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September 11, 2016
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Living by Faith with Mike & DeeDee Freeman

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  • Today, on Living by Faith...
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  • to get to the promise.
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  • And regardless of how hard the process may be,
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  • regardless if she did not cook,
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  • or did not give you some that night,
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  • or whatever the case may be,
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  • you gotta hang in there, champ.
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  • You can't wait 'til the battle's over,
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  • you gotta shout in the process
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  • to receive the promise.
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  • Come on E City, receive that as well.
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  • So again this year,
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  • we're gonna be focusing in two areas,
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  • that's rest and prayer.
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  • Say, "Rest and prayer".
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  • And ladies and gentlemen,
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  • you're going to be able to rest better,
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  • or enter into this rest
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  • that I've been describing by your prayer life.
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  • Your prayer life will be able to sustain you
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  • in this rest that God has promised us.
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  • So we've been going through
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  • some very foundational principles,
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  • and foundational things concerning this title,
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  • some things you may have missed concerning faith.
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  • Faith is essential for the believer's life.
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  • What did I just say?
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  • - [Congregation] Faith is essential
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  • for the believer's life.
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  • - The scripture says four times,
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  • and I'm reviewing some of these things.
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  • The bible says in Habakkuk,
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  • "The just shall live by..."
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  • In Romans, Chapter One,
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  • "The just shall live by..."
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  • In Romans One, the scripture...
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  • In Hebrews 10, the scripture says,
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  • "The just shall live by..."
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  • And in Galatians, Chapter Three,
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  • I believe it's verse 11,
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  • the scripture again says,
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  • "The just shall live by faith."
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  • So all of those who are the blood bought,
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  • blood washed children of the Most High God,
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  • we have been commanded,
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  • it has not be kindly suggested,
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  • but it's been commanded
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  • that we who are of God
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  • must live by--
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  • - [Congregation] Faith.
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  • - Come on, talk back to me.
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  • By what?
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  • - [Congregation] Faith.
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  • - Faith.
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  • So, if we have to live by faith,
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  • it is absolutely essential that we understand
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  • the intricacies, the nuances,
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  • the dynamics of faith,
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  • in order to overcome every life instance.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • If in fact all the promises of God
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  • are accessed by our faith,
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  • then there should be nothing
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  • that exists concerning faith
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  • that we aren't aware of.
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  • I felt I was gonna get a better "Amen" than that.
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  • I said, "I thought I was gonna get
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  • "a better Amen than that."
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  • And so it's important that we lay out
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  • a clear foundation and go through some
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  • of the foundational things as it relates to faith
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  • in order to build the proper kind of structure,
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  • or life as it relates to faith.
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  • The quality of your foundation
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  • will determine the degree of your stability.
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  • The quality of your foundation
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  • will determine the degree of your stability.
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  • The bible says that you ought to be steadfast,
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  • unmovable, always abounding
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  • in the work of the Lord.
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  • But your foundation will determine that.
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  • And so in order to have what God
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  • intended for us to have,
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  • we must have a consistent lifestyle
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  • of this walk of faith.
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  • Say, "I must--
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  • - [Congregation] I must--
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  • - have a consistent lifestyle--
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  • - [Congregation] have a consistent lifestyle--
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  • - in this walk of faith.
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  • - [Congregation] in this walk of faith.
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  • I told you that consistency is essential
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  • for the believer's life
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  • because consistency is the key
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  • to overcoming in life.
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  • Whatever you do consistently,
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  • is what you will become better at.
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  • You got it?
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  • Your rest is kept by the life of faith that you possess.
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  • This rest that I'm talking about,
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  • have you ever been uneasy about something
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  • when you were believing God for something?
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  • Indicators as such is
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  • the inability to sleep,
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  • or you become snappy,
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  • or you're worried,
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  • or you are in fear.
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  • Anytime any of those things exist,
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  • it is obvious that you have not
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  • entered into this kind of rest
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  • that Jesus said that you could have.
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  • So your rest is kept by the life
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  • of faith that you possess.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • There is no rest like God's rest.
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  • - [Congregation] Amen.
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  • - I thought I was gonna get
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  • a better "Amen" than that.
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  • Push the neighbor in front of you and say,
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  • "Are you gonna say "Amen" about anything?"
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  • - [Congregation] Are you gonna say
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  • Amen about anything?
