Walk It Out Wednesday: The Danger of Entitlement | Bishop T.D. Jakes

Summary

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The Potter's House Podcast

Episode: Walk It Out Wednesday: The Danger of Entitlement
Speaker: Bishop T.D. Jakes
Date: December 11, 2025

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Episode Overview

This Wednesday Bible Study episode features Bishop T.D. Jakes delving deeply into the scriptural dangers of entitlement, drawing from the parable in Mark 12:1-12. Jakes explores how entitlement can erode gratitude, stewardship, and spiritual growth, illustrating how God’s blessings are neither owed nor earned but are acts of divine grace. Using vivid biblical analogies and personal reflection, he challenges listeners to inventory their lives, acknowledge God as the true owner, and embrace humility and gratitude.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Parable of the Tenants (Mark 12:1-12)

• Scriptural Foundation: The class begins with a reading and exposition of Mark 12:1-12—Jesus’ parable about tenant farmers who abuse the owner’s servants and ultimately kill his son.
• Divine Setup & Stewardship (06:13 – 08:03):
  • The owner completes all work: “He did the digging, he built the tower…They walked into a finished work.”
  • Paralleled to Genesis, highlighting that humankind walks into God’s finished work, not by their own effort but by grace (07:09):

    “Five is the number of grace…all the things that God does for us that we walk into. And we didn’t have any right, so we just walked into it and received it by the grace of God.”

2. Stewardship vs. Entitlement

• Faithful Accounting (08:03 – 08:21):
  • “We are stewards of what God owns, and we are judged by how well we steward what we have been given.”
  • The need for honest self-inventory of gifts and resources, using Acts 3 as an example (“Silver and gold have I none…”).
• Returning God’s Portion (10:19 – 12:29):
  • Giving back is an act of trust and faithfulness:

    “He’s given so much to you, He’s got a right to ask something of you.” (10:59)

  • Keeping it all = robbing the owner; the issue is trust, not finances.

3. God’s Patience vs. Human Rebellion

• God’s Longsuffering (13:10 – 15:52):
  • God’s repeated sending of servants is highlighted as patient, gracious, and longsuffering even in the face of increasing violence and rejection:

    “What I want you to see is how long-suffering He was. Our God is gracious… He gives you time after time after time to get yourself together.” (14:44)

4. Christ as the Chief Cornerstone and the Rejected Stone

• Mixed Metaphors—Grapes & Stones (18:23 – 29:51):
  • Jesus, both the “grapes” (symbol of blood, sacrifice) and the “stone” (cornerstone of faith).
  • Rejection as Divinely Intentional:

    “His rejection is direction…God allowed you to be rejected to indicate He was going to do something massive in your life.” (23:41)

  • The cornerstone concept: Jesus as the reference and foundation for both Jews and Gentiles, accessible and essential to all:

    “You’re not my plumb line. Jesus is…He’s What I measure up to. He’s what I come into alignment with.” (29:52)

5. Living Without Entitlement—Gratitude and Perspective

• The Folly of Entitlement (39:19 – 54:04):
  • Entitlement breeds greed, arrogance, and ingratitude:

    “You think I was supposed to do it? That’s why you won’t praise me. You think I was supposed to heal you? You think I was supposed to bring you out? I’m looking for somebody who’s grateful.” (40:18)

  • All possessions and opportunities are on loan; nothing is owned eternally.
  • Sobering realities: mortality and replaceability emphasize humility:

    “You are expendable. That’s why you got to be humble. That’s why you got to be grateful. He chose you… He picked you out.” (49:23)

  • Skills, jobs, relationships—never to be taken for granted.

6. Practical Application & Reflection

• Spiritual Inventory (54:08 – 60:13):
  • Take account of all God has entrusted—children, health, job, talent.
  • Repeated scriptural emphasis: “To whom much is given, much is required.”
  • “I got everything I need to do what God called me to do…including my brokenness.” (56:51)
• Humility Over Entitlement:
  • “As long as you don’t get entitled…what God has for you is for you.” (58:26)

7. Pride, Confidence, and Authentic Humility

• Defining Confidence vs. Pride (79:45 – 88:58):
  • Confidence = trusting what God has done within; Pride = image-obsession, external validation.

    “Confidence is all about what God has done inside you… Pride is all about how you are perceived by the viewer.” (80:17)

  • True spiritual maturity leads to increasing humility, not self-importance.

    “The more confident you become, the more experienced you are—the more humble you become.” (85:41)

8. Gratitude, Growth, and Offering

• Rejecting Entitlement in Worship & Life (91:08 – 100:31):
  • “Substratum of the text…is the refusal to let greed overtake growth. And if greed overtakes growth, it will bring us to a place that we are denied gratitude.” (90:29)
  • “When we worship the Lord in an offering, it is never because God needs the money…It breaks the curse off of you by saying, God, I will not worship the gift more than the giver.” (98:04)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On God’s Grace
  “We don’t do anything to save ourselves. We walk into the finished work of Jesus Christ.” (06:50)

• On Rejection
  “You can’t allow yourself to stay wounded over being rejected, no matter how bad you hurt. Because rejection helps to fulfill the prophecy that God is going to build something out of those who have been rejected.” (24:08)

• On Stewardship “God is going to judge you according to what He gave you…He’s only going to judge you over what He put under your control.” (45:27 – 45:46)

• On Entitlement and Humility “You are expendable. That’s why you got to be humble…You can never be entitled, you got to be grateful.” (49:23)

• On the Chief Cornerstone
  “The stone that the builders rejected has been made the chief cornerstone…It sets the parameters of the building…He is accessible to both sides…He is the chief cornerstone.” (24:03 – 25:23)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Scripture Reading & Parable Intro: 02:16 – 07:47
• Stewardship, Self-Inventory, Divine Ownership: 07:47 – 11:59
• Entitlement, Rebellion, and God’s Patience: 13:10 – 16:49
• Cornerstone & Rejection Theology: 18:23 – 29:51
• Plumb Line & Living by God’s Measure: 29:51 – 37:20
• Humility, Expendability, and Practical Examples: 39:19 – 54:04
• Historical/Biblical Reflection & Inventory: 54:08 – 60:13
• Bonus Text—Matthew’s Account: 61:46 – 66:43
• Worship, Gratitude, and the Offering: 98:04 – 103:40
• Altar Call: 105:09 – 112:24

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Final Reflection

Bishop Jakes closes with a call to humility, repentance, and gratitude, rejecting the spirit of entitlement:

“I am not entitled. I’m expendable. I’m replaceable. You just chose to bless me.” (103:40)

He emphasizes that eternal life, blessings, and every good gift derive from God’s grace, not any human merit. The altar call and final prayers invite all to forsake entitlement and embrace stewardship, humility, and gratitude as paths to spiritual fulfillment and alignment with God’s purposes.

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Summary prepared for your spiritual enrichment and practical application.

Transcript

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[Bible Class Host]

This is the Potter's House podcast. We're here to keep you filled with the spirit and guided by the scriptures.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I want to go to the gospel.

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Of St. Mark 12, verse 1 through 2 through 12, where we left off Sunday. The gospel of St. Mark, chapter 12, verse 1 through 12. And if once you have it, would you stand? If you can put it on my monitor to make it easy for me. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jesus. Let me preface this by saying they were always trying to set Jesus up. Always trying to set Jesus. I'm so glad for the Bible because the Bible lets you know what's normal.

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There's nothing new up under the sun.

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They were. And right before this, they were trying to set him up. And so Jesus said. They asked Jesus a question. Jesus asked them a question. He answered the question with the question. He said, now if, if. If is the baptism of John, of God or not. And they were in a dilemma because they were, they reasoned in themselves. If we say it's not of God, the people are going to judge us. If we say it is of God, they're going to want to know why didn't we participate? And Jesus had a way of kind of putting them in a stronghold. And he what I like about him, he had a fierce clap back. Yeah, yeah.

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Without being nasty or anything like that.

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You know, he just had a way of clapping back. So this parable comes at the end of this deliberation. And the parable is designed for them.

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To see themselves because if he told.

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Them about themselves, they would deny that it was true. But a parable is designed that you can find yourself in the parable. And it's been a while since I preached something on Sunday that so many people said they saw themselves in the text. Yeah, they saw themselves in the text.

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And, and that's a good thing because.

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If you can't see yourself in the text, something is wrong. The woman used to breathe, beat brass and fill it with water. And it became mirrors for them where.

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They said, you don't go to the.

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Word of God is. The word of God is like a woman who goes over to the mirror and, and forgets what manner of man she. What manner woman, or what manner of man he saw. The word of God is a looking glass for you to see yourself more clearly and understand yourself more dearly. So it starts out in the first verse. I got to go.

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Somebody said, would you please get past the first verse?

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Because I could have stayed in the first verse all Sunday long.

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I don't think I got much further.

