#S083 - “Married At
First Sight” (Part 2)
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Welcome to The Breath of Life
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Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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In today's episode,
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Pastor Snell will continue part
two of the powerful message.
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“Married At First Sight”.
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Now let's go deeper
into the word of God.
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You ought to be
thanking him that before
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he sent the right person,
he sent you to the right job
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and gave you the right house
and gave you the right income.
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And then in the right
order, he sends the right person
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because they assumed
that got the right person.
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But they ain't
got the right job.
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They ain't got the right income.
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And I would rather be
single in the right house
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than to have the right
person sleeping in my car.
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Y'all not hear
what I'm saying today?
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Church You need to thank God
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that he has ordered
every one of your steps.
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And let me just
pause while I'm here today.
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Can I just say to
anybody who's single,
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watch your entanglements.
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Because when you're
entangled with the wrong person,
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guess what?
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You can't even notice the
right person when they show up
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and see.
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The problem is
there are some of us
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that look, once we
mature to a certain age
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and we say, man, why couldn't
I marry someone like him or her
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when the truth is that person
had already been in your orbit,
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but you were so
entangled with the wrong person
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that you put
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them in the friend zone
and couldn't even identify them
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and see.
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One of the things I
love about Rebecca Church
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is that she is not
here looking for nobody.
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She's just out
here living her life
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and operating in
her divine purpose.
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See, the thing I
like about Rebecca
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is she ain't looking
for nobody to complete her.
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She ain't looking
for nobody to save her.
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She ain't looking for
nobody to provide for her.
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She ain't looking for nobody
to make her complete. Why?
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Because she is
a daughter of God.
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So that she is
already made complete.
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Because she has an
active relationship with him.
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In fact, let me let me say it
as I share with you last year,
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y'all remember old school
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that when you went to
a very cheap house party?
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Malcolm The invitation was,
say something like this BYOB.
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Oh, y'all saved
in this room today.
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And the BYOB, it
meant bring your own bag
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or bring your own bottle.
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In other words,
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we ain't got enough to feed you,
so you better bring your own.
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And what I'm saying
to anybody today is that
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instead of waiting on
somebody to make you happy,
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instead of waiting on
somebody to make you joyful,
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I need you to be y0h and
bring your own happiness.
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I need you to be y oj
and bring your own joy.
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I need you to be y0p
and bring your own peace.
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And by0c and bring
your own contentment.
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And by0h bring your own hope.
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And I need somebody to
be y0m bring your own money.
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Can I get a
witness in this room today?
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You don't need
nobody to make you.
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You need to
bring it to the party.
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All y'all hear me today
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and see this a
folks s in their feelings
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because you've been
waiting for your woman, a man
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to make you happy.
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You're putting too
much pressure on a person.
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How many of us
know there is no person
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that can make you happy?
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There is no person
that can make you joyful.
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There is one source of joy.
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And his name is J.
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ESU ass.
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Are you y'all
here in the word today?
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Church.
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And so the word says to
us here, Genesis, chapter 24
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and verse number 18.
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Look at it quickly here with me
today, Genesis 24, in verse 18,
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I just want to
show a few south streets
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and they're going to take
you to Jesus and take my seat.
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Genesis 24 in verse 18.
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So she said, Drink, my lord.
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Then she quickly led her pitcher
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down to her hand
and gave him a drink,
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and when she had
finished giving him a drink,
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she said, I will draw
water for your camels.
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Also, until they
have finished drinking.
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The third thing,
third thing this teaches us
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is that spouse traits
are global, not local.
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Okay, let me say it again,
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that spouse traits
are global, not local.
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So that sometimes
one of the mistakes
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we make young people
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is that when we're
looking or evaluating someone,
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we just look at
how they treat us.
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But it's actually
informative to notice
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how they engage with
the community around them.
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Are you with me today?
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In other words, brother,
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you need to ask, is
he just being kind to me?
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Is the kindness just
local or does it travel
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outside of the
orbit where I'm standing?
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Did you notice this one thing
about Rebecca Church that she is
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just kind to everybody
that she comes in contact with?
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In other words, Rebecca
is not putting on an audition
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to win the affection of Isaac.
