The Fight with Frustration
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The Fight with Frustration
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- - female announcer: Coming up
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- on "The Potter's Touch."
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- - Bishop T.D. Jakes: And what
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- should have taken a weekend took
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- 40 years 'cause he was tied up
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- with murmuring, complaining
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- people that he was trying to
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- lead and he was trying to save
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- and he was trying to help, and
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- they were some of the most
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- hateful people in the world are
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- people you're tryin' to help.
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- The people were frustrated with
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- the leader and now the leader is
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- frustrated with the people.
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- He should've spoke to the rock,
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- but because he had unresolved
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- issues with the people, it
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- boiled over, and now he speaks
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- to the people when he should've
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- been speakin' to the rock.
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- Are you speakin' to the people
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- The Potter's touch
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- - Bishop Jakes: Forty years
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- trained to walk like a nobleman
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- even though he had the blood of
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- a slave.
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- Isn't it amazing what God will
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- do with an opportunity?
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- Give you access to a dominion
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- that, by all rights, you'd have
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- no right to be in, give you
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- favor with people that you can't
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- even figure out why they like
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- ya.
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- Isn't it amazing how God will
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- take a slave and raise him up
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- like a king?
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- That was Moses.
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- Forty years, and then through a
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- mistake he makes where he gets
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- angry and rises up and kills an
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- Egyptian in a conflict between
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- an Egyptian and a Hebrew because
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- the conflict before him was the
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- conflict within him.
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- He was raised to think like an
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- Egyptian, but he had the blood
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- of a Hebrew.
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- And the fighting he saw in the
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- street was the fighting he had
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- on the inside.
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- Do you know what it is to have a
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- fight on the inside while you
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- deal with fights on the outside?
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- It is easier to stop the fight
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- on the outside than it is the
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- one on the inside.
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- He kills a man and stops a fight
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- on the outside, and for 40
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- years, the would-be prince is
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- now an outlaw running from what
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- could have been his heir
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- apparent.
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- Now he runs into the wilderness,
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- not even a slave, but a runaway
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- convict, hiding from justice,
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- and there he has an encounter
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- with God.
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- And God says, "Go to the very
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- place that you're running from
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- and tell Pharaoh I said, 'Let my
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- people go.'"
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- This is an amazing moment.
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- Can I tell ya?
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- You told me to take my time, so
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- I'mma do it.
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- This is an amazing moment, not
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- only because he goes back to the
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- very place that he's running
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- from and have to face what he's
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- afraid of.
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- That's somethin' all by itself.
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- But it's an amazing moment
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- because he gets to become the
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- leader of the people that he is
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- connected to but never got to
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- bond with.
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- It's like gettin' your family
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- back.
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- It's like makin' your cultural
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- connection.
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- Moses comes back to Egypt to
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- lead his people out of Egypt.
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- There's a personal investment
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- here because now he's connected
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- with his brothers.
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- Brothers.
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- Oh, God is such a great idea in
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- the mix with my people.
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- It's a great idea, connected
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- with your culture.
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- It's a wonderful thing.
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- It feels good, in theory.
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- Sounds amazing.
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- We eat the same stuff.
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- We like the same colors.
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- We dance and move the same.
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- This is cool, hangin' out with
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- my folks, especially when you
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- never had it.
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- But sometimes things are better
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- in your head than they are in
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- So he comes to his own people,
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- and he starts leading them out,
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- and he's got God's power, and
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- he's got God's hand, and he's
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- got God's might.
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- And he's tryin' to lead them out
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- of somethin' bad into somethin'
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- good, and you'd think they would
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- like you 'cause you know you
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- wanna be liked 'cause you're
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- And he's leadin' 'em out from
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- slavery, and they're fighting
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- the one who's leadin' 'em out.
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- "You mean you're not gonna
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- appreciate me comin' back
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- riskin' my life?
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- I could've been killed.
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- I came to make your life better,
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- and you're not glad?"
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- No, they murmured and they
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- complained and they bickered and
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- they fussed, and they like to
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- drove him crazy from the very
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- beginning.
