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Keep It in the Elevator

November 15, 2016

28:31

Living by Faith with Mike & DeeDee Freeman

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Keep It in the Elevator

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because I'm adding value to who they are.
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"Okay baby, let's get this spinach thing done.
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"But I also wanna make sure you will
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"at least get a scoop of ice cream."
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It was the value I had in my house
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that literally caused them to know
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that my role as your child is as equally
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as significant and important as your role as father.
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Today, on Living by Faith...
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And I don't really mind the methodologies
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that are incorporated or embraced, governor in church.
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I really don't.
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I do mind the changing of a message.
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You now, the method may change
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but the message should never change.
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And this is just bait.
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And in fishing I believe the bait can change
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but the hook should never change.
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taught me a lesson concerning that.
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He said "What is the prerequisite of following me?"
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And I couldn't brother Dogen,
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I couldn't right off answer.
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I was trying.
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Because it sound like the Holy Spirit had
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a little hostility in his voice.
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It was like "No, what is the prerequisite
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"of following me boy."
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It came across almost like that in my Spirit.
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And I went through this process you know.
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I'm digging around in my heart
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and I'm saying "Okay, it's to confess Jesus Christ
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"as Lord and believe in your heart."
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He said "No, that is not the prerequisite of following me.
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"That's how you accept me."
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And so now I'm saying "I'm not feeling well."
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(audience laughs)
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I ain't feeling so good.
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Come on, how many of you all know
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we make some excuses at times.
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We trying to come up with something
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give ourselves passes all the time.
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And so He said "It's deny yourself, it's deny yourself."
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And then pointed me to the scripture.
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He says "If a man desires to follow me
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"the prerequisite in following me is denying yourself."
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The prerequisite of denying yourself is humbling yourself.
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If you never humble yourself you will never deny yourself.
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Now what's preventing you from humbling yourself?
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And you may not admit to this right away,
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but if you'll examine your life you will find out
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that pride is the number one enemy
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to your not humbling yourself.
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You can't humble yourself because you don't deny yourself.
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Because of the pride, and if the pride is there
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you will never be.
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Did I make that clear enough for them?
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And so when the Lord begin to share it with me,
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He said "Stop fighting for your way."
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He said "I've proven to you through this episode
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"that I will be with you even until the end of the earth.
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"Just like I protected you in this attack when Satan
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"tried to kill you, I'll protect you in every area."
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It changed my life!
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I promise you, it changed my life!
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Even in our relationship, I don't have to push my way.
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Most of the relationships are argumentive relationships,
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that the arguments that you have.
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Would you help me please?
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The arguments we have in relationship
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is based upon somebody wanting their way.
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Now I know I'm always right.
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That's the thing she needs to embrace
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and understand and go with.
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I'm always right. - [DeeDee] I go with it.
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- [Pastor] Come on men, how many of you men
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are always right?
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You know you're right.
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- [DeeDee] I just go with it.
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- You would not be
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throwing the shoes - [DeeDee] You are always right.
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- [Pastor] and the television sets around the room,
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if in fact you were not right.
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That's why you're so passionate
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because you're right.
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- [DeeDee] Mmm hmm, mmm hmmm.
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Yup, I agree, I just let you go with it.
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- And so because we're right--
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- When I know you're always right I can
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just rest assure know that if you're not,
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God will sure tell ya.
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- And so I was interested in...
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(audience laughs)
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(DeeDee laughs)
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- One statement.
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- Come on, stay with the Pastor.
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- They with you, they with you.
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- No really, I mean because and then the Lord
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showed me that, He said "You don't have to
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"go off like that and prove that you are right.
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"You're fighting for something that I told you
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"that I will straighten out myself."
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And now that I'm chill, you know,
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if DeeDee don't understand I'm right,
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I'll just sit back, Holy Spirit let her know
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"You know he's right."
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And then she'll come to me and say "Oh baby you were right."
