Praise | Tyler Perry | 9/14/18
September 14, 2018
56:32
Joel and Victoria Osteen host Tyler Perry in Houston, TX and music by Lakewood Church Worship Team.
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Praise | Tyler Perry | 9/14/18
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- [MUSIC]
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- - TONIGHT ON PRAISE, FROM HOUSTON, TEXAS,
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- PASTORS OF LAKEWOOD CHURCH, JOEL AND VICTORIA
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- OSTEEN, PROLIFIC ACTOR AND FILM MAKER TYLER PERRY.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - AND NOW, THE LAKEWOOD CHURCH WORSHIP TEAM.
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- [MUSIC]
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- CREATED FROM DUST...
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- YOU CAME AND YOU LIVED AMONG US...
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- YOU TOOK ON OUR FRAME...
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- YOU WALKED IN OUR PAIN...
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- NOW YOU'RE TAKING US HIGHER...
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- YOU STEPPED INTO TIME...
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- YOU LAID DOWN YOUR LIFE TO SAVE US...
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- YOU TOOK ALL OUR SHAME...
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- ON THE CROSS IT WAS LAID...
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- ARE YOU TAKING US HIGHER...
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- WE GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY TO GLORY...
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- WE'LL NEVER BE THE SAME...
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- NEVER BE THE SAME...
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- WE GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY TO GLORY...
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- WE'RE FOREVER CHANGED...
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- FOREVER CHANGED...
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- UNTIL WE REACH THAT DAY...
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- LOVE CONQUERS EVERYTHING...
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- OUR ANTHEM SINGING HOLY, HOLY...
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- AND WE WILL RECEIVE THAT DAY...
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- WHEN WE'RE STANDING FACE-TO-FACE...
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- WE'LL SHOUT AN ANTHEM SINGING HOLY, HOLY...
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- UNTIL WE REACH THAT DAY...
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- LOVE CONQUERS EVERYTHING...
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- WE'LL CRY AN ANTHEM SINGING HOLY, HOLY...
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- AND WHEN WE WILL SEE YOU THAT DAY...
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- STANDING FACE-TO-FACE...
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- WE'LL SHOUT AN ANTHEM SINGING HOLY, HOLY...
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- YOU TOOK ON THE GRAVE, YEAH...
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- SO NOT EVEN DEATH CAN SHAKE US...
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- THE VICTOR HAS WON...
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- AND HEAVEN HAS COME...
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- YOU'RE TAKING US HIGHER...
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- SAY YOU'RE TAKING US HIGHER...
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- WE GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY TO GLORY...
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- WE'LL NEVER BE THE SAME...
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- NEVER BE THE SAME...
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- OH, YOU TAKE US HIGHER AND HIGHER AND HIGHER ...
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- WE'RE FOREVER CHANGED...
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- FOREVER CHANGED...
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- WE GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY TO GLORY...
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- WE'LL NEVER BE THE SAME...
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- NEVER BE THE SAME...
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- YOU TAKE US HIGHER AND HIGHER, AND HIGHER ...
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- WE'RE FOREVER CHANGED...
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- FOREVER CHANGED...
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- WE GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY TO GLORY...
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- WE GO FROM GLORY TO GLORY TO GLORY...
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- YOU TAKE US HIGHER AND HIGHER, AND HIGHER ...
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- WE'RE FOREVER CHANGED...
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- FOREVER CHANGED...
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- - JOEL OSTEEN: WELCOME BACK TO PRAISE.
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- WE RECENTLY HAD TYLER PERRY HERE AT LAKEWOOD,
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- AND WHAT AN AMAZING DAY THAT WAS.
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- I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO ENJOY THE PROGRAM.
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- - VICTORIA OSTEEN: HE'S FULL OF FAITH, HE'S
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- INSPIRATIONAL, HE'S FUNNY.
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- YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE HIM.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - HOW DO YOU INTRODUCE A MAN LIKE TYLER PERRY?
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- I CAN SAY THIS.
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- HE'S ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
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- IN THE WORLD.
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- YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW HIM FROM THE PROLIFIC
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- FILM MAKER, WRITER, DIRECTOR, ACTOR, ENTREPRENEUR.
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- TYLER IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND TYPE OF MAN.
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- YOU KNOW HIM AS A MEDEA, BUT LET ME TELL YOU THIS
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- [LAUGHTER ] TYLER IS A MAN OF GOD, A MAN OF FAITH.
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- HE KNOWS THE WORD.
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- YOU'RE GOING TO BE BLESSED TODAY.
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- COME ON, LAKEWOOD, MR. TYLER PERRY HERE WITH
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- US TODAY.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- COME ON.
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- GIVE HIM A GOOD WELCOME.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - THANK YOU, TYLER.
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- AWESOME TO HAVE YOU.
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- - TYLER PERRY: THANK YOU.
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- - PLEASE HAVE A SEAT HER.
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- PLEASE BE SEATED, YOU ALL.
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- THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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- - I'M STILL ON THAT SONG, WE GO FROM GLORY TO
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- GLORY TO GLORY.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING.
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- - IT WILL NEVER CHANGE.
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- - WE'RE GOING TO TALK FOR A FEW MINUTES.
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- THEN I'LL TURN TYLER LOOSE.
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- - I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS CHAIR.
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- UM -I WANT YOU TO GET SOME SIZE APPROPRIATE
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- CHAIRS FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME AND JOHN GRAY.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- SO WE DON'T HAVE TO SQUEEZE IN AND HOPE THAT
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- IT WILL HOLD UP HERE.
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- - THAT'S SO FUNNY.
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- OH, TYLER.
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- - CAN I SAY THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE?
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- THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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- - AWESOME TO HAVE YOU.
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- AWESOME TO HAVE YOU.
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- - GOD BLESS YOU.
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- THANK YOU.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - I GET A KICK.
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- I DO THIS TO YOU EVERY TIME I SEE YOU.
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- EVERY TIME I LOOK AT YOU I THINK OF MEDEA.
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- I CAN'T HELP IT.
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- LET ME ASK YOU THIS.
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- I DID A RADIO INTERVIEW WITH TYLER.
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- I ASKED HIM SOMETHING ABOUT COMING TO LAKEWOOD.
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- DO YOU REMEMBER HOW YOU ANSWERED AS MEDEA?
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- - AS SOON AS YOU GET A SMOKING SECTION I'LL BE
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- RIGHT THERE SOMEWHERE IN THE BACK.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- I DON'T KNOW WHY Y'ALL AIN'T GOT NO SMOKING
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- SECTION WHEN PEOPLE LIKE TO SMOKE.
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- THEY WANT TO KNOW GOD.
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- JUST PUT A SMOKING SECTION BACK IN THE BACK
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- NEXT TO A BAR AND WE'LL SIT THERE ALL DAY AND
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- LISTEN TO YOU PREACH.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- - WELL, SOMEHOW WE GOT YOU HERE WITHOUT THE
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- SMOKING SECTION, BUT ANYWAY.
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- - THAT'S RIGHT.
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- SHE'S NOT COMING UNTIL YOU GET ONE.
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- I REACHED A LOT OF POINT IN THE SMOKING SECTION, MAN.
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- COME ON.
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- - WELL, TYLER, WE ALL KNOW YOU AS LIKE I SAID
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- WHEN I INTRODUCED YOU IN YOUR FILMS AND MOVIES.
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- WE ALL SEE THAT BUT IT DIDN'T START OFF LIKE
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- THAT FOR YOU.
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- YOU DIDN'T NECESSARILY COME FROM A
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- FUNCTIONAL FAMILY.
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- - NO.
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- - AND I'D LIKE TO GO BACK AND YOU KNOW, I WAS
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- VERY MOVED WHEN WE DID THE INTERVIEW ON SERIUS
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- ABOUT HOW YOU GOT UNDERNEATH THE PORCH WHEN
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- YOU WERE A LITTLE BOY TO ESCAPE THE PAIN AND YOU
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- TOLD STORIES IN YOUR IMAGINATION.
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- CAN YOU SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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- YOUR UPBRINGING?
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- - YEAH.
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- WELL, IT WAS A VERY VERY DIFFICULT TIME.
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- I WAS A CHILD THAT WAS BORN TO 2 WOUNDED
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- PARENTS, AND THEY WERE WOUNDED
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- CHILDREN THEMSELVES.
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- MY MOTHER WAS 17 AND MY FATHER WAS ABOUT 19 WHEN
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- THEY GOT MARRIED.
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- AND I CAME ALONG WHEN SHE WAS 24 YEARS OLD, AND
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- THERE WAS A LOT OF PAIN IN THE HOUSE.
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- THERE WAS A LOT OF ARGUMENTS.
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- HE WAS VERY PHYSICALLY AND VERBALLY ABUSIVE TO
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- THE BOTH OF US.
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- IT WAS REALLY A DIFFICULT AND VERY HARD TIME
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- SPECIALLY FOR A MAN CHILD.
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- I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR A LITTLE GIRL
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- BUT I'M SURE IT'S JUST AS PAINFUL, BUT FOR A BOY
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- CHILD, A MAN CHILD TO WATCH HIS MOTHER BEING
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- BEATEN AND BELITTLED IT WAS REALLY REALLY HARD.
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- SO I WENT UNDER THE HOUSE AND I BUILT THIS LITTLE,
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- PUT SOME WOOD UP IN BETWEEN SOME OF THE
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- PILLARS AND BUILT THIS LITTLE SAFE PLACE FOR ME,
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- AND I PAINTED IT ROBIN EGG BLUE.
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- I FOUND SOME PAINT SOMEWHERE, PAINTED IT BLUE.
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- AND I WOULD SIT IN THIS ROOM AND I WOULD LET MY
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- IMAGINATION TAKE ME TO OTHER PLACES.
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- I WOULD JUST BE SOMEWHERE RUNNING THROUGH GRASS AND
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- TREES WHILE I'M LISTENING TO ALL OF THE PAIN AND
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- ALL THE HEARTACHE UP ABOVE ME IN THE
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- FLOOR BOARDS.
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- SO IT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT TIME, BUT THE
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- BEAUTY IN THAT MOMENT, AND I SAY THIS TO PEOPLE
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- ALL THE TIME IS THAT I KNOW ALL THINGS WORKED
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- TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD.
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- WHEN I AM WRITING A SCRIPT OR A MOVIE OR FOR
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- HAVE AND HAVE NOTS OR IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG OR
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- WRITING MOVIES, IN MY IMAGINATION I GO TO A
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- PLACE WHERE I'M IN THAT WORLD, AND THAT WAS
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- FORMED AND BORN INSIDE OF ALL THAT PAIN.
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- SO THE LITTLE BOY'S IMAGINATION IS WHERE THE
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- MAN GOES NOW TO FEED HIS DREAM.
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- SO IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING WHEN YOU KNOW THAT ALL
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- THINGS ARE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD.
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- - GOD WAS GETTING YOU PREPARED EVEN BACK THERE.
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- - YEAH.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - SO WE'LL JUMP AROUND A LITTLE BUT TYLER, YOU
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- GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL, YOU HAD A DREAM
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- FOR THE PLAY BUT IT WASN'T EASY AND DOORS
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- DIDN'T NECESSARILY AND I LOVE THE THING ABOUT THE
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- HURRICANE AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
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- CAN YOU SHARE JUST SOME OF THAT?
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- - YEAH.
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- I STARTED DOING THIS PLAY AFTER WATCHING THE OPRAH
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- WIN FREE SHOW.
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- SHE SAID IT WAS CATHARTIC TO WRITE THINGS DOWN.
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- NOW, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT CATHARTIC MEANT SO I HAD
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- TO GO FIND IN DICTIONARY.
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- I WENT AND FOUND A DICTIONARY AND I STARTED
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- WRITING THINGS DOWN IN THIS JOURNAL AND I WAS
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- USING DIFFERENT CHARACTERS NAMES BECAUSE
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- IF SOMEONE FOUND IT I DIDN'T WANT THEM TO KNOW
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- THAT I HAD BEEN THROUGH THE THINGS THAT I WAS
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- TALKING ABOUT.
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- I WAS TALKING ABOUT ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
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- AT THE TIME.
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- SO IN 1993 OR SO I MOVED TO ATLANTA.
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- I MOVED IN '92.
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- IN 93 I DECIDED TO PUT THE PLAY UP, WORKED,
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- SAVED MONEY.
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- MY TAX RETURNS FROM H AND R BLOCK, DID EVERYTHING I
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- COULD TO PUT THIS SHOW UP, AND I SPENT
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- ALL MY MONEY.
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- IT WAS A 200 SEAT THEATER.
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- I THOUGHT WE'D DO ALL THESE DIFFERENT SHOWS
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- OVER THE WEEKEND, THAT 1200 PEOPLE WOULD
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- SHOW UP AND ONLY 30 DID.
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- SO I LOST EVERYTHING I HAD.
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- MY CAR PAYMENT, EVERYTHING WAS TIDE TIED
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- UP IN IT, AND IT WAS A VERY VERY DIFFICULT TIME
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- BECAUSE I KNOW I FELT LED TO DO THIS SHOW ABOUT
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- ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE WHO HAD FORGIVEN
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- THEIR ABUSERS.
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- OUT OF THE 30 PEOPLE, AND I KNEW EVERY ONE OF THEM
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- IN THE ROOM, [LAUGHTER], THERE WAS SOMEBODY
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- SAID THIS REALLY TOUCHED ME AND I WANT TO INVEST.
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- THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW WHEN GOD IS DOING SOMETHING
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- FOR YOU BECAUSE HE'LL PUT YOU ON A PATH AND JUST
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- WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE AT THE END [APPLAUSE ]
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- SOMEBODY OR SOMEONE WILL SHOW UP AND SAY HEY,
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- HERE'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY OVER HERE.
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- SO FROM ABOUT '93, '94, '95, '96, '97 WE DID THIS
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- PLAY ONE IS A YEAR EVERYWHERE IN THESE
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- LITTLE SMALL TOWNS OUTSIDE OF ATLANTA.
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- AND THEY NEVER WORKED.
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- THEY NEVER WORKED.
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- EVERY TIME I'D GO SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN.
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- I'D GO GET A JOB AND AFTER I'D WORK ON-THE-JOB
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- FOR A COUPLE WEEKS I'D GET A CALL SAYING HEY,
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- TAYLOR, WE WANT TO TRY THE PLAY SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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- AND I'D GO TO MY BOSS AND SAY LISTEN, I NEED TWO
- 00:10:47.160 --> 00:10:50.040
- WEEKS OFF TO GO DO THIS PLAY.
- 00:10:50.060 --> 00:10:52.110
- HE'S LIKE MAN, YOU JUST BEEN WORKING HERE TWO WEEKS.
- 00:10:52.130 --> 00:10:54.050
- HOW DO YOU THINK YOU CAN GET TWO WEEKS OFF?
- 00:10:54.070 --> 00:10:56.080
- [LAUGHTER ] AND I'D GO BACK TO MY DESK AND SIT
- 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:58.140
- AND PRAY AND SAY OKAY, GOD.
- 00:10:58.160 --> 00:11:00.080
- I KNOW I JUST GOT THIS JOB.
- 00:11:00.100 --> 00:11:02.030
- I KNOW I JUST DID THE PLAY.
- 00:11:02.050 --> 00:11:03.060
- IT DIDN'T WORK.
- 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:04.210
- I GOT ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY HERE.
- 00:11:04.230 --> 00:11:06.120
- IF THIS IS YOU TELLING ME, MAKE IT PLAIN.
- 00:11:06.140 --> 00:11:07.250
- WHAT SHOULD I DO, AND I HEAR THIS VOICE SAY QUIT.
- 00:11:07.270 --> 00:11:09.230
- NOW, I'M NOT TELLING YOU TO GO QUIT YOUR JOB.
- 00:11:09.250 --> 00:11:11.180
- I'M TELLING YOU MY STORY.
- 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.070
- QUIT YOUR JOB, SEND ME YOUR BILLS, SAY YOU TOLD
- 00:11:14.090 --> 00:11:15.280
- ME TO QUIT.
- 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.070
- NO. NO.
- 00:11:17.090 --> 00:11:18.210
- THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M SAYING.
- 00:11:18.230 --> 00:11:20.270
- SO THERE I WAS STEPPING OUT ON FAITH, LEAVING A
- 00:11:20.290 --> 00:11:23.240
- JOB THAT I KNEW THIS MONEY WAS GOING TO COME
- 00:11:23.260 --> 00:11:25.210
- IN FROM WEEK TO WEEK TO GO OUT AND DO THIS PLAY
- 00:11:25.230 --> 00:11:27.250
- BECAUSE I HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD.
- 00:11:27.270 --> 00:11:29.200
- SO I REMEMBER EVERY TIME I'D GO OUT TO DO THIS
- 00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:32.040
- SHOW, IT WOULDN'T WORK.
- 00:11:32.060 --> 00:11:33.250
- IT WASN'T SUCCESSFUL.
- 00:11:33.270 --> 00:11:35.240
- AND I'M LIKE GOD, I KNOW YOU TOLD ME TO DO THIS.
- 00:11:35.260 --> 00:11:37.200
- AND WHEN I'D PRAY, I'D HEAR NOTHING.
