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Look chapter 15, the prodigal son ended up in the pig pen and says he came to himself.

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No man comes to God until he first appears to himself and life becomes a reflective mirror

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that only shows the image of the one looking into it and the consequences of your own selfish

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actions that have brought you to such a place. And it is there that many will then turn to Christ

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and be saved. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today.

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As we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the

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Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by his grace,

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and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

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The Lord is good, amen. Happy Mother's Day, mommy's.

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So I didn't know it was going to be here today, you know, so I'm like, you know,

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I got my run-and-suit on, but I don't run. So, you know, obviously I'm a fat guy.

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But, you know, man, I met Jesus here 51 years ago when I wasn't looking for him.

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And he was looking for me. And he called me to preach. I was saved at 19 or deemed at 21.

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And don't do that unless the Lord is definitely called you because you have to be out of your mind

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to be a pastor or cold of God. I'm dead serious. That's crazy. I've been pastor in Elvis 40 years,

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you know, New York and, you know, Florida. So I didn't know it was preaching today.

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And, you know, my son and my wife, mother and my children, died here 20 some years ago,

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and that kind of broke me, you know, so I needed a sabbatical and would have it so long stirring.

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So I went to Florida and the Lord was good, you know, and I, after years of being alone,

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the Lord sent me a woman. And my only prayer was Lord, give me someone that will love me,

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that will love you more than she loves me. And God gave me Bella. And Bella has been the love of my,

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my life. And good, the Lord is good, amen. And so I thought that the sword had not pierced my soul

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anymore with death and then last week my daughter was killed here. She was struck by a motorcycle.

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And so the Lord, come here, listen a little boy, look at this little face. Look at this little face.

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He said, some face. Turn around so they can see you. What's your name? Look at that face on Calvin.

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You know, look at that. You know, angels, angels are very big, but they have the face of children.

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That's correct. Calvin, you're going to bring Jesus to people when you get older like Pastor Tommy here.

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Do you know that? You knew that already, didn't you? So you don't have to work with that. The Lord

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is going to put his hand upon you and he'll give you words and you'll speak effortlessly

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to people about the Lord. So I'm going to do what I did for your pastor's son when he went to

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wherever they were last time building houses. Where were you guys in the cargo? Guatemala.

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And I sowed what's in his pastor's son, little boys over there, minister. So I said, I cash

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after some bucks. Victor, yeah, I'm sown into his ministry. So I'm sown that into your ministry.

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So my daughter is in heaven, amen. And my son's in heaven and the mother and my children in heaven.

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And I'm here praising Jesus. I'm not in denial. I'm in grace. The supernatural presence of Almighty God

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that is more than a match for any situation, but you have to stay very close to Jesus.

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When I'm following the man, when I'm following the religion, we have met Jesus. And he is alive,

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my friends. I know he is because I talked to him this morning and he answered me, amen. We live in

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a society right now. We are witnessing the meltdown of a Western civilization. We are seeing the

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rise of something that I don't want to talk about this time past. I have to bring me back for

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that another time. But I want to say this to you, my friends, we need to be community.

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This is we are living in a go to society. We go to the movies. We go to the, you know, we go to work,

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right? We go to 7-11. We go here. We go there. You know, we go to a bowl game and we go to church.

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It's a go to society. Church is never meant to be a go to. Church is your community.

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It's a community. And if you want to know what a real church looks like, Paul draws a biological sketch

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in Ephesians 4 and he tells us we're bone and marrow and we're joints that are supplying each

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other with love and I'm about you. I need love. I need love, my friends. And I'm witness I'm here

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right now standing before you having very two children and I'm healthy mentally while my wife

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would question that. But I may be nuts but I'm screwed on the right bowl. Amen. But here I am

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emotionally, viscerally healthy. You know, I'm severely, you know, I'm like happy. I'm like,

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Lord, should be falling apart. But I'm sustained by the grace of God and by the comfort of my people,

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my people, the church of Jesus Christ. If I didn't have brother George and the community of the

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church around me, thousands and thousands on Long Island that are my family. When my wife passed

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away, there was little over 2,000 people at the funeral. My son massed thousands of people.

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This is my family. New York is my family. That's not something I go to. This is we're not day

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tripping here. We go to church and we want to go out on our way. It's good to know this is our life.

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Become integrated into this church. Integrate into this. You have to integrate into the church.

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The church is your family. You know, we see you, but I love God, but I don't like people.

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You hear me hear that? I like people. You don't want to go to heaven. There's going to be some folks

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there. You know, you know, I mean, it's crazy. You know, because you're the church of church. I'm

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here right now. Church is like cereal, fruit, loobs and nuts. We got them all. And some people sitting

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right now, they're like, you know, they've given me that look like I've been kidnapped and dragged

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here. What time does this thing get over? But I can assure you, man, this is real. This is real. What

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we're talking about is real, I need to get to my message, but it's real. But the problem is we have

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to learn. Jesus only gave us one commandment. I got a news flash. One. He gave the years of

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Israelites 10. They couldn't keep any of them. So he said, let me redefine this for you in John 1334

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and 35, a new commandment. I give to you. Here it is. Cut and dry. Love one another as I have loved

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you. By this, you'll all might know you're my disciples. If you have a gopeh love, if you love

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one another, careful one another, love one one cries. The other takes salt. Love one another. That's

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the only command he gave. That's the, on his hands, every other teaching. In fact, the Apostle said

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everything is summed up in the Bible in these words. Have a fervent love for one another.

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Jesus said, you're all mental, you're my disciples. Up because you're speaking tons, raised the dead,

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healed the sick. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Yeah. No. That's not how, listen, I've been all over the

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world. I've studied shintoism, towers and Confucianism deeply into the occult. So, I'm along

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shan, the third eye, Eckertopold, Swinchule. I've been heavily into the Koran, the Kabbalah, the

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Baba Vegeta. I've lectured and spoken all over this world. People have met people of every kind

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of faith and I'm going to tell you the greatest most distinctive thing wherever I've been around the

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world. I know Christians, true Christians, because they love one another. I've been in Russia,

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preaching all over the world. I mean, people, I don't even know. I'm in a meeting. I can't

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love you. I love you too. But it's people who have known me. We're in love. You know, it's

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crazy. But that's how you know that you're a Christian. Of course, in the days that are coming,

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and listen to me, the great and terrible day of the Lord is around the corner. I'm telling you

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this, if you may never see me again, things are changing very quickly and will continue to change

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because everything in the Bible that said is going to happen is going to happen.

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And so I'm not going to get into it right now. We're going to need one another.

