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Okay, I seem to be live, I want to welcome those of you who are here seem to be live.

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I want to welcome those of you who are here seem to be live, I want to welcome those of you who are here.

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Okay.

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I hope that I got all my bugs out.

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Let me check one more thing just to make sure.

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Okay, well, I guess I'm up.

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I guess I am up. Okay. Well, God bless you. And I want to welcome you guys who have decided to come in, I got this about.

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We have about a minute to go. So I think it'll be time enough to get to know you guys and, and let me know in the chat. If you are joining me live on Facebook, or you're coming on over to zoom.

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You'll see there on this on my page down there somewhere, there is a link to tell you how to get into zoom, and that'd be very very awesome. Okay, so I hope that you are taking the time right now to to think a lot about where you want to go from

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here. What is it you want to do. I don't know if you had the chance to. Oh, listen to my introduction.

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Just before we started about an hour ago I talked about the fact that. Oh, wow. What happens when you when someone tells you, well, need to think about this you need to think about that you need to think about these things.

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And then you go, oh my gosh, because my thought has always always been. Wow. I don't know if I really want to admit that this is where my problem is that might make me look bad in front of other people that may be on this call.

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So really, I really don't want to say exactly what I would like to accomplish. That's me. That's where I was, but I want to tell you right now that that's not being honest with you, and it's not being honest with God, but you know what you're not pulling

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God's eyes, because he knows exactly where you are, but this is what we want to do.

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I'm not a farmer, you know, I don't like plants that much where I can tell you what route is good and what route is bad, but I tell you what I can tell you, I can tell you that I've been walking long enough with the father that I know that that hate is the

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root. I don't want in my life comparison is a route, I don't want in my life, and often mindset is also a route, I no longer want in my life. So what about you, there are routes that you may not even know you got, but praise God, when we finish.

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And we're going to pull those suckers up right by the root, and we're going to burn them, and then we're going to plant the right seed for the right fruit, so that we can be all that God called us to be.

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So I want to welcome you to the great unfailing, the wow, and you. Oh my gosh, the woman of word. Wow. That's awesome. So, if you think about it.

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No, not yet.

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Oh my gosh. Well, here we go. Hi.

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Because I'm looking at that it's not, it's not popping up.

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No, it's not.

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It should.

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Well, I don't even know how your thing works.

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You shouldn't have to go they should go to the main screen.

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Because that's if you want to go into, I know that I did but it's nothing, nothing is popping up on your screen.

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That's why I'm saying, there you go. So where are you know but these are old videos that they're already finished videos that was live you're not actually live.

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Because you're on a zoom. Yeah, I know but I'm supposed to be in Facebook it showed on my phone that I was there.

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She's doing all of this stuff and once again there's a problem.

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Hey,

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that's from the beginning.

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Okay.

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So I.

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But then why isn't it coming. I do not know I do not know. I don't. I don't.

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Well, there we go.

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Oh my gosh, I don't know.

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Well, we're all up on my computer, that's for sure.

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Okay, we're on my, we're on my phone. I guess that's, that's the best I can do right now. I'm live on my phone, and that seems to be the only place I am.

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I do not understand it so hey guys, if there's anything, any one of you that are out there that would like to let me know that I am indeed on Facebook.

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And I'm going live.

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Let me see. I would really like to know.

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Am I going live.

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Am I up here on that I don't want to stop the recording. Sheesh, I didn't expect that.

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I'm just going to go ahead on and go.

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I was on a roll. Can you tell me where I was because I forgot all about where I was going to go. Okay, I guess the best thing to do is it's on here.

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So I guess the best thing I can do now is, I'll just go back and eventually I'll just cut out all the stuff that doesn't need to be there. Maybe I just leave it in.

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But anyway, let's open with a word of prayer, so that we can get on the same sheet of music, so that we can begin to see to unveil the heart of the Creator God towards you as his daughter.