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Than the first verse, but it says, go, go back to the first verse for a minute.

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Then he began to speak to them in parables.

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He began to speak to them in.

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Parables, which is mostly what he did.

[Bible Class Host]

We got very few sermons from Jesus.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Isn't that funny? We got very few sermons from the Sermon on the Mount you know, maybe one or two other things.

[Bible Class Host]

Jesus preached till the woman's house was filled with and they was cutting up her roof. And the Bible still doesn't give us his text, his subject, his sermon, or anything else.

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He preached out in the desert till.

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People were about to faint. And we still don't know the sermon.

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We know everything that happened around the.

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Sermon, but we don't know the sermon itself.

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And here, this is not a sermon.

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And it's a parable. He's a storyteller. He's telling the story, but there's truth in the story. A parable is a story that has true truth in it that you can extract from it, that you can use to better yourself. So this is one of them.

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He said, a man planted a vineyard.

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And set a hedge around it, dug a place for the vine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vine dressers and went into a far country. Verse 2. Now, at vintage time, harvest time, he.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Sent a servant to the vine dresser that he might receive some of the.

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Fruit of the vineyard from the vine dressers. Now, wait, I got to stop here and go back and say this. I made it a comparison Sunday that. I'd like to elaborate a little bit on everything. In verse one, the owner did the vine dresser, didn't do anything at all.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

He did the digging, he built the tower, he set them in the garden. He built the hedgehog.

[Bible Class Host]

They walked into the finished work of the vinedresser, which is much like Genesis, where when you look at Genesis, God.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Is doing all the work, and he creates man to walk into the finished work of God, which is much like salvation. We don't do anything to save ourselves. We walk into the finished work of Jesus Christ. So when. Anytime you walk.

[Bible Class Host]

He finished on the fifth day, okay?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

He created man on the sixth day. Five is the number of grace. Five is the number of grace to typify all the things that God does for us that we walk into. And we didn't have any right, so we just walked into it and received it by the grace of God. And so I want. I wanted to draw the parallel between those three things. The finished work of Christ is what.

[Bible Class Host]

We are saved by is not your works.

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Lest any man should boast. It is done by the finished work of Christ. So these people have now come in here to lease a garden that they.

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Didn'T build, to work to.

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To do what he told Adam to.

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Do, to tend the garden.

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But he didn't have to build the garden.

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He just had to tend the Garden. So we are stewards of what God.

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Owns, and we are judged by how.

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Well we steward what we have been given.

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And so every now and then, you need to do a. An accounting inventory of what you have been given. Because if you're going to have to give an account for what you have.

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Been given, you need to know what you got.

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So there's no need in being coy. And I know I got this. I got this. I got this gift. I got that gift. I got the other gift. I didn't get this. You need to know what you do.

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Have, what you don't have.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I unto thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. See, he said, I don't have any money on me, but I do have some power. And he said, in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. He had to know the. That he had the power. And the enemy's job is to try to make you not know that you got what you got. Because the only thing you have to give an account for is what you've got. You don't have to give an account for somebody else's gift. That wouldn't be fair if God said to me, I want you to sing like Donnie McClurk, and you didn't sing like Donnie McClur. That ain't fair. You didn't give me that. Okay, so I can't sing like Donnie because you didn't give me that. So I don't have to give an account for that because I don't have that. He. I can enjoy him singing like that in my mind. I can sing like that in my mind. I sing him out the table. Don't let me get in the shower.

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And go to singing.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I run him right out the room. But in real life, you cut that water off and it's just me out there. Lord, it's embarrassing. Jesus, have you ever been singing in your car with somebody and you was killing it and then they stopped singing and we heard you? Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's what that's like. So. So that's where we are now at the vintage time.

[Bible Class Host]

Let me go back to the other verse.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Because I lost one place. Now at the vintage time, he sent a servant to the vine dresser that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vine dresser. Now this is how they paid rent, by giving a portion of what he's given back to them. They're in business with God, whether, you know, it or not, you're in business with God. And God says, if you give me a portion of what I have given to you, just a portion, I'll be satisfied with that. So he sent the man during the time of the harvest and he says, go and collect because I know it's time. I know it's come to fruition, it's developed now, they have grown. Hopefully it has grown definitely. Now it's time to do some collecting. Sooner or later you come into a point that God has a right to ask something of you. He's given so much to you that he's got a right to ask something of you.

[Bible Class Host]

Oh yeah, I'm good already.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Yeah. He's given so much to you, he's got a right to ask something of you. God will not ask of you something that he hasn't given to you. So of thine own have we given thee. So we need not walk up to the altar and lay something down on the altar like we're doing God a favor. Because whatever you give God, he already gave you. So all you're doing is proving your faithfulness by giving back to Him a portion of what he has given you. Come on, somebody. And if you keep the portion, you rob the owner. If I say I'm going to give you $100 and for every hundred dollars I want you to give me 10 and you could come along and you keep the 90, I got the 10 and you take the whole, the whole hundred, you rob me. And you've also taught me not to do business with you because I can't trust you. So this is more about trust than it is the $10.

[Bible Class Host]

He don't need the $10.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

It's not about that. It's about can I trust you with the blessing. And God says if I can trust you with a little bit, I can trust you with a whole lot. Or if you be faithful over a few things, I'll make you ruler over many. So instead of them doing what they needed to do, how they needed to do it, which would have been the end of it. CNS they didn't work for it, they didn't labor for it, they didn't build it, they didn't grow it, they didn't plan, all they had to do was say, here's your portion right here, and.

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It would have been over.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

No, sometimes we bypass the simple thing.

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And do something that's so much worse.

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And they took him and beat the.

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Man and sent him away empty handed.

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So they beat him up again, he sent them Another servant at him. They threw stones, wounded him in the head.

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He's a mean people.

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And sent him away, shamefully treated. And again he sent another. And him they killed and many others, beating some and killing others. Now, I want to stop there for a minute.

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I won't leave you standing too long.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

But I want to stop there for a minute and point out to you Cain. All Cain had to do was offer.

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Up a lamb in the book of Genesis.

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That was very simple. All he had to do was offer up a lamb. It was very simple. It was very plain. And the Bible said, by faith. Let me prove it to you. By faith. Abel offered up a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Well, how do I get faith? Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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So.

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So he had to be an earshot. He had to be an earshot. And he chose to give him what he grew out of the ground. First problem with that, what came out of the ground was cursed. Second problem with that is if Abel did it by faith, then Cain had a chance to do it by faith, too. Okay. Third thing about it is, you won't kill a lamb, but you turn around and kill your brother. Now, it seemed like to me it would have been easier to kill the lamb. Okay, then I'm not itching to kill no lamb. But it seems like it'd be easier to kill the lamb than it would be to kill my brother. And then he got smart about it. Am I my brother's keeper? That's how you know you've done wrong. Because you get an attitude. You get a real nasty attitude. And time after time after time. Time. Notice what? I want you to see through this text.

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It's the patience and the long suffering of God.

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Because when I sent the first servant.

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And you beat him up, see, that's where this whole parable would have stopped. Right there.

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It'll stop right there.

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Because I'd have drove my chariot right.

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Through the field and set it on fire, burned it all down because you don't appreciate what I've given you. But no, he sent another one. And they threw rocks at him, hit him in the head and sent him away. Shamefully, he comes back. Shamefully. I'm not sending you nobody else. That's two. I given you that you had two times to do the right thing you ain't gonna do right. But no, he sent another and another one and another one, and every time it happened the same. But what I want you to see is how long suffering he was. Our God is gracious. He's long suffering, he's merciful. He gives you time after time after time to get yourself together. And again he sent another. And him they kill and many others, beating some and killing some. Now they know there wasn't there.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Stuff.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Stuff they know they had no right for that. Don't kill the mailman because you don't like the mail. But they killed all of them. Therefore, still having one son. Now he's down to one son. And this is important because this is prophetic. Therefore, he's now down to one son. His beloved is a clue. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Okay, so he's not just his son, he's his beloved son.

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You know, he beloves.

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This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. He's like. He's like Joseph to Jacob. He's his beloved son. He's his favorite son. They sent somebody that he had deep emotional attachment to. They sent him. He also sent him to. To them last, saying they will respect my son. They're not that bad.

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They will respect my son. Verse 7.

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But those vine dressers said among themselves, oh, goody, this is the heir. Come, let us kill him.

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And the inheritance will be ours.

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Which shows you what their intention was in the first place. There are a lot of people who grin in your face and smile and act like they're with you when. But all the while they're plotting. They don't want to be like you. They want to be you. They want to be you. They want to be you. Brother came to me, said he wanted my anointing. I said, I'm not through with it. When I finish with it, you can have it. But right now you can't have it while I'm working with it. They killed his son. Maybe this hits me harder as a father, and maybe it hits you harder as a parent. It'd be hard for me to get over that. It'd be hard for me to.