- 00:11:37.220 --> 00:11:39.090
- THAT SAME VOICE THAT SAID QUIT, I HEARD NOTHING
- 00:11:39.110 --> 00:11:41.040
- WHICH WAS A VERY DIFFICULT TIME FOR ME.
- 00:11:41.060 --> 00:11:42.060
- VERY DIFFICULT.
- 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.040
- AND I REMEMBER THE TIME YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
- 00:11:44.060 --> 00:11:46.270
- WAS IN SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA.
- 00:11:46.290 --> 00:11:48.110
- I HAD GOTTEN ANOTHER JOB.
- 00:11:48.130 --> 00:11:50.090
- MAN, I HAD ABOUT 20 JOBS THROUGH THIS TIME.
- 00:11:50.110 --> 00:11:51.280
- I'D GOT ANOTHER JOB, ASKED THE BOSS, HE SAID
- 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.170
- NO, I HEARD THE VOICE QUIT.
- 00:11:53.190 --> 00:11:55.190
- I GO OUT AND DO THIS SHOW, AND I'M DRIVING
- 00:11:55.210 --> 00:11:59.050
- THERE AND THERE'S A HURRICANE HEADED
- 00:11:59.070 --> 00:12:01.210
- TOWARD SPARTANBURG.
- 00:12:01.230 --> 00:12:03.290
- HURRICANE.
- 00:12:04.010 --> 00:12:05.220
- I'M LIKE GOD, I KNOW YOU CONTROL THE WIND AND THE --
- 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:08.080
- [LAUGHTER ] WIND AND THE WAVES BUT YOU TOLD ME
- 00:12:08.100 --> 00:12:10.120
- TO QUIT AND NOW NOBODY'S GOING TO SHOW UP.
- 00:12:10.140 --> 00:12:12.270
- SO I LOST EVERYTHING, HOMELESS, SLEEPING IN MY
- 00:12:12.290 --> 00:12:14.240
- CAR, FOLLOWING GOD.
- 00:12:14.260 --> 00:12:16.210
- WHEN YOU FOLLOW GOD, SOMETIMES THINGS GET TOUGH.
- 00:12:16.230 --> 00:12:19.160
- THEY GET TIGHT.
- 00:12:19.180 --> 00:12:21.020
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:12:21.040 --> 00:12:24.250
- BUT IF YOU KEEP PUSHING JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
- 00:12:24.270 --> 00:12:27.100
- WHEN YOU THINK IT'S THE DARKEST, SOMETHING
- 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.080
- MIRACULOUS WILL HAPPEN THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
- 00:12:30.100 --> 00:12:32.130
- SOMETHING WILL OPEN UP THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.
- 00:12:32.150 --> 00:12:35.010
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:12:35.030 --> 00:12:38.120
- SO IT WAS 199 8 AND I GOT THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO
- 00:12:38.140 --> 00:12:40.270
- THIS SHOW AGAIN, AND IT WAS AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES.
- 00:12:40.290 --> 00:12:43.040
- AND I WAS LIKE I DON'T KNOW.
- 00:12:43.060 --> 00:12:45.170
- I'M DONE.
- 00:12:45.190 --> 00:12:47.120
- I'M GOING TO DO LIKE MY MOTHER SAID, MY MOTHER
- 00:12:47.140 --> 00:12:49.120
- WHO LOVED ME DEARLY, LOVED ME DEARLY.
- 00:12:49.140 --> 00:12:51.120
- WE WERE DOING A PLAY AT THE SPARTANBURG TRIP, AND
- 00:12:51.140 --> 00:12:53.080
- I COULDN'T AFFORD TO PAY THE CREDIT CARD BECAUSE
- 00:12:53.100 --> 00:12:55.050
- THEY'D RENTED A VAN FOR US, AND THAT BILL WAS 300
- 00:12:55.070 --> 00:12:58.030
- DOLLARS AND 300 DOLLARS TO MY MOTHER WAS LIKE
- 00:12:58.050 --> 00:13:00.020
- 30 MILLION.
- 00:13:00.040 --> 00:13:02.060
- LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, MY MOTHER
- 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:03.290
- LOVED ME TO DEATH, SWEET WONDERFUL WOMAN, BUT SHE
- 00:13:04.010 --> 00:13:06.100
- WOULD CUT YOU OUT AND BEAT YOU UP AND THEN PRAY
- 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:09.120
- FOR YOU AS SHE WAS TAKING YOU TO THE HOSPITAL.
- 00:13:09.140 --> 00:13:11.200
- THAT'S THE KIND OF PERSON SHE WAS.
- 00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:13.030
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:13:13.050 --> 00:13:15.190
- SO WE'RE SITTING IN THE HOUSE, AND SHE WAS
- 00:13:15.210 --> 00:13:18.050
- SAYING, LISTEN, I'M TIRED OF THIS.
- 00:13:18.070 --> 00:13:19.220
- I'M TIRED OF YOU DOING THESE PLAYS.
- 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.040
- JUST STOP.
- 00:13:21.060 --> 00:13:22.260
- STOP IT.
- 00:13:22.280 --> 00:13:24.250
- I'M TIERED OF YOU CRYING ABOUT IT.
- 00:13:24.270 --> 00:13:26.270
- AND THE WOMAN LOVED ME, LOVED ME LOVED ME MORE
- 00:13:26.290 --> 00:13:28.170
- THAN ANYTHING.
- 00:13:28.190 --> 00:13:30.280
- SHE SAID YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:32.060
- JUST GIVE IT UP.
- 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:33.160
- JUST GO GET YOU A JOB WORKING AT THE
- 00:13:33.180 --> 00:13:34.210
- PHONE COMPANY.
- 00:13:34.230 --> 00:13:36.040
- YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT WITH THESE PLAYS.
- 00:13:36.060 --> 00:13:37.150
- JUST GO GET A JOB AT THE PHONE COMPANY.
- 00:13:37.170 --> 00:13:38.240
- I WAS SITTING THERE IN TEARS WHEN SHE WAS SAYING
- 00:13:38.260 --> 00:13:39.200
- IT TO ME.
- 00:13:39.220 --> 00:13:40.280
- SHE TURNED AROUND AND SHE SAW ME BECAUSE I WAS
- 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.010
- SITTING BEHIND HER ON THE SOFA.
- 00:13:42.030 --> 00:13:43.140
- AND THE BLOOD DRAINED FROM HER FACE, AND SHE
- 00:13:43.160 --> 00:13:44.120
- SAID BABY, I'M SO SORRY.
- 00:13:44.140 --> 00:13:45.190
- I'M SO SORRY.
- 00:13:45.210 --> 00:13:47.080
- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS WAS FOR YOU.
- 00:13:47.100 --> 00:13:48.200
- BUT WHAT I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT I
- 00:13:48.220 --> 00:13:50.090
- DON'T CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE LOVE YOU AND
- 00:13:50.110 --> 00:13:51.290
- ENCOURAGE YOU ARE THE ONES THAT TRY TO TEAR YOU
- 00:13:52.010 --> 00:13:54.000
- DOWN OR DESTROY YOU, WHEN GOD HAS A DREAM FOR YOU,
- 00:13:54.020 --> 00:13:55.110
- IT IS YOUR DREAM.
- 00:13:55.130 --> 00:13:56.180
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:58.010
- YOUR DREAM.
- 00:13:58.030 --> 00:13:59.190
- YOUR DREAM.
- 00:13:59.210 --> 00:14:01.070
- AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU WHO WILL THINK
- 00:14:01.090 --> 00:14:02.230
- THEY'RE SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS TO YOU TO TRY TO
- 00:14:02.250 --> 00:14:04.130
- PROTECT YOU OR PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN IN YOUR
- 00:14:04.150 --> 00:14:05.280
- LIVES AND WATCHED YOU GROW UP AND THEY DON'T
- 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.140
- KNOW WHAT GOD HAS PUT DOWN INSIDE OF YOU
- 00:14:07.160 --> 00:14:09.040
- BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY'RE SO FAMILIAR WITH
- 00:14:09.060 --> 00:14:11.000
- YOU, BUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT WHEN
- 00:14:11.020 --> 00:14:12.260
- GOD HAS SOMETHING FOR YOU, YOU HAVE TO GO FOR
- 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:15.060
- IT FULLY, FULLY.
- 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:16.270
- SO THAT'S WHAT I DID.
- 00:14:16.290 --> 00:14:18.140
- I DID THE SHOW.
- 00:14:18.160 --> 00:14:20.050
- I GET THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE SHOW IN 1998.
- 00:14:20.070 --> 00:14:21.210
- IT'S AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES.
- 00:14:21.230 --> 00:14:23.180
- AND I WALK IN AND I'M MAD, AND I'M ANGRY
- 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.260
- BECAUSE ALL THOSE YEARS, THOSE 7 YEARS OF ME
- 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:28.280
- TRYING TO GET THIS PLAY UP, NOTHING WAS
- 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:30.260
- HAPPENING.
- 00:14:30.280 --> 00:14:32.170
- GOD WOULD TELL ME TO QUIT.
- 00:14:32.190 --> 00:14:34.000
- THEN HE'D GET ME OUT THERE AND LEAVE ME.
- 00:14:34.020 --> 00:14:36.030
- YOU'D LEAD ME OUT THERE BY MYSELF.
- 00:14:36.050 --> 00:14:37.200
- GOD, WHERE ARE YOU?
- 00:14:37.220 --> 00:14:39.010
- YOU WOULDN'T EVEN TALK TO ME DURING
- 00:14:39.030 --> 00:14:40.070
- THESE DARK TIMES.
- 00:14:40.090 --> 00:14:41.180
- SO I WAS MAD.
- 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:42.230
- I WAS DONE.
- 00:14:42.250 --> 00:14:44.010
- I HAD WENT TO GET MY APPLICATION AT SOUTH
- 00:14:44.030 --> 00:14:45.130
- CENTRAL BELL LIKE MY MOTHER SAID AND GO TO
- 00:14:45.150 --> 00:14:46.210
- WORK AT THE PHONE COMPANY.
- 00:14:46.230 --> 00:14:48.040
- I WANTED SOME BENEFITS TO GET MY TEETH FIXED.
- 00:14:48.060 --> 00:14:49.260
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:14:49.280 --> 00:14:51.230
- SO THERE I AM, THERE I AM IN 1998, GETTING THIS
- 00:14:51.250 --> 00:14:57.050
- OPPORTUNITY AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES, AND I WALK IN
- 00:14:57.070 --> 00:14:59.290
- AND THERE'S ALL THIS THEY CALL IT FOLK ART ALL OVER
- 00:15:00.030 --> 00:15:01.180
- THE WALLS.
- 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.030
- I'M FROM NEW ORLEANS.
- 00:15:03.050 --> 00:15:04.110
- I SAID THAT'S VOODOO, AND I'M NOT PERFORMING HERE.
- 00:15:04.130 --> 00:15:05.050
- GET IT OFF THE WALLS.
- 00:15:05.070 --> 00:15:06.160
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:15:06.180 --> 00:15:08.070
- SO THEY TOLD ME THE NEXT DAY HOUSE OF BLUES WAS
- 00:15:08.090 --> 00:15:10.160
- PULLING OUT, SO HOUSE OF BLUES WAS GONE.
- 00:15:10.180 --> 00:15:13.070
- SO THE NAME OF THE PLACE WOULD RETURN TO ITS
- 00:15:13.090 --> 00:15:15.230
- ORIGINAL NAME.
- 00:15:15.250 --> 00:15:17.150
- IT WAS A CHURCH.
- 00:15:17.170 --> 00:15:18.260
- IT WAS CALLED THE TABERNACLE.
- 00:15:18.280 --> 00:15:20.090
- SO I WAS ABOUT TO PERFORM IN A PLACE CALLED
- 00:15:20.110 --> 00:15:22.220
- THE TABERNACLE.
- 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.220
- I GO AND I DO THE SHOW, AND I'M COMPLAINING
- 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.290
- ALL THE WAY.
- 00:15:28.010 --> 00:15:30.000
- I'M THERE PUTTING ON MY MAKE UP AND GETTING READY
- 00:15:30.020 --> 00:15:31.230
- TO PLAY OLD MAN JOE AND I'VE GOT AN ATTITUDE.
- 00:15:31.250 --> 00:15:33.060
- I'M JUST MAD.
- 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:34.150
- I'M UPSET.
- 00:15:34.170 --> 00:15:35.240
- I'M LIKE I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS, AND I HEAR THAT
- 00:15:35.260 --> 00:15:37.120
- VOICE, THE ONE THAT TOLD ME TO QUIT SAY SHUT UP.
- 00:15:37.140 --> 00:15:39.060
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.070
- LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING WHEN GOD TELLS YOU TO
- 00:15:41.090 --> 00:15:43.010
- SHUT UP YOU SIT AROUND AND YOU SAY, WHAT HAPPENED?
- 00:15:43.030 --> 00:15:45.160
- AND HE SAID GET UP AND LOOK OUT THE WINDOW.
- 00:15:45.180 --> 00:15:47.010
- I GOT UP AND I LOOKED OUT OF THIS LITTLE DUSTY
- 00:15:47.030 --> 00:15:48.270
- WINDOW, AND THERE WAS A LINE AROUND THE CORNER
- 00:15:48.290 --> 00:15:50.200
- TRYING TO GET IN THE BUILDING.
- 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:52.240
- AND [APPLAUSE ] THE PLACE SOLD OUT OVER AND
- 00:15:52.260 --> 00:15:55.100
- OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
- 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.110
- AND I SAID GOD, WHERE WERE YOU IN ALL THOSE TIMES?
- 00:15:57.130 --> 00:15:59.070
- HE SAID I WAS PROVING YOU TO SEE THAT YOU WOULD
- 00:15:59.090 --> 00:16:01.200
- HONOR THIS, THAT YOU WOULD DO THE RIGHT
- 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:03.070
- THING WITH IT.
- 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:04.240
- SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE NOT HEARING FROM GOD, GOD IS
- 00:16:04.260 --> 00:16:06.220
- TRYING TO SEE WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IN THE
- 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.110
- SITUATION THAT YOU'RE IN.
- 00:16:08.130 --> 00:16:10.000
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:16:10.020 --> 00:16:12.090
- AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN INCREDIBLE MOMENT THAT
- 00:16:12.110 --> 00:16:14.110
- HAS TAKEN ME FROM THAT SOLD OUT HOUSE ALL THE
- 00:16:14.130 --> 00:16:16.250
- WAY INTO EVERY SHOW WE'VE DONE.
- 00:16:16.270 --> 00:16:18.210
- IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLE.
- 00:16:18.230 --> 00:16:20.180
- IT'S MIRACULOUS.
- 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.090
- IT'S BEEN NOTHING BUT GOD, AND I'M GRATEFUL
- 00:16:22.110 --> 00:16:23.200
- FOR IT.
- 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:25.010
- - THAT'S SO AWESOME.
- 00:16:25.030 --> 00:16:26.090
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:16:26.110 --> 00:16:27.270
- TYLER, ANOTHER IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY.
- 00:16:27.290 --> 00:16:29.140
- JUMP BACK THERE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE YOUR FATHER
- 00:16:29.160 --> 00:16:31.150
- DIDN'T TREAT YOU RIGHT.
- 00:16:31.170 --> 00:16:33.110
- A LOT OF BITTERNESS.
- 00:16:33.130 --> 00:16:34.270
- ANGER.
- 00:16:34.290 --> 00:16:36.080
- CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT HOW SOMETHING BROKE THERE?
- 00:16:36.100 --> 00:16:37.160
- - YEAH.
- 00:16:37.180 --> 00:16:38.290
- WHAT BROKE IN THE MOMENT IF YOU WONDERED WHAT
- 00:16:39.010 --> 00:16:40.150
- HAPPENED FROM LIKE THE TIME WHEN I STARTED DOING
- 00:16:40.170 --> 00:16:42.030
- THESE SHOWS TO THE TIME WHEN THEY STARTED TO TAKE
- 00:16:42.050 --> 00:16:43.160
- OFF, WHAT BROKE IN THE MOMENT, WELL, HERE I WAS
- 00:16:43.180 --> 00:16:45.130
- WITH THIS SCRIPT ABOUT ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD
- 00:16:45.150 --> 00:16:47.150
- ABUSE WHOSE PARENTS HAD ABUSED HIM.
- 00:16:47.170 --> 00:16:49.090
- AND THE CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW THAT I HAD WRITTEN
- 00:16:49.110 --> 00:16:51.060
- FROM MY OWN MIND HAD FORGIVEN THEIR ABUSERS.
- 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:55.080
- BUT I HADN'T FORGIVEN MY FATHER.
- 00:16:55.100 --> 00:16:58.140
- SO ONE DAY WE WERE ON THE PHONE BEFORE THE SHOW
- 00:16:58.160 --> 00:17:00.260
- SOLD OUT, BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGED WE
- 00:17:00.280 --> 00:17:02.280
- WERE ON THE PHONE, AND I GOT A CHANCE TO JUST SAY
- 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.020
- EVERYTHING THAT WAS ON MY MIND BECAUSE I WASN'T THE
- 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:06.230
- LITTLE BOY ANYMORE.
- 00:17:06.250 --> 00:17:08.090
- I WAS A 6 FOOT 6 MAN AND I WASN'T AFRAID, AND I
- 00:17:08.110 --> 00:17:09.230
- STARTED SAYING EVERYTHING THAT I NEEDED TO SAY TO HIM.