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- Isn't it amazing how you can do
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- great things for people, and
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- they hate you?
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- Isn't it amazing how the people
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- you help the most kick your
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- teeth out?
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- You have not had pain till it
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- was inflicted upon you by
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- somebody you have given
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- everything to.
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- I cannot even describe it.
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- Words fail me to be able to
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- articulate the level of pain
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- when you have a heart investment
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- and a soul investment and a life
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- investment, pouring it into
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- people, expecting to be affirmed
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- and loved back.
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- What do you do when you don't
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- reap back what you sow?
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- [laughing]
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- Y'all told me in church that
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- whatever I sowed I would reap,
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- but I have had moments that I
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- sowed loyalty and reaped
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- betrayal.
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- I sowed love and reaped malice.
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- And you wonder, "How could I get
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- this back from you?"
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- "Et tu, Brute?
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- Et tu?
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- Not you."
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- They murmured and complained and
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- delayed his life 'cause he was
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- carrying the dead weight of
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- ungrateful, unthankful people,
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- and still carrying them.
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- And what should have taken a
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- weekend took 40 years 'cause he
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- was tied up with murmuring,
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- complaining people that he was
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- trying to lead and he was trying
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- to save and he was trying to
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- help, and they were some of the
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- most hateful people in the world
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- are people you're tryin' to
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- help.
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- Hats off to all you people in
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- the medical profession.
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- I saw your commercials on TV
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- about how great it is to be a
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- nurse.
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- It sounds good in theory.
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- Hats off to you.
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- Some of the most hateful people
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- in the world are sick people.
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- God didn't call me to that
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- ministry, and I bow to all he
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- did.
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- I'm really good at being good to
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- people who are nice.
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- They would fire me in a weekend.
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- If I change your bedpan, you
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- better speak to me.
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- What do you do when you humble
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- yourself to do things you don't
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- even wanna do, and you do it for
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- somebody who's murmuring and
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- complainin' and naggin' and
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- fussin'?
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- See, I need you to feel how
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- Moses feels before I tell you
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- what Moses did.
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- It's easy to judge people for
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- what they do when you don't
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- understand how they feel.
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- Until you have felt what I felt,
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- Moses has been dealing with
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- these nincompoops for 120 years.
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- Whoo, did I call 'em,
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- "Nincompoops"?
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- I don't even know how to spell
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- "nincompoops," but it felt good
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- He has been through hell and
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- high water, the kind of stuff
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- you go through that only life
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- can teach you.
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- Life is a university.
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- My mother was absolutely right.
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- It is absolutely a university.
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- And whether you wanna take the
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- classes or not, you've got to
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- take 'em every day.
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- Life will teach you some stuff.
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- He has been up and down.
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- He's been around and around and
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- around.
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- They've been through snake
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- bites.
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- They've been through famine.
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- They've been through pestilence.
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- They've been attacked by the
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- Amalekites.
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- They've been through hell and
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- high water, and he's been
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- through all of it.
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- A whole generation of them died
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- in the wilderness because of
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- their hateful murmuring,
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- complaining ways.
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- And now, he's leading their
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- kids, and the fathers had bit on
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- sour grapes, and then the teeth
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- of the children are set on edge.
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- "What does Bishop mean by that?"
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- What Bishop means is that the
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- kids are nasty because the
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- The children have unbelief
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- because the parents had
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- unbelief.
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- I'm saying that they have
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- inherited the attributes of
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- their parents.
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- They're just as hateful as their
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- daddies were.
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- And he's dealing with a fresh
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- generation of hatred, and he's
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- old.
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- Moses is in that stage, and
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- these people are in this stage.
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- [sighing]
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- The difference is, their fathers
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- died in the wilderness.
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- But this is the chosen
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- generation that will go over
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- into the Promised Land.
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- And so God says to Moses, "We
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- gonna do that thing that we did
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- before.
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- Only this time, I want you to
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- speak to the rock."
