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Creflo Dollar - Can Offense Move You Out of the Will of God?

July 1, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Can Offense Move You Out of the Will of God?
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  • Creflo dollar: immature christians take offense on
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  • An hourly basis.
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  • That's why you gotta mature.
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  • This is why god wants you to mature, so that he can continue
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  • To lead and guide you.
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  • You cannot get to the place where god wired you to be if you
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  • Keep taking offense, if you keep taking the bait, and getting
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  • In the trap, and stumbling.
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  • Creflo: now, this series--it is a series dealing with the
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  • Consequences of being out of the will of god.
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  • What are the consequences of being out of the will of god?
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  • Well, we just finished one of 'em.
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  • One of the consequences is settling for less.
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  • Settling for less gets you out of the will of god.
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  • And we talked two or three weeks about that.
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  • But now today--this is really gonna cause satan a lot of
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  • Pain today.
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  • And i'm always in favor of causing him pain.
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  • The second area that will get you out of the will of god is
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  • Something called offense.
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  • And the question we wanna deal with today is "can offense move
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  • You out of the will of god?"
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  • Now, i don't wanna take for granted that everybody
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  • Understands what offense is all about.
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  • So, i wanna spend a little time in the beginning talking about
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  • What it is.
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  • I don't want you walking out of here thinking that's not you.
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  • And i'll show you scriptures where the bible says that
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  • Unfortunately, offense is always gonna be offered.
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  • And so, it's the bait that satan uses.
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  • So, how would we define offense?
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  • First of all, the original language here--which i'll be
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  • Looking at the greek language--it means to
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  • Stumble over.
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  • It means to be--offense means to stumble over.
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  • It's a feeling of resentment.
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  • Offense is a feeling of resentment or hurt that's caused
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  • By a perceived insult, disrespect, or wrongdoing.
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  • Again, offense is a feeling of resentment or hurt.
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  • And that hurt that may have been caused by a perceived insult,
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  • Disrespect, or wrongdoing.
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  • In the greek, skándalon, it simply means a stumbling block
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  • Or a trap.
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  • That offense is a stumbling block, it is a trap, it is
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  • A bait.
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  • Spiritually speaking, an offense is something that causes
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  • A person to stumble in their heart.
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  • I'm not talking about physically stumbling over something.
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  • Eventually, it'll happen physically, but offense is
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  • Stumbling in your heart.
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  • That's where you lose peace.
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  • It's you stumble in your heart--to lose peace, to break
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  • Fellowship, or to move from love and grace into resentment, into
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  • Judgment, into pride.
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  • It's when somebody gets offended and, you know, they--what's
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  • That word?
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  • Oh, what is it?
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  • You quit talking to folks, you go away, you--what's that word?
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  • You?
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  • Isolated is the smart word.
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  • I was trying to get one of them slang words.
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  • Ghost.
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  • Thank you.
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  • It's an offense and something that causes a person to stumble
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  • In their heart where they will ghost you.
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  • It's not like i use that every day, right?
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  • Where they ghost you, they break fellowship.
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  • They move from love and grace.
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  • They become resentful, they become judgmental, they
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  • Become prideful.
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  • So, you look at things that happen where that's
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  • Current--the concern.
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  • You have to consider that offense is what moved 'em away.
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  • A lot of people that used to go to our church have
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  • Been offended.
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  • And they moved away 'cause of their offense.
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  • And the question i have to ask this morning is, who has
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  • Offended you and stopped your anointing?
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  • It's really not somebody offending you, it's not--you
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  • Can't be offended, you have to take offense.
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  • And i just know lots of people--and it doesn't take big
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  • Things for people to take offense.
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  • It's that feeling that you have insulted me.
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  • It's the feeling that you have not treated me the way i wanna
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  • Be treated.
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  • You don't give me what i want.
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  • And i am insulted, i am resentful.
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  • And all of that comes because pride is sitting at the head of
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  • The table.
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  • So, to take offense.
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  • What does it mean to take offense?
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  • When you take offense, you receive the stumbling block into
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  • Your heart.
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  • It means to allow someone's words or actions to hurt you, to
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  • Anger you, or to upset you.
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  • Someone's words, someone's actions.
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  • And we've all been there.
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  • There have been people's words and actions, and i took offense
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  • Because of their words and actions.
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  • Now, i was walking around like i wasn't offended.
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  • "how you doing?"
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  • "i'm fine, how you doing?"
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  • You know, nice nasty, okay.
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  • And what happens is that offense causes separation.
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  • It causes bitterness because if you let it sit there and simmer,
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  • It comes out bitter or judgmental.
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  • In other words, the event or the remark may come externally by
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  • Taking offense--is the act of accepting it internally.
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  • It may come externally, but you--to take, it's an act that
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  • Moves internally.
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  • And what happens is you're giving it power over your peace.
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  • When you take offense, you're giving offense power over
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  • Your peace.
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  • There's nothing like offense that robs you of peace, and
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  • Sleep, and rest.
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  • So, i wanna start off this morning in luke chapter 7, to
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  • Show you the victorious part.
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  • Luke chapter 7, verse 23 in the king james bible.
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  • It just encourages us here that--he says, "and blessed is
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  • He, whosoever shall not be offended in me."
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  • The blessing is coming.
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  • You're empowered to have success when you don't take offense.
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  • But every time you take it, and every time you take the bait,
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  • And every time you take the trap, then the blessing that
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  • Comes because you refuse to take offense--now things are going on
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  • And you're asking questions of god.
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  • "why is that not happening?
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  • Why is this happening?
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  • Why didn't that door open up?"
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  • And the whole time, you're living life in offense.
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  • In grace terms, what does this mean?