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Rebecca is simply that girl
that whenever she finds a need,
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she pours herself
all the way into it
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so that she has no
response ability to him
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culturally or to the
servant professionally
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or to him from a
financial standpoint.
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She is just doing what she does
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because kindness
is inside of her.
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And see, I need you
to understand, Beloved,
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that as you're looking and
evaluating friends of mine,
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you've got to ask yourself,
is the kindness local to me
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or is it global and are
they a blessing to everybody?
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Are y'all hear me today? Church?
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In other words,
it shouldn't just be.
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How do they treat you?
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You ought to be asking, do
those characteristics travel
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or are they just local?
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When you're around?
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In other words,
brother, you ought to ask,
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is she generally kind?
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Because if she's just
nice when you show up,
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she that a really
character is a kindness mask.
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And how many of us know that
mask always have to come off.
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You need to ask,
is he generally gentle
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or is he just
gentle when you show up?
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Because the truth is, it
may be a gentleness mask,
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but gentleness always
comes off mask always comes out.
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You got to ask, are they
just spiritual on Sabbath?
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But if you run up
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on Tuesday, on Thursday,
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is there a
completely different energy?
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Is there spirituality,
a mask or is it skin?
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Are y'all hear me today? Church?
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In other words,
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if they
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treat the waiter with
respect, they won't treat a wife
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with respect.
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If she tears down others with
their tongue, then guess what?
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It's just a matter of time
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for that same energy
comes back in your direction.
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If he lies to
everybody else, guess what?
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You're going to rest
assured that he is lying to you.
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In other words,
if they are harsh
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to everybody else,
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in other words,
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that harshness is going to
come back in your direction.
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If they are
personally petty, they're
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going to be relationally petty.
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And you've got to get back
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to recognizing that
the character traits
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are not just seeing in
how they treat you, but
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showing in how
they treat everybody.
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And can I just say to somebody
who is single and waiting,
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God measures your
readiness, not just by how
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are you going to
treat the one you love.
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He's saying
whether or not you're ready
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based on how you
treat everybody around you,
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how y'all not hear me today?
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The audition doesn't start
when the right person shows up.
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God is seeing
how you treat people
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you don't need nothing from
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and God saying, I
can't trust you with a wife.
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If I can trust
you with the waitress,
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I can't trust
you with a husband.
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If you don't know
how to treat a stranger.
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You see, the audition doesn't
always take place on a stage.
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It happens in the way
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you interact with everybody
you come in contact with.
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How do you treat
people that you don't know?
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How do you treat
people you don't need?
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How many of us know that?
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If you can't, you
if you can't forgive
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your enemies, you
can't forgive your partner.
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Because marriage is a constant
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litany of having
to forgive offenses
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that you feel like
should not be committed, though
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you'll hear what
I'm saying today.
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CHURCH And see,
this is why you got to
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treat the community good.
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Because before most people
approach you, they research you
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notice the servant.
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He's noticed
that she's beautiful,
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but he's gathered some
information along the way.
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He's figured out who are people.
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He's he knows
that she's unmarried.
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She no, he knows
nobody ain't been with her.
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In other words, he's
done some asking around.
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He ain't just praying.
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He's in. He's interrogating.
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And I need somebody to
know that sometimes God's will
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is confirmed in the consistency
of testimony about you,
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so that when people are asking
around, they want to see if
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everybody says the same thing
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concerning you, the
almighty quiet today.
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In other words,
God's will is confirmed
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when everybody says
He is a man of integrity,
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God's will is
confirmed when everybody says
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that she has a
servant disposition
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and she handles her business
in God's will is confirmed.
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When everybody
says that, Yeah, man,
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I see him
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the way he moves during the week
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and he'll be a
blessing to your life.
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And how many of us know
that everybody in this room
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that at some point somebody
is single, is researching you
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and see sometimes they
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ask in the usher, you
turn your nose up at the door
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and sometimes they are asking
friends that that that janitor
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that you look through every
day on your way into your job
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and see, that's why,
friends, you want to make sure
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that you treat everybody
well because you never know
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who's going to advocate
for you, speak up for you
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and say your name in
rooms where you are not standing
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here in the word today.