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- Now, the people have been
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- murmurin' and complainin', and
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- Moses comes to God and says,
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- "They're doin' that thing their
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- You know, when you have
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- first-generation trouble, you've
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- got patience and faith, but when
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- it keeps comin' up again and
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- again and again, they're doin'
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- that thing their parents did.
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- They're murmuring and
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- complaining.
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- So God says, "We're gonna do
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- that thing we did before, but
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- we're gonna modify it a little
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- bit.
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- Instead of smiting the rock like
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- you did the first time," God
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- says, "speak to the rock, and
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- the rock will bring forth
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- water."
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- And Moses says, "Cool, cool,
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- cool."
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- [music]
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- - Pastor Cora Jakes-Coleman:
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- There is a ferocious warrior in
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- all of us.
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- We are created by the battles
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- that we face every day.
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- The beauty of your battle is
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- birthed in a barren place.
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- The enemy you face is the part
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- of you that says to you, "You're
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- defeated."
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- The warrior tells you, "The
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- power."
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- And he tells you that "you are
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- not broken.
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- You are not damaged.
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- You are an overcomer."
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- You can beat whatever it is you
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- are facing, but it won't be by
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- fear.
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- It will be by the power of faith
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- and prayer.
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- Are you ready?
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- It's time, it's the moment.
- 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.280
- Wake up, warrior.
- 00:11:53.280 --> 00:11:55.290
- - Bishop Jakes: And Moses goes
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- and does the opposite of what
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- God told him to do.
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- God told him to speak to the
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- rock.
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- He speaks to the people.
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- God says, "Speak to the rock,
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- and the waters'll come out."
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- He wasn't even supposed to hit
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- it one time.
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- He hit it twice.
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- Moses is frustrated.
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- They had gotten on his last
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- nerve.
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- Now, you must understand, for
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- this one little offense, Moses
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- is blocked from getting to the
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- Promised Land.
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- He freaks out on the people, and
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- he has a meltdown, and he just
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- lets 'em have it.
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- This is probably the abridged
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- version of what he said to 'em
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- 'cause he just kinda, you know?
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- You know how you do when you're
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- talkin' to your folks, and your
- 00:13:02.110 --> 00:13:05.040
- folks have got on your nerves.
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- And there is a language, you
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- know, that we all communicate.
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- I don't know.
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- I'm just figurin'.
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- But whatever he said, it was
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- good.
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- It was good.
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- It was kinda, "Woo-sa," you
- 00:13:18.280 --> 00:13:21.210
- know, "I got that out of me."
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- But it resulted in God saying to
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- Moses, "You cannot go to the
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- Promised Land now, because you
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- did not obey me."
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- And I want you to understand
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- some things.
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- First of all, I want you to
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- understand that Moses didn't
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- understand that God was using
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- his life as an example of what
- 00:13:39.280 --> 00:13:42.280
- he would later do with Christ,
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- that the rock is a type of Jesus
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- Christ.
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- And the reason God wanted him to
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- smite it the first time but not
- 00:13:51.220 --> 00:13:54.220
- smite it the second time is that
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- when he smote it the first time,
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- it typified Christ being
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- crucified.
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- And he wanted the illustration,
- 00:14:01.230 --> 00:14:03.200
- the shadow in the Old Testament
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- to be that once Christ was
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- crucified once, he would not be
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- crucified again.
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- And so when Moses smites the
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- rock again, he shatters the
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- typology.
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- He messes up the metaphor, and
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- God judges him because he says
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- something about the rock that is
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- not true.
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- He's saying that the rock has to
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- be smitten twice to bring forth
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- water, when Christ only had to
- 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:31.230
- be crucified once.
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- "Woman, if you knew who I was,
- 00:14:33.290 --> 00:14:35.160
- you would ask me for water."
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- Christ is the Rock.
- 00:14:39.070 --> 00:14:41.130
- "If you drink of the waters that
- 00:14:41.130 --> 00:14:42.110
- I have, you will thirst
- 00:14:42.110 --> 00:14:43.220
- again--that you have.