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  • - Now turn around and say, "Yes, I am
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  • "but you betta keep your doggone hands off of me,
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  • "in the name of Jesus."
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  • I was talking to you about
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  • how Dr. Dee Dee literally fought
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  • three to four weeks longer than I
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  • because I was reposing.
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  • I literally...
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  • And reposing, and that's one of
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  • the Hebrew definitions,
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  • and I'll get to that later on in my life
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  • because I was reposing at that time.
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  • And that doesn't mean I was dead.
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  • A lot of people ask me,
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  • "Did you see Jesus while you were out?"
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • - You gotta be absent from the body
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  • to be in the presence of...
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  • I never died but I did go to Dubai.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • - I went to Dubai, I went to Cleveland,
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  • and I was mad with R. A. Vernon, my friend,
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  • 'cause he didn't come see me.
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  • I mean all of this was going on.
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  • In Dubai, I was trading gold with Kenneth Copeland.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • - Glory to God, I'm lookin' for some
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  • of that gold right now.
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  • I'll see Kenneth tomorrow, actually.
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  • And I went to Chicago.
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  • Where else did I go, baby?
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  • Oh, Miami.
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  • I was traveling.
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  • It was amazing to me.
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  • And although I was asleep
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  • for three to four weeks,
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  • it seemed like over night.
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  • When I woke up, I thought I just had been
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  • out of it a night,
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  • and three to four weeks had passed.
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  • And there was Dee Dee still calm and cool
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  • as the back side of your pillow.
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  • The girl was just as...
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  • She was in as much rest as I was
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  • even though she had to face
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  • the same circumstances every single day.
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  • Whoo!
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  • Ain't no woman like the one I got, unh
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  • Come on, girl.
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  • I loveded her.
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  • How long we been married today, baby?
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  • How many days?
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  • - 10.000
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  • - [Pastor Freeman] 10.000
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  • - 800
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  • - [Pastor Freeman] 800
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  • - and 15.
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  • - and 15 days.
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  • You go with your bad self, girl.
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  • I'm reminding her every single day.
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  • That's how she's been able to keep with it.
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  • I said, " Now tomorrow, just add one more day,"
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  • to what you just said.
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  • But, she was fighting
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  • and I can't tell you how much...
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  • Okay, have you ever been in something
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  • where you wish you could just go to sleep
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  • and it will be all over with?
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  • Come on, talk to me.
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  • I said have you ever been just through something,
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  • and you just wish, "Man, I wish I could just
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  • "go to sleep and wake up,
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  • "and all of this would just be over with.
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  • "I am just so sick and tired."
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  • See, first of all, you gotta watch your confession.
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  • Stop saying something's killing you,
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  • stop saying you're sick and tired,
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  • stop talking about I almost died,
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  • because you'll have what you say.
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  • But I understand with what you're talking about
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  • because we are looking for peace,
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  • we're looking for rest
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  • in the midst of storms when things happen to us.
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  • We're looking for that secret place.
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  • Well, Psalms 91 is the place
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  • where you should end up.
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  • "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most..."
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  • Whoo!
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  • I felt like shoutin' all by myself.
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  • - [Congregation] Whoo!
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  • - And so, she entered into that place
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  • and the girl was as steady as anyone could be
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  • to the point that a lot of people
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  • were concerned that she was in denial.
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  • Some people were like, "She is not facing reality."
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  • Well, when you're walking by faith,
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  • there's another reality that exists
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  • above the reality that you're in.
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  • My doctor there, Dr. Grizette,
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  • I thank God for him.
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  • He saw some things
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  • far beyond what the medical part
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  • of it was saying.
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  • And I didn't know I was as bad off
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  • when he was around.
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  • How many of y'all know you need
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  • a good doctor like that
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  • who can put the signs with the scripture
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  • and walk by faith and mix it with faith,
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  • and give you hope in your situation?
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  • Glory to God!
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  • Well, can I just get you to praise God
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  • just for a moment, to take a breath, just...
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  • Whoo!
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  • - [Congregation] Whoo! Hallelujah!
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  • - And it's not for what he's going to do
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  • but for what he's already done.
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  • Are you hearing what I'm telling you?
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  • - [Congregation] Yes!
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  • - Glory to God!
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  • And you gotta learn how to
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  • praise him in the little things.