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And it works every single time now.
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It does. - [DeeDee] Mmm hmm.
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And she realize it.
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But the Spirit of God took care of it.
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Oppose to me, ranting and raging around the house.
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And then it literally revealed to me the
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immaturity Joy that I was walking in.
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He says "She's getting on your nerve because
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"you don't have what you should have built in you.
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"And you're immature and that's why
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"she's getting on your nerve."
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Now she has not stopped.
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I repeat, she has not stopped doing
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the things that she wants to.
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But it no longer gets on my nerve.
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It doesn't get on my nerve because it's my choice!
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It's my choice to determine whether something
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is gonna aggravate me or something is going.
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Are you all hearing what I'm saying to you?!
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And so if we all take the responsibility
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of owning our response and growing up spiritually,
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and being accountable for who Jesus says we are,
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and who we would like for people to see us as.
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Because who you are may not be the same perception
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that people have of you.
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Your perception and who you are could be worlds apart.
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Here's the ideal and here's the real.
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And there's a big gap in between.
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We as believer's are gonna have to do something
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about this life of ours.
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- Mmm hmm, it's good.
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- And you see, if DeeDee said all of that
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y'all would be upon your feet.
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Can you show me a little love?
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(audience shouts)
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I can't, I can't with y'all.
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I can't, no really, I can't with y'all.
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But I'm mature enough to just go with the flow,
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until the Lord shows you. - [DeeDee] You're response
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- [DeeDee] is your responsibility.
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- So we've seen in the scripture--
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- So we gonna stay with this, not go into
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these other things, we can do these later.
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I see, cause you've gone in.
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- Yeah, I'm in the lesson. - [DeeDee] Yeah that's good.
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- [DeeDee] I see. But that's good.
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I think that's really good because that really
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lines up with mutual submission.
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In order for us to have - [Pastor] Absolutely.
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- [DeeDee] mutual submission, we all have to know
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how to humble ourselves in a relationship.
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Because you'll never submit to somebody
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and be humble at the same time.
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Not be humble at the same,
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operating pride. - [Pastor] Absolutely,
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- [Pastor] I thought that's what you meant.
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- Yeah because I mean it's impossible.
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If I'm operating pride I'll never be able to submit
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to somebody because I'm gonna feel like
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I'm supposed to be the one that make
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all the decisions to control the situation.
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And just be the one to just carry out
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whatever, you know, the responsibilities are
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and you just follow.
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- [Pastor] So who should be submitting?
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The wife, the scripture says the wife.
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- [DeeDee] The wife should submit, but who else
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should be submitting is the question.
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- [Pastor] The children.
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- The children should be submitting as well.
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And I think that's great.
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Now who else should be submitting?
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- The pets.
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- The pets? (audience laughs)
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We do train our pets.
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- That's right.
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And you tell the pet sit.
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- Uh huh, mmm hmm, and who else?
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(audience laughs)
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- Look.
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- I think we can go to the scripture.
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- [Pastor and DeeDee] (Howls) don't know.
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(everyone laughs)
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- I think we can go to the scripture
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and sure to find it if you want to.
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- Alright.
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Let's go to the scripture. - [DeeDee] Let's go to
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- [DeeDee] Ephesians 5.
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- Do we have to go to the Bible?
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Do we have to go to the Bible?
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I don't wanna go to the Bible.
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The Bible is so good.
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How many of y'all love your Bible?
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How many of y'all love the word of God?
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We love the word of God.
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The word of God is so rich, it's so good.
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It has changed our life.
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And I promise you.
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Man that Hebrews 13:7, make it a part
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of your life from the Message Bible.
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Appreciate your pastoral care oversight.
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Where is it?
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Put it up on the screen.
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Hebrews 7 to 13.
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And get Colossians chapter number three as well.
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But I wanna start at Hebrews 13:7.
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Oh man, "Appreciate your pastoral leaders
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"who gave you" what?
