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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Doctor Bartholomew Or is the senior pastor of Brown Missionary
Baptist Church in South Haven, Mississippi. A church for all
people where we are equipping believers, evangelizing sinners, and boldly
proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite a large church setting,
Pastor Bartholomew Or works diligently to ensure that Brown Baptist
(00:24):
maintains a family like atmosphere. Doctor Bartholomew Or is a
humble yet powerful servant of God who loves people and
is passionate about teaching and preaching the Word of God.
Pastor Teacher Arthur Mentor podcast and one of the most
sought after preachers nationally and internationally, and always ready to
(00:49):
share an authentic, relevant and transformational word. Let's join Pastor
Bartholomew Or as he takes us on another exciting jour
in the Word of God.
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This is thirty two and beginning with verse twenty four,
of these words are recorded therein this left Jacob all
along in the camp, and the man came and wrestled
with him until the dawn began to break. When the
man saw that he would not win the match, he
touched Jacob's help and wrenched it out of his pocket.
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Then the man said, let me go, for the dawn
is breaking, But Jacob said, will not let you go
unless you bless me.
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What is your name, the man asked.
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He replied, Jacob, your name will no longer be Jacob.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The man told him. From now on you will.
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Be called Israel because you have fought with God and
with men and have won. Please tell me your name.
Jacob said, why do you want to know my name?
The man replied, then.
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He blessed Jacob.
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There Jacob named the place Penniel, which meant face of God,
for he said, I have seen God face to face,
and yet my life has been spared.
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And the sun has risen.
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Was rising as Jacob left Piniel, and he was limping
because of the injury to his hip. Even today, the
people of Israel don't eat the tendon near the hip
socket because of what happened that night when the man
strained the tendon of Jacob's him. I want to appreciate
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to your hearts this morning, from this subject fight, through
this night, fight, through this night, his luck had run out, seemingly, Jacob.
The tricks to the deceiver had been a conniving con man.
All of his life, I'm talking about one scheme after another.
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This is Jacob that we're talking about in our Bible,
the same Jacob that tricked his brother Esaum to trade
his birthright for just a bowl of stew.
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This is Jacob who.
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Deceived his own father Isaac by dressing up with animal
skin and putting on even on his hand, in order
to give to bless him that Isaac should have given
him to Esau. This is Jacob, the same one who
had used trickery in order to get over on his
father in law. Lady, And I tell you, I'm Jacob
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was known for all of his tricks and scheme. But
now where it had come to him that Esau was
on his way to meet him, and that his brother
Esau had four hundred men with him. And Jacob was
scared and rightly saw because the last time that he
had parted ways with Esau in Genesis twenty seven and
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verse forty one, Esau made it very plain, Look, I
hate Hugh, and as soon as Daddy is over with,
I'm going to kill my brother Jacob. And so Jacob
was terrified. That's what the body was said that when
the news came to him. In Genesis, chapter thirty two
and verse seven. He was terrified the fact and thought that, hey,
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his brother is.
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Coming after me.
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Let me divide my household in order to give through
this time. Even when he praved to God in chapter
thirty two and verse eleven, he is going to pray
to God and say, I am afraid, O, Lord, rescue
me from my hand of my brother the Esau, because
he is coming to attack me, my wives, and my children.
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And so Jacob, his tricken is at an all time high.
He does everything that he can in order to stop
the attacked, dividing his household. In verse eight eight, he
even prayed to God in verses nine through twelve, he
was even sending gifts ahead. Matter of fact, he sent
three gifts I have in verse thirteen through twenty one,
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and then night Field. And as night Field, the Bible said,
it happened, an unidentified man showed up when Jacob was
all along and began fighting with Jacob. As matter of fact,
the Bible says that that fight happened at night, and
they wrestled all night long.
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When I thought about that, brothers and.
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Sisters, I thought to myself that our world finds herself
right now in a night season, in a night season,
and so many are filling all along isolated.
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There is uncertainty in the air.
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Many, just like Jacob, thought Esau was coming to destroy them.
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Many I think them that COVID nineteen is coming after us.
And so what do we do. We're trying to do
everything that the experts are seeing in order to stay safe.
