Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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You can have all the
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All the world
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You can have mercy
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All day
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You can be happy
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with Jesus the Lord
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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Take the world
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Give me Jesus
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You can have all the
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All things
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You can have mercy
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All day
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Happy with Jesus the Lord
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Take the world
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Take the world
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But I'll take
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Jesus for me
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Take the world
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Take the world
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But I'll take
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Jesus for me
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Take the world
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Take the world
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But I'll take
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Jesus for me
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Take the world
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Take the world
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But I'll take
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Jesus for me
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Take the world
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Take the world
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But I will take
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Jesus for me
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Take the world
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Take the world
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But I'll take
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Jesus for me
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Amen
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There is a name
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That is so precious
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A name so wonderful
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To me
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This name is worthy
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Of all praises
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Because of him
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See I am made free
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You know the name is Jesus
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Oh how I love him
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The one who gave
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His life for me
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Because of love
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so unconditional
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I will have life
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Oh eternally
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His name speaks peace
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To our lives storm clouds
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His name speaks calm
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Through all mercies
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And when I feel
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That no one can love me
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His loving presence
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Is so near
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His name is Jesus
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Oh how I love him
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The one who gave
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His life for me
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Because of love
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So unconditional
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I will have life
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Oh eternally
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Oh Praise
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That name!
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Praise
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That holy name!
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Praise
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That name!
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Praise
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That name!
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Well, someday we want to leave
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This earthly dwelling
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And through time and space
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We all want to soar
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Till we finally see
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The face of Jesus
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Oh the one who raise
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Forevermore!
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City Temple, That name is Jesus
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Oh how I love him
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The one
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Who gave his life
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For me
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For me
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Because of love
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So unconditional
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I will have life
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Of eternally
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Oh, my Jesus
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Is that name
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Glorious
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Is that holy name!
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Wonderful
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Is that mighty name!
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Oh praise
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That name!
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It is certainly good to
be back in the house of God.
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Again we know that it
might be little chilly outside.
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That's why you come inside
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where the spirit
can warm your heart.
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On last week we began a series
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entitled
"Spiritual Vital Signs."
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"Spiritual Vital Signs."
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In that series we
lifted up the fact
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that when we go
to see a physician,
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when we go to the
hospital they usually check us
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by checking our vital signs,
our temperature, our pulse,
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our respirations
and our blood pressure
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to give an overall view
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of how well our
body is functioning.
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That happens in the natural
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and it also
happens in the spiritual,
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in the spiritual.
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You know, last
week we talked about,
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we talked about our
spiritual temperature
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under the title "Do
you have the holy ghost?"
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"Do you have the holy ghost?"
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Because we found in
scripture that the Lord said,
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I got a little
substance that gives you
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because you need a hot, no cold.
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You don't have a temperature.
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You need the Holy Ghost
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and so we lifted up
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the third
person of the God here.
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On this morning
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we are going to be
looking at the pulse now
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and in the spiritual realm
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and I want to
direct your attention
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to the Book of 2 Kings.
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What book did I say?
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2 Kings.
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2 Kings 13 Chapter
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2 Kings 13:20, 21.
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2 Kings 13:20, 21
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there you will find
these words recorded.
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"And Elisha died,
and they buried him.
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And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land
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at the coming in of the year.
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And they came to pass,
as they were burying a man,
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that, behold, they
spied a band of men,
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and they cast the man
into the sepulchre of Elisha:
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and when the man was let down,
and touched the bones of Elisha,
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he revived, and
stood up on his feet."
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I thought today we
talk on the subject
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"Dead Man Walking."
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"Dead Man Walking."
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Now perhaps you may
not have figured out by now
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but pastor has a
certain comedic element
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about his personality.
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I know that I come across
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as being very
serious and stoic and steam,
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but nobody enjoys a
better laugh than I.
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In fact, I grew up in a
home that was full of laughter.
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I can recall my
earliest memories
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were of my mother
laughing about something.
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She would be on
the phone laughing.
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She talked to somebody
and she would be laughing.
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And so laughter is in my DNA.
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This story is one
that makes me laugh.
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It makes me laugh
because of how it progresses.
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I look at it and
I'm thinking to myself
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now something is wrong here.
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A dead man is laid down
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to the grave of another dead man
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and the dead man
comes back to life
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on touching the other dead man.
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If the dead man
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can make another dead
man come back to life,
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why didn't the original dead man
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come back to life?
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But let me get
into, let me get to--
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I want to get
too far here myself
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because there are
some obvious questions
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that comes to my mind.
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Who do these bones belong to?
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How did they get there?
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And most important of all
how did they get so much power
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that when another dead
man touches these bones,
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they come back to life?
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We have the answer
to my first quandary
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in verse 21.
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It says that the
bones belong to whom?
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Elisha. Elisha.
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Elisha.
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Perhaps then if we can kind
of rejoice the life of Elisha,
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it might help us a
little bit to understand
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where all this power came from.
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Isn't that right?
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All right.
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When I came into the ministry,
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in fact, I was aware
of my call to the ministry
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at a very young age.
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About the age of seven,
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I remember going into the
room and telling my mother
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that I was going
to be a minister.
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Now she didn't say anything then
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but being older, you
know, and remembering my life,
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I guess she might
have said to herself,
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she won't discourage me
but you want to be minister?
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Baby, what is this?
You're not going to be.
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I discovered
when I got to college
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that God calls me and
other women into ministry
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by one of three ways.
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The first one is
called original conviction.
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What did I say?
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Original conviction.
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Jeremiah 1:4-10
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talks about Jeremiah
and how the Lord said,
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"While you were still
in the womb, Jeremiah,
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I did" what?
