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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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Praise the name of the Jesus.
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Let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4.
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We're in the last verse.
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Oh, there it goes.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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Glory be to Jesus.
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Thank you Lord.
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Thank you Lord, hallelujah.
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Let's look at verse 16.
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We do not lose heart.
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Even though the outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day.
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This process.
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We've studied this.
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We now know this that this process is what God promised to Jesus when he said I'm going to give you a commandment, and that is to lay down your life and pick it up again.
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Now we know that Jesus specifically was commanded to do that at Calvary, but he did that consistently throughout His life.
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He would lay down his life for other people and pick it up and be more like God every time he did Hallelujah.
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At the beginning of his ministry, he was turning water into wine.
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At the end of his ministry, he was raising up Lazarus out of the dead and he was confronting the Roman governor, pilate, face to face and saying if you really had any power, you could do something with me, but even now I can call down legions of angels because you don't have any power unless my father had given it to you.
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So at the beginning of the ministry, jesus started out at one level, coming up out of the river Jordan.
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At the end of his ministry, it was totally transformed.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Glory to God, because he was renewed day by day and in doing that, he had learned to trust that this father was going to raise him up when he laid down his life, even into the grave.
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Glory to God Now.
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That's the trust that he teaches us by faith, when he causes his word to come to us and speak something to us that said Lord, I can't do that.
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Well, that's why I'm talking to you.
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If you could do it, I wouldn't be talking to you.
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I'd be sending ministering angels to you to help you do what you know to do.
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Well, somebody, help me here.
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Do you not know how God works?
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There are ministry angels that are sent to you to help you.
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Help you to do not only the impossible, but help you to do what you know to do and get through your day.
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You know they make a way where there seems to be no way.
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They keep cars out of your way.
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They keep disasters out of your way.
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They talk to you, they teach you things.
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They help you as you go on your way, but the way is established by the Word of God.
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So he comes to you and tells you to go in this way.
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I can't do that.
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I know that.
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That's why I'm sending my Word to you to give you the faith to believe how to go in that way, like when God came to me and said I'm going to sow you into Mexico.
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I said I don't want to do that, I can't do that.
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I got no interest in doing that.
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He said good, I'll find somebody else.
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I said wait a minute, I'll reconsider, I'll think about that.
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They said but I'm going to need something from you, I'm going to need a word from your mouth that will set me on my way.
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And he gave me that word Hallelujah.
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Without that word I wouldn't have gone.
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But because of that word, even when I was being when, when death was knocking on my door and trying to take me out, I could hang on to that word and say I'm not going anywhere, I'm certainly not going to die down here in some hotel in Mexico City.
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Glory to God, when the work is still to be done.
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Praise God, so these things come and these things go.
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Praise God.
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So these things come and these things go.
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Verse 17 says that these afflictions that come and go are but a light and momentary affliction.
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In other words, it may seem like it's the end of the earth and it may seem like it's the end of the world, and it may seem like the end of life as we know it.
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Amen.
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But the Bible says they are, but for a moment.
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But listen to me, they're not non-existent.
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Afflictions come, storms come, problems come, people that want a problemous life.
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You know not, as far as I've seen, I mean, every day is just, you know, full of problems, full of stuff, you know, full of afflictions.
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What did David say?
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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See, you'd be happy if there was a few.
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I mean, you'd be a whole lot happier if many just changed into a few tomorrow.
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You know, but that's not what the Bible says.
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The Bible says there's going to be many.
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And if there were many yesterday, since the word is the same yesterday and today, forever, guess what?
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There's going to be many today and many tomorrow.
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Because they work for you.
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Everybody say they work for me.
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We've been through this.
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They work for me.
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I had to remind myself of that several times this week.
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I was glad I preached that word.
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I said get to work for me.
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I'm not.
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You know, I'm not working for you, I'm not working under your supervision, I'm not working under your authority.
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Glory to God.
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You think about that the next time that some sort of medical affliction decides to attach itself to you and so you just look at it and say I'm not working for you, you're working for me.
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You're working in exceedingly more, more, exceeding weight or authority of glory.
