“REMOVING THE MASK” ON CHALLENGED TO CHANGE with PASTOR PAUL MORGAN

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That is where real transformation begins and ends.
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Go right to it. Can y'all read that aloud for me?
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So?
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What's going on with that picture? We got a conversation
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to church, So if you want to say something, you
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raise your hand in somebody, make sure you get the mic.
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So what's going on with that picture? Which one is
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really her? The one with the big smile or the
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one with the intensity? Are you intense? Hello? Are you intense?
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Does your neighbor know you intense? Huh? What are you saying?
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Not all the time? What about this ade? I see
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people hitting on each other, already hitting on each other.
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But the man symbolize representation of things we use, we
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use to hide so nobody will know how we really feel.
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I'm hearing a deep breath of on this side. Who's
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that breathing deep hhmm, who are okay? Okay, okay? She
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could she could? They allow us to project the image
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of the world feeling safer and more acceptable. How important
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is it to be accepted by the world? Oh, y'all
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gonna be spiritual? Yah? Yeah, y'all honest on this side?
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How important is it they'll be accepted by the world,
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so that we would even wear a mask? I mean,
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y'all heard of Judas? What? What?
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What?
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What? What kind of mass that Judas have?
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Huh?
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He had self give it a mic right here? What what? What?
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What do he do with his masses? Jesus was playing
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both sides. Okay, ain't work way, So he.
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He connected with people who wanted Jesus killed, but he
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also was insider as a disciples.
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Dan you doing a lot? So do y'all think that
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Jesus knew that he was wearing a mask? Do God
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know we wearing a mass? You said, oh we are? Okay,
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reasons we wear a mass? So I'm gonna go over these.
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I'm gonna be a little quick with this reason. We
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were in a mass fear of rejection. Who were afraid of?
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Who were afraid of? Somebody gonna reject us because what
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happened is others know who we really are. What would
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it be like the fear of rejection says I might
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not be accepted, but I got the degree. Well what
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else we think? We as long as we got this
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and then everybody gonna accept it? What else? Is it? Money? Okay? Okay?
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What else? Stability? Okay? What else? Living in a certain neighborhood? Okay?
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Who dress?
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Size?
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Okay? All right? Appreciate your honesty? What's another reason desire
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for acceptance? I want everybody to love me. I want
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everybody to like me. But what if they just don't
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like you? What if? What is it about us? And
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some people they just won't like you? But of all
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the friends you got, you come after this person. You
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gotta try to wine and dine and be lying on anybody, huh.
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Because we want to be approved, we want to be accepted.
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We always go after what we don't can't have. Oh,
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you got twelve people who love you, who've been there
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for you, who fought for you, who gave you money,
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who supported you. But no, I want to go after
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the one person, say one one person that didn't do
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any thing right towards me. But but I'm telling you shame.
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That's another reason we were mass shame. Shame, so so
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right right this down in your middle. So shame says
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I am the mistake, where the real definition about it
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should be I made a mistake. See, shame likes to
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harp on the mistakes you made. So another reason pain.
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You know some people thinking it this morning, right, don't
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don't turn to your neighbor. Don't turn to your nigh
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and say, is that you I know some of y'all
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I know on this side. They definitely one I already said.
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But but I'm gonna talk to y'all for a little while.
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There's another thing about why we were mass. It's weakness. Guys.
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You can't be strong at everything because Jesus came to
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give us stress. But we don't want people to know
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that we got emotions, especially me, and they lie on you. Man,
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y'all don't have to stay in there that you want you.
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Men don't want you to know how they feel. Why
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is that, man, Give them a mic? Give them a mic? No, no, no,
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no mics for that. Okay, I got a mic over here.
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What is it about that we don't want to show
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certain emotions?
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So I know men think that their emotions can be
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used against them. Sometimes they have been. So sometimes a
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man will reveal their emotions and the person that they're
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talking to didn't like that. Okay, so it makes them
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not want to do it again.
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Okay, that man who grew happening. Come on, man, he
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there the emotions might be used against us. Let's see
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what else happened. So let's look at this verse right here,
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because he's saying this is a decision. Jesus is saying,
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this is a decision that we can make to put
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off stuff that we don't like. Worrying and guys, So
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we just went together in Ephesians chapter four, verse twenty
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two through twenty three, and to amplify it, says, y'all
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right that regarding your previous way of life, you put
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off your old self, completely discard your formal nature, which
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is being corrupted through deceitful desires. Okay, y y'all, let's
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talk about that for a few minutes. What's going on
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right here. That's a decision that we get to make.
