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Praise | Tyler Perry | 9/14/18

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Joel Osteen

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
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WEEKS OFF TO GO DO THIS PLAY.
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HE'S LIKE MAN, YOU JUST BEEN WORKING HERE TWO WEEKS.
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HOW DO YOU THINK YOU CAN GET TWO WEEKS OFF?
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[LAUGHTER ] AND I'D GO BACK TO MY DESK AND SIT
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AND PRAY AND SAY OKAY, GOD.
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I KNOW I JUST GOT THIS JOB.
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I KNOW I JUST DID THE PLAY.
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IT DIDN'T WORK.
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I GOT ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY HERE.
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IF THIS IS YOU TELLING ME, MAKE IT PLAIN.
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WHAT SHOULD I DO, AND I HEAR THIS VOICE SAY QUIT.
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NOW, I'M NOT TELLING YOU TO GO QUIT YOUR JOB.
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I'M TELLING YOU MY STORY.
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QUIT YOUR JOB, SEND ME YOUR BILLS, SAY YOU TOLD
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ME TO QUIT.
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NO. NO.
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THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M SAYING.
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SO THERE I WAS STEPPING OUT ON FAITH, LEAVING A
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JOB THAT I KNEW THIS MONEY WAS GOING TO COME
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IN FROM WEEK TO WEEK TO GO OUT AND DO THIS PLAY
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BECAUSE I HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD.
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SO I REMEMBER EVERY TIME I'D GO OUT TO DO THIS
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SHOW, IT WOULDN'T WORK.
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IT WASN'T SUCCESSFUL.
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AND I'M LIKE GOD, I KNOW YOU TOLD ME TO DO THIS.
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AND WHEN I'D PRAY, I'D HEAR NOTHING.
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THAT SAME VOICE THAT SAID QUIT, I HEARD NOTHING
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WHICH WAS A VERY DIFFICULT TIME FOR ME.
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VERY DIFFICULT.
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AND I REMEMBER THE TIME YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
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WAS IN SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA.
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I HAD GOTTEN ANOTHER JOB.
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MAN, I HAD ABOUT 20 JOBS THROUGH THIS TIME.
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I'D GOT ANOTHER JOB, ASKED THE BOSS, HE SAID
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NO, I HEARD THE VOICE QUIT.
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I GO OUT AND DO THIS SHOW, AND I'M DRIVING
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THERE AND THERE'S A HURRICANE HEADED
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TOWARD SPARTANBURG.
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HURRICANE.
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I'M LIKE GOD, I KNOW YOU CONTROL THE WIND AND THE --
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[LAUGHTER ] WIND AND THE WAVES BUT YOU TOLD ME
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TO QUIT AND NOW NOBODY'S GOING TO SHOW UP.
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SO I LOST EVERYTHING, HOMELESS, SLEEPING IN MY
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CAR, FOLLOWING GOD.
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WHEN YOU FOLLOW GOD, SOMETIMES THINGS GET TOUGH.
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THEY GET TIGHT.
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[APPLAUSE]
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BUT IF YOU KEEP PUSHING JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
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WHEN YOU THINK IT'S THE DARKEST, SOMETHING
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MIRACULOUS WILL HAPPEN THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
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SOMETHING WILL OPEN UP THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.
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[APPLAUSE]
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SO IT WAS 199 8 AND I GOT THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO
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THIS SHOW AGAIN, AND IT WAS AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES.
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AND I WAS LIKE I DON'T KNOW.
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I'M DONE.
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I'M GOING TO DO LIKE MY MOTHER SAID, MY MOTHER
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WHO LOVED ME DEARLY, LOVED ME DEARLY.
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WE WERE DOING A PLAY AT THE SPARTANBURG TRIP, AND
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I COULDN'T AFFORD TO PAY THE CREDIT CARD BECAUSE
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THEY'D RENTED A VAN FOR US, AND THAT BILL WAS 300
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DOLLARS AND 300 DOLLARS TO MY MOTHER WAS LIKE
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30 MILLION.
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LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, MY MOTHER
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LOVED ME TO DEATH, SWEET WONDERFUL WOMAN, BUT SHE
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WOULD CUT YOU OUT AND BEAT YOU UP AND THEN PRAY
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FOR YOU AS SHE WAS TAKING YOU TO THE HOSPITAL.
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THAT'S THE KIND OF PERSON SHE WAS.