- 00:17:09.250 --> 00:17:12.010
- AND THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH BLEW MY
- 00:17:12.030 --> 00:17:14.090
- MIND, BUT AT THE END OF IT WHAT I HEARD WAS I
- 00:17:14.110 --> 00:17:15.190
- FORGIVE YOU.
- 00:17:15.210 --> 00:17:17.130
- I SAID I FORGIVE YOU TO HIM.
- 00:17:17.150 --> 00:17:19.150
- AND SOMETHING SHIFTED IN ME.
- 00:17:19.170 --> 00:17:22.010
- SOMETHING SHIFTED.
- 00:17:22.030 --> 00:17:23.190
- LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, FORGIVENESS IS
- 00:17:23.210 --> 00:17:25.190
- SO INCREDIBLY POWERFUL.
- 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:27.140
- FORGIVENESS IS NOT FOR THE OTHER PERSON.
- 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.150
- IT IS FOR YOU.
- 00:17:29.170 --> 00:17:30.200
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:17:30.220 --> 00:17:32.150
- THERE ARE PEOPLE LIVING THEIR LIVES WHO HAVE DONE
- 00:17:32.170 --> 00:17:34.220
- YOU WRONG, THEY ARE HAPPY WALKING DOWN THE STREET
- 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:36.150
- AND NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT YOU, BUT THERE YOU
- 00:17:36.170 --> 00:17:37.270
- ARE HOLDING ONTO UNFORGIVENNESS.
- 00:17:37.290 --> 00:17:39.240
- WHEN I FORGAVE THIS MAN, I FOUND MYSELF TRYING TO
- 00:17:39.260 --> 00:17:42.110
- -I WAS LOST FOR A SECOND BECAUSE MY ENTIRE FUEL
- 00:17:42.130 --> 00:17:47.060
- WAS BASED ON THE NEGATIVITY OF NOT
- 00:17:47.080 --> 00:17:49.160
- FORGIVING HIM, BUT ONCE I FORGAVE HIM, I HAD TO
- 00:17:49.180 --> 00:17:52.100
- FIND A WAY TO FIND ANOTHER SOURCE OF FUEL.
- 00:17:52.120 --> 00:17:56.110
- SO THE NEGATIVITY AND ALL THE DARKNESS THAT I'D
- 00:17:56.130 --> 00:17:59.150
- BEEN THROUGH WAS THE SOURCE.
- 00:17:59.170 --> 00:18:01.050
- NOW I NEEDED A MORE POSITIVE SOURCE.
- 00:18:01.070 --> 00:18:02.230
- NOW I NEEDED A GOOD SOURCE, A PURE SOURCE.
- 00:18:02.250 --> 00:18:05.090
- IT'S LIKE TAKING A CAR THIS RUNS ON DISEASES AND
- 00:18:05.110 --> 00:18:07.290
- PUTTING REGULAR GASOLINE IN IT.
- 00:18:08.010 --> 00:18:10.050
- AND THEN ALL THE SUDDEN YOU SAY DRIVE, AND
- 00:18:10.070 --> 00:18:12.110
- SOMETHING IS GOING TO GO WRONG SO YOU HAVE TO
- 00:18:12.130 --> 00:18:14.150
- REWORK ALL THE COMPONENTS INSIDE YOUR MIND TO BE
- 00:18:14.170 --> 00:18:16.160
- ABLE TO FUNCTION IN POSITIVITY.
- 00:18:16.180 --> 00:18:18.280
- SO THAT SHIFT FOR ME WAS SO INCREDIBLE.
- 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.060
- FORGIVENESS DID ALL OF THAT FOR ME, AND THE
- 00:18:21.080 --> 00:18:23.090
- MINUTE I DID THAT, THE MINUTE I STARTED TO
- 00:18:23.110 --> 00:18:25.140
- FUNCTION IN DOING THE RIGHT THING AND BEING
- 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:27.180
- POSITIVE, I WENT FROM NOBODY COMING TO THE SHOW
- 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:29.290
- TO NOT HAVING ENOUGH SEATS FOR THE PEOPLE TO
- 00:18:30.010 --> 00:18:32.040
- GET INTO THE PLACES.
- 00:18:32.060 --> 00:18:34.000
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:18:34.020 --> 00:18:35.080
- - WOW.
- 00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:36.200
- POWERFUL.
- 00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:38.020
- - YEAH.
- 00:18:38.040 --> 00:18:39.220
- - I WENT UP A FEW MONTHS AGO, TYLER, AND WE TOURED
- 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.000
- YOUR FACILITY, YOUR STUDIO.
- 00:18:42.020 --> 00:18:43.270
- YOU BOUGHT 300 ACRES, THE OLD ARMY BASE.
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- - FORT MCPHERSON.
- 00:18:45.190 --> 00:18:47.060
- - YEAH.
- 00:18:47.080 --> 00:18:48.210
- TELL US ABOUT THAT.
- 00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:50.190
- AND I LOVE ABOUT THE ENTRIES, ABOUT WHAT YOU
- 00:18:50.210 --> 00:18:52.040
- DID THERE.
- 00:18:52.060 --> 00:18:54.050
- JUST FIRST OFF, IT'S A PLACE -IT'S A STUDIO
- 00:18:54.070 --> 00:18:56.080
- WHERE HE'S GOT PROBABLY 20 BIG STUDIOS WHERE THEY
- 00:18:56.100 --> 00:18:58.040
- SHOOT SOME OF THE BIGGEST SHOWS THAT WE SEE ON
- 00:18:58.060 --> 00:19:00.040
- TELEVISION TODAY.
- 00:19:00.060 --> 00:19:02.030
- WELL, TYLER REMODELED IT.
- 00:19:02.050 --> 00:19:03.160
- IT'S A MAGNIFICENT PLACE.
- 00:19:03.180 --> 00:19:04.260
- BUT TELL THEM ABOUT THAT OTHER PART.
- 00:19:04.280 --> 00:19:06.220
- - I WAS TELLING PASTOR JOEL THIS, WHEN YOU COME
- 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.260
- TO THE STUDIO, WHEN YOU DRIVE IN THERE'S ONLY A
- 00:19:09.280 --> 00:19:11.130
- COUPLE WAYS TO GET IN.
- 00:19:11.150 --> 00:19:13.020
- BUT WHEN YOU DRIVE IN YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE GATES.
- 00:19:13.040 --> 00:19:15.020
- AND WHAT WE DID AT THE GATES WERE WE BURIED
- 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:18.030
- BIBLES, SO IN ORDER TO COME INTO THE FACILITY
- 00:19:18.050 --> 00:19:21.050
- YOU'VE GOT TO COME OVER THE WORD.
- 00:19:21.070 --> 00:19:23.020
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:19:23.040 --> 00:19:25.120
- - YEAH.
- 00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:27.130
- YEAH.
- 00:19:27.150 --> 00:19:29.070
- AND WHEN YOU LEAVE OUT, YOU GOT TO DO THE SAME,
- 00:19:29.090 --> 00:19:30.280
- SO YOUR BLESSED GOING AND COMING.
- 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:32.280
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.280
- AND WE PUT THEM UNDER THE FOUNDATIONS OF ALL THE
- 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.270
- SOUND STAGES AND PEOPLE -YOU SHOULD SEE PEOPLE
- 00:19:37.290 --> 00:19:40.010
- WHO DON'T KNOW GOD.
- 00:19:40.030 --> 00:19:41.120
- IT'S SO FUNNY.
- 00:19:41.140 --> 00:19:43.170
- THEY'RE SITTING AROUND GOING, THERE'S SOMETHING
- 00:19:43.190 --> 00:19:45.120
- VERY DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS PLACE.
- 00:19:45.140 --> 00:19:47.030
- IT'S -THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY COOL.
- 00:19:47.050 --> 00:19:48.220
- DON'T YOU THINK?
- 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.290
- I SAY, YEAH. YEAH.
- 00:19:50.010 --> 00:19:51.080
- COME STAND RIGHT HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT AND TELL ME
- 00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:52.190
- HOW COOL IT IS.
- 00:19:52.210 --> 00:19:53.170
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:19:53.190 --> 00:19:56.280
- TELL ME TYLER ABOUT THE OLD BUILDINGS THERE AND
- 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.070
- THE OLD LETTER YOU FOUND.
- 00:19:59.090 --> 00:20:01.100
- - LET ME TELL YOU HOW WONDERFUL THIS COUNTRY IS.
- 00:20:01.120 --> 00:20:05.250
- I DON'T CARE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY, THIS
- 00:20:05.270 --> 00:20:07.220
- IS A WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
- 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.180
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.240
- AND THE BEAUTY OF THIS MOMENT, ME BEING INVITED
- 00:20:14.260 --> 00:20:18.160
- HERE LOOKING AT ALL YOUR FACES ALL DIFFERENT RACES
- 00:20:18.180 --> 00:20:20.170
- SITTING HERE TOGETHER, SERVING ONE GOD.
- 00:20:20.190 --> 00:20:23.060
- THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS, THE ONE GOD THAT WE SERVE.
- 00:20:23.080 --> 00:20:25.210
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:20:25.230 --> 00:20:28.280
- THE REASON I BROUGHT THAT UP IS BECAUSE HERE WAS AN
- 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.020
- ARMY BASE THAT WAS ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS
- 00:20:31.040 --> 00:20:33.020
- AFTER THE ABOLISH.
- 00:20:33.040 --> 00:20:35.050
- OF SLAVERY THAT WAS ONCE A CONFEDERATE ARMY BASE
- 00:20:35.070 --> 00:20:36.230
- THAT I NOW OWN.
- 00:20:36.250 --> 00:20:38.190
- I MEAN, THE MIRACLE IN THAT ALONE, THE MIRACLE
- 00:20:38.210 --> 00:20:40.090
- IN THAT ALONE.
- 00:20:40.110 --> 00:20:43.040
- SOME OF THESE HOUSES WERE BUILT IN THE 1800'S, AND
- 00:20:43.060 --> 00:20:47.070
- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STAYED THERE.
- 00:20:47.090 --> 00:20:49.020
- COLIN POWELL STAYED THERE, AND WE WERE DOING
- 00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:50.290
- SOME CLEAN UP ON ONE OF THEM.
- 00:20:51.010 --> 00:20:52.220
- THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL, BUT SOME OF THEM HAD SOME
- 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.060
- ASBESTOS SO WE BROUGHT IN A TEAM TO REMOVE IT, AND
- 00:20:54.080 --> 00:20:55.280
- WE HAD AFTER THEY LEFT OUT MY CLEANING CREW WENT
- 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.060
- IN FROM THE STUDIO, AND THEY MOVED THIS CABINET
- 00:20:59.080 --> 00:21:02.210
- THAT HAD BEEN THEREFORE MANY MANY YEARS, AND
- 00:21:02.230 --> 00:21:05.020
- SOMETHING FELL OUT.
- 00:21:05.040 --> 00:21:07.060
- IT WAS A LETTER.
- 00:21:07.080 --> 00:21:08.290
- THEY BROUGHT THE LETTER TO ME, AND I STARTED
- 00:21:09.010 --> 00:21:10.130
- READING IT.
- 00:21:10.150 --> 00:21:11.230
- WHEN I READ IT, I GOT TEARS IN MY EYES BECAUSE
- 00:21:11.250 --> 00:21:13.250
- WHAT I REALIZED IS THAT THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN
- 00:21:13.270 --> 00:21:16.140
- TO ME, BUT THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN OCTOBER 29, 1969
- 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:21.210
- BY A 13 YEAR OLD BOY IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
- 00:21:21.230 --> 00:21:28.030
- HE GOES ONTO TELL ALL THESE STORIES IN THE
- 00:21:28.050 --> 00:21:30.090
- LETTER AND HE'S WRITING ABOUT WHERE HE'S COME
- 00:21:30.110 --> 00:21:32.200
- FROM, THE COUNTRY IS AT WAR, NIXON IS
- 00:21:32.220 --> 00:21:34.240
- THE PRESIDENT.
- 00:21:34.260 --> 00:21:36.190
- AND HE'S SAYING ALL THIS STUFF, BUT THERE'S ONE
- 00:21:36.210 --> 00:21:38.140
- LINE THAT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION.
- 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.010
- HE SAID, I KNOW THIS SOUNDS SILLY BUT I'VE
- 00:21:41.030 --> 00:21:43.010
- ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE FUTURE.
- 00:21:43.030 --> 00:21:44.110
- SO HE WROTE THE LETTER OCTOBER 29, 1969.
- 00:21:44.130 --> 00:21:47.050
- WELL, I WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 14, 1969.
- 00:21:47.070 --> 00:21:51.050
- SO I HAD ONLY BEEN ON THE PLANET SIX WEEKS.
- 00:21:51.070 --> 00:21:54.160
- I'M THERE IN MY MOTHER'S ARMS IN NEW ORLEANS, AND
- 00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:57.130
- THERE'S A LITTLE 13 YEAR OLD BOY AT FORT MCPHERSON
- 00:21:57.150 --> 00:22:00.240
- ARMY BASE IN ATLANTA WRITING A LETTER TO THE
- 00:22:00.260 --> 00:22:03.000
- FUTURE THAT I WOULD FIND 48 YEARS LATER.
- 00:22:03.020 --> 00:22:06.240
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:22:06.260 --> 00:22:08.120
- AND I REALIZE I AM THE FUTURE THAT HE WAS
- 00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:11.030
- WRITING TO, AND IT CAME AT A TIME WHEN I WAS
- 00:22:11.050 --> 00:22:13.260
- GOING THROUGH SOME THINGS AND I HAD TO MAKE SOME
- 00:22:13.280 --> 00:22:15.210
- DECISIONS ABOUT THE STUDIO, AND IT JUST BLEW
- 00:22:15.230 --> 00:22:18.000
- MY MIND BECAUSE THERE I WAS IN THIS MOMENT
- 00:22:18.020 --> 00:22:19.270
- UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD HAD ALREADY ORDAINED THIS
- 00:22:19.290 --> 00:22:21.290
- EVEN BEFORE I GOT TO THE PLANET.
- 00:22:22.010 --> 00:22:23.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:22:23.290 --> 00:22:26.060
- IT WAS SO POWERFUL.
- 00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:27.260
- SO POWERFUL.
- 00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:28.290
- SO WONDERFUL.
- 00:22:29.010 --> 00:22:30.180
- AND I JUST FELT SO BLESSED AND SO FORTUNATE.
- 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:32.190
- I STILL HAVE THE LETTER AND I HAVE IT FRAMED AND
- 00:22:32.210 --> 00:22:34.130
- EVERY TIME I'M GOING THROUGH SOMETHING OR
- 00:22:34.150 --> 00:22:36.050
- DEALING WITH SOMETHING, I WALK PASSED IT AND I'M
- 00:22:36.070 --> 00:22:37.230
- REMINDED GOD'S GOT IT.
- 00:22:37.250 --> 00:22:39.020
- GOD GOT IT.
- 00:22:39.040 --> 00:22:40.060
- EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT.
- 00:22:40.080 --> 00:22:41.030
- GOD'S GOT IT.
- 00:22:41.050 --> 00:22:42.170
- - THAT'S SO GOOD.
- 00:22:42.190 --> 00:22:44.050
- TYLER, SOMEBODY ASKED YOU ABOUT ALL YOUR FAILURES.
- 00:22:44.070 --> 00:22:46.140
- EXPLAIN THAT.
- 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:47.130
- - YEAH.
- 00:22:47.150 --> 00:22:48.260
- THIS SHOCKED A FEW PEOPLE.
- 00:22:48.280 --> 00:22:50.030
- THEY SAID LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR FAILURES.
- 00:22:50.050 --> 00:22:51.040
- I SAID I DON'T HAVE ANY.
- 00:22:51.060 --> 00:22:52.150
- AND I TELL YOU WHY.
- 00:22:52.170 --> 00:22:54.250
- I TELL YOU WHY I SAY THAT.
- 00:22:54.270 --> 00:22:57.090
- I TELL YOU WHY I SAY THAT BECAUSE WHEN YOU KNOW
- 00:22:57.110 --> 00:22:59.110
- THAT EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE IS GOING TO WORK
- 00:22:59.130 --> 00:23:01.060
- TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD -- [ APPLAUSE ] I LOOK BACK ON
- 00:23:01.080 --> 00:23:04.260
- ALL THE THINGS IN MY LIFE THAT I THOUGHT THAT
- 00:23:04.280 --> 00:23:07.120
- SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FAILURE, THAT SHOULD HAVE
- 00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:08.290
- BEEN A FAILURE.
- 00:23:09.010 --> 00:23:10.100
- BUT WHEN I REALLY ANALYZE IT I REALIZED THOSE WERE
- 00:23:10.120 --> 00:23:11.230
- TEACHING MOMENTS.
- 00:23:11.250 --> 00:23:13.160
- THOSE WERE MOLDING MOMENTS.
- 00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:15.040
- THOSE WERE MOVING MOMENTS, AND I REALIZE
- 00:23:15.060 --> 00:23:17.020
- HAD THAT NOT HAPPENED I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN READY
- 00:23:17.040 --> 00:23:19.180
- FOR THIS MOMENT, OR HAD THAT SITUATION NOT GONE
- 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:21.210
- ON I WOULDN'T HAD BEEN READY TO GO HERE.