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  • I saw something on the floor the other day
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  • and I didn't feel like picking it up.
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  • The first thing that came to my mind
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  • was to kick it.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • - Hunch your neighbor and say,
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  • "I'm glad that wasn't Dr. Dee Dee on the floor."
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  • The first thing I thought about was kicking it
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  • because I'm so excited about being able
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  • to kick things now, or move any muscle,
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  • I kicked the thing and I said,
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  • "Glory to God!
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  • Look a there! Look a there!
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  • I worship God just because
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  • I'm able to move my fingers.
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  • Because when you can't move your fingers,
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  • you don't know sometimes how much
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  • of a big deal it is to move your fingers.
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  • The fact that I can wave my arms now
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  • and give God praise.
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  • See I don't want you to have to go through anything,
  • 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:06.020
  • to take the little things,
  • 00:11:06.020 --> 00:11:07.250
  • and exalt God with.
  • 00:11:07.250 --> 00:11:09.190
  • So if we could one more time,
  • 00:11:09.190 --> 00:11:11.190
  • just for the...
  • 00:11:11.190 --> 00:11:12.240
  • Look, let everything that have breath--
  • 00:11:13.070 --> 00:11:16.290
  • (congregation shouting and praising)
  • 00:11:16.290 --> 00:11:19.050
  • - Whoo!
  • 00:11:19.050 --> 00:11:20.070
  • Hallelujah!
  • 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:22.290
  • (congregation shouting and praising)
  • 00:11:22.290 --> 00:11:27.120
  • - Because when I talk about having breath,
  • 00:11:32.030 --> 00:11:35.080
  • I got a machine up there now
  • 00:11:36.050 --> 00:11:37.230
  • that I plug myself up to
  • 00:11:37.230 --> 00:11:39.150
  • to assist me in breathing,
  • 00:11:39.150 --> 00:11:41.050
  • and here you sit there,
  • 00:11:41.050 --> 00:11:42.180
  • and you can breathe in and out at will.
  • 00:11:42.180 --> 00:11:45.140
  • Everybody can't do what you are doing right now
  • 00:11:45.140 --> 00:11:48.050
  • but God has given you...
  • 00:11:48.050 --> 00:11:50.130
  • Um!
  • 00:11:50.130 --> 00:11:51.170
  • (congregation shouting and praising)
  • 00:11:51.170 --> 00:11:53.020
  • - But I'm getting stronger as the days go by.
  • 00:11:53.020 --> 00:11:55.160
  • And I'm able to breathe better as the days go by.
  • 00:11:55.160 --> 00:11:59.140
  • Are you hearing me?
  • 00:11:59.140 --> 00:12:00.210
  • It's because I'm taking the breath
  • 00:12:00.210 --> 00:12:02.150
  • that I breathe and I'm using it
  • 00:12:02.150 --> 00:12:04.240
  • to praise Him (laughing).
  • 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:07.200
  • Come on, Ron!
  • 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:08.270
  • Whoo! Glory!
  • 00:12:10.130 --> 00:12:12.210
  • Calm down!
  • 00:12:16.220 --> 00:12:17.200
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.230
  • But he's been so good!
  • 00:12:20.110 --> 00:12:22.140
  • - [Congregation] Yeah!
  • 00:12:22.140 --> 00:12:24.030
  • - 'Cause I could have been dead,
  • 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:26.270
  • sleeping in my grave,
  • 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:29.230
  • but Dr. Pee Pee made the devil behave.
  • 00:12:30.220 --> 00:12:33.200
  • - [Congregation] Yay! Yeah! Whoo!
  • 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:38.190
  • - Come on give the Lord another shout!
  • 00:12:39.020 --> 00:12:41.130
  • (congregation shouting and praising)
  • 00:12:41.130 --> 00:12:46.100
  • I receive, I receive.
  • 00:12:51.180 --> 00:12:53.170
  • So there is this rest.
  • 00:12:53.170 --> 00:12:55.170
  • I receive. Yeah.
  • 00:12:56.130 --> 00:12:59.090
  • There is this rest
  • 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.080
  • that Hebrews talks about.
  • 00:13:02.210 --> 00:13:05.090
  • A rest that will cause you...
  • 00:13:05.090 --> 00:13:07.010
  • Because when I was asleep
  • 00:13:07.010 --> 00:13:08.200
  • I didn't worry about a thing.