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Okay, I didn't get a standing ovation. I'm going to say this again. You're going to need one

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another in a certain manner. And I'm not talking about getting into little groups, you know,

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with, you know, after this. If I go to a church, it's all white people. I don't want to go there.

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Something's wrong. I so I'm not telling you, I preach a thousand church all over the world.

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And if I go there, it's all one after the church. Listen, it's in China. It's something,

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you know, they're going to all change folks, whatever. But in America, if you come here and you

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got one ethnicity, you got a problem. Now, give me just give me a little sign of life here this morning.

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You got a problem if it's all white folks, black folks, but something's wrong, people. Like

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Daenerys, that something's wrong over here. Something is wrong. In heaven, you're going to have

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everybody's going to be there. All kinds of people. I was witnessing to a dude this morning in one

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of these bodegas. I said, Jesus loves you. He goes, yeah, I know what man. He said, but you know,

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Jesus is black. I said, let me tell you something, son. I said, he may be. I don't know me. You know,

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maybe as much as black. I said, I'll tell you one thing. God is not white. He's not black. He's a

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spirit. Come on. God is a spirit. And those that worship him, much worship him in spirit. You

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are in the right church because what I see out here is all different ethnicities. Well, when God

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looks on the earth, he doesn't see black, white, red, yellow, green, he's saved and unsafe. That's it.

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That's it. So let me tell you this. Can I preach for a second? Okay. Let me just give this to say,

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this ain't my message in passage. I'm just saying, hola hand, you better wrap this up. And remember,

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sermons do not have to be eternal to be immortal. So I'll make this as quick as possible.

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There was an argument one day in the carpenter's shop. And the latter said to the ruler, he said,

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I don't like you. So the ruler said, what's your problem, Mr. Hay and Mighty?

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The ruler said, you know, you're always judging people by your own standards.

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To which the hammer said, you know, both you need to be quiet. And you know, the ruler said,

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you always making noise, having to bang everything. The sandpaper said, you know, you all awaken me up.

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Oh, yeah, Mr. Sandpaper, you're always rubbing people the wrong way.

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To which jumped in the level. And the level said, I can't stand any of you.

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So, yeah, you missed a balance on everything.

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At which point, you know, in walk to carpenter.

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And the sore got involved, right? The carpenter's walking in the source and you guys,

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I can't stand any of you. And I said, what you shut up? You're always cutting people off.

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How many sores do we have? You know, New Yorkers, we're sored. You know what I'm talking about?

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Try to have a conversation in New York. Forget about it. It ain't going to happen.

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Yeah, how are you doing? You start telling somebody, you know, I'm going through this.

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Yeah, anyway, hey, look at the bird over there. Where am I going? Look at the bird.

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So, you know, my ear fell off less. I don't worry about it. Here's some soup of gold.

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Get it. I don't worry about it. Let's go. Let's catch this up when New Yorkers,

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New Yorkers, we're crazy here, bro. I've been all over the world, man. Nobody in New York is going

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to have a special section in heaven. Forget about it. Forget about it. I told the church this morning,

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I mean, I'm preaching over in Russia after perestroika the war walls have come down to communism.

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And I said to my son who was alive at the time, I said, dude, I can find a New Yorker anywhere.

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He's like, daddy, it's been 70 years of bullshivism here. And there's New Yorkers. I said,

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hang loose. About a 15-hour-lady guy comes walking down the road. I said, guys,

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New Yorkers, pop, come on. I walked, I said, excuse me, so wait for him. He goes to Bronx,

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wait for him. I said, I'm from Brooklyn, New York. Yeah, I'll, bro,

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forget about. I'll forgive you for that. I'm from New York. And so my son walks away,

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he's like, daddy, how did you know the guy was from the Bronx? I said, we walk around like me

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on the place. Now, what do you do? What do you do? What am I doing? Let's go. Get that thing over

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you. Let's move that age. Come on, I'm going down. We're like traffic cops, although we're

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running the world. It's crazy. So New Yorkers are some New Yorkers, my God, man. We're, you know,

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New York is something else. Mark Twain said, he said, New York is not a place that's a state of

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mind and that's the truth. He also said the only people that like change or what babies.

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Mark Twain was smart. So in, you see, it took you a delay, right?

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Some of you're going to get there when you go home, you go, I get it. Change it. What, baby?

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I got it now. That's okay. That was bad acid you took years ago. It's going to pick in with,

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you know, stay with me. So what happens is, you know, into the carpentry shop, it works the

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carpentry, right? The, you know, the tools arrive when they're fighting. In walks the carpentry.

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He picks up the sword and he begins to cut with it. And he cuts some boards with it. He picks

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up the hammer and he begins to nail with it. He picks up the sandpaper and begins to smooth it.

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He takes the level. He makes sure everything is balanced. He uses the ruler to cut it up.

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And the carpenter builds out of all the tools in the shop. He builds a pulpit from which the gospel

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of Jesus Christ is preached around the world. God needs every one of you to get the gospel out of

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this place to a world that needs good news. Bring this up. Bring this up. God needs the

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sores. He needs the hammers. He needs the sandpaper. We're all different, man. Some allowed,

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some acquired, some are introverted, some are extroverted. It doesn't matter. It's whatever you

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are. You are important. You are valuable. Are you listening to me? You are valuable. You are

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very, very important to this place. This place, if God puts you here, you've got to love the sandpaper

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people. I'm telling you right now, do I know some sandpaper people? You know, especially

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New York, I got to tell you something, brother, but I got to tell you this in love. That's when you

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know you're about to get. When a Christian says brother, you know I love you, right? I'm like no,

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you know what, go to a store to somebody else. I got, you know, you know, it's like, you know,

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but we need everybody. You need me, whether you like me or not, because I got something you don't

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have. And you've got something I don't have. Right now I'm going through the most difficult times

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of my life with the loss of my second child, but you know how I'm being sustained by the body of

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Christ. People calling me loving me, Tommy, I love you, Tommy, you know, this, that, picking me up

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the air for George driving me here today. My wife and my grandson raised my grandson since he's

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as big now. He's like this, you know, and so, you know, man, but I'm not being sustained because I'm

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a great man of God. There are no great men of God. They're just men who belong to a great God.

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And I will tell you something. Don't think you're going to make this on your own. You're not all

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that. The bag of chips, man. You're not big enough. You're not tough enough. You're not intellectual.

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Listen, I've got my PhD. I'm not smart enough. You're not bright enough strong enough to make

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it through this world without Jesus Christ. Are they personal? I'm not talking about a religion.

