#S081 - “ Somethings
Just Don't Mix” ( Part 2)
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Welcome to The Breath
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of Life Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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In today's episode,
Pastor Snell will continue part
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two of the powerful message.
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“Somethings Just Don't Mix.” Now
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let's go deeper
into the Word of God.
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I know it don't
get easier with time.
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It gets harder with
time. Am I preaching about it?
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I So I need you to know
the only difference between
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old sinners and young
sinners is old sinners
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know how to cover their tracks.
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See, there are some of
us that have gotten older.
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We don't have wisdom,
we just have experience
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and see the
experience and necessarily good.
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It is just taught us
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how to mitigate some of the
consequences of the sin for life
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so that an old sinner knows
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how to clear the
history after they get off life.
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The old center knows
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to call a cab instead
of get behind the wheel.
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The old sinner is
going to sign a prenup
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and not just jump into it.
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The Almighty
quiet in here today.
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See? See, I need you to
know all you learn how to do is
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cover it up a little bit better.
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I hear what I'm saying
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and see.
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And this is why I
had a great member
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who taught me a
very interesting lesson.
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The lady named Mother
Glenn in my first church
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in West Point, Mississippi,
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she walked on a
cane and on a walker.
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And sometimes on
Tuesdays I would pick her up
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and take her to
Tuesday night prayer meeting.
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And she says, Pastor, you know
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why God puts babies
and old people on walkers?
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I said, No, I don't
know, because you know
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how the little babies,
they put them down in walkers
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when their first
learning how to walk and
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and then older folks
sometimes at a certain point
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they need a cane or a walker.
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And she says it is
symbolic of a spiritual truth.
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She says, babies.
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Their first lesson is they
have to lean on something else
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and out of that,
learn how to walk.
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And other Fodor
folks, their last lesson
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is they have to lean on
a walker and able to walk
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and understand that the
babies walker and the old foot
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walker is a symbol
of the presence of God.
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And your first
lesson is to learn.
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You've got to lean on God.
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And your last lesson ought to be
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that you've got to lean on God.
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Do I have anybody that know you?
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Don't do it by yourself,
but it is God that upholds you.
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It is God that sustains you.
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It is God that you can lean on.
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And when you can lean on
nothing else, you've got to lean
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on the everlasting arms of God.
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You are here. In this
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third thing this teaches
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is that a child of God
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will never be over
taken by His enemies.
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They will only be
compromised by their alliance.
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It's okay.
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You all made me work hard.
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But I'm here for it today.
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A child of God.
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Solomon is the case study
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will never be
overtaken by their enemies.
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They can only be
compromised by their alliances.
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Now, friends,
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when you get home,
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I want you to read the
history of Solomon's life.
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Do you realize the
hand of Solomon was on
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the hand of God was on
Solomon with such strength,
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you realize that his enemies
would not even oppose him.
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God, do you realize
that the hand of God was upon
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Solomon's rule
with such blessing?
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No. Read his entire narrative.
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You never
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see about the Philistines or
the Ammonites or the Emirates
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rolling up with the Calvary,
trying to take down Solomon
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because they recognize that
the hand of God was upon Him
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with such strength and the
hands of God was around him.
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It was such impenetrable
force that they wouldn't
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even step to
Solomon because his enemies.
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Oh God, couldn't touch him.
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And what I'm saying to
somebody is that when God's
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hand is upon you,
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that the hands of
God can be so strong
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that your enemies
don't even come for you
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because they know the
hand of God is so strong
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that is destined to fail.
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So now I need you
to notice what happens.
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Remember we said the
devil plays the long game
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so the enemies know
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they cannot touch Solomon
with swords spear our chariot.
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But notice that in
Solomon's business dealings,
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Satan has a very artful practice
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that is leveled at his spiritual
wellness, that whenever
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they would sign a treaty
or enter into an agreement,
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sometimes they would seal
treaties with an exchange.
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Sometimes it would
be an exchange of goods
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or materials, or in Solomon's
case, he would over a time
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collect over 1000
romantic partners.
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Now, this is the question.
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The Bible say stay with
me, church that his wives
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are princesses. God.
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In other words,
the foreign nations
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give up the chief daughters
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to be married to Solomon. Why?
