Hi, I'm C.A. Murray.
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And this is Free Indeed, a
different kind of ministry.
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The men and women
that you will meet
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in this particular program
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have found Jesus in
very trying circumstances.
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They're gonna
tell you their story,
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their own personal
journey of their walk of faith.
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We haven't changed their music,
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and we haven't
changed their words,
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because it's their
personal testimony.
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It's their walk of
faith with Jesus Christ.
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You will find,
as they have found
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that in Jesus you can
indeed be Free Indeed.
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There is
something about that sound,
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it's very final,
very frightening.
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Today, we're at the Putnamville
Correctional Facility.
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You're going to meet
two very unique individuals.
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First Lorenzo, he's
been in 20 plus years
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and yet he's still
has a love for life
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and a love for Jesus.
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He wrote a song that
we're gonna hear today
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called "Keep on Pressing."
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Then we're gonna meet
the irrepressible Tyrone,
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spend some time in
prison with Lamuel.
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Lamuel is out,
Tyrone is still there.
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Yet he's got a very
strong, very powerful,
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very pertinent message for
you this day on Free Indeed.
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Our next speaker
is Mr. Lorenzo Reid,
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and we are in a
prison in Central Indiana,
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and you have been
20 years in prison
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for something that you
say that you did not do,
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but there is freedom indeed
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and I pray for one day the
gates will be open for you.
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What would you share with
people in the world they think
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that all this glitter is
really worth holding onto
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giving their young lives
to come to places like this?
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You're correct. I am--
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I have been in
course already for 20 years
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for crime I didn't commit.
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But basically is I think
what happened is all the things
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that I thought that I
got away with, you know,
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I'm a former
drug dealer, you know,
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at age of 14, I went out
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and started selling
drugs to support myself
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and try to
enhance my music career.
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Basically selling drugs
became a habit to me, amen.
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Just it became a
habit just like a habit
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form just like I got addicted
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to it just like a person
get addicted to using drugs.
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All of the, I got addicted
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to like the materialistic things
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and I thought that
it'll make me happy.
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It didn't make me happy,
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in fact it made
me depressed, amen.
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But, you know, the
thing about it is--
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materialistic things
really can't make nobody happy
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you know, I said, I
just want to let you know
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that and you
know, when I finally got
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of course they raided for
selling drugs or whatever,
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they placed this
murder on me that,
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I didn't know, I
didn't know anything about,
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I don't know
anything about it now,
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hopefully soon I
will be vindicated.
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But that's you know,
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what got me
through all of these,
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all these, these, these 20 years
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I've been you
know, waking up everyday,
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knowing that I'm innocent.
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What got me through it is God.
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I'm gonna keep real with you --
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I'm no good, I'm
not gonna come up here
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and act as if I'm holy
savior, or I'm saved, you know,
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I'm just, I'm just, you know,
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I wasn't an angel out there.
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You know, but God is good,
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I can say that God is good.
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He is good and He
has got me through this.
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That's the only
way I got through it--
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is with God, you know, praise.
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There are those
who feel not, not there
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Many times disrespected,
don't be discouraged
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Keep on pressing
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Even when the sky is gray
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And I'm looking for a sunny day
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I've made up my
mind to keep on pressing
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Help me out Pressing
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Keep on pressing Pressing
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And I know
what's going on Pressing
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You got to keep moving
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Pressing on Moving
on Pressing on, pressing
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No, about to
fill in time Pressing
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No one to call on Pressing
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You got to believe
Pressing on, pressing on
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It's now the love
once that's true loves
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Didn't get the chance to
save but you see him again
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Keep on pressing
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I have been to many storms
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Nothing that can hold me down
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No need to worry
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Keep on pressing
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Pressing
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God want to see
me and to be free
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Pressing Trying
to get the best of me
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Pressing, I'm only
human when I got the strong
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Pressing on,
Pressing on Pressing
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Why sing when no
one heard Pressing
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Keep must spirits up Pressing
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I got so far to go
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Pressing no one praise the lord
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Keep on Keep on, keep on,
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keep on, You
can't move it Pressing
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Keep on, keep
on, keep on Pressing
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Pressing us Pressing on
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Keep on, keep on, keep on
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When you really
get to go on through
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some hard time you think about,
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think about what
I've gone through.
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And if I can give a smile,
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I could still smile after
20 years of being in course
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and waiting for
some I didn't do,
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I can walk around here
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and still respect those
who disrespect me, amen.
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You know, when
I still, you know,
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I could still have a
smile on my face and still,
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you know, give a
smile when it's needed
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those who out there
that's going through some,
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they could smile
and they can you know,
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you have that's a power of God.