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[LAUGHTER]
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SO WE'RE SITTING IN THE HOUSE, AND SHE WAS
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SAYING, LISTEN, I'M TIRED OF THIS.
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I'M TIRED OF YOU DOING THESE PLAYS.
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JUST STOP.
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STOP IT.
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I'M TIERED OF YOU CRYING ABOUT IT.
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AND THE WOMAN LOVED ME, LOVED ME LOVED ME MORE
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THAN ANYTHING.
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SHE SAID YOU KNOW WHAT?
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JUST GIVE IT UP.
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JUST GO GET YOU A JOB WORKING AT THE
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PHONE COMPANY.
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YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT WITH THESE PLAYS.
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JUST GO GET A JOB AT THE PHONE COMPANY.
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I WAS SITTING THERE IN TEARS WHEN SHE WAS SAYING
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IT TO ME.
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SHE TURNED AROUND AND SHE SAW ME BECAUSE I WAS
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SITTING BEHIND HER ON THE SOFA.
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AND THE BLOOD DRAINED FROM HER FACE, AND SHE
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SAID BABY, I'M SO SORRY.
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I'M SO SORRY.
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I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS WAS FOR YOU.
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BUT WHAT I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT I
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DON'T CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE LOVE YOU AND
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ENCOURAGE YOU ARE THE ONES THAT TRY TO TEAR YOU
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DOWN OR DESTROY YOU, WHEN GOD HAS A DREAM FOR YOU,
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IT IS YOUR DREAM.
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[APPLAUSE]
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YOUR DREAM.
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YOUR DREAM.
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AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU WHO WILL THINK
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THEY'RE SAYING THE RIGHT THINGS TO YOU TO TRY TO
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PROTECT YOU OR PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN IN YOUR
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LIVES AND WATCHED YOU GROW UP AND THEY DON'T
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KNOW WHAT GOD HAS PUT DOWN INSIDE OF YOU
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BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY'RE SO FAMILIAR WITH
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YOU, BUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT WHEN
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GOD HAS SOMETHING FOR YOU, YOU HAVE TO GO FOR
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IT FULLY, FULLY.
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SO THAT'S WHAT I DID.
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I DID THE SHOW.
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I GET THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE SHOW IN 1998.
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IT'S AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES.
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AND I WALK IN AND I'M MAD, AND I'M ANGRY
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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.
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GOD WOULD TELL ME TO QUIT.
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THEN HE'D GET ME OUT THERE AND LEAVE ME.
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YOU'D LEAD ME OUT THERE BY MYSELF.
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GOD, WHERE ARE YOU?
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YOU WOULDN'T EVEN TALK TO ME DURING
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THESE DARK TIMES.
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SO I WAS MAD.
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I WAS DONE.
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I HAD WENT TO GET MY APPLICATION AT SOUTH
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CENTRAL BELL LIKE MY MOTHER SAID AND GO TO
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WORK AT THE PHONE COMPANY.
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I WANTED SOME BENEFITS TO GET MY TEETH FIXED.
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[LAUGHTER]
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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
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AND THERE'S ALL THIS THEY CALL IT FOLK ART ALL OVER
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THE WALLS.
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I'M FROM NEW ORLEANS.
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I SAID THAT'S VOODOO, AND I'M NOT PERFORMING HERE.
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GET IT OFF THE WALLS.
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[LAUGHTER]
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SO THEY TOLD ME THE NEXT DAY HOUSE OF BLUES WAS
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PULLING OUT, SO HOUSE OF BLUES WAS GONE.
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SO THE NAME OF THE PLACE WOULD RETURN TO ITS
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ORIGINAL NAME.
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IT WAS A CHURCH.
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IT WAS CALLED THE TABERNACLE.
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SO I WAS ABOUT TO PERFORM IN A PLACE CALLED
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THE TABERNACLE.
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I GO AND I DO THE SHOW, AND I'M COMPLAINING
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ALL THE WAY.
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I'M THERE PUTTING ON MY MAKE UP AND GETTING READY
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TO PLAY OLD MAN JOE AND I'VE GOT AN ATTITUDE.
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I'M JUST MAD.
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I'M UPSET.
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I'M LIKE I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS, AND I HEAR THAT
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VOICE, THE ONE THAT TOLD ME TO QUIT SAY SHUT UP.