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Because they understand
that they can never defeat him.
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With my material,
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the only thing they can do
is dilute him with influence.
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See, I need somebody to know
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that your most dangerous enemy
is not the one from outside.
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Sometimes it can be
the one in your bed and
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because God's hand is upon you,
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there will be
weapons that are formed,
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but they will not
be able to prosper.
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The Bible says that when
the enemy comes in like a flood,
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the Spirit of the Lord
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is going to raise up
a standard against Him.
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The Bible says, I'm
going to bless those that
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bless you and I'll
curse those that curse you
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so that an enemy will never
be able to take you by force.
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But your most
dangerous situation are the ones
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you receive voluntarily
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so they know
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not even come up the Solomon's
house with no sword, no shield.
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You know what the Bible says?
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You all didn't even
see it in Chapter ten.
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The Bible says that
he makes 500 shields
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out of gold.
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That don't make no sense.
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How are you going to fight
with a shield made out of gold?
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But Solomon was so covered
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by God that he turned
his shields into decoration
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because he didn't need to fight.
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And what I'm saying
is, his most dangerous
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vulnerability
was not by an enemy.
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It was by the ones who was
rubbing on his head at night.
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And why am I saying this to you?
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Because see, what the
enemies recognize about
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Solomon is he had
this one vulnerability.
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He was just a
little too open minded.
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He had this experimental
experiential component
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where he'd like
to try some of this
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and try some of that
and try some of the other.
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In fact, the Bible says
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this guy had 700 wives.
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I don't know.
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I'm celebrating 21
years of marriage today.
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Hey, man.
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And I'm just trying
to imagine this night,
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trying to imagine it right
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here.
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No, no, no.
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But, you know, I'm having a toug
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How are you going to
keep 700 wives happy?
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And in addition to that,
he gave them 300 concubines.
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The concubines were imported
women that they were not wives.
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They were just where you went
when the wives had a headache.
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Are you hear what I'm saying?
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And it's crazy because
watch these young people.
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This is why you ought to
stop saying it's just sex.
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It's just physical.
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No, that's what it
was supposed to be.
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But the Bible
says after a while,
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he clings to them in love.
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What was supposed to just be on
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the passing of the
time literally becomes
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an entanglement of the soul
that literally pries his heart
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from the hand of God.
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So that every time you come
together with a man or woman
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who is not your spouse,
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that is more than
just an exchange of body.
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It is more than just
an exchange of fluid.
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There is a so interface
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and whatever spirit is in them
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pops all over you
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and you wondering why
you can't get over it,
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out of them, out of your mind,
because it ain't just physical.
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You have created a
permanent bond with somebody
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that won't even
be there next week.
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Are you here with
the pastor saying today
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and it's crazy
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because they knew not to
send the invaders to Solomon.
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They rolled up with no
army and sword and spear
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because they recognized
that there will never be an army
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or sword or spear
that will capture him.
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And it's funny
because when we talk
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sometimes in the setting,
we always talk to the women
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about not getting
with No, sorry, man,
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but you got to talk to your boys
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because the only thing
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that can tear down a strong man
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is a toxic,
raggedy, sorry woman.
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Now you are
here. What I'm saying.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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I'm not citing the sisters.
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I'm talking
about a certain type.
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Because, remember, Adam
didn't fall to the serpent.
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Adam fell for Eve that
the Philistines couldn't
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destroy Samson.
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It was Delilah
that took him out.
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That the enemies
couldn't destroy David.
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It was the woman he had to have.
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The foreign nations
could not get Solomon.
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It was the women.
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So they could never get
him with sword and spear.
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But they can overcome
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a strong man with lace,
lingerie, wiggle and a juggle.
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Y'all not hear
what I'm saying today.
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That's what kills
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a strong man.
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So? So really,
what I would need to say
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is that those who are dating,
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considering marriage, those that
are really thinking forward,
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you got to make
sure your romantic
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interest align with
your spiritual values.
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Why am I saying that?
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I'm gonna say
something I said in
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first service is going to sound
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kind of heretical
and crazy to some.
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But the only power that
is stronger or is as strong
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as the Holy Spirit is the power
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of your romantic entanglements.
