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The Power of An Instrument

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The Potter's Touch with T. D. Jakes
December 8, 2020
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When David played his music; the Spirit of the Lord dwelled in the palace. God gifted us life; so that we can make a melody to Him from our heart. We should continuously play our instrument; sounding praises unto Him; for He is the giver and sustainer of life.

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The Power of An Instrument

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  • ♪♪♪
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  • female announcer: Coming up on"The Potter's Touch."
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  • Bishop T.D. Jakes: Somebodyneeds to go back to something
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  • you threw away.
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  • When you were in trouble thefirst time, you used to call on
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  • the Lord.
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  • Now you think you're smart, butif you go back to calling on him
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  • like you used to call on him, Imean that old fashioned, gully
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  • washing, thirst quenching,devil chasing.
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  • I know you cute now, I knowyou're Doctor So and So, I know
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  • you make eight figures, but ifyou go back.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ The Potter's Touch, ♪
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  • ♪ The Potter's Touch. ♪
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  • Bishop Jakes: This is theproblem problem that creates
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  • the opportunity forDavid to be called.
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  • Away with praying that Saulwouldn't have an evil spirit, it
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  • is exactly the evil spirit thatcreated an opportunity for the
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  • Holy Spirit.
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  • Oh, y'all are not working withme this morning.
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  • The evil spirit created anopportunity for the Holy Spirit
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  • to operate in the room.
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  • It is what's wrong with me thatdetermine what's right with me.
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  • Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  • Saul is brooding, and dark, anddank, and evil, and breaking
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  • stuff, and later throwingjavelins, and just being an
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  • idiot, schizo.
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  • And they sent for David, becausehe was unbearable to be around.
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  • And David had magic in hisfingers.
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  • When David played, whenDavid played his harp--
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • When David played his harp, whenhe just played, when he stroked
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  • it, when he touched it, whenhe played, the evil
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  • spirits departed.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Keep on playing.
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  • David never knew when he wasplaying on the backside of the
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  • mountains that his gif--
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  • would make room forhim, and then he
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  • would go from playing for sheepto playing for kings.
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  • I don't know who I'm talking to,but you're going to find out why
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  • you had to go through what youhad to go through, because God
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  • is about to make room for you.
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  • He's about to use what you'vegot to make it better for
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  • somebody else.
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  • You are the answer tosomebody's question.
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  • You are the solution thatsomebody's--listen, what you
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  • got, can't nobody do what you dolike you do when you do what you
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  • do like you do it whenyou do it.
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  • You're in a class all byyourself.
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  • You're in a place ofdistinction.
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  • You have been created forsuch a time as this.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Touch three people and tell 'em,"Something is about to happen."
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  • God's about to change theatmosphere.
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  • God's about to change theatmosphere.
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  • God's about to change theatmosphere.
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  • God's about to change theatmosphere.
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  • What we begin to understand isthat David entertains God's
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  • presence with music.
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  • I can't play, I just wanna standover there while she plays.
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  • The music draws me.
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  • The music affects me.
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  • The music changes theatmosphere.
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  • The whole room felt differentwhen she just starting.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • See, you have to understand thatit is not David's fighting that
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  • brings him to the palace, it'smusic.
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  • His music summons the presenceof God.
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  • And wherever the Spirit ofthe Lord is,
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  • wherever the Spirit of theLord is, there is liberty.
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  • Dance, David, dance.
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  • Whoo, dance, David, dance.
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  • Dance, David, dance.
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  • God is about to do a new thingin your life like you
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  • have never seen before.
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  • There is something I learned,thank you, there is something
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  • I learned.
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  • There's something I learned.
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  • I'd started studying theinstruments of the Old
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  • Testament, because what madeDavid mighty when he gets ready
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  • to go to Zion, when he getsready to go to Zion, it is
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  • almost a repetition of how hecame to the palace.
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  • He comes to the palace as amusician.
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  • He is promoted to an armorbearer.
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  • Later, we will read that hecomes back to be king, and the
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  • reason he had to have music isbecause he had music the
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  • first time.
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  • So, David is going back tosomething.
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  • Somebody needs to go back tosomething you threw away.
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  • When you were in trouble thefirst time, you used to call on
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  • the Lord.
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  • Now you think you're smart, butif you go back to calling on him
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  • like you used to call on him, Imean that old fashioned, gully
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  • washing, thirst quenching, devilchasing, I know you cute now.
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  • I know you're Doctor So and So.
