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Some Things You May Have Missed

October 5, 2016

28:31

Living by Faith with Mike & DeeDee Freeman

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Some Things You May Have Missed

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The faith is going to grab hold --
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- Come on, come on.
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- And is going to connect and going to be healed.
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This was just a pivot in the turn of a ministry.
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When I came here, I saw,
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"The Year of Realized Dream."
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How apropos.
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How apropos.
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And your ministry of faith,
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you are an example and you are the first fruit
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of this ministry.
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- [Congregation] Yeah!
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Today, on Living by Faith...
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And I said, "On who's chart?"
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I mean, there was a righteous indignation...
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How can you be depressed and a Christian?
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Now, don't get into condemnation, because if you are now
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popping antidepressant medication, you do what you gotta do.
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But you stick around here, you're gonna
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be off that medication by the end of this year.
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(audience clapping)
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My wife is not that old.
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Y'all look like, "Expect a what?"
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(laughs)
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Oh, Jesus.
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That was hilarious.
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One of my doctors that you met on yesterday,
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that's why we're running late.
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Things.
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Man, people showed up at the 8 o'clock service.
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It was just a good time, man.
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This man flat right out preached this morning.
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Lord Jesus.
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And then when I began to speak about this
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announcement this morning, I noticed that
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the apparent resistance that I felt
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or assumed that I have felt on yesterday,
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I didn't feel it at all this morning at the 8 AM service.
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And maybe that's just because everyone didn't come.
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I don't know.
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But prayerfully, it's getting progressively better
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as I have to make this announcement
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throughout every service today.
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And this announcement is going to help
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define for you whether or not
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you're a real partner of this church.
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And it's nothing bad.
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But it's something that I need
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your participation and cooperation in.
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How many of y'all know I'm believing
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God for one facility?
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You know that.
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Okay.
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I want to be one church in one location.
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I'm still assigned to Woodbridge, and I know that.
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But I need to secure this one facility.
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So you're going to potentially begin to hear
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that these locations are for sale.
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You're going to hear that.
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Possibly.
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However, I don't know where we're going.
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So I'm putting them up for sale,
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but I don't have a place to go.
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(audience murmuring)
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Okay, okay, okay.
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Okay, it's getting better in here.
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For some of y'all.
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Some of y'all looking like, "Where we going?"
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(laughs)
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I don't know.
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The Lord just told me to prepare to move.
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(audience claps and cheers)
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Wow.
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I receive.
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Oh wow.
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You guys don't know how you're making me feel.
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Because I made this same move
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and announcement at Anakassi High School.
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And people showed me their displeasure
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with what I was doing with their feet.
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They left.
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They thought that I was a little to aggressive.
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And some said, "Pastor just need to crawl before we walk."
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And actually, in some cultures, that is an insult.
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'Cause they don't put their babies on the floor.
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And their babies never crawl.
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Their babies start walking.
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This just happens to be a church
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where we just start walking.
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(audience claps and cheers)
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Everybody should go to this church!
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Everybody should go to this church.
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I mean...
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Whoo!
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Y'all make me feel...
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And Leo, I receive that word that
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you sent me on yesterday.
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Matter of fact, I read it.
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Give me my phone.
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Find my phone.
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So I don't know where we're going.
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But we have multi-million dollar properties.
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And I know God is up to something real big.
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But here's what you need to hear
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in addition to what I just said.
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You personally need to prepare to move.
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(audience claps and cheers)
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Receive that.
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Whatever that is.
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Your house.
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Some of you single ladies.
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I'm just telling you.
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I'm telling you this is the year to realize dreams.
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I have been confessing for years
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that you're gonna live in houses
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that you will not have to pay for.
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(audience claps and cheers)
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Now a lot of this is contingent
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upon how you choose to believe your God.
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And trust is going to be a big factor
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in all of what we are confessing.
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Trust God.
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Say, "I trust God."
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- [Audience] I trust God.
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- Say, "I love."
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- [Audience] I love.
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- Say, "I love."
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- [Audience] I love.
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- And trust.
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- [Audience] And trust.
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- God.
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- [Audience] God.
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- I made this comment on last week
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in our time of being with one another
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that the tithe is in part the reason
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why I'm alive today.
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And a lot of people really didn't get
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and comprehend what I was trying to share and minister.