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We always say nothing is
more powerful than Holy Spirit.
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No, you just
read it in your Bible
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that Solomon had a heart from
God, but his romantic interest
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and investments turned
his heart away from God
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as he friends of mine.
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This is why God actually
set it up in such a way.
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Because what God set up
is a way that we interact
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with one another.
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Because when I lead
somebody, it is understanding.
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Be careful, because
whatever binds your partner or
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when you bind
yourself to them, it binds you
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know, not
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whatever is infecting them.
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When you tie yourself
to them, it infects you.
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It is the nature
of relation ships
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because in your
mind you're saying, No,
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I'm going to be the influence.
You're not the influence.
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It's not how it works.
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Because in order
for there to be a love,
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you can just have
their hearts open to you.
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You've got to open
your heart toward them.
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So you can't just put
it out without taking it in
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and see this is how God
set up marriage in this way.
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So that when a
man is bound to God
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and that woman is bound to
God and they are bound to one
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another, the
relationship ought to reinforce
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their relationship with God,
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as in one of the
questions that some of you
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all need to be asking while
you are of marriageable age,
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you need to be asking
what Solomon did not ask.
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You want to ask, has this
person been assigned by God
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or have they
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been planted by the devil?
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Has the devil sabotaged my life
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with a 36, 24, 36
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or a 6/4 dance hall,
dark and handsome biceps.
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And I hear what I'm saying, like
like have they been assigned
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or have they been
planted by the most?
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Hi, are y'all hear
what I'm saying today?
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Church and see friends of mine.
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This is why you need to
be equally yoked right now.
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I'm getting your business
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because y'all
running around here thinking
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you're smarter
than the scriptures.
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Run around here.
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Tell out how religion ain't
no deal breaker It should be.
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It should be.
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Because if Christ is
the foundation of your life,
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how are you
going to build a life
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on a foundation that has
cracks all on the inside of it?
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In other words,
there is a reason.
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A fish, kay Mary. A bird
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fish can't marry a bird.
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Y'all are like a confessional.
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Have we know that's not
why fish can't marry a bird.
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The reason a fish
can't marry a bird is
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they can't survive
one another's atmospheres.
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Gotta know the reason the
fish and the bird can be happy
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is that the fish can't
handle the elevation of the bird
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and the bird can't
handle the environment
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or habitat of a fish.
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And it is the same way
that Christ and Belial cannot
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have fellowship
one with another.
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Because if your
man is in darkness
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and you live in the light,
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your light is going
to kill his darkness.
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I don't hear what I'm saying.
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Ah, your darkness is
going to kill somebody.
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It's lights is in.
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That's why you got
to partner yourself
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with somebody that has elements
that are complement mentary
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with yours.
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Are y'all hearing the
word today, my friends?
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And let me just pause and
say this to some of y'all sevens
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I'm talking at all
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because it is what you do.
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You marry
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a person that don't know
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God have no appetite or
things for God, and you go going
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form the assumption that they'll
get spiritual down the line.
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And I hear me say all the time,
You ought to walk by faith,
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but you ought to marry by sight.
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Can I get some
help in here today?
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No, no, no.
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Cause if you
ain't seeing it today,
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you shouldn't expect
it 30 years from now.
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Oh, God.
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Oh, my. Out of
take up and offerings.
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What I'm saying, y'all, today.
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Listen, if you
ain't seeing it today,
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you ought not expect it now.
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And see, this is what some of us
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who do will marry
an unbeliever thinking.
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I'm going to dictate all the
spiritual terms of the house.
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So you're making.
I've been married.
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We won't get
married even though we.
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Yeah,
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we're
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going to do this on Sabbath
and we're going to do that and
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we're going to have worship and
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and I'm going to make sure
I ain't no pork in my kitchen.
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But if you marry him
as the head of your house,
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you can't determine
what I'm going to eat.
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Matter of fact,
it's going to feel crazy.
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Go in and cook that
man some bacon in Jesus.
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Are y'all hear
what I'm saying today?
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You can't dictate
the spiritual terms
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of somebody whose conscious
has not been made alive
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in certain things are.
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You hear what I'm saying today?
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And it's funny.
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Last thing I
want to say is this.