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  • I know you make eight figures,but if you go back to--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Oh my gosh, I didn't realize.
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  • I get it.
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  • I know the slingshot was aweapon, but this is a
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  • weapon, too.
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  • The only difference betweenDavid praising God on the harp
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  • and David praising God when hebrings back the Ark of the
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  • Covenant is this time he's usingeverything.
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  • This time he's using everything.
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  • The first time he usedsomething, this time he's got a
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  • whole band.
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  • The power of David's tabernacleis that David's tabernacle--see,
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  • Moses gave us ordinances andsacraments, David's tabernacle
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  • gives us instruments.
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  • And David created instruments.
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  • There are no brazen altars, nobrazen lavers, no table of
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  • shewbread, no altar incense,there's only instruments.
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  • So, I started studying oninstruments.
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  • And all of the instruments thatwere used in the day of David,
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  • and for the most part that areused today, have somethin'
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  • in common.
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  • They are either creating soundthrough touch or wind.
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  • Blow the trumpet from me.
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  • Blow the trumpet in Zion.
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  • I told you when the servicestarted that that was the sound
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  • that caused the children ofIsrael to gather.
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  • And if you Google "blow thetrumpet," it is all over the Old
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  • Testament, because it was asignal for the saints to
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  • assemble, that something wasabout to happen, that the
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  • presence of God was about tomove.
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  • But what I didn't tell you isthat in the Bible, the trumpet
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  • was made out of silver, silverthat had been through the fire.
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  • In the Scriptures, silverrepresents redemption.
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  • The price that he paid topurchase you.
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  • Silver represents redemption.
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  • The trumpet was made out ofsilver, so the instrument itself
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  • is redemption, but the wind isthe Holy Spirit.
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  • Blow the trumpet in Zion.
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  • That's nothing but the wind ofGod blowing through
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  • the redeemed.
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  • That's nothing but Acts chapter2, "When the day of Pentecost
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  • was fully come, and they were inone place with one accord,
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  • suddenly there came a sound fromheaven."
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  • Because the wind of God isblowing through the people of
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  • God, and the Holy Ghost began tofall, because God is blowing his
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  • trumpet in Zion.
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  • announcer: What is GPSpartnership?
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  • male: Coming into agreement withGod's Word.
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  • female: Reaching out to peoplein need.
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  • male: Showing them that Godcares.
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  • female: Personal commitment--
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  • male: And keeping my word.
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  • male: Being a part of somethingbigger than me.
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  • male: My GPS partnership meansthat when Bishop
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  • Jakes ministers--
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  • female: Anywhere in the world--
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  • male: I'm there, too.
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  • group: I'm there, too.
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  • I'm there, too.
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  • Bishop Jakes: I have a uniquecompassion to reach all people,
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  • of all races, and all colors,and all kinds with the love of
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  • Jesus Christ.
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  • But without your partnership, myvision dies in my heart.
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  • It is when I touch you that itis birthed around the world.
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  • announcer: When GPS partnersmake the decision to bless
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  • others, heal the hurting, andhelp save the lost, they open
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  • themselves up to God, and heblesses them in ways they never
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  • could have imagined.
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  • Join T. D. Jakes's GlobalPartner System or increase your
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  • partnership level today.
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  • GPS, we are changinglives together.
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  • Bishop Jakes: What I learned isthat even today, all of these
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  • instruments either respondto wind or touch.
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  • Touch that organ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • See, see, see, when you play theorgan, normally they would
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  • describe you as anaccompaniment, because in our
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  • culture, the music is designedto accompany the singer.
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  • But when the Bible says topraise him on the organ, it
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  • means if nobody sings,
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • that every time you touch, everytime you touch a key,
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  • it produces a sound.
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  • Every time you touch a key,it produces a sound.
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  • And this organ is reallyimitating a pipe organ, which
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  • produces wind.
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  • You see, it's designed when youpull the bars, you get different
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  • sounds to imitate the pipes inthe organs, and the wind, and
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  • the wind produces a sound, andthe sound goes up before God as
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  • a symphony.
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  • So, if nobody ever adds a lyric,your music alone is
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  • praise to God.
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  • So, whenever you play, you playas giving praise to God.
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  • Every time you think aboutsomething that God did for you,
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  • every time you think aboutsomething that God did in you,
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  • every time you think about whereGod brought you from, if you
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  • don't say a word, if the choirdon't sing, if they don't write
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  • a lyric, just praise him on thedrums, one more time,
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  • just praise.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • See, God understandswhat that means.