- 00:14:43.220 --> 00:14:44.280
- But if you drink of the waters
- 00:14:44.280 --> 00:14:46.020
- that I have, you will never
- 00:14:46.020 --> 00:14:47.200
- thirst again."
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- "If you believe on me, as the
- 00:14:50.050 --> 00:14:51.090
- Scriptures have said, out of
- 00:14:51.090 --> 00:14:52.240
- living water."
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- Christ is the Rock.
- 00:14:56.160 --> 00:14:59.160
- "And he was wounded for our
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- transgressions, he was bruised
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- for our iniquity: the
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- chastisement of our peace was
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- upon him; with his stripes we
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- are healed."
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- One time is enough.
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- Moses smote the rock a second
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- time and broke the type,
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- shattered it, and God got upset.
- 00:15:16.180 --> 00:15:18.230
- Man, you know, for God to block
- 00:15:18.230 --> 00:15:20.100
- Moses from getting to the
- 00:15:20.100 --> 00:15:21.280
- Promised Land, it had to be
- 00:15:21.280 --> 00:15:22.260
- serious.
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- God said, "Other prophets have I
- 00:15:24.190 --> 00:15:25.200
- spoke to through dreams and
- 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:26.260
- visions, but of my servant Moses
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- do I speak face to face."
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- God said, "Moses is my boy.
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- I don't give him dreams and
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- visions.
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- When I wanna talk to Moses, I
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- come down to the tent and say,
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- 'Yo, Moses, what's goin' down,
- 00:15:40.020 --> 00:15:40.280
- man?'"
- 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:42.120
- Moses has done all kinda stuff.
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- He murdered a man, and God still
- 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.190
- When Moses's sister spoke
- 00:15:55.020 --> 00:15:56.270
- against Moses, God struck her
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- with leprosy.
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- Moses is God's dude.
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- You get in trouble sayin'
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- somethin' about Moses.
- 00:16:05.130 --> 00:16:06.150
- Moses had gotten in God's face
- 00:16:06.150 --> 00:16:08.190
- and argued with him, and God put
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- up with it.
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- Moses got in God's face and
- 00:16:11.280 --> 00:16:12.290
- said, "They're your people.
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- They're not my people.
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- They're my people.
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- They're not your--"
- 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:16.130
- He was arguin' back and forth
- 00:16:16.130 --> 00:16:17.080
- with God, and God put up with
- 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:18.050
- that.
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- What was it about this that was
- 00:16:19.180 --> 00:16:20.070
- so horrible that God said, "For
- 00:16:20.070 --> 00:16:22.140
- this you cannot go into the
- 00:16:22.140 --> 00:16:23.070
- kingdom"?
- 00:16:23.070 --> 00:16:26.040
- He said something about Christ
- 00:16:26.040 --> 00:16:27.060
- that wasn't true.
- 00:16:27.060 --> 00:16:29.090
- His actions said that the cross
- 00:16:29.090 --> 00:16:30.150
- is not enough, that he would be
- 00:16:30.150 --> 00:16:33.150
- crucified twice.
- 00:16:33.150 --> 00:16:35.250
- It shattered the gospel message
- 00:16:35.250 --> 00:16:38.180
- to the chosen generation.
- 00:16:38.180 --> 00:16:41.070
- The former generation, it didn't
- 00:16:41.070 --> 00:16:42.160
- matter, but to the chosen
- 00:16:42.160 --> 00:16:43.210
- generation, these are the
- 00:16:43.210 --> 00:16:46.070
- generations who have entered
- 00:16:46.070 --> 00:16:48.040
- into something for which they
- 00:16:48.040 --> 00:16:48.290
- did not labor.
- 00:16:50.130 --> 00:16:53.130
- These are the generations of
- 00:16:53.130 --> 00:16:54.260
- people that are stepping into
- 00:16:54.260 --> 00:16:56.170
- something that is so divine and
- 00:16:56.170 --> 00:16:58.240
- so holy that now the water is
- 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.020
- just flowing through the Word.
- 00:17:01.020 --> 00:17:03.150
- "And ye are cleansed by the
- 00:17:03.150 --> 00:17:04.270
- washing of water by the Word."