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I don't know about y'all, but but boy, I got masked,
I got life soft sprayed, I done rubbed so much on,
I done drank everything the health store had in order
to try him to keep safe. And yet I want
you to know him this morning, Brown, Brothers and sister,
I still have hope. The hope is not in the
things of this world, but my hope is in the Lord.
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You see, I believe that unidentified man that showed up
to wrestle with Jacob that night was Jesus Christ himself.
And that's what I want to share with you this morning,
that since the Lord Jesus just want to meet you
face to face and change your faith, fight through this night.
Jesus want to meet us face to face. He didn't
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show up that night in order to defeat Jacob. No,
he showed up that night to develop Jacob.
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He didn't show up.
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That night to fight against Jacob. He showed up to
fight for Jacob. He didn't show up that night to
crush Jacob. But Jesus showed up in order to change Jacob,
and he wants to do the same for us right now.
He didn't show up that night, y'all ought to beat
him down, but he showed up in order to bless him.
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And even right now, the Lord I want to bless somebody.
But the question becomes, are we up for the fight?
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Are we up for this fight?
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Are we willing to fight through this night, for our families,
to fight through this night, for ourself, to fight through
this night, for our world?
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Y'all? We need to fight through this night. How do
I do it, Preacher? How do I do it? Well?
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First of all, I believe we need to fight to
hold on to him. I believe we need to fight
to hold on to him. I call this the encounter.
We need to recognize Jesus Christ. You see, I don't
believe that Jacob recognized Jesus when he first showed up
on the scene. God had already been trying to get
Jacob's attention. Matter of fact, if you go back to
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verse one and two, the Bible said that God had
already sent his angels in order to meet Jake. Jacob
recognized that this was indeed the camp of.
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The Lord, and the Lord was near him.
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But unfortunately he is still acting out of fear and
not faith. And when Jesus showed up that night, I
don't believe he understood at first exactly who Jesus was.
But sometime at some point the light bulb went off.
I don't know if it was when Jesus spoke up
and said, it's getting light. You need to let me go.
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Whenever it was, Jacob realized, this is the Lord that
I'm fighting with, and so then the light changed and
Jacob said, I'm gonna hold on to you until I
receive a blessing from you. Matter of fact, Jacob said,
this is the place of God. I've seen God face
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to faith. He even changed the name of it to
Penny here because I have been able to whipness the
Lord and have not died in the process. Brothers and sister's,
somebody this morning need to open your eyes and you
need to see Jesus, the one that is right there
all along. You need to understand that you're not in
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this fight by yourself. You're not going through this by yourself.
Some a quarantine, some isolated. You can't even have the
embrace of others. But I need you to know them.
Jesus is right there. And what Jesus is simply saying
this morning here, don't.
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Let go of Jesus. Don't let Jesus go do them
this time?
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We need to fight in order to hold on to him.
The issue is never Jesus letting go of us. He
has you and he's gonna keep a hold on you.
For what happens Also often, y'all, especially with these church
doors open, people.
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Will let go of Jesus. How do I do that? Preacher?
How do I? How does that happen? We don't.
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We start slacking and reading our Bible. We start slacking
and praying. We can't come to church physically, and so
we snacked even in.
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The worship of the Lord.
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And so we have to fight and do everything possible.
You ought to be praying like you never prayed before.
You ought to be reading your Bible's life you never
read it before.
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Fight to hold on to Jesus.
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And matter of fact, we ought to say, like Jacob,
I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me
from on high.
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Fight to hold on to him.
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But not only fight to hold on to him, brothers
and sisters, We need to fight to hold out for him.
I call this endurance the fact that we need to
realize the time. Because verse thirty two, Chapter thirty two,
Verse twenty four is wanting to say that the fight
went on all night long. Matter of fact, he wrestled
with him until the dawn began to break.
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Isn't it something I don't know about, y'all?
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I tell you, I was wrestling with my grandchildren the
other night, and after five minutes of a pillow fight
and tickling them, I was already.
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But can you imagine.
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Wrestling and fight them all night long?
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What does it take? It takes endurance. It takes endurance.