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The woman of word. Wow. So Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I want to thank you for the opportunity that I have to speak to your daughters to show them your heart, your commitment to them that you've called them before the foundations

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of the whole world, and you allow them to stir within the confines of your heart, and in the confines of your being and father and at the right time, you gave birth to each and every one of them, and you have a purpose, and you have a plan that is set

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for them. And Father, I thank you that through this idea that you've given me father to unveil your heart. The while the woman of worth, that it will allow them to begin to rise up within them and be who you've called them to be in Jesus mighty mighty

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name. Amen. Wow. Well, hello, I want to welcome you to this bowl woman of wealth, as you know this is a five day challenge. And it's a challenge for a reason.

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You are going to have to, you're going to have to challenge yourself, because why else would you be here, or come back for the replay.

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And if you just want to go, Oh, well that's kind of nice and don't do anything with it. The whole point is to change and change is what we're all about, because if we don't change.

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You know what we do an outbound. We just tend to sit right where we are, and the world passes us by. And God is saying, get up, because I've called you for such a time as right now, and he wants to show you some things that will literally blow you away.

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Okay, now,

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for me, you know, this is a little bit different than probably other challenges and other courses that are out there that talk about women, daughters of God, and all of those things.

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And as you notice, there's one big difference.

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Can you tell me what it is.

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This is a man, this is not woman to woman. This is a man.

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This is a man, and I believe that what God wants to do is to once again, speak in such a way to show the heart of a father through the heart of a man.

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really represent the heart of a man.

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Now, I gotta make this clear

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for you beautiful ladies out there.

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That doesn't mean that you gotta be rough and ready,

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tough, you know, burling up your sleeves

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and showing that I can whip any man in town.

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No, that's not the point.

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That's not the point.

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Because you see, God created woman just as well.

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And there's a heart of the father that is for the woman

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because he's created.

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How awesome is that?

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He's the creator.

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He knows about all of that stuff, okay?

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So once again, my heart's desire is to unveil

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the heart of the creator God as the father.

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And I believe that it was always, always, always

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his original intent.

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Wow, did you get that?

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It was always God's original intent.

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So let's handle a little logistics, okay?

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One, why a man?

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Why now?

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And why me?

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Are you ready?

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Okay, why a man?

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Well, who else can display a father's heart than a man?

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Now, I know that that can be a can of worms,

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especially in today.

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It's definitely could be a side of a coin,

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a double-sided coin, maybe even a double-edged sword.

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You can get cut either way.

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But hey, let's get honest with what we're talking about.

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One side of the coin is that the father is missing.

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Maybe both parents are missing.

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That is a real issue.

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The father is not there.

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He is missing for whatever reason.

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He is not involved.

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Maybe he didn't even know you existed.

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Maybe.

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The way things are today, who knows, you know?

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And the other side of the coin is that the,

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that he's either not available or he's missing.

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That's one side of the coin.

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The other side of the coin happens to be

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that there is a father that's in your life.

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He does really care about you,

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but he does not really know how to speak into your life.

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He doesn't know how to show you what he feels.

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And when he does, it comes across frass.

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What's another word?

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Overprotective, judgmental, maybe even both.

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It seems as though that every time he turns around,

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you're always doing something wrong and you go,

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I can't please this guy no matter what I do.

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So you give up.

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But those are basically the basics

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of what I'm talking about.

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So that's what it is to be a, why a man and why now?

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You know, let's face it.

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Parents, for the most part,

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have done the best they know how to do

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with what they did, with what they know.

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The best of what they could do by what they know.

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I'm not trying to shame them or put them down.

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Hey, I know for me, there are things that I'm teaching you

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that I didn't even know 25 years ago, 30 years ago.

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My kids, you saw one of them,

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my son pop up in here and stuck his hand in there.

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You know, hey, but there are things that I know now

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that I'm endeavoring to try to speak into their lives

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so that they know.

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So there's no shame in this.

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Now, you know, the important part

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is that a man has to model the heart of the creator God

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who always portrayed himself as a father,

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always portrayed himself as a father.

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How do I know?

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Do you have a Bible?

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I hope so.

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If you don't, write this down.

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And tomorrow, we make sure that we have our Bible with us

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so that everybody can read along,

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follow along with me in the Bible.