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How, honey, I like the characters of religion. I'm not talking about a religion. I'm talking

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about a relationship of knowing him. You are not. You will end up bitter. You will end up with some

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type of weird preclivity in your life. You'll end up just going to something that nobody knows

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about your stress. You'll end up a prisoner of something that's going to imprison you, which

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you'll hit yourself for while at the same time showing the whole world of the side.

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You need Jesus Christ. A real relationship. He wants to take the anger out of you. He wants

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to take the self-loving or the grandiose to us where you think you're all that. God wants to

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deliver. He wants to set you free. So I wanted to say that to you. That's my introduction.

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But that's not really my message. I just love every one of you. I was loved past her if he's

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watching wherever he is. I don't know where he is. But he's hurting. I'll tell you right now,

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he's not telling you the truth. I'll tell you that right now. He's a lot worse than he's telling you

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because he is in severe pain and he needs a miracle. He's not going to go into it either,

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but he's really in a lot of pain right now. He really needs us to believe God for a real

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touch in his life or else he'd be here, right? Okay. Give the Lord some praise in the house. Would

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you please? I want to talk to you this morning about the importance of short prayers. Everybody say

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short prayers. Short prayers? Just short prayers. You know, I'm not going to come and say, God wants

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you to pray alongside. God wants to talk about the power of just the effectiveness of short,

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watch this. Minful prayers. Minful short prayers. There's many kinds of prayers in the Bible. In

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fact, in the book of Ephesians chapter six, I love how many love the book of Ephesians? Oh my God.

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Read the book of Ephesians. I mean, man, it's crazy. And if you don't want to read the Bible,

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ask God to give you a love for his work. Just say, well, I don't really want to read this book.

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Ask God to give you a love. I'm also going to be like, I want to read the Bible. Such give me a

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hunger for it. And, you know, I used to have a library bigger than this, this bigger. She was

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super bigger. You ready for this now? Is my library? What do you do? I have brother Google.

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I love brother Google. Hey, Google, give me the transliteration of the Hebrew word Joshua. Show it

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to me in the coin a Greek. How was it actually used in Greek literature? Brother Google. He knows

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that would have taken me an hour to pluck all of that out. But now, brother Google, who can be used

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for better good, right? You can also say brother Google is a holy shimole enough. But I use technology.

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I love technology because I use it for God's glory. So I'm getting off the track here. But to say to

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you, where was I? I don't know. So, man, you know, he took a book of Ephesians. What a book? What a book?

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But he says put on the armor of God. Chapter one, two and three is sit, how to sit in rest in Christ.

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Chapter four and five is how to walk with Christ. Chapter six is how to stand for Christ. So when

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chapter six, he says put on the full armor of God that you may be able to stand up against all

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of these strategies of the devil. I have met God, my friends, and I've also met Satan. I've met him

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twice. And I tell you, he's alive. It's not a concept. He's real. He's real. The devil is real.

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And the Bible says put on the armor of God that you may be able to stand up against all the tricks

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and strategies of the devil. I don't have time to get into all that. But he ends by saying put on

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the last piece of armor, you know, whatever the shoes they helmet. But he says, and then he knows

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right into praying with all kinds of prayers. What? All kinds of prayers. How many go this? Many

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different kinds of prayers, right? Amen. But here's what God is trying to get across to us. God

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is desiring that we learn how to communicate with them. And I don't want to get into too much detail.

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But there's the prayer of intercession. What is that? That's when you God said in Zechal,

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I looked for a man or a woman that would stand in the gap and make up the space and build a wall

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for Israel. But I couldn't find any. Israel, excuse me, intercession is when you get between God

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and somebody else between God and a situation and you come and you begin to pray and you pull

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the two of them together. Give me a vital sign of life, say, man, nod your head, shake your toes,

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something here. Let me know you're alive. All right. So listen, man. I mean, you know, that's

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intercession. That's God. My aunt right now is going through so much where my husband,

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Lord, he's being besieged at work. Oh, my God, he's getting weak. Oh, God, I, you know,

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what happened to father. I begin to pray for him. Jesus touched him, draw him, pull him in,

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or you pray, you're between God. Here's, here's them. Here's God. Here's the situation. Here's

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you. God is seeking for you right now to make up the gap. And for sometimes you have to build a

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wall of protection around people when you pray. You got to learn how to build a wall. I wish I had

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time to get into maybe pastel. Have me back. And I'll teach you about how to build a wall around

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people. You see, well, you know, I just didn't work for you. You lost two children. Uh-huh.

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Let me say something to my good friend. God did not take my daughter from me. He took her from her

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pain. And I am glad she is with my master right now. Give the Lord some praise in the sight.

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How many of you glad you hear this morning?

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Are you really glad? Let your face know about it over here. You know what I got to look at it

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right now. This is difficult. I thank God that the older I get, the more near-sighted I am. I'm

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like they must be all smile. Hey, listen, man. I'm telling you God is so good. Amen.

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It's crazy. So intercession, but I've got to move on. Um, you pray for people. Then there's

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supplication. You plead for people. Oh, God, please touch my husband, my wife, whatever. You're

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pleading as supplementary. Uh, then there's communion with the Holy Ghost. That's just, you know,

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you're in the car. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Lord has his prayer. I love you, Jesus. I praise you,

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Father. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Oh, you're so good today. That's just what's called the

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communion of the Holy Ghost, right? And let me say something. Paul didn't, Paul prayed long,

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but he mostly prayed very sure prayers. I mean, he actually said things were like, I says,

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you know, how you guys doing? I make mention of you in my prayers. You think Paul, I must pray

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nine hours a day. I'm going to show you something. They didn't. They did not. I'm going to show you

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this. It's going to blow your mind. Are you ready for this? We also need to learn how to pray the

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prayer of repentance. What? Yep, the prayer of repentance. What is that all about? Tell you what

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it's all about. God says, Jonah, yes, Lord, go to the river. They're whacked out,

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fall asleep and go tell them to repent. Jonah says, ah, yeah, get somebody else.

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He's, I'm not going there. He turns around and goes to what? Tarsha. He's, I'm not going to

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the river. They're crazy. So it's like going to New York City and preach and somebody goes, I

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ain't going to. I'm going to the Virgin Islands. He turns around and tends to Tarsha's, which is

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basically the club met of those days. He's going to, he's going to wolf down a few magaritas.

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He's, I'm not going to dinner. Get somebody else. God says, oh, really? He gets on a boat. You

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know the story. Big hurricane comes. They throw the dude overboard. A whale swells in and it says,

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in the belly of hell. He called it hell. He said, I cried out to the Lord and I ask God's forgiveness.