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It says I'm going to hold out no matter how
long this is going to take.
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None.
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There are some that are saying, you know what, I
just don't believe that this is the new norm.
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I refuse to believe it. I refuse to give in
to it.
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But right now, y'all, this is the new norm and
none of us know how long this is going to last.
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But here's what it's gonna take. It's going to take
endurance to last through the night.
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I was reminded of an old song that we used
to sing but when I was growing up, that said, Lord,
help me to hold out until my change.
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Come. Brothers and sister.
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It may be a week, it may be a month,
but we need to fight in order to hold out
for him. What is God to us this morning? God
is saying, don't.
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Give up on Jesus. Don't give up on Jesus. Rather
than sisters.
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We got to understand that we need patience during this time.
We've been may endure for a night, the Bible says,
but joy is going to come in the morning. You
need patience to hold out. Hebrews chapter ten and verse
thirty six is going to say it like this, patient
endurance is what you need now so that you will
continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all
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that He has promise on to you. We need to
realize these times that I might have to wait for
some weeks and some months, and yet the Lord is
with me and He's going to give me the strength
that I need in order to endure. Don't you give
up on Jesus. Don't you let Jesus go, but let
me give him my last one, and I let you go.
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Fight to hold up for him. We need to fight
to hold up for him. I call him this endeavoring
to reflect on our ways. Because Jesus was getting ready
to leave them, Jacob said, I need a blessing from you.
And so Jesus asked him, what is your name? And
he replied Jacob. He replied Jacob. Jacob was honest enough
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to say that my name is Jacob. Now, when Jacob
said his name was Jacob, what he's saying he is,
I'm a deceiver, I'm a caniver, I'm a trickster. He
was honest with the Lord. And so here's what Jesus did,
brothers and sisters. He blessed him with a new name.
He gave him a new name. And I believe that
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not only did he give him a new name, but
he gave him.
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A new nature.
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To say, Jacob, from here on out, you're gonna hold
me up. From him on out, You're going to live
in such a way that what poet others come to
me and testify of my goodness. Isn't that a blessing?
That he changed his name from Jacob to Israel, from
Jacob tricks to Jacob deceiver to Israel one who fight.
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With God and that God fights for them.
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Or he changed his name from Colwood to confidence, from
deceiver to determine. He changed his name from trickster to
trust them, from fiarthful to faithful, from overwhelm to overcome.
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He changed his name.
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And here's how he blessed him that day, Brothers and sister,
the Bible said that he hit him in the hill,
and when he hit him in the hip, that the
Bible said that it calls him to limp. But aren't
your glad, brothers and sister.
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He was a change man. Why do I say he
was a changed man?
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Because in chapter thirty three when he met Esau, he
is not meeting him with hostilities. He's not meeting him
with hatred and heart. Matter of fact, when they embraced
Genesis thirty three and verse four, the Bible said that
they both wept, they both.
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Were kissing on each other.
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Why, because the Lord had made a change in their
lives doing this crisis. We find ourselves in brothers and sister,
this is the perfect opportunity.
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For believe us to shime the light for Jesus Christ.
This is a perfect.
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Time for us to hold up for Jesus Christ. As
a matter of fact, to hold him up for the world.
Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I would draw
all men to me.
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How do I do that? Don't let Jesus down through
this time. Don't you let Jesus down through this? No, no, all.
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This is a time to shine your light the brightest.
This is a time to spread his love. This is
a time to speak up for the Lord. You shine
the light the brightest by being your best and living
for Jesus. Even at a moment like this, Oh, I'm
glad this morning. The Lord is simply saying I want
to meet him face to face. And so even with
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this knight that I have given you, let it be
a knight that I meet you face to face. Or
I thought about that when I started looking through the Bible,
Brothers and sister, I discover God loves.
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Meeting folks in night season.
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Matter of fact, David said himself in Psalmn sixteen and
verse seven that I would bless the Lord and who
God's men, even at night, my heart instructs men, King James,
Virgin saim during my night season. Aren't you glad, brothers
and sister, that even in this night season, the Lord
wanna meet us. It was at night that God met
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Abraham in Genesis fifteen.
