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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | Living Off A Memory | June 26, 2022
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- Bishop Jakes: I have come to understand that all that really
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- matters about life are moments and memories.
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- I remember the thunderous sound that I'm used to hearing on
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- Sunday morning when thousands of people break out in spontaneous
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- praise and the aisle is filled with dancing.
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- And it's funny, the emptiness didn't hurt like the memory of
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- the full.
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- Tell the devil, you took my clothes and you took my name but
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- you did not take my memory, and I still remember who I am.
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- There has never been one before you and there will never be one
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- after you, and yet, the enemy wants to destroy what makes
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- you unique.
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- My only defiance to the times we're living in is the memory
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- that God gave me to hold on.
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- There are some things God does so that you will define your
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- relationship with him on the basis of a memory.
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- Don't you ever get so lonely that you forget that I'm God,
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- don't you ever get so depressed that you forget that I'm God.
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- You oughta be able to praise him right in front of that computer.
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- When you look back and you see where God brought you from,
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- that'll be something in your life that you've not let the
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- devil take from you.
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- If you remember God, God will remember you.
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- ♪ "Whoa-oh, The Potter's Touch, The Potter's Touch." ♪♪
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- Bishop Jakes: I've come to realize, as I walk out this
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- journey, that even though we chronicle years and months and
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- dates in phrases of anniversaries and birthdays, and
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- we commit and commemorate those things with silver anniversaries
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- and golden anniversaries, and then we saturate them with the
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- ideas of appreciating the time that we had spent together with
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- people or with companies or with children or with spouses; I have
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- come to realize, as I've gotten older, it is not so much the
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- days, the weeks, the months or even the years that stay
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- with you.
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- I've been married to my wife 39 years, and in all honesty,
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- 39, right?
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- Glory to God, hallelujah, don't wanna hear about that in
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- the car.
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- And in all, in all of the 39 years, I don't remember 39
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- years, I don't remember 39 Christmases, I don't remember 39
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- Easters and 39 anniversaries, not one by one and name a name.
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- I remember some of them, I don't remember all of them.
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- I don't remember every week of every month and every year, I
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- remember moments and memories.
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- And I've come to understand that all that really matters about
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- life are moments and memories.
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- One of the worst things you can lose is lose your mind, your
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- ability to remember memories, because all life is really all
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- about are the moments and the memories.
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- The memories are very important because they define you, they're
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- what you sit on the couch and laugh about with your teeth in
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- a cup.
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- They're what you enjoy, laughing, wrapped up in
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- blankets, sitting on the back porch when it's too cold to be
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- outside but you're wrapped up drinking hot chocolate, giggling
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- about things that happen along the way.
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- For example, I didn't get permission for this so I may
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- have to get forgiveness.
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- I had not long been married.
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- And yes, she said, "Bless him."
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- I had not long been married, and not long after I got married, I
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- lost my job and the economy went down, and we were struggling and
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- we were having a hard time.
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- We lived in a little wood frame house right beside a little
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- creek and I'd just got married, I brought my wife into the
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- house, we were living in the house.
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- First winter in the house, she did not realize in the winter,
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- we didn't have rats but the creek had big old rats,
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- you know?
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- And in the winter, the rats were looking for someplace warm,
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- they'll try to crawl under the house or crawl in the house or
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- get anywhere they can.
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- I mean, now y'all are from Texas, and y'all have mice;
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- we're from West Virginia, we have rats.
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- Rats are big enough that cats look at it and say, "Not me."
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- So it wasn't about getting a cat, a rat out of a river bank
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- is as big as a cat.
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- I come home and open up the door, and every kitchen cabinet
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- is open.
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- And my wife is standing there like a samurai warrior and she's
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- got blood in her eyes and I know she's mad about something and
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- she's ready to fight the good fight.
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- I thought, "What did I do?"
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- It wasn't me, one of those rats had gotten in the house and it
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- was a big old rat, about as big as two of your feet
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- put together.
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- It was a big old rat that had gotten in the house and I was
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- going to be the hero but she already had it together,
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- she thought.
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- She's standing in the middle of the kitchen with all the cabinet
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- doors open, Frank, she got a can of Raid.
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- I said, "What are you doing?"
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- She said, "A rat's in the house."