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I don't know if I could like you no more.

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Because you kill my son. You kill my son. My son is worth more to me than all the grapes in the field. And you kill my son. And now you have killed my son.

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In the midst of the harvest of grapes.

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And there is a. There is a correlation between the grapes and the blood. Do you see that?

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You got the grapes and the blood.

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Take, drink. This is my blood. The New Testament is in my blood. Look at the correlation between the two things. So they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard. He was the heir to the vineyard.

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And they cast him out. Let me stop there for a minute.

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And point out to you that there. The scripture in Hebrews. I believe it's Hebrews where the Bible said that Jesus was crucified outside the camp. He died outside of the camp.

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He.

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He. He died outside of the religious order of Israel. He died outside. And I'm glad he. They crucified him outside because by the. Them crucifying him outside, it gives me just reason to come in.

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Are you.

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Are you following what I'm saying? So therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do now? We're down to this. He will come and destroy the vine dressers, give the vineyard to others. Now he says, I've reached my limit. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. There is a limit. And here's the scary part about the limit.

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You don't know where it is.

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You don't know how far is too far. You got by with this and you got by with that, and you got by with the other. But I'm not sure I'm going to get by with this. Because he doesn't mark the spot where grace ends. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? He doesn't tell you where the limit is. He doesn't tell you when he's coming back. He doesn't tell you when judgment is going to be required upon you so that there will be a certain reverence that you have all along the way and a temperance that you have along the way because you don't want to.

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Push him too far.

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Have you not even read this scripture? The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

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You may be seated.

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Now, the reason I had you sit.

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Down right there is because that's where I want to start. I want to start right there for. For a good reason. I want to start there because we have gone from grapes to stone. We have gone from grapes to stone. Everything else was about vineyards and grapes. And now we've gone to stone. And he says to them, go back to the other verse. Go back. Go back one. Go back one. Yeah.

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Have you not even read this scripture?

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The stone which the builders rejected. Now there's a whole lot. He applied it when he said.

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He implied it when he said, my.

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Beloved son, we know he's hinting at Jesus when he goes from talking about grapes, which you could see Jesus, if you look deeply enough into it, you. You can see the vineyard in it. But when he comes down to stone, this It's a mixed metaphor.

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Because we've gone from grapes to stone. It's not that he doesn't know English well.

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It's not that he doesn't know grammar well.

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It's a mixed metaphor because the point.

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Of the story isn't the story. The point of the story is to say stone whenever I say the stone to you.

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And if you're a believer, you ought to think Jesus. Because Jesus is the stone that the builders rejected. Jesus is the stone in the wilderness that the Bible said that they drank from the stone.

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That's Jesus.

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He. If you drink of the water that I have, you should never thirst again. That's Jesus. He's my rock in the weary land. He's my stone. Hewed out the mountain. He's a stone that God hewed out.

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The mountain to write the Ten Commandments in.

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That's Jesus. Whenever you see the stone, you see Jesus. He's a stone. He's the Rock of Ages. He's a stone stone. He's the solid one. He's the absolute one. He's the complete, within himself 1. When you see the stone, the stone, there's no shakiness.

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There's no variable.

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Ain't no question the stone. You ain't gonna crush the stone.

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You crush him grapes, but you're not.

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Gonna crush the stone. And he said, have you not heard? The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

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I want to lay on that a little bit. Always go with the one that everybody else rejects.

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Because God will always use the rejected one to indicate this is going to.

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Be my chief cornerstone.

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I'm not going to pick the one.

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That'S the most powerful, popular.

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I'm not going to pick the one that everybody likes. I'm not going to pick the one that nobody's talking about. I want, in fact, his rejection is direction.

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Come on with me. Come on with me.

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See, See, you have to understand there.

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Was a reason for your rejection.

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That God allowed you to be rejected to indicate that he was going to do something massive in your life. The rejection was very important to the process. So you can't allow yourself to stay wounded over being rejected, no matter how bad you hurt. Because rejection helps to fulfill the prophecy that God is going to build something out of those who have been rejected. Why is it like that? Because when you're rejected, you got a different attitude. When you're rejected, it means you have not been selected by man. To be not selected by men means you are chosen of God. Are you hearing what I'm saying, now, you can't. If you're going to be chosen of God, you. You can't spend the rest of your life chasing man, trying to get man to change his mind about rejecting you. You've got to accept their rejection as God's selection. Where are my chosen ones? Yeah. Where are my chosen ones? Now, I can walk with my head up because I know that the stone that the builders rejected has been made the chief cornerstone. The cornerstone that holds up everything that's going to be built in two directions. It's on the cornerstone. It's going to build this way. It's going to build that way. It sets the parameters of the building. It is the chief cornerstone. He's the chief cornerstone because he reaches all the way back through the Hebrews, through Israel, through the Old Testament. On one hand, the. And he reaches all the way forward into the New Testament to the Greeks and the Gentiles. On the other hand, he is the cornerstone. He is accessible to both sides. He is. He is the chief cornerstone. The stone that the builders rejected couldn't be placed in one side and not the other. So they put him on the corner so there was equal access to Him. No matter which side you were on, whether you were building on the east side or the west side, you still had access to Jesus because He's the cornerstone. You can't have all of Jesus and take him from me. No, because he's the chief cornerstone. You don't have no hell to send me to because he's the chief cornerstone. Oh, y' all don't hear what I'm saying. I have never read in the scriptures where God gave anybody the keys to hell. So you. You can say I'm going to hell all you want, but you can't send me to hell because you don't have no keys. And, and number two, you ain't sure where you going. Yeah, yeah. You ain't sure where you going. And you know how people are so quick to send you someplace and they not sure where they going? Yeah, yeah. You might be there opening up the door when I get in. See? See, you have to understand it. Jesus is the chief cornerstone. You got to understand the access that I can come boldly to him, to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need. Because he has made himself available to me. He is the chief cornerstone. Oh, my God, I'm about to get happy already. And I just got started. He's the chief cornerstone. I'm never that far from Him. I'M never that far from him. He's not afar off in him. I live in him. I move in him. I have my being. He's available to me. He is the chief cornerstone. I don't have to holler for him way over there somewhere because he is nigh unto me. Me, even in my mouth. He's so close to me that when he speaks to me, he speaks in a whisper. He speaks in a whisper because he's that close to me. He's that close to me. You could be sitting right beside me and not hear what he said to me. Because he's that close to me. He is the chief cornerstone. Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? And I wanted you to get this part, brother. Didn't have time Sunday to get into it. I wanted you to understand you ain't never by yourself. You're never alone. You don't live by yourself. You didn't drive over here by yourself. You didn't make it through the storm by yourself. You didn't survive the test by yourself. He's the chief cornerstone. He's always been your chief cornerstone. If your mama forsake you, if your daddy forsake you, if your sister forsake you, if your brother forsake you, he's been your chief cornerstone. He's been. It's through the cornerstone that you set the plumb line. That's how you make everything straight. Because you do it through the cornerstone. And when you set the plumb line. You can't set a plumb line without a cornerstone. The cornerstone lets you know. And once you set that line, everything else you build is going to be built in accordance with that line. Come on. I need me some masons in here now. I need some masonry people in here now who understand that this, this. This plumb line he said is so I won't go too far. This plumb line shows me when I'm about to go too far over the edge. This plumb line causes me to be able to adjust my.

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Myself.