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It was at night that.
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God met Isaac in Genesis twenty six and verse twenty four.
It was at night that God met at Laboring and
warned him in Genesis thirty one not to mess with Jacob.
It was even at night that God is going to
meet Jacob in Genesis twenty eight. Here in Genesis thirty two,
even in Genesis forty six, thank God that he loves
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meeting folks at night, and at this night season, Brothers
and sister, the Lord wanna meet you. He wants to
meet with me. He wants to meet us if this
night season. Isn't that what Nicodemus did in John chapter three,
it was at night.
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The Bible said.
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Nicodemus came to Jesus because he wanted to get to
know Jesus a little bit better, and said, right by,
we know that you are sent from God because nobody
can do what you can do. And Jesus had Nicodemus.
To know Nicodemus, you must be born again.
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I believe that's what Jesus is saying.
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Even at this night season, I'm looking for souls to
be saved. I'm looking for churches to grow and expand
I'm looking for my kingdom to be expanded. That even
in this night season, I need to meet somebody face
to face, I need to meet somebody face to face.
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Why.
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Because he wants to change your name, and he wants
to change your nation. That's why he came brothers and
sisters in order to make a change in our lives.
That's why he came down born in Bethlehem, wrapped in
swartening clothes, in order to make a change. And how
did he make that changed? One Friday morning? Good God Almighty,
guess what he did on that cross. He changed day
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in tonight. Because when Jesus died on the cross, the
Bibles have the sun refused to shine. He made midday
become midnight. And it was on that cross that he
did battle for us. He fought against Satan, he fought
against Sin. He died that Friday. They buried him in
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the grave. But that was the end of the story,
right but elim. Someday morning Jesus woke up with all
power in his hand. I need to tell somebody this morning,
Brothers and sisters, he wants to meet you right now.
You might be in a night season, but he wants
to change your name. He wants to change your nature
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from sinner to saints, from enemy to friend, from deceiver
to disciple, from coward to courage. He wants to change
your right now from backslider to believer. He wants to
change your right now from weak to strong. He wants
to change your faith where you depend on him, where
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you humble yourself, where you turn from your wicked ways.
That's why I stop by to tell you got to
learn how to fight through this night. Oh it may
it rough, but you got to learn how to fight
through this night. I thought about boxing, y'all. You might
find yourself in a brawl in Montreal where you feel
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like a lightweight in a major battle, but learn how
to fight.
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Through this night. It might be a rumble in.
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The jungle where you find yourself going through business changes,
health changes, family changes.
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But I'm here to tell your fight through this night.
This might be.
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The fight of the centric where you've never faced anything
like this before. You're in the thriller in Manila, and
this is your opportunity attack to shine for Jesus light
never before. You got to learn how to fight through
this night.
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It might be a long count fight.
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We might be in it longer than we want to be,
but you gotta fight through this night. For some, it
is the showdown. For some is to fight up the Yates.
But you ought to say Light that all box some
that I fight like a butterfly.
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I sting like a beef.
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Nobody else it's gonna come against me.
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Why because he gives Angel charge over me. Fight through
this night, Fight through this night. Let them leave you.
But when I read the text the Bible sat the
next morning, when he went out, he went out with
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the limb.
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He wasn't walking like he used to walk, but now.
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He had a limp in his side. I don't know
with God's gonna bring us through.
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I don't know how God's gonna bring us through.
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But even if we have a limp, I need you
to know we are still.
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Victorious even with the limp. I'm gonna shout and give
him the glorious even with the limp, I'm gonna bless
his name.
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Even with the limp, I'm gonna raise my hand and faith.
Thank you, thank you, Thank.
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You Jesus for blessing me. Thank you Jesus for bringing
me through thake you Jesus. Yes, ain't nobody do men
like Jesus. Ain't nobody hold men like Jesus.
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Yeah, fight, fight, fight through this night, Fight through this night. No,
you don't have to fight against Christ. But he's right
there with you to fight for you. He's gonna give
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you what you need, but you got to hold on
to him. He's gonna give you the strength that you need,
but you can't give up on him. Matter of fact,
you need to make sure that you don't let him down. No, no, no,
no no no. Don't you go back, but you fight
through this night.
