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T.D. Jakes - Ghosting

April 16, 2025 | S25:E61

T.D. Jakes - Ghosting
When we face trials, that is not the time to disappear or run away.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Ghosting | April 16, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: i don't want to hear about what jesus
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  • Did while i was ghosted.
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  • I don't wanna hear about the message that i should have heard
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  • That would have liberated me, and healed me, and blessed me,
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  • And set me free.
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  • I don't want to hear a secondhand prophecy.
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  • I don't want catch a secondhand anointing.
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  • I don't want a secondhand glory.
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  • I feel the anointing of the holy ghost.
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  • I want to be right in the room when it happens.
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  • I want to be right in the place when the glory fall, when the
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  • Power moves, when the lump shrinks, when the
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  • Cancer dissipates.
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  • ♪ woo-oh, the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: ghosting is the practice of ending a personal
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  • Relationship with someone by suddenly and without
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  • Explanation, withdrawing from all communication.
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  • Even if the someone is me.
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  • I quit, i don't explain, i don't call, i don't negotiate, i don't
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  • Try to work it out.
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  • I'm just done, i'm ghosting, i'm ghost.
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  • Call me casper.
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  • I am not here.
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  • I am the invisible woman.
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  • I am the invisible man.
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  • Would you like some more coffee?
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  • Breakfast is on the table.
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  • I can ghost you and still live with you.
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  • Never mind the normal kind of ghosting where i don't return
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  • Texts, or phone calls, or messages, or block you and you
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  • Don't know why, and you're left to figure out why i disappeared.
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  • I can disappear in your house and you still wonder where did
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  • I go.
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  • The reason i want to talk about ghosting is that, the bible
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  • Doesn't explain where thomas was.
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  • The bible just says that thomas just went ghost.
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  • He was not there when jesus showed up.
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  • How many of you have been absent from your own life
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  • And praying for things to get better without you
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  • Being present?
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  • Come on, stay with me, stay with me.
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  • I'm coming where you at.
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  • I'm coming, i'm coming right where you are.
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  • He was one of the twelve till he wasn't.
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  • This is the same thomas, that when jesus was about to die,
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  • Thomas said, "i must go and die with him."
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  • But the pressure and the stress has become too much and now
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  • He's ghost.
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  • Jesus has died a horrendous, terrible, public death,
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  • Scandalous death.
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  • The cross was scandalous.
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  • It was not popular.
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  • It was not praised.
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  • There were no worship songs about the cross.
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  • It was a scandal of massive proportions.
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  • And thomas was saying,
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  • ♪ "i'm not going to play anymore if you-- ♪♪
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  • I'm not there."
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  • And until you show up, life will never get better.
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  • The first thing god did with adam when adam went ghost, was
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  • Say, "adam, where art thou?
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  • 'cause i cannot heal what is not present.
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  • I cannot fix what is not there.
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  • I cannot prove to someone something that they cannot see
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  • Because they are not present.
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  • The first thing i got to do is get you back on the scene.
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  • And what the devil doesn't want is you back."
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  • I don't know who i'm preaching to, but i'm talking to somebody.
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  • He doesn't want you present, he doesn't want you engaged, he
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  • Doesn't want you inspired, he doesn't want you to move.
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  • He doesn't want you to have feelings or passions because the
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  • First thing we do when we get hurt real bad is cut off our
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  • Feeling switch.
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  • I don't want to feel the pain, so if i don't feel the pain, i
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  • Don't feel the joy, i don't feel the love, i don't feel nothing,
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  • I don't take any risk, i'm ghost.
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  • And i know for sure that there are some ghosts in this room.
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  • Ghosting on your job, ghosting on your marriage, ghosting with
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  • Your family, ghosting in your situation.
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  • Oh, yes, you show up physically.
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  • Do you really think we're so stupid that we don't notice that
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  • You are ghosts,
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  • That just because you brought your box that i won't notice
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  • That it's empty,
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  • That your words are empty, and your passion is not there, and
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  • Your enthusiasm is not there, and yet you're praying for
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  • Recovery, really?
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  • Really, you're praying for recovery and you're not
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  • Even there?
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  • What is there--recover what?
