One of the things
that we have come to learn
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while working on
Free Indeed is that
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you cannot lump
any person in a group.
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On a group dynamics that
fit all persons at all time.
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There is no one
size fits all mentality,
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all blacks are not the same,
all whites are not the same,
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all children are not the same,
all parents are not the same
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and all
prisoners are not the same.
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We have met people
who are as good as gold,
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who have found
Christ and let Christ shine
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out of their lives even
inside of a prison setting.
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You're gonna meet some people
like that today as we travel
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to the Putnamville
Correctional Facility.
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Lemuel Vega has an
interview with Jonathan,
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and then you're
going to meet Lorenzo,
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someone who has
endeared himself to us
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as a talented young man
who's been in prison a long time
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but he is a writer,
a singer, a musician.
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He's gonna lead his
group and they are gonna
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sing a song "All is forgiven".
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Then you're gonna meet Bernard
and a short message from me,
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all on today's
edition of Free Indeed!
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Today we have Jonathan Watkins
with us and we are in prison,
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this is your third
time in prison, amen.
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Yes sir. What went wrong
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after the first
time, I mean what happened
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because you desired
not to come back to prison,
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tell me a little bit about that.
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Ah, the first
time I came in prison,
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I didn't have a
relationship with God.
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I just was out there,
just my purpose in life
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was to make as much
money as I could get,
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get as many women as I could get
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and drive fastest cars
I could get my hands on.
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Do your time and get
back out there and live large.
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Yeah, get back
try to like you said,
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try to get back
make up for lost time.
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What about the
drugs and alcohol?
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Was that an active,
intensive part of your life?
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Oh, that's intensive, yeah,
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I went to like
teenage set it up.
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I went through like though
$200,000 in a year and a half.
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Just gone, it just
evaporated. Up in smoke.
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What would you say to
the people in the world,
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you found a sense
of freedom and hope
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and stability
free indeed in prison?
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What would you
share with the world today
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where your hope and
strength comes from?
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I would say now
that-- and all my brothers
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who are sharing this place.
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Jesus is the way,
Jesus is the truth,
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and Jesus is the life.
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Without Him, I didn't
have no life, I was crazy.
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Big part of my testimony is
first time I came to prison,
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I lost my mother, my father
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and my grandmother,
all on the same bid.
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I have since, eight
year bid, I have 96 months,
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I was supposed to do 48 months,
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I did 89 months,
only 96 month bid
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because every year
somebody else was dying
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and I mean it was driving me
crazy like it drove me crazy.
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Tell us about that
personal relationship?
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Well, when I found,
When Jesus found me,
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my whole life
changed. He gave me peace,
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gave me peace of mind, He
gave me a purpose in my life.
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Now I have a
purpose that's not my own.
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It's mine, I'm
gonna take that back,
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He is my purpose, His
purpose is my purpose.
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But before my
purpose didn't have,
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my own purpose didn't
have no eternal way to it.
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You know I was just what was
going to be die here and now.
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But now my purpose is His
purpose and I live for Him.
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Brother, when you shared
with me about Jesus found you
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the parable that Jesus
looking for that lost sheep,
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went out
looking, looking, seeking
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and He is diligently
seeking the whole human race.
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Calling them beckoning,
but you must allow Him
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to pick you up and put
your wounded bruised life
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on his shoulders
and carry us. Amen.
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Amen. God bless brother.
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Thank you so very much.
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I can't must
stumbles I try not to fall
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When do you pick me
up And forgive it all
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There're
sometimes I don't understand
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Anything is in your plan
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But the blessing You're
preparing are just for Ozee
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You are on the way
So how can I complain
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It's good to see the
sun is shining bright
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In the midst of the rain
I have done so much alone
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And most of it inspired It
will feel good for me to know
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That everything
is gonna be all right
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All is forgiven
Am I deserving, yeah
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You are more than worthy
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The praise Check this out.
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I know that I'm no good
I've been living in this place
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But I'm gonna
keep on trying because
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And the world can progress
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You keep on showing me
favors Every time I pray
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Can't wait to see
the shift and changes
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of blessings going my way
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All is forgiven Am I deserving
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Either way, For you
are more than worthy
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And more than worthy
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The praise The love is a copy
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The love is a copy His
love is a copy, real too
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Yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes You're a healer
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Heal my body For
you are more than worthy
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More than worthy
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The praise All is forgiven
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All is forgiven Am I deserving
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For you are more than worthy
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The praise
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What I did to end up in
the department of correction
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I was convicted of dealing
in possession of cocaine.