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- [Audience and Pastor] The word of God.
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- [Pastor] If you don't have it just look up
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at the fake monitor.
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"Take a good look at the way they" what?
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(audience responds)
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Every pastor should be able to say that.
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As a matter of fact, if I never pick up the Bible
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you should learn scriptures by looking at me.
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That's powerful statement.
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Turn to your neighbor and say that's awesome.
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- [Audience] That's awesome.
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- I'm telling you, I learned how to really love my wife
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by watching Dr. Price.
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It wasn't all scripture.
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It was having pastoral leadership.
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That Rabbi dust got on me.
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Now the Rabbi dust, you have to understand,
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is walking close enough to your leader
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where the dust of his lifestyle gets on you.
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Are you hearing what I'm telling you?
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So it says "Appreciate your pastoral leaders,
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"and watch the way that they live and let their" what?
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"Let their faithfulness instruct you."
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I mean why would you do or allow
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anything else to instruct you
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when you're watching my faithfulness?
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Now name an area that I'm not faithful in?
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You name it.
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Hello?
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No, you can't embarrass me.
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Embarrassment is a choice.
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You can't make me say "Let's go through the list.
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"Let's go through the list."
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You can attest to a lot of it.
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Husband.
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- [DeeDee] Faithful.
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- Okay, okay, no for real, stop playing so much.
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- [DeeDee] I'm not, I'm not playing.
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(DeeDee stutters)
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Like really, I agree 100%.
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- [Pastor] Come on boo boo kitty cat got your tongue.
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(audience laughs)
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Y'all watch too much TV.
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- You watch too much.
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- There's only one area in that husband
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department that I need to get up on.
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- What?
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- Oh you don't know?
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- I'd like to know.
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- If you don't know I'm not gonna tell you.
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- I may know if you say it.
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See when you say. - [Pastor] I know you know.
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- [DeeDee] See but you talking about every area.
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It's a difference between--
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- [Pastor] I'm not talking about area,
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I'm talking about overall.
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Give me an overall, from zero to 10.
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10 being the greatest, rate me.
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- See, that's two different things to me.
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- Lady, just answer the man's question.
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- No, listen.
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- Your honor, would you make
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the witness answer the question.
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- No, no, no, no, no.
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Cause you talking about faithfulness now.
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And now you making me think you talking about
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areas you need to grow in.
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That doesn't mean you're not faithful in it.
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- I'm not talking about areas I need to grow in.
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I know there's faithfulness, but I'm just saying
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all across the board.
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- I say a 10, I agree.
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- 10?! - [DeeDee] 100%, yeah.
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- 10?
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- [DeeDee] Yeah I think you got it going on.
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- Let the record state--
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- [DeeDee] No I didn't say you didn't have areas
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that you don't need to work on.
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That's what--
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- I know you didn't say that.
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I told you that. (audience laughs)
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- Let's get this straight.
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That's why I didn't wanna be locked in in something.
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And he talking about I got it on tape.
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- But I understand what you're saying.
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Faith...
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(everyone laughs)
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She got that Josh.
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What's the lady do the typing and talking to the man.
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- [DeeDee] A stenographer.
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- She wanna let that lady know man.
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- [DeeDee] That's right.
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- Don't let that go in that record.
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- That's right, let the record reflect.
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's when you were saying,
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and I understand that.
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Because it's not that I've been unfaithful
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in any of those areas.
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It's just that there's some growth in all of,
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well one department anywhere within our marriage.
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But overall as it relates to my faithfulness
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it's been over 30 years now.
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Over 30 years baby.
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- [DeeDee] It's a long time.
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- 10.964 days
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of faithfulness.
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- It's gonna be 65 tomorrow.
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- Alright, on your birthday.
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Can you make that your birthday gift to me?
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- Okay what is it?
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10.000 what?
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- I'm not telling you. - [DeeDee] 965.
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- [Pastor] So in all of those (inaudible), as father?