- 00:17:04.270 --> 00:17:06.290
- The Word is all you need to get
- 00:17:06.290 --> 00:17:08.230
- the water.
- 00:17:08.230 --> 00:17:09.210
- No more bruisings are necessary.
- 00:17:09.210 --> 00:17:11.290
- But now, through the Word, the
- 00:17:11.290 --> 00:17:13.250
- water flows.
- 00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:14.250
- Oh, they don't hear me.
- 00:17:14.250 --> 00:17:16.000
- I'mma keep sayin' it until they
- 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.080
- get it.
- 00:17:17.080 --> 00:17:18.010
- It's in the Word.
- 00:17:18.010 --> 00:17:19.070
- The water you need is in the
- 00:17:19.070 --> 00:17:20.060
- Word.
- 00:17:20.060 --> 00:17:21.080
- The thirst you have, it's in the
- 00:17:21.080 --> 00:17:22.090
- Word.
- 00:17:22.090 --> 00:17:23.120
- The healing is in the Word.
- 00:17:23.120 --> 00:17:25.090
- You don't have to go through
- 00:17:25.090 --> 00:17:26.070
- changes.
- 00:17:26.070 --> 00:17:27.110
- You don't have to go through
- 00:17:27.110 --> 00:17:28.070
- crucifixion.
- 00:17:28.070 --> 00:17:29.060
- You don't have to bleed for it.
- 00:17:29.060 --> 00:17:30.190
- You don't have to work for it.
- 00:17:30.190 --> 00:17:31.240
- You don't have to sweat for it.
- 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.110
- All you gotta do is hear the
- 00:17:33.110 --> 00:17:34.100
- Word, and the water's in the
- 00:17:34.100 --> 00:17:36.070
- Word, and the Word is in the
- 00:17:36.070 --> 00:17:37.070
- water.
- 00:17:37.070 --> 00:17:38.040
- And the water's in the Word, and
- 00:17:38.040 --> 00:17:39.040
- the Word is in the water.
- 00:17:39.040 --> 00:17:40.140
- And the water's in the Word, and
- 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:41.150
- the Word is in the water.
- 00:17:41.150 --> 00:17:42.260
- And it's flowin'.
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- My God, that's why people come
- 00:17:44.070 --> 00:17:46.160
- to this church, 'cause the Word
- 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.040
- is flowin' in this place.
- 00:17:48.150 --> 00:17:51.150
- It's not our graphic arts
- 00:17:51.150 --> 00:17:52.120
- design.
- 00:17:52.120 --> 00:17:53.030
- It's not our television
- 00:17:53.030 --> 00:17:53.270
- ministry.
- 00:17:53.270 --> 00:17:54.220
- It's not our social media or
- 00:17:54.220 --> 00:17:56.020
- anything else.
- 00:17:56.020 --> 00:17:57.010
- The Bible said, "The Word
- 00:17:57.010 --> 00:17:58.120
- increase and the disciples
- 00:17:58.120 --> 00:17:59.000
- multiply."
- 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:00.200
- Whenever there's good Word, you
- 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:01.290
- don't have to beg people to
- 00:18:01.290 --> 00:18:02.270
- come.
- 00:18:02.270 --> 00:18:03.210
- The Word will draw the people.
- 00:18:03.210 --> 00:18:05.280
- "And he sent his Word, and it
- 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:07.190
- healed them."
- 00:18:07.190 --> 00:18:09.110
- And the Word flowed, and it
- 00:18:09.110 --> 00:18:11.100
- flowed.
- 00:18:11.100 --> 00:18:12.100
- And that's why God says, "Speak
- 00:18:12.100 --> 00:18:13.100
- to the rock.
- 00:18:13.100 --> 00:18:15.010
- We've already paid the price.
- 00:18:15.010 --> 00:18:16.140
- Speak to the rock, and the
- 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:18.140
- waters will flow."