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Now, I'm gonna read this first verse

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out of the New King James Version,

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but I am prone to the passion translation,

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but it doesn't matter.

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What matters is that you have a Bible that speaks to you.

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It has to speak to you,

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because if it doesn't speak to you,

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then you're gonna miss the most important part

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of God's heart.

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And God don't want you to miss nothing.

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He don't want you to miss any of his goodness towards you.

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We're gonna turn to the Old Testament,

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Ezekiel chapter 16, starting in verse four,

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and we're gonna read down to verse six, okay?

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Ezekiel chapter 16,

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I'm starting in verse six, and it reads,

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on the day you were born, your navel cord was not cut,

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nor were you washed in water to cleanse you.

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You were not rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling

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No eye pitied you.

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In other words, no man pitied you

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to do any of these things for you,

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to have compassion on you.

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But you were thrown out into the open field

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when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born.

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Can you imagine that?

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And when I, this is God, the creator, when I passed by

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and saw you struggling in your own blood,

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I said to you, in your blood, live.

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I just love that.

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I said to you, in your blood, live.

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Oh my gosh.

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That just blows me away.

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You know why?

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Because this is what a father's heart is like.

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He said, live.

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And he spoke it.

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And if he speaks something, look,

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if God could create the heavens and the Earth

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by the mere words that come out of his mouth,

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then what about seeing you sitting there,

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kicking in your blood, and he looks to you and he says,

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live.

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That just warms my heart.

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Oh my gosh.

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Now, there is a lot in these verses.

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I'll just give you one example.

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What if the navel that wasn't being cut,

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the umbilical cord, umbilical, I can't say that word,

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the navel cord, is figurative for still being attached

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to Adam, the fallen?

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He was the orphan, the original orphan.

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He was, he became the first double O agent,

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and all by the fall.

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Now, that's something we're going to dig into a little bit

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later, OK?

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So why now?

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Look around.

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Today is a good, is not a good day,

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is not a good day to be a man.

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Let's face it.

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It's not.

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Why?

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Because, hey, they're downgrading men

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all over the place, so what about fathers?

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I mean, you turn on a sitcom today,

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the father is the dunce.

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He don't know what's going on or not.

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He hasn't got a clue.

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And that's how they betray us.

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There seems to be open war on fathers and on men.

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And for me, and the way I look at it,

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most men have been downgraded to a sperm donor.

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Wow.

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Think about that for a minute.

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That most men are only considered a sperm donor.

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Why?

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Gee.

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Look at the confusion over gender.

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It's like a raging fire and is burning up

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everything in its path.

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Why?

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Because everybody knows, everybody

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knows that, hey, certain things just don't work,

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but they don't want to admit to that.

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So now they're trying to force you and me into things

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that don't need to be there.

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Now, take your Bibles and go to Isaiah chapter 59 and verse 14.

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We're going to read 14 and 15.

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Now, I'm reading this out of the Passion Translation,

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but you can read it out of any version you like.

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OK?

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Now, I have to tell you a little bit of background

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on this verse.

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I always said that sometimes verses just

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seem to jump off the page and slap upside the head.

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And this was one of those verses that

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did it almost eight, nine, maybe 10 years ago.

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And I didn't know what to do with it.

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I saw it, and I go, oh my gosh.

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What do I do with this, God?

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I don't understand.

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What does this verse really mean?

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I don't get it.

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So what do you do?

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You put it on the back burner and say, OK, God,

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when I think, when you think I can understand,

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you'll begin to show it to me.

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And I always look for someone.

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who knew more than me to handle this verse.

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And it wasn't until almost eight, nine years later

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that someone handled this verse and it blew me away.

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But it took eight years that I had to grow

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to understand what it was that God was trying to say.

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Now let's read it, okay?

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Verse 14 of Isaiah 59.

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And it reads, justice is driven away

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and righteousness stands on the sidelines.

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For truth has stumbled in the market square,

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in the public square, and morality entered

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and morality could not enter.

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Yes, truth has disappeared and those who turn

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from evil become the next victim.

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Oh my gosh, do you get that?

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Do you understand that?

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Because look, truth comes with a price.

