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[Silence] [Sound of a fire burning] Here we are, waiting for the word. [Sound of a fire burning]

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[inaudible] [inaudible] So grant that your words may be said and heard, that we will be not hearers of the word only,

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but doers of the word always. We ask from the strong and perfect faith of Jesus. [inaudible] I'd like to acknowledge those of you who come from my home church in Dallas to be with us.

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[inaudible] My wife has copied this message for those who want to remember the text of it. [inaudible] I want to invite now our friend the Bishop to the passage of this ship.

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He taught it in Acts, the second chapter, the first four verses. And when the day of Pentecost was fully cut, they were all in one accord, in one place. That's right.

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And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, [INAUDIBLE] As of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

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and there appeared unto them frozen tongues of the head, [INAUDIBLE] And they will all see. [INAUDIBLE] The 42nd verse of the Spring Chapter, [INAUDIBLE] And they continued their path.

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[INAUDIBLE] The apostles, doctrine, and philosophy. And in breaking the bread, [INAUDIBLE] The subject of the message is "Learning with the Bird."

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[Audience "Amens"] Learning with the bird. [Audience "Amens"] dedicated and trained servants of the eternal God,

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carrying a flaming torch which signifies man with the brain. They are barons of the holy light, which burns day and night, and drives away the demonic darkness of evil. They have the heavenly fire which destroys the drops of satanic influences and purifies and refines the human spirit.

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We live in a time when the human family has accumulated a vast storehouse of knowledge which baffles and bewilders the modern mind. [unintelligible] We have produced a sophisticated society which knows more and more about that which

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is of less and less significance. [LAUGHTER] Right. [INAUDIBLE]

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Our science and technology have enabled us to go into other places, but we have not learned how to live together in anything. [laughter] Now the first point which I would like to emphasize has to do with men. All right.

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We are mixed up about the meaning of men. All right. We confuse education with humans. All right.

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Right. All right. Education is a process which develops an individual's innate abilities, aptitudes, and capacities. Schooling is concerned with the kind of fit in the classroom receiving formal instruction.

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There's a difference. There's a border between education and schooling. Prescribed periods of study may produce meritorious awards in the halls of academia, but they don't prove that we are the wisest, though.

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We may still be ill-equipped for later. [Audience "All right."] We need learning that enables us to courageously and successfully accept the challenges of human history. What we really need is life-learning.

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We need learning that enables us to live life abundantly. We need learning with the verse. Now, there are those who attempt to divorce education from the Christian faith. Through their efforts, ignorance is deified and glorified, while intellectual pursuits are demonized and criticized.

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[Crowd noise] Tertullian in the long ago asked the question, what has Athens to do with Jerusalem? And this age old question is being asked anew in our time.

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What has the head to do with the heart? What has reason to do with revolution? All right now, our Christian educators have asked the question, should religion be caught or taught? [laughter]

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And in response to this question, Christian nurture has been promoted to the neglect of emphasis on the necessity of genuine Christian conversion experience. Now when the head and the heart are divorced, one may have an informed mind and a wicked heart. Or one may have a consecrated heart and an uninformed head.

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[inaudible] The divine mandate you must be born again includes head and heart. [inaudible] forefathers believed in the union of head and heart,

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and the service of the king. They established colleges, namely, Garth Lewis, Conroe, Bishop, Oakwood, Central Texas, Mary Allen.

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Now most of these schools are gone, But they testify of our ancestors' concern for learning in relation to the Christian faith. [laughter] How can people get the burning without the learning?

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[laughter] and become fanatic. (laughter) Not knowing what to do and how to do it.

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(laughter) They have feels, but not according to knowledge. (laughter) Others have learning without the burning.

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(laughter) There is a form of God today. without spiritual power. And what is needed, my brothers and sisters,

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is a blessed blending of head and heart in learning with the birds. You see, learning is essential to the life of the church. Jesus said to his disciples,

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"Take my yoke upon you, [inaudible] Luke tells us in his description of the early church, that they competed steadfastly in the apostles doctrine.

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You see, the church was taught by persons who had been taught by the master teacher. Oh, they could not boast of the wisdom of the world, but they were students of the wisdom of God. Learn of me, this means that Christ must teach us.

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His spirit must guide our thoughts. Our ordinances must be seasoned by his spirit. Our actions must be governed by history. - Right, amen.

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- Very good. - Now this is the kind of learning that the church possesses. - All right.

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- Now it's true that we must be students of language, of history, and science, and methods, but above all, we must learn from the master. - All right.

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- All right. - Yeah. - You know, this kind of learning that confounded the critics of the early church.

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An investigating committee went out to examine and to evaluate the credentials of Peter and John. They consulted the registrar's office of the colleges and universities, and they took up time

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They got transcripts there. (audience cheering) They have defended these schools. They have agreed from these schools.

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And when they made their report, they concluded that they were unlearned men. But they had hit with truth. (audience cheering)

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(audience chattering) Also, in our emphasis on teaching and training, let us remember that in all that we do, that our primary task is to teach Christ. [Audience "Amen"] They continue steadfast in the apostles' thought.