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And I was addicted
so bad to this drug
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that I have lost my resources
and I lost my credibility,
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so then when I
was craving this drug,
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or finking as they
call it in the streets,
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then I started going out
doing idiotic things like
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going up to drug
dealers and asking for drugs
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and taking off on them.
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And I pull off down the street,
the door is slam and shut
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and I smash up down
the street and he steps
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in the middle of the
street and shoots at me.
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He shot and I just heard it
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and I dug looking
in my rear view mirror.
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But when he
shot the second time,
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it hit me in the back
and I was like oh Lord,
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don't let me die like this.
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I know I've done some stupid
but don't let me die like this
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and I took off and I got saved.
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And needless to say,
well I no, I need to say
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that the bullet did
not penetrate my skin
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and I'm like
this cannot be true.
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Now I've been in the military
and we---they teach us how to,
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how to identify where
bullets are shot from.
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So this bullet came
through my back trunk
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through the back seat and
I'm sitting in a bucket seat,
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a two seater and there was
nothing to deflect the bullet,
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it's just padding in
the centre of the seat
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and it hits center mass
in the middle of that seat
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and hit me in the back
and there was nod on my back
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as evidence but
the miracle was it,
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is that bullet laid on the floor
and I found it the next morning
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in the daylight and
the bullet was smashed.
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I carried it as a souvenir
for a long time until I lost it,
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but it was the power of
God in my life and to show me
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that an angel of God
deflected that bullet,
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but God allowed the
bullet to stay there as evidence
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that God was with me and
that God had delivered me
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and that God was
calling me and most importantly
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not because I deserved
it, but because the prayers
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of the
righteous are valued much.
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Somebody was praying for me,
so God spared my life that time.
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And as I got into
the prison systems,
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then the Lord was able
to deal with me intimately,
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because I have reached
the place and point in my life
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that I was broken and
that I have reached the bottom
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and that I have
lost so much in my life.
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And I remember
calling out to the Lord
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and I didn't know what to say,
because I didn't always know
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how to voice when I
thought Him, when I felt.
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And I remember praying
and I wrote a letter to God
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and it was
called, I was so caught up
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into the drug addictions
in my life falling it apart
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and how loosing my respect
among my peers and my family
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and I wrote a
letter to the Lord God,
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saying help me and it
was called help and I said,
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Father God I call to
be as humble as I can be,
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to ask you for the mercy
that you've always given me.
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In the hope I changed
the way in which I live today
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for I had many questions,
but I don't know what to say,
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but to my understanding
of the knowledge of the Lord
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to live and die and go to
hell is what I can't afford.
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And it's been said that if
I ask for mercy in Your name
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that You would give me what
I need to wash away my shame.
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So Lord, I beg you from my soul,
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don't let my troubles last.
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How much more can one man
take before he falls apart?
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If the pain outweighs the love
that's deep within his heart.
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And I wrote that to
the Lord with all sincerity
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and my being in
prison was not God's will,
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it was because of my own
rebelliousness in my own heart
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heartedness that
God loved me so much
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that He did not allow me
to die my mess of singing,
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but He kept sparring my
life and given me opportunity,
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opportunity, after
opportunity and again in prison,
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prison is when
scripture start coming to life.
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When, when scripture start
being manifested in my heart
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and in Deuteronomy 30 verse
19 I'll never forget the Holy
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Spirit lay at me there
and say it, that I God,
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call heaven and earth
as witnesses against you,
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but now I win free,
that I have set before you
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a choice between life and death,
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blessings and
curses, you choose.
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And I have come to realize
that I had to make this choice
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that I may either
gonna serve God or not.
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If I choose not to serve
God who knows where we will end,
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will I go to hell or will I
go to more turmoil in this life
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that I have
been through so much.
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I'm 47-years-old right
now today and I'm tired
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of this lifestyle, so I
have decided to give my life
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to the Lord God and
He said in Hebrews 4:12
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that His word was
powerful, active and alive.
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The God's word
has power in it that
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if the word get inside of
me, then it should have power
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to make some changes and there
should be evidence in my life.
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Since my incarceration that
power has shown up in my life
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by getting
involved in the word of God
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and that's the power
comes through the Holy Spirit
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in you when you get
involved in the word.
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So the evidence is God stopped
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peeling off
things out of my life.
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I haven't said a curse word in
over four years and four months.
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I haven't smoked a cigarette
in over four and a half years
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and it was by the power of Lord,
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nothing I did it on my
own and that's how the Lord
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start showing up and if I can
give you one thing right now,
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that's more
valuable than anything
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in the whole world, it is this.
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Trust in the Lord
with all your heart
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and don't ever
turn away from Him.