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Thank you Lourenzo.
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God bless you,
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Pressing on, pressing.
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Then our next speaker
is going to speak truth.
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He's gonna speak
saying that it is fools goal.
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The prison ain't a cakewalk,
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Tyron, would you
come up here, please?
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Now I want you to
know that Tyron and I,
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we go like,
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way back, way
back to the old school.
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And we've been down this journey
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but God through His providence
I was allowed to go home.
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But Tyron wouldn't
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and he spent many, many
years in a penitentiary.
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Tyron, you know, on this journey
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there is a lot of
people out there in society
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they think oh, I know,
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I'm won't get caught
but prison like nothing,
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it ain't not you know, big deal,
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what would you share with
them people in the neighborhood,
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they still skipping
and hopping thinking
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it its like no deal up in here.
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I thought the same way, you did.
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I didn't think the consequence,
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didn't think about consequence.
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At what age did this drama begin
to start and fester you like--
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Seventeen, and then
what happened at 17.
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Seventeen I was, I
was given 50 years.
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Fifty years for what?
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Fifty years for murder.
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Fifty years for murder.
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And what happens when you go up
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in a joint at the 17 year old,
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50 years 'cause you was re cool
on the street with that pistol.
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I was cool going to in the
back gate of Michigan City.
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Here my two tone date
in Stacy Adams clothes on,
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have a Sergio Valente jeans on,
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I'm saying it bad deal
we worn them kind of tight,
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but I didn't
take and none of it.
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Yeah, I didn't
take nothing of it.
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And what about the
shoes, were they little tall.
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There was long.
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There was long and I
went to the back gate
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and I go down Main
Street of Michigan City.
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I thought I was super fly.
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And then I heard. Amen, amen.
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I'm gonna can't
do whistling at me,
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they can't be
whistling at me, yeah.
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But there was
whistling at all of us, amen.
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Didn't care,
didn't care who he was,
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what we
represented, how two off he was.
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Not me and a few these guys
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right here right
now can remember.
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You can remember the riots,
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the every other day
somebody getting stabbed,
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somebody working on a chase it,
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it makes saving your life.
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Oh, topper you
going out like this.
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On topper you when I
first went into Michigan City
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I want to wreck that next day.
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And a brother that came here
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wouldn't use to talk
cash when we come here.
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He said man they've
been nothing none to me.
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I'm gonna kill me or somebody.
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I was out there watching away,
I'm a watching T.V out away.
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And I heard some
scream, the shot was right here.
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He screamed, and screamed
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and I'm saying here
listen the police here,
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I know it because I hear, amen.
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And when he come up
first two guys came out.
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And then when he come
out I knew what it happened,
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they had raped
it, and I had made up
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my mind then that look here,
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there are some tougher guys
in the penitentiary than me.
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I was chained down
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after I went
through my little thing,
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I said, I'll be tough,
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I got to fight I'll be
tough, but it don't work.
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You loose time, you loose years,
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I went two to
three superintendents
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before I got off locker,
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I was on strip cell
naked, sprayed with maize,
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beat down they had sticks
now like this at Pilkington,
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sticks like this they
called them walking tall sticks.
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You've seen the movie,
well those sticks exist.
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And they will
whip you like wet rugs.
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Have respect for yourself,
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because if you don't
have respect for yourself,
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nobody will.
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Now Tyrone let me
ask you a question,
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you, your life is
different today, different.
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And today it
ain't about the gangs
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and it ain't about the drugs,
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you've lost hundreds of
thousands of dollars, yes.
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You had a second
chance on the street, right.
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What would you share
with the young people
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out there today facing
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that peer
pressure of that drama?
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That peer pressure
when they come to you
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and tell you manage to
do lie or let's rob a bank,
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I had all these happen to me
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when I got out 98 after 17 year.
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I did a lot and
then it lay to a primo
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and then it lay to a pie
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and then it lay to a
250000 house been smoked up
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with the car like
Escalade 2. I'll say,
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give it to Jesus
right away, give it to God.
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How do you do that?
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You give it to
Him, you surrender,
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God don't chase, He's
chasing you now, amen.
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He's chasing you
like the police chase you.
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He wants you, I
want to be needed
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and I needed to be
wanted out down the street.
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So I did everything that I could
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but God was already
there, not that He remove.
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How did that change
happened in your life,
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so you had a second
chance after 17 years
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and then things went wrong
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and you found
yourself in the county jail.