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Doctor Bartholomew Or is the senior pastor of Brown Missionary
Baptist Church in South Haven, Mississippi. A church for all
people where we are equipping believers, evangelizing sinners, and boldly
proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite a large church setting,
Pastor Bartholomew Or works diligently to ensure that Brown Baptist
(00:24):
maintains a family like atmosphere. Doctor Bartholomew Or is a
humble yet powerful servant of God who loves people and
is passionate about teaching and preaching the Word of God.
Pastor Teacher Arthur Mentor podcast and one of the most
sought after preachers nationally and internationally, and always ready to
(00:49):
share an authentic, relevant and transformational word. Let's join Pastor
Bartholomew Or as he takes us on another exciting jour
in the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
This is thirty two and beginning with verse twenty four,
of these words are recorded therein this left Jacob all
along in the camp, and the man came and wrestled
with him until the dawn began to break. When the
man saw that he would not win the match, he
touched Jacob's help and wrenched it out of his pocket.
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Then the man said, let me go, for the dawn
is breaking, But Jacob said, will not let you go
unless you bless me.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
What is your name, the man asked.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
He replied, Jacob, your name will no longer be Jacob.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The man told him. From now on you will.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Be called Israel because you have fought with God and
with men and have won. Please tell me your name.
Jacob said, why do you want to know my name?
The man replied, then.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He blessed Jacob.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
There Jacob named the place Penniel, which meant face of God,
for he said, I have seen God face to face,
and yet my life has been spared.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And the sun has risen.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Was rising as Jacob left Piniel, and he was limping
because of the injury to his hip. Even today, the
people of Israel don't eat the tendon near the hip
socket because of what happened that night when the man
strained the tendon of Jacob's him. I want to appreciate
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to your hearts this morning, from this subject fight, through
this night, fight, through this night, his luck had run out, seemingly, Jacob.
The tricks to the deceiver had been a conniving con man.
All of his life, I'm talking about one scheme after another.
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This is Jacob that we're talking about in our Bible,
the same Jacob that tricked his brother Esaum to trade
his birthright for just a bowl of stew.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
This is Jacob who.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Deceived his own father Isaac by dressing up with animal
skin and putting on even on his hand, in order
to give to bless him that Isaac should have given
him to Esau. This is Jacob, the same one who
had used trickery in order to get over on his
father in law. Lady, And I tell you, I'm Jacob
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was known for all of his tricks and scheme. But
now where it had come to him that Esau was
on his way to meet him, and that his brother
Esau had four hundred men with him. And Jacob was
scared and rightly saw because the last time that he
had parted ways with Esau in Genesis twenty seven and
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verse forty one, Esau made it very plain, Look, I
hate Hugh, and as soon as Daddy is over with,
I'm going to kill my brother Jacob. And so Jacob
was terrified. That's what the body was said that when
the news came to him. In Genesis, chapter thirty two
and verse seven. He was terrified the fact and thought that, hey,
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his brother is.
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Coming after me.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Let me divide my household in order to give through
this time. Even when he praved to God in chapter
thirty two and verse eleven, he is going to pray
to God and say, I am afraid, O, Lord, rescue
me from my hand of my brother the Esau, because
he is coming to attack me, my wives, and my children.
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And so Jacob, his tricken is at an all time high.
He does everything that he can in order to stop
the attacked, dividing his household. In verse eight eight, he
even prayed to God in verses nine through twelve, he
was even sending gifts ahead. Matter of fact, he sent
three gifts I have in verse thirteen through twenty one,
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and then night Field. And as night Field, the Bible said,
it happened, an unidentified man showed up when Jacob was
all along and began fighting with Jacob. As matter of fact,
the Bible says that that fight happened at night, and
they wrestled all night long.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
When I thought about that, brothers and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sisters, I thought to myself that our world finds herself
right now in a night season, in a night season,
and so many are filling all along isolated.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
There is uncertainty in the air.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Many, just like Jacob, thought Esau was coming to destroy them.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Many I think them that COVID nineteen is coming after us.