  • 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.200
  • Don't you worry
  • 00:13:11.030 --> 00:13:12.040
  • about a thing
  • 00:13:12.040 --> 00:13:16.020
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:13:17.230 --> 00:13:22.150
  • I was not fearful about anything,
  • 00:13:23.180 --> 00:13:25.220
  • I was not snappy, I was not uneased about anything,
  • 00:13:25.220 --> 00:13:30.010
  • nothing bothered me.
  • 00:13:30.010 --> 00:13:31.230
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:13:31.250 --> 00:13:33.210
  • - Come on shout, "Nothing bothers me either."
  • 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:35.250
  • - [Congregation] Nothing bothers me either!
  • 00:13:35.250 --> 00:13:37.260
  • - Some of y'all old enough.
  • 00:13:38.110 --> 00:13:39.230
  • Some of these young people,
  • 00:13:40.290 --> 00:13:41.280
  • they probably don't know.
  • 00:13:41.280 --> 00:13:44.040
  • However, this girl had to face
  • 00:13:46.100 --> 00:13:49.160
  • everything I was going through day by day.
  • 00:13:50.190 --> 00:13:54.000
  • And I'ma tell you this.
  • 00:13:54.170 --> 00:13:55.280
  • Watch this.
  • 00:13:55.280 --> 00:13:57.030
  • The rest that God has promised us
  • 00:13:57.030 --> 00:13:59.090
  • is equivalent to your going to sleep.
  • 00:13:59.090 --> 00:14:02.190
  • Whatever you are seeking for when you say,
  • 00:14:02.190 --> 00:14:06.080
  • "I wish I could just go to sleep
  • 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.160
  • "and wake up, and this would be all over with."
  • 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:11.130
  • The same kind of rest exists
  • 00:14:11.130 --> 00:14:15.060
  • while you are up.
  • 00:14:15.060 --> 00:14:16.270
  • Okay, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
  • 00:14:17.260 --> 00:14:18.230
  • Thank you Holy Spirit.
  • 00:14:18.230 --> 00:14:19.200
  • Go to Mark, Chapter Four.
  • 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.060
  • Keep your finger in Hebrews
  • 00:14:21.060 --> 00:14:22.230
  • because it make take you some time
  • 00:14:22.230 --> 00:14:24.090
  • to find that again.
  • 00:14:24.090 --> 00:14:25.200
  • So, go to Mark, Chapter Four,
  • 00:14:27.220 --> 00:14:29.280
  • and let's look at...
  • 00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:31.020
  • What verse?
  • 00:14:32.160 --> 00:14:33.130
  • - [One of the Pastors] 35.
  • 00:14:33.130 --> 00:14:34.070
  • - 35.
  • 00:14:34.070 --> 00:14:35.010
  • 35 would do, I reckon.
  • 00:14:35.010 --> 00:14:36.160
  • 35, Mark Four...
  • 00:14:37.270 --> 00:14:40.100
  • See when you in the spirit, Pastor,
  • 00:14:41.010 --> 00:14:42.140
  • you can know all of these things.
  • 00:14:42.140 --> 00:14:44.010
  • There was nobody in the spirit but you.
  • 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.120
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:14:47.210 --> 00:14:49.240
  • - And if you believe that,
  • 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:52.240
  • I want to sell you something
  • 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:53.270
  • right after service.
  • 00:14:53.270 --> 00:14:55.150
  • Ah, I love it.
  • 00:14:58.210 --> 00:15:00.080
  • What did I say, "Matthew"?
  • 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.180
  • - [Congregation] Mark.
  • 00:15:01.180 --> 00:15:02.080
  • - Mark what?
  • 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:03.020
  • - [Congregation] Four.
  • 00:15:03.020 --> 00:15:04.000
  • - And what verse did Pastor say?
  • 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:05.050
  • - [Congregation] 35.
  • 00:15:05.050 --> 00:15:06.110
  • - 35. Let's look at 35 and see.
  • 00:15:06.110 --> 00:15:08.290
  • It's down there somewhere.
  • 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:11.040
  • Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
  • 00:15:11.040 --> 00:15:11.280
  • Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
  • 00:15:11.280 --> 00:15:12.280
  • On the same day.