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But the tithe has given me a practice of trusting God
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because the tithes really have had,
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from the beginning, nothing to do with money.
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You hear what I'm saying, brother Ron?
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What was that you said?
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And the consistency of tithing has
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allowed me to know that I trust him.
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And the Lord told me.
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He said, "It would have been difficult
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"for you to trust me for your life
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"when you couldn't trust me with
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"a dime out of every dollar."
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God is so awesome, isn't he?
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So this what Leo said to me.
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That's why I have my number blocked these days.
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'Cause before I called people and they see
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it's my number, then they store it away.
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And then they think they can text me anytime they...
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(audience laughs)
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"Sir," he said.
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"As I was in prayer today I received
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"this revelation of your life mimicking
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"the life and faith of Jesus.
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"The enemy thought he...
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"The enemy thought you were defeated.
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"You've been raised up by God and restored
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"to give hope on a level that you've not yet touched.
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"And that this ministry has not yet touched.
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"Just as the resurrection of Christ
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"manifested a new level of hope."
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And it did.
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Because when the angels said to Mary
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and Martha, who were standing there,
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"He is not here.
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"For he has risen."
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Just like he said he would.
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Lord, he said he would do it!
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And they left there running, man.
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They ran back in town and said he's alive.
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It presented a new level of hope.
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My being raised from this death, has,
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and I've hoped you've received it,
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as another level of hope for you.
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See, Doc, Doc, this is what you see.
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Come on down and join me, Doc.
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Give me another chair.
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This is...I'm indebted to this man.
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This is the man who is in part
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responsible for my being here today.
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This is Dr. Victor Grazette.
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(applause)
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Have a seat.
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Y'all thank God for him just a little more than that.
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(cheering and applause)
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You may be seated.
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Thank you so very much.
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Have a seat, Doc.
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No, take my seat.
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That's Dr.Dee Dee's seat.
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I don't want you sitting anywhere near anything...
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(audience laughs)
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I mean, he has this voice that's so...
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And I can see him now.
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"Hello Dee Dee."
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I'm just having fun y'all.
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"Just as the resurrection of Christ
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"manifested a new level of hope,
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"you are now about to be seated
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"in a new place of authority
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"that will enable you to advance the Kingdom of God.
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"You continue to fight the fight of faith
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"and God has blessed you with an extra portion
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"of anointing as his grace has pushed
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"you into a permanent position of favor."
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I decree that you enjoy that permanent position of favor.
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"That will miraculously manifest your dreams
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"on an unimaginable level."
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I receive that.
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And so when over for all of these things
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that I'm discussing with you, Brother Warren,
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to be manifested in your life,
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there has to be an element of trust
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that you are consistently exhibiting.
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Consistently exhibiting.
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You have to have this level of trust in God.
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The tithe has given me.
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And people talk down the tithe.
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And you hear it all the time.
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"Man, all them preachers want is your money.
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"I'm tired of that money thing.
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"All they want is your money."
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How many of y'all heard that?
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"They want your money."
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I said, how many of y'all heard that?
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Turn to your neighbor.
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Say, "Get your hand up."
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You heard that before.
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(audience laughing)
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And there's an element of truth in that.
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Because a preacher should want your money.
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But that shouldn't be all they want.
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Because if I don't teach you concerning this level,
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it is a miscarriage of my pastoral duty.
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It's my duty.
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I started off with saying, "You know what, God?"
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Anybody ever made a deal with God?
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- [Audience] Yes.
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- Come on, you've made a deal with God.
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God if you heal my body, I'll serve you.
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You ever been so drunk or high you say,
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"God, if you just let me come down."
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I know some of y'all...
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(laughs)
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That my people right there.
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That girl said, "Yeah!"
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Man, I didn't know my way home one night.
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And when I woke up in the car that next morning,
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it was a miracle that I can't
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even remember getting home.
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I didn't even get in the house.
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I just...I woke up and I was in the front of my house.
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I have no idea how I drove home.
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That's high.
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Okay, don't look at me like that.
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You ain't been saved all your life.
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Some of y'all look at me be like, "That's a shame."
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It is.
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It is a shame.
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But that was a long time ago.
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I receive.
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And I told God if I Pastor,
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I'm not letting them people pay me.
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'Cause I watched a man grab my father up like this.