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It's whether we want to put off our old self.
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Is do we want to do that? I got it
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might come in your way completely discard your formal nature.
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Yes, sir, just what you said completely means all the way,
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all the way. I think that's pretty important because it's
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not sometimes, it's not frequently, it's not seldomly, it's completely,
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which means one hundred percent or more.
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Okay, just giving it away. Let's keep going and be
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continually renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a
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fresh and untaunted mental and spiritual attitude, and be continually
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renewed in the spirit of your mind. So it's not
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a one time deal. It's not just a one time deal.
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It's a continuation. And as soon as we see it
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once we get used to putting it off, then when
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it comes up, we need to make a decision soon
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instead of later. How long will we wait before we say, okay, father,
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this is the area I need help with. I need
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to have my mind renewed in this area. Will we
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because it's putting off this thing? Man? It is so
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I got a question for you. You know, I mind my
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business for about ten minutes. Of course, I see your
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smirk on your face, But who are you really? I
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can wait, I got it might come in your way.
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Who are you really?
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To some they might see the exterior of me and
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think that I'm not sensitive. But I'm very sensitive and like, really, Corey,
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like I'll cried a movie, I'll cried a commercial. One
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time a bird nested on our front porch and Corey
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disposed of it. I cried, so like, I'm really sensitive
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on the inside.
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Okay, all right, you're not the only one. Who else?
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Okay't got it? Mic here on the wall over here? Now,
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y'all not gonna let him be bad itself?
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Are you?
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Who are you? Really?
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So? I can also be sensitive too, but I think
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it's it takes more to get to that sensitivity.
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Okay, it takes more. Yeah, okay, anybody else? But but
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what what steps? What stops us from being real? Can
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I meddle?
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Is?
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Okay? To meddle?
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Now?
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Church? How come church stops us from being real? When
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we're supposed to be safe? Here? I mean, what does
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church say?
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Oh?
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Let me rephrase that. What does the people in church
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say to cause us not to feel safe? Might come
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your way? Might right here say this in the middle
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of what you were saying. Okay, when you said church,
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I was just gonna say because it got people in it, Okay,
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And what do people do stuff all kinds of things. Okay, Okay,
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here Mike.
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Sometimes at church we act as if we have it
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all together, rather than saying I'm here because I don't
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have it together.
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Okay, okay, all right, okay, this is in there? Thank you?
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What else? What else church do?
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Do?
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Church make comparisons? How comes she wearing that dress? How
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come you wearing that skirt? How come you wearing those shoes?
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Church can give you a funny about the quality? Where
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did they get that from? Who got somebody over here? Okay?
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And nobody what we got? Not here? Okay?
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But I have gone places and tried to reveal my
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problems or my pain points, and was just told that
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I didn't read the Bible enough.
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Oh okay, okay, So.
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The actual pain that was I was experiencing wasn't even addressed.
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It was just looked down upon and just you must
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not be holy enough to be living a good life.
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Okay, all right? What about pride? Say I'm stepping out
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the church and then going to pride. How does it
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stop us? How does pride stop us? What does pride
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say to you? I got it might come your way?
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What does pride say about you?
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Know? You really need help, But because of your pride,
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you can't say or you can't talk to the next
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person or the people that you know they can help you,
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you won't get help from them.
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Okay, what about education? How many degrees you got? How
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many degrees you need? How many degrees others have? Have
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you ever been around certain people that you might be
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talking about cycling and they're gonna bring up about how
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many degrees they got? How do cycling go with the degrees?
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I mean, do you find that when people want to
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bring you down they have to bring something up? What
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about finances? How is that impacting? What about your past?
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Lord knows I know there's a God because of what
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he brought me from because I'm not the same guy
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that I used to be. And you say that to
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your neighbor, Well, talk to your neighbor. Neighbor, you saying
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God used to be I'm not either. What's going on
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back there, y'all talking to yourself? What have your mistakes done?
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How can that mess with your past? Yeah, y'all know,
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people to keep bringing it up. But raise your hand
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as you know somebody keep bringing it up. Okay, let's
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take a look at this thing. Well, God knows that
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we don't. See. That's what we mess up is we
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think we know it all, and we forget about God. Jeremiah,
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we're gonna read this together, Jeremiah, Chapter one, verse five.
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In the message Beloved, before I shaped you in the wound.