- 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:19.160
- But Moses was so frustrated that
- 00:18:24.010 --> 00:18:27.010
- he couldn't obey a simpler
- 00:18:27.060 --> 00:18:30.060
- solution.
- 00:18:30.230 --> 00:18:33.230
- And I wanna tell you why he's
- 00:18:33.230 --> 00:18:34.140
- frustrated.
- 00:18:34.140 --> 00:18:36.130
- They were murmurin' again.
- 00:18:38.170 --> 00:18:41.170
- They were murmurin' and
- 00:18:41.170 --> 00:18:42.110
- complainin' again.
- 00:18:42.110 --> 00:18:43.090
- They were murmurin' and
- 00:18:43.090 --> 00:18:44.080
- threatenin' to kill Moses, and
- 00:18:44.080 --> 00:18:45.280
- Moses was afraid for his life.
- 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:47.190
- He was at his wit's end, and
- 00:18:47.190 --> 00:18:49.090
- he'd already been through it
- 00:18:49.090 --> 00:18:50.170
- before, and he was frustrated.
- 00:18:50.170 --> 00:18:53.120
- So, number one, he's frustrated
- 00:18:53.120 --> 00:18:54.200
- with the people.
- 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.070
- He's frustrated with the people.
- 00:18:56.070 --> 00:18:58.230
- And when you are frustrated with
- 00:18:58.230 --> 00:19:00.230
- the people you love, the
- 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.200
- conflict is overwhelming.
- 00:19:05.250 --> 00:19:08.250
- It's one thing to be angry at
- 00:19:08.250 --> 00:19:10.120
- people you don't know.
- 00:19:10.120 --> 00:19:12.230
- But when you are angry with
- 00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:13.250
- people you're in covenant with,
- 00:19:13.250 --> 00:19:15.110
- the confusion is overwhelming
- 00:19:15.110 --> 00:19:18.010
- because one thing says, "Love
- 00:19:18.010 --> 00:19:19.160
- them," and the other thing says,
- 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:20.230
- "I wanna choke you."
- 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:24.160
- Now, if you haven't lived long
- 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:25.090
- enough to have that conflict, I
- 00:19:25.090 --> 00:19:26.280
- won't get an "Amen" out of you.
- 00:19:26.280 --> 00:19:28.140
- But if you've lived long enough
- 00:19:28.140 --> 00:19:29.260
- to have Meribah on the inside
- 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.240
- and be quarreling with
- 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:34.250
- yourself--
- 00:19:36.270 --> 00:19:39.270
- You see, the people were
- 00:19:39.270 --> 00:19:41.210
- frustrated with the leader and
- 00:19:42.020 --> 00:19:45.020
- now the leader is frustrated
- 00:19:45.020 --> 00:19:46.230
- with the people.
- 00:19:46.230 --> 00:19:48.090
- The people are frustrated with
- 00:19:48.090 --> 00:19:49.070
- the leader because, "You have
- 00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:54.100
- led us into trouble."
- 00:19:54.180 --> 00:19:57.180
- And people will follow you as
- 00:19:57.180 --> 00:20:00.010
- long as there's not trouble.
- 00:20:02.270 --> 00:20:05.270
- "You're a good husband.
- 00:20:05.270 --> 00:20:07.200
- You're a good man.
- 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:09.030
- You're a good daddy.
- 00:20:09.030 --> 00:20:10.170
- Oh, you're such a good daddy."
- 00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:15.220
- See, people love leadership that
- 00:20:22.170 --> 00:20:25.010
- leads you into convenience, but
- 00:20:25.010 --> 00:20:26.170
- when the leadership gets kinda
- 00:20:26.170 --> 00:20:29.050
- bad, murky, goes black, gets
- 00:20:29.050 --> 00:20:31.260
- dark, they started murmurin'
- 00:20:31.260 --> 00:20:33.140
- against him.
- 00:20:33.140 --> 00:20:34.080
- Long as manna was fallin', he
- 00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:36.010
- was cool.
- 00:20:36.010 --> 00:20:38.100
- "Ooh, manna, manna, manna."
