Don't be like the nine lepers
that don't come back to say
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thank you. But
when God blesses you,
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how many of us know that you
need to give God a praise openly
for how he has taken care of
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you, His children.
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Now, the problem with us
sometimes is because we equate
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sickness and sin, we don't let
people know we're sick. We'll
think they'll think we've
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sinned. The problem is if you
keep all your sicknesses secret,
then they'll never know that God
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is a healer. Where you all at
today, church? If they don't
know that God capped you,
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how can God get the glory if you
are always keeping it away all
that today, church.
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In other words, I need you to
know some of us is so scared to
let people know we had COVID.
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That we are not praising God for
keeping us from COVID. If you've
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been COVID-capped, you ought to
say thank you. If you've been
cancer-capped, you ought to say,
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thank you. If you've been
depression-capped , you ought to
say, thank you. I f you've been
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arthritis-capped, you ought to
say thank you. Don't act like
God ain't done nothing for you.
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You ought to give an expression
of praise for what the Lord has
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done. Are you all
hearing me today, saints?
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Let me say it this way.
Listen. Every now and then,
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my wife and I will go out to eat
and I need you all to know me.
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I'm not proud of this, but I'm
one of those brothers that like
when I go to the restaurant,
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especially if it's going to cost
a little money, I ain't going to
guess about what's on the menu.
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I'm going to pretty much go with
what I know. Do I have some
brothers like me in this place?
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Listen. When go to this place,
I know what I'm going to go
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looking for. I don't even need
to see the menu. See, one of the
things my wife will do is she
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loves to experiment. In other
words, man, you know how it is
when your wife experiments and
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she don't like what she gets.
She is going to reach across the
table, come on now, and to try
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to get some of yours. Am I
preaching to anybody today? We
go out one night and I go to the
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menu. I see what I want. I make
up my mind with the quickness.
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I see her on the other
side studying the menu like it's
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scripture.
[Congregation: Laughing]
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Pastor Snell: I'm like, "Oh, no.
Here we go. I know how this is
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going to go down. She is going
to get something that she don't
like. When she tries and she
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don't like it, she is going to
be trying to eat some of mine. I
see where it's going to go.
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I try to head it off at the pass
and I say, "Let's let's be clear
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on this. Whatever I get, it's
for me. Whatever you get is
going to be for you."
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What happens is she orders her
fancy dish that we can't even
pronounce and guess what?
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They bring it to the table and
I'm over here eating mine. I
know how it's going to taste.
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I just rock with it. Over on
the other side, I see her eating
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hers and I'm watching to see how
she's going to deal with this
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thing. My wife, who is normally
a little quiet, after she's
eating her food for a while,
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she says, " Hmm." And then after
a little while again, she says,
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"Hmmm." And then after a while,
it got so good that she lifted
with her hands at the table.
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And after again, she let out
another moan of pleasure. Even
though I had set the rules...
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[Congregation: Laughing]
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She gave so much expression that
I said, "Baby, let me get a
little piece of what you got
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over there. " I guess what I'm
saying is that I wouldn't have
known how good it tastes.
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If she hadn't given no
expression. The reason folk
don't know to taste
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and see and that the Lord is
good is because we don't give no
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expression. We bottle it
up. We keep it up, we hold it to
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ourselves. Is there anybody
that's grateful that God is a
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healer, that God is a deliver,
that God is a way maker, that
God is the sustainer?
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That you go open up your mouth
and give an expression so that
the world will know that God is
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good and he is worthy to be
praised. Hallelujah to the Lamb
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of God today.
[Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor: Come on. Praise team. At
some point, your praise has to
take on the form of an
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expression. Number one, in order
for you to be a good steward of
your miracle, you got to give
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thanks. But then this is
very critical. Notice what Jesus
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says. He says stop sinning
or something worse is going to
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happen to you. In order for
you to be a good steward of your
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miracle, saints, you can't turn
around undo the thing you just
ask God to do. See,
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the implications, words of mine,
is that either his recklessness
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or something he did as a young
man is what got him in that
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condition. Or something he was
doing was keeping him in that
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condition. What I'm saying,
friends of mine, a part of you
being a good steward of your
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miracle, like no. How many of us
are believing God for it? But
part of being a good steward is
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when God does that thing, don't
go back to the same thing that
puts you by the edge of the pool
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in the first place
because you realize...
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I don't think that in the body
of Christ said there's a lack of
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miracles. I just think that
through choice, they're so
consistently nullified.