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- I said, "Okay, we'll get him, we'll catch it, we'll kill it."
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- She said, "I think I got him."
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- I said, "What did you get it with?"
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- She said, "The Raid."
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- I said, "Why are you spraying Raid on a rat?"
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- She said, "'Cause I read on the can it's harmful to pets."
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- And I told her, "If you kill the rat with the Raid, it's because
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- he laughed himself to death."
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- I imagine a big old rat laying over in the back of the cabinet,
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- falling out laughing, going into a heart attack laughing at this
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- woman who is squirting him like he is a roach with a can
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- of raid.
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- It was crazy, it was funny, we laughed about it for years, and
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- when were sitting back laughing and talking we're talking about
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- crazy moments and memories that defined it.
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- It's not always the contrived, special moments, where you got
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- dressed up and you think you're all looking good, and you're
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- trying to be important and you smell like a bottle of flowers.
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- Those are not always the greatest ones, the greatest
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- moments are the little, cute, crazy, idiotic things that make
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- people love you, make them remember you, make them stay
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- with you.
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- God understands the importance of moments, God understands the
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- power of memories, and there are some things God does so that you
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- will define your relationship with him on the basis of
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- a memory.
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- He told Moses, he says, "I'm going to bring the children of
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- Israel out of Egypt.
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- I'm going to cause the death angel to pass over by night, I
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- want you to put blood on the doorposts and on the lentil."
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- And he said, "When the death angel passes over, when he sees
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- the blood he will pass over you."
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- And that one moment became a point of reference for the next
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- thousand years.
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- God referred to, "Am I not the God who brought you out of
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- the wilderness?
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- Am I not the God who brought you out of Egypt?
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- Am I not the God who delivered you from the hand of Pharaoh?"
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- That one moment was done so that they would have a memory; so
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- that whatever they faced, the Hittites, the Jebusites, the
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- Philistines, whatever they came into, they would remember that
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- moment and use that moment as a point of reference to build
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- their faith up, to strengthen their faith, to define their
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- relationship with God, and say, "If God can do that, he can do
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- this too."
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- In the New Testament, on the night before Jesus was to be
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- offered up, he had a Passover dinner with the disciples.
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- And he brought them together and he took it and he changed the
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- meaning of the Passover to what we call Communion; he took the
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- bread and he broke it and he blessed it and he gave it to
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- them and told them to eat.
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- And he said, "This do," what?
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- Say it again, say it again.
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- "This do in remembrance of me."
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- And so, "As often as you do this, you do show forth the
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- Lord's death 'til he comes."
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- He is replacing the blood of the Lamb with the blood of Jesus.
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- He says, "I'm gonna give you a new memory, a new reflection, a
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- new way of identifying yourself.
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- And as often as you do this, you'll let me know, 'I still
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- remember, I still remember.'"
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- I hate it when people forget, I hate it when they forget.
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- I'm not talking about forget where you put your watch or
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- forget where you parked your car, I'm talking about
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- forgetting when I be good to you, I mean forget when I helped
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- you out of trouble.
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- I don't mind being betrayed, but I hate being betrayed by people
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- I was good to.
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- It just gets on my nerves to think, "How did you forget?
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- Am I not the same person that you called at two o'clock in the
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- morning and you were in trouble, and you going to [indistinct]
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- me?
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- Et to, Brute?
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- You too?"
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- People forget, they forget.
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- They forget and they walk away from you and fail to remember
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- the things that matter the most in life.
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- In our text tonight, this is probably the bloodiest Psalms of
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- all the 150 divisions of Psalms.
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- It is bloody because he openly and adamantly hopes God kills
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- the Edomites, and prays that he kills their children
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- and everybody.
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- It is naked, it is honest, it is, as young people say,
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- "Keeping it 100."
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- He doesn't try to impress us with being deeply spiritual, his
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- emotion's are all over the place.
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- In the course of nine verses, he spiritual one moment, he's
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- remorseful the next moment, he's angry the next moment, all
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- incorporated in nine verses of the 137th division of Psalms.
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- And in order to appreciate the magnitude of what is going here,
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- what is happening here, you must understand that he has left
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- Jerusalem, on the run.