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[LAUGHTER]
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LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING WHEN GOD TELLS YOU TO
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SHUT UP YOU SIT AROUND AND YOU SAY, WHAT HAPPENED?
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AND HE SAID GET UP AND LOOK OUT THE WINDOW.
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I GOT UP AND I LOOKED OUT OF THIS LITTLE DUSTY
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WINDOW, AND THERE WAS A LINE AROUND THE CORNER
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TRYING TO GET IN THE BUILDING.
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AND [APPLAUSE ] THE PLACE SOLD OUT OVER AND
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OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
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AND I SAID GOD, WHERE WERE YOU IN ALL THOSE TIMES?
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HE SAID I WAS PROVING YOU TO SEE THAT YOU WOULD
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HONOR THIS, THAT YOU WOULD DO THE RIGHT
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THING WITH IT.
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SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE NOT HEARING FROM GOD, GOD IS
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TRYING TO SEE WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IN THE
00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.110
SITUATION THAT YOU'RE IN.
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[APPLAUSE]
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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
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WAY INTO EVERY SHOW WE'VE DONE.
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IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLE.
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IT'S MIRACULOUS.
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IT'S BEEN NOTHING BUT GOD, AND I'M GRATEFUL
00:16:22.110 --> 00:16:23.200
FOR IT.
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- THAT'S SO AWESOME.
00:16:25.030 --> 00:16:26.090
[APPLAUSE]
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TYLER, ANOTHER IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY.
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JUMP BACK THERE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE YOUR FATHER
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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FORGIVE YOU.
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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
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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]
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- WOW.
00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:36.200
POWERFUL.
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- YEAH.
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- 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.
00:18:43.290 --> 00:18:45.170
- FORT MCPHERSON.
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- YEAH.
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TELL US ABOUT THAT.
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AND I LOVE ABOUT THE ENTRIES, ABOUT WHAT YOU
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DID THERE.
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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
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SHOOT SOME OF THE BIGGEST SHOWS THAT WE SEE ON
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TELEVISION TODAY.
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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.
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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.
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[APPLAUSE]
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- YEAH.
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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]
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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.
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IT'S SO FUNNY.
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THEY'RE SITTING AROUND GOING, THERE'S SOMETHING
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VERY DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS PLACE.
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IT'S -THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY COOL.
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DON'T YOU THINK?
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I SAY, YEAH. YEAH.
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COME STAND RIGHT HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT AND TELL ME
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HOW COOL IT IS.
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[LAUGHTER]
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TELL ME TYLER ABOUT THE OLD BUILDINGS THERE AND
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THE OLD LETTER YOU FOUND.
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- LET ME TELL YOU HOW WONDERFUL THIS COUNTRY IS.
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I DON'T CARE WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY, THIS
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IS A WONDERFUL COUNTRY.
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[APPLAUSE]
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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.
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[APPLAUSE]
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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
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AFTER THE ABOLISH.
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OF SLAVERY THAT WAS ONCE A CONFEDERATE ARMY BASE
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THAT I NOW OWN.
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I MEAN, THE MIRACLE IN THAT ALONE, THE MIRACLE
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IN THAT ALONE.
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SOME OF THESE HOUSES WERE BUILT IN THE 1800'S, AND
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STAYED THERE.
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COLIN POWELL STAYED THERE, AND WE WERE DOING
00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:50.290
SOME CLEAN UP ON ONE OF THEM.
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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
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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
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THAT HAD BEEN THEREFORE MANY MANY YEARS, AND
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SOMETHING FELL OUT.
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IT WAS A LETTER.
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THEY BROUGHT THE LETTER TO ME, AND I STARTED
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READING IT.
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WHEN I READ IT, I GOT TEARS IN MY EYES BECAUSE
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WHAT I REALIZED IS THAT THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN
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TO ME, BUT THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN OCTOBER 29, 1969
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BY A 13 YEAR OLD BOY IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
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HE GOES ONTO TELL ALL THESE STORIES IN THE
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LETTER AND HE'S WRITING ABOUT WHERE HE'S COME
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FROM, THE COUNTRY IS AT WAR, NIXON IS
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THE PRESIDENT.
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AND HE'S SAYING ALL THIS STUFF, BUT THERE'S ONE
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LINE THAT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION.
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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.
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SO HE WROTE THE LETTER OCTOBER 29, 1969.
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WELL, I WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 14, 1969.