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Be faithful to the Lord,
to your God and trust Him,
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even though you can't see Him,
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and you may not
always hear His voice,
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believe in Him and seek
Him out through the word
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and God will be
faithful and show you the way.
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That is the best thing I
can ever give it to my child,
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my children or anybody.
Let your heart be faithful
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unto the Lord your
God, no matter what.
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It is good to
be here, really is.
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And it is a blessing for us at
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Three Angels
Broadcasting Network
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to broadcast this
program all around the world.
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When this airs
more people will see
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that I've seen you
in your whole life.
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Our estimated
viewing audience is somewhere
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in about of one to two billion.
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They say that three
quarters of the earth surface
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is covered by water
and 3ABN covers the rest
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and we are kind of proud of
that and we praise God for it.
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I want to take you
to the word to a text
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that you may not
be that familiar with,
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found in Second
Samuel Chapter 21,
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just two verses,
verses 15 and 16,
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Second book of Samuel
Matthew not too far in,
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Second Samuel
Chapter 21 verses 15 and 16
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but before we read the word,
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let's talk to the
author of the word.
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Father God, we ask you now
to just speak to our hearts.
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Lift up Yourself,
magnify Your word in our hearts,
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give us truth and
help us to live out
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to truth in Jesus name, amen.
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Word of God says
Second Samuel 21 verse 15
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"When the Philistines
were at war again with Israel,
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David and his servants
with him went down and fought
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against the Philistines
and David grew faint.
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Then Ishbi-Benob who was
one of the sons of the giant,
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the weight of whose bronze
spear was three hundred shekels,
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who was bearing a new sword,
thought he could kill David."
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Let me ask you a question?
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How many of you have
ever failed at anything?
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Try something and failed.
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It's no shame to admit failure,
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because it means that you tried.
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Which do you think
is the better teacher?
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Success or failure?
Failure is the better teacher
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if your mind allows you
to learn from your failures.
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Failure is a harder
teacher than success,
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but it's a better teacher
because the things you fail at
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tend to teach you better lessons
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and they stay
with you longer, amen.
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You can't say
amen, say ouch. Amen.
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But failure is a better teacher,
it is a superior teacher.
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Insanity, one of the
definitions of insanity
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is doing the same
thing the same way
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and expecting
different results. That's nuts.
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You do the same
thing the same way,
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you're gonna get
the same results,
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so if you fail at something
and do the exact same thing
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the exact same way, what's
gonna happen the second time?
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You will fail
again. Amen or ouch.
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So you got do it a different way
if you want different results.
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Failure teaches us
that certain things
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won't fly and
certain things will.
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Now how many have heard
the story of David and Goliath.
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Everybody knows that story,
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because that's a
success story, amen.
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David, little skinny
boy, five smooth stones,
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slew the mighty Goliath.
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But this story is the
story of David's second giant.
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Not many people
preach this story,
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because this is
not a success story.
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Bible says this time
David fainted, mighty David,
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David that slew
the mighty Goliath
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when Ishbi-Benob
came, David fainted.
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You see Ishbi-Benob
was bigger than Goliath,
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I did a little research.
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Bible says his
spear weighed 300 shekels,
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now that's the
head of the spear,
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300 shekels is
about nine pounds,
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it's about the size of
a good size bowling ball.
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Now you want to
get an idea how big
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Ishbi-Benob was,
do the math back.
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You take the head of a
spear that weighs nine pounds,
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that means that the
shaft of the spear had to be
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about that big around,
about 10 inches across.
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Now you got to
figure a spear something
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you pick up and throw like that.
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So the hand had to be
big enough to pick up a spear
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with a nine pound head
about 10 inches across,
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that's a big hand, isn't it?
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So then you got to
figure how big the arm is,
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that's connected to a
hand, that's big enough to throw
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a spear with a nine pound head.
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Do you follow me?
Now you got to figure
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how big the body is
that's connected to that arm,
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that's connected to that
hand, that's big enough to throw
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a spear with a
nine pound head on it.
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So this is a big
guy, bigger than Goliath.
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The Bible says one of
the sons of the giant is one
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of Goliath kids and usually
the son outgrows the daddy.
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How many of you got children?
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You know, and you
know, your son outgrows you
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by the time he is 14,
15, he is looking you in eye,
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you know foot bigger than
yours, hand bigger than yours,
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eat more food
than you, you know,
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that's how kids are,
kids outgrow their fathers.
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So this giant is larger
than Goliath and the Bible says
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he had a brand new sword
and if you let me, let me,
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let me inaugurate the
sword with the blood of David.
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And the truth is the same
David that defeated Goliath
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when he came to
Ishbi-Benob, he fainted.