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- His home has been besieged by the Babylonians and the
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- Edomites, the nine tribes have been lost and the remnant has
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- escaped, and only a few have stayed in Jerusalem.
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- They have been beaten, fiercely beaten, not beaten like you got
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- a whipping, I mean beaten like you're a dog, like you're
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- an animal.
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- They had been beaten until they were bloody and battered.
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- In the hot Palestinian heat, they drug them away, defeated,
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- out of their own country and their own land and their own
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- customs, away from Jerusalem.
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- Oh, Jerusalem.
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- Bishop Jakes: You've heard the praise, you've heard the
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- worship, you've entered into the presence of God.
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- In a few moments, you're gonna hear the Word of God.
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- All of that is being ministered to you, but what I have you've
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- ministered back?
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- This is the opportunity for you to participate, nobody can do
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- this for you.
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- You don't have to be able to sing, you don't have to be able
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- to preach, you have to be able to have values, and to value God
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- in your life and value in his Word and value his presence.
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- This is your opportunity to participate.
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- Everything else has largely been spectator, but now you can
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- participate and own this and embrace this and draw from this
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- word on a different level.
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- Because do you not know, when you sow into the word, you
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- harvest more back out of the word than people who are just
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- watching the word like they're watching a movie?
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- I want to challenge you to sow into this word because I believe
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- with all of my heart that God has given me a word for you.
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- Bishop Jakes: The Bible says in Revelation, "Remember from what
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- great height you are fallen, and repent."
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- And it seems like a weird thing to say but sometimes you forget
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- what you lost until something comes along and reminds you.
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- No wonder he got angry, no wonder he sat there and got
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- bitter and condemned their children and asked God to
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- destroy the Edomites and the Babylonians and to rise up
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- against them; because he knew three things.
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- And there are three things I want you to get and remember,
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- they're very important.
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- Number one, taking me to Babylon doesn't make me a Babylonian.
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- You can take me to Babylon, but you can't make me a Babylonian,
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- I will always be who I am.
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- I don't care where you drag me, I don't care what you do to me,
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- I don't care what you take from me, taking me to Babylon doesn't
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- make me a Babylonian.
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- You can change my name, and they did; you can change my clothes,
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- and they did; you can impart a name on me that honors your God,
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- and they did that too.
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- But you can never make me forget who I am, I am not this.
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- I may be in this, [speaking in tongues], I may be in this but I
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- am not this.
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- I don't know who I'm preaching to; you may be in it but you are
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- not that.
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- Don't let the devil convince you, just because of a temporary
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- circumstance, that you forget who you really are.
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- You might be in a storm right now, you might be suffering
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- right now, you might be broke right now but don't believe it.
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- Tell the devil, "You took my clothes and you took my name but
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- you did not take my memory, and I still remember who I am."
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- Number two, remember this, that my memories define my identity.
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- And you can take my clothes but it wasn't in my clothes; and you
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- can take my bracelets, it's not in my bracelets; and you can
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- change my name and cut my hair but you cannot take my identity
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- because I still remember who I am.
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- The last thing I told my youngest son when I took him off
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- to college, I hollered out the window and said, "Hey, boy,
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- don't you forget who you are, hold onto your with memories."
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- There's not a person in this room that God didn't do
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- something in your life as an evidence to you that he is God
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- over every circumstance in your life; some memento, some moment,
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- some time, some situation where God showed up in your life.
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- And don't you get in the storm and forget what he taught you.
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- And number three, why do we value more in retrospect than we
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- do in real time?
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- Sometimes we don't appreciate the good things 'til we lose
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- them, sometimes we don't value the people we have in our lives
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- 'til we lose them.
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- Sometimes we don't appreciate a good job, a good ministry, a
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- good opportunity, a good friend 'til they're gone.
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- Why do we value more in retrospect that we do in
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- real time?
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- We throw people away so easily, we get rid of them like they're
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- expendable commodities.
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- Sometimes you ought to remember before you make a decision that
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- you may be throwing away somebody today that you
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- need tomorrow.
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- And he said, "I hung my harp by the willow tree."
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- "We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
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- If you've ever seen a willow tree, out of all the trees that
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- stretch their branches upward toward heaven, a willow tree
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- always looks sad because its branches hang down.