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That God can't get the
glory that He deserves. What I'm
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saying to us, beloved, we're not
here to beat you up, but like
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tell the truth. I mean, I have
been there. "You need to lost
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some weight." But like a
hangnail, it shall return. Come
on. I'm telling the truth.
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There are sometimes where we've
made some strides with our
diabetes, blood pressure, or
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heart disease. Soon as we start
feeling a little bit better, we
start feeling more like you
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can't come back. I mean, there
are sometimes where we made some
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adjustments and the swelling
went down and the inflammation
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went down. We started making
some progress. Guess what?
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We went right back to the same
old thing that put us in the
pool in the same place.
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God is saying to us. Listen.
Listen. Listen. "My people, my
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community. I want to do
something supernatural. I want
to do something abundant.
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I want to do something that is
going to create a personal and
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community and global witness in
the earth, but you got to be in
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agreement with me. You've got to
not just have a want, you've got
to apply your will.
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But then when I do it or you,
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don't keep habitually doing
things are going to put you
right back at the pool."
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How many of us lead the word
of God today. Now, our choir is
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going to sing. They're going to
administer to us. The, I'm going
to ask you to make one last
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decision for Jesus Christ. Choir
leader: Come on. This song is so
simple. Let's sing it together.
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Say "I am the one."
Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader: One more
time. Say, "I am the one."
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Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader: Real simple there.
I am the one that came back.
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Choir: I am the one that came
back to say "Thank You, Lord."
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Choir leader: For
all that You've done.
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Choir: For all that You've done.
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Choir leader: It says,
"I'm grateful for everything."
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Choir: I'm grateful
for everything You've Done.
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Choir leader: I
had to come back.
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Choir: I had to come back.
00:25:20.32\00:25:22.28
Choir leader: My
heart made me run back.
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Choir: My heart
made me run back...
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Choir leader: And
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir: ... and
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir: Thank You. Thank You.
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Choir leader: Thank You.
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Choir leader: One more
time. I had to come back.
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Choir: I had to come back.
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Choir leader: My heart.
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Choir: My heart
made me run back...
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Choir leader: And
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir: ... and
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir leader: Come on. We can
sing that one more time. Let's
put some harmony into it.
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Say, "I am the one."
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Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader:
Hallelujah. Say, "I am the one."
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Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader: We came back
to say "Thank You" to Jesus this
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morning. Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader: That came back.
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Choir: That came
back to say, "Thank You."
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Choir leader: Bless His name.
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Choir: Lord.
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Choir leader: For
all that You've done.
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Choir: For all that You've done.
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Choir leader:
Say, "I'm grateful."
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Choir: I'm grateful...
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Choir leader: For everything.
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Choir: ... for
everything You've done.
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Choir leader: I had to.
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Choir: I had to come
back. My heart made me run back.
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Choir leader: And
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir: And tell
You, "Thank You."
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Choir leader: Say, "Thank You."
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Choir: Thank You. Thank You.
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Choir leader: One
more time. Say, "I had to."
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Choir: I had to come
back. My heart made me run back.
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Choir leader: And
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir: And tell
You, "Thank You."
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Choir: And tell
You, "Thank You."
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Choir leader: We are going to
sing that one more time. Let's
take it up at this moment.
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Say, "I am the one."
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Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader:
Hallelujah. Say, "I am the one."
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Choir: I am the one.
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Choir leader: Bless his name.
Say, "I'm the one that came
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back." Choir: I am the one that
came back to say "Thank You,
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Lord." Choir leader: Hallelujah.
We say thank You, Lord, for all
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that you've done. Choir:
For all that you've done.
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Choir leader:
Say "I'm grateful."
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Choir: I'm grateful.
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Choir leader: For everything.
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Choir: For everything
You've done. I had to come back.
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Choir leader: My
heart made me run back.
00:27:14.30\00:27:15.46
Choir: My heart made me come
back and tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir leader: Say "Thank You."
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Choir: Thank You. Thank You.
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Choir leader: Let's
put it in three parts. I...
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Choir: I had to come back.
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Choir leader: My heart...
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Choir: My heart made run back.
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Choir leader: One more time.
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Choir: And tell
You, "Thank You."
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Choir leader: Thank You.
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Choir: Thank you.
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Choir leader: One more time.
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Choir. Thank You. I had to come
back. My heart made me run back.
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Choir leader: And
tell You, "Thank You."
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Choir: And
tell, You "Thank You."
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Choir leader: Thank You.
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Choir: Thank You.
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Choir leader: Last time and say.
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Choir. I had to come back. My
heart made me run back and tell
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You "Thank You."
(Breath of Life Theme Music)
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[End]
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