Do you know what it
is to give yourself away,
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to give yourself totally
and completely to Jesus Christ?
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Do you know that you
can only be happy in Christ
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when you give Him you'll
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and everything and all you have?
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Brain Eldridge, knows what
it is to give yourself away.
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Lemuel Vega knows what
it to give yourself away.
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The men in the
scoop know what it is
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to give yourself
completely to Jesus.
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I submit to you,
you will only be happy,
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you will only be content,
you will only be complete
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when you give
Jesus what He demands
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and He deserves
and that's all of you.
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I'm free indeed.
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I give myself away.
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The Bible says in the
Book of Romans 12th Chapter.
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He says, "I
beseech you, I beg you,
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I empower you, I
had admonish you."
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Amen, He says it right?
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He--I beseech you
brothers by the mercy of God
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to present your
bodies a living sacrifice.
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Holy and acceptable
which is our reasonable,
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reasonable, reasonable service.
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How many want to give
yourself away to Christ?
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Hallelujah, come on. Hallelujah.
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The things that
landed me in prison
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was I was out there
being a knucklehead.
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I don't do drugs, I
don't drink, I don't smoke.
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I just had certain things
that I was doing out there
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that weren't
really you know, nice.
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You know, I didn't
want any one to see
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a bad part of me
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as when everybody can
see the good part of me
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but I had demons
that I was working with
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and that's what got me here.
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And I just wish,
you know, I had--
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had to let my mom and dad down.
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That's what I feel, I let my mom
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and dad down, my daughter.
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The old Brian
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was more immature,
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widely.
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The old Brian was basically out
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for selfish at
needs and selfish self.
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In the new Brian I
have calm down lot more.
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I smile a lot
more even in prison.
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And I am more well
rounded, well rounded
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and more mature and I'm more--
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I'm more spiritual.
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You know, I believe that
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before I ask God for things
now I'm able to listen to Him
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and He already has got to
say because He speaks to me
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through different people
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and different
programs and different stuff.
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So, the new Brian is,
is a lot more matured,
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a lot more spiritually grounded.
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I was-- when I was
on the streets I was,
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I was just kind of
bowed in out there.
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I didn't have any real direction
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as to where I was
going and what I wanted to do
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and I asked the Lord and,
you know, I asked the Lord,
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you know, because I
was, you know, I knew of God,
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I knew of Jesus and I
asked the Lord I said,
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well put me in the right place.
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I was in Atlanta at the time
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and I believe God
speaks to me through people
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and one day this woman said,
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well, Brian you do music
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may be the reason
why you can't keep a job
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is because God
wants you to do music.
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And I said, that's it
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and so I start new job working
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and write my
songs and write music.
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Well, everything was okay
until all of sudden these,
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you start doing stuff
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and then you hit
a brick wall again
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and I said well, what
I'm I suppose to do now.
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And usually I look for
answer and I didn't get one.
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Probably starting
to think I got one not
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but I have seen now my
uncle came to me and he said,
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I need you do some
songs for my church
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and I, I did them
but I did them all
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you know, haphazardly
because I wasn't really,
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you know, into church music.
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Yeah, I like to
write music, I write songs,
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I started of when
you are writing lyrics
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and writing then I
brunched off in writing,
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you know, playing the piano
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and then I started
putting piano music
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to my lyrics and from
then it just open straight up
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because I know
how to program music
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and I did my studio engineering,
and I sang a lot of my stuff,
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I was--I was kind
of like a triple threat
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because I didn't
need any one in there
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and people would tell me
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well, you should
play for the church
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and you should play for this
and you should play for that.
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And I'm like well, I
wasn't really filling there
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because I can really get into,
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you know,
writing spiritual songs.
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I just wasn't
really that spiritual
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and I guess this you
know, God need to sit me down
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and say well, I
want you to do this.
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And He has a way
of making you do,
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whatever He wants you to do.
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So, now, I'm
writing more spiritual songs
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and I write more,
you know, writing a lot,
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lot a lot better
than I used to do.
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My life is not my
own to you I belong,
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I give myself I
give myself to You.
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Before I came to prison I
was on a way of doing something.
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I had meetings
that I had to set up,
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that I had set up with people
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you know to listen
to my music and start.
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You know, I had
singers that were coming in
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and wrappers
that were coming in,
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wrapping on my stuff.
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And come into prison kind
of like shut that all down.
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It everything ended so quickly
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and I wasn't really ready for it
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because I didn't
want to come here.
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It wasn't like I was out there
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robbing people and killing them.
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I mean the stuff
that I did was real stupid
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but I didn't, I didn't
know it would bring me here.