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For every one of you that run from God, there is a whale situation that will swallow you and you

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will not come out until you turn to God. You ain't big enough. You're not smart enough. You're not

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good looking enough. You're not talented enough. You will be brought to a place where there's a

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place where you're not getting out until you, until you humble yourself and say, Lord, I need

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you real bad. For me, I had to end up in prison. I was a drug runner of the things I don't want to

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talk about and get into. But I was a tough guy, a trained fighter, running things. I don't even want

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to talk about what I was into many, many years ago. I was also a designer and it's a crazy story

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that they make movies out of it. I'm not proud of it. I don't want to glory in my shame. But I thought

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I was better than everybody else because I was 19 years old. My girlfriend was a runner for Rolling

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Stone magazine. I'm partying with the Jetset. I had, I don't even want to get into everything I

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had in life. But when the music stopped, I was miserable because there was a God-shaped hole in

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my heart that no amount of women, no amount of dope, no amount of party, no amount of success

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could fill that up in my life. Nothing. And I got into the shintoism, Taoism, Confucianism,

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Ramalangshan, the Koran, the Kabbalah, the Bavavigir. I went through every religion there was

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until one day. I said, God, if you're up there, I'm tired of reading what people think about you.

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Tell me if you're up there what you who you are. And it was the next day that somebody told me,

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Jesus Christ is alive, not a religion, not a church, the Son of God. That's for another day,

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amen? So, you know, man, so, you know, there's different kinds of prayers people. And I got to

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stay with my prayer, this is prayers of repentance. It's got to get before the Lord and admit where

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you're wrong. He said, well, I'm not wrong about anything. Oh, really? Ask the Lord where he

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thinks about that. David said, search me and test me and try me, Lord, to see if there's any

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wicked way in me. I worry about people that never do anything wrong. It freaks me out, man,

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when it's like, you know, they get crazy, like, I didn't do anything. I'm like, oh,

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some holy, what are you going to do for this person? The Holy Spirit will bring you to a place

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where you see yourself and you cannot come to God until you come to yourself. Look, chapter 15,

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the prodigal son ended up in the pig pen and says he came to himself. No man comes to God

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until he first appears to himself and life becomes a reflective mirror that only shows the image

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of the one looking into it and the consequences of your own selfish actions that have brought you

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to such a place. And it is there that many will then turn to Christ and be saved, but we must

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be humble and pray prayers of repentance. Amen, amen, prayers of repentance. So if you've sinned

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and minute here, I got you ready for my big theological twist on this. If you've sinned,

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are you ready? Yes, yes, yes. And minute, quit it and forget it.

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That's my message. I'll see you guys next time.

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There's also the layaway prayer. What the heck is that layaway prayer?

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As when you buy something like a house, you know, you buy 30-year mortgage boom,

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you're given $2,000 a month, $2,000 a month for 30 years. You forget about it. It's like

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totally, then one day 30 years has gone, get a nose and mouth. By the way, you own your house. What?

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No more mortgage payments. That prayer happened in Acts chapter 10. There was an Italian guy.

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His name was Cornelius. The guy wasn't even a Christian. He didn't have any pay. He didn't have a

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pastor. He didn't have brother James. He didn't have a church to go to. He didn't have a Christian

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book story. Couldn't order from Amazon. Let me see. Couldn't go to his phone. Okay, so give me the

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word for today. I need an app on prayer with Mark Wahlberg. None of this stuff. Nobody. Nobody

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to help him. Nobody. The guy was just by himself. He's an Italian dude. His name was Cornelius.

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Read it in the book. Don't trust me. Read your Bible. And so one day, you know, he's just,

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man, he's used probably eating some pasta. He's hanging out with the family. Boom, man,

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an angel shows up. He falls down stocks, works for an angel. Don't do that, man. I'm just an angel.

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He said, well, what's up? The angel says, God, your prayers, your prayers. He's looking up. What?

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Me? Yeah. Cornelius, your prayers, my what? Everybody say prayers. Are you getting anything out of

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this? Yeah. And some of you have that. I've been kidnapped and dragged here. Look, are you getting

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anything out of this at all? Cornelius look. Cornelius looks up. God says, angels say, I've come,

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your prayers have made a memorial in heaven. You guys got these statues when I walked down. I've

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never seen an naked woman. So I walked in this church. I said, what the heck is this?

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He said, this woman, there's two things out there. What is that? It looks like Persian. Anyway,

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so I said, so I say, I'm trying to put a bra on that thing out there. So anyway, I know some

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you can't laugh at the mazes, man. I worry about people that can't laugh, man. You go home,

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we put stuff on, you know, on YouTube, you know, stuff is so violent. Come to Jersey, you know,

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we put the mask on and chill. Don't do that, man. Don't do it. I put this in my book. Be careful

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of the masks you wear. They soon begin to fit. Where was I? I don't know. The heck knows. At this point,

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best of all, you guys probably haven't a breakdown. Cornelius is in the past over here.

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So anyway, yeah, man. So he's, you know, he's, no, seriously. Cornelius, we didn't

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accident. Don't believe me. He's an accident. An angel shows up. Then the angel says,

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a Cornelius, yes, your prayers and your giving have come up as a memorial before God. And I've

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been sent to tell you, you're going to be used to open up the doors to the whole world for the

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Gentiles to get saved. This dude's prayers went up every day. How did he know how to pray? The guy

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wasn't even a Jew. He sure was like, wasn't a Christian. He was a Roman centurion. These dudes were

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bad. They were into all kinds of polytheism. It was crazy in those days. And I don't know what

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happened. Maybe he had a little slave girl, Jewish slave girl that used to pray and he heard it and

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was like, ah, maybe God's name is, you know, Yahweh. I don't know. Maybe when he walked past the temple

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where the Ark of the Covenant was, he could feel the presence of God. He's, oh, I feel this. I don't

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feel this with ash trot or day God or any of the Persian or with the Samaritan gods when I

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worshiped those statues. But when I passed the temple, ooh, I can feel joy. Talk to me, somebody.

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Talk to me. I don't know how that man began to pray. He didn't have a pastor boy on the same

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brother. James says, there's quite a lovely brother. We haven't seen the church. He didn't have

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any of that nonsense. He didn't have no Bible. He didn't have the word of the Lord. He didn't have

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no prophecy. He didn't have nothing that you got. But the Bible says he prayed. He met with God

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and he prayed. And one day the angels showed up and said, son, your prayers have built a memorial.