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"I called you
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and I ordained you to
be a prophet unto all."
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Beloved, Jesus has said
that He has plans for us,
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isn't that right?
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Before we are formed
and we in the very womb,
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God has a plan for our life
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and you think of
the stake about it.
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He doesn't had plans
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for the lives of
those individuals
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who were just born legitimately.
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All right, we can see that.
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See that.
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Too many folk running
around here with guilt trip
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because of their birth origin.
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I don't care whether
you were born out of wedlock
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or in the holy deadlock,
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the fact of the matter is
that if you're born at all,
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it's not your
idea, it's God's idea,
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and God has a
plan for your life.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Too many folk
walking around burdened,
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feeling as if they don't matter,
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they had no value
because of their origin.
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The last time I checked,
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God made babies
before they made mistakes.
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Yes, sir. Yes,
sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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Yes, sir. Hello.
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And so therefore
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Jeremiah has been
called to the ministry
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by original conviction.
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Then the second way,
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an individual is
called into the ministry
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is by direct confrontation.
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What did I say?
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Direct confrontation.
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You can mean that
kind of inspiration.
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Acts 9:1-22 where Saul is called
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and he becomes the Apostle Paul.
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Sometimes the Lord has to
knock you off your donkey.
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I told you I
have a comedic side.
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I won't say donkey.
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He will knock you off your
name so that He impress you up,
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stand you up and send
you where He wants you to go.
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The third, the third way,
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an individual is
called into the ministry
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is by association.
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What did I say?
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Association. Association.
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1 Kings 19:19-20
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this is the way that
Elisha received his call
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to the ministry.
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He was affiliated,
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well associated
with the prophet Elijah.
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You know Elijah, don't you?
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Amen.
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Elijah was the
man who in 1 Kings 18
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was so, he was so
bad, brazen, and bold
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that he went up some 1,700
feet to the site of Mount Carmel
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to take off 450 other fellows.
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Now you don't let them
sound like a fair fight already.
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But that means
something over the mountains.
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One that gets 450
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and he is not there
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because they are in the
midst of getting warfare.
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It's not a battle between
the Prince and the Blood.
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This is another time of warfare.
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This is a warfare
between good and evil.
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God's prophets and
the devil's prophets,
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they are looking
each other in the face
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and they are trying to
decide whose God is bigger,
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whose God is better,
whose God is more powerful.
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You know, when
you are growing up
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and you outside
selling your woof tickets
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and you say "My daddy
is bigger than your daddy.
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My daddy is
stronger than your daddy.
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My daddy can beat your daddy."
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I remember called
my dad was in the 30,
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and the people would say that.
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I would say, "Oh,
my dad all he got to do
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is pull out a
granite out of his pocket
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and blew your daddy up."
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We're just always trying,
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trying to fight
for the supremacy
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and so it has Elijah up there.
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Now remember, this
is a man that was so bad
00:19:53.49\00:19:55.96
that this three years
before the man said a prayer
00:19:55.99\00:20:01.53
and then told the people
that it's not going to rain.
00:20:01.56\00:20:05.83
In a time, a man can pray
00:20:05.87\00:20:08.37
and the rain not
fall for three years.
00:20:08.40\00:20:11.67
You know that man's got
a lot of power in his life.
00:20:11.71\00:20:15.81
I like folk that
have powerful prayers,
00:20:15.84\00:20:19.55
prayers that can move mountains,
00:20:19.58\00:20:21.85
prayers that
can cast out devils,
00:20:21.88\00:20:24.25
prayers that can
raise up the sick,
00:20:24.29\00:20:26.55
prayers that can seek the holy,
00:20:26.59\00:20:28.86
prayers that can call the death.
00:20:28.89\00:20:30.33
I like folk that
had powerful prayers.
00:20:30.36\00:20:34.23
The reason I'm in
the ministry today
00:20:34.26\00:20:36.97
is because momma prayed a
powerful prayer over my life
00:20:37.00\00:20:42.50
because if you handle me,
you will look at me and laugh,
00:20:42.54\00:20:46.71
I said that way
it will be nothing.
00:20:46.74\00:20:49.04
It's about praying,
you don't be a devil.
00:20:49.08\00:20:52.45
That's his planted life
00:20:52.48\00:20:55.15
but God honors the prayers
of a sincere and the faithful.
00:20:55.18\00:21:01.56
And so, Elijah is
up there and he says
00:21:01.59\00:21:06.29
"We want to settle
this thing once and for all.
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.20
I'm tired of you all arguing
and gives me trying to say
00:21:09.23\00:21:13.47
whose God is greater."
00:21:13.50\00:21:15.44
We are going to
put people two altars
00:21:15.47\00:21:17.94
and we're gonna put
two sacrifices over there
00:21:17.97\00:21:20.51
and we are not going
to make this sacrifice,
00:21:20.54\00:21:23.08
we are gonna ask our gods.
00:21:23.11\00:21:25.55
You ask your God to light of,
00:21:28.65\00:21:32.12
in fact, your God is so bad,
00:21:32.15\00:21:34.09
I'm gonna let your God go first.
00:21:34.12\00:21:37.63
Let him get the first turn here
00:21:37.66\00:21:40.70
and then I'll ask my God.
00:21:40.73\00:21:43.00
And so that year
almost 450 prophets of Baal
00:21:43.03\00:21:50.11
calling themselves and screaming
00:21:50.14\00:21:52.64
and calling up for their gods
00:21:52.67\00:21:55.04
and that's invite a
cool, comfort and collective
00:21:55.08\00:21:59.65
sitting back there watching
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as they're
running out of brethren.
00:22:01.42\00:22:03.52
Maybe your God is asleep.