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This plumb line. So you're not my plumb line. You're not my plumb line. So I don't have to spend a whole lot of time talking about. Hey, you looking at me funny. I don't care how you looking at me. Cause you're not my plumb line. Jesus is. Tell your neighbor Jesus is my God. I, I better stop Cuz I feel something stirring down in my soul. Jesus is my plumb line. He. He's my plumb line. He. He's What I measure up to. He's what I come into alignment with. He's. He's how I determine where I am. He's my plumb line. He makes the pathway straight. The Bible said that he would make the crooked path straight. He'll make me straight. He'll make me straight. He'll fix me up, he'll get me together, he'll clean me up, he'll get me me off drugs, he'll get me off cocaine, he'll get me off of whatever I'm strung out on. He'll get me out of it because he'll make the pathway straight. If I set my plumb line on Jesus. The problem with today, we set our plumb line on our feelings. Come on. Come on. Stay with me. Don't move now. Don't move now. Stay right where you are. Everything is to be decided by how you feel. Feel. I don't like my mother. I don't agree with how my father raised me. I don't like my school, I don't like my church. Everything's about how you feel. They hurt my feelings. They hurt my feelings. So your feelings have become your God. You, you can't have your feelings as your God and have faith. Because faith and feelings will often be a contradiction, one against the other. Seldom is your are your feelings going to line up with your faith. In spite of your feelings, you're going to walk by faith and not by sight. Glory to God. If you get this, it's going to help you a whole lot with how you deal with people because you have over emphasized the importance of other people's opinion. And if you're not careful, you'll set your plumb line plus their applause. Oh, you didn't hear what I said there. That was bad right there. That was you. That was worth writing down right there. So just cause you clapping don't mean God is pleased. And just because you rolling your eyes don't mean that I'm in trouble. Because you are not my plumb line. I'm not gonna do it. Cause you said do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. You hear me? I'm not gonna do it. Cuz you said do it. Because you're not my plumb line. You're not my judge, you're not my king, you're not my ruler, you're not my bull walk, you're not my trumpet, you're not my defense, you're not my help in ages past. You're not my rock of Ages. You're not my joy, you're not my peace, you're not my power. You're not my God. You're not my kinsman, redeemer, you're not my day star. You're not my bull walk. You're not my trumpet, you're not my shield. You're not my buckler. Oh, y' all don't hear me. You're not my dove. You don't hear what I'm saying. You're not my eagle. You're not my wind blowing in the trees. You're not. You're not my lily of the valley. You're not my brighter morning star. You over inflated your place in my life. And if you think, think you can walk away and kill me. That means you don't understand who you are. I love you, but you're not my cornerstone. If I line up with my cornerstone and he decides to bless me, you can't curse me. You gotta sit up and watch me eat. Because he'll prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. And he don't ask you to vote on whether I can eat. Eat or not. You can be mad and I can still eat. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. I got one person to please, and that's God. I got one person to please and that's God. And that's enough. That's enough. That's hard. I don't need nobody else putting their mouth in me and God's business. Because if he wasn't long suffering, he would have cut me off. And I don't trust anybody else to be my chief cornerstone. Because you're too flaky and you change too much and you're double minded and you're unstable in all your way. But he said, I am the Lord thy God. I change not from everlasting to everlasting. I'm still God. I'll be right where you saw me. Monday, I'll be there Tuesday, I'll be there Wednesday, I'll be there Thursday and Friday. And when you get to Saturday, I'll be waiting on you. And when you get to Sunday, I'll be waiting on you saying come this way. Because I am the same. Yesterday, today and forevermore. Do you hear what I'm saying? I feel a praise about to break out in this. I feel a praise about to break out. I feel a praise about to break out in this place. I feel a praise about to break out in this place. See, the disciples did real good. As long as Jesus was popular, they did real good as long as Jesus was popular. But when it got where Jesus was controversial, a whole lot of people left him. But them rejecting him is what qualified him to be the chief cornerstone. In fact, the Bible said if the princes of this world would have known what they were doing, they would have never crucified the Lord. Because when they crucified him, they identified him as being the chief cornerstone. Are you with me? Are you with me right now? Are you with me right now? When was the last time you spoke to your stone? Speak to the stone. Water can come out of the stone. Speak to the stone, it can turn to bread. Speak to the stone, it can meet your need. Speak to the stone, it can kill your Goliath. Speak to the stone. It can build what you don't have. Speak to the stone, it can direct you again. Give you what life didn't give you. What your mama didn't give you. What your daddy didn't give you. What your sister didn't give you. What your brother didn't give you. He said, I'm all of that. Who shall I say sent me? I am that I am whatever you need me to be. Whatever you didn't get, whatever you lacked, whatever you are unsure about, whatever you're insecure about. I am that. If you're hungry, I'm bread. If you're thirsty, I'm water. You don't hear what I'm saying. If you need direction, I'll guide you. I'll be a cloud by day. I'll be a pillar by night. I got you covered. Whatever you need. Don't worry about the desert. I knew you were in the desert. But I got you covered in the desert. I will fan you in the desert. I'll be a shade over your head. I'll be fired by night, I'll give you H Vac. See, because I'm God. I can cool you when it's hot. I can heat you when it's cold.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

I'm God.

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I can do anything you need and all you gotta. As long as you see me, you know your needs are gonna be met. I will do whatever it takes to make you able to receive what I have for you. But all I ask you to do is don't get arrogant. Don't get arrogant and act like if you you have a right to it. Don't get arrogant and act like you're entitled to it. Don't get arrogant and get beside yourself and start believing the applause of men and thinking you are more than you Are because you know I know you. I know you ain't nothing. I know you came from nothing. I know what you will do. I know what you can capable of. I know what you used to do. I know what you still doing. And still I chose to bless you anyway. So if don't nobody else praise me in the whole church, when I look at you, I expect to see some praise. I want to see some praise out of you. Because I, I, I, I know you. I know you. I'm not asking about you. I don't need a prophet to come tell me about you. You. I know you. And I saved you anyway. And half the things I sent you, you killed. And I kept you anyway. You stoned it and I kept you anyway. You threw rocks at it and I kept you anyway. And if don't nobody in your role praise God. You owe me a praise. You owe me a praise. You owe me a praise.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

To God. God be the glory To God be the glory. To God be the glory for the things he has.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Somebody who's a witness, give him a praise right there. Somebody. Somebody, Somebody. Somebody. Somebody give him a praise right there. The problem is that when you look at God's attitude and you look at their attitude, there's such a stark contrast between his kindness, his grace, his growth, his goodness and their greed which is a derivative of their entitlement. You know why you greedy?

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Because you entitled.

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Ain't nothing never enough.

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Cause you entitled.

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You're entitled. It's your way of the highway. Cuz you're entitled.

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You spoiled bread, you're entitled.

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You think I was supposed to do it? That's why you won't praise me. You think I was supposed to heal you? You think I was supposed to bring you out? I'm looking for somebody who's grateful. I'm looking for somebody who's grateful. I'm looking for somebody who knows they're not worthy. I'm looking for somebody who's ready to throw their hands up and give me the praise God. Because you know it was me that brought you all the time. You know you didn't do right. You know you left a bloody trail behind you. You kill some folks, you stone some folks, you bruise some folks.

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If.

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If I dealt with you like you dealt with them, you wouldn't be here today. I'm looking for somebody to give me the glory. And now. But, but it's not your personality and you don't feel like praising God. And your feet hurt and you too tired and you're not in the Mood and somebody parked in your parking space and somebody sitting in your seat. What seat? You ain't got no seat. You don't own no seat. You don't own no seat. Come out of this craziness you got in your mind like you own something. One day your seat will be empty and you will be missed and somebody will be sitting in your seat. Somebody's gonna drive your car. Somebody's gonna wear your coat. Somebody's gonna wear your shoes. They gonna be selling your shoes down at Goodwill. You better come out of it. You act like you in a coma. Wake yourself up. Wake yourself up. Zion.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Zion.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Wake yourself up. Come out of your sleep and recognize ain't nothing that you got you're not gonna leave behind. You can't take a blanket with you. You can't take a pillow with you. You can't take a steak dinner with you. Everything you got is on loan. I just don't like for nobody wear my clothes. Well, somebody gonna wear them. Somebody gonna wear them. Somebody gonna buy that suit that you paid $250 for. They gonna buy it for $15. They gonna buy it for $15. And they gonna take it where you would never take it before for. And they going to do what they want to do because you don't have nothing. You don't have nothing. I don't owe you nothing. I chose to bless you. I decided to bless you as an act of my sovereign will. Hallelujah. I don't owe you no blessing. I chose to bless. I chose to wake you up this morning. I chose to give you the activity of your L. I. I chose to make you smart. I chose to give you a good memory. Stop looking down your nose at other people. I chose to bless you. I chose you for that house. I chose you for that job. I chose you for that house. So no matter how high you get, keep on praising me as low as you can go prostrate yourself on the floor and never act entitled. Because I don't even want you to look entitled. I don't even want you to turn your face up like you're entitled. I don't want to see it on your face. Cuz you and me got a covenant. And I know you. Oh my God. Something going to happen in here tonight. I can feel this. I said something is going to happen in here tonight. Something is going to happen in here tonight. Something's going to happen in here tonight. And when he came, When. When the owner came.

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When the owner came, he killed the.

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Men that he had chosen to Be a steward. Because they had not been a good.

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Steward over what he'd given them. Now I'm gonna go deep. You with me?

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Have we been a good steward of the planet?

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So whatever happens to the planet, we.

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Cannot say to God.

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You're unjust.

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Because of how we handled.

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What he gave us. How did you handle your children?

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I mean, when it got on your.

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Nerves and you didn't feel like being bothered.

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What did you say to your spouse? You. You. No, no, no. All you remember is what they said to you. So you got a one sided narrative of what all they did wrong. And I learned a long time ago, when you get somebody in the room.

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Talking about their spouse or their old church or their old boss, you only getting half of the story.

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If you get that other half and you match them two sides together, you will get a complete picture of what you used to hear. What he called me?

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What did you say?

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So what we have to do is.

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Do inventory over what we have been given.

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What I'm telling you is real important because God is going to judge you according to what he gave you. Every person he made like you, every.

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Opportunity he gave you, every position he.

