#S061- Adults Only (Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath
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of life television ministries
broadcast with Pastor Debleaire
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Snell. Now in today's episode,
Pastor Snell will continue part
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two of the powerful
message titled Adults Only.
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Now let's go deeper
into the word of God.
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But it's crazy
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because when you
look at the folks
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that have come back to
church after the pandemic,
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they're the folks that
primarily were active in service
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before the pandemic.
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But if you were just a pew
warmer before the pandemic,
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what you found out is that
the pew with your house quiet
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is more comfortable
than the pews at the church.
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And what I'm saying is
that every young disciple
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needs to be equipped
and trained to serve.
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And the one caveat is
this, is that we've got to teach
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our young people
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how to discover the spiritual
gifts at an earlier age.
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What do I mean when I say that?
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You see, one of the mistakes
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that we often made
is back in the day,
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every boy had to
be a junior deacon,
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and every girl had
to be in the choir.
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And in fact,
like one of the errors
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that we made
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sometimes in the black church
is that if you didn't play ball
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and you didn't sing,
man, you was up the creek.
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But how many of us know that
there are a diversity of gifts
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that God has given
to the body of Christ?
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And see, what happened
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is we force some to
operate outside of their gift,
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and then we demonize them
when they didn't respond the way
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we wanted them to respond.
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When the truth is
that Ussery or Deacon
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might not have been their gift.
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Y'all hear what I'm
saying to the church?
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In other words, I
need us to be clear
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that God does not wait until we
are grown to give us our gifts.
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We receive our
gifts as children.
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And there are some
that know how to sing, some
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that know how to write,
some that have the gift of art.
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Some that have the gift to lead.
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Some that have
the gift to think.
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And the problem is,
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we will only
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allow them to do things
that does not require judgment
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or brain thought.
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But it's amazing
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how a 17 year old is
required to sit down in church.
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But companies like
Apple and Google and Amazon
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are filling up their
boardrooms and think tanks
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because they realize
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that young people are go
create the wave of the future.
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How many of us know that?
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Joel 228 says
that in the latter days
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I'm going to pour out
my spirit on all flesh.
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That's a sons and daughters.
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How prophesy your young men
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children dream dreams,
your own mental dreams, visions.
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In other words, we are
in the age where we are
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not just be
setting them in a corner,
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but we ought to be
sitting them at the table
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and be asking them, What
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is the Lord saying to you?
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Who told the lie that the devil
couldn't speak to young people?
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Then God sent dreams through.
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Joseph did not God
prophesy for a young Jeremiah,
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did not God raise up
disciples in their thirties.
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And it's crazy
because I was in one church
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where I was talking something
like what I'm saying today.
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And I say, Pastor, the reason
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we don't let the young
people on the church board.
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The reason we don't let them
participate is that the board
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meetings are so cantankerous
that we don't want them
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to get discouraged
and run away from church.
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And you know
what I said to them?
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I said, if your
meetings are that cantankerous
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and that toxic, that it
will run the young folk away.
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Your board needs
to be dismantled.
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All the members
need to be replaced.
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And Pastor, you want to
turn in your resignation.
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In other words. Church
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Why in the world, in the
church is there a PG 13 section
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where parental
guidance is required?
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Why is there a rated R
section where you got to be 18
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in order to see?
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In other words,
in the House of God,
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there ought to be
space for everybody.
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There is no adult, only
section that God has torn down
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the middle partition.
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So that guess what,
women have the spirit.
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Men have the spirit.
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All folk have this spirit.
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PS Have the spirit.
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And whosoever is willing,
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we ought to use them
for the glory of God.
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Third thing this teaches
a move in church and hear me
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on this young people,
you can't be inside and out
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at the same time.
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Now the Bible says, My
man, you took this man.
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It's a hard name to
say a bunch of times.
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I'm a date myself.
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Can I call it easy?
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Some of man easy letter
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for me.
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Easy is it sitting
there in the window.
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Now, when we think of a window,
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we think of a glass, you
know, kind of a glass structure
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that opens and closes,
but in ancient times, a window
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was simply an
unsealed space in the wall.
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In fact, many times
it would have a ledge
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that would be somewhere
between 12 and 20 inches
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where you could sit down on it
very comfortable, comfortably.
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But I need somebody to
get the problem with you,
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because it's not
that you get sleepy.
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The problem is where he chooses
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to rest.
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See, the problem is his
frustration with the old folk
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forces him to the
perimeter of the building.
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His frustration
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puts him on the
edges of church service.
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His frustration puts him on
the outskirts of the situation.
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And it's crazy because,
man, the danger is not that
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he falls asleep.