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  • And i love the way the text talks about it because it says,
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  • "thomas, called didymus, who was one of the twelve,
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  • Was not there."
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  • Can i go deeper?
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  • I want to talk about the doctrine of the twelve.
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  • This does not start with jesus.
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  • The doctrine of the twelve pre-existed christ, his era, his
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  • Time, his generation, or his age.
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  • Go back to jacob, and jacob has 12 sons.
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  • The beginning of the hebrew nation started with a family and
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  • The family is based on 12 sons because 12 is a number
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  • Of government.
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  • And the 12 sons had 12 tribes.
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  • And when jesus picks 12 disciples, it is not
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  • By accident.
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  • He is setting up a new kingdom.
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  • And the circle has been broken.
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  • He is not there, but the twelve are not there.
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  • Jesus planned not to be there, but he didn't say anything about
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  • The twelve not being there.
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  • He didn't say anything about judas hanging himself and what
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  • Do we do about it?
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  • Do we replace him or move on without him?
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  • How do we handle when people go off?
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  • Oh my god.
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  • If this was a cd, i would buy it.
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  • How do we handle when people go off, they just go off and do
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  • Something berserk in your life?
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  • Do you hide it?
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  • Do you talk about it?
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  • Do you deal with it?
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  • Do you confront it?
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  • Do you sweep it under the rug?
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  • Do you just go get another one?
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  • There wasn't anything in the bible that told them how to deal
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  • With suicide.
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  • Jesus never told him that one of the twelve would commit suicide.
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  • Jesus has started a new nation with the twelve.
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  • And he hasn't been gone.
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  • But a few days and we're already coming unglued.
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  • So jacob had 12 sons.
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  • The 12 sons had 12 tribes.
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  • The 12 tribes became the nation of israel.
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  • Jesus started a new nation with 12 disciples, but it didn't work
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  • Out like it did in the old testament.
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  • Because thomas, called didymus, who was one of the twelve
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  • Is ghosting.
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  • The woman with the issue of blood had been sick for
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  • 12 years.
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  • This number 12 keeps coming up over, and over, and over again.
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  • And she didn't get healed to the 12th year because that's when
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  • God government took authority over every condition in
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  • Her life.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • I came to tell somebody it's your 12th year of dealing with
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  • That situation and god's about to take over everything in
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  • Your life.
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  • Shout me down in this place.
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  • Jairus's daughter was 12 years old when they went for jesus.
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  • The father finally saying, "enough is enough."
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  • And she was 12.
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  • At the time that the woman with the issue of blood had been sick
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  • 12 long years, the doctrine of the 12,
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  • The doctrine of the 12.
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  • Twelve disciples, 12 apostles, 12 years of affliction, 12 years
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  • Of adversity to the daughter is 12 years old.
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  • And we have been so focused in the story about the two fish and
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  • The five loaves of bread that all we remember is the two fish,
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  • The five loaves, and the groups of 50.
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  • And we ignored the only number that remained was not the two,
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  • The five, or the 50, but the 12 baskets full.
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  • The 12 baskets.
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  • Have you forgotten about the 12 baskets
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  • Full of broken pieces?
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  • Because there is a correlation between the 12 baskets and
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  • The broken pieces.
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  • The 12 baskets are the 12 positions and the broken pieces
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  • Are the men who feel them.
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  • The doctrine of the 12 is broken.
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  • The team is shattered.
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  • How can we play the game when we don't have the right number?
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  • The 12, the doctrine of the 12 is now shattered, and the
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  • Disciples are fragmented, and judas is dead, and peter has
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  • Denied him, and the ten disciples are hiding, and
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  • Thomas is ghost.
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  • This scripture alone is an admonition to the benefits of
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  • Faithfulness, because had thomas not went ghost, he would have
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  • Been there when jesus showed up.
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  • But when jesus got there, thomas was ghosting.
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  • That's why i hate missing church.
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  • Because i don't know which service is gonna be my service.
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  • I don't know which message is gonna be my message.
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  • I don't know which breakthrough is gonna be my breakthrough.
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  • And i don't wanna hear about what jesus did while i
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  • Was ghosting.
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  • I don't wanna hear about the message that i should have heard
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  • That would have liberated me, and healed me, and blessed me,
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  • And set me free.