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You've been praying and praying and praying. And now the time has come. You're about to get an

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answer. Some of your prayers are going to go up for years, days, months. You'll get no answer

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than all of a sudden. Suddenly God brings the blessing. Suddenly that addicted daughter shows up.

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Suddenly that sun comes home. Suddenly your breakthrough comes financially. But it's the layaway

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prayer. Jump to your feet and give God some praise. I feel a preaching spirit.

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I had somebody come to my church one day. He said, every time I let's down,

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when you made all this noise, when you make it all this noise, I said, you know, it's interesting.

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You go to a football game. They got the fat people there. No shirts on. They get painted green

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red horns. Jumping up and down, people screaming for their side. People go to the football game. They

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scream like insane Indians come to church and sit like wooden Indians. Hey, listen, man, I got a

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news flash for you. That football is made of cow hide. It's injected with air. It goes over a

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a goal post. Not one of those footballs has ever brought a marriage together. Not one footballs

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ever delivered a child from addiction. Not one of those footballs has ever brought a lunatic

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into his right mind. Not one of those footballs has ever taken racism and hatred out of a man's heart

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and put loving. But Jesus Christ is in this building. And brother, he has set me free and he

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can set you free. Do you want to be on your feet given God the free? I feel a preaching spirit.

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Come on on me right now. Jesus name. You see teaching will get you a miracle.

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Preaching will show you how to keep and give God praise. Hug somebody before you see that.

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Tell somebody before you see that I'm sharp guy. I didn't miss service this morning.

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Did you hear me out there? Did you hear me? If you heard me again,

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give me a vital sign of life. Get God some praise. We just checked something out here.

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Let me lift my foot. How are we doing devil?

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Jesus said, don't tread on him. I just have my church stand him up under

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the sun in one thousand. See, write a scripture in your foot. This way the devil can read him.

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Tell you right now, man.

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I love you. I'm almost done. Somebody said, thank God.

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Hey, how about Acts 27, the Euroclodon, me just storm hits.

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Bone, Paul. I mean, the guy's on a boat. He's ticked off enough because he already told him.

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Don't leave. He said, don't sail. He said, that's a good idea. They had a hurricane.

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They're out there at sea. It's a mess. Paul disappears. Look at his Paul. Where's that little Jew?

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Nobody can find a little guy. What happened there? He's old Jew. He's gone.

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What happened to the Jew? I don't love the guy's crazy because he's a Jew talking about the Messiah,

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dead, rising. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe he jumped off the ship.

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Paul stands up a couple of James ladies. Oh, here he is. Paul, what have you been? Don't worry about it.

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I've been in the belly of the ship down below. I've been meeting with God. We have to learn how to meet with God in our storm.

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Otherwise, you're going to meet with medication. You're going to meet with the booze again.

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We're getting quiet here. So we meet. I know. I've been down the road. I've got a degree in all that

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sipping, saying stuff. But hear me out. So you don't want to have it.

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Man, listen, you have got to have me back.

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Yeah, let's boy on. I passed the boy on.

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Listen, man, I am so serious. God sent me free, not long ago, from contamination.

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And I mean, I'm one of the fathers here in New York. We call them fathers as fibers, like the mob,

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you know. And I went through a burnout, say, passes burnout. And the Lord had to bring me back.

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Amen. Restore me. But I was so bound with condemnation, which is self-hatred and not liking to say,

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yeah, I'm going to walk around like I want to come myself. But do you know that according to clinical

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psychologists, 82% of people live with what's called by the clinical psychologist, it's called

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the demon at noon day. And they're not even Christians. That's a coin of phrase, they coined,

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which is a phraseology used to describe people who self-load themselves. And we walk around almost

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every one of us with the great cloud of self-denunciation. We really don't like ourselves, you say.

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And so even if you're raised in almost a perfect environment sociologically, in every way,

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they found out through studies that people can be raised in almost a perfect environment and

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still grow up thinking their loses, or still grow up not forgiving themselves or walking around,

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oh my God, if everybody knew who I really was. And we go through this thing, I don't

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have time to really do any justice. But as Christians, we do things we shouldn't do as Christians,

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you are all going to do them. And then we carry that load with us for the rest of our life,

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faking it till we make it because we are condemned. God gave me a word called freedom from all

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condemnation. Oh my Lord, when you hear what God has given me on how to be absolutely free

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of all condemnation, no matter what you've done, you are going, I'm telling you right now,

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you're going to run straight up this building into a wall. You're going to run straight

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this building into a store where you will there get me a cup of coffee in a big alley, all right?

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So, so anyway, man, you know that the Southern is down there, they don't know nothing about,

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you know, bagels and stuff. These people like, you know, my wife is a Southern, right? I'm

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married to Southern Italian girl. She knows nothing about us. I brought up here to New York,

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you know, to meet my friends the first time. And when I walk in, how are you? I knew you're

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up where he's teasing each other, right? So I walk in my friend's and he said, okay, tell me,

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what the heck happened? You blew up like a tick because I got, I got heavy. She's talking to me,

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I said, dude, you're wider than you are tall. I said, you've got to be kidding, you're calling me

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naked. So we're going, and my wife just says, there's, oh my Bella, where are you? Where's my wife?

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I go downstairs, she's crying in the basement. I said, Bella, what are you doing? She says,

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y'all, y'all, y'all. She said, you know, when I was fixing to come, I said, Bella, don't use

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this fixing stuff. I said, listen, in New York, we fix things, right? Like washing machines and

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cars, we don't go fixing to go places. I said, these people think you're nuts. You know, she'll say,

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well, golly, you know, golly, macro, golly. I said, what do we got? The Beverly Hill Bellies

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over here, golly. You know what I'm talking about? So son, I so she didn't get us, you know,

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like, took a long time to induct her into our way over here. Now she kind of gets us.

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I don't even know what's going with that. What's going with that story? I better stay with this man.

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I got a close out of you. I'm telling you, point New York is something else. I'm telling you.

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Closing it right now. You ready? Are you ready? Short prayers produce great results.

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My objective is not to get you to pray a long time here for hours. That day may come,

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if God calls you to be an insassessor, because the more time you spend with Jesus, the more time

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you want to be with them. My subject is the essence of brief prayers. Elijah the prophet prayed

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a 64 word prayer, fire fell from heaven and killed 450 prophets of bell, 64 where it was brief

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into the point. You don't have to pray a long prayer to be heard, but you have to pray to be heard.

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Peter prayed a one sentence prayer, the Apostle Peter prayed a one sentence prayer,

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and a man sitting there that couldn't walk, he was born crippled, jumped off and ran to city life

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church, leaping and praising God. One sentence. Are you all not hearing me? I'm going to the

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Catholic church right now to preach them if you guys want to do something.