00:22:03.55\00:22:06.15
Maybe He is caught
in a way going to movie.
00:22:06.19\00:22:08.32
You should cry out
a little bit longer
00:22:08.36\00:22:11.29
and they cry for more."
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.43
And yet they did it all
day without even a spark.
00:22:13.46\00:22:20.44
Then Elijah says, it's my turn.
00:22:20.47\00:22:24.64
I'll talk to my God.
00:22:24.67\00:22:27.74
He said, in fact,
00:22:27.78\00:22:29.71
I'll make it little
bit harder for my God.
00:22:29.74\00:22:32.98
I want you to dig a
trench around my altar
00:22:33.01\00:22:38.12
and then we are gonna
put water on my sacrifice
00:22:38.15\00:22:41.56
and, you know, we
don't really have fire.
00:22:41.59\00:22:43.73
Water does what?
00:22:43.76\00:22:45.59
Puts outside, isn't it right?
00:22:45.63\00:22:47.90
It extinguishes, put
some water on my sacrifice.
00:22:47.93\00:22:51.87
They put some water in
the ditch around the altar
00:22:51.90\00:22:55.07
and then I'll talk to my God.
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And there he is a man
who prayed for thought
00:22:58.57\00:23:01.11
that it would
rain for few years.
00:23:01.14\00:23:02.74
God, we got 450 unbelievers.
00:23:02.78\00:23:09.68
They said that their
God is stronger than you
00:23:09.72\00:23:13.09
In fact, you know
that, snap in if you will
00:23:13.12\00:23:17.76
I'm flexible,
00:23:17.79\00:23:21.40
put miracles in my life
and in the life of Israel,
00:23:21.43\00:23:25.03
not one shall tell
who the real God is.
00:23:25.07\00:23:30.27
Will the real
God please stand up?
00:23:30.31\00:23:34.74
God come down and
then light the fire
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and the Bible says
there at 1 Kings 18
00:23:38.45\00:23:42.78
that the fire came down from God
00:23:42.82\00:23:46.22
and it lit up the
altar, lit up the water,
00:23:46.25\00:23:52.23
lit up the dust around in altar,
00:23:52.26\00:23:55.16
lit up the sticks
under the sacrifice.
00:23:55.20\00:23:58.13
Burnt up
everything that was in place
00:23:58.17\00:24:00.97
and there was
nothing standing there
00:24:01.00\00:24:03.84
after Elijah's God got down.
00:24:03.87\00:24:08.14
You know, our God is a real God.
00:24:08.18\00:24:11.31
He doesn't have to, He
does things to perfection
00:24:11.35\00:24:16.62
and yet after
such a momentous event,
00:24:16.65\00:24:20.59
the Bible says,
that just a chapter later
00:24:20.62\00:24:24.93
in 1 Kings 19
00:24:24.96\00:24:26.93
we find that same prophet Elijah
00:24:26.96\00:24:30.90
depressed, distressed
00:24:30.93\00:24:34.64
and hiding in a leaf.
00:24:34.67\00:24:38.81
You got to, you
got to say something.
00:24:38.84\00:24:41.84
With the Lord let you
have a mountain top experience
00:24:41.88\00:24:46.61
that he prepared for me.
00:24:46.65\00:24:48.35
Good. That's right.
00:24:48.38\00:24:50.25
Because the devil
doesn't quit when he loses.
00:24:50.29\00:24:55.09
That's true. That's true.
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.46
He keeps on fighting,
he keeps on our treadle,
00:24:56.49\00:25:00.70
he won't let up,
he won't let you go.
00:25:00.73\00:25:04.07
Yes, you may have
gotten off a dress,
00:25:04.10\00:25:06.74
yes, you had a good
job family back together.
00:25:06.77\00:25:09.90
Yes, you might have
raise your children right.
00:25:09.94\00:25:12.87
Yes, you might have
return a faithful tithe,
00:25:12.91\00:25:15.48
but the devil is
not going to stop.
00:25:15.51\00:25:18.88
He is trying to check us up
00:25:18.91\00:25:21.22
and each and every one of
us need to look for the cave
00:25:21.25\00:25:25.29
after the mountain.
00:25:25.32\00:25:26.76
What's wrong with your life?
00:25:30.26\00:25:33.19
I got to preserve myself, why?
00:25:33.23\00:25:37.90
Because if they give me,
00:25:37.93\00:25:40.70
you won't have
anybody to testify.
00:25:40.74\00:25:44.91
You won't have any
witnesses if they--
00:25:44.94\00:25:48.81
Don't you know that
seven thousand of us,
00:25:48.84\00:25:52.25
they had to pick up--.
00:25:52.28\00:25:54.72
We have to get
out of this me thing.
00:25:54.75\00:25:57.45
Well, we think the only way
00:25:57.49\00:26:01.09
only presence set to God.
00:26:01.12\00:26:03.32
God has it everywhere.
00:26:03.36\00:26:05.96
You don't know anything about
and make the mistake about,
00:26:05.99\00:26:09.93
they all went
inside this church.
00:26:09.96\00:26:12.20
All right, all
right, we can see that.
00:26:12.23\00:26:15.77
I'll start faithfully everywhere
00:26:15.80\00:26:19.71
and you don't
know anything about it.
00:26:19.74\00:26:22.84
Yes, to encourage him.
00:26:22.88\00:26:25.41
He says, well, I
take that as a comment,
00:26:25.45\00:26:28.98
she might get me.
00:26:29.02\00:26:31.99
She who?
00:26:32.02\00:26:34.89
Jezebel.
00:26:34.92\00:26:36.99
You know, she don't have
no fury like a woman's heart.