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Believe me, if I had known
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I cut that stuff off long period
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but you know, it hasn't
stopped me from writing,
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It hasn't stopped me
from, from you know, creating.
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It hasn't stopped me
from doing any of that.
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I Give My Self Away,
that song it means a lot to me
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really because
when I think about,
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you know, how I use to be
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and what I ask of the
Lord, you know, to do for me
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I used to give
myself to every thing else
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and now, you know, I find
myself writing for the Lord.
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So, now He says, you
know I guess by me writing
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for the Lord that's how I give,
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you know, I
give myself away Him.
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Because I use to give
myself away to, to women
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and, you know,
trying to please them
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and trying to please
all these other people
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all these
producers, all these writers,
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all these
technicians and every thing
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but now, all I got to
do is just please Him.
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So I have to worry
about anything else
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so I just gave
myself to Him now.
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Amen, let's
make this declaration
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this morning to
give ourselves away.
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I give myself away
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I give myself away
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So You can use me
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I give myself away,
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oh Lord I give myself away
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So You can use me
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I give myself away,
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oh Lord I give myself away
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So You can use me
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I give myself away,
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oh Lord I give myself away
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So You can use me
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Here I am Here I am
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Here I stand Lord,
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my life is in Your hands
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Lord, I'm longing to see
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Your desires revealed in me
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I give myself
away Lord, I surrender,
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oh Lord I give myself away
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So You can use me
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I give myself away
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Lord, I don't
want to leave you Lord
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I give myself away
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So You, can use me,
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oh Lord Take my
heart Take my life
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As a living sacrifice
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All my dreams
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All my plans
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Lord I place them in Your hands
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I give myself away
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Lord, I surrender
all I give myself away
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So You can use me Jesus
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I give myself away
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I don't want my way tomorrow
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I give myself away
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So You lead the way
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My life is not my own
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To You I belong
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I give myself, I
give myself to You Oh Lord
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My life is not my own
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To You I belong
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I give myself, I
give myself to You
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Oh Lord My life is not my own
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To You I belong
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I give myself, I
give myself to You
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My life is not my own
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To You I belong
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I give myself, I
give myself to You
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I give myself to You
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My life is not my own
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To You I belong
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I give myself, I
give myself to You
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Amen. Let's pray.
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Father God, we just
praise You and thank You,
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for Jesus for the power
that we receive from Him.
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We ask now Lord, that
You would speak to our hearts
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because we need to
hear a word from You
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and only You and we
thank You in Jesus name, Amen.
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Sticks and stones
may break my bones
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but words will never hurt me.
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How many have heard that?
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Yeah, how many
think that's true?
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That's a lie.
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Okay, it is a lie
like most of those things
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it's a lie there
is power in words.
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Words are extremely powerful.
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In fact next to the love of God
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the most powerful thing
in the universe is a Word.
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Earth was created
by the Word of God.
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Paul, Paul in his
letter to young Timothy,
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when he is trying to
give him some instruction
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before he took over the
church he said, preach the Word.
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John began his gospel
by saying in the beginning
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was the Word
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and the Word became
flesh and lived among us.
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So there is power in a
Word, in fact the Bible says
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the only thing that God exults
above His own name is His Word.
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So, that's power,
power, power in words.
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In fact words are so powerful--
let's look at some of them.
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Matthew Chapter
12, see a preacher
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and a microphone is a
dangerous combination.
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And I'm trying to
get to Matthew 12:34.
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In fact let's turn to
verse 35 save a little time.
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Bible says, Matthew 12:35.
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"A good man out of the
good treasure of his heart
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brings forth good things,
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and an evil man out
of the evil treasure
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brings forth evil things.
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But I say to you
that for every " what?
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"Word that men may speak,
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they will give account of
it in the day of judgment."
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Every word.
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"For by your words
you will be justified,
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and by your words
you will be condemned."
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God is saying,
your salvation hinges
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on what comes out of
your mouth. That's right.
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God is saying,
we've got to use our words
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to build up or to tear down.
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We got to build
up with our words.
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Your words will
be weighed by God,
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so we must speak
the truth and love.
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I had a lady
come to me years ago
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I pastured in New York City.
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My last church
was 2,000 members.
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So you get all kind of stories
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when you are
pastoring 2,000 people.
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I had a lady come and she said,
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you know, my husband
don't know how to fight.
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He is, he is
give himself to Jesus
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and he forgot how to fight.
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And he said, I didn't, I
dint forget how to fight.
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He said, I just got to new mind.