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So just take a peek of this day. So that
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means he had to know us well enough to know
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when to put us in the wound. Let's keep on.
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I knew all about you. He knows all about me.
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He knew where I was gonna be. He knew where
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I was gonna be this morning. He knew what I
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was gonna eat. He knew that I stole the cookies
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last night. He knew all those things about me. Yeah,
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I stole it. I stole the last one last night.
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You sleep like that. Me and the two cats. We
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went downstairs. We got the cookies. We got the cookies, okay.
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Put as matter of fact, we had got the last
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of the chocolate milk too. I like to eat my
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cookie with chocolate milk. But see just what I do?
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Can I just say what I do? That's all I
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can say is what I do.
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See.
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See, when I'm stealing something, I gotta stay right where
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it is, cause see there's just something about the floor
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will move. I mean, it will make a little noise.
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It only does that when I'm stealing something. So you know,
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I'll say, right where the frigerator is, I reach in
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in the cabinet and get that cookie, and then I
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make sure that I ball it up, you know, the
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ball the the not the cookie, but but the wrapper.
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And see you got to put that at the bottom
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of the trash. You can't. That's a lot of work.
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But that cookie good. But he knew me. He knew
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about me. He knew I was still the cookies when
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he looked into making me. He knew all about me.
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He knows all about you. I mean, nobody knows that
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much about you other than God. Your parents don't even
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know that much about you. They know a whole lot.
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Jasmine and Tamika, we know that enough. You heard the mama.
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All right, let's keep going. Before you saw the light
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of day, that means before we were born, he already
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knew all these things about us. See a lot of
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people they get our parents, you know, when we're in
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the womb, they gotta wait till we come out before
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they start to assess us. That looked like such that
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that looks like but before the light of day, before
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we could see, he already knew what he had for us.
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Just keep going, y'all, y'all gonna read this part with me.
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I had holy plans for you, a profit of the nations.
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That what I had in mind for you. Why am
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I saying that? It's because what is he calling you?
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Is he calling you president? He knows in advance what
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skills he have called us too. Before he planned for us.
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He knew those skills, he knew those talents, he knew
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those abilities. Are we short changing? And then this is
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where I get the middling? It's okay, common mass we
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were and what they mean. So I'm gonna go over
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this kind of briefly, common mass we were and what
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they mean. So I'm gonna ask you a question. Okay,
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can y'all answer this question? What mask do you find
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yourself putting on? And everybody looks straight ahead court they
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did it, looks straight ahead? What masks do you find
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yourself putting on? And y'all shout it out, happy face,
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appreciate it. Depending on the situation, give me one one
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situation and one mask. You can go ahead with them.
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Give her a mic because she's talking about tooty fruity.
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What is it if you act in to the fruity,
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I might have to go to the hood part. Okay,
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all right, okay, okay, all right, well, step away with
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that mic, Step away with the mic. Why do you
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feel these masks are necessary for certain situations? She gave
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you perfect jamp protection. Okay, what else? What else do
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you feel withholding information? Okay, okay, because what happened? If
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you tell it, Mike goel, you're wa come on. Uh.
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Depending upon where it is, I'll give a work example.
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I'm not going to tell them my intimate details about
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my life. I'll just leave it at level one or
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level two.
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Uh.
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So it's maybe not withholding. It's maybe not sharing as
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much because of the situation where I am.
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Okay, sound like wisdom. So number one, let's talk about
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the strong mass. Turn teen names that neighbor. Are you
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the strong mass? We try to be dough don't.
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Huh?
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What?
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What?
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What what y'all got over here? Yeah? Pretending the strong mass? Okay, Okay,
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let's see what happened. They represent the pressure to always
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appear stronger and put together y'all know people like her. Now.
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I don't mean to be disgrading or anything, but a
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lot of times you see the strong mass when you
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go to funerals, especially men. You haven't seen a man
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trying not to cry. It a few you want you
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want to see men have took their head back like
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they're looking up at God so that the tear will
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come down and it'll go around the back of the ear.
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That's a whole lot of stuff to put through. Just
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cry and then it ain't like that. So what it
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says if I am the strong man? It says I
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don't need help. I got everything under control. And what
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is it that God? What it avoids? What does a
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strong man avoid? Vulnerability and the chance to be supported
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by others? What would it be like if a man
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came up and grabbed another man and just hugged him.
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But if you hug me and you're getting too close,
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because remember, I gotta be strong. Number two, the second mass,
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the happy mass. Anybody the happy man? So where y'all
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be honest, I'm gonna go back, say I gotta go
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back for a second. How many others it's the strong mass?