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The danger
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is that his frustration
puts him so close to the edge
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that he doesn't
realize how vulnerable he is.
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And see, this
is the crazy thing.
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What would have been
better for you to guess
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would have been to go inside.
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I didn't sit down in the heat.
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Ought to just walk out
of the church altogether.
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Well, y'all made it quiet.
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What would have been better
is for him to go suck it up
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and sit down
where it's uncomfortable
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or to leave the body or
the fellowship completely.
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But there was a unique
danger in sitting in the window
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because a number
of friends, a window
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is not necessarily
inside and outside a window
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is an undefined
space in the building,
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so that when you do
sit down in the window,
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you utica's
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is essentially on both
sides of the structure.
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Yo, yo, yo, yo.
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Miss Smith, y'all
waiting for me to preach?
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I'm already preaching and
then I'm already preaching.
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No, no.
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See, the problem is he's
on both sides of the facility
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so that he's got one
foot dangling in church
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and he's got the other
foot dangling outside church.
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See, the problem with Utica
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is that on the one
side, he can hear the sermon,
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on the other side,
he can hear the streets
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on one side, he
can hear church music.
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On the other side
he hears street music.
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On one side it's hot,
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but on the other side is coal.
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And he won't be better
off if he just tells the side,
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because if he's hot inside
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and he steps outside
in the cold, wake him up.
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If he's cold outside
and he steps into the heat,
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it's gonna draw him.
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But when you're
in a hot situation,
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there's something
about just enough cool breeze
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that makes you
comfortable on the edge.
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And you don't even realize
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where the foul is
about to take place.
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And I just need
to say to the Utica
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Saints of all ages in
here today, the problem is
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we're trying to sit on
both sides of the structure.
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We want to have a little
world and a little church.
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We want a little
Jesus and a little Jay-Z.
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All mighty cloud up here today.
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Oh, we want the
Beatitudes and Beyoncé tickets.
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Oh, Lord, have mercy.
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Oh, don't look
at your phone now.
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Look up after the preacher.
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I'm rolling right
down your street today.
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And what I'm saying to
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somebody is, is what
makes Christianity hard
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is not stepping
into the fellowship.
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What makes it hard is when
I try to straddle the fence.
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What makes it difficult is when
I introduce my own conflict.
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What makes it hard is
when I try to sit on both sides
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at the same time
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so that
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young people
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you're you're playing
this well, not young people.
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People
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your your playlist
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should not be filled
with phrases and profanities.
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Amen.
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Can the old folk and say,
man, can you fake an amen?
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Yeah.
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You got your little
Marvin Gaye in there.
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You see you
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see, Christians
don't have church
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clothes and club clothes.
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My students,
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you shouldn't pick a
Bible to walk her to church
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and pack a
condom to take her out.
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Tonight, she.
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See, the reason we're frustrated
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is because we're trying to merge
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multiple environments
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that never, ever
mix with one another.
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And so I need you to know that
serving the Lord is difficult
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because our flesh war is
against the laws of the Spirit.
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But one of the things that
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multiplies the difficulty
is when I add to my conflict
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by trying to merge worlds
that will never be compatible.
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In other words,
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you can imitate Proverbs 31
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and The Real Housewives
of Atlanta at the same time.
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Oh, y'all open.
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Yeah.
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See, there's just certain
mergers that will never work.
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In other words, fire and ice
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can never be in a relationship
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because the fire is
going to melt the ice.
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And when the ice melts,
it's going to put out the fire
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so that if I'm going
to be ice, guess what?
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You need to sack up with ice.
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And if you're going
to be on fire with God,
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you need to have principles
and peoples and ideals
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that are going to stoke the fire
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and not put out the fire.
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Listen, I'm almost done
for thing this teachers.
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Listen, listen, stay with me.
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Church is that the
tragedy of this is they
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have a culture of observation
but not intervention.
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Okay.
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I don't know if you're we're
not grieved as we should be.
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So so you bought U2
because it's in the window.
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He's falling asleep.
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The danger, again, is
not that he falls asleep.
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Everybody gets a little nap
in church every now and then
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I'd be looking, right.
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That's all I make out.
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I'm looking right. It.
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I know you had a
long week you have to side
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but the danger
friends, is his placement.
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Are you all still with me?
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And notice the
detail that the word says.
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The word is that he
is sinking into sleep.
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No, the word says not only
is he sinking in the sleep,
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he is overcome with sleep.
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So that detail, what
is this is describing,
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Chris, is a progression.
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In other words, this not a
cat that goes into the window
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and sits down with
the goal of taking a nap.