And so what do we do. We're trying to do
everything that the experts are seeing in order to stay safe.
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I don't know about y'all, but but boy, I got masked,
I got life soft sprayed, I done rubbed so much on,
I done drank everything the health store had in order
to try him to keep safe. And yet I want
you to know him this morning, Brown, Brothers and sister,
I still have hope. The hope is not in the
things of this world, but my hope is in the Lord.
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You see, I believe that unidentified man that showed up
to wrestle with Jacob that night was Jesus Christ himself.
And that's what I want to share with you this morning,
that since the Lord Jesus just want to meet you
face to face and change your faith, fight through this night.
Jesus want to meet us face to face. He didn't
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show up that night in order to defeat Jacob. No,
he showed up that night to develop Jacob.
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He didn't show up.
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That night to fight against Jacob. He showed up to
fight for Jacob. He didn't show up that night to
crush Jacob. But Jesus showed up in order to change Jacob,
and he wants to do the same for us right now.
He didn't show up that night, y'all ought to beat
him down, but he showed up in order to bless him.
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And even right now, the Lord I want to bless somebody.
But the question becomes, are we up for the fight?
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Are we up for this fight?
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Are we willing to fight through this night, for our families,
to fight through this night, for ourself, to fight through
this night, for our world?
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Y'all? We need to fight through this night. How do
I do it, Preacher? How do I do it? Well?
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First of all, I believe we need to fight to
hold on to him. I believe we need to fight
to hold on to him. I call this the encounter.
We need to recognize Jesus Christ. You see, I don't
believe that Jacob recognized Jesus when he first showed up
on the scene. God had already been trying to get
Jacob's attention. Matter of fact, if you go back to
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verse one and two, the Bible said that God had
already sent his angels in order to meet Jake. Jacob
recognized that this was indeed the camp of.
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The Lord, and the Lord was near him.
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But unfortunately he is still acting out of fear and
not faith. And when Jesus showed up that night, I
don't believe he understood at first exactly who Jesus was.
But sometime at some point the light bulb went off.
I don't know if it was when Jesus spoke up
and said, it's getting light. You need to let me go.
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Whenever it was, Jacob realized, this is the Lord that
I'm fighting with, and so then the light changed and
Jacob said, I'm gonna hold on to you until I
receive a blessing from you. Matter of fact, Jacob said,
this is the place of God. I've seen God face
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to faith. He even changed the name of it to
Penny here because I have been able to whipness the
Lord and have not died in the process. Brothers and sister's,
somebody this morning need to open your eyes and you
need to see Jesus, the one that is right there
all along. You need to understand that you're not in
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this fight by yourself. You're not going through this by yourself.
Some a quarantine, some isolated. You can't even have the
embrace of others. But I need you to know them.
Jesus is right there. And what Jesus is simply saying
this morning here, don't.
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Let go of Jesus. Don't let Jesus go do them
this time?
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We need to fight in order to hold on to him.
The issue is never Jesus letting go of us. He
has you and he's gonna keep a hold on you.
For what happens Also often, y'all, especially with these church
doors open, people.
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Will let go of Jesus. How do I do that? Preacher?
How do I? How does that happen? We don't.
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We start slacking and reading our Bible. We start slacking
and praying. We can't come to church physically, and so
we snacked even in.
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The worship of the Lord.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And so we have to fight and do everything possible.
You ought to be praying like you never prayed before.
You ought to be reading your Bible's life you never
read it before.
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Fight to hold on to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And matter of fact, we ought to say, like Jacob,
I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me
from on high.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Fight to hold on to him.
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But not only fight to hold on to him, brothers
and sisters, We need to fight to hold out for him.
I call this endurance the fact that we need to
realize the time. Because verse thirty two, Chapter thirty two,
Verse twenty four is wanting to say that the fight
went on all night long. Matter of fact, he wrestled
with him until the dawn began to break.
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Isn't it something I don't know about, y'all?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I tell you, I was wrestling with my grandchildren the
other night, and after five minutes of a pillow fight
and tickling them, I was already.
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But can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Wrestling and fight them all night long?
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What does it take? It takes endurance. It takes endurance.