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Now there's a couple of lessons
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we need to learn
from this, then I'm done.
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One just because you
defeated Goliath yesterday,
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don't mean you're gonna
defeat Ishbi-Benob today.
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Amen. Yeah, yesterday's
victory not gonna help you today
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and it's been
said before you got to
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give your life to
Christ every single day.
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You can't put your
life on auto pilot because
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everyday Ishbi-Benob
standing in front of you
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and he is daring
you to come by him
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and just because you
got his daddy yesterday,
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doesn't mean you can get his
son today because he's bigger.
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So everyday you got to
give your life to Christ.
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Everyday you need
to check your compass,
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because everyday
there's a Ishbi-Benob
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standing in front of you,
that's trying to defeat you.
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Now my time is slipping
away, here's the next lesson.
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Your biggest battle is
not against Ishbi-Benob,
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that's only one battle,
if you are six feet two,
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210 pounds, your
biggest battle is against
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a guy who is six
feet two, 210 pounds.
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That's your biggest
battle, the biggest battle
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you will fight is
against yourself. Amen.
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That's gonna be
the toughest battle,
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it will be a life long battle.
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That's why Paul says, I
try to keep my body under,
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I try to stay surrendered,
because I know the moment
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I let myself get away,
I'm gonna do something stupid.
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Your toughest
battle even when you get,
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when you, you know when you
give your heart to the Lord,
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if you didn't have any enemies
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while you were
serving the devil.
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The moment you give
your heart to Jesus,
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you just picked up
one, what's his name?
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The devil, the same
devil that was patting you
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on your back when
you are walking with him,
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the moment you turn
the other direction,
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he's in your face and
he becomes your enemy.
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And he's gonna
use you to defeat you,
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your biggest
battle is against you.
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Now, when you do
some things you do,
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sometimes we say
stuff like, you know,
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I can't believe that was me,
I surprised myself, you know,
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it's interesting because
when we sin and make mistakes,
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you know Jesus is not surprised,
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because He has
seen it all before.
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Someone said there's
nothing new one to heaven,
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can't invent anything
new because in 7000 years
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of human history and everything
you could think of somebody else
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in that 7000
years has spotted it,
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so you haven't surprised Jesus.
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Two, you haven't
surprised the devil,
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because he is the
author of sin before you did it
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he planted it
in your mind. Amen.
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So you don't surprise Jesus
when you do the things you do.
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You don't surprise the devil
when you do the things you do.
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The only person surprised when
you do the things you do is you.
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That's why you got to
have Jesus in your life
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if you gonna successfully
fight the battle against you.
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Because sometimes
you can control you
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and you know
sometimes you can't control you.
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So you're gonna need
some help with that control
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and that help
comes from Jesus. Amen.
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Last lesson, as big as you
are, always somebody bigger.
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Can't say amen, say ouch. Amen.
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As big as you are,
there's always somebody bigger.
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So your secret to success
is surrender, not fighting,
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because as hard as you
hit somebody can hit harder.
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I baptized a guy
years ago in my church,
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6'9", 295 pounds, big dude.
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I got him down,
couldn't get him up.
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See in baptism,
there's no problem going down,
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gravity will help you with that,
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once they get wet and water log,
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but just try to get them up.
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I said man, you got to
stand up, I can't help you.
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Couldn't get him up,
could not get him up,
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so there is always going to
be somebody bigger than you,
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that's why the
secret is not fighting,
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the secret is surrender.
John Chapter 1 verse 12,
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I will close with this,
"To as many as received Him,
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to them gave He power
to become the sons of God."
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that's a success story, that's
a success story for all of us.
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When the Ishbi-Benob's
come and brother they're coming,
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you don't got to fight
him, let's get your big brother,
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say Jesus, get him.
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I can't handle it, I'm
too busy fighting myself,
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get him out of the way,
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so we can walk
together to the kingdom, amen.
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Amen. God bless you.
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This is one aspect of the
Christmas Behind Bars programs.
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What you see here are
some finished packages
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and they are ready to
be distributed to inmates
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in different
county jails and prisons
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and so we want to
say that in every bag,
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there's an envelope
from Christmas Behind Bars
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and we received one
of these envelopes back
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just the other
day, and on the back
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of their envelope they
drew a beautiful picture
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of just something
to share the Gospel,
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so it has some
bars, it has a flower,
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has a cross, has
some barbed wire,
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some thorns there, but
it's just a great opportunity.
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We say thank you for
being a part of this program
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through prayer,
through your sponsorship
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through going to these
jails and prisons and singing
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and it's just a great blessing
to work together for Jesus.
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