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This is a brother
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that, as they are
describing it, to look,
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they are giving the
detail, as you know,
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because you're a cat,
sits down in the chair.
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They can see him as
he begins to nod off.
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And then he sits back up
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where man, as
he begins to drift,
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he says, a man in
his sleep to the servant,
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they can literally see
as he is fighting sleep,
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he is sitting up and
pushing down and eventually
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sleep gets the best
of him before he falls
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out of the window.
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Now, who probably
does not see this,
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somebody else
tells him what happens.
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They just sit there and
Luke is writing it down.
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They're like, Yeah, man, I'm.
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I can see him out of
the corner, my man. Yeah.
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You're bored,
man. He sat down there.
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He was good at first,
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but then, man, he sat
down a little bit too far
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and then all of a sudden I
saw his eyes begin to slip.
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And then he
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he got back up,
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and then he had
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begin to sink back
down and he got back up
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and then he got up and
kind of washed his face off.
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But then he sat back down
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and when he sat back
down, man, all of a sudden
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he got too comfortable
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and he sat down and it got
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deeper and deeper and deeper
until he fell out the window.
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And it's crazy
because I don't know
00:14:01.04\00:14:02.74
exactly how Luke feels
as he is writing this down,
00:14:02.77\00:14:06.11
but there has to
be a portion of him
00:14:06.98\00:14:08.61
that is completely indignant
at what is being said with him.
00:14:09.81\00:14:12.31
There is a part of him
that's got to be like you say,
00:14:13.45\00:14:15.58
Oh, that's
00:14:15.95\00:14:18.72
you. So I'm drifting.
00:14:19.99\00:14:22.46
Yeah.
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So I'm thinking,
you know, this him
00:14:23.73\00:14:26.46
losing balance and
all you did was documented
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and watch it,
00:14:32.30\00:14:34.40
but you didn't wake him up
00:14:34.44\00:14:38.24
and see.
00:14:39.67\00:14:40.48
They have a
culture that observes
00:14:40.51\00:14:43.11
when a towel is falling
00:14:43.68\00:14:45.71
but woe intervene to stop it
00:14:46.48\00:14:49.05
when it's going down
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and it's crazy friends of mine
00:14:54.62\00:14:56.96
because man, we have shifted
so far in the pendulum like men
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40 years ago, man, kids
couldn't hardly breathe.
00:15:00.46\00:15:02.46
The adults will be
all in your business, man.
00:15:03.47\00:15:04.43
Following you behind
you wherever you went,
00:15:04.47\00:15:06.20
following you
outside, in the back to church.
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You can do no wrong in church.
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Come on to say that.
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Right.
00:15:12.74\00:15:13.44
But now, because we so
afraid of being called jokers
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and hypocrites,
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we can see them collapsing
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and we won't say no to him.
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Let me just say this, love.
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When you love somebody,
love won't let you be silent.
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Love is willing to offend.
00:15:35.63\00:15:38.00
Love is willing for
you to get mad at me.
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Love is willing
for you to not like me.
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In other words, the
stakes are too high.
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The consequences are too great.
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I would rather be respected
than like and I will not let you
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go to hell without a fight
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and see the same way.
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Hold up that there
are certain things.
00:16:01.02\00:16:03.96
Same way you you gradually
drift into physical sleep,
00:16:03.99\00:16:07.56
you gradually drift
into spiritual sleep.
00:16:08.50\00:16:10.77
And there are warning
signs that are noticeable.
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Am I telling the
truth off of you?
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You can tell when a
young man or woman has
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lost their innocence.
00:16:19.57\00:16:20.74
You can
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tell when somebody
has lost their confidence.
00:16:23.55\00:16:25.35
You can see a shift in
the energy when they wind up
00:16:26.41\00:16:29.28
always on the
periphery but never engage.
00:16:29.32\00:16:31.85
You can see something is
wrong when you walk by and
00:16:32.95\00:16:34.79
get a contact high on the weed
00:16:34.82\00:16:37.19
that's trailing them everywhere
00:16:40.23\00:16:42.56
that they go.
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And the word
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to the church today
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is that when you see something,
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say something
00:16:55.94\00:16:57.81
and say, we're so
worried about them
00:17:01.68\00:17:03.02
getting mad and
leaving the church.
00:17:03.05\00:17:04.95
The ones that
leave the church are not
00:17:04.99\00:17:06.65
the ones that are reproving.
00:17:06.69\00:17:08.62
The ones that lead are
the ones that are ignored.
00:17:08.66\00:17:11.16
It is the ones
that nobody addresses
00:17:12.03\00:17:14.10
that nobody cares enough
00:17:14.66\00:17:17.33
that nobody is burdened
enough to say, Young sister,
00:17:17.37\00:17:21.07
you're better
than that young man.