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Facing a 112 years
for forgery and fraud
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and I was talking to
my mother on the phone
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who can't read or
write, but she is so gifted
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because God
blessed her with a tongue,
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God blessed her with the
vocabulary to speak to him
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when she pray she
spoke you, she spoke you,
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she actually will spoke you
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and when she
told me on the phone,
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she said Tyrone,
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God wants to you to
hang this phone up right now
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I'm talking to her on a
phone in the county jail click.
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She said hang it up right now,
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go up to your
cell get on your knees
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and ask for forgiveness.
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I said, right now momma
I don't want to let it go.
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Right now she
said, now Tyrone now.
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And I hung the phone up,
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went upstairs
and I start praying.
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Honestly I've start praying
and then it became sincere,
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then snaps start
coming out of my nose,
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then I cover myself
with the horse blanket
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that they give
it, for a blanket.
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I cover myself up
and I just shook and cry
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and I said God
please forgive me,
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just please forgive me.
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Three weeks later,
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I thought I had a
death in a family,
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they say Tyrone your
attorney is down here,
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he need to see you, this
is 2 o'clock in the morning,
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you don't get calls like this.
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And I went down
there and he say,
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Tyrone, he say,
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if I can get you
out this morning,
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can you stay out of
trouble, I said what?
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He said if I can get
you out this morning,
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can you stay out of trouble?
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I said, yes, I could stay
out of trouble I sure can.
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And God drop all charges,
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all forgery
charges, all fraud charges,
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released me He is the
key, He is the master key.
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And I say, if you're in trouble
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use that key to
get through doors,
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to get through anything.
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When I'm fallen
off my square here,
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I call Lonny, and I will say,
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I am a good guy at
heart, I was a bad guy back
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then because I
was protecting myself.
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But I am a good guy now,
you all see me around here,
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I'm a comedian, I
love to laugh, amen.
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Stress is number one,
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laughter is a number one
reliever of stress for me.
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Now speak about
half stepping with God.
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If you half step with
God, if you half step with God,
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he's is gonna get
you, devil go and get you
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if you're take eyes off him
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and don't give it
to him everyday, amen.
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You gonna sink like
Peter did, you're gonna sink,
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you got to keep
the faith everyday.
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Everyday, Tyrone,
thank you so very, very much,
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God bless you.
Thank you, all right.
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I pastured in New
York City for 30 years,
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right in the heart of Harlem,
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preached a 117
funerals in a five year period,
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that's about one
funeral every 18 days.
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And every time I
saw a grieving family
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I wondered if that person had
given their heart to the Lord,
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because it doesn't
make any sense to sit here
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and sing and clap
and pray and feel good.
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And then at judgment
time not be right with Jesus.
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So that's why 3ABN has
partnered with Christmas
00:15:38.03\00:15:40.36
Behind Bars to, to
bring you Free Indeed
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and to take it around the world,
00:15:44.24\00:15:46.25
because we truly believe
in the words of John 8:36,
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"If therefore the
Son shall make you free,
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you shall be free indeed".
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I'm reading just
a couple of verses
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Matthew Chapter 10,
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rather Mark Chapter
10 verses 17 through 22,
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this is a story of what
we call the rich young ruler,
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Father God speak now to us,
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give us Your
words and Your spirit
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and help us not to be
just hearers of the word.
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We want to do the word,
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because it's in doing the word
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that we are made
like Jesus, amen.
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We've heard some powerful,
powerful testimonies tonight.
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And I just want to
add this little bit
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from the words of
the rich, young, ruler.
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The Bible says,
I'm in Mark Chapter 10,
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we pick up a story at verse 17,
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"Now as He was
going out on the road.
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One came running,
knelt before Him".
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Now this posture
of kneeling mean,
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this guy is
serious, he is not playing,
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he is on his knees.
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So he knelt before
Jesus and asked Him,
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"Good teacher what shall I do
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that I may inherit eternal life?
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So Jesus said to him,
why do you call me good?
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No one is good,
but One, that is God.
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You know the commandments."
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So he send right
back to the commandments.
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"Don't commit adultery,
don't murder, don't steal,
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do not bear false
witness, do not defraud,
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honor your
father and your mother.
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And he said to him,
teacher all these things
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I've done from my youth".
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Verse 21 says, "Then
Jesus looking at him, loved him.
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Aren't you glad that even
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when you come to
Jesus even as a Smart Alec.
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When He looks at you,
He looks at you with love.
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Everybody else in the world
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can look at you
with hate and scorn,
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but when you come to
Jesus you always find love.
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Now think of this
before I finish this text.
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This fellow is a
rich, young, ruler.
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Now in the world can
you do any better than that?
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He's rich so he
has got all the money,
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he's young, he got all
the time and he's a ruler.
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So he can tell
people what to do,
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you, you in the world
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you don't get
that's the trifecta.