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It says I'm going to hold out no matter how
long this is going to take.
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None.
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There are some that are saying, you know what, I
just don't believe that this is the new norm.
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I refuse to believe it. I refuse to give in
to it.
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But right now, y'all, this is the new norm and
none of us know how long this is going to last.
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But here's what it's gonna take. It's going to take
endurance to last through the night.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I was reminded of an old song that we used
to sing but when I was growing up, that said, Lord,
help me to hold out until my change.
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Come. Brothers and sister.
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It may be a week, it may be a month,
but we need to fight in order to hold out
for him. What is God to us this morning? God
is saying, don't.
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Give up on Jesus. Don't give up on Jesus. Rather
than sisters.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
We got to understand that we need patience during this time.
We've been may endure for a night, the Bible says,
but joy is going to come in the morning. You
need patience to hold out. Hebrews chapter ten and verse
thirty six is going to say it like this, patient
endurance is what you need now so that you will
continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all
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that He has promise on to you. We need to
realize these times that I might have to wait for
some weeks and some months, and yet the Lord is
with me and He's going to give me the strength
that I need in order to endure. Don't you give
up on Jesus. Don't you let Jesus go, but let
me give him my last one, and I let you go.
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Fight to hold up for him. We need to fight
to hold up for him. I call him this endeavoring
to reflect on our ways. Because Jesus was getting ready
to leave them, Jacob said, I need a blessing from you.
And so Jesus asked him, what is your name? And
he replied Jacob. He replied Jacob. Jacob was honest enough
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to say that my name is Jacob. Now, when Jacob
said his name was Jacob, what he's saying he is,
I'm a deceiver, I'm a caniver, I'm a trickster. He
was honest with the Lord. And so here's what Jesus did,
brothers and sisters. He blessed him with a new name.
He gave him a new name. And I believe that
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not only did he give him a new name, but
he gave him.
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A new nature.
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To say, Jacob, from here on out, you're gonna hold
me up. From him on out, You're going to live
in such a way that what poet others come to
me and testify of my goodness. Isn't that a blessing?
That he changed his name from Jacob to Israel, from
Jacob tricks to Jacob deceiver to Israel one who fight.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
With God and that God fights for them.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Or he changed his name from Colwood to confidence, from
deceiver to determine. He changed his name from trickster to
trust them, from fiarthful to faithful, from overwhelm to overcome.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
He changed his name.
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And here's how he blessed him that day, Brothers and sister,
the Bible said that he hit him in the hill,
and when he hit him in the hip, that the
Bible said that it calls him to limp. But aren't
your glad, brothers and sister.
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He was a change man. Why do I say he
was a changed man?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Because in chapter thirty three when he met Esau, he
is not meeting him with hostilities. He's not meeting him
with hatred and heart. Matter of fact, when they embraced
Genesis thirty three and verse four, the Bible said that
they both wept, they both.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Were kissing on each other.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Why, because the Lord had made a change in their
lives doing this crisis. We find ourselves in brothers and sister,
this is the perfect opportunity.
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For believe us to shime the light for Jesus Christ.
This is a perfect.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Time for us to hold up for Jesus Christ. As
a matter of fact, to hold him up for the world.
Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I would draw
all men to me.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
How do I do that? Don't let Jesus down through
this time. Don't you let Jesus down through this? No, no, all.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
This is a time to shine your light the brightest.
This is a time to spread his love. This is
a time to speak up for the Lord. You shine
the light the brightest by being your best and living
for Jesus. Even at a moment like this, Oh, I'm
glad this morning. The Lord is simply saying I want
to meet him face to face. And so even with
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this knight that I have given you, let it be
a knight that I meet you face to face. Or
I thought about that when I started looking through the Bible,
Brothers and sister, I discover God loves.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Meeting folks in night season.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Matter of fact, David said himself in Psalmn sixteen and
verse seven that I would bless the Lord and who
God's men, even at night, my heart instructs men, King James,
Virgin saim during my night season. Aren't you glad, brothers
and sister, that even in this night season, the Lord
wanna meet us. It was at night that God met
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Abraham in Genesis fifteen.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It was at night that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
God met Isaac in Genesis twenty six and verse twenty four.