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And this is why you got
to choose your partnerships.
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Well, because
Solomon did not abandon God.
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He tried to mix God.
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What do you mean, Pastor?
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So Solomon didn't walk
around and say, I'm atheist.
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He didn't walk around saying,
I don't believe in God anymore.
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You know what, Solomon does?
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Because he's intent on
making it work with a special,
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especially a select
group of those wives.
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What he does is he mixes
their practices with his.
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So here's this,
because notice the Bible says
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that God became
angry with Solomon,
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even though Solomon did
not say, I don't believe.
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It's not that Solomon
would not go to the temple,
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but I need you to
understand that whenever you
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try to create a merger,
00:18:05.08\00:18:07.42
God says
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you're offering
state Senate by CITES
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and you should
keep it to yourself.
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What do you mean passed?
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So notice what the word says.
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The Bible says that
he builds these altars
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all over the land of Jerusalem.
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So I need you to understand that
there is and I'm in the book
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Repugnant Smell in Israel
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because you've got the incense
that comes from the flavor
00:18:31.87\00:18:35.08
of the incense that
comes from the altar
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that is also mixed with
the incense that comes from
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the bells that have
been set up their own.
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One altar.
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The temple that Solomon built
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are the lambs that represent
00:18:47.46\00:18:49.52
Jesus, but on the altar that
have been set up for Moloch.
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Are the child sacrifices
being made in Jerusalem?
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On one altar
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there is the goat that
points to Jesus on the altar.
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To their fertility
gods are sexual offerings
00:19:02.57\00:19:05.71
that are presented to
make their gods move on their
00:19:06.74\00:19:08.71
behalf, on one altar,
everything points to Jesus.
00:19:08.74\00:19:12.68
But on other altars
it points to the devil.
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And the smoke of all
altars is coming up before
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God at the same time.
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And God says, Keep
that state to yourself
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and see, this is the problem
in the contemporary church
00:19:27.40\00:19:30.47
because we are trying to mix
00:19:31.13\00:19:33.74
ideologies
00:19:33.77\00:19:37.54
that can never align.
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So we run around here,
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especially those of a certain
generation, talking about how
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I pray to God some days
and I pray to the universe.
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Other days
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I'm snatching you.
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We got a rule today.
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I don't pray to the universe.
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I pray to the God that is
the creator of the universe.
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I don't praise
anything that has been created.
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I praise the one
that does the creation.
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We walk around one
moment giving the glory to God.
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The next moment we walk around
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talking about
what we manifested.
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And we try to
use Scripture and say
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Life and death is in
the power of the tongue.
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You realize you can
manifest nothing every good
00:20:24.32\00:20:27.46
and perfect gift it
comes from God in him.
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We live and move
and have our being.
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One moment you
read in the Bible,
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the next moment you talk
about how you read energy. You
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know, read the Scriptures.
00:20:41.10\00:20:43.44
One moment you talk of the
Bible asking God for a sign.
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The next time you come out
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reading or asking
somebody, what is their side?
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And what I'm
saying today, friends,
00:20:52.08\00:20:53.21
is that you cannot go to
God and go to the witchdoctor.
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You cannot see God and
have a Ouija board in your room.
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What we used
00:21:01.29\00:21:02.39
to call spiritualism, we
now call intellectual ism.
00:21:02.42\00:21:05.69
And what I'm saying to
the Church of the Living God
00:21:06.76\00:21:08.20
is that if it's not, oh, God
00:21:08.86\00:21:11.90
is all.
00:21:13.50\00:21:14.27
And I told
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because certain
00:21:17.77\00:21:18.31
things just don't mix.
00:21:18.34\00:21:20.61
So remember, Jesus
says he referred to the
00:21:21.58\00:21:23.65
work of the Holy Spirit
00:21:23.68\00:21:24.68
as being like living
what living one could see.
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There are some of us that
we kind of we get so smart
00:21:29.42\00:21:31.42
because we think, all right,
I'm not going to abandon God,
00:21:32.65\00:21:33.92
but I'm going to supplement God.
00:21:34.62\00:21:38.29
I'm going to hit my bit
00:21:38.33\00:21:40.23
so that if God
don't come through,
00:21:40.26\00:21:41.56
I have some other little
ideologies I can cling to.