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  • I don't want to hear a secondhand prophecy.
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  • I don't wanna catch a secondhand anointing.
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  • I don't want a secondhand glory.
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  • I feel the anointing of the holy ghost.
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  • I want to be right in the room when it happens.
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  • I want to be right in the room when it happens.
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  • I want to be right in the place when the glory fall, when the
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  • Power moves, when the lump shrinks, when the cancer
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  • Dissipates, when the yolk is broken, when the kidneys start
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  • Working, when the liver starts working, i wanna be right there.
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  • I don't want to read about it.
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  • I don't want to hear about it.
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  • I don't want to google about it.
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  • I wanna be present.
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  • But the devil wants me to be ghost.
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  • Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  • Jesus got up out of the grave, and came to the role of his
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  • Disciples, and thomas was ghost.
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • John hope bryant: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: you are the change makers.
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  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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  • Be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi: think scale.
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  • John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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  • Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
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  • John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
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  • Business is.
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  • John: the world's shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs.
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  • Right now, is the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • Bishop jakes: jesus walks into a room full of unbelief and
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  • Repeats his first miracle when he turned the dismal waters of
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  • Cana into the blissful wine of celebration.
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  • One appearance of jesus turns a room full of whimpering,
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  • Doubting ten men, into praising, leaping, jumping, rejoicing,
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  • Sure of themselves, gathered together, not discombobulated,
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  • No longer stressed out, now sure of themselves, absolute in their
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  • Conviction, and he did it in one moment.
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  • He showed up in the room, and showed them that he was god
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  • Enough to walk through a door, and man enough to eat fish when
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  • He got inside.
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  • I feel like preaching better than y'all feel like
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  • Having church.
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  • I'm talking about my lord and my god who can be whatever he wants
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  • To be whenever he wants to be it,
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  • That he's man enough to eat fish with you and god enough to walk
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  • Through the door for you and come get you when you are
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  • A ghost.
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  • He will come get you.
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  • Can i go just a little bit deeper?
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  • I want to talk about why people go ghost.
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  • And it's isolationism.
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  • Everybody copes with things differently.
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  • The ten went to introversion.
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  • Thomas goes into isolation.
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  • He was no better or worse than the ten.
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  • His coping mechanism was to unplug.
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  • How many of you are strong enough to admit that you cope
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  • With trauma by unplugging?
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  • This message is for you.
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  • If you unplug, it won't get worse, but it definitely won't
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  • Get better.
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  • Because when change happens, it does not announce itself.
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  • It does not schedule itself.
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  • It does not make an appointment with you.
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  • It's not like jesus told the disciples, "okay, boys, at 3
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  • O'clock i'm coming over to y'all's house and i'm gonna fix
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  • Everything that's wrong in your life."
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  • No, jesus expects for you to be where you're supposed to be,
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  • When you're supposed to be there
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  • So that when he pops in the room, all you have to do is
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  • Be present.
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  • "adam, where art thou?"
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  • All you have to do is be in the room.
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  • You don't have to have the answers, you don't have to have
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  • The solution, you don't have to have the way out.
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  • All you have to do is show up in your own life.
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  • God knows where you live.
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  • God knows where you are.
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  • God knows what you're going through and when he comes
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  • Walking in the door, make sure you are where you're supposed to
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  • Be, even if you don't like it, even if it doesn't feel good,
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  • Even if it makes you cry, even if it makes you hurt, don't be a
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  • Ghost in your own life.
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  • And i bet you this church and everything in it, that you were
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  • Not born an isolator.
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  • It is a learned behavior.
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  • Somebody taught you that the best way to deal with pain was
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  • To isolate.
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  • So, you adopted a method of ignoring stuff you couldn't fix.
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  • And i bet you you've been doing it all your life since you were
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  • A little girl, since you were a little boy, you have become a
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  • Master at leaving.
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  • It hurts? i leave.
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  • It hurts? i leave.
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  • It's embarrassing, i leave.
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  • Is it--it's hurtful? i leave.
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  • It's distressful, i leave.
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  • It's discombobulated, i leave.
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  • How are you gonna win if you're not in the game?