It was at night that God met at Laboring and
warned him in Genesis thirty one not to mess with Jacob.
It was even at night that God is going to
meet Jacob in Genesis twenty eight. Here in Genesis thirty two,
even in Genesis forty six, thank God that he loves
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meeting folks at night, and at this night season, Brothers
and sister, the Lord wanna meet you. He wants to
meet with me. He wants to meet us if this
night season. Isn't that what Nicodemus did in John chapter three,
it was at night.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
The Bible said.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Nicodemus came to Jesus because he wanted to get to
know Jesus a little bit better, and said, right by,
we know that you are sent from God because nobody
can do what you can do. And Jesus had Nicodemus.
To know Nicodemus, you must be born again.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I believe that's what Jesus is saying.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Even at this night season, I'm looking for souls to
be saved. I'm looking for churches to grow and expand
I'm looking for my kingdom to be expanded. That even
in this night season, I need to meet somebody face
to face, I need to meet somebody face to face.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Why.
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Because he wants to change your name, and he wants
to change your nation. That's why he came brothers and
sisters in order to make a change in our lives.
That's why he came down born in Bethlehem, wrapped in
swartening clothes, in order to make a change. And how
did he make that changed? One Friday morning? Good God Almighty,
guess what he did on that cross. He changed day
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in tonight. Because when Jesus died on the cross, the
Bibles have the sun refused to shine. He made midday
become midnight. And it was on that cross that he
did battle for us. He fought against Satan, he fought
against Sin. He died that Friday. They buried him in
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the grave. But that was the end of the story,
right but elim. Someday morning Jesus woke up with all
power in his hand. I need to tell somebody this morning,
Brothers and sisters, he wants to meet you right now.
You might be in a night season, but he wants
to change your name. He wants to change your nature
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from sinner to saints, from enemy to friend, from deceiver
to disciple, from coward to courage. He wants to change
your right now from backslider to believer. He wants to
change your right now from weak to strong. He wants
to change your faith where you depend on him, where
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you humble yourself, where you turn from your wicked ways.
That's why I stop by to tell you got to
learn how to fight through this night. Oh it may
it rough, but you got to learn how to fight
through this night. I thought about boxing, y'all. You might
find yourself in a brawl in Montreal where you feel
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like a lightweight in a major battle, but learn how
to fight.
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Through this night. It might be a rumble in.
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The jungle where you find yourself going through business changes,
health changes, family changes.
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But I'm here to tell your fight through this night.
This might be.
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The fight of the centric where you've never faced anything
like this before. You're in the thriller in Manila, and
this is your opportunity attack to shine for Jesus light
never before. You got to learn how to fight through
this night.
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It might be a long count fight.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We might be in it longer than we want to be,
but you gotta fight through this night. For some, it
is the showdown. For some is to fight up the Yates.
But you ought to say Light that all box some
that I fight like a butterfly.
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I sting like a beef.
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Nobody else it's gonna come against me.
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Why because he gives Angel charge over me. Fight through
this night, Fight through this night. Let them leave you.
But when I read the text the Bible sat the
next morning, when he went out, he went out with
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the limb.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
He wasn't walking like he used to walk, but now.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He had a limp in his side. I don't know
with God's gonna bring us through.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I don't know how God's gonna bring us through.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
But even if we have a limp, I need you
to know we are still.
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Victorious even with the limp. I'm gonna shout and give
him the glorious even with the limp, I'm gonna bless
his name.
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Even with the limp, I'm gonna raise my hand and faith.
Thank you, thank you, Thank.
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You Jesus for blessing me. Thank you Jesus for bringing
me through thake you Jesus. Yes, ain't nobody do men
like Jesus. Ain't nobody hold men like Jesus.
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Yeah, fight, fight, fight through this night, Fight through this night. No,
you don't have to fight against Christ. But he's right
there with you to fight for you. He's gonna give
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you what you need, but you got to hold on
to him. He's gonna give you the strength that you need,
but you can't give up on him. Matter of fact,
you need to make sure that you don't let him down. No, no, no,
no no no. Don't you go back, but you fight
through this night.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
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