- 00:23:21.230 --> 00:23:23.180
- HAD I NOT BEEN ABLE TO LIVE AT THAT ALTITUDE I
- 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:25.210
- WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STAND AT
- 00:23:25.230 --> 00:23:27.060
- THIS ALTITUDE.
- 00:23:27.080 --> 00:23:28.260
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:23:28.280 --> 00:23:31.120
- SO WHAT HAPPENED TO ME AS I LOOK BACK ON ALL THOSE
- 00:23:31.140 --> 00:23:33.050
- MOMENTS I DON'T CALL THEM FAILURES.
- 00:23:33.070 --> 00:23:34.210
- I CALL THEM THE GRACE OF GOD BECAUSE IT BROUGHT ME
- 00:23:34.230 --> 00:23:36.120
- RIGHT WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.
- 00:23:36.140 --> 00:23:37.200
- - I LOVE IT.
- 00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:38.250
- HE'S ORDERING YOUR STEPS.
- 00:23:38.270 --> 00:23:40.090
- - RIGHT WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.
- 00:23:40.110 --> 00:23:41.210
- - ALL RIGHT.
- 00:23:41.230 --> 00:23:43.100
- SHIFT GEARS A MINUTE.
- 00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:44.260
- WHERE DID MEDEA COME FROM?
- 00:23:44.280 --> 00:23:46.140
- - OH, LORD.
- 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:48.070
- [LAUGHTER ] - I CAN'T FIND HER IN THE BIBLE.
- 00:23:48.090 --> 00:23:49.150
- - NO, YOU CAN'T FIND HER IN THE BIBLE.
- 00:23:49.170 --> 00:23:50.240
- YOU WON'T FIND HER ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE.
- 00:23:50.260 --> 00:23:52.160
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:23:52.180 --> 00:23:54.090
- MEDEA, I HAVE AN AUNT TO LIVES HERE IN HOUSTON AND
- 00:23:54.110 --> 00:23:56.050
- HER NAME IS MELLA.
- 00:23:56.070 --> 00:23:58.190
- AND SHE AND MY MOTHER MEDEA IS A CROSS BETWEEN
- 00:23:58.210 --> 00:24:01.210
- BOTH OF THOSE LADIES, AND YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO RUN
- 00:24:01.230 --> 00:24:04.170
- INTO EITHER ONE OF THEM IN A DARK ALLEY LATE AT
- 00:24:04.190 --> 00:24:07.040
- NIGHT BECAUSE IF YOU TRIED TO SNATCH THEIR
- 00:24:07.060 --> 00:24:08.250
- PURSE YOU GONNA GET SNATCHED UP.
- 00:24:08.270 --> 00:24:11.040
- BUT I SAW EDDIE MURPHY DO HIS HAND AT PLAYING AN
- 00:24:11.060 --> 00:24:14.200
- OLD WOMAN IN THE CLUMPS, AND I SAID OKAY, I'M
- 00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:17.090
- GOING TO TRY MY HAND AT IT, AND THAT'S WHERE THIS
- 00:24:17.110 --> 00:24:18.290
- CHARACTER WAS BORN.
- 00:24:19.010 --> 00:24:20.140
- BUT THE POWER OF IT, AS SILLY AS IT IS, AS SILLY
- 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:22.210
- AS IT IS THERE'S A POWER IN IT.
- 00:24:22.230 --> 00:24:25.000
- HERE'S THE POWER IN IT.
- 00:24:25.020 --> 00:24:26.150
- IT WAS THE ANESTHETIC THAT I USED TO MAKE
- 00:24:26.170 --> 00:24:28.100
- PEOPLE LAUGH TO GET TO SOME VERY SERIOUS
- 00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:29.250
- SUBJECT MATTER.
- 00:24:29.270 --> 00:24:31.270
- PEOPLE FOUND THEMSELVES COMING INTO THESE ARENAS
- 00:24:31.290 --> 00:24:34.230
- AND LAUGHING, LAUGHING REALLY HARD, AND THEN I
- 00:24:34.250 --> 00:24:36.290
- STARTED TALKING ABOUT FORGIVENESS.
- 00:24:37.010 --> 00:24:38.230
- THEY'RE LAUGHING REALLY HARD AND I'D TALK ABOUT
- 00:24:38.250 --> 00:24:40.170
- GETTING OVER PAIN AND MOLESTATION AND RAPE, ALL
- 00:24:40.190 --> 00:24:42.110
- THE THINGS THAT PLAGUE US AS A SOCIETY THAT WE WERE
- 00:24:42.130 --> 00:24:44.230
- IGNORING AND WEREN'T GETTING ANY ATTENTION.
- 00:24:44.250 --> 00:24:47.150
- SO I FOUND IF I CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH I CAN USE THIS
- 00:24:47.170 --> 00:24:49.170
- AS A TEACHABLE MOMENT.
- 00:24:49.190 --> 00:24:52.050
- SO IT BECAME VERY VERY IMPORTANT TO ME.
- 00:24:52.070 --> 00:24:54.010
- AS MUCH AS I DON'T LIKE DOING THE CHARACTER, I
- 00:24:54.030 --> 00:24:55.220
- REALIZE WHAT IT HAS DONE FOR MANY PEOPLE.
- 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:58.150
- AND I GOT A LETTER FROM SOMEONE.
- 00:24:58.170 --> 00:25:00.150
- I GOT PLENTY OF THEM BUT THIS ONE WAS
- 00:25:00.170 --> 00:25:01.290
- REALLY POWERFUL.
- 00:25:02.010 --> 00:25:03.190
- IT WAS ABOUT A WOMAN WHO SAID SHE WAS GOING TO
- 00:25:03.210 --> 00:25:04.260
- COMMIT SUICIDE.
- 00:25:04.280 --> 00:25:06.190
- SO SHE GOT HER KIDS TOGETHER AND SHE WENT TO
- 00:25:06.210 --> 00:25:08.290
- A HOTEL AND SHE WANTED TO SPEND THE LAST DAY
- 00:25:09.010 --> 00:25:10.160
- WITH THEM.
- 00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:12.010
- SHE SAID, WE'RE GOING TO DO WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANT
- 00:25:12.030 --> 00:25:13.200
- TO DO.
- 00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:15.100
- WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO WE'LL DO, AND SHE SENT ME
- 00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:16.270
- THIS LETTER.
- 00:25:16.290 --> 00:25:18.180
- THIS WAS BEFORE FACEBOOK AND ALL THESE OTHER
- 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:20.200
- THINGS, AND SO I GET THIS LETTER, AND SHE'S TALKING
- 00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:22.220
- ABOUT WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO.
- 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:24.170
- THEY DECIDED THEY WANTED TO SEE A TYLER PERRY PLAY.
- 00:25:24.190 --> 00:25:26.120
- SO SHE WENT AND FOUND ONE ON BOOTLEG.
- 00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:28.170
- SHE BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE HOTEL AND THEY
- 00:25:28.190 --> 00:25:30.130
- WATCHED IT.
- 00:25:30.150 --> 00:25:31.180
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.290
- YEAH.
- 00:25:33.010 --> 00:25:34.080
- YEAH.
- 00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:35.220
- IT'S ALL RIGHT.
- 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:37.040
- AND THEY WATCHED IT.
- 00:25:37.060 --> 00:25:38.170
- BUT Y'ALL DON'T BUY BOOTLEG, I KNOW.
- 00:25:38.190 --> 00:25:40.080
- I KNOW.
- 00:25:40.100 --> 00:25:42.020
- BUT THEY WATCHED IT AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS AS SHE
- 00:25:42.040 --> 00:25:43.100
- WAS WATCHING IT SHE STARTED TO LAUGH, AND SHE
- 00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:44.140
- STARTED TO BE HEALED.
- 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:45.210
- AND SHE SENT ME THIS LETTER SAYING I NO LONGER
- 00:25:45.230 --> 00:25:47.010
- I WANT TO DIE.
- 00:25:47.030 --> 00:25:48.100
- I FEEL LIKE I CAN LIVE AND MANUFACTURE ON AFTER
- 00:25:48.120 --> 00:25:49.110
- SEEING THIS PLAY.
- 00:25:49.130 --> 00:25:50.180
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:52.020
- - LAST THING, TYLER, AND I'LL STEP DOWN AND I WANT
- 00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:53.180
- TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR YOUR MESSAGE, BUT
- 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:55.160
- WE'RE ALL TRYING TO REACH DREAMS TODAY AND IT'S NOT
- 00:25:55.180 --> 00:25:57.080
- EASY, AND YOU'VE HIT THE SUCCESS BUT GIVE US
- 00:25:57.100 --> 00:25:58.260
- SOME ENCOURAGEMENT.
- 00:25:58.280 --> 00:26:01.270
- WHAT'S A FINAL THOUGHT FOR US FROM THIS?
- 00:26:01.290 --> 00:26:04.290
- - DON'T GIVE UP.
- 00:26:05.010 --> 00:26:06.240
- I KNOW IT SOUNDS SIMPLE, BUT DON'T GIVE UP.
- 00:26:06.260 --> 00:26:10.060
- IF YOU GO TO BED WITH IT AND YOU WAKE UP WITH IT
- 00:26:10.080 --> 00:26:12.120
- AND YOU CAN'T SHAKE IT, YOU GO GET A JOB AND THAT
- 00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:15.260
- DREAM IS STILL IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD, YOU'RE
- 00:26:15.280 --> 00:26:17.290
- WORKING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE, BUT THAT DREAM IS
- 00:26:18.010 --> 00:26:20.260
- STILL IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD, YOU'RE GETTING UP
- 00:26:20.280 --> 00:26:23.070
- EVERY MORNING, FIVE IN THE MORNING GOING ON
- 00:26:23.090 --> 00:26:24.230
- SOMEBODY ELSE'S JOB, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING
- 00:26:24.250 --> 00:26:26.230
- HONOR THAT PERSON THAT YOU'RE WORKING FOR.
- 00:26:26.250 --> 00:26:28.020
- LISTEN.
- 00:26:28.040 --> 00:26:29.110
- LISTEN, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE FAITHFUL OVER
- 00:26:29.130 --> 00:26:31.080
- SOMEONE ELSE'S, GOD WILL GIVE YOU YOUR OWN, SO
- 00:26:31.100 --> 00:26:32.250
- MAKE SURE YOU HONOR THE PERSON THAT YOU'RE
- 00:26:32.270 --> 00:26:34.080
- WORKING FOR.
- 00:26:34.100 --> 00:26:36.100
- BUT AT THE SAME TIME DON'T GIVE UP.
- 00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:38.220
- AND THE MANTRA AT THE STUDIO, MY STUDIO IS A
- 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:40.090
- PLACE WHERE EVEN DREAMS BELIEVE BECAUSE WHEN I
- 00:26:40.110 --> 00:26:42.010
- THINK ABOUT JOSEPH, HE WENT THROUGH SO MUCH
- 00:26:42.030 --> 00:26:45.010
- BEFORE HE GOT INTO HIS PROMISE.
- 00:26:45.030 --> 00:26:46.100
- HE WAS IN JAIL.
- 00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:48.030
- HE HAD ALL THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO HIM, BUT WHEN
- 00:26:48.050 --> 00:26:49.110
- IT GOT REALLY BAD AND HE GAVE UP OR WANTED TO GIVE
- 00:26:49.130 --> 00:26:51.150
- UP, THE DREAM REMINDED HIM THAT HE CAN GO ON.
- 00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:53.260
- SO IF IT'S IN YOU AND YOU CAN'T SHAKE IT AND YOU
- 00:26:53.280 --> 00:26:56.170
- DREAM ABOUT IT, AND WHEN YOU WANT TO WALK AWAY
- 00:26:56.190 --> 00:26:59.240
- FROM IT, YOU STILL DREAM ABOUT IT, THAT'S GOD
- 00:26:59.260 --> 00:27:02.090
- TELLING YOU TO KEEP GOING.
- 00:27:02.110 --> 00:27:05.060
- AND IF I CAN TELL YOU ANYTHING ELSE, PLEASE
- 00:27:05.080 --> 00:27:07.090
- KEEP GOING.
- 00:27:07.110 --> 00:27:08.190
- THERE ARE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES AND DESTINY ARE
- 00:27:08.210 --> 00:27:11.110
- TIED INTO YOU.
- 00:27:11.130 --> 00:27:13.130
- JUST THINK HAD YOU STOPPED.
- 00:27:13.150 --> 00:27:14.280
- ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WHERE WOULD WEB GOING TO
- 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:16.120
- WORSHIP AND HEAR A POSITIVE MESSAGE.
- 00:27:16.140 --> 00:27:17.280
- DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN?
- 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.270
- - YEAH.
- 00:27:18.290 --> 00:27:21.200
- YEAH.
- 00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:23.020
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:24.090
- - SO DON'T STOP.
- 00:27:24.110 --> 00:27:25.220
- KEEP GOING NO MATTER WHAT ANYBODY SAYS.
- 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:26.260
- YOU ARE WORTH IT.
- 00:27:26.280 --> 00:27:28.210
- AND HERE'S THE THING ABOUT WORTHY.
- 00:27:28.230 --> 00:27:30.180
- GET TO WORTHY.
- 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:31.210
- WHATEVER YOU DO, GET TO WORTHY.
- 00:27:31.230 --> 00:27:33.030
- WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
- 00:27:33.050 --> 00:27:34.240
- UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE WORTH IT.
- 00:27:34.260 --> 00:27:36.060
- YOU DESERVE THE GOOD THINGS.
- 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:37.140
- IF GOD SAID IT, YOU DESERVE IT, AND HE DID.
- 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:38.240
- AND HE DID.
- 00:27:38.260 --> 00:27:40.050
- HIS THOUGHTS OF YOU ARE PURE, AND HE WANTS TO
- 00:27:40.070 --> 00:27:41.190
- GIVE YOU A HOPE.
- 00:27:41.210 --> 00:27:43.160
- YOU BETTER GRAB ME RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M GETTING
- 00:27:43.180 --> 00:27:44.240
- READY TO GO SOMEWHERE ON THIS THING RIGHT HERE.
- 00:27:44.260 --> 00:27:45.180
- - [LAUGHTER ] GO AHEAD.
- 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:46.210
- IT'S YOURS.
- 00:27:46.230 --> 00:27:47.200
- - BUT JUST DON'T GIVE UP.
- 00:27:47.220 --> 00:27:49.120
- IF I CAN TELL YOU ANYTHING DON'T GIVE UP.
- 00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:50.120
- DON'T GIVE UP.
- 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:51.130
- [MUSIC]
- 00:27:51.150 --> 00:27:52.160
- OH, HALLELUJAH...
- 00:27:52.180 --> 00:28:04.070
- THE RESURRECTED ONE IS SHINING LIKE THE SUN...
- 00:28:04.090 --> 00:28:10.230
- BREAKING THROUGH THE FEARS IN VICTORY...
- 00:28:10.250 --> 00:28:17.230
- VICTORY IS HERE NOW...
- 00:28:17.250 --> 00:28:19.240
- OH, HALLELUJAH...
- 00:28:19.260 --> 00:28:27.040
- JESUS BE LIFTED HIGHER...
- 00:28:27.060 --> 00:28:30.150
- WE SERVE A RISEN SAVIOR...
- 00:28:30.170 --> 00:28:33.140
- HE IS RISEN...
- 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.050
- FOREVER GLORIFIED...
- 00:28:37.070 --> 00:28:39.270
- RISEN, HE IS RISEN...
- 00:28:39.290 --> 00:28:44.040
- KING JESUS, KING JESUS IS ALIVE...
- 00:28:44.060 --> 00:28:47.220
- HE IS RISEN...
- 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:51.040
- FOREVER GLORIFIED...
- 00:28:51.060 --> 00:28:54.150
- RISEN, HE IS RISEN...
- 00:28:54.170 --> 00:28:58.020
- KING JESUS, JESUS IS ALIVE...
- 00:28:58.040 --> 00:29:03.250
- [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
- 00:29:03.270 --> 00:29:10.130
- [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
- 00:29:10.130 --> 00:29:17.250
- THE SAME POWER...
- 00:29:17.270 --> 00:29:19.210
- THE SAME POWER THAT CRUSHED THE ENEMY...
- 00:29:19.230 --> 00:29:24.060
- THE SAME POWER...
- 00:29:24.080 --> 00:29:26.060
- THE SAME POWER LIVES IN ME...
- 00:29:26.080 --> 00:29:31.160
- THE SAME POWER...
- 00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:34.220
- THE SAME POWER THAT CRUSHED THE ENEMY...
- 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.090
- THE SAME POWER...
- 00:29:38.110 --> 00:29:40.290
- THE SAME POWER LIVES IN ME...
- 00:29:41.010 --> 00:29:45.250
- THE SAME POWER...
- 00:29:45.270 --> 00:29:48.160
- THE SAME POWER THAT CRUSHED THE ENEMY...
- 00:29:48.180 --> 00:29:53.030
- THE SAME POWER...
- 00:29:53.050 --> 00:29:56.210
- THE SAME POWER LIVES IN ME...
- 00:29:56.230 --> 00:30:00.130
- RISEN...