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We were the strong man? Okay, somebody says, sometimes appreciate
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the honest. Okay, right, okay, now let me let me
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go to the happy Mass. Do y'all see the happy
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MASSA what's going on with the people? Oh? They said
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a whole lot okay, constant state of happiness even when
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they feel the opposite. So they don't want people to
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know that they're not feeling well. Y y'all ever seen
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people drive up at church and you can tell the
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husband and wife who arguing with ea jail? Y'all ever
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seen that? Especially you know somebody, Oh, oh, I appreciate
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your honesty, whoever you are. And the husband and wife
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they drive up and they see a usher and all
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of a sudden they turn around, they smile at the wife.
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You know, just something got you got? You got some
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fakers that even kissed the wife on the cheek. M hm.
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Why you say fakers is because you saw them cussing
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at each other on the way in. I mean, you
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know you can count when people drive a car, you
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drive acquire a certain way what it says. Everything's fine,
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I have no struggles.
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I mean.
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One of the things about the Mass is we got
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a lot of line going on with the masks. You
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got to have a lot of lines in order to
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operate in the mass. And then what it avoids authenticity
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and the healing that comes from sharing our burdens. It
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would just be easier sometime just to share how you feel.
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Never peeed out to me. But make sure you're sharing
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it with the right person, because before you get out
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of here, if you share it with the wrong person,
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it's on everybody. And see the wrong person will even
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ask some more stuff to it to it. Yeah, this
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happened yesterday, but they're gonna add to it. This is
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been going on, wiars. What about the busy mass? Oh? Oh,
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I heard more of noise with the busy mask. What's
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going on with the busy mass? That's you could look
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always stand busy? Oh, we stand busy to avoid something,
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to avoid stillness and reflection. I don't want to think
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about that situation, So I'm gonna stay busy so I
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don't have to think. I don't have to pray, and
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I don't have to win. Some people don't want to
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win because if I win, that means I gotta change.
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And if I change, I gotta grow. If I grow,
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I gotta constantly change. Because when God called us to
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another level. He wants dependency on him. I'm making sure
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that I look at the exercise jail. I mean an
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adjustment to my eyes. So what does the busy person?
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What does this say? I'm too busy and too deep
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for any connections. I don't need anything else because I
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got this. What it avoids dealing with internal pain? It's
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an unresolved issue and it has fear attached to it.
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An unresolved issue. But do you understand that that issue grows,
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it never stays the same? Y'all can breathe? Number four?
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The religious Okay, see see see y'all. Are y'all a
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house an issue with this? The religious Mass? I'm gonna
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ask you'all something for BT. What does the what does
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the religious mass do? Quote scriptures? Okay? Okay, you talk
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about the movie though you're looking at the movie and
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they quote scripture. You just asking for us a box
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cord and they quote scripture? What else? What else does it?
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You should know better? Okay? It condemns? Okay, all right?
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What else does it?
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Do?
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You ask them how they're doing?
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How they do it?
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Before we were saying blessed and highly favor blessed the
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holly favor.
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Okay, okay, every time? All right? What else? Their hand
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went up all the way it went up high.
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It seems to diminish what you're going through. And this this,
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I don't know if it's competition. Oh I've been through
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the same thing.
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Let me tell you what. Okay, what's gonna be? Yeah? Okay,
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all right? So so what it says I'm spiritually perfect? Oh?
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Who said? Excuse me, misell, I don't need grace. Wow,
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grace is when I get what I don't deserve. So
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you're saying that you don't need God's grace. What it
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avoids humility and acknowledging that we need God's grace. So
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that that challenge is that people from a spiritual perspective
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can't help because you know everything. Number five the achiever massy.
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So you know when I heard somebody say something over
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the religious mass and then the achiever mass defining oneself
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solely by accomplishments. You're not even talking about accomplishments. You're
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talking about Jesus. But all over what a sudden, this
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person will find a way to let you know how
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many degrees they got, where they live, what they drive,
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What else would they do because they remember, is the
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achiever mask? What else? What kind of house they have,
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how big it is? What kind of car the gout?
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What kind of kids they got?
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Oh?
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Their kids two years old? They're in college? Because the
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achieve is sometime a lie? Am I lying on anybody?
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All right? What it say is I am only as
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valuable as what I achieve. So the achiever don't get
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a lot of rest because they're constantly trying to be
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What are the voids understanding that our worth comes from God,
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not from success. Our worth comes from God, not from success.