00:26:37.03\00:26:40.56
I told you come out of cave.
00:26:43.63\00:26:46.43
I will take care of the woman.
00:26:46.47\00:26:49.04
You come out of cave.
00:26:49.07\00:26:50.54
I want you to go and find,
00:26:50.57\00:26:52.94
find a Tishbite
fawn name Elisha.
00:26:52.97\00:26:58.05
I want you to mentor him
00:26:58.08\00:27:00.85
and because I'm
calling him into ministry
00:27:00.88\00:27:04.65
and so Elisha becomes a
constant companion of Elijah
00:27:04.69\00:27:10.33
and Elijah wants
to test his mettle,
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.93
to test his faithfulness.
00:27:13.96\00:27:16.23
So in 2 Kings the 2
Chapter we find that
00:27:16.26\00:27:20.00
he tries to get rid of
him in a number of places.
00:27:20.04\00:27:24.64
In Gilgal and in
Bethel and in Jericho
00:27:24.67\00:27:28.24
and going back to the Jordan
and you still followed me.
00:27:28.28\00:27:33.75
I thought that can't be,
you're some type of difficult.
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.29
You ain't get rid of me.
00:27:37.32\00:27:40.12
I'm called to the ministry.
00:27:40.16\00:27:42.82
God send me here for purpose
00:27:42.86\00:27:45.93
and He said,
what can I do for Him?
00:27:45.96\00:27:49.36
You sent out what you got.
00:27:49.40\00:27:54.14
When folk see
galore in your life,
00:27:54.17\00:27:58.77
they want what you got.
00:27:58.81\00:28:02.01
You sent him over to your house,
00:28:02.04\00:28:05.11
you sent him over your grave,
00:28:05.15\00:28:07.38
you sent him over to--
you sent him over to occult.
00:28:07.42\00:28:11.75
but in fact just give me Jesus.
00:28:11.79\00:28:16.66
That's what people really want.
00:28:16.69\00:28:19.96
If you will just find way,
00:28:20.00\00:28:22.93
I want the same
kind of Holy Ghost power
00:28:22.96\00:28:27.77
that's of your life or my life
but they came to see Elijah.
00:28:27.80\00:28:33.24
I wanted in double dose.
00:28:33.27\00:28:37.11
I see what you got
is just a single dose.
00:28:37.15\00:28:41.32
Imagine my
ministry would be like that
00:28:41.35\00:28:43.85
and I have a
double dose of Holy Ghost.
00:28:43.89\00:28:47.96
And Elijah said,
if you are with me,
00:28:47.99\00:28:50.83
when I'm translating.
00:28:50.86\00:28:53.09
If you are with me,
00:28:53.13\00:28:54.93
you are going
to get your request
00:28:54.96\00:28:56.87
and the Bible says a
world that came about Elijah
00:28:56.90\00:29:00.57
and as he was being
lifted up into the air,
00:29:00.60\00:29:04.67
elevated to the
air brought up by angel
00:29:04.71\00:29:07.74
that he remembered, remembered
his commitment to Elijah
00:29:07.78\00:29:11.98
and drop his mantle down,
00:29:12.01\00:29:15.68
that mantle that was who?
00:29:15.72\00:29:18.52
The Holy Ghost power.
00:29:18.55\00:29:21.32
And so, Elijah tells us
00:29:21.36\00:29:23.76
that through the association
of Elisha with Elijah,
00:29:23.79\00:29:28.56
many miracles were brought
in the ministry of Elisha.
00:29:28.60\00:29:35.00
He saw Elijah transfer him.
00:29:35.04\00:29:38.27
He heal petty wars at Jericho
00:29:38.31\00:29:41.31
when he was stopped
by 42 by children, 42
00:29:41.34\00:29:45.75
she bears came out and ate up.
00:29:45.78\00:29:48.32
You can't tell
about God's service
00:29:48.35\00:29:50.39
in your kind of way.
00:29:50.42\00:29:51.75
You can't change
in your kind of way
00:29:51.79\00:29:54.86
with the help of
another prophet's widow
00:29:54.89\00:29:57.83
but don't apply the
oil supply miraculously
00:29:57.86\00:30:01.36
he entertained
the childless couple
00:30:01.40\00:30:04.53
in their Shunem
00:30:04.57\00:30:05.90
and prophesied you
will have a child one day.
00:30:05.93\00:30:09.77
He was called to
resonant another child
00:30:09.80\00:30:12.61
and in time, a short
time but he locate to it
00:30:12.64\00:30:16.41
and he performed mouth
to mouth resuscitation.
00:30:16.44\00:30:20.72
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:30:20.75\00:30:24.05
Brought back their
child back to life.
00:30:24.09\00:30:27.32
Okay, he was able to transform
but he is in black beans.
00:30:27.36\00:30:35.26
You all know
black beans, don't you?
00:30:35.30\00:30:37.57
Yeah, you all cook, don't you?
00:30:37.60\00:30:39.93
Beans, he was in the place,
eat at this place and beans
00:30:39.97\00:30:44.11
at the school of prophet
00:30:44.14\00:30:45.54
and make them come soon.
00:30:45.57\00:30:47.64
He healed Namaan, the
leper, of his leprosy.
00:30:47.68\00:30:51.15
He made and ask it for.
00:30:51.18\00:30:53.78
For 60 years he
preached the gospel
00:30:53.82\00:30:57.59
and when he was 80
00:30:57.62\00:30:59.55
we see him off
his deathbed sick,
00:30:59.59\00:31:04.96
the pillow taken.
00:31:04.99\00:31:07.00
It may sick him,
but not discourage.
00:31:07.03\00:31:13.67
They didn't bring
that child of God.