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And with my mind, my
new mind I got a new mouth.
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With my new mind came a
new mouth and a new heart.
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So I don't say anything.
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So you see her
way of fighting was
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when you're mad anything
that comes into your heart
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ought to come out of your mouth.
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And he was saying when you get
a new heart, you get a mouth.
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So I don't fight
like I use to fight,
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I don't argue
like I used to argue.
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I don't try to tear
down everything out.
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Think of saying I don't say.
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I have a sermon, I
wish I had time to preach.
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It is a hour
sermon, it is a whole hour,
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called arguing with God.
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I'll teach people
how to argue with God
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like you can argue with God.
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But he said,
with my new mind comes
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my new mouth and my new heart.
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So there is power in our words,
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one of the tests
of our Christianity
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is that the words that
we-- we say now have meaning
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and power
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and are used to build
up and not to tear down.
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And when, when
Christ is in the heart--
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you see the Bible
says, "Let the redeemed
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of the Lord say so."
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Use your words to say so
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and it's
important that you say so.
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Heard a story years ago,
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lady took her
husband to the lawyer.
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They have been married 25 years.
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She said, I want a divorce
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and then the lawyer said
well, why does he beat you?
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No, no. Does he starve you?
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No, no. Does he not feed you?
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Said no. Is he
unkind to the kids?
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Said no. Then why
you want a divorce?
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She said, I have been
married to this man for 25 years
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and only one time in 25 years
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has he said, that he
loves me and I can't take it.
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I want a divorce.
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So the lawyer
looks at him and said,
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my brother
what's, what's your story?
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He said, I told
her at the weeding,
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that I loved her and I
would love her forever.
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Now, she is a bright girl.
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I though she would understand
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if I change my
mind I'll let her know.
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Let the redeemed of the
Lord say you got to say so,
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there is power in your word.
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And if you love the
Lord you got to say Him,
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I love the Lord. Amen.
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That's what He told, He
told Timothy preach the word,
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preach, preach the word.
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Tell the truth and
tell the truth in love.
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You know, the Book
of James and 3rd chapter
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He talks a lot about the word.
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Talks about the tongue,
talks about how a little ship
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is controlled by a
little tiny rudder,
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little tiny rudder
control that big whole ship.
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It's a same way with your mouth.
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With your tongue,
little tiny tongue
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can set continents of
fire, can burn cities down.
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That have people shooting
and killing one another,
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can get you in a
whole heap of trouble
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or it can free your soul.
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It's power in your words.
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My last text is Colossians 4:6.
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I like this one, I
really like this one,
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I'll close with this.
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Latter says, "Let
your speech always
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be seasoned with salt,
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that you may know how you
ought to answer each one."
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Now here is the truth.
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Everybody is not
always gonna be thoughtful
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when they are speaking to you.
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Everybody's words are
not always gonna be kind.
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Sometimes people are
gonna say things to you
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that are just plain stupid.
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Amen.
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Yeah, sometimes
people are gonna say
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stuff that they really are
to just keep their mouth shut.
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And sometimes they just plan.
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You know, some may say,
hey how are you doing, ugly.
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Now they just plan.
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Some days that's
funny. Come on. Amen.
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And some days that ain't funny.
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So if you decided
yesterday, we have to laugh,
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but today I don't
have any mood for that.
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And the day you are not
in a mood for it, guess what?
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That's a day you won't get it.
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Yeah, because the devil knows
you are not in a mood for it.
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You know, you know
the Lord never sleeps
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never slumbers you know that.
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You know the devil never
sleeps never slumbers either.
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So the day when you get up,
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I was telling the
guys in baptism class
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you have bad days, you get up,
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as you get out of bed
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and this is
going to be a bad day.
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And the day you
don't need to be bothered
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is a day somebody is
going to push you to wrong way.
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And say or do something
that's where you got one nerve
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they are gonna
pluck it, that last nerve.
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That's the time
when Colossians says,
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"Let your speech be
seasoned with salt."
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So before you haul off verbally
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or physically
give Jesus a chance.
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Yeah, give Jesus a chance.
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Get a new mind, praise
God gave new mouth. Amen.
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Amen. Keep you out of trouble.
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But more than
that, more than that,
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more than that it gives you
a chance to show who Jesus is.
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Give you a chance to show
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that you not the
person you used to be.
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I used to think that there was
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something to be
gained by fighting.
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When I was younger, I was
blind through sixth grade.
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Went to blind school,
Braille and the whole thing.
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Got little sight in sixth grade
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and went to public
school for the first time.
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But I had glasses
that are so thick,
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that were so
thick, you know, thick,
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thick glasses make
your eyes look like peas.