00:17:21.10\00:17:23.27
I know who you
are and whose you are.
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When you say something,
you've got to say something.
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Oh, but this is the tension.
00:17:29.61\00:17:31.18
The reason we can't
00:17:32.55\00:17:33.65
say nothing when it's going bad
00:17:33.68\00:17:36.65
is because we never
opened our mouth to say nothing
00:17:36.69\00:17:39.55
when they were
doing something good.
00:17:39.59\00:17:41.99
And then it crazy
that they don't that nobody
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screams and hollers until,
you know, because he's dead.
00:17:45.46\00:17:48.53
When he's down on
the ground bleeding,
00:17:49.43\00:17:50.77
everybody want to shout and
have a conniption in a premier.
00:17:50.80\00:17:53.37
Paul Like set up,
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y'all.
00:17:56.14\00:17:57.04
He said none when
he was falling asleep.
00:17:57.07\00:17:59.01
And what I'm
saying to somebody today
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is when you see something,
when you see something,
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when you see something,
when you see something.
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But this is the key.
00:18:11.72\00:18:12.92
Don't just wait until you see
something bad to say something.
00:18:12.95\00:18:17.56
When you see something good,
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you want to say something.
00:18:20.96\00:18:22.73
When you see them on the
honor roll, say something.
00:18:22.76\00:18:26.17
When you see them in
the choir, say something.
00:18:27.14\00:18:30.01
When you see them on
program, say something.
00:18:31.01\00:18:33.91
When you see them in
Pathfinders, say something.
00:18:34.98\00:18:37.71
When you see them excel
athletically, say something
00:18:38.85\00:18:41.35
when you see them
coding, say something.
00:18:42.28\00:18:44.59
When you see them
singing, say something.
00:18:45.52\00:18:47.56
Don't just wait till they're
in jail to say something.
00:18:48.66\00:18:50.73
Don't just wait till
they're out of the church
00:18:51.76\00:18:52.99
to say something.
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Don't just wait till they're
on skid row to say something.
00:18:54.36\00:18:57.47
But when they're being
used by God, you ought to see
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something and
00:19:02.10\00:19:03.64
say something
00:19:04.84\00:19:07.71
and see when you say something,
00:19:07.74\00:19:09.74
your words nourish them.
00:19:09.78\00:19:12.91
Your words become violent men.
00:19:12.95\00:19:15.42
And when you give Vine a
man, you don't need medicine.
00:19:16.58\00:19:20.12
Are y'all hear me today, friends
00:19:21.72\00:19:24.76
and his crazy parents.
00:19:25.53\00:19:27.73
This brother falls to the ground
00:19:27.76\00:19:30.03
so everybody's tripping.
00:19:31.10\00:19:31.90
Unless I'm done.
00:19:31.93\00:19:33.13
It must have been well.
00:19:33.17\00:19:34.40
2 minutes.
00:19:34.44\00:19:38.04
But there's something really
critical I need you to see,
00:19:38.07\00:19:41.41
because anybody didn't.
00:19:41.44\00:19:42.64
Actually, the apostle says that
when the boy falls down dead,
00:19:42.68\00:19:45.48
the Paul hovers over
him and he begins to call
00:19:46.45\00:19:49.82
on the name of the Lord
who is going to help somebody.
00:19:49.85\00:19:52.85
Paul is praying, even
when the boy's not responding,
00:19:53.99\00:19:57.59
and he keeps on prayed
00:19:59.23\00:20:01.40
before the boy lifts up his head
00:20:01.43\00:20:03.73
and he's praying
before he hears a heartbeat.
00:20:03.77\00:20:07.00
And he's praying even
when he can't detect a pulse.
00:20:08.14\00:20:10.81
He keeps on praying even
when the boy's not responding.
00:20:11.97\00:20:15.04
Y'all, mister, shout.
00:20:15.08\00:20:16.58
Because there's somebody
00:20:16.61\00:20:17.68
that knows a young
person that's spiritually dead
00:20:17.71\00:20:21.38
and you want to stop praying
because they're not responding
00:20:22.62\00:20:25.49
and no word to somebody today
00:20:26.19\00:20:27.89
is that you've
got to keep praying,
00:20:28.76\00:20:30.56
even when your child
ain't responding, keep praying,
00:20:30.59\00:20:34.36
even when they're in the club,
keep praying when they fail
00:20:35.60\00:20:38.57
the class, keep praying
when they initiate the game,
00:20:38.60\00:20:42.54
keep praying when they
play it for the threat.