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Peter prayed a one sentence prayer, still don't go up and down since it's not going to have to give

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on till you rise up and walk us. Boom, get healed. There you go, Thou mighty as God,

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their dwellest in the heavens. All Thou mighty as God, He says in the Greek the aromatic,

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it says in the Hebrew, if thou shalt come with thy mighty power and touch us this mighty man

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who is crippleist, thou willest do a great favor for us all this Lord. Just say get out and

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Jesus name. Boom, power God, hit the guy and he starts rung around. Hallelujah. That's what it takes.

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Paul the Apostle was having a fortune teller following him all over Asia. She's crying out,

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crazy woman and Paul turns around and just says a 14 word prayer. The demon comes out of her

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and she gets set free and revival breaks out in Asia. Somebody talk to me, please.

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And Isaiah 38 has a chia prayed a 29 word prayer. He's on his deathbed dying. It's over for the guy.

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He's got his everything's laid. He's gone. The prophet walks in and says get your house in order

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and you're going to die. And the prophet walks out as a chia rolls over and faces the wall, says

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God, please remember me. I've been pretty good Lord. Please help me. I don't want to die. God

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stops the promises. Go tell them. I just give them 15 more years. Somebody needs to praise God.

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It was a 29 word prayer. 20 now. Don't let the devil deceive you. You don't pray enough. Shut up devil.

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You can't pray at all. Paul said, I make mention of you in my prayers. Amen. He said,

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I make mention of you. Say what? He made mention of the Lord. God touched you. This father,

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I pray that you would touch Timothy. Father, fill him up today. Thank you, Master. Lord, I pray that

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you touch a little sister over here that we left in the revival. Just father, lift her up,

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bring her husband, a heart again. Father, he said, I have simply made mention. Can I make this

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any easier for you? Can I make this any easier? This is simple. All you have to do is pray and

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stick with it long enough, what you'll be like. It's something's happening here. This is

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answering my prayers. You know my son, I haven't heard from him in 20 years. He calls me.

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Oh yeah, you wait, you wait. Jesus, I'm closing with this right here. Okay, I'm closing right.

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No closing means right? It means nothing. Man, I'd love to call NBC and tell them to close down

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the football game is going too long. That isn't happening. When they asked Jesus, they said,

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John's disciples said, Lord, would you teach us how to pray? John the Baptist is disciples

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who are making us look bad. Jesus said, okay, and Jesus gave them, are you ready for this?

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A 68 word prayer and said, if you're going to pray, pray like this, our father would have.

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68 words. He made it simple. There is no reason, no reason for any one of us

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by the Holy Spirit strength if you'll ask him to begin to make prayer your life.

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You can touch him in the morning on the subway. You better be trained on the subway.

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My people won't even let me in. You see, I got people that I got people in New York.

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The most a lot of them are from the mob. The Gambino family, right? You know the Gambino family.

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You know what the Gambino family is, right? One of the five families, right? One of my best friends

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full of the Holy Ghost on Fire of God, Andrew Gambino. He said, I'm kidding. He was there last night

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in the funeral. He walked up to his head and passed out. You know, something good, bro. How do you

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do? You know anything? Let me know. You understand? He said, okay, let's know.

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Dead serious, man. Somebody mobsters got saved in my church in the 80s and 90s. Forget about.

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It was crazy. You know, they stabbed my secretary 22 times in her bed because they hated us

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because we bought the blacks and whites of Spaniards together in the 70s. She might have been one

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of the stabs. I don't know. They told me, Mrs. Hollerhand, you're not going to live to be 30 years old

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and you keep this stuff up. I said, really? And so they stopped us from putting up a building.

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It would go nuts because we brought everybody together. You understand? We brought everybody together.

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And my secretary got stabbed 22 times with a butcher knife, ripped her, what you call it?

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The comforter she was in completely off her body, caught in all over the wall with a guy stabbing her.

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And the miracle is she was released from the hospital that night because only two times

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they'd penetrate her body about a cent of me to that was it was the cops that we'd never seen

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like in our life. It was crazy. Crazy. I got to stand on my point on this and end it. But we prayed

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for her. So crazy things started happening and they're going nuts, nuts trying to stop us from

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building. These people are full of hatred, full of hatred for ethnicity, man. And what we said,

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you know what, we're going to what God tells us to do. So what happened was man, they just went nuts,

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they dragged us to court and they wouldn't let us put up the building. They try to get a lot of

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nonsense in there. But it was all about the black white issue and it's about it and what it's all

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together. It's the devil. The devil divides, God adds, right? So what happened was I'm like, you

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know what, Lord, you got to do something. I get a phone call from the Caroleo family.

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He says, Pastor, who do you know in the mob? I know some lot of people in the mob.

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You have a, who do you really know? I started to tell you, I know why. It's just because

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a limo pulls up yesterday to the board. You know, and you have to have a board of provey for

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you can build anything. He said, this big guy gets out of there. Should I tell this?

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Yes. You know what? I shouldn't tell this story because some of you are just only

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going to remember it. Some of you guys say, what are you pleased about? I don't know. He's talking

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about the mob, you know? Did he talk about prayer? I don't know. I just like the story about the mob,

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you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I hope that guy comes back. Why? Because I like this story

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is about the mob, you know? Even he doesn't preach to tell mob stories. So no, this crazy stuff,

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so the, so this guy gets out of his car, guys in the mob. That guy was in Lichese family.

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He knocks on the door of one of the guys that's a board member that's got to give me approval.

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I didn't send a guy. He knocks on the door. The guy opens up the door. He says, are you so and so?

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Guy says, yeah. He says, Joey says, now who he was talking about was Joey Masaro. He owned all

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the strip clubs along on. He's now doing life. He says, Joey says, leave Hollahan alone. That's

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me. He says, or you're going to end up in a box. You understand? That's serious, bro. This is in the

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80s. So Vic tells me, this is past. I said, look, I ain't seen nothing, brother. I have given

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done nothing for the mob. You need to do something for the mob. You want them for the rest of your

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life. You know, I'm not so forget about it. So anyway, I don't know how I got that story, but

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the next, we've got approval in two weeks. How many of God uses the mob? God uses the mob.

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When my son was killed, right? My daughter calls me to daddy and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's

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20 years ago. The next call, I'm in Florida. They're here. The next call I did is from Rosanne.