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- In every area--
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- Faithful.
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- See I don't have to go through that,
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because I'm telling you.
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- No, we're talking about - [DeeDee] There has faith.
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- [Pastor] letting my faithfulness instruct them.
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- Right.
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- Let's just go through some areas.
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- Right, so but--
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- In being a father.
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- But define faithfulness.
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What do you consider to be faithfulness?
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- What does the Bible call faithfulness?
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What did Pastor Wayne just talk about in faithfulness?
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- [DeeDee] Tell em.
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- Okay there's trustworthy, that's loyal,
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that's being where you're supposed to be
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when you're supposed to be,
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doing what you're supposed to do.
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Faithful, committed.
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There's so many different synonyms that
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can go along with that term.
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I mean I can't give you - [DeeDee] No, I think
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specifically, what the - [DeeDee] that's great.
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definition. - [DeeDee] I don't need that.
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- [DeeDee] I'm just saying for them.
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Because some people just consider faithfulness
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as not stepping out on their spouse.
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- Oh no.
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- No I understand that. - [Pastor] That's a part of it.
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- [DeeDee] That's a part of it.
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- [Pastor] Yeah.
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- But I wanted you to be able to define that
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so everybody can have that across the board.
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So we can all be on the same page.
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- I got you, I got you.
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- Okay.
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- So, but I was just going through the areas of my life
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so you can say check or nay. - [DeeDee] Every area.
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- [DeeDee] Okay go ahead, check.
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- Okay, I said husband.
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- Check.
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- Alright, father.
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- Check.
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- Okay, Pastor.
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- Check.
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- Tither.
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- Check.
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- Word, keeping my word. - [DeeDee] Check, check.
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- [Pastor] Y'all help man.
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Huh?
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Friend.
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(audience laughs)
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- He can't stand when I be playing.
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Check, for real, check check.
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- Provider.
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- Check.
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- Huh?
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Giver.
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- Check.
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- A listener.
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- Check.
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- Supporter, protector.
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- Check.
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- I'm talking about protecting.
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I can not stand when she doesn't stay with me.
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It's like stay right, we get in these crowds.
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DeeDee where are you?
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- [Audience member] Amen.
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- Thank you, yeah.
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The security team would appreciate that.
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(audience laughs)
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I'm like DeeDee just love everybody.
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Her mother gotta talk to everybody.
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"Girl, hadn't seen you."
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You've never seen them before.
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(audience laughs)
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It's your first time meeting these people.
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And I mean, she is just you know gullible in that respect.
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and she just hugs em and I can't stand her getting away
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from me because I can't protect her like I want to.
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Something go down I want DeeDee right there.
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I tell her all the time, "Baby, stay with me.
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"I'm coming, go ahead.
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"Hi baby."
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(audience laughs)
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So that protector area is so much to me
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because I promise you man,
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one of the areas I'm not real saved in.
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Don't mess with DeeDee.
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Don't fool with DeeDee.
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You hurt DeeDee, I can't promise you anything.
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I don't know...
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No, I'm crazy in that respect with her.
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She'll hit her toe and I gotta hold her toe
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and kiss it and make it better.
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Yeah man.
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But what I'm saying, every man in here.
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You don't even need the Bible in that area.
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You really don't, I'm just saying.
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I'm not, don't hear wrong, because people
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will take a statement like that
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and put it on Google or YouTube.
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Say he say you don't even need the Bible.
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And I'm not saying that.
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But why can't your life reflect what the scripture
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has already stated where you become what I am
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to other men.
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I'm never leaving her, I'm like Jesus.
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I'm never leaving her, nor forsaking her.
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I'm being with her even until the end of my life.
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I promise you.
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So let that instruct you.
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What part of that do you not get?
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I mean you don't even have to listen to me say anything.
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All you have to do is watch.
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More is caught than taught.
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As a matter of fact, too many people are just talking.