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That's, the
home run, he is rich,
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he is young,
and he is in charge.
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Now, when he came to Jesus he,
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he really expected
Christ to commend Him.
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He expected Jesus to say to Him,
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man I gotten to tell you.
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You rich, you
young, and you in charge
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and so when Jesus gave him
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a list of things
in the commandments,
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his response was got dead--
happened to it in all my life.
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I got dead.
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So now he is
expecting Christ to say,
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I got nothing for you
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'cause you're perfect
enter into the kingdom.
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And he is
accustomed to hearing that,
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because that's what you hear
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when you're rich, young ruler.
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When you're big shark,
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people laugh at your jokes,
00:19:37.52\00:19:39.80
you know, they're not
funny, but they're laughing,
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they're cracking up because
you're a rich, young ruler.
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When you're a rich, young, ruler
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people hang around you
not because they want you,
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they want what you got.
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Oh, you know folk like that,
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I know I'm not taking people
who are not familiar with that,
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people will hang around you
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and I'll use this
term suck up to you, amen.
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And kiss up to you
as long as you got,
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what's you got,
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because they want
some of what you got.
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Isn't it interesting,
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that in this world
they don't want you,
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they want your stuff.
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You come to Jesus,
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He don't want your
stuff, He wants you.
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He's gotten stuff, He
don't need your stuff.
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He wants you and you know what?
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Yourself as long
as you got stuff,
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you got friends.
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Come on say, amen, amen.
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You can't say amen, say ouch.
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As long as you got
stuff you got friends
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and when your stuff
runs out, so do your friends.
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And when you look
around and you're,
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I'm gonna invent a
new word, stuff-less,
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the only person that still
there is a man called Jesus.
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The same thing He told
that woman at the rock,
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I got some stuff
that you know not off.
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And if you take master
you're never thirsty again.
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Let me say this parenthetically,
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everybody that
tells you about yourself,
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tells you that
the sun doesn't arise
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and set on you,
00:21:41.58\00:21:43.08
puts you in your place is
not necessarily your enemy.
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And everybody
that makes over you
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and tells you the
great thing in the world
00:21:51.95\00:21:54.30
and loves up to you
and pushes up on you
00:21:54.31\00:21:57.18
and tells you how good you are
is not necessarily your friend.
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See a friend is a person
00:22:03.74\00:22:05.87
who tells you the God's honest
truth in love that's a friend.
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Good or bad rich or poor,
00:22:12.15\00:22:13.59
black or white, thick
or thin, ugly or pretty,
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truth is what you need.
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And when you go to Jesus
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you always get the truth, amen.
00:22:20.79\00:22:23.46
Always, that's why
don't ask Jesus to tell you
00:22:23.47\00:22:30.39
about yourself or
show you about yourself
00:22:30.40\00:22:34.39
unless you're
ready to see the truth,
00:22:34.40\00:22:37.58
because all God got is truth.
00:22:37.59\00:22:39.78
He's not going to sugarcoat it,
00:22:39.79\00:22:41.25
He's not going to play with it,
00:22:41.26\00:22:42.80
He's not going to spin it,
He's not going to soften it,
00:22:42.81\00:22:45.27
He's going to
give you the truth,
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the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.
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So don't ask unless
you're ready for the truth
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and the young man said,
00:22:53.03\00:22:54.64
what must I do to be saved.
00:22:54.65\00:22:57.07
Come on say, amen.
00:22:57.08\00:22:59.98
So Christ give him a list,
and He said I got that done
00:22:59.99\00:23:06.64
in all my life
and then Lord said,
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.99
well, if you
really want to be perfect,
00:23:10.00\00:23:14.27
if you want to be
one hundred percent,
00:23:14.28\00:23:18.35
sell everything, sell it all.
00:23:18.36\00:23:24.82
Now Christ wasn't
saying you have to be poor,
00:23:24.83\00:23:29.56
Christ was
reading his heart, amen.
00:23:29.57\00:23:33.01
And Christ knew,
00:23:33.02\00:23:34.37
his issue was his bank account.
00:23:34.38\00:23:38.38
So Christ cuts
through everything
00:23:38.39\00:23:40.56
and gets to his personal issue,
00:23:40.57\00:23:43.43
your issue is money.
00:23:43.44\00:23:45.59
Your issue is your
status in the community.
00:23:45.60\00:23:48.41
Your issue is your car
00:23:48.42\00:23:50.23
and your boat and your
home, that's your problem.
00:23:50.24\00:23:55.11
So if you want to be perfect,
00:23:55.12\00:23:57.11
if you want to be one
hundred percent on my side
00:23:57.12\00:24:01.39
get that out of the way.