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And if no one is listening to truth,

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then hey, then we will never be able to turn

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from what's right, from what's wrong,

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to that which is right.

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How can we?

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How honestly can we if truth no longer exists?

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And you know what?

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This is our quest right there.

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And if you don't have a question,

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if you don't have a question, you can't have a quest.

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No question, no quest.

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No quest, you won't find truth.

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If you don't find truth, you can't move further.

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Truth is important, wow.

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So that's where we are right there.

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What happened to a man being someone who is vulnerable?

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What happened to a man who is strong,

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is able to love and display it?

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It doesn't mean that, oh, look at him,

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he's very feminine, he's letting his feminists, no.

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No, no.

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It is a way in which a man can be vulnerable

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to display that he cares for his kids.

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You know, there has to be something more to it

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than just the way the world is trying to portray these things

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it just has to be.

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A father is one who protects, he dispenses identity.

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Did you know that?

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Did you know that?

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The greatest example we have here in Sweden

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is the King of Sweden.

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The crown princess is, what's her name, Sylvia?

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No, that is the queen.

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His oldest daughter, do you think that he did not show her

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or display to her, her identity and her destiny?

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Then why is it that we as humble people of this earth

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cannot see that it is important for us to have an identity

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to impart to our children?

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That we have an identity,

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that we have something to speak into,

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that there's a destiny over God's people.

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Do you think when God made, formed and created you

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in the beginning, before the land that time forgot,

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do you think that he sat there

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and he thought about the color of your skin,

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where you're gonna be born, the color of your eyes?

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Do you think that he also gave you a destiny,

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an horizon to search for, to go for?

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Don't you think that he has an identity just for you?

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And the only way we as his people,

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we need to learn to see others the way God does.

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That's why I do this course.

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That's why I'm here for this five day challenge

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to help you see God's heart for you.

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Because as I unveil the father,

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I unveil your heart towards him.

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Oh my gosh, what do you do with stuff like that?

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What do you do?

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Oh my God.

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So,

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so why me?

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Well, okay.

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Give you a brief history of me.

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I was, I was born, no, no.

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Let me tell you a little bit about me.

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I was raised by my mother and there were three boys

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and she was not married.

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You know, I was the oldest and it was three of us.

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Then she finally decided,

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I needed to get married and she had three more kids.

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Two were boys and the last one was the baby girl.

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And I tell you, she was the first woman to steal my heart.

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I'll admit it.

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She stole my heart from the beginning.

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And I tell you what, well, anyway, let me move on.

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Let me move on before I start crying.

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I would dare say that without a godly man,

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the unveiling of the father's heart is,

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families are also lost in that process.

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And I see that more and more personally in my own life.

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Although my mother finally got married,

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the man she married did not exactly show a godly heart.

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Of our heavenly father, he didn't, he didn't.

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Unfortunately he didn't.

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And a side note, I have a younger,

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the youngest brother passed away this past month.

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And on one of our calls, he told me about our dad.

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And he mentioned to me that only once he did something

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that he said that he will never forget.

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Now my brothers, all my brothers except for me

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played football.

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I was the dumb one.

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I played soccer, American, you know, European football.

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And, but he said that, that our dad showed up for his game.

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And as he was playing out there,

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he was screaming at the top of his lungs, that's my boy.

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And I went, wow, wow.

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And I was blessed for him.

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I was really blessed for him that he stood up

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and he said that, you know.

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Now, what about me?

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What did he do for me?

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Well, and this is something that I, that just came to mind.

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And I believe God wants me to share.

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For me, one time he was sitting at home and he said,

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go to the store and buy me a paper.

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And he gave me a $5 bill.

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He said, you bring my change back.

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That's how he talked.

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You bring my change back.

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So I went two blocks up to the store,

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got the paper that he wanted.

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And on my way back, three of the biggest guys,

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now I was about seven, eight years old.

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Three of the biggest guys I've ever seen came up and said,

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hey, give me your money.

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I said, I ain't got no money.

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Two of them grabbed me, picked me up

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and shook the change out of my pocket.

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And then threw me on somebody's grass.

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I came home with a bloody nose.