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So this, all this thing has come to do, is to teach me how to flow in glory more and get the victory.
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And there's an authority in glory that is greater than any other kinds of authority that you know of.
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See, there's an authority in using the Word of God.
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You know, I believe that.
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I believe that you know as you come to know the Word of God and it gets bigger in you.
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You know and you start to believe it and you start to speak it.
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There's an authority in that speaking of that word.
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But that's not the ultimate authority, see, we've been taught that by people who didn't know the authority of the glory.
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But I told you a story last week about the authority of this glory that went beyond speaking.
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A whole bunch of people were speaking and nothing was happening.
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But the glory showed up and a mighty deliverance happened.
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I didn't say anything, I didn't have to.
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The glory showed up, hallelujah.
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Now, when this glory shows up, it has an authority that nobody wants to mess with.
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Nobody in the spirit world wants to mess with this glory Nobody.
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I've not seen anybody stand up to it yet.
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I've seen them sneak around the backside, try to deflect it and get it.
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But I mean, nobody wants to do a head-on confrontation with the glory Nobody, nobody in the spirit.
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That's why Jesus could get away with doing things that nobody else could do.
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He could command devils with a word.
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He could command storms with a word.
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He could command.
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And everybody says that's because he was the word.
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Yeah, he was the word, but he was not the word like you think of the word.
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When he was in flesh form, he was just like us.
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He had to play the same rules, the same game that we have to do, filled by the Spirit.
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So when the Spirit spoke through him, who is this Spirit?
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He is the Spirit of glory, he is the Spirit of the ministration of glory.
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And so when Jesus spoke.
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Not only did he see, he didn't always speak the word of God.
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When he told the storm to be quiet, he said muzzle the dog.
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I didn't read that anywhere in the word of God.
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And Jesus wasn't quoting great sections of the Old Testament as he calmed the storm or healed the sick.
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He just released glory.
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He didn't listen to me, folks.
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He didn't say a single word when he fed the 5,000.
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Are you aware of that?
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He just told the disciples send them down in groups of 50.
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Took the bread, took the fish, broke it, blessed it, gave it.
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Does this ring a bell anywhere?
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And the next thing, you know, they're still feeding their hungry mouths 5,000 men and who knows how many children and women later.
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And Jesus didn't go over each one and go now, don't eat too much, because we've got to have enough to pass on to the next person.
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He didn't go over.
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Now, bless that portion you're eating right there, let it be extended to the next person.
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And, oh God, just give us enough mashed potatoes to go around today, because you know, dear God, we only got five and we need to have 50.
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He didn't do that, lord.
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You said that you'd multiply.
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He didn't do none of that.
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Matter of fact, on that day, he didn't do anything except told them to sit down.
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Is anybody getting this?
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I mean, we'd have been prancing, we'd have been dancing, we'd have been slobbering, we'd have been, you know, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you know.
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And everybody had gone home hungry.
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And everybody had gone home hungry, you know, the kid would have run off with the food before he even got it to take it.
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I'm getting out of this crazy person's place.
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I mean, they're going to eat my lunch, going to be just like every other preacher Take my lunch and leave Glory to God.
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Jesus didn't do any of that.
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This is one of the greatest miracles in the New Testament.
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Take a handful of food and feed 15,000 to 20,000 people with it.
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And Jesus didn't say one thing, didn't quote one scripture, and he knew every word of it.
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I mean, he didn't quote a bit, didn't pull out a concordance and find all the bread scriptures, you know, and start to quote and just start to speak to the bread.
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And then he had to get all the fish scriptures and speak to the fish.
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Jesus, I mean, I wouldn't talk like this unless some people actually taught us this.
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This is how it works.
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This is not how it works.
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How it works is to go from glory to glory, as by the spirit of the Lord, and let this glory deposit build in you because you have learned how to deal with the many afflictions and cause them to work for you, so that they build up glory in you, because you have learned to trust His voice more than the manifestation of difficulties.
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So they tell me you know, doctor tells me two things.
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He said this is the worst broken ankle I've ever seen.
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And he is a sports doctor.