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CHURCH
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And so the word says here in
verse number 16, stay with me.
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CHURCH The Bible
says here in Genesis 24
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and verse number 16,
hear the word of the Lord.
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Notice what they
notice the Bible says now.
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The young woman was
very beautiful to behold.
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A virgin, and no
man had known her.
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And she went down to the
well and filled her picture.
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And the Bible
says that she came up
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for thing that this teaches us
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is you got to make sure
their history won't harm you.
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Notice that the word
is giving some detail
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about what is being evaluated.
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The word says is careful to
point out that she is a virgin
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and that no one has
ever slept with her.
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Now, to be clear,
Church, every culture has a way,
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specifically for some reason,
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of acknowledging and
celebrating a woman's virtue.
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But I want to
enlarge upon the principle
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more than just the
sexual, because understand that
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the servant knows that Isaac
is perhaps around 16 or 17,
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that he is a young
and inexperienced man,
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and it makes sense to partner
him with an inexperienced woman.
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And the servant
knows that no experience
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is better than a
bunch of bad experience.
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Okay.
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And the reason I'm
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saying this church,
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because, again, I'm not just
talking about sexual experience,
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I want to say this
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because what has become
culture common in the culture
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is to just say,
pastor, the past is the past.
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And whatever happened
in the past don't inform
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nothing about
what's going on with me.
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But I am here to
declare the devil is a liar.
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I hear what I'm saying.
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In other words,
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I'm not saying that a person's
history should disqualify them,
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but what I rebuke is
the welcoming of ignorance.
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It is this
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belief that
everything in a person's past
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automatically resets as
soon as they connect with me.
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But the truth is, friends, that
if you're going to get serious
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about somebody, you need
to know their sexual history.
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You ought to know
their professional history.
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You need to know
their mental history.
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You might even need to
know their credit score.
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Y'all not hear what I'm saying?
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You need to know what's
going on in that person's life.
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In other words, you
need to know why it is that
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the last man she
was with called it off.
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So quickly, you
need to understand why
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he's been divorced three
times in the last 20 years.
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You need to find out
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why he's been fired
from every job he's ever had.
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You need to make sure you
understand their mental history
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and their sexual history.
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You need to know why they
have more bodies in a cemetery.
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He cannot keep it real in
the House of the Lord today.
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You need to know
the credit score.
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Can I get a witness out there?
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You need to be clear.
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If that score is in the
threes, you ought to say
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you can't be with me.
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If it's in the fours,
we can't date no more.
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If it's in the fives,
you knew that marazion alive.
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And if it's under
six, it might be a trick.
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Now, not here with
the Bass of the day.
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In other words, you need to
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understand their mental history.
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Not now.
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Again, I don't mean I don't
want to be flippant about this.
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I'm not saying if
a person is depressed
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or they struggle
with bipolar disorder
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that you ought
to disqualify them.
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But you need to enter into that
knowing that you need to have
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a plan of treatment
together, because that heaviness
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requires more than sentiment
and a good prayer life.
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I hear what I'm saying today.
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Church and see friends of mine.
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I need somebody to know
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that you need to understand what
happens in a person's history
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because whatever is in their
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history is going
to impact your future.
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It's crazy because I remember
I was preaching in a certain
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country.
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Malcolm, and when
I was getting ready
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to come back home after a week
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as I went into the
airport with my luggage
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and I put it on the counter,
they did something strange.
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They took my bag and they began
to spray it with disinfectant.
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And then they began to wrap
it in this type plastic lining.
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So they first disinfected
it and then they wrapped it.
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And I looked at them and
asked them what they were doing.
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They said, We've got to wrap
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and disinfect
your bag because we
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don't want you to take
back any strand of bacteria.
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We don't want you to
take back a flea or a tick
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that might be
harmful to anyone else.
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And it seemed over the top,
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and it seemed like
they were doing too much.
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And the man says
something I'll never forget.
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He says, never let.
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What happened on
your journey impact
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those who didn't take
that journey with you?
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And see, this is my friends.
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You've got to be careful
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and take precautions
because you can be harmed
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by a journey
you didn't even take
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and see.
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Friends.
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The other component of history
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is you got to make
sure your histories match.