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My dad looked at me and said, where's my money?

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I came, the paper was all kind of wrinkly and torn up.

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And I said, I got robbed.

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He said, who?

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Who robbed you?

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I said, I don't know.

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They just grabbed me up on the corner there.

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And he said, didn't you fight?

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I said, they were bigger than I was.

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Before I knew it, I was upside down.

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And he said, okay, come on.

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So he gives me another $5 bill.

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And we went out the back door, up the alley.

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We went around and we must've walked maybe three,

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four, five blocks before we got back to the house.

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And I was wondering to myself, what is he doing?

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Is he wanting to just beat up some kids

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to make sure that he takes his eye out

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on somebody besides me?

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I didn't know.

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But anyway, that's the one thing

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that my stepfather did for me.

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He raised me, you know, and there is a love there for him.

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Okay, that was it.

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But basically my mother was the one

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who had to be a mother and a father to me.

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Now, for you single moms out there,

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I know that that's a tough thing to do.

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I know.

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And my prayer is that at some point

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that you will find some male figure out there somewhere

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that could speak into your life

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and can speak into your children's life

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so that they have an idea.

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Now, this isn't just anybody, okay?

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Not anybody.

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We're talking about somebody that comes across

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that they have a heart for God, first and foremost.

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Because, hey, it's gotta look like something, you know?

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It's gotta look like something.

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Jesus Christ showed us and unveiled for us

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the Father's heart.

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If they can't walk like Jesus, run away.

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I'd rather run, run in the opposite direction.

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So I remember one time I was going out for a party.

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Now, I'm a young teenager, getting ready to go out

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for a party, you know, getting all decked up,

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you know, all spruced up, looking real good,

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you know, getting ready to go out and have some fun.

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And my mom walks in and now she decides

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she's gonna give me a pep talk.

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And she walks in and she goes, ah, my little angel,

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look at you, all grown up.

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And I go, yeah.

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And he says, look, I want you to be respectful

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and I want you to be a gentleman.

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And I went, sure, OK.

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But remember, only the devil gets

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to go home with the little girl.

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What's a teenager supposed to do with all that?

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What are we supposed to do with that?

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Hey, I didn't know what to do with it.

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So am I supposed to be a little angel, somebody

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that's being respectful, being a gentleman?

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Or am I supposed to be the devil?

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Ding.

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Do you see what I mean?

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So looking back, I know what she was trying to say.

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But this did not unveil the heart

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of a father over Christian dating.

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It just didn't.

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So what about worth?

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I'm not going to go in and talk about the difference

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between male and female.

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Most of us know that.

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I don't need to do that.

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But what does it mean to be a person of worth,

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to be worth something?

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So what is it not?

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Well, what is not?

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It is not unimportant.

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It is not someone who is insignificant.

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It is not someone who is useless, lonely, small

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in their own eyes, or small in everybody's eyes,

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or someone who is weak.

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Wow.

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You know?

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Wow.

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I think sometimes what we end up doing

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is we overcompensate.

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We overcompensate.

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If I feel that I'm weak, then I have to show that I'm strong.

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If I think that I'm unimportant, then

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I have to show how important I am.

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We go to extremes.

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And you know what?

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You know as well as I do that.

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Most of the time, those things still come up short.

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It may work for a short time.

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But sooner or later, people will see through the facade.

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And we're not talking about a facade here, OK?

502
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So what does the world teach you?

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Well, they teach you you don't need anybody else.

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Ha, ha, ha.

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You know?

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You have to prove them all wrong.

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Because hey, hey, you have someone to be dealt with.

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And you know what?

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When it's all said and done, you just

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end up taking care of your own needs, your own needs.

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And when necessary or when it's needed,

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you enter into a mutual agreement

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for an exchange of usury.

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In other words, you want to be touched.

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You want somebody to be tended towards you.

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And you know what?

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You find somebody that's, hey, willing,

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I'll enter this agreement with you.

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And after it's all over with, you go your separate ways.

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And what happens?

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All that does is build up callous on both parts.

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That's not what God has called us to.

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You know that, and I know that.