- 00:30:00.150 --> 00:30:02.030
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:30:02.050 --> 00:30:05.020
- - I AM GRATEFUL TO BE HERE, AND THANK YOU FOR
- 00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:07.280
- THAT MOMENT, PASTOR JOEL.
- 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.050
- I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE IT, THANK YOU.
- 00:30:11.070 --> 00:30:12.290
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:30:13.010 --> 00:30:15.070
- THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION TO BE HERE.
- 00:30:15.090 --> 00:30:17.250
- IT'S REALLY, REALLY POWERFUL TO STAND HERE IN
- 00:30:17.270 --> 00:30:21.260
- FRONT OF SO MANY PEOPLE.
- 00:30:21.280 --> 00:30:23.190
- LAKEWOOD, YOU HAVE BEEN REALLY KIND TO
- 00:30:23.210 --> 00:30:24.290
- ME ALL WEEKEND.
- 00:30:25.010 --> 00:30:26.130
- I AM GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
- 00:30:26.150 --> 00:30:27.290
- PASTOR JOEL AND PASTOR VICTORIA, THANK YOU FOR
- 00:30:28.010 --> 00:30:29.180
- ALLOWING ME TO COME INTO YOUR SPACE BECAUSE WHEN
- 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:31.190
- INVITE SOMEBODY TO COME AND SPEAK TO YOUR
- 00:30:31.210 --> 00:30:33.240
- FOLKS, YOU GOT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE ABOUT AND
- 00:30:33.260 --> 00:30:35.070
- WHAT'S GOING ON.
- 00:30:35.100 --> 00:30:36.220
- SO I'M GRATEFUL THAT YOU'VE GIVEN
- 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:37.280
- ME THIS OPPORTUNITY.
- 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.070
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:30:39.090 --> 00:30:41.190
- WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MADEA EARLIER, AND A LOT OF
- 00:30:41.210 --> 00:30:43.130
- PEOPLE KNOW ME AS MADEA, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING
- 00:30:43.150 --> 00:30:44.280
- THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT I WANT TO
- 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:46.080
- SHARE WITH YOU.
- 00:30:46.100 --> 00:30:47.230
- ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS ABOUT 17 OR 18
- 00:30:47.250 --> 00:30:49.110
- YEARS OLD, I WENT TO SEMINARY SCHOOL.
- 00:30:49.130 --> 00:30:51.080
- I WAS A MINISTER IN MY CHURCH.
- 00:30:51.100 --> 00:30:52.260
- I WOULD PRAY, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE, AND I
- 00:30:52.280 --> 00:30:56.120
- GOT UP TO DO MY FIRST SERMON.
- 00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:58.190
- DIDN'T GO OVER SO WELL.
- 00:30:58.210 --> 00:31:00.200
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:02.090
- I GOT UP THERE, AND THOUGHT I WAS PREACHING.
- 00:31:02.110 --> 00:31:04.230
- THE PASTOR COMES BEHIND ME AND SAYS, WELL, IF GOD
- 00:31:04.250 --> 00:31:08.010
- CALLED YOU, HE WOULD QUALIFY YOU AND I DON'T
- 00:31:08.030 --> 00:31:09.280
- THINK HE QUALIFIED YOU.
- 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.160
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:31:12.180 --> 00:31:15.130
- SO I WAS VERY, VERY HAPPY.
- 00:31:15.150 --> 00:31:17.030
- I WENT HOME AND PRAYED AND SAID, GOD,
- 00:31:17.050 --> 00:31:18.160
- WHAT IS GOING ON?
- 00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:19.280
- AND HE SAID, WELL, THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU'RE
- 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.090
- GOING TO MINISTER.
- 00:31:21.110 --> 00:31:22.170
- YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
- 00:31:22.190 --> 00:31:23.230
- YOU WON'T BE IN THE PULPIT.
- 00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:24.290
- I SAID, WELL, THANK GOD.
- 00:31:25.010 --> 00:31:26.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:31:26.130 --> 00:31:27.260
- BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE LIKE
- 00:31:27.280 --> 00:31:29.090
- PASTOR JOEL, IF YOU STEP ON HIS FOOT, HE'S GONNA
- 00:31:29.110 --> 00:31:30.080
- PRAY FOR YOU.
- 00:31:30.100 --> 00:31:31.150
- YOU STEP ON MINE, I'M GOING TO PUNCH YOU.
- 00:31:31.170 --> 00:31:32.250
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:31:32.270 --> 00:31:34.130
- YOU MESS AROUND AND HIT THIS BUNION, YOU'RE
- 00:31:34.150 --> 00:31:35.210
- REALLY GOING TO BE IN TROUBLE.
- 00:31:35.230 --> 00:31:36.180
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:39.020
- BUT I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE TUB OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT
- 00:31:39.040 --> 00:31:42.220
- I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO.
- 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:44.220
- GOD AND I, WHEN I PRAYED, GOD SHOWED ME MY MINISTRY
- 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:48.030
- WOULD COME THROUGH MOVIES AND TELEVISION.
- 00:31:48.050 --> 00:31:50.060
- AND LISTEN, JUST BECAUSE I'M A CHRISTIAN WHO MAKES
- 00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:53.080
- MOVIES, DON'T THINK THAT ALL OF MY MOVIES ARE
- 00:31:53.100 --> 00:31:55.200
- GOING TO BE CHRISTIAN.
- 00:31:55.220 --> 00:31:57.030
- SOMETIMES, THEY'LL BE SCI-FI.
- 00:31:57.050 --> 00:31:58.090
- SOMETIMES, THEY'LL BE RATED 'R'.
- 00:31:58.110 --> 00:31:59.210
- THEY'LL BE ALL OVER THE PLACE BECAUSE I'M AN ARTIST.
- 00:31:59.230 --> 00:32:00.270
- I WANT TO TELL ALL KINDS OF STORIES.
- 00:32:00.290 --> 00:32:02.120
- BUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME IS THAT, AS I'M
- 00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:05.090
- TELLING STORIES, THAT THERE IS A MESSAGE OF
- 00:32:05.110 --> 00:32:06.230
- HOPE THAT PEOPLE TAKE WITH THEM.
- 00:32:06.250 --> 00:32:08.150
- SO YOU GUYS CAN UNDERSTAND THAT AND
- 00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:10.080
- APPRECIATE THAT WITH ME, I'M GRATEFUL FOR IT.
- 00:32:10.100 --> 00:32:12.080
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:32:12.100 --> 00:32:14.270
- WE TALK ABOUT THIS MOMENT WHERE I WAS TRYING TO GET
- 00:32:14.290 --> 00:32:18.230
- THE CAREER OFF THE GROUND, THEN ALL OF THE
- 00:32:18.250 --> 00:32:20.090
- SUDDEN, IT STARTED TAKING OFF.
- 00:32:20.110 --> 00:32:22.270
- AND I WAS IN DEMAND EVERYWHERE.
- 00:32:22.290 --> 00:32:24.120
- WE WERE SELLING OUT.
- 00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:25.270
- WE COULDN'T ADD ANYMORE SEATS TO THE THEATER.
- 00:32:25.290 --> 00:32:27.110
- I WAS DOING 350, 360, 370SHOWS A YEAR, JUST
- 00:32:27.130 --> 00:32:29.030
- WOULDN'T STOP.
- 00:32:29.050 --> 00:32:30.200
- JUST PERFORMANCE AFTER PERFORMANCE, AFTER
- 00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:31.260
- PERFORMANCE.
- 00:32:31.280 --> 00:32:33.100
- AND SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING.
- 00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:34.180
- YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF IN A MOMENT WHERE EVERYTHING
- 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.240
- IS GOING GREAT, AND THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN,
- 00:32:36.260 --> 00:32:38.100
- YOU GET ANXIETY ABOUT SOMETHING?
- 00:32:38.120 --> 00:32:39.200
- - CONGREGATION: YES.
- 00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:41.070
- - I FOUND MYSELF HAVING GREAT ANXIETY ABOUT
- 00:32:41.090 --> 00:32:42.250
- BEING ABLE TO FLY.
- 00:32:42.270 --> 00:32:45.030
- I WAS A VERY, VERY NERVOUS FLYER.
- 00:32:45.050 --> 00:32:47.180
- COMING FROM A KID WHO HAD NOTHING, WHO HAD NEVER
- 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:49.210
- BEEN ON A PLANE TO 20 SOMETHING YEARS OLD
- 00:32:49.230 --> 00:32:51.220
- PUTTING ME ON MY FIRST PLANE, AND I DIDN'T
- 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:52.290
- UNDERSTAND IT.
- 00:32:53.010 --> 00:32:54.050
- I WAS SCARED TO DEATH.
- 00:32:54.070 --> 00:32:56.100
- I GET ON THE PLANE WITH MY OIL...
- 00:32:56.120 --> 00:32:57.200
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:32:57.220 --> 00:33:01.080
- I HAD A FRIEND NAMED ANITA.
- 00:33:01.100 --> 00:33:02.100
- SHE GAVE ME, JUST OIL.
- 00:33:02.120 --> 00:33:04.060
- SHE WOULD JUST PRAY OVER IT.
- 00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:05.170
- I HAD OLIVE OIL ALL OVER MYSELF JUST...
- 00:33:05.190 --> 00:33:06.260
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:33:06.280 --> 00:33:09.110
- ANOINTING THE DOOR AS I'M GOING IN.
- 00:33:09.130 --> 00:33:11.010
- ANOINTING EVERY SEAT.
- 00:33:11.030 --> 00:33:12.120
- PEOPLE COMING BEHIND ME GOING WHAT IS THIS ALL
- 00:33:12.140 --> 00:33:13.100
- OVER THE PLACE?
- 00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:15.020
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:33:15.040 --> 00:33:17.230
- GET TO MY SEAT.
- 00:33:17.250 --> 00:33:19.090
- WE TAKE OFF.
- 00:33:19.110 --> 00:33:20.230
- FLIGHT ATTENDANT COMES ON AND SAY THE STUFF THEY SAY.
- 00:33:20.250 --> 00:33:21.240
- I DIDN'T HEAR NONE OF IT.
- 00:33:21.260 --> 00:33:23.050
- I WAS JUST HOLDING ON, HOLDING ON, HOLDING ON.
- 00:33:23.070 --> 00:33:24.220
- WE TAKE OFF, I'M WHITE KNUCKLED.
- 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:26.070
- YOU HAVE NOT SEEN WHITE KNUCKLES UNTIL YOU SEE A
- 00:33:26.090 --> 00:33:28.030
- BLACK MAN WITH WHITE KNUCKLES HOLDING ONTO SOMETHING.
- 00:33:28.050 --> 00:33:30.140
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.100
- SO THERE I WAS IN DEMAND BUT AFRAID TO FLY.
- 00:33:32.120 --> 00:33:37.060
- THEN THE HORROR OF 9/11 HAPPENED, AND I STOPPED
- 00:33:37.080 --> 00:33:39.030
- FLYING ALL TOGETHER.
- 00:33:39.050 --> 00:33:40.140
- I SAID I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE.
- 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:41.230
- I STARTED TAKING MY BUS EVERYWHERE.
- 00:33:41.250 --> 00:33:43.060
- SO I WAS ON THE BUS, AND MY PROMOTERS AND PEOPLE
- 00:33:43.080 --> 00:33:44.140
- IN MY BUSINESS FOLK WERE LIKE, TYLER, MY AGENT WAS
- 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:45.260
- LIKE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
- 00:33:45.280 --> 00:33:48.010
- YOU'RE COMING TO CALIFORNIA ON A BUS? YEAH.
- 00:33:48.030 --> 00:33:49.290
- HOW LONG DOES THAT TAKE? I DON'T KNOW, FOUR DAYS.
- 00:33:50.010 --> 00:33:51.160
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:33:51.180 --> 00:33:54.090
- YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME YOU'RE WASTING?
- 00:33:54.110 --> 00:33:55.270
- YOU DON'T WANT TO GET ON A PLANE AND JUST COME?
- 00:33:55.290 --> 00:33:57.180
- NO, NO, NO, I CAN'T DO IT. I CAN'T DO IT.
- 00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.030
- SO FINALLY, ONE DAY I WAS RUNNING IN THE PARK AND I
- 00:34:00.050 --> 00:34:02.020
- SAID, GOD, I GOTTA DO SOMETHING.
- 00:34:02.040 --> 00:34:03.190
- I'M GETTING ALL OF THIS DEMAND, AND THIS IS
- 00:34:03.210 --> 00:34:05.200
- HINDERING THE BLESSING THAT YOU'RE GIVING ME.
- 00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:07.100
- IT'S HINDERING ME BECAUSE I'M AFRAID TO FLY.
- 00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:09.010
- SO WHAT I DID WAS I'M RUNNING IN THE PARK ONE
- 00:34:09.030 --> 00:34:10.290
- DAY, AND I'M EXERCISING, AND I SEE THIS LITTLE
- 00:34:11.010 --> 00:34:13.070
- PLANE IN THE AIR, AND IT'S BEING TOSSED AROUND,
- 00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:16.190
- AND I IMMEDIATELY START PRAYING FOR THE PEOPLE
- 00:34:16.210 --> 00:34:18.180
- ON THE PLANE. I SAID, LORD, HAVE MERCY.
- 00:34:18.200 --> 00:34:20.260
- HELP THEM, LORD, ALL OF THAT TURBULENCE. HELP THEM.
- 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.120
- JESUS [SPEAKING IN TONGUES]
- 00:34:22.140 --> 00:34:25.240
- YOU KNOW IT'S BAD WHEN YOU CALL JESUS THE SHABBA
- 00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:27.140
- AT THE SAME TIME.
- 00:34:27.160 --> 00:34:29.020
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:34:29.040 --> 00:34:30.210
- AND THEN THE PLANE GETS LOWER AND LOWER, AND THEN
- 00:34:30.230 --> 00:34:32.110
- ALL OF THE SUDDEN IT COMES DOWN AND LANDS.
- 00:34:32.130 --> 00:34:33.190
- I REALIZED IT'S A TOY.
- 00:34:33.210 --> 00:34:35.040
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:34:35.060 --> 00:34:39.120
- THERE'S A MAN FLYING A REMOTE CONTROLLED
- 00:34:39.140 --> 00:34:40.290
- AIRPLANE IN THE PARK.
- 00:34:41.010 --> 00:34:43.020
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:34:43.040 --> 00:34:44.220
- I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:34:44.240 --> 00:34:45.290
- I'M GOING TO GO BUY ONE OF THOSE.
- 00:34:46.010 --> 00:34:47.060
- MAYBE THAT'S WHAT I NEED TO BE ALL RIGHT.
- 00:34:47.080 --> 00:34:48.130
- SO I GO, AND I GO TO THE HOBBY STORE, AND I SAID,
- 00:34:48.150 --> 00:34:49.180
- OKAY, LET ME HAVE ONE OF THESE.
- 00:34:49.200 --> 00:34:50.240
- I DON'T READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
- 00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:52.060
- I DON'T DO ANY OF THAT, JUST LIKE A MAN.
- 00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:53.170
- JUST TAKE IT HOME, TAKE IT OUT OF THE BOX, TAKE
- 00:34:53.190 --> 00:34:54.240
- OFF [PLANE SOUNDS]
- 00:34:54.260 --> 00:34:56.060
- BOOM, CRASH, TWO SECONDS.
- 00:34:56.080 --> 00:34:58.160
- DID NOTHING TO HELP ME.
- 00:34:58.180 --> 00:35:00.230
- WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY, BOUGHT ANOTHER ONE.
- 00:35:00.250 --> 00:35:01.290
- [PLANE SOUNDS]
- 00:35:02.010 --> 00:35:03.200
- BOOM, SAME THING.
- 00:35:03.220 --> 00:35:05.080
- ABOUT THE FOURTH OR FIFTH THING I WENT, THE OLD GUY
- 00:35:05.100 --> 00:35:06.230
- THAT WORKED THERE SAID, SON, YOU'VE GOT MORE
- 00:35:06.250 --> 00:35:08.060
- MONEY THAN SENSE.
- 00:35:08.080 --> 00:35:11.280
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.020
- HE SAID COME HERE AND SIT ON THIS SIMULATOR AND LET
- 00:35:14.040 --> 00:35:15.120
- ME SHOW YOU HOW THIS WORKS.
- 00:35:15.140 --> 00:35:16.220
- AND HE STARTED EXPLAINING TO ME HOW AN AIRPLANE
- 00:35:16.240 --> 00:35:18.130
- WORKS, HOW THE WINGS HAVE LIFT AND THE AIRFOIL.
- 00:35:18.150 --> 00:35:20.140
- THERE'S AN AILERON THAT GOES RIGHT AND LEFT, AND
- 00:35:20.160 --> 00:35:22.190
- THERE'S THE ELEVATOR THAT GOES UP AND DOWN TO MAKE
- 00:35:22.210 --> 00:35:24.070
- THE PLANE GO UP AND DOWN.
- 00:35:24.090 --> 00:35:25.220
- THEN THERE'S YAWING AND ALL OF THIS STUFF, AND AS
- 00:35:25.240 --> 00:35:27.070
- I WAS LEARNING, I GOT FASCINATED.
- 00:35:27.090 --> 00:35:28.270
- SO I BOUGHT AND STARTED FLYING, AND I WAS GOING
- 00:35:28.290 --> 00:35:30.180
- YEAH, I GOT IT NOW. I GOT IT.