00:24:01.40\00:24:03.91
Sell it all, take up
your cross and follow me.
00:24:03.92\00:24:10.25
And reason we know
Christ hit it dead on
00:24:10.26\00:24:13.55
because the Bible said,
00:24:13.56\00:24:14.60
he made a u-turn
00:24:16.72\00:24:17.87
and walked away sorrowful, why?
00:24:19.73\00:24:24.16
Because he had a lot of stuff.
00:24:24.17\00:24:26.01
Bible says, He had great riches
00:24:28.25\00:24:30.52
and he wasn't
willing to give it up.
00:24:30.53\00:24:35.62
You see each of
us got something.
00:24:35.63\00:24:37.54
I would say when I was
pastoring everybody got stuff,
00:24:39.63\00:24:43.80
I got stuff, you got stuff,
all God's children got stuff.
00:24:43.81\00:24:51.70
And Jesus knows
precisely what your stuff is.
00:24:51.71\00:24:56.19
And that's what
He's calling you let go.
00:24:56.20\00:24:59.11
If you ever want
to be one with Jesus,
00:24:59.12\00:25:02.92
if you want to be moving
in the realm of perfection,
00:25:02.93\00:25:06.06
if you want to be
totally on Christ side,
00:25:06.07\00:25:08.85
you pick the one thing
that you love the most,
00:25:08.86\00:25:12.39
pick the thing
that identifies you,
00:25:12.40\00:25:15.38
that's makes you
are what's you are
00:25:15.39\00:25:17.18
and you lay it at the altar.
00:25:17.19\00:25:18.79
Even if you don't know
what it is, Jesus does.
00:25:20.65\00:25:25.11
So in your
prayer you ask Him Lord
00:25:25.12\00:25:27.16
is there anything
between me and You,
00:25:27.17\00:25:30.07
is there anything I
value more than You,
00:25:30.08\00:25:32.50
is there anything I
price more than You,
00:25:32.51\00:25:34.09
I give it to You.
00:25:34.10\00:25:36.30
Now you may, Christ may turn
around give right back to you.
00:25:36.31\00:25:40.86
I know a person who
gave his money to the Lord
00:25:40.87\00:25:46.22
and the Lord turned right
around gave it all back to him.
00:25:46.23\00:25:50.48
But He used it in
the cause of Christ.
00:25:50.49\00:25:52.76
You know why?
00:25:52.77\00:25:54.39
'Cause Christ saw that,
He could trust him with it.
00:25:54.40\00:25:59.22
And if Jesus can
trust you with it,
00:25:59.23\00:26:01.51
He'll give you the world.
00:26:01.52\00:26:04.09
He will and the reason
we don't have the world
00:26:04.10\00:26:08.44
because He can't
trust us with it.
00:26:08.45\00:26:10.79
And some, you know,
you try to get the world,
00:26:10.80\00:26:14.89
got you in a trouble.
00:26:14.90\00:26:18.55
That's the truth
about the rich young ruler.
00:26:18.56\00:26:21.42
Now what's the truth about you,
00:26:21.43\00:26:22.82
what's your thing?
00:26:22.83\00:26:25.51
The moment you
lay it on the altar,
00:26:25.52\00:26:28.18
you're right with God
00:26:28.19\00:26:29.18
and you'll be surprised
what God will do for you,
00:26:29.19\00:26:33.31
with you, to
you and through you,
00:26:33.32\00:26:38.04
through the
power of Jesus Christ.
00:26:38.05\00:26:40.69
But you got to love Him enough.
00:26:40.70\00:26:41.96
There is the book in our closet,
00:26:41.97\00:26:43.50
there is a book
called "Living God's Love."
00:26:43.51\00:26:46.30
Actually out of print now
00:26:46.31\00:26:48.38
and it simply says
this 200 some pages
00:26:48.39\00:26:51.63
when you boil it
all down it says this.
00:26:51.64\00:26:56.12
"Sin is a failure
to love Jesus enough".
00:26:56.13\00:27:02.11
If you love Him enough He
says to those who received me
00:27:04.31\00:27:10.99
I give the power
to become sons of God.
00:27:11.00\00:27:16.50
John 1:12, if you love
Him enough all power is yours
00:27:16.51\00:27:24.18
and you can live victoriously
00:27:24.19\00:27:26.45
and even when it
get a little hard
00:27:26.46\00:27:29.83
and the boys get on your nerve,
00:27:29.84\00:27:32.15
you can ride above over
that in the power of Jesus,
00:27:32.16\00:27:39.97
amen, amen, God bless you.
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