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Talking loud, ain't saying nothing.
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So, watch this.
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Let his faithfulness instruct you
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and what is that?
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As well?
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(audience responds)
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As what?
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As well as the truthfulness.
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Truthfulness, come on.
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Go to the next part of that.
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And it says "And there should be a"what?
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"Consistency that runs through us all."
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Awe man that's powerful.
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Come on receive that consistency
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that runs through us all.
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All of us are paid on top financially.
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Come on joyous people.
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Peaceful people come on.
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Shout I receive.
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- [Audience] I receive!
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- And so we found out in the scripture that
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the apostle Paul went in various parts
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of that Mediterranean border.
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He just kinda went up in Athens and Greece,
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and he went up in Ephesus, he went up in Rome.
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His assignment now was to teach principles
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concerning the makeup of the family.
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It is a lie that children don't come with manuals.
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Children come with manuals.
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Marriages come with manuals.
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There's a manual given for the rearing of your children.
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And I don't know where people are just hauling off
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picking up things, incorporating it, implementing things
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in their relationship and even in their family.
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That didn't come from the word of God.
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Now dig this.
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We're all products of the environment
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that we have come out of.
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And some of the things I picked up from my home
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was not necessarily something that was
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picked up out of the Bible.
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So subsequently, I went into our home
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with things that I thought were good things,
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but they were not God things.
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And it's important that you put God things
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in place in your house because it's the God thing
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is gonna end up a good thing.
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Just because it's a good thing
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it may not end up a God thing.
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Because a good thing may seem right to you,
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but the end of that way is the way of death and destruction.
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Am I preaching well enough for you now?
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If you can't handle this couch kind of talk,
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this setting is simply designed,
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because this what we do at home.
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You're part of our big family meeting that we have.
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We sit our family down.
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DeeDee and I will sit down and just talk.
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On one of our vacation in Saint Lucia,
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hello to all of my wonderful Saint Lucia members
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and partners I love you.
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I love the people of Saint Lucia.
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The Saint Lucians.
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I love them so much, we had a great time.
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We sat out on the beach for hours.
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And just talked and shared.
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And she was able to pour into me some of the things
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that I need to just pick up in.
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Or some of the things that could just
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refine and become better.
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So this is our style.
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And I think every, let our faithfulness instruct you.
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Let our examples instruct you.
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So you should be at home with your wife
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or your husband, and your children, and sitting around.
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We started off that Friday night with all of our children
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being a part of that open meeting.
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And so we have this setting,
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and they set up this set to give it
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a little feel of us being at home and talking.
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And as a matter of fact church as we know it
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is rapidly changing.
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And I don't really mind the methodologies
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that are incorporated or embraced, governor in church.
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I really don't.
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I do mind the changing of a message.
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You now, the method may change
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but the message should never change.
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And this is just bait.
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And in fishing I believe the bait can change
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but the hook should never change.
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Do you object if you got it.
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Cause I like neck ties, I like church stuff.
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I like Bibles man, I like turning pages.
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And now we got these telephone,
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open collar shirts, I don't have on any socks or anything.
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This is not my style.
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This is not how I've been raised.
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And now my kids like, "You gotta loosen up man.
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"You gotta just drop the tie.
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"Get rid of the tie."
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I like ties, I like suits, I like Bible,
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I like turning the pages, you understand.
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You know you going to church.
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Some of y'all don't look like you.
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(Pastor stutters)
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Put on some jeans and a shirt and pick up your phone.
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And that's cool.
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That's the day we live in unfortunately.
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I can't stand this change, but I gotta adapt
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to this change so I can be relevant.
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I just can't take it!
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- [DeeDee] I love change.
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- But you don't even look like you're going to church.
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Remember when you didn't feel saved,
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but you put on your tie and you grab your Bible.
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Shoot I feel saved.
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Come on, some of y'all know what I'm talking about.
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You could of got drunk the night before,
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but you pick up that Bible.