  • 00:15:12.280 --> 00:15:14.020
  • On what day?
  • 00:15:14.020 --> 00:15:15.000
  • - [Congregation] The same day.
  • 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:15.290
  • - When evening had--
  • 00:15:15.290 --> 00:15:17.180
  • - [Congregation] Come.
  • 00:15:17.180 --> 00:15:18.140
  • - What does that mean?
  • 00:15:18.140 --> 00:15:19.120
  • - [Congregation] It was evening.
  • 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:20.260
  • - It was evening time.
  • 00:15:20.260 --> 00:15:22.000
  • Don't get deep.
  • 00:15:23.100 --> 00:15:24.150
  • Uh!
  • 00:15:26.230 --> 00:15:27.260
  • He, capital H, said to them.
  • 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.270
  • He, capital H, said to them,
  • 00:15:35.170 --> 00:15:38.020
  • "Let us cross over to the other side."
  • 00:15:39.050 --> 00:15:42.230
  • Now in my bible that's in red.
  • 00:15:42.230 --> 00:15:45.000
  • So who would the He be in this instance?
  • 00:15:45.190 --> 00:15:47.240
  • - [Congregation] Jesus.
  • 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:48.210
  • - Jesus said to the them,
  • 00:15:48.210 --> 00:15:49.240
  • who is the them?
  • 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:50.280
  • - [Congregation] The disciples.
  • 00:15:50.280 --> 00:15:52.000
  • - His disciples said to them,
  • 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.140
  • "And you'll find out..."
  • 00:15:53.140 --> 00:15:54.260
  • Watch this.
  • 00:15:54.260 --> 00:15:56.020
  • You'll find out inside of the them there,
  • 00:15:56.020 --> 00:15:59.080
  • there is an us and a them.
  • 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.030
  • Because everybody who's in here is in
  • 00:16:03.110 --> 00:16:06.260
  • one of these group.
  • 00:16:06.260 --> 00:16:08.120
  • Either you are the us or you're the them.
  • 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:11.230
  • In Hebrews, we're going to see
  • 00:16:11.230 --> 00:16:13.080
  • the difference between the us and the them.
  • 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.000
  • Let me just clue you in.
  • 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.080
  • The bible says that the Word did not profit them
  • 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.210
  • like it profit us.
  • 00:16:20.210 --> 00:16:23.090
  • Now, you gonna have to determine
  • 00:16:23.160 --> 00:16:24.190
  • if you are part of the us,
  • 00:16:24.190 --> 00:16:26.040
  • or you a part of them.
  • 00:16:26.040 --> 00:16:27.120
  • That doesn't exclude you from being a believer
  • 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:30.090
  • because you are a believer.
  • 00:16:30.090 --> 00:16:32.010
  • But there's some believers who don't qualify
  • 00:16:32.010 --> 00:16:36.020
  • for what He's talking about in this respect.
  • 00:16:36.020 --> 00:16:39.230
  • There was another man in the book of Matthew,
  • 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:42.120
  • Chapter Number Nine,
  • 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.010
  • where he brought his son to Jesus,
  • 00:16:44.010 --> 00:16:46.100
  • or His disciples first,
  • 00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:48.030
  • or did he bring him to Jesus?
  • 00:16:48.030 --> 00:16:49.160
  • And Jesus asked him, "Do you believe
  • 00:16:49.160 --> 00:16:52.240
  • " all things are possible?"
  • 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.080
  • He says, "Yeah, I believe, but what I need you to do
  • 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.130
  • "is help my unbelief."
  • 00:16:57.130 --> 00:17:00.250
  • Well unbelief is an enemy to your faith,
  • 00:17:00.290 --> 00:17:04.030
  • and we're going to understand this a little more
  • 00:17:04.030 --> 00:17:06.010
  • because the more you convince yourself inwardly,
  • 00:17:06.010 --> 00:17:10.140
  • the more you'll be able to move things outwardly.
  • 00:17:10.140 --> 00:17:14.180
  • Shout that,
  • 00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:15.160
  • "The more I convince myself--
  • 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:17.130
  • - [Congregation] The more I convince myself--
  • 00:17:17.130 --> 00:17:19.140
  • - inwardly--
  • 00:17:19.140 --> 00:17:20.110
  • - [Congregation] inwardly--
  • 00:17:20.110 --> 00:17:21.160
  • - the more I'll be able to move--
  • 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:22.280
  • - [Congregation] the more I'll be able to move--
  • 00:17:22.280 --> 00:17:24.160
  • - things outwardly--
  • 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:25.210
  • - [Congregation] things outwardly.