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- And he said, "I hung my harp on the willow tree, I took the
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- instrument of praise that I sang and danced before God with and
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- tied it to a tree that was pointed to the ground.
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- And on the willow tree we hung our harps, and when we hung our
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- harps by the willow trees the only sound they could hear from
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- us is weeping."
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- You can take me from it but you can't make me not want it, you
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- can lock me up but you can't stop me from remembering it.
- 00:18:47.876 --> 00:18:54.049
- I took that last look as you drug me away and it burned a
- 00:18:54.049 --> 00:18:59.221
- picture in my mind before a camera had ever been made.
- 00:18:59.221 --> 00:19:02.457
- "If I forget Jerusalem, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
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- my mouth."
- 00:19:10.065 --> 00:19:11.700
- My only defiance to the times we're living in is the memory
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- that God gave me to hold on.
- 00:19:19.408 --> 00:19:21.777
- "And this do in remembrance of me," and, "'As often as you do
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- this,' I don't want you to ever get in a situation that you
- 00:19:27.849 --> 00:19:31.386
- forget that I am God, I don't want you to ever let some chains
- 00:19:31.386 --> 00:19:37.526
- get on you so tight that you forget that I'm God.
- 00:19:37.526 --> 00:19:40.429
- Don't you ever get so broke that you forget that I'm God, don't
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- you ever get so lonely that you forget that I'm God, don't you
- 00:19:44.032 --> 00:19:47.369
- ever get so depressed that you forget that I'm God."
- 00:19:47.369 --> 00:19:55.477
- I'm wondering if there's anybody in this room or listening online
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- who has anything that God ever did for you that you know that
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- you know that you know that you know that God did for you, that
- 00:20:03.218 --> 00:20:07.623
- whenever all hell breaks loose and the enemy tries to take you
- 00:20:07.623 --> 00:20:11.059
- captive you can remember it and say, "Devil, you're a liar, I
- 00:20:11.059 --> 00:20:15.330
- know God is real."
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- If there's anybody who's got a memory of God in your life, open
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- your mouth and give him a praise.
- 00:20:21.536 --> 00:20:28.076
- Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, just a praise.
- 00:20:28.076 --> 00:20:35.784
- I know he did that, I know he did that, I know he did that for
- 00:20:35.784 --> 00:20:40.389
- me, I know he did that for me, I know he did that.
- 00:20:40.389 --> 00:20:43.825
- I don't know what I'm gonna eat tomorrow but I know he did that.
- 00:20:43.825 --> 00:20:47.429
- I don't know whether my marriage is gonna work but I know God
- 00:20:47.429 --> 00:20:50.666
- did that.
- 00:20:50.666 --> 00:20:52.034
- I don't know whether I'll get my job back but I know God, I know,
- 00:20:52.034 --> 00:20:55.871
- I know, I know.
- 00:20:55.871 --> 00:21:07.482
- "I know that my redeemer lives."
- 00:21:11.153 --> 00:21:15.590
- "Though the skin worms eat up my flesh," though boils are all
- 00:21:15.657 --> 00:21:19.528
- over my body, "I know that my redeemer liveth."
- 00:21:19.528 --> 00:21:22.931
- Job said that with his kids dead and his house burnt down and his
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- crops all eaten up.
- 00:21:27.936 --> 00:21:29.304
- He said, All of that might be true but, "I know that my
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- redeemer liveth."
- 00:21:32.874 --> 00:21:34.209
- I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
- 00:21:34.209 --> 00:21:38.880
- I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
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- Somebody I'm preaching to, the enemy's trying to make you
- 00:21:44.252 --> 00:21:50.959
- forget what you know about God.
- 00:21:50.959 --> 00:21:54.663
- Do you not know the enemy comes against your memory of God?
- 00:21:54.730 --> 00:21:58.533
- The Bible says, "(The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
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- mighty through God for the pulling down of strong holds;)
- 00:22:01.103 --> 00:22:04.439
- Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts
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- itself against the knowledge of God."
- 00:22:09.678 --> 00:22:13.782
- Somebody holler, "I know it."