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Put you in, you're gonna have to.

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Give an account for it.

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He's only going to judge you over what he put under your control.

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So.

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So when you take inventory, the reason it's important that you take inventory is because whatever he gave you wasn't yours. The chance he gave you, the people he let you meet, the favor he gave you, the attitude they have towards you, is all because of your association with him. And you fooled around. You thought they liked you. No, no, no, no, no. They didn't like you. They didn't like you. He turned the heart of the king in his hand and made them like you and carved out a space for you. Now you don't want to go to work. He carved out a space for you.

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So.

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But. And you feel like you, you're so entitled that now you want the whole thing to be rearranged to fit your needs.

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Your lacks, your attitude, your aptitude, never.

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Realizing none of this is yours. None of it's yours.

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None of it's yours.

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Anybody in here work in a funeral home?

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Hold your hand up if you work in a funeral home. Anybody? We're over here. Yeah.

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Then you know what I'm talking about. You know, when it's all said and done, I don't care how pretty you are, I don't care how fine you are, I don't care how many Degrees you got. I don't care what college you went.

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To, when it's all said and done, they put you on that slab, you.

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Gonna be naked on that slab. You ain't gonna be able to hide nothing. On that slab, it ain't gonna matter how fine you are. You just did. People walk past you and say, you look like yourself. Oh, she look like she sleep. You ain't sleep, you dead. All them hours you worked out in the gym, all them biceps and triceps and all that. The reason the Bible says bodily exercise profit if little doesn't mean that you're not supposed to take care of your body. But it says when you get through doing all of that and taking all them vitamins and BK12 and K17 and. And I don't eat this and I don't eat that, and I'm a vegan and I'm a. When you get through doing all of that stuff and running five miles in the morning and five miles in the evening, when you get to doing all of that stuff, and I almond milk and I don't drink soy milk and I'm allergic to cow milk. When you get through doing all of that stuff, you still. You still going to be dead. I'm not saying don't do it. Do all of it. Do all anything, Maybe if it keep you a week longer, do it. If you want to be here a week longer. But when the week is up, When the week is up, I don't care who you met that told you you was fine, you still gonna be dead. I don't care who fell in love with you. They gonna cry at the funeral. But by. By next week, they're gonna find something funny and be laughing about it. And in a couple of months, they're gonna feel a little bit better. And if you wait nine months, they're gonna be dating again. And if you fool around a year, they're gonna be sleeping in the bed that you were sleeping in the bed with her.

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With.

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It's all. Y' all don't want to hear the truth? I've lived long enough. I've lived long enough that I've seen the truth. You are expendable. You are expendable. You are expendable. You are ex. You listen. Let me tell you. I don't want to hurt your little feelings, but you are expendable. I know they told you ain't nobody in the world like you and can't nobody love you. You love me like you love me and you blew my mind and my eyes Roll up in my head. My toes curl up to my kneecaps. They going to uncurl them toes and find somebody else and keep right on going. Because you're expendable. And the reason you're. That's why you can't be entitled. Oh, you didn't hear me. I think you're the only one heard me. That's why you can't fool around here and be entitled. Because you're expendable. If you think for one minute that out of 8 million people on the planet. That you're the only one in the whole wide world that can do whatever it is that you're doing, you are out of your mind. There's somebody drunk up under the bridge that'll sing you up under the table. There's somebody in the prison that can outdraw you and do drafts. There's somebody in the street. There's somebody with a needle in their arm that God will raise up and use them and blow your mind. You are expendable. That's why you got to be humble. That's why you got to be grateful. He chose you. He picked you out. He gave you a chance. He opened up a door. He gave you an opportunity. He exposed you to blessings that you didn't even work for. Hallelujah to God. You can't be entitled. You're too expendable to be entitled. You have to humble yourself up under the mighty hand of the Lord. You don't know who's gonna have to hand you your last drink of water. You don't know who's gonna have to change you in the bed. You don't know who's gonna have to roll you over. You don't know who's gonna have to put your lipstick on, who's gonna have to fix your face or who's gonna have to close your eyes. You are expendable. So you can never be entitled. You got to be grateful. You got to be grateful because you. You. You. Out of. Out of 8 million, 8 billion people in the world, there's somebody can. Can do what you're doing. There's somebody who can do what you're doing. There's somebody in the bush who can do what you're doing. There's somebody in the woods that can do what you. There's somebody in college right now and do what you're doing. They can do what you're doing. And there's somebody. I hate to tell you this, that can do it better than you do it. So if you jealous, you're wasting your time because there's always somebody gonna be cuter than you. There's always gonna be somebody smarter than you. That's why you got to be grateful when God brings people into your life because they people have options. God has options. Jobs have options. Life presents options. And there's always somebody. I used to work at a plant. The man would make me so mad. He was, there's a barefoot boy standing right outside the door that would love to have your job. It didn't sound good, but it was true.

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I went on to work.

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I humbled myself down and stopped complaining about short lunch break and went on to work and ate my little ham sandwich and went on back up on the dock and did what I had to do because I knew I was expendable. And if you ever get in your head that you are expendable, you'll stop being entitled. If you're looking for a cure for entitlement, you got to spend some time.

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Facing the fact that you're expendable. And even if you don't expire, you're going to slow down and retire.

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And you're not going to be able to do what you used to do. So if all they wanted you for with what you used to do, they going to be gone. That's why you can't set your plum line on their opinion. Because as soon as you stop performing, they will go on about their business. Very few people will stay beyond you giving them what they need.

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This text shows you okay.

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The owner came back and said, I came to get what I need. Over and over again.

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You beat him up, you hit him in the head.

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I sent my son. You killed my son. You didn't take care of what I gave you. To him whom much is given, much is required. Now I'm gonna take you out. You're not gonna get none of it. You're not gonna get your half or my half. You're not gonna get your third or my tooth verse. You're not gonna get Any of you was conspiring to get it all. And because you were greedy and you wanted all of it and you weren't satisfied to let anybody else be blessed. But you, you talked yourself out of the whole thing. Now you don't get nothing. And there's nothing as sad as running into some old person who has lived the whole life and ends up with nothing. Because no matter what God gave them, they always blew it. Because sometimes it takes getting old to get some sense. And you get older, you get some sense. And as you get older, you begin to realize I'm not so such and much. I'm not so great. I'm not so wise. I'm not so smart. I don't speak so good. I don't sing so good. I'm not the only one God had. I'm not the only tree in the forest. I'm not the only one. And it'll give you a whole different attitude. Problem is, most of the time, by the time we wake up, it's too late. It's too late. That's why the Bible said, the day you hear my voice, harden not your heart. Because the first time I sent somebody, you should have gathered up what was mine and give it to me. How many of you are sitting on gifts right now, Sitting on talents right now, sitting on. Sitting on blessings right now. Sitting on increase right now. Sitting on opportunity right now, Sitting on skill. I don't. I know the choir sings on Tuesday, and I just don't feel like doing nothing on Tuesday.

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Tuesday.

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Cuz I'm tired on teeth. Yeah. Yeah. And she said, I'm going to choir rehearsal. Yeah. She said I passed that test. Go with that. I married. If God gave you some. See, I'm being funny, but I'm also being serious. God gave you something. If you can understand calculus and trigonometry.

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And it comes easy for you, that.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Don'T mean you better than me. That means God gave you something that's in alignment with his divine purpose for your life. He equipped you with everything you needed to take care of everything he gave you. Y' all didn't hear me? I'm gonna keep coming till you get it. He. He dug out the vat. He. He built the tower. He placed the hedges in place. He gave you everything you need to be successful at what he called you to do. And everything you didn't need, he didn't give you. So there's no need in you coveting what your neighbor got because you don't need what your neighbor got to do. What he called you to do. For everything God called you to do, he equipped you for it. I want you to say this with me. I got everything I need. I've got everything I need to do what God called me to do. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I got everything I need. I got everything I need. I got everything I need to do what God called me to do. And I'm not just talking about church stuff. I'm talking about everything God called me to do in the world. Everything God called me to be in Life. I got everything I need. I got just the right brokenness. Come on, stay with me. I got just the right brokenness. I was broken in all the right places. I. He had a plan when he broke me. He broke me in all the right places so I would have the right thirst and the right need and the right drive and the right humility and the right perseverance. He allowed me to be broken. Where was God when I went through this? He was watching it. He was measuring it. He was making sure that it went deep enough to put you in a position that when he put you in there, you would fit. God monitors not just the day, but the night. He's God of the midnight. He's God of the darkness. He's God of the storm. He's God of the trouble. He's God of the rejection. He's God of the pain. He's got everything that you went through to get where you're trying to go. Who am I talking to? He monitored it. The enemy might have been used to do it, but God controlled it and said, here and no further. You can touch this, but not that. You can touch the other, but you can't touch this. And all of it was a setup so that you would have the right personality to dig in and become what you need to be to do what God created you to do. Glory to God. And he expects you to do it like you got some sense, without the spirit of entitlement, because other people are going to come along and try to take what you got when. With the spirit of entitlement, but they're going to all perish. They're going to all pray. Because what God has for you is for you, as long as you don't get entitled. Is this helping anybody? Put my first scripture up at the top. Yeah.