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  • God understands what you'retrying to tell him.
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  • God understands what you feel.
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  • God understands what you feel inyour spirit.
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  • That goes up before God as asweet-smelling savor.
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  • Whenever you think about whereGod brought you from, whenever
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  • you think about what God did inyour life, whenever you think
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  • about what an amazing story youare to God, and you get ready to
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  • express praise, if you neversing a note, if you never dance
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  • with your feet, hit them stringsand give God some praise.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Every touch, every string, everynote, every note, every string,
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  • every touch, every touch, everystring, every note, every note,
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  • every touch, every string.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • If he's ever done anything foryou, if he's ever been good to
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  • you, if he's ever blessed you,if he's ever brought you from a
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  • mighty long way, hit thatkeyboard and just tell him thank
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  • you with music, with music,with sound.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • And if you were at the throne,if you were at the throne, if
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  • you were in the presence of God,if you had gone through the veil
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  • and you stepped right into thethrone room, and you got ready
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  • to play for the Master, if youwere right in the palace with
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  • the King of kings and the Lordof lords, and you look back and
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  • thought where he brought youfrom, what would you say
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  • with the keys?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Can you hear that worshipgoin' up?
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  • Can you hear that worshipgoing up?
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  • Now, we did it, we did it in aloose fashion, but we're gonna
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  • do it, we're gonna do it, we'regonna do it like we do it,
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  • like we do it.
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  • We're gonna throwour culture in it.
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  • We're gonna throw our ownindividual culture to it, and
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  • we're going to rock that thingfor just a minute.
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  • We're gonna rock that thing.
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  • We're gonnarock that thing.
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  • C'mon, c'mon, let's rock thatthing, fellas.
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  • Come on, let's go with me.
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  • Give me something.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Are you all gettin' whatI'm saying to you?
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  • Now, this is what I wantyou to see.
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  • When David starts writing the150 divisions of Psalms, he
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  • starts with the instruments.
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  • He doesn't tell the instrumentsto accompany the people, he says
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  • to praise him on theinstruments.
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  • What we have been doing ispraising him on the instruments.
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  • David created the instrumentsthat were to praise God, but
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  • when David is creating theinstruments, he is
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  • imitating God.
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  • Let me show you this and I'll befinished.
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  • Everything you heard todayeither got touched or it got
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  • blown into.
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  • So, when man createsinstruments, he does it by
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  • touching or blowing into it.
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  • When God created instruments,he created you.
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  • But when it came to man, hetouched him, because man is
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  • an instrument.
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  • And when he got through touchinghim, he got down and he blew
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  • in him.
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  • Because you are an instrumentof praise.
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  • So, when the Bible said, "Leteverything that has breath
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  • praise ye the Lord."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop Jakes: The Bible says,"Let the redeemed of the Lord
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  • say so."
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  • Don't be redeemed andkeep it a secret.
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  • Don't be redeemed and be anundercover agent for the Lord.
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  • God don't need no secret agents,he needs you to say so.
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  • announcer: Today, for your giftof any amount, you'll receive
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  • mercy and grace.
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  • Bishop Jakes: But I am who Godsays I am.
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  • I can do what God says I can do.
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  • I can be what God says I can be.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop Jakes: Yesterday, Istopped by the rehearsal.
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  • I wanted to get a sense of how Iwas going to flow with the choir
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  • and the band.
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  • Bishop Jakes: Music createsmood and attitude.
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  • It changes disposition.
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  • Bishop Jakes: And while I wasthere, I began to unload some of
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  • the truths that God has given meregarding worship and music
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  • in particular.
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  • Some powerful thingsbegin to happen.
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  • Bishop Jakes: So, it is morethan the frequency than your ear
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  • hears, your soul hearssomething, so does God.
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  • So, that's praise.
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  • Can you feel that?
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  • Bishop Jakes: It wasn't arehearsal at all, it was just
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  • an experience.
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  • Bishop Jakes: Whatever yourheart is saying,
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  • God is listening.
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  • Bishop Jakes: You came into anawareness of what we are really
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  • created to do, it's amazing.
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  • Bishop Jakes: When God got readyto make his instrument,
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  • he made you.
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  • He made you.
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  • And it is not correct to saythat we should give praise,
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  • we are praise.
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  • [applauding]
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  • share your story of how Godis impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing younext time on
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  • "The Potter's Touch."
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  • ♪ The Potter's Touch, ♪
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  • ♪ The Potter's Touch. ♪♪
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