- 00:35:30.200 --> 00:35:32.150
- I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO FLY.
- 00:35:32.170 --> 00:35:34.070
- SO I STARTED FLYING AGAIN, AND THEN I SAID,
- 00:35:34.090 --> 00:35:35.230
- YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:35:35.250 --> 00:35:37.200
- I'M GOING TO GET MY PILOT'S LICENSE.
- 00:35:37.220 --> 00:35:39.100
- SO ONE DAY I'M WALKING INTO THE AIRPORT, AND I
- 00:35:39.120 --> 00:35:40.190
- SEE THIS LITTLE PLANE.
- 00:35:40.210 --> 00:35:42.050
- LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE VOLKSWAGEN WITH WINGS.
- 00:35:42.070 --> 00:35:43.140
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:45.010
- IT'S CALLED A CIRRUS, AND THEY WERE EXPLAINING TO
- 00:35:45.030 --> 00:35:47.040
- ME HAS GREAT ABOUT THE CIRRUS IS THAT IF YOU GET
- 00:35:47.060 --> 00:35:49.020
- IN TROUBLE, THERE'S A PARACHUTE.
- 00:35:49.040 --> 00:35:51.050
- YOU PULL THE HANDLE INSIDE, A ROCKET SHOOTS
- 00:35:51.070 --> 00:35:52.210
- OUT, AND A PARACHUTE LET'S THE WHOLE PLANE
- 00:35:52.230 --> 00:35:54.060
- COME TO THE GROUND.
- 00:35:54.080 --> 00:35:55.250
- I SAID, YEP, THAT'S THE ONE I WANT.
- 00:35:55.270 --> 00:35:57.100
- THAT'S THE ONE I'M GOING TO FLY RIGHT THERE.
- 00:35:57.120 --> 00:35:58.210
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:35:58.230 --> 00:36:00.110
- SO I CALL THE SALESMAN, AND WE GO UP.
- 00:36:00.130 --> 00:36:02.030
- HE TAKES ME UP, AND I'VE NEVER BEEN IN A
- 00:36:02.050 --> 00:36:03.240
- PLANE THIS SMALL.
- 00:36:03.260 --> 00:36:05.060
- HE TOOK ME UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND THE AIR
- 00:36:05.080 --> 00:36:06.230
- WAS SMOOTH, WONDERFUL. IT WAS GREAT.
- 00:36:06.250 --> 00:36:08.260
- WE WERE TAKING OFF, AND I WAS LIKE WOW, THIS IS
- 00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:10.110
- REALLY NICE.
- 00:36:10.130 --> 00:36:11.140
- HE SAID, YOU WANT TO TRY THE YOKE?
- 00:36:11.160 --> 00:36:12.260
- I'M LIKE, SURE. NO WHITE KNUCKLES. I'M JUST TAKING THE
- 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:14.030
- YOKE. THE PLANE IS MOVING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.
- 00:36:14.050 --> 00:36:15.110
- I WAS LIKE, OKAY, I'LL BUY IT.
- 00:36:15.130 --> 00:36:17.030
- CALLED HIM THE NEXT DAY AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:36:17.050 --> 00:36:19.010
- LET'S GO UP AGAIN JUST SO I'M SURE AND COMFORTABLE.
- 00:36:19.030 --> 00:36:21.110
- HE SAID, OKAY, WELL, I ONLY HAVE A SLOT IN THE
- 00:36:21.130 --> 00:36:22.250
- AFTERNOON. SO WE GO UP AT NOON.
- 00:36:22.270 --> 00:36:25.110
- NOW, IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FLYING, THE MIDDLE
- 00:36:25.130 --> 00:36:27.150
- OF THE DAY IN THE HEAT AND THE THERMALS IS NOT
- 00:36:27.170 --> 00:36:29.060
- VERY COMFORTABLE.
- 00:36:29.080 --> 00:36:30.240
- SO WE TAKE OFF, AND WE'RE IN THE HEAT AND THE
- 00:36:30.260 --> 00:36:32.170
- THERMALS, AND THE PLANE IS BOUNCING AROUND.
- 00:36:32.190 --> 00:36:34.240
- I MEAN BOUNCING. A LITTLE PLANE.
- 00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:37.130
- AND I AM HAVING A FIT.
- 00:36:37.150 --> 00:36:39.140
- I'M LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LAND.
- 00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:41.270
- HE'S LIKE, NO, NO, JUST STAY.
- 00:36:41.290 --> 00:36:43.140
- I'M LIKE, NO, LAND, SHABBA.
- 00:36:43.160 --> 00:36:44.280
- I CAN'T DO IT, LAND, LAND, LAND.
- 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:46.090
- I NEED MY FEET ON LAND.
- 00:36:46.110 --> 00:36:48.070
- HE SAID, HOLD ON JUST A MINUTE.
- 00:36:48.090 --> 00:36:50.010
- AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL COMES OVER OVER THE AIRSET AND
- 00:36:50.030 --> 00:36:52.140
- THE LADY SAYS, 378 GULF LIMA CLIMB AND
- 00:36:52.160 --> 00:36:55.130
- MAINTAIN 6500 FEET.
- 00:36:55.150 --> 00:36:58.020
- SO HE PUSHES THE THROTTLE, ELEVATOR, PLANE
- 00:36:58.040 --> 00:37:00.030
- GOES UP, WE GO UP.
- 00:37:00.050 --> 00:37:01.210
- AND WE BREAKTHROUGH THIS LAYER WHERE ALL OF THIS
- 00:37:01.230 --> 00:37:03.150
- TURBULENCE WAS HAPPENING.
- 00:37:03.170 --> 00:37:06.150
- THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN, WE GOT TO A PLACE WHERE
- 00:37:06.170 --> 00:37:08.050
- EVERYTHING WAS SMOOTH ALL BECAUSE SOMEBODY SAID
- 00:37:08.070 --> 00:37:11.010
- CLIMB AND MAINTAIN. CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:37:11.030 --> 00:37:17.050
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:37:17.070 --> 00:37:18.290
- CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:37:19.010 --> 00:37:22.170
- WITH THAT IN MIND, I'D LIKE TO GO TO THE
- 00:37:22.190 --> 00:37:24.090
- SCRIPTURE, IF YOU DON'T MIND.
- 00:37:24.110 --> 00:37:25.230
- THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE YOUR BIBLES, TURN WITH ME
- 00:37:25.250 --> 00:37:28.010
- TO "VICJOEDIE" THE 21ST CHAPTER AND THE 16TH
- 00:37:28.030 --> 00:37:31.200
- VERSE OF "VICJOEDIE".
- 00:37:31.220 --> 00:37:33.090
- IF YOU HAVE IT, SAY AMEN.
- 00:37:33.110 --> 00:37:34.250
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:37:34.270 --> 00:37:41.060
- WHY Y'ALL LAUGHING?
- 00:37:41.080 --> 00:37:42.230
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:37:42.250 --> 00:37:44.090
- OH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THERE'S NO "VICJOEDIE"
- 00:37:44.110 --> 00:37:46.070
- IN THE BIBLE? [LAUGHTER]
- 00:37:46.090 --> 00:37:48.060
- I'M GLAD BECAUSE THAT SATURDAY NIGHT CROWD
- 00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:49.110
- WASN'T TOO SURE.
- 00:37:49.130 --> 00:37:50.160
- THEY WERE LOOKING FOR IT.
- 00:37:50.180 --> 00:37:51.240
- THEY WERE LOOKING FOR IT.
- 00:37:51.260 --> 00:37:53.010
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:37:53.030 --> 00:37:57.140
- VICJOEDIE, THAT'S A CROSS BETWEEN VICTORIA, JOEL,
- 00:37:57.160 --> 00:37:59.110
- AND MAMA DODIE.
- 00:37:59.130 --> 00:38:01.010
- AND THEY WERE LOOKING FOR IT IN THE BIBLE.
- 00:38:01.030 --> 00:38:02.080
- IT WAS SOMETHING.
- 00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:03.240
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:38:03.260 --> 00:38:06.030
- BUT SERIOUSLY, I'D LIKE TO GO TO GENESIS THE 22ND
- 00:38:06.050 --> 00:38:08.170
- CHAPTER, GENESIS THE 22ND CHAPTER.
- 00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:11.250
- AND IT READS AS FOLLOWS, "AND IT CAME TO PASS
- 00:38:11.270 --> 00:38:13.160
- AFTER THESE THINGS THAT GOD DID TEMPT ABRAHAM AND
- 00:38:13.180 --> 00:38:15.200
- SAID UNTO HIM 'ABRAHAM?'
- 00:38:15.220 --> 00:38:17.100
- AND HE SAID,'BEHOLD, HERE AM I.' AND HE SAID.
- 00:38:17.120 --> 00:38:19.150
- 'TAKE THOU THINE ONLY SON ISAAC WHOM THOU LOVEST
- 00:38:19.170 --> 00:38:21.100
- AND GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF MORIAH AND OFFER
- 00:38:21.120 --> 00:38:23.170
- HIM THERE FOR A BURNT OFFERING UPON ONE OF THE
- 00:38:23.190 --> 00:38:25.210
- MOUNTAINS WHICH I WILL TELL OF THEE.' AND
- 00:38:25.230 --> 00:38:29.090
- ABRAHAM ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SAT ON
- 00:38:29.110 --> 00:38:31.240
- THE DONKEY AND TOOK TWO OF HIS YOUNG MEN WITH HIM
- 00:38:31.260 --> 00:38:34.070
- AND HIS SON ISAAC AND CLAVED THE WOOD FOR THE
- 00:38:34.090 --> 00:38:37.070
- BURNT OFFERING AND ROSE UP AND WENT UNTO THE
- 00:38:37.090 --> 00:38:39.060
- PLACE OF WHICH GOD HAD TOLD HIM.
- 00:38:39.080 --> 00:38:41.170
- THEN ON THE THIRD DAY, ABRAHAM LIFTED UP HIS
- 00:38:41.190 --> 00:38:44.010
- EYES AND SAW THE PLACE AFAR OFF, AND ABRAHAM
- 00:38:44.030 --> 00:38:46.120
- SAID UNTO HIS YOUNG MEN, 'ABIDE YE HERE WITH THE
- 00:38:46.140 --> 00:38:49.030
- DONKEYS, AND I AND THE LAD WILL GO YONDER AND
- 00:38:49.050 --> 00:38:51.160
- WORSHIP AND COME TO YOU AGAIN.' AND ABRAHAM TOOK
- 00:38:51.180 --> 00:38:54.280
- THE WOOD OF THE BURNT OFFERING AND LAID IT UPON
- 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:56.280
- ISAAC HIS SON, AND HE TOOK THE FIRE IN HIS
- 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.280
- HAND AND THE KNIFE, AND THEY WENT BOTH
- 00:39:00.020 --> 00:39:02.110
- OF THEM TOGETHER.
- 00:39:02.130 --> 00:39:04.100
- AND ISAAC SPAKE UNTO ABRAHAM AND
- 00:39:04.120 --> 00:39:06.070
- SAID,'FATHER, MY FATHER?'
- 00:39:06.090 --> 00:39:09.200
- AND HE SAID,'HERE AM I, MY SON.' AND HE SAID,
- 00:39:09.220 --> 00:39:11.130
- 'BEHOLD THE FIRE AND THE WOOD, BUT WHERE IS THE
- 00:39:11.150 --> 00:39:13.260
- LAMB FOR THE BURNT OFFERING?'
- 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.080
- AND ABRAHAM SAID,'MY SON, GOD HIMSELF WILL PROVIDE
- 00:39:16.100 --> 00:39:19.180
- THE LAMB FOR THE BURNT OFFERING.' SO THEY WENT
- 00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:21.040
- BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER.
- 00:39:21.060 --> 00:39:23.060
- AND THEY CAME TO THE PLACE WHICH GOD TOLD THEM
- 00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:25.060
- OF, AND ABRAHAM BUILT AN ALTAR AND LAID THE WOOD
- 00:39:25.080 --> 00:39:27.250
- IN THE ORDER AND BOUND ISAAC, HIS SON, AND LAID
- 00:39:27.270 --> 00:39:30.140
- HIM ON THE ALTAR UPON THE WOOD.
- 00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:32.200
- AND ABRAHAM STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND AND TOOK
- 00:39:32.220 --> 00:39:35.010
- THE KNIFE TO SLAY HIS SON.
- 00:39:35.030 --> 00:39:36.240
- AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CALLED UNTO HIM FROM
- 00:39:36.260 --> 00:39:38.110
- HEAVEN AND SAID, 'ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM?'
- 00:39:38.130 --> 00:39:40.160
- AND HE SAID,'HERE AM I.' AND HE SAID,
- 00:39:40.180 --> 00:39:42.110
- 'LAY NOT THINE HAND UPON THY LAD.
- 00:39:42.130 --> 00:39:44.150
- NEITHER DO THOU ANYTHING UNTO HIM FOR NOW I KNOW
- 00:39:44.170 --> 00:39:47.050
- THAT THOU FEAREST GOD SEEING THOU HAST NOT
- 00:39:47.070 --> 00:39:50.010
- WITHHELD THY SON, THINE ONLY SON.' AND ABRAHAM
- 00:39:50.030 --> 00:39:54.070
- LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND LOOKED AND BEHOLD BEHIND
- 00:39:54.090 --> 00:39:56.170
- HIM, A RAM CAUGHT IN THE THICKET BY ITS HORNS.
- 00:39:56.190 --> 00:39:59.290
- AND ABRAHAM WENT AND TOOK THE RAM AND OFFERED HIM
- 00:40:00.010 --> 00:40:02.150
- UP FOR A BURNT OFFERING INSTEAD OF HIS SON.
- 00:40:02.170 --> 00:40:05.290
- AND ABRAHAM CALLED THE PLACE JEHOVAH JIREH, AS
- 00:40:06.010 --> 00:40:08.250
- IT IS SAID TO THIS DAY, IN THE MOUNT OF THE LORD,
- 00:40:08.270 --> 00:40:12.170
- IT SHALL BE SEEN."
- 00:40:12.190 --> 00:40:16.050
- TODAY, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ANXIETY, ANXIETY.
- 00:40:16.070 --> 00:40:21.010
- I LOOK AT THIS SCRIPTURE, AND I SEE ISAAC WHO IS A
- 00:40:21.030 --> 00:40:24.250
- YOUNG MAN AT THE TIME.
- 00:40:24.270 --> 00:40:26.090
- THEOLOGIANS AND HISTORIANS SAY HE'S ABOUT
- 00:40:26.110 --> 00:40:27.290
- 13, FROM 13 INTO HIS 20'S, AND HE IS WALKING
- 00:40:28.010 --> 00:40:31.080
- UP TO A HIGHER PLACE WITH THIS FATHER, HIS FATHER,
- 00:40:31.100 --> 00:40:36.180
- A MAN THAT HE TRUSTS, THAT HE LOVES, THAT HE RESPECTS.
- 00:40:36.200 --> 00:40:42.040
- HIS FATHER IS LEADING HIM TO A HIGHER PLACE, AND AS
- 00:40:42.060 --> 00:40:46.060
- HE'S WALKING UP, ISAAC SAYS, ABRAHAM, DADDY,
- 00:40:46.080 --> 00:40:51.190
- FATHER, I SEE THE BURNT OFFERING.
- 00:40:51.210 --> 00:40:56.240
- I SEE THE WOOD, SORRY, I SEE THE WOOD, I SEE THE
- 00:40:56.260 --> 00:40:59.130
- FIRE, BUT WHERE IS THE OFFERING?
- 00:40:59.150 --> 00:41:02.110
- MEANING I SEE THE KNIFE, I SEE THE WOOD, I SEE ALL
- 00:41:02.130 --> 00:41:05.020
- THE TOOLS FOR A SACRIFICE, BUT WHERE IS
- 00:41:05.040 --> 00:41:06.260
- THE SACRIFICE ITSELF?
- 00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.170
- I SEE THE KNIFE, I SEE THE WOOD, I SEE THE FIRE,
- 00:41:10.190 --> 00:41:15.180
- BUT WHERE IS THE SACRIFICE?
- 00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:17.250
- HE'S GOT ANXIETY ABOUT IT. I CAN IMAGINE.
- 00:41:17.270 --> 00:41:19.270
- HE'S GOT ANXIETY LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
- 00:41:19.290 --> 00:41:21.220
- WE'RE GOING UP TO THIS PLACE, AND I SEE ALL
- 00:41:21.240 --> 00:41:24.050
- THESE THINGS THAT ARE ABOUT TO TAKE ME OUT OF
- 00:41:24.070 --> 00:41:26.070
- HERE, OR COULD TAKE ME OUT OF HERE, OR COULD
- 00:41:26.090 --> 00:41:28.260
- TAKE THE OFFERING FOR THE ANIMAL OUT OF HERE,
- 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:31.040
- BUT WHY ARE WE IN THIS MOMENT?
- 00:41:31.060 --> 00:41:33.060
- SO I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ANXIETY.
- 00:41:33.080 --> 00:41:36.030
- THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE DEALING WITH THINGS,
- 00:41:36.050 --> 00:41:39.060
- WALKING THROUGH SITUATIONS IN THIS LIFE;
- 00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:41.090
- YOU'RE MARRIED, THINGS ARE GOING GREAT,
- 00:41:41.110 --> 00:41:43.230
- THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN, SOMETHING HAPPENS.