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Can I ask you all the question? Y'all knew it
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was coming? The these masks represents us the most? Which
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of these masks radiates with us the most? Y'all? Make
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sure y'all breathing, because I can see that there's some
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of y'all holding your breath. Yes, ma'am, might come in
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your way, it's already there. Which one is there?
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Anyway you can kind of run throw them again?
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Okay, like I'm gonna say it fast though, Okay, Okay,
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I'm gonna say the major focus Number five was the achiever. Okay,
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y'all know what chiever is? Number four is the religious
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one y'all know instantly whether y'all that or not. God,
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it's just fun being being in you. The busy one,
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they always got something going on because they don't want
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to think it feel the happy one they perpetrating the fraud.
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And the strong one, and we already made it and
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an assessment that that could be me and women. Okay,
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all right, So I'm still waiting which of these masks
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resonate with us the most. I got, Mike coming your
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You just said all that, I go ahead, strong, the
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strong one? Somebody else busy and achiever? Oh this side
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perfect over here, don't know? Okay, old day I said,
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you'll religious over on that side being busy, happy and busy,
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happy and busy, strong and busy, generally generally strong, I'm around,
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depending on who you're around. I appreciate your honesty. Yeah, okay,
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all right? Anybody else want to ask? Strong and happy?
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Strong and happy? What about Sam?
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Move?
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Y'all think y'all getting a way of stuff. Busy and happy,
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busy and happy? Okay, So who really, who's ready to
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leave that mask behind? It's a real question. So who's
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ready to leave that mass behind? You have to raise
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your hand right yet, Okay, because what I'm doing is
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I'm gonna allow you to see his word. Can y'all
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read this with me? Now? If you're ready to leave
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that mask behind? Number one, this is what he's saying.
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He's doing to allow us to go past that mass.
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Let's read it together, knowing our true identity in Christ
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Psalms one thirty nine fourteen. You ready, thank you for
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making me so wonderfully complex. Your workmanship is marvelous, and
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how well I know it? Okay, all right, so what
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does that mean? We don't give God the credit for
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how he made us of all the things he's maid
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us as an end, and look, we will find the
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one thing that we don't like. Well, I think about that. Well,
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I don't like my nose. So when you go to
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get plastic surgery on the nose, when they do it,
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you look at it for a little while and you say, well,
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it's almost right. But when he talks about the fact
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you your workmanship is marvelous, how well I know it?
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Is there anything that he made about you that you like? Yes?
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Oh it is some stuff? Okay, all right, just check it.
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Somebody read that for me.
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When we understand that our identity is in Christ. We
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no longer need to seek validation from others.
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So unless you process number one, you're gonna be constantly
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seeking validation from others. Number two embracing God's unconditional love.
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God knows us fully and loves us completely. He doesn't
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wait for us to do right in order to love us.
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He loves us while we were doing wrong. Let me
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rephrase that he loves us while we're still doing wrong.
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Is that? Okay? I want to see what the scripture says,
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who are read for me? When he's five eight ampi five?
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But he shows improves his own love for us by
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the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died
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for us.
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So when did he die? So while we're still doing wrong,
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he did right. When we believe in God's unconditional love,
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we can find the courage to shed our mass. When
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we believe in God's unconditional love. See all of uch.
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I've been brought up in an environment where you know,
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if we do it right, they're gonna love us. How
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many of y'all y'all missed out with the straight a's
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and he missed it by one? Okay, okay? What you
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what your parents say. What did they say, Is that
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the best you can do? Or do they even acknowledge
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the five a's or do they say something about that
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b say something about the bet I knew you were
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gonna say something. But anyway, who else?
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Okay, go ahead, I'm curious Romans five eights.
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So if my head knows I'm just for.
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Me, If my head knows that Christ died for me
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before I put these masks on.
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Why do I put the mask on? Because you still
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think you right? He didn't do enough, He didn't do enough,
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or he didn't do it the way I thought it
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should be done. Am I lying on it? By and
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what you think about it? Guys? Because he did everything?
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But see, I want to make it clear that everybody
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understand it's not just you, We're all doing it. Why
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did I run for ministry for twenty five years because
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I thought he made a mistake. Then when I got in,
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it's like, wow, Lloyd, why didn't you tell me about this?
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How I could grow? I could could flourish, how could
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be at rest? How could be at peace? How could
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how I could learn? I'm serious, we think we got
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it together, and he's telling us talk to me about
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this thing, all right. Number three, finding freedom through vulnerability.