[Bible Class Host]

Not Mark 12.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

One. The other.

[Bible Class Host]

The other one. The first one at the top of the page. Then he began to speak to them in parables. No, no, no, above that. That we haven't used yet. At the very top of the notes. Let me go up here. Let me go up here. Let me go up here. So I do this myself.

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[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, yeah, I still got a little.

[Bible Class Host]

Fire in the furnace.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Matthew 21:42, 45.

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Yeah, give me that. Yeah, there you go.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Now, this is the same story told from another gospel writer.

[Bible Class Host]

And he goes into more detail. And that's why I wanted to use it.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Jesus said to them, have you never read in the Scriptures? The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

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This was the Lord's doing.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Is he talking about the stone or the rejection? We always. We always quoted for something good happened. This is the Lord stone's child, and it's marvelous in our. We don't say that when he's whipping our behind. I've never heard nobody quote that scripture while they were going through hell.

[Bible Class Host]

But this is the Lord's doings, the.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Rejection that brought the selection. The furnace is seven times harder than it ought to be. This is the Lord's doings. The lions are hungry and they threw you in the lion's den. You know why? This is the Lord's doings. None of the physicians have been able to heal your body, and you're still bleeding. You know why? This is the Lord's doing. I set you up so that when you got your healing, you would know it was an absolute miracle and you would know that I was on your side. I did it so you would be sure that it was me and not them. I let them try and fail so that you would praise me and you wouldn't be confused and be running around there, jumping around, no hospital praising, no doctor. God said, I'm gonna do it myself. Doctor, Jesus is gonna come in the room and do it myself. So you have no doubt this is the Lord's door. Oh, this is the Lord's door. Hallelujah. Somebody shout, this is the Lord's door.

[Bible Class Host]

My God.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

And it is marvelous in our. It is marvelous that he can put.

[Bible Class Host]

That much heat on me and not destroy me.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

It is marvelous that he can expose me to that much pain and I still survive. It is marvelous that I can be exposed to that much dysfunction so that I might be able to function where he put me. It is marvelous that I can withstand so much stuff that I thought I couldn't bear. And I thought I would die. And I thought I would lose my mind. And I would. Thought I would go crazy. It's marvelous that he would push me that close to the edge and yet keep my feet from falling. It's marvelous. Oh, my God, who am I preaching to? It's marvelous. If half the people in the room knew what you've been through, they wouldn't even understand how you could be sitting here. Why you hadn't lost your mind. Why you not so sitting on the floor eating a ball of cotton. And yet when your mind was about to fall apart, God kept your mind from falling apart. And it's marvelous. It's marvelous. Oh, touch somebody and say it's marvelous. It's marvelous. I'm talking about the pain I bore. I'm talking about the nights I suffered. I'm talking about the times I cried myself to sleep. I'm talking about the time I didn't have nothing to eat. It's marvelous. I'm talking about our lights being off. I'm talking about our water being off. I'm talking about me thumbing to teach Bible class. It's marvelous. I'm talking about teaching bible class to 10 people for 10 years. It's marvelous. You know, I'm talking about the times I've ran out of gas. I'm talking about the times we had to float down the hill and put it in neutral to try to stretch the gas. It's marvelous in our eyes. It's marvelous. Marvelous that you could go through all of that licking and still keep on ticking. It's marvelous. It got me ready for this. It got me ready for you. It got me ready for the storm. It got me ready that I don't break as easy as you thought. You thought you'd break me, didn't you? You thought you'd utterly destroy me. But he fired me up and put me in the furnace. And it's my thank you for burning me till I got stronger. Thank you for dealing with me till my soul said, yeah, thank you for building me up where I'm weak. Thank you for giving me the power. I brought my own Holy Ghost in case you left yours in the car. I got enough with me that I can drag this service by myself.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Thank you.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Because I'm used to preaching to an empty room. I'm used to preaching. The folk have sleep. It's marvelous the way he brought me. It's marvelous the way he took me. It's marvelous.

[Bible Class Host]

You.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

You want to see marvelous?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Look at me.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Oh, my God.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

It's marvelous. Look. Look. Turn to your neighbor and say, you.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Want to see marvelous?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Look. It's marvelous. It's marvelous. Don't know who my daddy is, but it's marvelous. Got raised by my grandmother, but it's marvelous. Had no shelter over my head, but it's marvelous. Slept up under a bridge, but it's marvelous. So now you can't talk about me and run me off. Because if I made it up under the bridge, I can make it around you. You can't roll your eyes and send me home. It's marvelous. You see why you can't be entitled and be leaving this and quitting that and running over here and running there. Sometimes God wants you to sit down, be still and know that I am God. And besides me, there is no other. Hallelujah. Having done all to stand, stand therefore with your loins. Gird about with truth. Because if you can stand it, I'll do something marvelous in your eyes. He whose feet are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. It's marvelous. I'm teaching you how to stand something. I'm teaching you how to take something. I'm teaching you how to endure something. I'm teaching you when to shut your mouth. I'm teaching you when to hold your peace. I'm teaching you how to be still. I'm teaching you how to let me fight your battles. I'm teaching you how to know that I will provide for you when I get ready and until I get ready. You can cry, you can scream, you can moan, but you're not getting out till I say you getting out. The chains aren't gonna fall till I say they're gonna fall. The door is not gonna open, Peter, till I say it's gonna open. The way's not gonna be made until I say it's gonna be made. You can knock at the door on night, but the door is not going to open until I get ready for it to open. And when I get ready for it to open, I'LL touch Rhoda and let Rona hear you. And Rhoda will open the door and let you in. Good God Almighty. I feel some. I better stop cause I feel something in this place. Don't you know when God gets ready to let you in, he's always got a rotor somewhere that can hear the knocking at the door. Door. And he'll open up a door for you and he'll make a way for you. And it's marvelous. And I. I feel like shouting. Somebody take a minute and give me 15 seconds of Pentecostal praise. Oh Holy Ghost, pray. Give me sanctified praise. Give me devil chasing praise. Give me rock throwing praise. Give me thirst quenching praise. Praise. You got one more minute. Give me a praise that'll bring down a giant. Give me a praise that'll shut up a lion. Give me a praise that'll open up a door. Give me a praise that'll make a.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Way out of no way. Give me a praise that'll let every.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Demon around you know that you've been with the Lord. Give me a praise God that'll make.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Your fever go down.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

That'll bring your high blood pressure down. That'll bring your low blood pressure up. That will regulate your blood sugar.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

That will give you a new mind. Give me a praise that'll get all.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

In your spirit and stop you from acting a fool and going crazy and tearing up stuff you gotta replace.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Give me a praise that'll get down in your belly and stir you up. I can't hear you. I wish somebody would open their mouth and praise him without entitlement and praise him with enthusiasm. Open your mouth and give God the glory. I dare you to praise the Lord.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Praise the Lord till heaven hell gets nervous. Praise him until demons tremble. Praise him to fever leaves your body. Praise him till your knees stop hurting. Praise until your back stops hurting. Praise until your migraine leaves.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Praise him until hell knows that God is all over you and he's keeping you alive. I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel. Feel, I feel, I feel, I feel. Ah. I feel power in this place.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Something's gonna happen in this place.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

We gonna walk this word out. We gonna walk it out till our minds are new. We gonna walk it out till our spirits are revived. We gonna walk it out till we get a new attitude. We gonna walk, walk it out till we learn how to talk to people. We going to walk it out until we calm ourselves. We going to walk it out until.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

The mind of Christ gets in us.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

I can't hear you. I dare you to pray them. I double dare you. I double dare you. I double dog dare you to open your your mouth and give God some Holy Ghost praise. I mean somebody that's been in a fight, I need somebody that's been in a fire. I need somebody that's been in a struggle. I mean somebody who was marred in.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

The hand of the potter.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

I mean somebody who's been broken. I ain't talking about them cute dances, I'm talking about them five dances. Give me a dance, better make it rain in this building. Give me a dance, better make the wind blow in the rafters. Give me a dancer, better stir my soul. Put running in my feet, Put clapping in my hand. Put joy in my soul. Give me a praise somebody. I'll take a deacon's praise.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I'll take a minister's praise.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

I'll take a pastor's prayer. Somebody blood washed. Give God a praise right now. If you're watching online, pray them by the couch, dance by the coffee table, leap on top of the bed and let hell know you can't have my house, you can't have my front porch. Get out of my driveway. God is doing something doing me and I owe him the praise. Cause I am not entitled. Can I hear you? Give God the glory. Can I hear you? Give God the praise. Somebody open your mouth and shout unto God.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Let me go just a little bit further. Give me verse 43. I'm almost done. Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God, God will be taken from.