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So let's go back and do a quick drive-by of Ezekiel chapter 16.

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Now, I'm not going to read this this time,

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because we've already read it before.

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You can always go back and read it again.

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Do you remember when I shared that your navel cord was not

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cut?

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Do you remember that?

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Well, where's mama?

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Did you ever ask that question?

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Where's the mother?

534
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If the navel cord was not cut, what happened to mom?

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She's not laying there next to you.

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She ain't dead somewhere.

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So what happened to mom?

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Well, I think that this is where I get the picture

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that the Father is showing you and I that when He said to live,

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the Bible literally says that you were pitied.

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You had no one had compassion on you.

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Everyone loathed you.

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You were loathed.

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Wow.

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Can you think about that?

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Each one of us can remember at least one moment in our lives

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where mom and dad did something that we thought, you know what?

548
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They didn't get it.

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And they didn't get me.

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They didn't get it.

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I don't believe that they did this particular thing right.

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And I'll never forget it.

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I think all of us has that have that have that moment where that's happened.

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And what happens is, every time if you go back and go through your archives of your memory. If you go back you can find that after that moment, every time a confrontation begin to bubble up your mind we're right back to that moment and said

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Oh no, here we go again. Are they going to see me. Are they going to hear me. Are they going to know me.

556
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Why, I think that's an awesome, awesome question. Why, why is that always the case.

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Now, let's say you've grown up now you're 45 years old 30 years old.

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And you're going out.

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And something happens.

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And your mind goes immediately back to that point of not being seen, not being heard, put upon.

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And it's your fault. You didn't do this right.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you are right, no better off now than were there. Wow. You know, the whole world is one big orphanage, and all these things come from the original orphan, who is called the father of lies.

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You know that the father of lies, and you know what, this is the biggest battle that we're ever going to face. And we have to break down the lies that bind, we have to break down the lies that torment.

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You know why, because Jesus said the truth shall set you free. That's in john eight verse 32 out of the King James Version, and it reads, literally, and you shall know the truth and the truth.

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And the truth shall make you free.

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00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.000
Wow.

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Did you know that the Greek word for the word truth is a l t a l e t h e s. I'm not even going to try to pronounce it.

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I'm not going to try. But you know what it means.

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Reality.

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Truth is reality.

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Now that's something to think about isn't it.

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But it also says that God is what.

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So God is reality.

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That should blow your skirt up.

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And the reality of what the reality of who God says you are.

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00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:23.000
Now, there's a reality, there's a truth, there's something that you want to wrap your head around. So, then the question becomes, who has God called you to be.

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What is it that God says about you. Are you willing to go on that quest to find out the woman of word right then and there. Are you willing to do that.

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Oh my gosh.

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Oh, wow. So you know what, most of what we as humans believe is based on the orphan lie. Did you know that we're going to get into that but probably tomorrow.

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But, you know, maybe that's why Solomon met in Proverbs chapter five, verse 22 now I'm gonna read this out of the passion translation and it says,

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Be aware that your sins, don't overtake you, and that the scars of your own conscience, don't become the ropes that tie you up. Oh my gosh.

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Do you see that look bad things happen to people, bad things happen. It's. And you know what we respond in the best way we know how, you know, we do respond, and most of us never had the protection of a father, like God.

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Now I know what you say, I know some of you thinking, well if God's all that well why didn't he do this and why didn't he do that. You know why.

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Who are you tethered to.

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00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.240
to the visitation rights, but he can only do things from afar until you make up your mind

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and decide to allow him full access, a full backstage pass into your life.

587
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Oh my gosh, that's awesome. That is just outright awesome.

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Now, the other side is to build up walls. You know, some of us like building up walls.

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We like walls all over the place. A wall here, a wall there, a wall there, a wall there,

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00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:40.400
but you know what? Walls do keep out bad things, but you know what else it keeps out? The good

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things. The good things, you know? Wow. You know, we have not learned to recognize even what's good.

592
00:40:51.680 --> 00:41:00.400
Wow. Have you ever thought about that? So how would you tell a good person from a bad person?

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Wouldn't it be easy if every person you met either had horns or a halo?