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A trustee of the church.
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He was a pastor.
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And the trustee grabbed my father like that.
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Thank you.
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I...apologize.
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(audience laughs)
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And I said, "Hit 'em, Daddy!
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"Hit 'em!"
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And I was crying
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It was so impressionable.
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It made an indelible impression upon my life.
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I can remember it so vividly.
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'Cause I hated...
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seeing this man put his hands on my father.
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And my father wouldn't do anything.
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And it didn't make a good impression for me.
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And I need some counseling or something.
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(audience laughs)
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Every time.
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Here, buy your brother something too, alright?
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And my father wouldn't do a thing.
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He just stood there.
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And I told God, 'cause I've never forgotten.
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You can you see how fresh it is in my heart today.
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And I told God, "I'll do what you've asked me to do,
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"but these people will not pay me.
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"These people will not pay me."
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And I worked in this ministry for three and a half
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years and didn't receive a dime from you all.
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And the Lord rebuked me, and I found out
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that I was making you an inferior people
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because I was not receiving from you the offering.
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And I said, "How is that so?"
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And then he said, "Look at II Corinthians
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"Chapter number 12."
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No, you don't have to do it right now.
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But do it later so you can be informed.
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Because deception is at an all time high.
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Oprah just featured this guy Rob Bell
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who was a former mega church pastor who said
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there is this zig zoom effect that happens,
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an energy that happens between a husband and wife.
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But it doesn't have to be male and female.
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It can be male and male, and female and female.
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And every church who is not marrying
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same sex will become irrelevant.
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Not this church.
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I said not this church.
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Deception is at an all time high.
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I'm amazed of partners that I encounter.
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Even those who were members of this church
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once a time, the deception that they walk in nowadays.
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People who once believed one thing,
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"I don't believe that anymore."
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And it will get worse, ladies and gentlemen.
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But say, "I love and trust God."
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- [Audience] I love and trust God.
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- He said those who trust him...
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Proverbs 28 and 25 or 26.
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He said, "Those who trust me will prosper."
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There is a level of equality with trust and prosperity.
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When you trust him, you prosper.
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But then he gives us the tithe to demonstrate that.
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Isn't God wonderful?
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So I want to resume from where we were.
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And I'm not gonna spend much time
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talking about what I just talked about.
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This is a brilliant man.
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Just brilliant in my estimation.
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When I first met him...
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He can be somewhat intimidating
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because of his brilliance.
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But it's very difficult to intimidate
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somebody who knows who they are and whose they are.
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And I don't care where you are on any academic level,
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the anointing levels the playing field.
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And God will make you a lot smarter
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than you are if you'll listen to him.
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I'm amazed at some of the stuff that Dr. Dee Dee
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will come up with in our discussion,
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'cause I know she's not that smart.
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(audience laughs)
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And then she'll give God all the glory.
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She'll say, "Oh man, that was the Holy Ghost."
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I'll say, "You ain't gotta tell me."
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(audience laughs)
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He is the...what, Doc?
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And who of...
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- Corporate Director for Cardiology--
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- See, and I can't even stand his voice.
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(laughing)
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He is the corporate--
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- Corporate Director for Cardiology Services,
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Pulmonary, Sleep Medicine, Cardiovascular Surgery
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and some Outpatient Diagnostic services
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in the Dimension Healthcare System.
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Specifically, my office is at Laurel Regional Hospital.
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- That's a mouthful.
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Yeah, that's a resume there, boy.
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And you said on last week when you first met me.
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It was funny because that's when I felt
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at my lowest when we met.
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And I was tempted to be in depression.
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And I discovered from him on yesterday or Friday
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that this thing that I've gone through,
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it's inevitably associated or connected to depression.
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Matter of fact, Camilla here was the one
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who brought to my attention that the doctors
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noted from Washington hospital saying that I was depressed.
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She didn't deal with it.
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It's interesting how your approach
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to my case was so abnormal.
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It was different than me because
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when she said, "Why is depression on your chart?"
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And I said, "On who's chart?"
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I mean, there was a righteous indignation...
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How can you be depressed and a Christian?
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Now, don't get into condemnation, because if you are now
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popping antidepressant medication, you do what you gotta do.
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But you stick around here, you're gonna
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be off that medication by the end of this year.