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SO I HAD ONLY BEEN ON THE PLANET SIX WEEKS.
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I'M THERE IN MY MOTHER'S ARMS IN NEW ORLEANS, AND
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THERE'S A LITTLE 13 YEAR OLD BOY AT FORT MCPHERSON
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ARMY BASE IN ATLANTA WRITING A LETTER TO THE
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FUTURE THAT I WOULD FIND 48 YEARS LATER.
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[APPLAUSE]
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AND I REALIZE I AM THE FUTURE THAT HE WAS
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WRITING TO, AND IT CAME AT A TIME WHEN I WAS
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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
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EVEN BEFORE I GOT TO THE PLANET.
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[APPLAUSE]
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IT WAS SO POWERFUL.
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SO POWERFUL.
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SO WONDERFUL.
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AND I JUST FELT SO BLESSED AND SO FORTUNATE.
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I STILL HAVE THE LETTER AND I HAVE IT FRAMED AND
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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.
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EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT.
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GOD'S GOT IT.
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- THAT'S SO GOOD.
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TYLER, SOMEBODY ASKED YOU ABOUT ALL YOUR FAILURES.
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EXPLAIN THAT.
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- YEAH.
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THIS SHOCKED A FEW PEOPLE.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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.
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- I LOVE IT.
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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.
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WHERE DID MEDEA COME FROM?
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- OH, LORD.
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[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
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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...
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[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
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[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
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THE SAME POWER...
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THE SAME POWER THAT CRUSHED THE ENEMY...
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THE SAME POWER...
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THE SAME POWER LIVES IN ME...
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THE SAME POWER...
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THE SAME POWER THAT CRUSHED THE ENEMY...
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THE SAME POWER...
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THE SAME POWER LIVES IN ME...
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THE SAME POWER...
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THE SAME POWER THAT CRUSHED THE ENEMY...
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THE SAME POWER...
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THE SAME POWER LIVES IN ME...
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RISEN...
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[APPLAUSE]
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- I AM GRATEFUL TO BE HERE, AND THANK YOU FOR
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THAT MOMENT, PASTOR JOEL.
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I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE IT, THANK YOU.
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[APPLAUSE]
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THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION TO BE HERE.
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IT'S REALLY, REALLY POWERFUL TO STAND HERE IN
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FRONT OF SO MANY PEOPLE.
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LAKEWOOD, YOU HAVE BEEN REALLY KIND TO
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ME ALL WEEKEND.
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I AM GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
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PASTOR JOEL AND PASTOR VICTORIA, THANK YOU FOR
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ALLOWING ME TO COME INTO YOUR SPACE BECAUSE WHEN
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INVITE SOMEBODY TO COME AND SPEAK TO YOUR
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FOLKS, YOU GOT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE ABOUT AND
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WHAT'S GOING ON.
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SO I'M GRATEFUL THAT YOU'VE GIVEN
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ME THIS OPPORTUNITY.
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[APPLAUSE]
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WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MADEA EARLIER, AND A LOT OF
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PEOPLE KNOW ME AS MADEA, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING
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THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT I WANT TO
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SHARE WITH YOU.
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ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS ABOUT 17 OR 18
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YEARS OLD, I WENT TO SEMINARY SCHOOL.
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I WAS A MINISTER IN MY CHURCH.
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I WOULD PRAY, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE, AND I
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GOT UP TO DO MY FIRST SERMON.
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DIDN'T GO OVER SO WELL.
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[LAUGHTER]
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I GOT UP THERE, AND THOUGHT I WAS PREACHING.
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THE PASTOR COMES BEHIND ME AND SAYS, WELL, IF GOD
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CALLED YOU, HE WOULD QUALIFY YOU AND I DON'T
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THINK HE QUALIFIED YOU.
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[LAUGHTER]
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SO I WAS VERY, VERY HAPPY.
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I WENT HOME AND PRAYED AND SAID, GOD,
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WHAT IS GOING ON?
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AND HE SAID, WELL, THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU'RE
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GOING TO MINISTER.
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YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
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YOU WON'T BE IN THE PULPIT.
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I SAID, WELL, THANK GOD.
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[LAUGHTER]
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BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE LIKE
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PASTOR JOEL, IF YOU STEP ON HIS FOOT, HE'S GONNA
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PRAY FOR YOU.
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YOU STEP ON MINE, I'M GOING TO PUNCH YOU.