00:21:41.60\00:21:44.00
But I need
somebody to understand
00:21:44.83\00:21:45.93
that if it's not all
God and none of it God.
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Okay, simple demonstration.
00:21:52.91\00:21:55.44
So we have some glasses of water
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and I have here
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a bottle of vinegar.
00:22:01.62\00:22:04.15
Now, let me ask you this.
00:22:04.19\00:22:06.22
When I put this
vinegar in this water,
00:22:07.06\00:22:08.99
is it still water?
00:22:09.02\00:22:12.19
It looks like water.
00:22:12.23\00:22:14.23
We had to get it.
00:22:14.73\00:22:15.83
I can't tell by looking at it,
00:22:16.53\00:22:18.47
but when I mix a
love vinegar in it,
00:22:19.33\00:22:21.94
oh, god, it
ain't no longer water.
00:22:22.77\00:22:25.17
Let me ask you this.
00:22:26.37\00:22:28.28
I got a glass of water,
but I put some Kool-Aid in it
00:22:28.31\00:22:31.91
once I put a Canadian in it.
00:22:32.91\00:22:34.92
Is it still water?
00:22:34.95\00:22:36.62
Oh, yeah. Y'all with me?
00:22:36.65\00:22:38.45
I got some Sprite here
when I put this Sprite in it.
00:22:38.49\00:22:41.79
Is it still water?
00:22:42.69\00:22:44.63
Because what
chemists say is that depending
00:22:44.66\00:22:47.30
on the substance,
once there's a concentrate
00:22:47.36\00:22:49.96
of at least 10%,
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.57
it is no longer water.
00:22:53.13\00:22:55.54
It loses its purity.
00:22:56.07\00:22:58.14
When you try to mix
it with something else.
00:22:59.11\00:23:01.38
But what Solomon does, he
doesn't just try to mix one,
00:23:02.48\00:23:05.85
but he tries to
mix sprite and vinegar
00:23:06.75\00:23:10.09
and Kool-Aid and say,
00:23:10.65\00:23:13.46
This is God, and he
presents it as an offering.
00:23:14.46\00:23:17.49
And God says, Don't
bring that junk to me.
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.83
Are you hearing
what I'm saying today?
00:23:22.40\00:23:23.87
CHURCH
00:23:23.90\00:23:24.80
And when I need somebody
to know is that you got to get
00:23:25.90\00:23:28.17
to a place where I'm
going serve God and God alone.
00:23:28.20\00:23:32.64
And as the choir said,
I'm going to give him total
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.84
praise.
00:23:35.88\00:23:38.85
Watch this and this crazy thing.
00:23:38.88\00:23:41.08
You know what happens
when you got too many gods?
00:23:42.18\00:23:43.22
You're praying to God.
00:23:43.25\00:23:45.29
And one moment you
call it calling on more like
00:23:45.32\00:23:47.09
another name.
00:23:47.12\00:23:48.29
You call the note asteroid
the other hand, you call him.
00:23:48.32\00:23:49.72
No, come.
00:23:49.76\00:23:50.43
Next time you calling on bell,
00:23:50.46\00:23:51.63
the next time you call in on
key mass, you know what happens
00:23:51.66\00:23:54.00
when you pray to too
many gods at the same time.
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.93
At some point you start calling
the wrong God's body wrong name
00:23:55.96\00:23:59.13
and at some point
00:24:01.50\00:24:02.27
he needs to praise Jehovah.
00:24:02.30\00:24:05.27
But because he spent so
much time at the altar of Key
00:24:06.34\00:24:09.41
Marsh, when he
means to credit God
00:24:10.25\00:24:13.01
by proxy,
00:24:15.92\00:24:16.72
he begins praising other gods.
00:24:16.75\00:24:19.29
And you know what
the sad part of it all?
00:24:21.12\00:24:23.32
Remember I told
you how Solomon's issue
00:24:24.23\00:24:26.66
is that he forgot
who made him successful?
00:24:26.70\00:24:29.73
Do you realize that
during his sacrifices
00:24:31.17\00:24:33.74
of Thanksgiving, he was very
00:24:33.77\00:24:36.47
that at the
beginning of Solomon's
00:24:38.21\00:24:39.54
reign, Solomon didn't
know what he was doing.