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They were learning more and more about Jesus. More about Jesus, I would learn. More of His holy will, they learned. Spirit of God, my teacher be,

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showing the things of Christ to me. [inaudible] More of his saving, more of his saving, more of his love. All my brothers and sisters, our greatest need is not larger budget.

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Our greatest need is not more classroom space. Our greatest need is not more educational material. Our greatest need is to learn more and more about the indwelling power of Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "Learn of me."

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That's the kind of learning that we so desperately need. [Unintelligible] Now, in the second place, let us consider the burning. [Unintelligible]

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Let's consider that burning which is essential to the life of the church. [Unintelligible] Now when the church is born, the Spirit came. [Unintelligible]

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Like a mighty rushing wind. [Unintelligible] descended from heaven, like forked toes and sat on each person that was in the oven. You see the church got started with burning.

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It's a special kind of burning. [inaudible] When I was thinking about this sermon, I first thought about entitling this sermon "Learning with a Burn."

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[inaudible] Because I thought about all kinds of burns. Sunburns. Heartburns.

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[inaudible] You see, those who were in the upper room were shaken up and set on fire. You see, and this fire stayed with them. They continued steadfast.

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They were not dropouts. They were not starters and stoppers. They continued steadfast. They were thankful followers of the way because they had the fire.

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Yes sir. Yes sir. You can't be cold, callous, and indifferent to your own fire. All right.

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All right. All right. All right. All right.

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Where is the fire? All right. All right. All right.

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Where is the fire? Where is the fire? That's a good question. Oh, we have beautiful rooms.

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All right. All right. - Where is the fire in our teaching? - All right.

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- Where is the fire? - Where? - Where is the fire in our witnessing? - All right.

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- Where is the fire? - Yeah. - All right. - Where is the fire?

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- Where? - Where is the fire? - All right. - Where is the fire?

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- Where? - Where is the fire in our witnessing? - All right. - Where is the fire?

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- Yeah. - All right. - Where is the fire? - Where?

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- Where? - Where is the fire? - All right. It seems that we are suffering from a fuel crisis.

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Where is the fire? Many study schools and training unions are dull, drab, cold, and lifeless. Where is the fire?

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Oh, we have spacious rooms, lovely fireplaces and beautiful furnaces. But where is the fire? We've erected some attractive altars from which to also

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sacrifice. But where is the fire? It seems that many of the workers in our churches are burned out.

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The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. And many have become weary with well-doing. And we burn out because we have no oil in our land. Emptiness and weakness exist because of burnout.

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Burnout leaders? Whore officers. But lack motivating power. Burnout teachers?

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Conduct classes because of hat-down rather than love. Burnout preachers? Come on, deliver a sermon because a sermon is expected rather than because they have a sermon burned in them waiting to be delivered. Burn our church members, faint and fall along the wayside.

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Where is that? Or we make our own concessions and engage in our celebrations. But where are the flames of enthusiasm? Where is the fire?

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Where is the fire of compassion? Where is the fire of the love that runs from heart to heart and thrusts the brain? Where is the fire? [crowd shouting]

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Where? Where is the blessedness I knew when first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul dispensing view of Jesus and His Word? Return! Return! Return! Return!

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Oh, heavenly dove, return! Sweet messenger of wrath, I hate the sin that made thee fall. Broke thee from thy house. We need a burning with the learning.

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We do not well when we have the learning without the learning. You know Moses had plans. He was highly schooled in the wisdom of the Egyptians. But when he met the Lord in the burning bush, he received a burning that called him to suffer affliction with the people of God.

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Resonate, y'all, in the presence of sin for a season. We need the burning. We're for burning. The church yesterday had it. The church today must have it in order to be the church.

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We need to hold a spirit to vibrate like the fire. The forked tongues of Satan upon the halls of the upper room. And too often we make of the spirit of something that comes and goes. We need the spirit of fire. We need the fire burning to enlighten us. We need the fire burning to purify us. We need the fire burning to give us strength.

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[Yes! Yes!] The disciples of Jesus have learning with the burning. [Yes! Alright!] They have credentials from the school of religious experience.

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[Yes!] They are students of the master teacher. [Alright!] They sit at the feet of the one who says, "Take my yoke upon you and learn."

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[Yes! Alright!] Yes, learning with the burning. [Yes! Alright!] Learning with the burning is reason hooked up with revelation. Learning with the burning is Athens, the Jerusalem.

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Learning with the burning is the school holding hands with the church. Learning with the burning is illumination joined with dedication. Learning with the burning is the letter ruled by the spirit. Learning with the burning is having feel according to knowledge.

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Learning with the burning is having an informed mind and a consecrated heart. Learning with the burning is humanity in harmony with divinity. Learning with the burning is serving God with head and heart. [crowd shouting]

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Yes, we need to burn. We need to burn. I want to just deal with one more point. [laughter]

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You need to have learned, you need to have burned, and you need to have yearned. [crowd shouting]

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That's my top point. That this learning with the burning must be accompanied by The learning with the burning must be accompanied by a divine journey.