00:31:13.70\00:31:16.97
You recognize that the
surface of this present life
00:31:17.01\00:31:22.61
they're just not worthy
to be compared with the God,
00:31:22.64\00:31:26.88
with the glory that
shall one day be revealer.
00:31:26.92\00:31:30.89
You ain't seen nothing yet.
00:31:30.92\00:31:34.02
God gives you a
divine perspective of legions
00:31:34.06\00:31:37.46
of being able to seeking
on the purpose of this life,
00:31:37.49\00:31:42.00
to see what life
will be only outside.
00:31:42.03\00:31:46.77
And one of my favorite
authors Ellen White writes this
00:31:46.80\00:31:50.01
Satan must be given the
opportunity to annoy us,
00:31:50.04\00:31:56.51
let's he be able
to advance the charge
00:31:56.54\00:32:00.68
that he was not given
00:32:00.72\00:32:02.22
a fair
opportunity with every soul.
00:32:02.25\00:32:06.32
That's how he
will level with God.
00:32:10.39\00:32:12.49
Way back in Job 1, 2 chapters
00:32:12.53\00:32:18.43
the only reason
he is serving you
00:32:18.47\00:32:22.87
is because
everything is peaches and cream.
00:32:22.90\00:32:27.84
Well, if you
change that formula,
00:32:27.88\00:32:31.21
he will crash and die.
00:32:31.25\00:32:35.45
How many times that
things come into our lives
00:32:35.48\00:32:39.22
that we couldn't understand
00:32:39.25\00:32:41.36
because we
thought we were living
00:32:41.39\00:32:43.56
the right kind of life,
00:32:43.59\00:32:46.09
walking down the right road
00:32:46.13\00:32:48.00
and yet in the
midst of our journey
00:32:48.03\00:32:50.87
things just came out of nowhere.
00:32:50.90\00:32:53.37
Take that insist to us all.
00:32:53.40\00:32:56.34
If God was fair, if He was just
00:32:56.37\00:33:00.88
because we hadn't
done anything wrong.
00:33:00.91\00:33:03.85
It maybe he's just thinking,
it might have been God's way
00:33:03.88\00:33:08.48
of trying to tell the panel,
00:33:08.52\00:33:10.99
I'll give you an
opportunity to touch him.
00:33:11.02\00:33:13.72
Don't take his life,
I'll give you an opportunity
00:33:13.76\00:33:16.89
to deal with them
but understand something,
00:33:16.93\00:33:19.56
the only reason
00:33:19.59\00:33:21.16
why I'll let you
have your faith in him
00:33:21.20\00:33:23.73
is because I know
that he will set me
00:33:23.77\00:33:27.47
even if it means death.
00:33:27.50\00:33:30.11
That's the kind of image
the three Hebrew boys have.
00:33:30.14\00:33:33.61
We are not careful
to answer he who came.
00:33:33.64\00:33:37.55
The God who we say
is able to deliver us
00:33:37.58\00:33:42.05
from the burning fiery furnace,
00:33:42.08\00:33:44.02
but if not we stay
and we'll serve you,
00:33:44.05\00:33:50.69
we stay and we'll bow down.
00:33:50.73\00:33:53.43
It doesn't matter if we
are going to become partners
00:33:53.46\00:33:56.56
you in your furnace,
00:33:56.60\00:33:58.27
we are glad to beat out the bar.
00:33:58.30\00:34:03.81
You must have that
kind of commixture,
00:34:03.84\00:34:06.47
hot cast to be fixed, mind
me up that you want to live
00:34:06.51\00:34:10.95
for the Lord and Elisha,
Elisha died and he gets buried.
00:34:10.98\00:34:17.39
And then comes
his funeral is ready.
00:34:17.42\00:34:22.49
They are burying, it doesn't say
00:34:22.52\00:34:25.66
whether he's a family
member or dear friend--
00:34:25.69\00:34:30.90
He just says,
they were burying him
00:34:30.93\00:34:35.74
and because they're spying
in the distance, the enemy,
00:34:35.77\00:34:41.51
the Moabite enemy,
00:34:41.54\00:34:44.58
they looked and he turn to say,
00:34:44.61\00:34:47.32
we got to finish
this funeral later.
00:34:47.35\00:34:50.99
Before and
because of last funeral.
00:34:51.02\00:34:55.99
So here he is buried here.
00:34:56.02\00:34:59.66
Let's just put
this man in this grave.
00:34:59.69\00:35:03.26
Look, I can't help myself.
00:35:03.30\00:35:07.27
And your prayerfulness.
00:35:07.30\00:35:10.04
The Bible says, they dropped
the man in this old grave
00:35:10.07\00:35:16.95
and the Bible says
00:35:16.98\00:35:19.28
that when the dead man
touched the bones of Elisha
00:35:19.31\00:35:24.75
that he jumped up out the grave,
00:35:24.79\00:35:28.19
and I can imagine why
his buddies were running.
00:35:28.22\00:35:31.59
He caught up with
them and say, hey, wait,
00:35:31.63\00:35:33.83
why you're running.
00:35:33.86\00:35:35.20
Yes. Yes, sir.
00:35:35.23\00:35:36.56
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
00:35:36.60\00:35:38.07
Come on now.
00:35:38.10\00:35:39.43
Yes, sir.
00:35:39.47\00:35:40.80
Why do you have
to move like this?
00:35:40.84\00:35:43.67
You know Jack ran fast than us
00:35:43.71\00:35:46.68
because he's talking,
they left them in the hole.