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You know, little thick,
thick glasses Coke bottle.
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I have got all the names.
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I was constantly fighting,
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you know, just
somebody said, you got slap her
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because you have you
know-- you say always fight.
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I would come and ask them
what's the matter with you, boy?
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You know, just calls out,
tour up, you know always fight
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and always lose it.
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You know, it's always
good but my head would--
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I am gonna tell you the truth,
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that I'm the-- I had I had
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when I was in the sixth grade
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Frances Craig
almost beat me to death.
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It was a girl, man.
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But first of all
she was bigger than me,
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see out
weighted me by 50 pounds.
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I means she was, you
know, when you up until about
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age 10 girls are
bigger than boys.
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And then boys get
the little growth fast
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and you pass them.
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So I came out of blind
school really skinny real small.
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Frances Craig was
well over five feet young,
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she is I guess now she
is close to 6 for sure.
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Big girl.
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Big girl and so she made
this crack about my glasses.
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You know, so now I
got to be a man, you know.
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You know, so then we want
to ask she that girl please.
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And I looked back at
that how much we do for pride.
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You know, when
you got to let Jesus
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you can't beat up
everybody in the world.
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You can't fight
everybody in the world.
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You got to let
Jesus fight those battles.
00:24:55.66\00:24:58.03
And the Bible
says, " A soft answer
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turneth away wrath."
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And then it says,
"Answer not a fool
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according to his folly."
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So there is power in your words.
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So when you give
your mind to Jesus
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and give your heart to Jesus
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you also give
your mouth to Jesus.
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And Jesus control
can control your mind,
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He can control your
heart, He controls your mouth.
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So when you have something
to say, say it for Jesus
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and "Let the
redeemed of the Lord say so."
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I was born in the church
but mom and dad got divorced.
00:26:46.80\00:26:50.20
High school kind
of swept me away.
00:26:50.23\00:26:51.30
I wanted to be popular and cool.
00:26:51.33\00:26:53.04
And I was going
back and forward,
00:26:53.07\00:26:54.10
back and
forward, back and forward.
00:26:54.13\00:26:56.09
On one weekend, I went out party
00:26:56.12\00:26:57.45
and a lady came to pick me
up, I insisted to driver her.
00:26:57.48\00:27:01.69
And for some
reason she let me drive,
00:27:01.72\00:27:03.53
we hit a tree, I
woke up in a helicopter,
00:27:03.56\00:27:06.31
I woke up in a hospital
bed and next day she died.
00:27:06.34\00:27:09.45
So here I sit now,
00:27:09.48\00:27:11.54
God took me to
the very brink of dead
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and let me see face to face
how the wages of sin is death.
00:27:13.38\00:27:17.76
Somebody lost
their life that night?
00:27:17.79\00:27:19.90
Yes, yes, absolutely.
In a car accident. Yes.
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But God's love
and His compassion
00:27:22.79\00:27:24.89
her family called
me three days later
00:27:24.92\00:27:27.92
and the opened
their heart and their home
00:27:27.95\00:27:29.13
when they writes to
me, and they come visit me,
00:27:29.16\00:27:31.43
and they totally forgiven me.
00:27:31.46\00:27:32.66
This--this I got big
love, that only God can give it.
00:27:32.69\00:27:35.33
I see it I see it in them
and it's just so powerful that,
00:27:35.36\00:27:39.49
He could take me
from a drug addict
00:27:39.52\00:27:41.59
and actual an
alcoholic beyond alcoholic
00:27:41.62\00:27:44.09
I was drunk six,
seven days a week.
00:27:44.12\00:27:45.74
I get paid six, seven
hundred dollars a week,
00:27:45.77\00:27:47.56
I bowled every weekend.
00:27:47.59\00:27:49.67
We could take that, and
actually transform my life
00:27:49.70\00:27:53.33
to the only reason
that I-- I live and breathe
00:27:53.36\00:27:55.50
and even have my being
now, is proclaim the gospel
00:27:55.53\00:27:57.94
and how I can be free indeed
even while I am locked up.
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But there is--
there is many here
00:28:01.15\00:28:02.46
that you men in
here are more free
00:28:02.49\00:28:03.78
than a lot men
that are out there
00:28:03.81\00:28:05.52
that are locked up, bound up.
00:28:05.55\00:28:07.66
That are bound up
we're free indeed.
00:28:07.69\00:28:09.78
He is--He is the God of
liberty and freedom of peace.
00:28:09.81\00:28:12.33
Peace that passes
anything absolutely anything.
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