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Okay.
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In other words,
you know Isaac, he's
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a young, inexperienced man.
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And so he needs to be
matched generally with a young,
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inexperienced woman.
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Go with me today, church
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and see when I talk
about asking about history.
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I'm not asking you to be nosy.
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One of the things you need
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to see is if your
histories are congruent
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with one another.
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Okay, because
sometimes brothers,
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you tend to
date a little younger
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and sometimes your history
might be too heavy for her.
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So if you've been
divorced and you got three kids
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and she's just moving
out of her mom's house,
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your history may be a little
bit too heavy for her to bear.
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In other words, if you
have lived a little bit
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and you've got responsibilities
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and you've gone
through some challenges
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and you're
partnered with somebody
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who is essentially
an emotional virgin,
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they don't have any
scars on their soul.
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Sometimes you've got
to pay attention to it
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because your history
may be too heavy for them.
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How many of us understand?
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You need to
understand the history
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because not everybody has
the internal structure of soul
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to be in a blended family and
not preaching the truth today
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that it takes a real man to help
raise some of the man's kids
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and to step in the gap
where that brother walked away.
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It takes a special woman to
raise kids that are not hers.
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When that other woman walked out
and she's still bringing drama
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to the house, you need to know
that they have what it takes
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to handle the history
so that I've even seen
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that sometimes when a widow
remarries, sometimes it helps
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if they marry another widow,
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somebody that has
the structure of soul
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to handle the history and
the load that comes with, you
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know what I'm saying today?
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CHURCH And again,
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I'm not saying
that the history is bad,
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but you got to make sure
that those histories match
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and there is
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enough strength to carry
what comes with that person,
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this funny man.
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You're my family.
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My wife and I, we travel a lot
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and I'm meeting a 16
year old in the shade.
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But sometimes my wife packs
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like she ain't
never coming back home.
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I mean. I mean.
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I mean, pray for
the pastor's afternoon.
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Listen, there are days
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when she'll go out of town
for, like, a day and she'll pack
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so much luggage, I'd be like,
Baby, are we still together?
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I mean, are you
coming back home?
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I'm like, Give me
your hotel address.
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I need to know where you going
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in the event that
you don't come back.
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But but it's crazy.
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Church Because sometimes when
we are traveling are the kids.
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Malcolm would try to assist us.
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We carrying the bass
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but the younger
two, they are not really
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used to carrying
bands that are that heavy.
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So most of the time I
have to carry my wife's bags
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because she needs
somebody that's strong
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enough to carry her
baggage ordinance today.
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She needs somebody
that's strong enough to carry
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what she's packing.
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And when you are
dating, you don't need a boy.
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You need a man that
can carry your baggage.
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You don't need a girl.
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That's just cute in a skirt.
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You need a woman
with enough character
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to handle your baggage.
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And when you ask the Lord,
don't just ask for shoulders
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and a complexion.
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That's for somebody
strong enough to carry the bags.
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That's a part of your journey.
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I hear me today. Church
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And see, I just need to say this
because it is a strange thing.
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Verse 21 Notice that man,
she meets all of the criteria
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she ask him for a drink.
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She feeds the camel.
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She's pretty.
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She's inexperienced, sexually.
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But notice what verse 21,
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the Bible says that the
man takes time to be silent,
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to see if this
thing comes from God.
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And I just want to encourage
you, no matter how many signs
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you see, you need to take time
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for observation
and deliberation.
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See, friends of mine.
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I need you to notice
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that sometimes you don't
need to just check your list.
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You need to
check in with Jehovah.
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See, the problem is
you go about this little,
00:20:00.30\00:20:02.46
this little fake
list, you create it.
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But you need to be still long
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enough to know whether or
not this thing is from God
00:20:06.60\00:20:09.97
and the reason
you need to be still.
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How many of us have
ever got gassed up before?
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Because the first
few dates went so good?
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You thought this
had to be from God.
00:20:19.51\00:20:21.75
But once you let it
breathe for a little bit,
00:20:22.78\00:20:24.95
once you let the infatuation
wear off, once the Spirit of God
00:20:26.15\00:20:30.69
began to speak, sometimes
the beginning can fool you.