- 00:41:43.250 --> 00:41:46.270
- A PERSON WANTS A DIVORCE, YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD
- 00:41:46.290 --> 00:41:49.070
- LIVE YOUR LIFE FOREVER WITH THIS PERSON, AND ALL
- 00:41:49.090 --> 00:41:51.150
- OF THE SUDDEN, THE VERY PERSON THAT YOU THOUGHT
- 00:41:51.170 --> 00:41:53.120
- WOULD BE THERE FOREVER IS ABOUT TO LEAVE, AND YOU
- 00:41:53.140 --> 00:41:55.040
- SEE THE KNIFE, YOU SEE THE WOOD, YOU SEE THE
- 00:41:55.060 --> 00:41:58.270
- FIRE, BUT YOU'RE WONDERING, ARE YOU THE SACRIFICE?
- 00:41:58.290 --> 00:42:01.060
- YOU'VE GOT CHILDREN THAT YOU'RE RAISING, AND
- 00:42:01.080 --> 00:42:04.250
- EVERYTHING SEEMED TO BE FINE WHEN THEY WERE
- 00:42:04.270 --> 00:42:06.190
- YOUNGER, BUT NOW THEY'RE AT A PLACE WHERE THEY'RE
- 00:42:06.210 --> 00:42:08.130
- A LITTLE BIT OLDER, AND THEY'RE DOING THINGS THAT
- 00:42:08.150 --> 00:42:09.280
- YOU COULDN'T EVEN IMAGINE, AND YOU'RE WORRIED.
- 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.130
- THEY'VE GOT ADDICTIONS.
- 00:42:12.150 --> 00:42:14.000
- THEY'VE GOT THINGS GOING ON, AND YOU'RE WONDERING,
- 00:42:14.020 --> 00:42:15.290
- GOD, WHAT IS GOING ON?
- 00:42:16.010 --> 00:42:17.210
- YOU SEE THE KNIFE, YOU SEE THE WOOD, YOU SEE THE
- 00:42:17.230 --> 00:42:20.180
- FIRE, BUT WHERE IS THE SACRIFICE?
- 00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:22.170
- THOSE DREAMERS IN HERE WHO ARE TRYING TO
- 00:42:22.190 --> 00:42:24.040
- BUILD A DREAM.
- 00:42:24.060 --> 00:42:26.010
- EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING FINE, AND ALL OF
- 00:42:26.030 --> 00:42:27.230
- THE SUDDEN YOU HEAR SOMETHING. THERE'S A RUMBLING.
- 00:42:27.250 --> 00:42:29.150
- SOMETHING IS HAPPENING THAT IS TRYING TO DISTRACT YOU.
- 00:42:29.170 --> 00:42:32.050
- YOU SEE THE KNIFE. YOU SEE THE WOOD. YOU SEE THE FIRE.
- 00:42:32.070 --> 00:42:34.160
- YOU'VE GOT ANXIETY. YOU CAN'T SLEEP.
- 00:42:34.180 --> 00:42:37.290
- YOU'RE TOSSING AND TURNING ALL NIGHT
- 00:42:38.010 --> 00:42:39.250
- LONG WONDERING WHAT IS GOING ON.
- 00:42:39.270 --> 00:42:41.150
- GOD, WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS MOMENT?
- 00:42:41.170 --> 00:42:43.190
- WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?
- 00:42:43.210 --> 00:42:45.150
- I'VE BEEN THERE.
- 00:42:45.170 --> 00:42:47.140
- IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT PLACE WHEN YOU KNOW THAT
- 00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:49.170
- YOU'VE GOT ANXIETY ALL OVER YOU.
- 00:42:49.190 --> 00:42:52.060
- SO AS I LOOK AT THIS TEXT, AND I SEE ISAAC
- 00:42:52.080 --> 00:42:57.090
- WONDERING IS HE THE SACRIFICE?
- 00:42:57.110 --> 00:43:00.150
- I CAME HERE TO TELL YOU SOME GOOD NEWS.
- 00:43:00.170 --> 00:43:04.220
- IF YOU ARE IN THIS PLACE, AND YOU ARE WONDERING IF
- 00:43:04.240 --> 00:43:06.260
- YOU ARE THE SACRIFICE, I CAME TO TELL YOU THAT YOU
- 00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:09.130
- ARE NOT. YOU ARE NOT THE SACRIFICE.
- 00:43:09.150 --> 00:43:12.180
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:43:12.200 --> 00:43:14.240
- GOD DID NOT BRING YOU THIS FAR TO
- 00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:16.170
- LEAVE YOU. YOU ARE NOT ABOUT TO DIE.
- 00:43:16.190 --> 00:43:18.080
- YOU ARE ABOUT NOT TO LOSE EVERYTHING.
- 00:43:18.100 --> 00:43:20.080
- YOU ARE NOT THE SACRIFICE.
- 00:43:20.100 --> 00:43:22.280
- HOW DO I KNOW THAT?
- 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:24.210
- IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE, ABRAHAM ANSWERS ISAAC.
- 00:43:24.230 --> 00:43:28.100
- HE SAYS, GOD HIMSELF WILL PROVIDE THE SACRIFICE.
- 00:43:28.120 --> 00:43:34.040
- SO HERE IN THIS MOMENT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY
- 00:43:34.060 --> 00:43:36.150
- ARE UNDER THE LAW, SO THEY NEEDED THE BLOOD OF
- 00:43:36.170 --> 00:43:38.260
- A LAMB FOR THE ATONEMENT OF SIN.
- 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:40.270
- US TODAY, WE ARE UNDER GRACE, SO THE BLOOD OF
- 00:43:40.290 --> 00:43:44.040
- JESUS ATONES FOR OUR SINS.
- 00:43:44.060 --> 00:43:46.200
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:43:46.220 --> 00:43:48.160
- SO JESUS WAS ALREADY THE SACRIFICE, SO LET ME
- 00:43:48.180 --> 00:43:50.270
- ASK YOU SOMETHING.
- 00:43:50.290 --> 00:43:52.230
- SINCE GOD HIMSELF PROVIDED THE SACRIFICE
- 00:43:52.250 --> 00:43:55.060
- AND WAS THE SACRIFICE, WHY ARE YOU HAVING SO
- 00:43:55.080 --> 00:43:57.280
- MUCH ANXIETY NAILING YOURSELF TO A CROSS THAT
- 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.080
- JESUS HAS ALREADY RISEN FROM?
- 00:44:00.100 --> 00:44:02.050
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:44:02.070 --> 00:44:07.190
- WHAT DO YOU DO IN THIS MOMENT, THOUGH, NOW THAT
- 00:44:07.210 --> 00:44:09.200
- YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT THE SACRIFICE?
- 00:44:09.220 --> 00:44:11.060
- WHAT DO YOU DO? HOW DO YOU GET PAST IT?
- 00:44:11.080 --> 00:44:13.140
- HOW DO YOU GET PAST THIS ANXIETY?
- 00:44:13.160 --> 00:44:15.070
- HOW DO YOU REST? HOW DO YOU HAVE PEACE?
- 00:44:15.090 --> 00:44:17.070
- HOW DO YOU -- WHAT DO YOU DO?
- 00:44:17.090 --> 00:44:19.150
- AND THAT IS IN THE SCRIPTURE.
- 00:44:19.170 --> 00:44:21.060
- FOR ME AS I WAS READING, THIS IS WHAT MADE ME
- 00:44:21.080 --> 00:44:23.020
- THINK ABOUT IT.
- 00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:25.120
- ABRAHAM TELLS THE SERVANTS, STAY HERE, AND
- 00:44:25.140 --> 00:44:27.160
- ME AND ISAAC ARE GOING TO GO UP AND WORSHIP.
- 00:44:27.180 --> 00:44:31.220
- HE SAW A MOUNTAIN THAT GOD HAD LED HIM TO,
- 00:44:31.240 --> 00:44:33.230
- SO HE WAS GOING TO GO UP AND WORSHIP.
- 00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:36.000
- SO THEY WERE GOING TO CLIMB.
- 00:44:36.020 --> 00:44:38.200
- THEY WERE GOING TO GO UP, AND THEY WERE GOING TO
- 00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:41.290
- CLIMB, AND THEY WERE GOING TO MAINTAIN.
- 00:44:42.010 --> 00:44:44.020
- THEY WERE GOING TO WORSHIP.
- 00:44:44.040 --> 00:44:45.260
- CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.090
- THE CLIMBING IS THE PRAYER, AND THE
- 00:44:48.110 --> 00:44:50.020
- WORSHIP IS MAINTAINING.
- 00:44:50.040 --> 00:44:52.020
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:44:52.040 --> 00:44:55.130
- SO WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ANXIETY?
- 00:44:55.150 --> 00:44:57.120
- YOU CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:44:57.140 --> 00:45:00.150
- IT'S TURBULENT, YOU GO HIGHER.
- 00:45:00.170 --> 00:45:02.150
- YOU CLIMB, YOU PRAY. YOU MAINTAIN. YOU WORSHIP.
- 00:45:02.170 --> 00:45:05.170
- YOU PRAY, AND YOU WORSHIP.
- 00:45:05.190 --> 00:45:07.100
- YOU CLIMB, AND MAINTAIN. YOU PRAY AND WORSHIP.
- 00:45:07.120 --> 00:45:10.070
- YOU CLIMB AND MAINTAIN. YOU PRAY AND WORSHIP. LISTEN TO ME.
- 00:45:10.090 --> 00:45:14.140
- TURN TO SOMEBODY RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM YOU ARE
- 00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:16.270
- NOT THE SACRIFICE.
- 00:45:16.290 --> 00:45:18.190
- [AUDIENCE RESPONDS] I WANT TO TELL YOU SOME,
- 00:45:18.210 --> 00:45:21.050
- GO HOME AND GET YOU SOME REST TONIGHT BECAUSE
- 00:45:21.070 --> 00:45:22.290
- UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU ARE NOT THE SACRIFICE,
- 00:45:23.010 --> 00:45:25.140
- ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CLIMB AND MAINTAIN, ALL
- 00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:27.130
- YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET RID OF THE ANXIETY IS TO PRAY
- 00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:29.200
- AND TO WORSHIP.
- 00:45:29.220 --> 00:45:31.180
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:45:31.200 --> 00:45:33.100
- PRAYER, SIMPLE PRAYER, PRAYER IS TALKING TO GOD,
- 00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:35.010
- JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH HIM.
- 00:45:35.030 --> 00:45:36.130
- GOD, I NEED YOU.
- 00:45:36.150 --> 00:45:38.010
- GOD, I NEED YOU TO BE WITH ME RIGHT NOW.
- 00:45:38.030 --> 00:45:39.180
- GOD, I NEED YOU TO WALK ME THROUGH THIS THING.
- 00:45:39.200 --> 00:45:41.030
- GOD, I NEED YOU TO BE BY MY SIDE.
- 00:45:41.050 --> 00:45:43.020
- PLEASE, FATHER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, STAY WITH ME.
- 00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:44.280
- LET YOUR BLOOD BE WITH ME OH, LAMB OF GOD.
- 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.060
- THANK YOU, RIGHT NOW.
- 00:45:47.080 --> 00:45:49.130
- LORD, INCREASE MY TERRITORY.
- 00:45:49.150 --> 00:45:50.260
- LET YOUR HAND OF FAVOR STAY WITH ME.
- 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:52.190
- KEEP ME FROM EVIL THAT I MAY NOT FAINT.
- 00:45:52.210 --> 00:45:55.010
- YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY, AND THAT IS THE CLIMB, AND
- 00:45:55.030 --> 00:45:57.120
- THEN THE MAINTAIN IS THE WORSHIP.
- 00:45:57.140 --> 00:45:59.160
- GOD, YOU'RE WONDERFUL.
- 00:45:59.180 --> 00:46:01.110
- HOW I LOVE YOUR NAME.
- 00:46:01.130 --> 00:46:03.100
- HOW EXCELLENT ARE YOU, OH, LAMB OF GOD.
- 00:46:03.120 --> 00:46:05.050
- YOU HAVE NO RIVAL. YOU HAVE NO EQUAL.
- 00:46:05.070 --> 00:46:06.230
- YOU ARE THE ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD.
- 00:46:06.250 --> 00:46:08.140
- GOD, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER
- 00:46:08.160 --> 00:46:10.120
- DONE FOR ME. GOD, I WORSHIP YOU. ONLY YOU CAN.
- 00:46:10.140 --> 00:46:13.100
- YOU'VE GOT TO CLIMB AND MAINTAIN, AND YOU'VE GOT
- 00:46:13.120 --> 00:46:15.200
- TO READ THE WORD.
- 00:46:15.220 --> 00:46:17.010
- YOU'VE GOT TO GET INTO SOME OF THOSE PSALMS
- 00:46:17.030 --> 00:46:18.160
- WHERE YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT GOD
- 00:46:18.180 --> 00:46:20.130
- IS ON YOUR SIDE.
- 00:46:20.150 --> 00:46:22.000
- PSALM 19 SAYS, "HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET
- 00:46:22.020 --> 00:46:24.030
- PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH IF SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE
- 00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:25.280
- SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY.
- 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.180
- I WILL SAY OF THE LORD HE IS MY REFUGE, MY
- 00:46:28.200 --> 00:46:30.210
- FORTRESS, MY GOD. IN HIM WILL I TRUST.
- 00:46:30.230 --> 00:46:33.090
- SURELY HE WILL DELIVER ME FROM THE SNARE OF THE
- 00:46:33.110 --> 00:46:35.280
- FOWLER, AND FROM THE NOISE AND THE PESTILENCE.
- 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:37.230
- A THOUSAND SHALL FALL AT MY SIDE AND TEN THOUSAND
- 00:46:37.250 --> 00:46:42.050
- AT MY RIGHT HAND, BUT IT WILL NOT COME NEAR ME."
- 00:46:42.070 --> 00:46:44.070
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:46:44.090 --> 00:46:47.030
- YES!
- 00:46:47.050 --> 00:46:49.070
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:46:49.090 --> 00:46:53.010
- ONLY WITH MINE EYES WILL I BEHOLD AND SEE THE
- 00:46:53.030 --> 00:46:55.050
- REWARD OF THE WICKED BECAUSE I HAVE MADE THE
- 00:46:55.070 --> 00:46:57.060
- LORD, WHICH IS THE MOST HIGH, MY HABITATION.
- 00:46:57.080 --> 00:46:58.200
- THEREFORE, NO EVIL SHALL BEFALL ME.
- 00:46:58.220 --> 00:47:01.020
- NEITHER SHALL ANY PLAGUE COME NEAR MY DWELLING FOR
- 00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:03.170
- HE WILL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER ME TO KEEP ME
- 00:47:03.190 --> 00:47:06.010
- IN ALL OF MY WAYS.
- 00:47:06.030 --> 00:47:08.160
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:47:08.180 --> 00:47:12.090
- THEY WILL BEAR ME UP IN THEIR HOMES LEST I DASH
- 00:47:12.110 --> 00:47:14.190
- MY FOOT AGAINST A STONE.
- 00:47:14.210 --> 00:47:16.080
- I WILL TREAD ON THE LION, THE ATTER, THE YOUNG
- 00:47:16.100 --> 00:47:18.180
- LION, AND THE DRAGON SHALL I TRAMPLE
- 00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:20.060
- UNDER MY FEET.
- 00:47:20.080 --> 00:47:21.170
- YOU'VE GOT TO GET THE WORD INSIDE.
- 00:47:21.190 --> 00:47:23.020
- YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE THAT NO WEAPON FORMED
- 00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:24.140
- AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER.
- 00:47:24.160 --> 00:47:26.000
- YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE IT. YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE IT.
- 00:47:26.020 --> 00:47:28.220
- YOU'VE GOT TO CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:30.260
- YOU'VE GOT TO CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.280
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:35.110
- IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE I SAY
- 00:47:35.130 --> 00:47:37.030
- TODAY, REMEMBER I SAID CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:47:37.050 --> 00:47:40.140
- IF IT'S TURBULENT, AND THERE'S TROUBLE, GO HIGHER.
- 00:47:40.160 --> 00:47:42.170
- DON'T SIT THERE.
- 00:47:42.190 --> 00:47:44.160
- THE DEVIL IS BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK, HE'S
- 00:47:44.180 --> 00:47:46.010
- RIGHT WHERE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BECAUSE THE BIBLE
- 00:47:46.030 --> 00:47:48.220
- SAYS YOU ARE TO SAY GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN.
- 00:47:48.240 --> 00:47:50.190
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:47:50.210 --> 00:47:52.160
- BUT IF YOU WANT HIM TO FLEE, JUST SUBMIT TO GOD
- 00:47:52.180 --> 00:47:54.110
- AND RESIST HIM, AND HE'S GOT TO FLEE.
- 00:47:54.130 --> 00:47:56.130
- I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD
- 00:47:56.150 --> 00:47:58.060
- WORSHIPPING AND PRAISING AND THE DEVIL
- 00:47:58.080 --> 00:47:59.190
- WAS ABLE TO STAY.
- 00:47:59.210 --> 00:48:01.090
- IF YOU WANT HIM TO FLEE, YOU'VE GOT PRAISE AND WORSHIP.