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And she said, that's it. We're so sorry, you son. We heard about it. We're, I said, how did you,

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how did you know we got it? How did you know what happened to him? She says, Joey, Joey. I said,

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Joey, Joey's doing life in Marion State Prison in Illinois. Next to the ice man from Bergen county

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in Noriega. I said, how did he? She says, Tommy, he knows everything. He knows more what's going on

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there than you guys know here. Forget about it. The mob, crazy people. All right, I got to close.

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Joey comes to me and the guy to the guys in doing life knows the past. He says, you know, I killed

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the guy. I said, okay, you know, I said, he's out of feds or honor to feds, understand, understand.

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He says, you think I'm a Christian now? I'm thinking, I hope he is. He had his buddy got saved

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with him and somebody hit his motorcycle. There's a pagan. You know the pagans, all right,

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motorcycle again, those angels guys. Somebody knocked his bike over. Dude, you might

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still hang yourself if you're not going to their bike. You're dead. It's all over. So I get a

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phone call because the member of my congregation, that his bike got knocked over, picked up a garbage can

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and threw it to the guys living in a window while he's watching TV. So the guy calls me and says,

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you passed the hall. I said, you got a guy in your church and so I said, he said, he's supposed

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to be a Christian. He said, he's supposed to be a Christian. He said, yeah, he is a Christian.

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He says, he's a Christian. He says, I hit his motorcycle and put my garbage can through the

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living room window. How is he a Christian? I don't know what I was going to say. All right, I know.

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He says to me, you call him a Christian. I said, yes, he is. I said, now think about this.

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If you left his bike down and he wasn't a Christian, you would have been in the garbage can with it.

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Am I right? You don't get motorcycling. Listen, you don't do it. You don't hit their bikes.

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So I said, imagine if he did this to us a Christian, what do you think he would have done if he

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wasn't a Christian? Sharp you up, put you in the garbage can over here. Am I right or wrong? Am I

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right or wrong? Next time I come here, I'm coming to the Baptist church, they give her

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biggest shout out. Anyway, how many words did Jesus tell you to pray when you pray?

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68. Our father wasn't having it. I prayed every morning. I do. Do I pray sometimes? I

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meet with Jesus in the morning. Never. I own a very big company in Florida. I can never have

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enough time with the Lord. I love being in prayer. There's times I can't believe it.

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Jesus, three hours has gone and I'm just Lord. I can't wait. I'm with you reading the word

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worship in Jesus. Hallelujah. In reading the word, not because I'm a great man of God. There

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are no great men of God. They were just men up along to a great God. And I'm not a minister.

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First, I follow Jesus and I'm doing what I did when I got saved at 19. I'm just following Jesus.

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I'm still dependent on him. I'm still in love with him. He's my joy. I need to stay close to him

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because I feel so much joy when I'm close to Jesus. I need Jesus. I need his peace. I love him.

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If I stay in love in here, I can love this shmigil that's driving me around all over the place.

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You know, so I got to say that I love brother to it. You know, if I don't stay close to Jesus,

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I'm not going to love you. I'm going to judge you. Now, let me try to say after the room over here.

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If I don't stay close to Jesus, I'll be looking at your faults. You see, Adam and Eve never knew

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they were naked until they sinned. You will never see your brother's nakedness when you're in sin.

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When you're in for God, you don't see the nakedness. It's only when you're sinned,

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do you see other people sin? So you got to stay close to Jesus. The Bible says, as in water,

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face the answer to face, so the heart of man to man, what you see in each other is reflection

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of what's looking now. You have to stay full of Jesus so you can love people. Love covers a multitude

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of sinned. It covers sinned. Did you hear that about sister so-and-so? Yes, I did. This is the

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bucket mouth. What else do you want to tell me? I'm just going to my church. She's like, you know,

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when you're deacon smog, she knows she smogs. I said, Jesus, once in my neighborhood,

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when she smogs, I said, okay, you know, what is what we know? There's no description of the Bible

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so she shouldn't smoke. We shouldn't smoke. I mean, I said, it's killing, right? I said, she said,

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I said, but there's a lot of talk in that Bible about the tongue. I'd rather have a deacon

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smog in a cigar over here than a mouth that won't stop gossiping. Holy schmoling.

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I mean, I'd rather have them don't smoke and don't gossip, but yeah, that's what we get up there.

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How many glad you hear this one? If this wasn't a great message,

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I wasn't prepared. I just came to send my daughter to heaven. I don't know it's preaching to

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I had to put this together real quick, but do you think it was from the Lord? Are you sure?

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Then I have to say I think I'm done. All right. Remember, that's it. So the heartfelt prayer,

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James 5-6 tell about you, bro. Are we having a good time tonight? Are you learning something

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over here? I'm walking over here. Are you learning something? Are you learning something?

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Somebody do this. I think the person next to you might have gone home to heaven and you don't

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even know it. Make sure not. Now let's go. Jesus have mercy. Sometimes some of you look like

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you've been baptized and pickled juice. Listen to me now.

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So is Paschal. I'll let it stop. So anyway,

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I'll make this quick. James 5-16, the heartfelt prayer of a Christian,

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has much power in the Greek coin A. Greek says it has it's wonderful, brings wonderful results.

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It just has to come from the heart. It has to come from the heart. One day it's a car broken

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down on the side of the road. The guy couldn't fix it. It's kids, his wife's in the car. It's hard.

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Well, a machine pulls up. True story. I'm done. I'm actually done yet.

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And because I'm getting hungry.

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Jesus helped me.

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So anyway, car, let me see. It pulls. It's got to get out. It's a guy. Guys covered with grease,

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so the car won't start. He said, sir, can I look at change? Guys, let's go ahead.

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We get stuff all over. Guys, don't worry about it. Rolls up his sleeves, begins to work on the engine.

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Five minutes. Boom. It's fixed. Just get in there. God turns it on. Boom. Cars.

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God says, okay, he starts walking back to him. He said, sir, why would you stop and do this?

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He said, you know, who are you? He says, my name is Henry Ford. That's one of my cars.

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I don't like to see my cars on the side of the road broken. I want them fixed. God is

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your fixer. God doesn't want your marriage broken. I need somebody to help me. He doesn't want you

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broken in your addiction. He doesn't want to leave you and that mess you in. When he comes by,

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he sees a broken heart. He sees who's left you, who's walked out on you. He sees who's promised

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you this, but gave you nothing. He knows your heart is hurt. He knows you need fixing. But the

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Lord will do it. He'll fix you. How many know he's a fixer? Sometimes, sometimes, he will put

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you in a fix. See, God will fix a fix to fix you. But if you fix to fix God, put you into

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fix you. He'll fix another fix to fix you. So when God puts you in a fix, let God do the fixer

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in you. Because God knows in the closest people know you need fixing over here.