  • 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:26.150
  • Now watch this.
  • 00:17:26.150 --> 00:17:27.220
  • He said, 'Let us cross over to the other side."
  • 00:17:27.220 --> 00:17:31.070
  • Now when they had left the multitude,
  • 00:17:31.070 --> 00:17:33.250
  • they took with Him along in the boat as He was.
  • 00:17:33.250 --> 00:17:38.210
  • The other little boats,
  • 00:17:39.060 --> 00:17:40.140
  • they were also with Him.
  • 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:42.090
  • A great windstorm arose and the waves beat not
  • 00:17:42.090 --> 00:17:46.200
  • against the boat but into the boat.
  • 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:50.220
  • One translation said, "The waves
  • 00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:52.170
  • "poured over into the boat,
  • 00:17:52.170 --> 00:17:55.050
  • "so that it was already filling."
  • 00:17:55.050 --> 00:17:57.280
  • Now, Houston, we have a problem,
  • 00:17:57.280 --> 00:18:00.150
  • because anytime water is filling in the boat
  • 00:18:00.150 --> 00:18:04.110
  • that means that boat has the potential
  • 00:18:04.110 --> 00:18:06.180
  • to do what?
  • 00:18:06.180 --> 00:18:07.120
  • - [Congregation] Sink.
  • 00:18:07.120 --> 00:18:08.100
  • - And in the midst of a storm
  • 00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:09.150
  • while the boat is rocking back to for.
  • 00:18:09.150 --> 00:18:11.230
  • Rock the boat
  • 00:18:11.230 --> 00:18:12.200
  • Don't rock the boat, baby
  • 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.030
  • Rock
  • 00:18:14.030 --> 00:18:14.270
  • Y'a...
  • 00:18:14.270 --> 00:18:16.020
  • Okay, okay, don't worry about it.
  • 00:18:16.020 --> 00:18:17.000
  • Turn to your neighbor and say,
  • 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:18.070
  • "Pastor has something different this morning."
  • 00:18:18.070 --> 00:18:21.010
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:18:21.010 --> 00:18:23.060
  • - All the old hits are coming up.
  • 00:18:23.060 --> 00:18:24.190
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:18:24.190 --> 00:18:28.140
  • - But the boat is rocking.
  • 00:18:29.030 --> 00:18:31.000
  • Water is pouring over into the boat.
  • 00:18:32.060 --> 00:18:35.020
  • But look a here.
  • 00:18:35.020 --> 00:18:36.070
  • Look what happened.
  • 00:18:36.070 --> 00:18:37.150
  • Watch this.
  • 00:18:37.150 --> 00:18:38.200
  • But He, capital H, was in the stern
  • 00:18:39.120 --> 00:18:43.220
  • asleep on a pillow,
  • 00:18:43.220 --> 00:18:45.230
  • and they awoke Him and said to Him...
  • 00:18:46.150 --> 00:18:49.240
  • First of all, I got a problem.
  • 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.050
  • Why wake up the Word?
  • 00:18:52.050 --> 00:18:54.170
  • If the Word is sleep, just do what the Word is doing,
  • 00:18:55.120 --> 00:18:58.160
  • and you'll get through
  • 00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:59.210
  • like the Word has gotten through.
  • 00:18:59.210 --> 00:19:02.100
  • No, you better get a hold of this
  • 00:19:02.100 --> 00:19:03.250
  • because if it were me,
  • 00:19:03.250 --> 00:19:05.180
  • if I were on that ship with them,
  • 00:19:05.180 --> 00:19:07.140
  • and I saw Jesus asleep...
  • 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:09.250
  • Now, I can't tell you I would have gone to sleep,
  • 00:19:09.250 --> 00:19:12.120
  • but I would have laid right next to Him
  • 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:15.130
  • as though I was sleep,
  • 00:19:15.130 --> 00:19:17.030
  • because if He ain't gonna worry about nothing,
  • 00:19:17.030 --> 00:19:19.210
  • I ain't gonna worry about nothing.