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And you on your way - [DeeDee] That coffee table
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to church. - [DeeDee] Bible.
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- [Pastor] Pull your cross out of your shirt.
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- That you hid all week long.
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- You hid it all week long and you come out.
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And what I don't like about that is that
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we are adapting to the dress
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and the phones and the technology.
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I mean, come on, is this my Bible nowadays?
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You know, really, it's not my Bible,
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but it contains the Bible.
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And watch this.
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You don't know, I'm in jeans or whatever shirt.
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And just got my phone because I got Bible apps on my phone.
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Now you really don't know who's who.
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You can't tell back in the day
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they used to wear the collars.
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And you do, (inaudible) straighten up.
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Nowadays you don't know if it's red or ludicrous.
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(audience laughs)
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- But nowadays they aren't even
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straighten up with people in collars.
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Cause the honor's not there.
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- And the honor's not there.
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But what disturbs me the most, we are adapting
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to a culture of our society in our society
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and yet our message and our mouth is diminishing.
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Now you dress like them and now you don't
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even talk like you should.
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And gay pride just danced themselves
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right down the main street yesterday.
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And they let their all hang out.
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And they coming out the closet, and we occupying them.
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Cause we're not as pronounced with our message.
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Back to the family.
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So the apostle Paul was given the task of going up
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and now we got these scripture references.
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Look st some of them.
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Colossians chapter number three.
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- Colossians 3:18.
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- Cause he's setting up order.
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- "Wives, submit to your own husbands."
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- I like that scripture.
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- I know you do.
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"As is fitting in the Lord.
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- "As it is fitting in the Lord."
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Okay.
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- "Husbands, love your wives. - [Pastor] Husbands.
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- [DeeDee] "And do not bitter towards them.
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- "And do not bitter towards them."
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Don't do bitter stuff towards your wife.
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God man, okay I'm not gonna test that.
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Go on, okay so he talks to the wife.
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Then he talks to the husband.
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Now who is he talking to?
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- The children.
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- The children, alright.
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- "Obey your parents"--
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- It's something for everybody.
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"Obey your parents in" how many things?
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- All things. - [Pastor] All things.
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- [Pastor] Man, it behooves all of you children
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who are to obey your parents.
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Obeying your parents is still fly.
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Did you hear what I said?
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Obeying your parents is on fleek.
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(audience laughs)
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It is.
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Obeying your parents is so important
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and now some parents have adapted this kind
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of mindset or this (stutters)
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philosophy that I'm not gonna be as
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hard on my children as my parents were.
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What does that mean?
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- Yeah, what does that mean?
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- Because there's some things that every parent
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needs to be firm and hard as it relates to their children.
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- I agree, I agree.
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- But we gotta get a balance in that.
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Because there is sometimes
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over or outlandish overkill, outlandish.
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You're just going overboard with it.
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Where the apostle Paul gets into the next scripture
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and he charges the fathers, what did he say?
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- "Do not provoke your children
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"lest they become discouraged."
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- Yeah, yeah, father's don't provoke your children.
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So he talked to the wife, he talked to the husband,
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he talked to the children, now he's talking to the father.
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What did he say about mother's?
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He didn't say a thing about the mother's
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because he was leaving it to,
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at this particular time.
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We see different things in the scripture concerning mother.
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But he was literally placing the ownness
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and the responsibility of the development
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of that child on the father.
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You wanna be the head of the house do ya?
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"Just call the maintenance guy."
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I knew that's what he wanted me to do.
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- [Pastor] I was gonna spend that money.
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- [DeeDee] He was gonna spend that money.
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So I turned and I walked.
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And I wanted to go back and look so bad.
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You know how you wanna go and see if it's on?
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I said "Nope, I'm not going."
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I knew the devil was trying to make me go back and doubt.
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I said "I'm not going back, I expect it to come on."
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And so when I turned I said "God, I know
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"he don't believe but show him for me."
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