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Now this is right here. I know this is not
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gonna be popular, so I'm just gonna go ahead and
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get it done. When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable,
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we opened the door to what is it? Genuine? What
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kind connection and healing? You think about the times that
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a person saw you having an emotion and they walked
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over and started talking to you, And when you started
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to tell them how you were really feeling, how you
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were really thinking, you created a bond because they had
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been seeing you up here and when you were really
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down here. Now I'm not talking about as a person.
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I'm talking about as an emotion, as a feeling. They
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thought they was believing that you were one of them?
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What was the religious people or the achievers? Happy person were?
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In reality, you were feeling it, and then all of
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a sudden you had something in common that you didn't
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know you had, because when they started to talk to you,
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they started to realize that you saw who they really were. James,
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Chapter five, verse sixteen. Confessed your sins, oh oh to
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each other and pray for each other so that you
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may be healed. Have you ever noticed that when you're
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praying for somebody else? Do you get your healing? I mean,
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that's Curls mystery. She got this mind said, cur raising hands,
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you're my wife just raising hair because some people don't
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know who curl is. So okay, okay. So you know
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when when we first started dating and we got into
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the things of God and got married and all that,
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you know, I would ask her, well, how did you
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deal with that? I say, you know, the things they're
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saying about us and the things that such and such.
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And she said, I'm praying for them. Now do we
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always agree with what somebody shared with us? It took
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me a couple of years to get that one. But
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she said, why I'm praying for them? God is bringing
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healing to me. Goes on to say in James five sixteen,
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the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power
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and produces wonderful results. Wonderful four results. See, sometimes it's
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not always about us. We think it's about us because
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who being impacted? We are? Okay, let me keep going.
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Number four. Trust in God's transition transformation. As we allow
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God to work in us, we can let go of
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masses and let His image shine through people. Have me
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fat so why you always have it look like you
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have fun when you ministry, because that's the transformation. He
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told me. He liked me when I'm funny, when I
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can crack jokes. Remember when I shared with y'all, guys,
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y'all heard the story. I'm say it again. When I
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was in ministry school and was going through being able
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to teach class at Richmond Christian Center. I stayed in
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there for seven years with the same instructor, although people
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got released after six months and I stayed in the class.
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And the challenge I had was the instructor he didn't play.
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You know, some people you just don't as an instructor.
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You don't ask them why they do something. Now, maybe
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y'all strong enough or more power or enough, but I
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wouldn't ask. So after six years he said, Paul, you
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can leave class. Now you ready to teach? And I said, well,
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Reverend Luster, y'all y'all know Reverend Dust, some of y'all
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know tough, got military poor. He said, I said, can
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I ask you something? He said sure. I said, why
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is it that I stayed in class for seven years
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and everybody else was able to leave? He says, it's
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because you are the only one that didn't teach like me,
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because people were in the class thinking they gotta teach
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like Reverend Luster. But I taught like Paul. I cracked jokes,
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I laughed about things. I set at different places, you know,
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with his permission. You know, you supposed to be in
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front of class. That's where you better been. And he said,
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so I wanted people to see. I wanted those students
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to see what it's like to be different than who
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I am. I wanted them to be who they were,
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so trusting in God's transformation. So that was his transformation.
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Let's read this from Second Convening, chapter three, verse eighteen,
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and we all with unveiled face, continually seeing as in
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the mirror the glory of the Lord progressively being transformed
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into his image, from one degree of glory to even
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more glory, which comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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So let me just tell you briefly what glory is.
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Glory is a divine nature, that's God, a divine nature,
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something that we can see and don't quite understand how
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it could be like that. Glory is the beauty the
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power to honor the majesty of God. You know how
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people if they go into England or somewhere in the
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queens such and such, or King such and such. You know,
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it's like you bow down a certain way, and you
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look a certain way. But this glory, the majesty of God,
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when we bow down and worship him and thank him
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for who he is and what he's done, what he
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continues to do, that's his love, his mercy, his justice
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is wisdom. We can get an understanding about something that
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is no human way that we would have known what
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to do with that, that's his glory.
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This concludes today's message on challenge to change, where real
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transformation begins with h with Pastor Paul more than If
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you are ever in the Richmond, Virginia area, join Past
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the Paul for Sunday service at ten a m at
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Chosen Generation Ministries. The website is www. Chosen RVA dot
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com or call at eight six six three three three
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none nine five zero five
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