- 00:48:01.110 --> 00:48:03.210
- YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY AND WORSHIP.
- 00:48:03.230 --> 00:48:05.150
- YOU'VE GOT TO CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:48:05.170 --> 00:48:07.090
- YOU'VE GOT TO GET INTO THE WORD OF GOD.
- 00:48:07.110 --> 00:48:12.050
- AND HERE'S HOW I KNOW THAT IT'S GOING
- 00:48:12.070 --> 00:48:13.280
- TO BE ALL RIGHT.
- 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:15.150
- THE FIRST FIVE WORDS OF THIS TEXT SIMPLY SAYS,
- 00:48:15.170 --> 00:48:19.030
- "AND IT CAME TO PASS." WHICH MEANS WHATEVER
- 00:48:19.050 --> 00:48:22.250
- YOU'RE GOING THROUGH DID NOT COME TO STAY.
- 00:48:22.270 --> 00:48:26.000
- YOU'RE GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT.
- 00:48:26.020 --> 00:48:29.230
- ABRAHAM TOLD HIS SERVANTS STAY HERE.
- 00:48:29.250 --> 00:48:32.120
- THIS IS THE THING THAT BLEW MY MIND.
- 00:48:32.140 --> 00:48:34.250
- STAY HERE, AND WE'RE GOING TO GO UP AND WORSHIP.
- 00:48:34.270 --> 00:48:38.210
- BUT THERE'S A LITTLE PART OF THE VERSE WHERE HE
- 00:48:38.230 --> 00:48:40.110
- SAYS, "AND WE WILL RETURN TO YOU." WELL, ABRAHAM,
- 00:48:40.130 --> 00:48:45.010
- IF YOU'RE GOING UP TO SACRIFICE YOUR SON, HOW
- 00:48:45.030 --> 00:48:46.280
- DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE COMING BACK WITH YOUR SON?
- 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.100
- WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF TRUST AND THAT KIND OF
- 00:48:50.120 --> 00:48:52.110
- FAITH IN GOD...
- 00:48:52.130 --> 00:48:54.100
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:48:54.120 --> 00:48:56.200
- I DON'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
- 00:48:56.220 --> 00:48:58.070
- IT'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT.
- 00:48:58.090 --> 00:48:59.180
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:48:59.200 --> 00:49:01.080
- AND ABRAHAM TURNED, AND HE NAMED THE PLACE
- 00:49:01.100 --> 00:49:02.220
- JEHOVAH JIREH, MEANING GOD WILL PROVIDE.
- 00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:04.200
- SO THE VERY THING YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT, DON'T
- 00:49:04.220 --> 00:49:06.140
- WORRY ABOUT IT BECAUSE GOD WILL PROVIDE.
- 00:49:06.160 --> 00:49:08.210
- BUT TYLER, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
- 00:49:08.230 --> 00:49:10.090
- IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT. IT'S BEEN HARD. GOD WILL PROVIDE.
- 00:49:10.110 --> 00:49:12.220
- BUT TYLER, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
- 00:49:12.240 --> 00:49:14.040
- I LOVE MY WIFE, AND MY HUSBAND, THIS HAS BEEN
- 00:49:14.060 --> 00:49:15.210
- REALLY DIFFICULT. BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. GOD WILL PROVIDE.
- 00:49:15.230 --> 00:49:17.060
- JUST CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:49:17.080 --> 00:49:19.070
- JUST PRAY AND WORSHIP. JUST CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:49:19.090 --> 00:49:23.110
- AND IF I COULD LEAVE YOU WITH ANYTHING, I WANT TO
- 00:49:23.130 --> 00:49:24.290
- LEAVE YOU WITH THIS: HEAR ME CLEARLY WHEN I SAY THIS.
- 00:49:25.010 --> 00:49:28.170
- THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO COME INTO YOUR LIFE SOMETIMES
- 00:49:28.190 --> 00:49:31.140
- TO BE THERE FOR A SEASON.
- 00:49:31.160 --> 00:49:33.120
- THEY WEREN'T MEANT TO BE THERE ALWAYS.
- 00:49:33.140 --> 00:49:35.240
- SOMETIMES, WE FIND OURSELVES HOOKED UP
- 00:49:35.260 --> 00:49:37.090
- WITH PEOPLE THAT WE THINK ARE THERE FOR A LIFETIME,
- 00:49:37.110 --> 00:49:39.130
- BUT THEY WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE
- 00:49:39.150 --> 00:49:40.230
- THERE FOR A SEASON.
- 00:49:40.250 --> 00:49:42.070
- THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO COME INTO YOUR LIFE LIKE
- 00:49:42.090 --> 00:49:43.160
- BOOSTERS FOR A ROCKET.
- 00:49:43.180 --> 00:49:44.290
- IF YOU EVER WATCH A ROCKET GO INTO SPACE, THE
- 00:49:45.010 --> 00:49:46.190
- BOOSTERS FALL OFF WHEN IT REACHES A CERTAIN ALTITUDE.
- 00:49:46.210 --> 00:49:48.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:49:48.290 --> 00:49:54.000
- SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THE
- 00:49:54.020 --> 00:49:56.030
- ALTITUDES THAT YOU'RE GOING TO.
- 00:49:56.050 --> 00:49:59.090
- SO DON'T BE AFRAID WHEN THEY FALL OFF. THEY'RE
- 00:49:59.110 --> 00:50:01.100
- NOT BAD PEOPLE.
- 00:50:01.120 --> 00:50:03.080
- THEY JUST COULDN'T GO WHERE YOU'RE GOING.
- 00:50:03.100 --> 00:50:04.210
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:50:04.230 --> 00:50:09.290
- GOD BLESS YOU, LAKEWOOD.
- 00:50:10.010 --> 00:50:12.020
- CLIMB AND MAINTAIN. CLIMB AND MAINTAIN. CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
- 00:50:12.040 --> 00:50:17.100
- THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOD BLESS YOU.
- 00:50:17.120 --> 00:50:18.240
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:50:18.260 --> 00:50:22.020
- - AWESOME. WILL YOU PRAY A PRAYER OF BLESSING AT THE END?
- 00:50:22.040 --> 00:50:23.290
- OKAY, AWESOME.
- 00:50:24.010 --> 00:50:25.180
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:50:25.200 --> 00:50:33.090
- WE LOVE YOU, TYLER.
- 00:50:33.110 --> 00:50:34.250
- HE'S GOING TO COME BACK. BE SEATED TWO SECONDS.
- 00:50:34.270 --> 00:50:38.170
- I ASKED HIM TO PRAY A PRAYER OF BLESSING, BUT
- 00:50:38.190 --> 00:50:39.250
- BE SEATED TWO SECONDS IF YOU'LL STICK WITH ME,
- 00:50:39.270 --> 00:50:41.050
- BUT JUST TWO SECONDS.
- 00:50:41.070 --> 00:50:43.000
- MAYBE YOU CAME TODAY, WITH OUR HEADS BOWED IN
- 00:50:43.020 --> 00:50:45.040
- PRAYER, AND YOU DON'T KNOW THE LORD.
- 00:50:45.060 --> 00:50:47.230
- YOU JUST CAME OUT TO HEAR TYLER.
- 00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:49.080
- A FRIEND INVITED YOU.
- 00:50:49.100 --> 00:50:50.200
- LISTEN, YOU'RE NOT HERE BY ACCIDENT
- 00:50:50.220 --> 00:50:52.060
- GOD KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO BE HERE.
- 00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:54.050
- I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE JESUS
- 00:50:54.070 --> 00:50:56.020
- THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE. IT'S WHERE IT ALL STARTS.
- 00:50:56.040 --> 00:50:58.020
- YOU KNOW, THE SCRIPTURE SAYS WHOEVER CALLS ON THE
- 00:50:58.040 --> 00:51:00.190
- NAME OF THE LORD.
- 00:51:00.210 --> 00:51:02.280
- IT DOESN'T SAY WHOEVER IS PERFECT CAN CALL OR
- 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:05.050
- WHOEVER HASN'T MADE MISTAKES.
- 00:51:05.070 --> 00:51:06.290
- YOU ARE RIGHT IN THE -- GOD HAS YOU IN THE PALM
- 00:51:07.010 --> 00:51:10.110
- OF HIS HAND RIGHT NOW.
- 00:51:10.130 --> 00:51:12.050
- THE FREE GIFT GOD IS SALVATION.
- 00:51:12.070 --> 00:51:14.220
- YOU JUST HAVE TO RECEIVE IT TODAY.
- 00:51:14.240 --> 00:51:16.250
- AND MAYBE YOU'RE NOT AT PEACE WITH THE LORD, OR
- 00:51:16.270 --> 00:51:18.150
- ARE A BELIEVER, BUT YOU'VE KIND OF DRIFTED
- 00:51:18.170 --> 00:51:21.100
- AWAY, AND YOU NEED TO REDEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST.
- 00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:23.180
- WELL, LET ME GIVE YOU THAT OPPORTUNITY TODAY.
- 00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:26.070
- ALL OF YOU WHO ARE LISTENING, IT'S NOT DIFFICULT.
- 00:51:26.090 --> 00:51:28.090
- WILL YOU PRAY THIS PRAYER AFTER ME?
- 00:51:28.110 --> 00:51:30.180
- JUST SAY, LORD JESUS, I REPENT OF MY SINS.
- 00:51:30.200 --> 00:51:35.100
- COME INTO MY HEART.
- 00:51:35.120 --> 00:51:37.230
- I MAKE YOU MY LORD AND SAVIOR. AMEN.
- 00:51:37.250 --> 00:51:41.030
- IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER, MAYBE FOR THE
- 00:51:41.050 --> 00:51:42.240
- FIRST TIME, MAYBE REDEDICATING YOUR LIFE TO
- 00:51:42.260 --> 00:51:44.230
- CHRIST, WHY DON'T YOU COME BACK AND GET PLUGGED
- 00:51:44.250 --> 00:51:46.190
- IF HERE AT LAKEWOOD?
- 00:51:46.210 --> 00:51:48.110
- MAKE A COMMITMENT TO GIVE US THE NEXT YEAR OF YOUR
- 00:51:48.130 --> 00:51:50.110
- LIFE. COME AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN. I'LL MAKE A PROMISE.
- 00:51:50.130 --> 00:51:53.020
- YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME FOR THE BETTER.
- 00:51:53.040 --> 00:51:55.160
- WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR YOU.
- 00:51:55.180 --> 00:51:58.100
- HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE ENJOYED HAVING MR. TYLER
- 00:51:58.120 --> 00:52:00.080
- PERRY WITH US TODAY?
- 00:52:00.100 --> 00:52:02.020
- COME ON, LET'S ALL STAND TOGETHER.
- 00:52:02.040 --> 00:52:03.150
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:52:03.170 --> 00:52:05.230
- I WAS GOING TO ASK TYLER TO PRAY A PRAYER OF
- 00:52:05.250 --> 00:52:07.230
- BLESSING, AND I THINK THERE HE IS RIGHT HERE.
- 00:52:07.250 --> 00:52:09.130
- WELL, TYLER, WE'RE VERY HONORED TO HAVE
- 00:52:09.150 --> 00:52:11.110
- YOU HERE AT LAKEWOOD.
- 00:52:11.130 --> 00:52:12.250
- YOU CAN TELL WE ALL LOVE YOU.
- 00:52:12.270 --> 00:52:14.060
- YOU GOT TO COME BACK SOME TIME.
- 00:52:14.080 --> 00:52:15.130
- DON'T MAKE IT THE LAST TIME.
- 00:52:15.150 --> 00:52:16.250
- - THANK YOU.
- 00:52:16.270 --> 00:52:18.060
- - HEY, AS WE CLOSE IT OUT, TYLER, PRAY OVER THE
- 00:52:18.080 --> 00:52:20.020
- PEOPLE, THEIR DREAMS, THEIR GOALS,
- 00:52:20.040 --> 00:52:21.130
- THE FORGIVENESS, THE BLESSING.
- 00:52:21.150 --> 00:52:22.280
- WOULD YOU PRAY OVER US?
- 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:24.240
- - BOW YOUR HEADS FOR JUST A MOMENT,
- 00:52:24.260 --> 00:52:26.100
- AND I FEEL ANOINTED TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS
- 00:52:26.120 --> 00:52:28.120
- BECAUSE GOD HAS DONE SO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS FOR ME.
- 00:52:28.140 --> 00:52:31.270
- AND I KNOW HE CAN DO IT FOR YOU, TOO.
- 00:52:31.290 --> 00:52:33.290
- SO FATHER, IT IS IN THE NAME OF JESUS THAT WE
- 00:52:34.010 --> 00:52:35.170
- COME BEFORE YOU.
- 00:52:35.190 --> 00:52:37.240
- GOD, THESE ARE YOUR PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO
- 00:52:37.260 --> 00:52:39.290
- YOU, GOD, CRYING TO YOU, BELIEVING IN YOU.
- 00:52:40.010 --> 00:52:43.000
- I PRAY RIGHT NOW THAT EVERY DREAM HERE THAT HAS
- 00:52:43.020 --> 00:52:45.240
- FALLEN BY THE WAY SIDE, GOD, THAT SOMEONE WOULD
- 00:52:45.260 --> 00:52:47.260
- GO BACK AND DUST IT OFF AND PICK IT UP AND DREAM AGAIN.
- 00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:50.090
- I PRAY RIGHT NOW, GOD, THAT YOU WOULD BLESS
- 00:52:50.110 --> 00:52:52.280
- EVERY HOUSEHOLD, BLESS OVER LOVED ONE, BLESS
- 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.020
- EVERY FAMILY MEMBER IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
- 00:52:55.040 --> 00:52:56.240
- GOD, WHATEVER THE DEVIL TRIES, WE BIND IT AND
- 00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:59.030
- REBUKE IT RIGHT NOW BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.
- 00:52:59.050 --> 00:53:01.170
- GOD, WE COME STANDING KNOWING THAT YOU WILL
- 00:53:01.190 --> 00:53:03.280
- DELIVER, THAT YOU ARE THE AWESOME TRUE AND LIVING GOD.
- 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:05.280
- YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN WORK IT OUT FOR US.
- 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.140
- GOD, WE COME LOOKING TO YOU FOR ALL THINGS.
- 00:53:08.160 --> 00:53:10.100
- WE THANK YOU FOR THIS MOMENT.
- 00:53:10.120 --> 00:53:12.060
- WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY, AND WE THANK YOU FOR
- 00:53:12.080 --> 00:53:13.270
- A WORD THAT I HOPE WILL BE LIFE TO US, GOD.
- 00:53:13.290 --> 00:53:15.260
- LET IT BE SEEDS THAT GROW INTO WONDERFUL THINGS AND
- 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:18.020
- FRUIT THAT SHOWS UP IN OUR LIVES IN JESUS' NAME.
- 00:53:18.040 --> 00:53:21.010
- WE PRAY AND WE THANK YOU, GOD.
- 00:53:21.030 --> 00:53:23.180
- AMEN FOR EVERYTHING, GOD. AMEN, AMEN.
- 00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:25.260
- - COME ON, TELL TYLER ONE MORE TIME HOW
- 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:27.250
- MUCH WE LOVE HIM.
- 00:53:27.270 --> 00:53:29.160
- [AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- 00:53:29.180 --> 00:53:31.250
- GOD BLESS YOU!
- 00:53:31.270 --> 00:53:33.200
- [MUSIC]
- 00:53:33.220 --> 00:53:41.280
- I WAS BURIED BENEATH MY SHAME...
- 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:49.240
- WHO CAN CARRY THAT KIND OF PAIN...
- 00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:57.290
- IT WAS MY TOMB...
- 00:53:58.010 --> 00:54:02.030
- UNTIL I MET YOU...
- 00:54:02.050 --> 00:54:04.290
- HEY...
- 00:54:05.010 --> 00:54:07.160
- AND I WAS BREATHING THE NIGHT OF LIFE...
- 00:54:07.180 --> 00:54:15.060
- ALL MY FAILURES I TRIED TO HIDE...
- 00:54:15.080 --> 00:54:23.180
- IT WAS MY TOMB...
- 00:54:23.200 --> 00:54:27.270
- UNTIL I MET YOU...
- 00:54:27.290 --> 00:54:32.170
- YOU CALLED MY NAME AS I RAN OUT OF THAT GRAVE...
- 00:54:32.190 --> 00:54:40.250
- OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO YOUR GLORIOUS DAY...
- 00:54:40.270 --> 00:54:49.060
- YOU CALLED MY NAME, AND I RAN OUT OF THAT GRAVE...
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- OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO YOUR GLORIOUS DAY...
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- [MUSIC]
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- NOW YOUR MERCY HAS SAVED MY SOUL...
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- NOW YOUR FREEDOM IS ALL THAT I KNOW...
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- WE SAY THE OLD MADE NEW...
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- JESUS WHEN I MET YOU...
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- YOU CALLED MY NAME, AND I RAN OUT OF THAT GRAVE...
- 00:55:36.090 --> 00:55:44.270
- OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO YOUR GLORIOUS DAY...
- 00:55:44.290 --> 00:55:53.140
- YOU CALLED MY NAME, AND I RAN OUT OF THAT GRAVE...
- 00:55:53.160 --> 00:56:02.000
- OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO YOUR GLORIOUS DAY...
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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