[Bible Class Host]

You and given to a. To a nation bearing the fruits of it.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I'm going take what I had in.

[Bible Class Host]

Mind for you and I'm going give.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

It to somebody else who will bear fruit. You murmuring and complaining.

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Let me find somebody who would be.

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Glad to have this opportunity.

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I'll fly them in, I'll put them on the bus.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

You don't hear what I'm saying, I'll put them on the train. I'll bring them in here from the homeless shelter. Hallelujah. Do you hear what I'm saying to you? Touch your neighbor, say I'm about to get grateful in here. Watch this. This is important. Cuz this, this is good. This good? This good? This. Anybody getting any out of this? Watch this. And whoever falls on this stone will be broken. But on whomever it falls, it will.

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Grind him to powder.

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If you fall on the stone, you'll be broken.

[Bible Class Host]

But if the stone falls on you, you, you'll be shattered.

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That means that if you judge yourself.

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You'Ll have no need to be judged.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

If you fall on the stone, you'll be broken in all the right places.

[Bible Class Host]

For things to open up for you, for things to move for you. Go ahead and be stubborn, go ahead.

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And be hard to get.

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Go ahead and be entitled.

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If you don't fall on this stage.

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Stone and get broken in such a.

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Way that I can use you to.

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Open up a door, I can make you a key that opens up a mystery.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

If you fall on the stone, I'll let you be broken in all the right places. But if you wait and let the stone fall on you, you're going to.

[Bible Class Host]

Be crushed and you won't be any good for anything. But I'll still get it done because.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I got another nation. Everything he said in the parable happened.

[Bible Class Host]

The temple was crushed.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

And not one stone was left standing upon another. And all that they had was taken.

[Bible Class Host]

Away and God gave it to somebody else. To this day, the Muslims are controlling the temple in Jerusalem.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, I'm filled with shock and awe.

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That we could go to Jerusalem and the Muslims are controlling the temple.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

God, to get somebody that you think not and put them in the position and keep on moving. Am I doing good with this? I'm almost where I want to be now. When the chief priests and Pharisees heard his parable, they perceived. They perceived that he was speaking of them. Look at how long it took them to figure out he talking about me.

[Bible Class Host]

Look at the intentionality of Jesus talking.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

About them to their face. Look at the intention, entitlement that blinded.

[Bible Class Host]

Them from knowing that God was talking about them.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Now, you can either get mad because he's talking about you, or you can get glad that he's talking about you. Because if he's talking about me, he hadn't given up on me. Come on. If he's talking about me, he's still trying to convince me. I don't get worried till he shut up.

[Bible Class Host]

Are you hearing what I'm saying now?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Now they all of a sudden realize that he's talking about them.

[Bible Class Host]

Come on, let me read this.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

We said another verse.

[Bible Class Host]

Was that the last verse? They sought to kill him, but for fear of the Jews, they backed away. How many people, things, diseases, car wrecks, infirmities, bacteria has tried to kill you? But God, I'm gonna answer these few questions and I'll be done. They gave me some questions that you all wrote in. There is a thin line between pride and confidence. How do you determine if you are acting on pride or just being confident? Confidence is Based on how you see what God has done in you.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Pride is always based on how you.

[Bible Class Host]

Are perceived by the viewer. So the plumb line for pride is always based on the observer. Me and you gonna have this Bible class by ourselves.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

They ain't ready.

[Bible Class Host]

They ain't ready.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Me and you don't understand what's going on in here.

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Pride is where you are overly concerned about your image.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Pride is all about you and how they perceive you. Confidence is all about what God has done inside of you. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Being confident of this one thing.

[Bible Class Host]

Thing.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

That God who have began a good.

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Work in you shall perform it unto.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

The day of Jesus Christ. That's what I'm confident about.

[Bible Class Host]

Just one thing.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I'm confident of this one thing.

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That God who have done a great work in you, shall perform it to the day of redemption.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

He didn't say pride.

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I'm confident. Pride always centers around how other people see you.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

And Satan being filled with Lucifer, being filled with pride.

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Move quickly in front of all the sons of God gathered around the throne. Because pride always centers around your image. Your image. When God said with the ten commandments that you should have no graven image before me, he's not just talking about idols.

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You can make yourself.

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An image.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Before.

[Bible Class Host]

God and you won't do what he says do because you worship at the throne of your own opinion. I'm gonna let that sink in. Let it marinate. All you care about is how you look.

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[Bible Class Host]

To people who don't even matter, That's pride. Proud look, image. When you were created in his image and you're trying to create him into.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Your image, You got an image thinking how things ought to be. And you're trying to get God to.

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Cooperate with what you got planned.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

And God is trying to get you.

[Bible Class Host]

To cooperate with what he got planned. Can I finish this up? So she said pride and confidence. How do you determine if you are acting on pride or just being confident?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

And by the way, you know, by.

[Bible Class Host]

The way, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't do that. Don't play me like, like you really don't know. You know, what is pride?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

You. You may not know it all day, but when you lay down at night.

[Bible Class Host]

Night, and you calm down and the.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Holy Spirit gets your ear, if you really got the Holy Ghost, he will show you you.

[Bible Class Host]

If he don't show you me, I'm.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Tired of these prophets that can see.

[Bible Class Host]

Me and can't see themselves.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, y' all don't hear what I'm saying? So how do you differentiate between being.

[Bible Class Host]

Prideful and being confident? I've answered that.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Also.

[Bible Class Host]

Do you balance being humble and confident without being entitled? That's impossible. You don't have to balance it.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Because if you are humble, let me.

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Take it this way. The more confident you become, the more experienced you are. The more experienced you are, the more humble you become. You understand? When you see somebody entitled, they're a novice. I don't know whether I ought to tell you this or not.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

But the quickest way to tell a novice in.

[Bible Class Host]

The pulpit is that they jump up shouting.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

They start up way up here.

[Bible Class Host]

That's a novice.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

And the reason they do it is because they're afraid that they won't be.

[Bible Class Host]

Able to get you. And for image sake, they rev up.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

At the beginning, not realizing that if you start at the top, you got.

[Bible Class Host]

No place to go.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

When you are experienced, you can get up.

[Bible Class Host]

I'm so glad to be here tonight to have this opportunity to share the Word of God with you.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, look at you. You look beautiful tonight.

[Bible Class Host]

Give yourselves round of applause.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

When they do that, they gonna kill you. They gonna kill you. You gonna die. Pay up your life insurance, send a cash app to the doctor, because they're gonna kill you dead. You know why they are confident? They are confident enough to be casual.

[Bible Class Host]

Y' all can't handle that.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Them singers that come up to the.

[Bible Class Host]

Mic, he'll make the darkness light before you and what's wrong, you make it right before you. And you sit up and think, oh, that's cute. That's nice. And by the time they get to their chorus and they get to the high places, he wins.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, turn down.

[Congregation Member / Praise Leader]

Oh, it's an infinite love.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

They don't start up here. They build up there. That's confidence.

[Bible Class Host]

There's confidence, arrogance.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Pride.

[Bible Class Host]

Makes you want to get up and show off from the beginning, because the pride comes from unbelief that you really aren't what you say you are, and.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

That you can't do what you say you can do. But when you know who you are and you know what he gave you, you can stand in the confidence of who you.

[Bible Class Host]

I don't care who preach. I don't care how good they preach. I don't care if they rip the church apart. None of that takes away from what God gave me, because I don't have.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

To give an account for what God gave you. All I have to do is be.

[Bible Class Host]

A good steward over what he gave me. How many people are getting something out of this?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

How do I apply this message?

[Bible Class Host]

The danger of entitlement to my life? That's kind of hard to answer, because if I've been preaching this long, you ain't figured that out. I don't know what to say to you. Also, Bishop, you said you can't retire from what you are. You can retire from what you do. Struggling with that statement. I can retire from what I do. I cannot retire from being a man. I can retire from working because that's something I do. I cannot retire from what I am. I can't retire from being black.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

I'm gonna be black.

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My hair gonna turn white, my gum's.

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Gonna turn pink, and my skin is still gonna be black. You know why? That's what I am. You cannot change what you are.

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You can change what you do. I don't know how to make it any plainer than that to you. How many people got that?

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

As I wrap this up tonight, the.

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Substratum of the text that lies before us today Is built on the premise of this primary ingredient, the refusal to let greed overtake growth. And if greed is to overtake growth, going to bring us to a place that we are denied gratitude. And in the absence of gratitude, we will try to replace it with happiness.

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And happiness means something has to happen.