00:35:46.71\00:35:50.11
but there's problem in
the life of the believer
00:35:50.15\00:35:55.55
that nobody can understand
00:35:55.58\00:35:58.02
and the thing we
need to act where people
00:35:58.05\00:36:01.59
who are dead man walking,
00:36:01.62\00:36:04.63
something miraculous has
to happen to their lives.
00:36:04.66\00:36:08.66
They ought to come back to life
just because we touched them.
00:36:08.70\00:36:12.93
Just because we
were interactive.
00:36:12.97\00:36:15.70
Just because they knew us.
00:36:15.74\00:36:17.57
Just because
they came close to us.
00:36:17.61\00:36:19.44
If they are not
coming back to life,
00:36:19.47\00:36:21.98
they take and retake too.
00:36:22.01\00:36:24.65
Amen. That's right.
00:36:24.68\00:36:28.52
When something,
when someone is dead,
00:36:28.55\00:36:33.52
I understand that when
we tell if you're dead,
00:36:33.56\00:36:37.96
you check the pulse.
00:36:37.99\00:36:40.73
Isn't that right? That's right.
00:36:40.76\00:36:42.26
Yes, philosopher,
physician, surgeon Galen
00:36:42.30\00:36:47.94
was the first
individual to talk about pulse.
00:36:47.97\00:36:51.21
The pulse is the rate at
which the heart contracts
00:36:51.24\00:36:56.51
and sends life giving blood
throughout the entire body.
00:36:56.54\00:37:02.22
The pulse getting
changed in another places
00:37:02.25\00:37:05.59
as long as you can compress
an artery against a bone.
00:37:05.62\00:37:10.03
I understand that
if you push on the neck
00:37:10.06\00:37:14.23
and push your artery the
carotid artery of the neck
00:37:14.26\00:37:17.47
and hits the ball, you
will be able to tell the pulse.
00:37:17.50\00:37:19.67
I understand that behind
the knee is a popliteal artery
00:37:19.70\00:37:25.74
that you press it against
the back of the knee ball,
00:37:25.77\00:37:28.44
you will be able
to check the pulse.
00:37:28.48\00:37:30.08
Out here that inside
elbow if you press your artery
00:37:30.11\00:37:35.08
the, brachial artery
against the ball in the elbow,
00:37:35.12\00:37:38.72
you will be able
to check the pulse.
00:37:38.75\00:37:40.89
And here that
somewhere near the knee
00:37:40.92\00:37:43.86
is the posterior tibial artery.
00:37:43.89\00:37:46.80
If you press it,
you will be able to tell
00:37:46.83\00:37:48.86
whether
somebody is alive or not.
00:37:48.90\00:37:50.73
I walk in this
morning, brother and sister,
00:37:50.77\00:37:53.07
if somebody would come
00:37:53.10\00:37:55.37
and check our
spiritual pulse today,
00:37:55.40\00:37:58.71
would they say dead or alive.
00:37:58.74\00:38:01.14
Have mercy. Have mercy.
00:38:01.18\00:38:02.51
Have mercy.
00:38:02.54\00:38:04.91
Is he living or is he dead?
00:38:04.95\00:38:08.35
Is she living or is she dead?
00:38:08.38\00:38:12.79
Do we have a right
giving power horsing
00:38:12.82\00:38:17.46
through our veins?
00:38:17.49\00:38:23.16
The Bible says in
Romans the 8 chapter,
00:38:23.20\00:38:28.34
turn there with me
00:38:28.37\00:38:29.70
I'll come down the
whole stretch here.
00:38:29.74\00:38:32.54
In Romans the 8
chapter, Romans 8:13
00:38:32.57\00:38:39.75
listen to what
the word of God says.
00:38:39.78\00:38:42.85
"For if ye live after the flesh,
00:38:42.88\00:38:47.82
ye shall" what?
00:38:47.86\00:38:49.49
"Ye shall die,
00:38:49.52\00:38:51.49
but if ye through the Spirit
00:38:51.53\00:38:54.26
do mortify the
deeds of the body,
00:38:54.30\00:38:57.70
you shall" what?
00:38:57.73\00:38:59.93
"You shall live."
00:38:59.97\00:39:05.07
You shall live.
00:39:05.11\00:39:08.28
I heard the same writer
00:39:08.31\00:39:11.58
in chapter 6 and verse 23 says,
00:39:11.61\00:39:16.62
"For the wages of sin is" what?
00:39:16.65\00:39:19.99
"Death."
00:39:20.02\00:39:22.72
Sin is a bad experience.
00:39:22.76\00:39:26.19
Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
00:39:26.23\00:39:27.73
It is contrary to life.
00:39:27.76\00:39:32.57
The end product of
sin always is death.
00:39:32.60\00:39:38.47
I had the spirit
anything down here
00:39:38.51\00:39:42.78
that has been so
dreadful and so terrible
00:39:42.81\00:39:46.85
that--
00:39:46.88\00:39:50.19
Standing out in the street,
00:39:50.22\00:39:52.69
I did called him
again hit by the car
00:39:52.72\00:39:56.26
and he was
standing to the street
00:39:56.29\00:39:58.19
and I said, daddy,
what's wrong with it.
00:39:58.23\00:40:00.53
You want to kill yourself.
00:40:00.56\00:40:02.26
He said, I won't
die, I won't live.
00:40:02.30\00:40:07.64
Isn't that a life
doesn't wants to live.
00:40:07.67\00:40:10.41
Yes, sir.
00:40:10.44\00:40:11.91
It doesn't matter how
lower your stake in life,
00:40:11.94\00:40:17.35
you recognize
something and stick them
00:40:17.38\00:40:20.12
when they are said as
bad as things might seem.
00:40:20.15\00:40:23.85
Sin I'll still
gonna live at a time.