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  • If there's a suspected winner in the house, give me 30 seconds of
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  • Crazy praise.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • If i stay connected, if i stay connected, if i stay connected,
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  • If i stay connected, if i stay connected, if i stay connected,
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  • He may not come when you're wanting to come, but he right
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  • On time.
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  • He may not fix it the first night i cried, but he's right
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  • On time.
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  • If i just show up, i can be healed.
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  • If i just show up, i can be loosed.
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  • If i just show up, if i can drag my way, if i can touch the hem
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  • Of his garment, if i can crawl my way, oh, jesus will.
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  • Somebody praise him.
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  • If you know he will, somebody praise him.
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  • If you know he'll show, somebody praise him.
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  • If you know he's able, somebody praise him.
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  • If you know he's relevant, somebody praise him.
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  • If you believe him for change, i can't hear you.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • There's just two things i want to tell you.
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  • One of them is ghost talk.
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  • Ghost talk is what happened when thomas didn't show up.
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  • And he says, "unless i feel the nail prints, i ain't believing
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  • This stuff."
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  • You know what he's saying?
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  • "i'm scared of getting hurt again.
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  • I'm scared of being disappointed again.
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  • I'm scared of putting myself out there and getting rejected,
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  • And embarrassed.
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  • And i didn't expect this stage of my life to hurt this much.
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  • And the only way i can protect myself is to control
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  • My expectations.
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  • I ain't believing it."
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  • And this is what he does.
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  • You can remain standing because i'm done.
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  • This is what jesus does. it's so cool.
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  • First of all, the door is locked for fear of the jews.
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  • So, there's no way to get in for anybody but jesus.
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  • Jesus comes through the door.
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  • I want to show you what a ghostbuster looks like.
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  • Whatever door you have locked, he is getting ready to come
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  • Through that door to get your attention.
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  • Do you hear me on online?
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  • Whatever door you locked, he's coming through that door to get
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  • Your attention.
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  • Second thing jesus says, "reach hither your hand."
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  • "wait, wait, wait, jesus, how did you know what thomas said
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  • When you wasn't in the room?"
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  • So, that means that jesus had to be there even when he wasn't
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  • There in order to understand what thomas said so that he knew
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  • Exactly what to do to remove his doubt.
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  • He said, "okay, come here boy.
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  • Put your hands in my hand and feel the nail prints in my hand,
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  • And put your hands in my side and feel where they pierced me
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  • In the side.
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  • And be not faithless but believe."
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  • It ain't just that thomas got to touch his wounds.
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  • It's that jesus knew what thomas needed to touch to believe.
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  • Don't you think that god knows what you need to touch
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  • To believe?
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  • Hear me, prophetic utterance, god is gonna lead your hand to
  • 00:24:20.675 --> 00:24:24.946
  • The spot you need to touch to get yourself back.
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  • You've lost yourself, thomas, called didymus.
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  • And he is going to help you get yourself back.
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  • You're trying to get other people together?
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  • You lost you.
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  • You blaming them, let me tell you the real deal.
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  • It ain't them, it's you.
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  • Jesus knew exactly what thomas needed to touch to find himself.
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  • And thomas immediately falls down on his knees and says, "my
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  • Lord and my god."
  • 00:25:26.975 --> 00:25:33.214
  • And jesus in essence says, "i ain't afraid of no ghost.
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  • I'm not afraid of what you built up to keep me out."
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  • Jesus said, "blessed are they--you have believed because
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  • You have seen.
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  • Blessed are they who have not seen and yet they believe."
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  • Bishop jakes: the part of you that is consistent is a part of
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  • You that has been converted, transformed by the engrafted
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  • Word of god.
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  • Now, you heard all the word, but the words you do is the word
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  • That stuck.
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  • The bible says, "the engrafted word of god is able to save
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  • Your soul."
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  • What does engrafted mean?
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  • It means the word that stuck.
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  • The word that meant to you.
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  • The word that became one with you, the one that connected with
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  • Your tissue.
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  • The word that became a part of your life, that's the only word
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  • You can use under attack.
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  • The only part of the word that you can use is a word that stuck
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  • To you, got engrafted in you, became a part of your dna, that
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  • Is the word that becomes your word, your conviction, your
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  • Faith, your tenacity.
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