00:24:39.57\00:24:41.68
So he says, Lord,
00:24:42.58\00:24:43.75
I mean, this people
to be is to August Lord,
00:24:43.78\00:24:46.48
would you just give me
00:24:46.51\00:24:47.48
I don't know if I'm
coming in or going out.
00:24:47.52\00:24:49.82
And God said that
because you didn't ask for money
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.92
or the life of your
enemies or man or just all this
00:24:54.06\00:24:56.76
extra stuff, God says,
I'm going to give you wisdom,
00:24:56.79\00:24:59.53
then I'm going
00:24:59.96\00:25:01.10
to give you all the other
stuff that you did not ask for
00:25:01.13\00:25:03.57
and understand
that you're more Solomon
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.10
so wealthy that he had hired
singers to sing his phrase.
00:25:06.13\00:25:09.94
He literally had
gold lions that adorn
00:25:10.84\00:25:12.91
both aisles of the aisle
that led to his throne room
00:25:12.94\00:25:16.48
that the Bible says
he had so much wealth
00:25:17.45\00:25:18.81
that literally
silver lost its value.
00:25:19.71\00:25:21.42
But there comes a time
00:25:21.98\00:25:22.85
where he is
00:25:22.88\00:25:24.05
sitting at the altar of King
Mark or milk of the abominations
00:25:24.09\00:25:27.69
of the Ammonites.
00:25:27.72\00:25:28.69
And he literally has
the gall to say, Kee Marsh,
00:25:28.72\00:25:32.69
I thank you
00:25:33.09\00:25:34.86
for opening doors and see.
00:25:37.13\00:25:39.70
The sin of Solomon is
not just his selfishness,
00:25:39.73\00:25:42.80
but he credits
another beside Jehovah
00:25:43.71\00:25:47.51
for the great works that
have come to pass in his life.
00:25:48.71\00:25:51.95
And what this
message is designed to do
00:25:52.78\00:25:54.98
is not just to call you to
be equally yoked with somebody
00:25:56.22\00:25:58.45
that shares your beliefs,
but the fundamental undergirding
00:25:58.49\00:26:01.69
tenet of this message
today is to get us to a place
00:26:02.82\00:26:05.96
where we do not
have a divided heart,
00:26:06.80\00:26:08.96
where we are singular and
excuse collusive in our praise.
00:26:10.10\00:26:13.44
I just need to
know, do I have anybody
00:26:14.34\00:26:15.90
that is not
confused about how it is
00:26:16.77\00:26:19.64
that your life
has become so blessed?
00:26:20.54\00:26:22.14
Do I have at least
seven or eight folks
00:26:22.98\00:26:24.58
that will close out this
service by saying it was God
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.55
that did it, that it
was God that opened doors,
00:26:29.58\00:26:32.55
it was God that
gave me that degree.
00:26:33.42\00:26:35.62
It was God that
provided the job.
00:26:36.42\00:26:38.56
It was God that got
me out of the hospital.
00:26:39.46\00:26:41.73
It was God that
helped me pass my boards.
00:26:42.66\00:26:45.07
It was God that helped
me pass the dissertation.
00:26:46.13\00:26:48.64
It was God that
got me off my sickbed.
00:26:49.54\00:26:52.34
It was God that elevated me.
00:26:53.01\00:26:55.24
It's God that sustains me is
I have anybody that can say that
00:26:56.44\00:27:00.92
if it had not been
for the Lord on my side,
00:27:00.95\00:27:06.25
can somebody take a
moment to lift holy hands
00:27:07.26\00:27:11.16
to stand on your
feet, to think that
00:27:12.03\00:27:15.23
from where God
has brought you from
00:27:15.26\00:27:19.00
and not say it was the school,
it wasn't your intellect,
00:27:20.20\00:27:24.41
it wasn't your friends,
it wasn't your sorority,
00:27:25.41\00:27:28.68
it wasn't the
doctors, it wasn't the Tylenol.
00:27:29.68\00:27:32.38
It was the hand of God.
00:27:32.95\00:27:37.62