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(audience clapping)
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I'm gonna teach you how to be happy.
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It's gonna come up out of your spirit.
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And I said, "What are you talking about?"
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She said, "It's listed here from your doctor."
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She said, "I didn't want to tell you
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"because I know who you are.
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"But, why is this depression here?"
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And I said, "Get the doctor on the phone, De Dee!"
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But they had to put that because there are
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certain associated symptoms and terms.
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Talk to me, Doc.
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You're the Doctor.
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- He had what we call Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome,
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as I think I said that last week.
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Associated with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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for patients who recover, if they recover,
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it's depression.
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I call it, "the spirit of depression dwells
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"at the bedside of the patients that (mumbles).
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- I'm telling you that is the God honest truth.
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I'm telling you.
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Depression, if not every day, every other day,
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visited my bedside.
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- And--
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- And I had no clue that it was
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associated to what I went through.
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- Right, it is.
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And associated with the disease also is,
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you suffer a cognitive deficit, physical deficit.
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We are not even talking at the level of where he was.
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- [Dr. Freeman] Talk about those levels,
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because we didn't last week.
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- So, we talked about the oxygen index
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last time very briefly.
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It is a number that you use to estimate
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the mortality rate of a patient.
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An oxygen index of anywhere from 25 to 30
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is considered high, but normal.
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The expected recovery is imminent.
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An oxygen index of 40 or greater, death is imminent.
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An oxygen index of greater than 40,
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the mortality rate is very high.
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And his oxygen index was not even anywhere near 40.
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It was 62.75, approximately.
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That is...I'm not sure if there are any
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nurses or physicians here in the audience.
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But someone with an oxygen index
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of 62 will not live.
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Will not live.
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(audience laughs)
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And if they do live, it's not necessarily
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what you call a life.
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It is an organism on a bed.
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And so, the severity...
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What is amazing, what is testimonial,
00:24:10.270 --> 00:24:14.040
what is praiseworthy, is what you see here today.
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Is what you see before you.
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And you know, earlier we talked about
00:24:21.230 --> 00:24:25.280
this is...and you said it earlier just now here,
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to give hope.
00:24:31.070 --> 00:24:32.260
This is a ministry that was built
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by these two people on faith.
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A ministry of faith.
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And it is the infrastructure of this ministry.
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Is it not though?
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It is.
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It is the infrastructure of this ministry.
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.060
And the enemy attacked that very infrastructure.
00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:53.190
- Wow.
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- To destroy it.
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Because if he could have destroyed
00:24:56.280 --> 00:24:58.100
the very infrastructure of the ministry,
00:24:58.100 --> 00:25:00.130
he would have shaken everybody.
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Because I know some of you...
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I wasn't here at this time (mumbling)
00:25:07.010 --> 00:25:09.120
because I wasn't here at the time.
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But some of you were looking...
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looking and standing to see what the outcome would be.
00:25:13.210 --> 00:25:16.130
Some of you were praying.
00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:18.060
And some of you were looking to see what the outcome was.
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You know.
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- [Dr.Freemanl] Tell the truth!
00:25:23.120 --> 00:25:25.060
Because I know.
00:25:25.060 --> 00:25:26.190
I know everybody who said they were praying
00:25:26.190 --> 00:25:30.160
for me were not for me.
00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.160
There are some cats who really hated
00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:38.200
to know that Mike Freeman got out of this situation.
00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:41.250
I already know that.
00:25:42.290 --> 00:25:44.220
- And the think about this RDS...
00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:46.180
When you think about it, usually the patient
00:25:46.180 --> 00:25:48.150
with the RDS...already in the hospital
00:25:48.150 --> 00:25:52.010
or is following a major accident or trauma.
00:25:53.070 --> 00:25:57.080
Something you can really pinpoint.
00:25:57.180 --> 00:25:59.190
Or they were in the hospital with
00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:00.290
a really major sickness.
00:26:00.290 --> 00:26:03.040
Abscess or something like that.
00:26:03.190 --> 00:26:05.080
It is very unusual to find someone that
00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:07.140
comes from home with that level
00:26:07.140 --> 00:26:11.280
of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
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It is absolutely unusual.
00:26:14.080 --> 00:26:16.010
At the point that he got into the hospital,
00:26:16.030 --> 00:26:19.210
he had probably about 24 hours to live.
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