[Bible Class Host]

In order for me to feel good. So I will chase you down for feeling that I cannot just. I know that hurt a little bit. I will chase you down for that. What God is trying to say. I gave you this chance. I did all the hard stuff. I didn't bring you into the garden till it was already set up. God is systematic. He put. Not only did he create the garden, he created a system to water the garden. That a mist came up every morning and watered the garden. He was the first sprinkler system. God is systematic that he put man into a system. System that rejuvenated itself continually on its own auspices because he was there.

[Bible Class Speaker / Preacher]

Cut my finger.

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And the moment you cut it, the blood will rush to the wound.

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And the white corpuscles in my blood.

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Cell will galvanize themselves around the point.

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Of entry and begin to stitch back the skin cells.

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Because God put. Put me in a system that sustains.

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The body to the point that doctors really can't explain why we die.

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God is a systematic God. God will put you in a system.

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Throw your hands up, say, God put.

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Me in a system. God will put you in a system that sustains you.

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You watch it online. You don't have to do this for yourself.

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God will put you in a system that rejuvenates you. If you wait on him now. I'm not the most patient person in the world. I admit it. Me and him, we're working on it. I'm in the third grade. Yeah, I'm in the third grade. I'm working on it because I want what I want when I want want it. But that's precisely why I don't get it when I want it. Because he's teaching me to trust him in the process, to wait on him. Because he has a system for every need in your life. And all you have to do is flow with that system. In the absence of that obedience, greed came in. Not only did they take what was theirs, they took what was his. And they were left with nothing. Because he took it all from them. Y' all don't understand. They did all that work and got nothing. One of the hardest scriptures for me to understand in the Bible was where Jesus said to him, that hath will I give more and to him that hath not will I take away that which he seemeth to have? That seems so cruel? Why would you take away when I'm in need? God said, it's not your need that moves me, it's your consistency. To him that have I will give more. If I offer you money to put into a stock that's crashing, would you invest?

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No.

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Unless you're stupid. You want to invest into something that's growing up, not something that's going down.

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To him that have not will I take away that which he seemeth to have. Because I gave you enough water and.

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Enough sunshine and enough rain that by now you should have figs. Why cumbereth it the ground?

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I'll give you three more years.

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And if it doesn't bring forth fruit, I'm going to cut you down. Because instead of bringing forth fruit, you're bringing forth excuses. I don't know whether this is year one, year two, but for somebody it's year three. And God says, if you don't buckle down and get this done and continue to make the same mistakes that you always made and always end up where you always were, don't be surprised when I stop investing in a poor stock. To him that have, will I give. To him that have not will I take away that which he seemeth to have. You know why God wants a profitable servant? A profitable servant. But it's profit you're it depends on how much you started with your principal. For somebody, a dollar is profit. If you started with 50 Cent, you.

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Made a dollar, you profitable.

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But if you started with $5 and.

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You'Re down to one.

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If you started with friends and now.

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Don'T nobody like you.

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If you started with favor and you made messed up every door God opened for you.

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Don'T keep coming back to.

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God, asking him for more until you are faithful over what he's given you. Now I'm gonna tell you something and I want you to understand this real good it. When we worship the Lord in an offering, it is never because God needs the money. I don't care nothing about no money. His streets are paved with gold.

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You know what money does?

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It breaks the curse off of you by saying, God, I don't care what you give me. I will not worship the gift more than I worship the giver. And it is a statement of trust that you can do business with me and right now. When I first started tithing, I told y', all, I started tithing on welfare, food stamps, and my mother used to hate for me to Say that. Don't tell people that. That don't sound good, but it's true. But as soon as I proved to him that I would be faithful with the government. Ch. You got to start where you are with faithfulness. You're watching on screen tonight. The Holy Spirit is speaking right now. This is not really an offering. It's a test. Abraham took Isaac up on the mountaintop. It wasn't really an offering. It was a test. God said, now I know that you will not withhold any good thing from.

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Me.

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Because I have proven you. This is a proving moment. I know you will dance. I know you will shout. I know you will sing. I know you will clap. But will you sow out of the vineyard that he gave you? He gave it to you. Now he's come by just to see if you'll break him off as he is and worship him in that way you're watching online. I don't care if you're in this country or another country or you're watching from another state or you just stayed at home because you didn't feel like coming out in the trash. I don't care what your reason is. Pass this test. You got unexpected money that came in. Pass this test.

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You got no money at all. Don't feel bad.

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You cannot give what you have not been given. You can give what you've wasted, but you cannot give what you have not been given. It is when God has given to you and you shut up your bowels of compassion that you miss your opportunity to give. This is the most personal part of the service because nobody knows what you and God what is in your hand. But, Moses, if you use what is in your hand, God will part the Red Sea and he will bring you across on dry ground. It's offering time in the sanctuary. This is the time that God proves us. He prunes us with his word. He proves us with his offering. When you're ready, stand upon your feet. And I know you at home sitting in front of the couch. And you look stupid, but stand up. Stand up. Because. Because the Lord is my banner. And when I wave my offering before him, this is the flag I fly under. This is the country I'm from. I was born here, but I'm not from here. I came from glory, and I'm going back to glory. Father, you see every hand waving. You see every heart that wishes they had something to wave, and they don't. You see people in their living rooms and in their couch and standing up by the kitchen table, and they're waving before you because they're starting to realize that we are entering into a time that we cannot make it without. You take whatever we got. If it's two fish and five loaves of bread, if it's $5,000, if it's tithes on a checkbook that came in that we didn't even expect to come in, whatever it is, promotion door open, grant given way made. You did that. I know that was you. And I'm not going to be arrogant.

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I'm not going to be arrogant and.

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I'm going to humble myself and I'm going to say yes to the Lord because I am not entitled. I'm expendable. I'm replaceable. You just chose to bless me. And as an act of love and understanding of you, I just give it back to you the way Hannah gave back Samuel. I give it back to you. And it opened up her womb and she produced child after child after child. Let this be a womb offering, a womb opening offering that gives us increase. Somebody shout increase in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Pass it all the way to the left. If you have a passable, tangible seed.

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How many people are glad you came.

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To Bible class tonight? Clap one more time so I can drink.

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If by chance.

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A wayward girl or prodigal son has stumbled into the doors of this church, maybe because life has thrown some curve balls at you and you know enough about God to know he's trying to get your attention, it.

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May be something said in the message.

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Or it may be something that God's been dealing with you about for several weeks. But whether you're a prodigal son or a wayward girl or a wanted mother or frivolous father, I want to give you an opportunity to accept Christ to be your personal savior. Personal savior for your personal problem, for your personal pain, for your personal weakness, for your personal dysfunction, for your personal disorientation. I have a personal savior wants to rescue you. And I will give you an opportunity in the final moments of this service to make a decision. I'm not going to try to trick God. I'm not going to act like God.

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Has entitled me to be blessed. I have not been fair.

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I have not been just.

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I have not been fully forthright.

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But today I'm going to make things right between me and God. And I'm going to give you a chance to walk down this aisle right now and make an open commitment that I'm going to walk with Jesus. It's the one tonight. If you're online, the prayer lines Are open.

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There are people who will pray with you.

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Come on down. Is there someone else?

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Come on down. Is there someone else? I'm tired of this whole world. I'm tired of this whole world. Tired of these streets.

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I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of my way. I'm ready to do things God's way.

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And I'm not gonna let the devil.

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Trick me into letting this service end with me saying I shoulda, I woulda, I coulda. I'm going to down there now.

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Nervous heart thumping, lump in my throat.

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But I'm coming down there now to.

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Give my life to Jesus. Is there another one?

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I want four ministers to come and.

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Meet these on the altar. Come on down. I'm gonna need another minister. And while our ministers are leading them.

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To Christ.

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I'm going to take this.

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Last minute minute.

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To give you one last chance.

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Because the Lord is long suffering if you're here tonight.

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Isn't this beautiful?

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It's okay. Let God do what he's trying to do.

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We're going home soon. I don't mean to your house.

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We're going all the way home.

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Going home soon. Don't you want to go with us? This whole world is not my home. And it keeps proving it more every day. I'm a stranger here. I'm not welcome here. But I know a place where the.

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Wicked stand, cease from troubling and the.

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Weary shall be at rest. All the saints of the ages shall sit at his feet and be blessed. There's somebody that's got regret in your heart right now. You want to come? It's not too late.

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Come on down.

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I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. Come on, clap your hands. To all of you that are watching online, I thank you for watching online with us and staying throughout the entire Bible class. May the Lord strengthen you and bless you and keep you. To all of you who press your.

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Way through the crowd to be out.

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Here tonight to hear the conclusion of.

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The whole matter, I thank you for being here.

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To all of you who came to.

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This altar, I'm so proud of you.

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I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. I want to see you on Sunday.

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Amen.

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Foreign.

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You'Ve been listening to the Potter's House podcast. If this episode encouraged your faith, walk it out with authority. Until next time, be blessed.

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