00:20:43.57\00:20:45.97
Keep praying when they
refuse to come to church.
00:20:46.01\00:20:48.71
You've got to keep praying.
00:20:49.38\00:20:50.81
When they not responding it.
00:20:50.85\00:20:53.01
Don't take pray to pray
00:20:53.05\00:20:54.78
when you can see them
walk through the door.
00:20:54.82\00:20:56.89
It takes another level of faith
00:20:57.59\00:20:59.45
to pray when they don't
respond to what to say, to pray
00:21:00.66\00:21:03.69
when they don't
respond to how you don't
00:21:03.73\00:21:05.69
taught them to pray when
you can't see any results.
00:21:05.73\00:21:09.43
You got to keep praying
00:21:10.00\00:21:11.43
even when
they're not responding.
00:21:13.00\00:21:15.67
So watch this
00:21:15.70\00:21:17.57
soap man.
00:21:18.37\00:21:19.31
Your boy Paul man
sees this thing falls dead.
00:21:19.34\00:21:21.51
Everybody's tripping,
they crying, they weeping
00:21:22.58\00:21:24.28
all the paid mourners
are coming out to stand
00:21:25.25\00:21:27.55
with the family in this
moment of trial and adversity.
00:21:27.58\00:21:30.65
But your boy Paul
00:21:31.15\00:21:33.76
walks down
00:21:34.36\00:21:36.52
as cool as the
other side of the pillow,
00:21:37.39\00:21:39.89
tells everybody, stop trippin
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.57
because he sees hopeless
00:21:44.63\00:21:47.20
situations
00:21:47.24\00:21:49.74
differently than
everyone else does.
00:21:50.54\00:21:52.44
So the reason
Paul knows what to do
00:21:53.51\00:21:56.34
if he simply can't
do what was done for him
00:21:57.35\00:21:59.75
is Acts Chapter 14.
00:22:03.32\00:22:05.92
The Bible says the
Jews came from out of time,
00:22:05.95\00:22:09.02
wet rocks in hand to stone.
00:22:09.69\00:22:12.76
Paul Because the
truth was too powerful.
00:22:12.79\00:22:15.96
And they hit him so hard
that his skin began to tear,
00:22:17.10\00:22:20.97
his bones began to
break, and they presumed him
00:22:21.00\00:22:25.27
dead.
00:22:26.41\00:22:27.61
Now, I need you to be clear that
the Bible doesn't say he died,
00:22:27.64\00:22:31.41
but you don't come from
out of town to kill somebody
00:22:32.55\00:22:35.88
without checking to
see if they were dead.
00:22:36.85\00:22:38.55
But for a minute,
there is no pulse.
00:22:39.82\00:22:41.96
For a minute there is no
breath for at least a moment.
00:22:43.06\00:22:46.09
Paul, code it.
00:22:46.13\00:22:47.93
But the Bible says
that the Saints gathered.
00:22:47.96\00:22:52.10
Around Paul
00:22:52.13\00:22:54.34
and called on
the name of the Lord,
00:22:54.37\00:22:57.74
and after a little while the.
00:22:58.81\00:23:01.84
Bible.
00:23:01.88\00:23:02.54
Says that.
00:23:02.58\00:23:04.01
Paul rose out.
00:23:04.05\00:23:06.98
And the reason that Paul
00:23:07.02\00:23:08.98
falls on the boy,
00:23:09.02\00:23:13.49
the reason he
covers the young man,
00:23:13.52\00:23:15.96
the reason he
puts himself on him
00:23:17.46\00:23:20.53
is he's still got remnants
00:23:21.30\00:23:23.57
of his own resurrection.
00:23:24.37\00:23:29.20
He's got remnants of his
resurrection that if I cover him
00:23:29.24\00:23:35.24
once in.
00:23:36.41\00:23:37.31
Me, is going flow to him.
00:23:37.35\00:23:42.05
And I just need to know, do
00:23:42.72\00:23:45.12
I have any resurrected saints?
00:23:45.15\00:23:48.12
You've been raised by God,
and when you cover your kids,
00:23:48.16\00:23:53.36
all you're doing
00:23:54.36\00:23:56.40
is giving the remnants
00:23:56.43\00:23:58.73
of what God gave to you
00:23:58.77\00:24:01.40
when God raised you up.
00:24:01.44\00:24:03.51
Are you tired of
just being tired?
00:24:04.34\00:24:07.34
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00:24:07.38\00:24:10.78
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I want to invite you to
join us on the revolution
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as we continue the
journey of becoming
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ExcuseLess
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(Breath Of Life Music)
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