  • 00:19:20.280 --> 00:19:23.000
  • And if He knows we're not going down...
  • 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:24.280
  • See there's something about this rest
  • 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:27.030
  • that will cause you to literally be at peace
  • 00:19:27.030 --> 00:19:30.240
  • in every life instance.
  • 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:32.270
  • And Jesus was trying to prove a point to them.
  • 00:19:32.270 --> 00:19:35.190
  • He said, "If I'm not worried about anything,
  • 00:19:35.190 --> 00:19:38.210
  • don't you worry about anything."
  • 00:19:40.010 --> 00:19:41.280
  • Come on, lean on over on your neighbor and say,
  • 00:19:41.280 --> 00:19:44.000
  • "Don't worry about anything, little buddy."
  • 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.110
  • - [Congregation] Don't worry about anything.
  • 00:19:46.110 --> 00:19:48.020
  • Watch this.
  • 00:19:49.180 --> 00:19:50.240
  • A great windstorm arose and the waves
  • 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.070
  • beat into the boat,
  • 00:19:53.070 --> 00:19:54.220
  • so it was already filling,
  • 00:19:54.220 --> 00:19:56.280
  • but He was in the stern asleep on the pillow,
  • 00:19:56.280 --> 00:20:00.180
  • and they awoke Him and said to Him,
  • 00:20:00.180 --> 00:20:03.290
  • "Teacher, Master, do you not care
  • 00:20:03.290 --> 00:20:07.000
  • "that we are perishing?"
  • 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.230
  • Watch this.
  • 00:20:08.230 --> 00:20:09.290
  • Then He arose and rebuked the wind
  • 00:20:09.290 --> 00:20:12.080
  • and said to the sea, "Peace...
  • 00:20:12.080 --> 00:20:15.080
  • Come on somebody.
  • 00:20:15.080 --> 00:20:16.080
  • - [Congregation] Be still.
  • 00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:17.150
  • - "Be still", and the wind did what?
  • 00:20:17.150 --> 00:20:19.090
  • - [Congregation] Ceased.
  • 00:20:19.090 --> 00:20:20.160
  • - Ceased, which is one of the definitions,
  • 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:23.070
  • or meanings for this Hebrew word
  • 00:20:23.070 --> 00:20:25.230
  • that I'll give you in a moment.
  • 00:20:25.230 --> 00:20:27.150
  • The wind ceased and there was a great calm.
  • 00:20:27.150 --> 00:20:30.140
  • Check this out.
  • 00:20:30.280 --> 00:20:31.230
  • Dig this.
  • 00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:32.160
  • Watch this.
  • 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:33.100
  • But He said unto them,
  • 00:20:33.120 --> 00:20:34.240
  • "Why are you so fearful?
  • 00:20:36.110 --> 00:20:38.020
  • "How is it that you have no faith?"
  • 00:20:39.090 --> 00:20:44.000
  • Now go back to the Hebrews Four
  • 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:45.210
  • because we're gonna see something there.
  • 00:20:45.210 --> 00:20:47.210
  • Hebrews Four.
  • 00:20:47.210 --> 00:20:49.080
  • Now, while Jesus
  • 00:20:49.280 --> 00:20:53.000
  • was asleep the best thing
  • 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:55.110
  • they could have done
  • 00:20:55.110 --> 00:20:56.190
  • was just believe what He said from the beginning.
  • 00:20:56.190 --> 00:21:00.110
  • They didn't have to go to sleep,
  • 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.060
  • and neither did I,
  • 00:21:03.060 --> 00:21:05.020
  • if in fact I was on this ship,
  • 00:21:05.020 --> 00:21:07.190
  • I did not have to go to sleep,
  • 00:21:07.190 --> 00:21:09.200
  • but all I had to do is believe
  • 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:11.230
  • the Word that He gave from the beginning.
  • 00:21:11.230 --> 00:21:13.280
  • If you remember in verse 35,
  • 00:21:13.280 --> 00:21:16.060
  • He said, "Let us go to the other side."
  • 00:21:16.060 --> 00:21:19.110
  • Now, anytime Jesus say we're going to the other side,
  • 00:21:19.110 --> 00:21:22.280
  • we're going to the other side.
  • 00:21:23.190 --> 00:21:25.260
  • Now, guess what?