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That's keeping it simple, isn't it? But no, because the Bible says that even the devil

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00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:26.720
shows up as an angel of light, so you have to be able to discern something in order to determine

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00:41:26.720 --> 00:41:31.520
what's good, and sometimes God doesn't want you to settle for just what's good,

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00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:38.560
because in his mind, he has something even greater. He has a blessing. He has a favor. He has

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00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:45.360
something that is better than just good, but you know what? He looked at all of what he made,

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00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:58.400
and he said, it was very good. Oh my gosh. So you see, we're either going to

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get to the place where we're going to fight or we're going to run. Fight or flight.

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We've heard that a thousand and one times growing up. Hey, sometimes I need to stand to fight,

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and then sometimes I need to determine it's time to get out of dodge. It's time to run. It's no

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00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:26.240
reason to fight, but a lot of times, most of us decide that it is better to run away than to stand

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00:42:26.240 --> 00:42:34.640
and say, wait a minute, hold it. This can't be. God is bigger than this. Oh, it can't be. So you see,

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00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:43.280
the scars of our own conscience have literally become the ropes that we tie ourselves up in.

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00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:54.800
Wow. And we will only break free when we unveil the heart of the father God. And in the process,

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00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:06.240
our quest begins to discover the worth of the woman. I think that's awesome. I really think

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00:43:06.240 --> 00:43:20.320
that's awesome. Don't you? Oh my gosh. Hey, we're coming up on 45 minutes, and there is a verse

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that talks about how you are highly famous. Now, I know, I know that this is the verse about Mary

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00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:39.760
when the angel showed up. Hey, I'm going to read that verse to you before we close. And Luke,

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00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:51.440
Luke, in Luke chapter one, Luke chapter one, Luke chapter one, verse 28.

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Luke chapter one, verse 28. Here we go. Luke chapter one, verse 28. Gabriel appeared to her

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00:44:04.720 --> 00:44:13.280
and said, grace to you, young woman, for the Lord is with you. And so you are anointed with

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00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:25.600
great favor, great favor. You have been given great favor. Why? Because God wants you,

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00:44:25.600 --> 00:44:34.400
he wants you, he wants you to carry like Mary, the promises that God has laid within you.

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And that's what our quest is all about, to go in and unearth the goodness that God has laid

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00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:48.880
within you. So, hey, if anything that I've shared on this call at this time is for you, if you got

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blessed by at least one thing, hey, here's your homework. Go live in the Facebook group and share

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at least that one takeaway.

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Share your heart.

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Let me know how blessed you were

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00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:07.320
and what we talked about today.

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00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:11.840
And I'll see you tomorrow.

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00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:16.400
Now on Wednesday, I have a special guest

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00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:17.500
that's gonna show up.

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And I believe you're gonna be blessed at this young lady.

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So more on that tomorrow, but God bless you.

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I wanna close with a word of prayer.

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And Father, in the name of Jesus Christ,

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I thank you for this time.

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Father, I thank you for your goodness

632
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.280
and your tenderness and your mercy.

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00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.840
Father, I thank you that the woman of worth

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00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.540
that is taking the time out of her life

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00:45:46.540 --> 00:45:49.040
to be a part of this, to learn more

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00:45:49.040 --> 00:45:51.600
of who you've called her to be, Father,

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00:45:51.600 --> 00:45:54.480
that you will open up the windows of heaven

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00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:57.040
and pour her out such a blessing

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00:45:57.040 --> 00:45:59.840
that she, for the first time, gets to see it

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00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.440
and is able to go through it.

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00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:03.440
Let her carry, like Mary,

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00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:05.400
the things that you put in her heart

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00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:07.740
with the things that you put in her life, Father,

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00:46:07.740 --> 00:46:10.960
and allow that to come to the forefront

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00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:12.960
and be seen of all.

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In the name of our living Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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God bless you.

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And I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

649
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.000
Hey, I get to take my wife out for dinner tonight.

650
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:28.440
It's our anniversary.

651
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.700
We've been married for 41 years.

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So I'm thankful for that.

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So God bless you.

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I love you.