00:20:30.73\00:20:34.83
So you need to be
still long enough to see
00:20:36.00\00:20:38.70
if God is the one that
is in the arranging process.
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And this is why I
would encourage all
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who are of a marriageable age.
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There is a very
00:20:46.41\00:20:48.04
wonderful formula
that Ellen White gives us.
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She says, You ought
to have a long courtship
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and a short engagement.
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Okay, I can't get
no help here today.
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Do you realize
00:20:59.19\00:21:00.32
you don't just need to
see how they look in jeans?
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You need to see how they look
in different seasons of life.
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You need to see them
when they. Man, can I.
00:21:08.03\00:21:10.03
Can I get a witness out there?
00:21:10.07\00:21:11.47
You need to see
them when they sleep.
00:21:11.50\00:21:13.50
You need to see
them when they hungry.
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You need to see them
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when they ain't got no
money. You need to see them
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when they are
around their family.
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Oh, you better
evaluate their family life.
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They all like, Oh,
I'm just marrying them.
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Ain't marrying
that devil is a liar.
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You better see what
you marrying into a young
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hearing The
Bachelor this afternoon.
00:21:33.29\00:21:36.32
And so you need
to take some time
00:21:36.36\00:21:38.79
so that your
desire and your emotion
00:21:39.66\00:21:42.80
and the charm
does not deceive you.
00:21:43.67\00:21:46.77
And see some of us like,
yo, you got to be careful
00:21:46.80\00:21:49.04
when somebody's going
to get married too quick,
00:21:50.04\00:21:51.21
because really, when they
want to rush you to the altar,
00:21:51.24\00:21:53.74
they want to get you there
before the real them comes out
00:21:54.94\00:21:56.75
because they get on the way.
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That man so long am I preach
00:22:00.48\00:22:02.05
anybody that in other words,
I need to lock him or her up
00:22:02.08\00:22:06.22
before they see my
temper, my temperament,
00:22:07.19\00:22:09.39
my bank account,
my attitude, my ugly?
00:22:10.29\00:22:12.53
You want to see it all
00:22:13.09\00:22:16.23
and see?
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That's the one
thing I say all the time.
00:22:17.47\00:22:18.63
We worried about men.
00:22:18.67\00:22:19.43
If I wait too long a miss love
00:22:19.47\00:22:21.50
you realize
time can mess up love
00:22:22.34\00:22:23.71
you mean if you
are going to be married
00:22:25.21\00:22:26.31
for the next 65 years,
you can wait two more months.
00:22:26.34\00:22:28.84
How y'all hear
what I'm saying today?
00:22:28.88\00:22:30.05
Church The only thing
that time kills is infatuation.
00:22:30.08\00:22:34.02
So you need to, no matter
how many of the boxes it checks,
00:22:35.18\00:22:37.39
no matter how well it goes
00:22:38.02\00:22:39.22
for the first three months,
00:22:39.25\00:22:40.12
you still need to
be still long enough
00:22:40.16\00:22:42.59
to see whether or not
this thing comes from the Lord.
00:22:43.69\00:22:46.39
Are y'all with me today? Church
00:22:46.43\00:22:47.66
And so this is
for the strange to us.
00:22:48.66\00:22:50.33
We don't really like celebrate
because it seems strange to me
00:22:50.37\00:22:53.74
since somebody's a servant
to find the wife for his son.
00:22:54.94\00:22:57.77
And then guess what?
00:22:58.31\00:22:58.84
He persuades her to come
00:22:58.87\00:23:00.98
and she gets on a donkey
and she comes voluntarily,
00:23:01.01\00:23:04.55
leaves
everything that she knows.
00:23:05.35\00:23:06.98
And when she sees him
for the very first time,
00:23:07.95\00:23:10.92
she marries him.
00:23:11.92\00:23:14.26
At first sight.
00:23:14.29\00:23:18.06
And I thought about
this thought the pilot,
00:23:18.09\00:23:20.63
and I thought to myself
00:23:20.66\00:23:23.23
that as Adventists
00:23:23.26\00:23:25.33
we are to believe
in arranged marriages.