- 00:20:39.080 --> 00:20:42.080
- But they'd gotten hungry and
- 00:20:42.080 --> 00:20:43.140
- they'd gotten dry, and now
- 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:44.250
- they're frustrated with the
- 00:20:44.250 --> 00:20:45.220
- leader.
- 00:20:45.220 --> 00:20:47.250
- And Moses goes to God, and God
- 00:20:47.250 --> 00:20:49.040
- says, "Speak to the rock," but
- 00:20:50.190 --> 00:20:53.190
- "Okay, God, praise the Lord.
- 00:21:01.060 --> 00:21:04.060
- I'm gonna go down here and speak
- 00:21:04.060 --> 00:21:05.000
- to this rock after I speak to
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- this people."
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- Because frustration needs to
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- express itself.
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- Frustration always needs to
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- express itself.
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- It can only hide so long, and
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- then it will express itself.
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- The people were frustrated with
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- the leader, and now the leader
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- is frustrated with the people.
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- He should've spoke to the rock,
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- but because he had unresolved
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- issues with the people, it
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- boiled over, and now he speaks
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- to the people when he should've
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- been speakin' to the rock.
- 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.030
- Are you speakin' to the people
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- instead of speakin' to the rock?
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- Are you, Daddy, are you carrying
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- your frustration to the people
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- you love when you oughtta be
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- speakin' to the rock and feeding
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- If Moses would've just got that
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- part right, it'd all have been
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- over.
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- You speak to the rock, you feed
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- the people, simple.
- 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:13.240
- Speak to the rock, feed the
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- people.
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- Speak to the rock, feed the
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- people.
- 00:22:16.280 --> 00:22:17.260
- Vent it to Jesus, not your kid.
- 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:29.130
- Go to Jesus and let the Spirit
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- itself make groanings and
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- moanings and grunt and scream
- 00:22:32.260 --> 00:22:35.080
- and holler, not her, not the
- 00:22:35.150 --> 00:22:38.150
- kids, not your husband.
- 00:22:40.150 --> 00:22:43.150
- You don't tell him.
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- Tell the rock.
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- Give him the water.
- 00:22:47.270 --> 00:22:50.030
- No wonder the marriage is in
- 00:22:50.030 --> 00:22:50.290
- trouble.
- 00:22:50.290 --> 00:22:51.270
- You're venting to him.
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- You got too much mouth in the
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- marriage.
- 00:22:57.110 --> 00:23:00.130
- See, I knew--you gotta break it
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- down to that third stage.
- 00:23:01.220 --> 00:23:04.040
- When you break it down to that
- 00:23:04.040 --> 00:23:04.250
- third stage, they get it.
- 00:23:04.250 --> 00:23:06.100
- You got too much mouth in the
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- marriage.
- 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:08.150
- See, community language.
- 00:23:08.150 --> 00:23:10.230
- Now, the frustration with the
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- people--the frustration with the
- 00:23:13.290 --> 00:23:15.080
- leader leads to the frustration
- 00:23:15.080 --> 00:23:18.030
- with the people.
- 00:23:18.030 --> 00:23:21.030
- And all of a sudden, Moses is in
- 00:23:21.030 --> 00:23:23.220
- a dilemma, and he has a right to
- 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:25.130
- be frustrated because
- 00:23:25.130 --> 00:23:27.100
- frustration is a sign of
- 00:23:27.100 --> 00:23:28.200
- Sarah could tell Abraham, "Put
- 00:23:34.020 --> 00:23:36.060
- out Hagar and her child."
- 00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:40.220
- The reason it was easy for Sarah
- 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:42.080
- to say, "Put her out," she
- 00:23:42.080 --> 00:23:44.020
- didn't have nothin' invested.
- 00:23:44.020 --> 00:23:46.040
- Now, Abraham is moanin' and
- 00:23:46.040 --> 00:23:47.050
- groanin' because he has
- 00:23:47.050 --> 00:23:48.290
- investment.