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[LAUGHTER]
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YOU MESS AROUND AND HIT THIS BUNION, YOU'RE
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REALLY GOING TO BE IN TROUBLE.
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[LAUGHTER]
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BUT I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE TUB OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT
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I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO.
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GOD AND I, WHEN I PRAYED, GOD SHOWED ME MY MINISTRY
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WOULD COME THROUGH MOVIES AND TELEVISION.
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AND LISTEN, JUST BECAUSE I'M A CHRISTIAN WHO MAKES
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MOVIES, DON'T THINK THAT ALL OF MY MOVIES ARE
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GOING TO BE CHRISTIAN.
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SOMETIMES, THEY'LL BE SCI-FI.
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SOMETIMES, THEY'LL BE RATED 'R'.
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THEY'LL BE ALL OVER THE PLACE BECAUSE I'M AN ARTIST.
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I WANT TO TELL ALL KINDS OF STORIES.
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BUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME IS THAT, AS I'M
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TELLING STORIES, THAT THERE IS A MESSAGE OF
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HOPE THAT PEOPLE TAKE WITH THEM.
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SO YOU GUYS CAN UNDERSTAND THAT AND
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APPRECIATE THAT WITH ME, I'M GRATEFUL FOR IT.
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[APPLAUSE]
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WE TALK ABOUT THIS MOMENT WHERE I WAS TRYING TO GET
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THE CAREER OFF THE GROUND, THEN ALL OF THE
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SUDDEN, IT STARTED TAKING OFF.
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AND I WAS IN DEMAND EVERYWHERE.
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WE WERE SELLING OUT.
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WE COULDN'T ADD ANYMORE SEATS TO THE THEATER.
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I WAS DOING 350, 360, 370SHOWS A YEAR, JUST
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WOULDN'T STOP.
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JUST PERFORMANCE AFTER PERFORMANCE, AFTER
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PERFORMANCE.
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AND SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING.
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YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF IN A MOMENT WHERE EVERYTHING
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IS GOING GREAT, AND THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN,
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YOU GET ANXIETY ABOUT SOMETHING?
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- CONGREGATION: YES.
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- I FOUND MYSELF HAVING GREAT ANXIETY ABOUT
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BEING ABLE TO FLY.
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I WAS A VERY, VERY NERVOUS FLYER.
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COMING FROM A KID WHO HAD NOTHING, WHO HAD NEVER
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BEEN ON A PLANE TO 20 SOMETHING YEARS OLD
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PUTTING ME ON MY FIRST PLANE, AND I DIDN'T
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UNDERSTAND IT.
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I WAS SCARED TO DEATH.
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I GET ON THE PLANE WITH MY OIL...
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[LAUGHTER]
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I HAD A FRIEND NAMED ANITA.
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SHE GAVE ME, JUST OIL.
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SHE WOULD JUST PRAY OVER IT.
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I HAD OLIVE OIL ALL OVER MYSELF JUST...
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[LAUGHTER]
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ANOINTING THE DOOR AS I'M GOING IN.
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ANOINTING EVERY SEAT.
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PEOPLE COMING BEHIND ME GOING WHAT IS THIS ALL
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OVER THE PLACE?
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[LAUGHTER]
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GET TO MY SEAT.
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WE TAKE OFF.
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FLIGHT ATTENDANT COMES ON AND SAY THE STUFF THEY SAY.
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I DIDN'T HEAR NONE OF IT.
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I WAS JUST HOLDING ON, HOLDING ON, HOLDING ON.
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WE TAKE OFF, I'M WHITE KNUCKLED.
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YOU HAVE NOT SEEN WHITE KNUCKLES UNTIL YOU SEE A
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BLACK MAN WITH WHITE KNUCKLES HOLDING ONTO SOMETHING.
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[LAUGHTER]
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SO THERE I WAS IN DEMAND BUT AFRAID TO FLY.
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THEN THE HORROR OF 9/11 HAPPENED, AND I STOPPED
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FLYING ALL TOGETHER.
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I SAID I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE.
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I STARTED TAKING MY BUS EVERYWHERE.
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SO I WAS ON THE BUS, AND MY PROMOTERS AND PEOPLE
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IN MY BUSINESS FOLK WERE LIKE, TYLER, MY AGENT WAS
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LIKE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
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YOU'RE COMING TO CALIFORNIA ON A BUS? YEAH.