00:23:25.37\00:23:33.44
Now, when I say happiness,
00:23:33.48\00:23:34.51
I don't mean just SDR,
but anybody that believes
00:23:34.54\00:23:37.08
that Jesus is coming
again, you are to believe
00:23:38.11\00:23:41.72
in arranged marriages.
00:23:41.75\00:23:42.82
Let me say it again
to y'all in the back
00:23:42.85\00:23:44.79
that if you believe
that Jesus is coming again,
00:23:44.82\00:23:49.66
you ought to believe
Mark in arranged marriages.
00:23:49.69\00:23:53.96
Now, see, the problem is some
of us hadn't seen Jesus yet,
00:23:55.10\00:23:58.40
so see, we man,
because all we see is a father
00:23:59.43\00:24:02.34
setting up a
wedding for his son.
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.44
And he sends the
helper to convince the bride
00:24:06.41\00:24:10.21
to come and marry a man that
she's seeing for the first time.
00:24:11.41\00:24:15.02
Y'all still missed it.
00:24:15.05\00:24:16.52
See all y'all see as a father
00:24:16.55\00:24:18.59
arranging a marriage for his
son and then sending a helper
00:24:19.75\00:24:23.66
to convince the bride to come
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.83
and marry a man that she
see for the very first time.
00:24:26.86\00:24:30.97
Some of are the
getting it to all.
00:24:31.00\00:24:33.07
Some see as a father that's
preparing a wedding for the son.
00:24:33.10\00:24:38.31
So he sends a helper
to convince the bride
00:24:38.34\00:24:42.64
to marry a man that
she ain't never seen.
00:24:43.58\00:24:46.55
See all somebody
sees as a father,
00:24:47.38\00:24:49.35
a son and a helper.
00:24:50.02\00:24:52.42
But if you study your Bible,
00:24:53.09\00:24:55.52
you don't just see a
father, a son and a helper.
00:24:55.56\00:25:00.50
I see the father,
00:25:00.96\00:25:02.40
the Son and the Holy Ghost
00:25:03.40\00:25:06.40
because my father is
00:25:07.10\00:25:09.64
preparing a wedding for his son.
00:25:09.67\00:25:12.14
And so he sends the helper,
00:25:12.81\00:25:15.14
which is the Holy
Ghost, to convince the bride,
00:25:16.11\00:25:19.75
which is the church, to
come to the wedding piece
00:25:20.82\00:25:24.29
that's being
prepared for his son.
00:25:25.12\00:25:27.59
And you're saying,
Well, I know Jesus, but
00:25:27.62\00:25:30.69
the Bible says I have a
thing is have not heard me
00:25:30.73\00:25:35.93
that has entered
into the heart of any man,
00:25:36.90\00:25:38.20
that which God has
prepared for his children.
00:25:39.23\00:25:41.10
And so the good news is
that he got down on both knees
00:25:42.27\00:25:45.67
and proposed in the
Garden of Gethsemane,
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that he walked down the
aisle on the way to Golgotha,
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that he took his
vows by not saying a word.
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He didn't just
stand before the altar,
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but he lay down on
the altar and it was there
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at the cross that he
wed himself to the church.
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And he says, I'll take you
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to I have and to
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hope for good
times and in bad times,
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in sickness and in
health, for richer and for poor.
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And because he was raised,
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death will never do your part.
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Anybody thankful
that the Holy Ghost
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led you to the
Sun so you can be a
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part of the wedding feast
that's about to take place?
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Can you praise him
that he's coming again?
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That a wedding
is being prepared?
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He's preparing a
place where you lift up
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the trumpets loud ladies sing.
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Jesus is coming again
00:26:49.30\00:26:51.84
be cheer up, you
pilgrims be joyful and sing
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Because Jesus, I said, My Jesus,
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I said, you're Jesus.
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I said, Our Jesus is here.
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Jesus
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is the bride getting ready?
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Are you getting ready
for the wedding, Chris?
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Are you looking
forward to your wedding day?
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Are you making yourself ready?
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I'm thankful
that Jesus is coming.
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He's coming again.
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Take 10 seconds
and give him praise.
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Hallelujah,
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hallelujah, hallelujah.
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To the Lamb
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