- 00:23:48.290 --> 00:23:50.060
- Wherever there is investment,
- 00:23:50.060 --> 00:23:52.050
- there is frustration because
- 00:23:52.050 --> 00:23:54.150
- investment creates expectation.
- 00:23:56.010 --> 00:23:59.010
- Anytime you invest, you have
- 00:23:59.010 --> 00:24:00.290
- expectation.
- 00:24:00.290 --> 00:24:03.030
- And anytime you have
- 00:24:03.030 --> 00:24:04.080
- expectation, you have the
- 00:24:04.080 --> 00:24:06.080
- potential for disappointment.
- 00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:08.210
- You can't be disappointed if you
- 00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:10.080
- haven't invested anything.
- 00:24:10.080 --> 00:24:12.110
- But if you invest something, you
- 00:24:12.110 --> 00:24:13.170
- have an expectation.
- 00:24:13.170 --> 00:24:15.070
- And when that expectation is not
- 00:24:15.070 --> 00:24:16.220
- realized, you have
- 00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:17.180
- disappointment, and
- 00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:18.250
- disappointment, if it is not
- 00:24:18.250 --> 00:24:20.100
- resolved, leads to frustration.
- 00:24:20.100 --> 00:24:22.180
- He will not stay disappointed
- 00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:24.140
- without being frustrated.
- 00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:25.250
- If you leave your husband
- 00:24:25.250 --> 00:24:26.290
- disappointed long enough, he's
- 00:24:26.290 --> 00:24:28.120
- gonna be frustrated.
- 00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:29.210
- If the woman is disappointed
- 00:24:29.210 --> 00:24:30.270
- long enough, she's gonna get
- 00:24:30.270 --> 00:24:32.020
- frustrated.
- 00:24:32.020 --> 00:24:33.030
- You can only be disappointed so
- 00:24:33.030 --> 00:24:34.150
- long before you get frustrated.
- 00:24:34.150 --> 00:24:36.200
- Frustration is when
- 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.010
- Frustration is disappointment
- 00:24:44.090 --> 00:24:46.020
- hiding in your chest, screaming
- 00:24:48.020 --> 00:24:51.020
- out of your belly, sayin', "I
- 00:24:51.020 --> 00:24:53.140
- thought it would be better than
- 00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:54.240
- this.
- 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:56.280
- I thought it would be better.
- 00:24:56.280 --> 00:24:58.080
- By now, I thought I would be
- 00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:59.200
- further than this.
- 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:01.030
- By now, I thought I would have
- 00:25:01.030 --> 00:25:02.180
- my life together.
- 00:25:02.180 --> 00:25:03.120
- By now, I thought I would be
- 00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:04.190
- married.
- 00:25:04.190 --> 00:25:05.120
- By now, I thought I would be in
- 00:25:05.120 --> 00:25:06.160
- college."
- 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:07.080
- Frustration comes through what
- 00:25:07.080 --> 00:25:08.170
- you thought.
- 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:11.200
- When what you thought doesn't
- 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:13.010
- happen, you get frustrated.
- 00:25:13.010 --> 00:25:15.160
- Moses, the man of God, is
- 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.050
- frustrated.
- 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:21.120
- He doesn't take it to God in
- 00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:22.140
- prayer.
- 00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:24.020
- No, he doesn't speak to the
- 00:25:24.020 --> 00:25:25.220
- rock.
- 00:25:25.220 --> 00:25:27.030
- He vents to the people.
- 00:25:27.100 --> 00:25:30.100
- Man, are you venting on this
- 00:25:30.100 --> 00:25:32.180
- woman something because you have
- 00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:34.210
- So, he vents.
- 00:25:41.130 --> 00:25:42.190
- He vents, he lets her have it,
- 00:25:43.150 --> 00:25:46.150
- mmm, mmm.
- 00:25:47.060 --> 00:25:50.060
- He beats what he should speak
- 00:25:50.060 --> 00:25:51.130
- to, and he speaks what he should
- 00:25:51.130 --> 00:25:54.050
- feed to because that's what we
- 00:25:54.050 --> 00:25:56.160
- do, brothers, when we are
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