- 00:22:13.782 --> 00:22:15.450
- It might not look like it, but I know it; I may be tied up right
- 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:22.991
- now, but I know it; I may be down to my last dime, but I know
- 00:22:22.991 --> 00:22:28.296
- it; I may be hurting right now, but I know it; I might be tied
- 00:22:28.296 --> 00:22:33.268
- in chains, but I know it; I might be crying by the willow
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- tree, but I know it.
- 00:22:37.439 --> 00:22:38.940
- I know it.
- 00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:40.342
- And they asked us to sing the Lord's song, they wanted us to
- 00:22:43.712 --> 00:22:49.885
- reduce our worship down to their entertainment, and I will not
- 00:22:49.885 --> 00:22:57.559
- allow something that's holy to me to become entertainment
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- to you.
- 00:23:02.364 --> 00:23:03.999
- This song belongs to God, and if I can't sing it to him, I won't
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- sing it to you.
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- I won't let anything be another God before me.
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- Come on, somebody.
- 00:23:16.878 --> 00:23:18.747
- Somebody wants to replace God in your life and get you to be as
- 00:23:18.747 --> 00:23:23.518
- dedicated to them as you are to God, but to hang your harp by
- 00:23:23.518 --> 00:23:30.325
- the willow tree and say, Don't nobody get that part of me
- 00:23:30.325 --> 00:23:33.094
- but God.
- 00:23:33.094 --> 00:23:34.429
- You can have this and that and the other but don't nobody get
- 00:23:34.429 --> 00:23:37.065
- that part of me but God.
- 00:23:37.065 --> 00:23:38.433
- I love you 'til my heart bust but you don't get this part of
- 00:23:38.433 --> 00:23:41.536
- me, this part belongs to God.
- 00:23:41.536 --> 00:23:43.605
- I have an inner sanctuary that I don't let nobody in but God.
- 00:23:43.605 --> 00:23:48.543
- To God be the glory.
- 00:23:48.543 --> 00:23:50.045
- I will not dance and sing and become your
- 00:23:50.045 --> 00:23:57.686
- entertainment, no-no.
- 00:23:57.686 --> 00:24:03.158
- I lost my culture, I lost my name, I lost my apparel, I lost
- 00:24:03.158 --> 00:24:11.233
- my environment, but I have not lost my memory.
- 00:24:11.233 --> 00:24:17.839
- "If I forget Jerusalem, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
- 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:24.312
- my mouth."
- 00:24:24.312 --> 00:24:26.014
- There ought to be something that you remember about God that can
- 00:24:26.014 --> 00:24:31.319
- make you sing in your house.
- 00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:33.088
- Oh, y'all didn't hear me; not in a church, in your house.
- 00:24:33.088 --> 00:24:39.694
- There ought to be something that you remember about God that'll
- 00:24:39.694 --> 00:24:43.498
- make you shout while you're washing your dishes.
- 00:24:43.498 --> 00:24:46.268
- There ought to be something that you remember about God that you
- 00:24:46.268 --> 00:24:49.304
- don't need praise dancers, you don't need praise singers, you
- 00:24:49.304 --> 00:24:52.674
- don't need equipment, all you need to do is think on the
- 00:24:52.674 --> 00:24:56.077
- goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for you.
- 00:24:56.077 --> 00:24:59.514
- You ought to be able to praise him right in front of that
- 00:24:59.514 --> 00:25:01.950
- computer, when you look back and you see where God brought
- 00:25:01.950 --> 00:25:06.254
- you from.
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- There oughta be something in your life that you've not let
- 00:25:07.589 --> 00:25:10.125
- the devil take from you.
- 00:25:10.125 --> 00:25:11.826
- And if you can hear me, you oughta give God a praise for
- 00:25:11.826 --> 00:25:15.363
- that thing you still got.
- 00:25:15.363 --> 00:25:19.334
- I still got it, I still got it, I still got it.
- 00:25:19.334 --> 00:25:24.873
- I was young but now I'm old, but I still got it.
- 00:25:24.873 --> 00:25:28.810
- I lost some friends but I still got it.
- 00:25:28.810 --> 00:25:31.947
- I got my anointing, I got the glory, I got the power of God, I
- 00:25:31.947 --> 00:25:37.786
- got the thing that I know that he did in my life.
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- If there's a witness out there, if God's got a witness anywhere,
- 00:25:41.690 --> 00:25:46.194
- open your mouth and give God the praise.
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