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HOW LONG DOES THAT TAKE? I DON'T KNOW, FOUR DAYS.
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[LAUGHTER]
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YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME YOU'RE WASTING?
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YOU DON'T WANT TO GET ON A PLANE AND JUST COME?
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NO, NO, NO, I CAN'T DO IT. I CAN'T DO IT.
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SO FINALLY, ONE DAY I WAS RUNNING IN THE PARK AND I
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SAID, GOD, I GOTTA DO SOMETHING.
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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.
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IT'S HINDERING ME BECAUSE I'M AFRAID TO FLY.
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SO WHAT I DID WAS I'M RUNNING IN THE PARK ONE
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DAY, AND I'M EXERCISING, AND I SEE THIS LITTLE
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PLANE IN THE AIR, AND IT'S BEING TOSSED AROUND,
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AND I IMMEDIATELY START PRAYING FOR THE PEOPLE
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ON THE PLANE. I SAID, LORD, HAVE MERCY.
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HELP THEM, LORD, ALL OF THAT TURBULENCE. HELP THEM.
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JESUS [SPEAKING IN TONGUES]
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YOU KNOW IT'S BAD WHEN YOU CALL JESUS THE SHABBA
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AT THE SAME TIME.
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[LAUGHTER]
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AND THEN THE PLANE GETS LOWER AND LOWER, AND THEN
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ALL OF THE SUDDEN IT COMES DOWN AND LANDS.
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I REALIZED IT'S A TOY.
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[LAUGHTER]
00:34:35.060 --> 00:34:39.120
THERE'S A MAN FLYING A REMOTE CONTROLLED
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AIRPLANE IN THE PARK.
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[LAUGHTER]
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I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT?
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I'M GOING TO GO BUY ONE OF THOSE.
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MAYBE THAT'S WHAT I NEED TO BE ALL RIGHT.
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SO I GO, AND I GO TO THE HOBBY STORE, AND I SAID,
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OKAY, LET ME HAVE ONE OF THESE.
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I DON'T READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
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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
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OFF [PLANE SOUNDS]
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BOOM, CRASH, TWO SECONDS.
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DID NOTHING TO HELP ME.
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WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY, BOUGHT ANOTHER ONE.
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[PLANE SOUNDS]
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BOOM, SAME THING.
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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.
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[LAUGHTER]
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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.
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THEN THERE'S YAWING AND ALL OF THIS STUFF, AND AS
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I WAS LEARNING, I GOT FASCINATED.
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SO I BOUGHT AND STARTED FLYING, AND I WAS GOING
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YEAH, I GOT IT NOW. I GOT IT.
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I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO FLY.
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SO I STARTED FLYING AGAIN, AND THEN I SAID,
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YOU KNOW WHAT?
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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.
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LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE VOLKSWAGEN WITH WINGS.
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[LAUGHTER]
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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.
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[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.
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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
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CLIMB AND MAINTAIN. CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
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[APPLAUSE]
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CLIMB AND MAINTAIN.
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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
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SAYS YOU ARE TO SAY GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN.
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[APPLAUSE]
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BUT IF YOU WANT HIM TO FLEE, JUST SUBMIT TO GOD
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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
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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.
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YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY AND WORSHIP.
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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.
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AND HERE'S HOW I KNOW THAT IT'S GOING
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TO BE ALL RIGHT.
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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
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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?
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WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF TRUST AND THAT KIND OF
00:48:50.120 --> 00:48:52.110
FAITH IN GOD...
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[APPLAUSE]
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I DON'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
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IT'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT.
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[APPLAUSE]
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AND ABRAHAM TURNED, AND HE NAMED THE PLACE
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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...
00:54:49.080 --> 00:54:57.240
OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO YOUR GLORIOUS DAY...
00:54:57.260 --> 00:55:04.130
[MUSIC]
00:55:04.150 --> 00:55:11.180
NOW YOUR MERCY HAS SAVED MY SOUL...
00:55:11.200 --> 00:55:19.240
NOW YOUR FREEDOM IS ALL THAT I KNOW...
00:55:19.260 --> 00:55:26.240
WE SAY THE OLD MADE NEW...
00:55:26.260 --> 00:55:31.080
JESUS WHEN I MET YOU...
00:55:31.100 --> 00:55:36.070
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...
00:56:02.020 --> 00:56:10.010
[MUSIC]
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[MUSIC]
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