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He's seen him come in one after another after another getting tackled by 300 pound dummies.
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You know, and just you know shattered bones and just everything.
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You know dummies you know, and just you know shattered bones and just everything.
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You know accidents, you know everything.
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He said this is the worst broken ankle I've ever seen.
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Well, that's you know, bad news.
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And then the second thing he says you're always going to walk with a limp.
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I said well, it may be the worst you've ever seen, but that doesn't have anything to do with walking with a limp.
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I said I'm not having that, I'm not having it.
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So people would ask me you know, all through the process they would ask me.
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They'd say well you know, are you ever going to play golf again?
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I said I don't care anything about playing golf again.
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I've already played some of the best golf I'll ever play.
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Actually, that wasn't true.
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I played better golf since I broke the ankle.
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To be honest with you, I have.
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I may not play the same way that I played before, but be that as it may, I said I don't care.
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I said what I'm not going to do is I'm not going to walk with a limp.
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I said if I don't walk with a limp, I will play golf, but if I look at the wrong thing, I'll miss it.
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If I concentrate on playing golf, I may play golf, but I may play golf with a limp.
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I'm not going to do that.
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Amen, I'm not having that.
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I don't care if it was the worst one he'd ever seen.
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I said just get to be a good doctor and fix it, and Jesus is going to do the rest.
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Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Are we with each other here?
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So that affliction worked?
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Oh, it worked.
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I mean it worked for weeks and months and weeks and months, and weeks and months.
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So you know what I did.
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You're going to love this, you know.
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I said to myself you know what?
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I can't do anything.
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I can't do a single exercise with that foot until I get it out of a cast.
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I can't do anything with it.
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I can't wiggle it, I can't move it.
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I can't do any of the stuff that's part of the rehab after they came out of the cast.
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I can't do any of that.
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But you know what I can do from here up.
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I can do anything I want to.
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Man, I started.
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I said I am not putting on any weight, I'm not going to, I'm not giving into this thing.
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I said I'm going to work it.
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I said it's working for me, so I would.
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I do sit-ups, I do this, I do that.
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I'd do everything in it, you know.
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And I didn't put on one pound and I got stronger up here so that when that foot was ready to be rehabbed I'd already put, I'd already built into the process, the discipline.
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Now, not that I didn't do that before I've been an exercise person all my life but I got.
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I said I'm going to make this thing work for me.
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I'm not going to sit back and mope.
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I wonder if I'll ever be able to do that again.
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I never thought that.
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One time I said you know, all I know is that God didn't appoint this for limping.
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It's working for me.
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Everybody say it's working Because it produces this exceeding level of glory in you, and this exceeding level of glory has an authority that no one can mess with, amen.
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So I'm sitting there.
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I'm sitting there under an MRI machine.
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They've injected me with this radioactive stuff because I I've developed a staph infection around the the, the surgery site.
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So I'm looking, you know, and it's got.
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Oh, you got this terrible.
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Oh, it's bad.
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Oh, we may have to amputate.
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I said what?
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What?
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I said I'm not even walking with a limp, much less that.
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I said you're not going to do any such thing.
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I said you know what are those things down there?
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Well, they have some name.
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I said how big are you?
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Well, you can't even see them without a microscope.
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I said and you're going to cut off my leg for something you can't even see and has a name?
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You know that is below the name of Jesus.
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I said this isn't going to happen.
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I said this isn't going to happen.
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I got more glory in this container, hallelujah.
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Glory to God.
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They went away.
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I'm still here.
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I ain't limping either.
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Glory to Jesus, hallelujah.
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Now I just have a minute or two, or ten, or fifteen Authority.
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This glory has authority and it has this kind of authority.
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Paul says that we don't look at the things that we see, but we look at the things that are unseen.
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Now, without the glory, you can't do that.
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You can think you are, listen, I'm going to really try to help you here.
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Okay, because I've got a revelation of this.
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You may not have this yet.
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Okay, are you ready for this?
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The glory has an authority that is greater than any other authority.
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Listen to me.
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He's exalted the name of Jesus even above His word.