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The learning with the burning enables the true believer to continue steadfast. No matter how cold things may be around you, no matter about the contradictions and the controversies, that you can continue to get back. It's a yearning.

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It's a hunger. It's a holy hunger. It's a compelling urge to do what God wants us to do.

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It's a yearning that nobody can take away. For God has said, "Will I not hold my peace?"

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And the good Lord must say, "I will not break." Do the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns? Learning is the burning accompanied by yes.

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And you see, this kind of learning with the burning must be saturated and captivated by this divine yes. I did. You see, he couldn't forget that time. When the heavens opened. And one of the seraphim took a live pole to behold the Lord and touched his lips and said that your iniquity is forgiven. [inaudible] [inaudible]

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And who shall I fear? Who will go forest? And that birdie getting hot, calling the crowd? That's the one!

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Me! Yeah! Where am I headed? I'm going back!

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He's got a white flag, snuffed out in his bow! He's all about sending in his resignation, when he couldn't send in his resignation, because there's fire!

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[INAUDIBLE] >> He got into the match for parole. Pascal had it. And he described it by just using one word.

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And that word is fire. >> Fire. Fire. Fire.

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>> John White had it. He said that my heart was strangely warm. - Yeah, all right. - You see, this learning, with the burning and the yearning,

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is God's gift to the church. - Yeah. - That's what I like about it. - Yeah.

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- God wants us to have the best. - Yeah. - The ancient Greeks used to eat. - Yeah, they had a kind of a ritual

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where Zeus, the king of the gods, kept fire hidden from man. (laughing) And Prometheus stole the fire.

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and brought it indeed to pass. Our God wants us to have the best. And He has given us the gift of fire. That fire that God puts in us because our God is a consuming fire. Oh, I don't understand it. It's a mystery. I can't explain it. It's like the wind. It's a mystery. How he does it, I don't quite understand it. It's a mystery. I know the Lord.

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I forgot many other things out there, but I know one thing. I know the Lord. I know He's ahead, holding me. I know the Lord.

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I know what God can do. I know that the Lord will lift you up. I know the Lord will take your feet from a fiery place I know the law.

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I know the law. And I can speak it. Some people would call that superstition. Others would call it fanaticism.

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I just call it the mystery of my history. The mystery of my history. [crowd cheering] Yeah, I know the law!

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[crowd cheering and chanting "yeah"] And for the first time in my heart, it's the faith. [crowd cheering and chanting "yeah"] I thank the Lord that I learned this thing,

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but not from the school. It's the marriage with the law. I thank the Lord for that faith. And I thank him for the young.

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You see, I have to preach. I have to preach. I can't help myself. I look at the priesthood,

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and the commissary, and my history. That's me. A little five-foot boy in East Dallas.

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He has lifted me up, and put me in this place. It's good for him. And given me some learning,

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and some burning energy. I don't know how it happened earlier, but I do know it happened. But I do know it happens.

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I know it happens. Preachers and teachers would make their opinion. Fighting as soldiers on great battlefields. Listen to that feeling, my poor heart reveals, all I can say is there's something in me.

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Do you really know what I'm talking about? Do you have that something, that burning desire? Have you that something, that gutter, that tummy? [crowd cheering]

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[shouting] [shouting] [crowd cheering] [crowd cheering]

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[INAUDIBLE] [inaudible] My soul was filled with the mark of the nation with a bow down his head. But he lifted me.

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He lifted me. He lifted me. He lifted me. He lifted me.

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He made me so glad. All that I know. All that I know. There's something in me.

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Something. Something. [Chanting] "Something within me that holds us forlorn. Something within me that banishes blame. Something within me that I cannot explain. There is something within me." [INAUDIBLE]

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[MUSIC] [crowd cheering] Just trust him. He knows the church is open now.

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You can come and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. Thank you, Lord. [music playing] Thank you, Lord.

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[music playing] Thank you, Lord. [music playing] Thank you, Lord.

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[music playing] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] I've gone with you. [shouting]

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Oh, I will stay with you. [laughing] Stay with you. [laughing]

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[shouting] [men shouting] [men shouting] [men shouting, laughing]

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♪ I'm making ♪ ♪ A bed ♪ - Do your rhyme, do your rhyme. ♪ And holding ♪

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♪ The moon ♪ - There you go! - Something. ♪ I'm making ♪

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♪ A bed ♪ - That's the noise. - Yes, sir! - Wow, wow.

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♪ I'm making ♪ ♪ She's making ♪ [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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[chanting] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[BAND PLAYING] [HORN BLOWING] Oh, yes! [CHATTER]

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[SINGING] [crowd cheering] [cheering] [singing]

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[cheering] [shouting] [chanting] [singing]

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[cheering] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [singing]

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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [chanting] [Choral singing]

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[Choral singing] [Choral singing] [Singing] [Choral singing]

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[singing] [Music] [Dear freedom] [Hail to thee, dear freedom]

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May Heaven help us. May we have that learning with the birth, that purifies and cleanses us. May heaven help us to have that learning with the birth, that we may care and share with others. Glory to God.

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May God bless you, my brothers and sisters. [laughter] [Unintelligible] [BLANK_AUDIO]

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