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God pulls up. He don't want to see your life broken down. He's going to fix it. He stands

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in your feet with you. Bower of your head in every eye closed. I'm calling you to Jesus right now.

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You may have walked in this building. You said, Mr. Hall of Hand, Tommy, I believe in God, but

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so does the devil. The longest journey is now from here to China. It's the 18 inches from the head

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to the heart, whose service shall believe from their heart on the Lord Jesus. So every head bow

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please every eye closed. 2,000 years ago on a bloody cross that became an altar. The son of God

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was nailed to that cross. Several hours prior, they took his back off with a cat and nine tails.

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Put a bonnet of thorns one inch on his skull and then beat it into his head with a read. A bat

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spit in his face blindfolded him and tore his beard out. And every moment of that would happen to him.

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I should have gone through that. Jesus Christ died as me, not just for me, but as me. He died on

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that cross because of my sins and your sins. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am, I said our sins. You see,

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something unites every one of us under the sound of my voice. And I preached this in meetings

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right all over America to mass thousand. Sometimes the hundreds, but every day to a few, I bring this

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same message. We all have a similarity. We all have a common disease. It's called sin. We're born

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with it. It's what makes us angry when we shouldn't be selfish when we should be selfless. It makes

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us hate it. It makes us just do the things that we shouldn't do. My God, what is wrong with me? It's

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sin. It's in our nature. A dog has boxed by nature. A cat me owls by nature. And we, my good friends,

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we sin by nature. When my children were little, nobody never saw mommy and daddy fighting over

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anything or saying, give me that. Give me, give me. But here they were just one and two years old

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fighting over a little toy. Give me now mine, mine, mine. Hitting each other where they get

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that's not taught, that's their nature. What can cleanse your soul from sin? Nothing but the blood

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of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious, is that flow

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that makes me clean? I know. No other felt I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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While every head is bowed and every eye is closed, I'm asking you to come to Jesus. I may never see

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you again. And if you forget me, you have forgotten nobody important. But if you walk out of this

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building and leave your heart empty, trying to fill it over and over again with things that are

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temporary, you see, friend, there's a God-shaped hole in your heart and only Christ can fill it.

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All religions reach up for God. Christianity reaches down for man. Would you come to Jesus today?

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Would you come to Jesus? I'm not here to get you to join a church or religion. There are

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several people here that used to really walk with Jesus, but you drifted away, you drifted away.

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And you're not happy. Come back to my Jesus now. I'm going to count to three. And at the count of

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three, I want to simply ask those of you that say, Pastor Tommy, I want to give my life to Jesus.

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I want you to put your hand up and I'm going to pray for you right now that I'm going to leave.

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Just let me pray for you. He dragged you across up the hill of Calvary. You can surely raise

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your hands and mean business. You're coming to Jesus right now. It's time. There's no more time

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left. It's the midnight hour, friend. You have no time left. You'll take you as you are and change

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your heart in mind. You'll have a miracle where you'll say, oh my God, I feel His presence and power.

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It's really real. You must be born again. Yes, yes, you must be born again. Jesus said that.

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I'm going to count to three. At the count of three, I'm going to pray for you. Put your hand up.

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You want Jesus. Get ready. One, Father, touch every heart in this building. You touch

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yourself every heart, every mind, every life. Get ready. He's speaking to you. Two, there's an angel

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on one shoulder saying, give your life to Jesus. There's a devil on the other saying, don't do it.

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Don't do it. It's time for you to come. My friends at Christ and ask His forgiveness and invite

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Him in to be your Lord. Get ready with your hands. You're not here to talk to man. You're here to

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talk to God. Those of you that want to receive Jesus as your own personal Lord and Savior right now.

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Every head, battle be I close. One, two, three. Put your hand up right now so I can pray for you. I see

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that hand. I see that hand. There's others here. There you go. God bless you. God bless you for

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that hand. There's others here right now. Come on. Come on. Don't let the enemies. Don't let pride

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keep you where you're where your sin has brought you. You're coming to Jesus. You'll walk out of

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this building. If you meet it, you'll say, oh my God. Oh my God. I feel the presence and the power

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of Jesus Christ. Not a religion or relationship. Every one of you raise your hand. Don't be ashamed.

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Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. Get them up there. Don't be ashamed. Keep them up. You're not

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ashamed of Christ. Now pray this prayer with me. Those of you. There's three more right now.

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Three more of you that need to surrender. That's all I'm asking you. There's surrender to Jesus.

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Stop fighting the one that loves you most. Put your hand up. You're surrendering to Jesus right now.

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Yes, I heard what the Lord just taught me. I don't hear voices, but I heard what the Lord told me.

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I'm going for souls right now. I don't need anybody's approval. I'm going for souls right now.

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This decision you're about to make will be the difference whether you go to heaven or hell.

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In 1959 a woman driving down the road 63 years old driving her car when a truck got on her bumper

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began to blow her horn every head bow. He blew the horn over and over. She looked in the rear

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of your mirror and this man was screaming in his truck. So she brought it up to 65 69. He followed

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a bumper on her bumper on her bumper up to 80 90. He's still with this tractor trailer on her

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bumper blowing and screaming at her. In a frenzy she found an exit and drove off the highway

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into a garage and put her head on her stealing wheel out of gas station crying and next to her

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pulled the truck out of the truck. Jumped this maniac trucker with a wrench in his hand.

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He ran over to her. She looked as he raised the wrench. She fell on the seat but he opened up the

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back door and he struck on the head a man with a knife that had been hidden in the back seat.

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He had been trying to warn her you have a lunatic in the back seat of your car that's going to kill you.

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The one that she thought was going to hurt her was the one that had come to save her and the

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maniac in the back seat my friend is you. You're destroying your life without Jesus Christ.

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Christ has come to get the maniac out of your life and to change your life. Are you ready?

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Are you ready for that? Pray this for Jesus. Come on Jesus. I need you to forgive me for all of my

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sins. Wash me in your blood. Save my soul now. I believe, Lord, 2000 years ago you died on

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a cross and rose from the grave. You took my judgment. You took what I deserve. Now save my soul.

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Come into my heart. Feel me with your spirit. Change my life. I want to belong to you now.

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Save me from myself and my sins. Thank you Jesus for coming into my heart. One more thing, Lord,

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should I die before you return? Remember me when I stand before you. Say by grace alone,

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through faith alone, in Christ alone. Amen and amen. God bless.

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that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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