  • 00:21:25.260 --> 00:21:26.270
  • It did not guarantee us
  • 00:21:26.270 --> 00:21:28.280
  • that we were not going to run
  • 00:21:28.280 --> 00:21:30.150
  • into anything on our way,
  • 00:21:30.150 --> 00:21:33.240
  • but we are going to the other side,
  • 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:36.090
  • because sometimes when we receive
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  • promises from God, all hell break loose
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  • before we can get to that promise.
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  • And some people confuse what's going on
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  • in the process simply because they don't keep
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  • their eye on the promise.
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  • Now, you can come up and teach that right now,
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  • but I'm not gonna let you.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • - Taking over my message.
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  • Because Dr. Dee Dee is bent on
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  • why people are putting their focus on the process,
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  • you need to keep your focus on the promise
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  • because in the meantime, in between time...
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  • I feel like bust...
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  • Oh, no...
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  • Keep what you got
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  • 'Til you get what you need, y'all
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  • Okay, okay.
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  • Alright, alright.
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  • Come on. Okay.
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  • Back to the Word.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • - The spirit of Chuck Brown just--
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • You were promised a good marriage
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  • but your wife is acting like satan's sister.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • And now you're wondering, "I have to live
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  • "with this same person for the rest of my life."
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  • Well, get your eyes off the process.
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  • Because the fact that Jesus said,
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  • "We're going to the other side",
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  • already predetermined that we're going to get there.
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  • Now again, I can not promise you
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  • that on your way to whatever
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  • you're believing Him for...
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  • Come on somebody!
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  • Because I'm going through a lot right now,
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  • even focusing in on the promise.
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  • I know I got the promise
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  • but they're certain things in the process
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  • that are not so comfortable to me.
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  • I hate going...
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  • As much as I love my therapist,
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  • I hate going in.
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  • I know it's a part of the process,
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  • so I gotta learn to endure the process
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  • to get to the promise.
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  • And regardless of how hard the process may be,
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  • regardless if she did not cook,
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  • or did not give you some that night,
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  • or whatever the case may be,
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  • you gotta hang in there, champ.
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  • You can't wait 'til the battle's over,
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  • you gotta shout in the process
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  • to receive the promise.
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  • Y'all better help me here today.
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  • (congregation claps)
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  • This good stuff, man.
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  • Lean over on that neighbor
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  • you have not been leaning on and say,
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  • "This good groceries right here."
  • 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:16.250
  • - [Congregation] This good groceries right here.
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  • - George, Pastor Dewayne, used...
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  • That's why you need to come to bible study.
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  • Pastor DeWayne used an awesome analogy this week
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  • He say he went on vacation
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  • and he's in Florida right now,
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  • he said he was preaching but...
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Quite convenient to have a preaching engagement
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  • this time of the year where you can go to Florida.
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  • We need to hook them lie-detector tests
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  • up to some of these saints.
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  • And so he said like many times before
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  • while he was perplan...
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  • Perplanning (chuckles), that's planning
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  • and preparing put together.
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  • While he was perplanning to go on vacation,
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  • he started to think about certain things he needed
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  • to do around the house
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  • so he got this brilliant idea to turn off
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  • the AC units and everything
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  • while he was away
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  • because if I'm not gonna be here
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  • then that's a way I can save a little money
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  • by being away and the air doesn't have to be on.
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  • He said he didn't think about coming home
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  • how hot the house would be
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  • so when he walked into the house
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  • when he got back from vacation,
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  • it was like 92 degrees in the house.
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  • "It was like walking into an oven", he said.
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  • And so he said when he got in
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  • he went directly to the thermostat
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  • and set the thermostat down to 65.
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  • He said once he set it,
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  • he made sure it was on cool
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  • and then he walked away from it,
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  • went into his family room and sat down
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  • and never once thought about that air
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  • not coming through those vents
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  • and pushing the hot air out with the cool air.
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  • He say, "Isn't it funny how we can say things
  • 00:26:09.250 --> 00:26:13.150
  • "based upon the word of God,
  • 00:26:13.290 --> 00:26:15.220
  • "set some things and we will wonder
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  • "if in fact this thing is gonna come to pass
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  • "when you can go to your thermostat,
  • 00:26:21.070 --> 00:26:23.080
  • "set it on 65, go away from that thermostat,
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  • "just sit down and rest,
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  • "and never think about once."
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