00:40:23.89\00:40:27.86
What if we continue in
sin, if we tackle inequity,
00:40:27.89\00:40:33.63
you bring whole on to
that target sin and I'll arise,
00:40:33.66\00:40:37.97
they only out
come for us instead.
00:40:38.00\00:40:41.84
True.
00:40:41.87\00:40:43.20
That's right.
00:40:43.24\00:40:44.87
No pulse,
00:40:44.91\00:40:47.81
just death.
00:40:47.84\00:40:51.88
There is a death however.
00:40:51.91\00:40:54.42
Listen, listen, listen,
there is a, there is a death,
00:40:54.45\00:40:57.45
a good death.
00:40:57.49\00:41:00.42
I was watching a film one time,
00:41:00.46\00:41:02.76
I came a little late,
00:41:02.79\00:41:05.23
but it ends by
saying, it was a good death.
00:41:05.26\00:41:08.46
He died in good.
00:41:08.50\00:41:09.90
What do you mean a good death?
00:41:09.93\00:41:13.17
Look at Romans the 6 chapter,
00:41:13.20\00:41:16.54
Romans 6:3, 4.
00:41:16.57\00:41:21.94
Those are the words that says.
00:41:21.98\00:41:24.05
"Know ye not,
00:41:24.08\00:41:26.21
that so many of us
as were" what everybody?
00:41:26.25\00:41:29.82
Baptized. Loudly.
00:41:29.85\00:41:31.35
Baptized.
00:41:31.39\00:41:32.72
"Baptized into Jesus
Christ were baptized into" what?
00:41:32.75\00:41:37.26
"His death?
00:41:37.29\00:41:38.69
Therefore we are buried with him
00:41:38.73\00:41:42.20
by baptism into death,
00:41:42.23\00:41:44.47
that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead
00:41:44.50\00:41:49.24
by the glory of the Father,
00:41:49.27\00:41:51.24
even so we also should
walk in the newness of life."
00:41:51.27\00:41:57.15
There is a one death,
00:42:00.42\00:42:03.45
that too death is
when we die to sin.
00:42:03.49\00:42:07.69
And we are daily
with our Lord in what?
00:42:07.72\00:42:11.69
Don't whisper.
00:42:11.73\00:42:13.56
In what?
00:42:13.60\00:42:15.63
Baptism.
00:42:15.66\00:42:18.07
That's the best
funeral that you've been at.
00:42:18.10\00:42:22.97
The funeral of
that old man of sin
00:42:23.00\00:42:26.94
and that's what we all have one.
00:42:26.98\00:42:29.78
Romans 3:23 says
"That is none righteous."
00:42:29.81\00:42:35.18
No, not, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:42:35.22\00:42:38.35
Preaching, you're
preaching it hard and listen,
00:42:38.39\00:42:40.92
you mean you got some problem?
00:42:40.96\00:42:42.39
Yes, my momma's back
there you will ask her.
00:42:42.42\00:42:44.89
But, pastor, we're Christians.
00:42:49.40\00:42:55.30
Well, you're
trying to telling me that
00:42:55.34\00:42:56.74
Christians don't have problems?
00:42:56.77\00:42:59.44
If anybody has
problems, we have problems.
00:42:59.47\00:43:03.95
Why?
00:43:03.98\00:43:05.31
"And the dragon was
wroth with the woman,
00:43:05.35\00:43:07.65
and went out to make war
00:43:07.68\00:43:09.22
against the remnant of her seed,
00:43:09.25\00:43:10.82
which keep the
commandments of God,
00:43:10.85\00:43:12.75
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:43:12.79\00:43:15.16
If you declare
yourself to be a friend of God,
00:43:15.19\00:43:19.56
you also want
to declare yourself
00:43:19.59\00:43:21.96
to be an enemy of the devil
00:43:22.00\00:43:24.10
and I already told you
that it's not for the take up,
00:43:24.13\00:43:28.54
not without a fight.
00:43:28.57\00:43:31.07
It's his desire
00:43:31.11\00:43:32.87
that all of us be
in the big swim party
00:43:32.91\00:43:36.64
that's planned for
him in Revelation 20.
00:43:36.68\00:43:40.52
I ain't trying to
go swimming in fire.
00:43:43.39\00:43:45.92
Amen. Amen.
00:43:45.95\00:43:47.62
Amen.
00:43:47.66\00:43:48.99
It doesn't matter
whether you put on the rank--
00:43:49.02\00:43:50.93
this world can have
00:43:50.96\00:43:55.33
but he will tell
us to be with him
00:43:55.36\00:43:59.70
in that baptism of
fire of destruction.
00:43:59.73\00:44:05.94
We all got our hills to climb
00:44:05.97\00:44:11.15
and Jesus calls us
to a life of holiness.
00:44:11.18\00:44:16.52
Get in your life in
the waters of baptism
00:44:16.55\00:44:21.52
because when you got
out in the waters of baptism
00:44:21.56\00:44:25.93
and your heart is sincere
00:44:25.96\00:44:29.06
and you want to
follow Jesus everywhere,
00:44:29.10\00:44:33.10
then we'll get cut up
when you get up out the water.
00:44:33.13\00:44:37.61
You are not just wet,
00:44:37.64\00:44:40.38
you are clean everywhere
00:44:40.41\00:44:43.48
and only you can decide
00:44:43.51\00:44:46.68
if you are going to
keep your clothes clean.
00:44:46.72\00:44:50.09
Keep your life pure.
00:44:50.12\00:44:52.19
Keep everything
spotless before your Lord.
00:44:52.22\00:44:56.56
That's a good kind of death.
00:44:56.59\00:44:59.16
When somebody
takes your pulse then?
00:44:59.19\00:45:03.30
It's off the skin.
00:45:03.33\00:45:04.80
I can't tell you how
hard, your heart will beat
00:45:07.30\00:45:11.67
but they will change us,
takes only inside of you.
00:45:11.71\00:45:18.41
They got, no, what they've
got no instrument back then
00:45:18.45\00:45:22.32
to keep up with your heart rate
00:45:22.35\00:45:24.65
because they were so
excited about what God is doing.
00:45:24.69\00:45:28.79
So excited about
how God will use you.
00:45:28.82\00:45:31.89
So excited about the fact
that God is going to save you.
00:45:31.93\00:45:36.83
You just can't
keep it to yourself.
00:45:36.87\00:45:40.17
Amen. Amen.
00:45:40.20\00:45:42.07
Over here and we
end with this last text
00:45:42.10\00:45:48.64
is a text that I
have come to love it.
00:45:48.68\00:45:52.08
You have to it is Galatians 2,
00:45:52.11\00:45:55.65
Galatians 2:20.
00:45:55.68\00:46:00.06
I'm so excited about,
00:46:00.09\00:46:01.62
I want you to
find it immediately.
00:46:01.66\00:46:04.13
Galatians 2:20,
00:46:04.16\00:46:10.57
Galatians 2:20
00:46:10.60\00:46:15.67
the Bible says,
read it what does it say,
00:46:15.70\00:46:19.54
"I am crucified with
Christ, nevertheless I live,
00:46:19.57\00:46:26.28
yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me,
00:46:26.31\00:46:31.29
and the life which I now
live in the flesh I live" how?
00:46:31.32\00:46:36.86
"By the faith of the Son of God,
00:46:36.89\00:46:39.13
who did what?
00:46:39.16\00:46:40.86
Loved me, and gave Himself."
00:46:40.90\00:46:45.47
Oh, somebody
ought to say hallelujah.
00:46:45.50\00:46:47.60
Amen. Amen.
00:46:47.64\00:46:48.97
Somebody ought to
say thank You, Jesus.
00:46:49.00\00:46:51.64
Somebody ought to say
praise the Lord today.
00:46:51.67\00:46:56.14
We've a legend to watch.
00:46:56.18\00:46:57.61
A legend that
involved a search for the cross
00:47:00.32\00:47:04.85
that Jesus died.
00:47:04.89\00:47:08.86
They tell me that
they brought three crosses
00:47:08.89\00:47:13.23
to an empress namely Helena.
00:47:13.26\00:47:15.86
And said one of
these crosses is a cross
00:47:18.30\00:47:23.67
that Christ was crucified.
00:47:23.71\00:47:26.88
Helena said, well, which one?
00:47:26.91\00:47:30.95
We don't know but we
collected the three crosses
00:47:30.98\00:47:36.89
that everybody said
00:47:36.92\00:47:38.72
was the cross
that Jesus died on.
00:47:38.75\00:47:42.26
She said He only
died on one cross,
00:47:42.29\00:47:44.79
I know from the story
that there were three crosses
00:47:44.83\00:47:49.53
but all of them didn't
have the Son of God on.
00:47:49.56\00:47:53.03
All of them didn't
have the Savior on.
00:47:53.07\00:47:55.74
All of them didn't
have the Son of man,
00:47:55.77\00:47:57.77
only one of them was the
cross that Christ died on
00:47:57.81\00:48:02.04
and they said,
and they said what?
00:48:02.08\00:48:04.51
Miss Helena, Empress Helena,
00:48:04.55\00:48:06.48
we don't know which one
00:48:06.51\00:48:08.62
represents the
cross that He died on.
00:48:08.65\00:48:10.99
She said, do we have
any dead man in the house?
00:48:11.02\00:48:15.36
Come on. Come on. Come on.
00:48:15.39\00:48:16.73
Come on now.
00:48:16.76\00:48:18.09
Yeah, there is some
dead people right in.
00:48:18.13\00:48:19.89
Call it, we need a dead man.
00:48:19.93\00:48:22.76
I will watch how
they put the dead man
00:48:22.80\00:48:24.93
on each one of the crosses,
00:48:24.97\00:48:27.54
I don't believe
that the real cross
00:48:27.57\00:48:32.44
if it's the cross
that Jesus died on
00:48:32.47\00:48:35.94
that when that dead
man touches the cross
00:48:35.98\00:48:40.58
like the dead man
touched the pulse of Elisha,
00:48:40.62\00:48:45.02
that man is
gonna come back to life
00:48:45.05\00:48:48.19
and so they put that
dead man on one cross.
00:48:48.22\00:48:51.23
They put him
over the second cross
00:48:51.26\00:48:53.50
but when they come
to the third cross,
00:48:53.53\00:48:56.70
he come on the third
cross he came back alive.
00:48:56.73\00:49:00.77
He was a dead man walking.
00:49:00.80\00:49:03.34
Every time we come to the cross
that Christ died on brother.
00:49:03.37\00:49:08.14
We become dead man walking
00:49:08.18\00:49:10.68
and so we are
declare with the apostle.
00:49:10.71\00:49:12.91
I'm crucified with the Christ
yet I still live is not me
00:49:12.95\00:49:20.09
but Jesus never forget me,
let's pray by the grace of God
00:49:20.12\00:49:24.93
that from this date on,
00:49:24.96\00:49:26.73
we're not going to try
to live under our own power,
00:49:26.76\00:49:29.56
but we want to lean on the power
00:49:29.60\00:49:31.83
of the cross of Christ
and people who live in us
00:49:31.87\00:49:34.77
and says there is
a dead man walking.
00:49:34.80\00:49:37.51