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  • If we're talking about the grace of god--and we are all the
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  • Time--to take offense is to step out of your identity in christ.
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  • When you step out of your identity in christ, you step out
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  • Of love, you step out of your forgiveness, you step out of
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  • Your freedom.
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  • And you let self righteousness and pride take the
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  • Driver's seat.
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  • Self-righteousness and pride takes the driver's seat.
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  • So, hopefully you're on the bus, you understand what we're
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  • Getting ready to talk about.
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  • You're understanding what offense is all about.
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  • And i'm gonna deal with--in this little part of the series, you
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  • Know, the dangers of offense, and then how to guard your heart
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  • Against offense, all right.
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  • So, let's begin.
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  • Let's look at the dangers right quick, the dangers of offense.
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  • Offense is not just an emotion.
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  • It is an emotion, but it's not just an emotion.
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  • It is a stumbling block that can move you out of alignment with
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  • God, out of alignment with your true identity.
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  • It is a stumbling block.
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  • Offense is a stumbling block.
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  • And the bible describes offense as a snare.
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  • It is a bait.
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  • It is a trap.
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  • It is a stumbling block.
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  • It's not that, well, i'm insulted, and i'm angry, and i'm
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  • Mad, and unforgiveness.
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  • It's a trap!
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  • It's satan that says, "i am baiting you.
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  • I am baiting you.
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  • I am going to get you out of alignment with god.
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  • I'm gonna get you out of the peace that you're so
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  • Satisfied with.
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  • I'm gonna get you out of the rest that you preach to other
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  • People about.
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  • I have a bait.
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  • It's not a worm, it's offense.
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  • And i'm gonna hook you with offense."
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  • And you're gonna be questioning why are certain things not going
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  • On in my life.
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  • It's a bait.
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  • I want you to remember that--it's a bait.
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  • It's a trap.
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  • And when we take offense, when we take offense, when we take
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  • Offense, when we take offense--you can't take offense.
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  • You're gonna have a lot of opportunity, but you gotta
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  • Decide, "that's not me.
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  • I'm not going to take offense."
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  • When you take offense, you step out of alignment with love, you
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  • Step out of alignment with peace, you step out of
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  • Alignment--watch this--with god's directions.
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  • Think about that, you're stepping out of alignment with
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  • God's directions.
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  • I need god's directions.
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  • I don't know where i'm going every day.
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  • I need the holy spirit who was sent to lead and to guide me in
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  • All the truth.
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  • I need his directions.
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  • I'm not trying to take some offense that's gonna stop me
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  • From getting where i need to be, and then i'm caught in a little
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  • Circle because i can't let something go that somebody said
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  • To me, that somebody said about me.
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  • It's a trick.
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  • It's satan saying, "i got you.
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  • I have convinced you that it is all right for you to
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  • Take offense."
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  • And that's why you gotta mature, 'cause that's baby stuff.
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  • Immature christians take offense on an hourly basis.
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  • That's why you gotta mature.
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  • This is why god wants you to mature, so that he can continue
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  • To lead and guide you.
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  • You cannot get to the place where god wired you to be if you
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  • Keep taking offense, if you keep taking the bait, and getting in
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  • The trap, and stumbling.
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  • Look at proverbs chapter 18 and 19 in the new king james and
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  • Then in the nlt.
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  • Proverbs 18 and 19.
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  • I wanna show you where offense hardens the heart.
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  • Look at proverbs 18 and 19.
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  • It says, "a brother offended is harder to win than a
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  • Strong city.
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  • And contentions are like bars of a castle."
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  • Look at it, his heart is so hard--it's hard to get him to
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  • See how this is destructive to his life.
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  • He has taken offense, and he fully thinks everything is all
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  • Right, "and not even god minds me feeling like i'm feeling."
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  • So, he describes it.
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  • Look at this in the nlt.
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  • He says, "an offended friend is harder to win back than
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  • A fortified city.
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  • Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with bars."
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  • Somehow or another you gotta mature to a point where you're
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  • Saying, "you know what?
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  • You know, that ain't--that's a lot--that's little.
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  • That's baby stuff, i ain't got time for that."
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  • How's the weather today?
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  • I just--i don't have time to deal with that.
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  • I don't have time to take that to bed with me.
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  • I don't have time to give that thing a lease in my mind and let
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  • It become someone that moves into or rent to something in my
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  • Mind that's gonna cause me destruction.
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  • Or at the most it's gonna cause me peace.
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  • I think about stuff like that.
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  • I think about over the years how i rented space in my mind.
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  • The first time i heard that was from taffi's mother.
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  • And she said don't rent--don't let nobody rent no space in
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  • Your mind.
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  • And i'm like wow, what is--i never heard that in my life.
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  • And i thought, man, i don't rent a--i don't-- [laughs]
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  • Are you listening to me?
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  • Offense hardens the heart making reconciliation and hearing from
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  • God a very difficult task.
  • 00:15:03.973 --> 00:15:08.277
  • Hardens your heart, and you're not hearing from god.
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  • I can't afford not to hear from god.
  • 00:15:13.449 --> 00:15:17.353
  • And some people think they can't afford it.
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  • You can't!
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  • How many times you end up in places and you're like, "lord,
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  • How did i get here?"
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  • I want him.
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  • On my walk the other day i got out and i started walking and i
  • 00:15:26.428 --> 00:15:30.599
  • Didn't have anything to ask god about.
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  • I didn't have anything to, you know, need.
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  • I've already set up those things and given it to him.
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  • And it was almost like--in my relationship with the lord he
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  • Was like, you know, "what can i do for you, son?"
  • 00:15:43.612 --> 00:15:47.950
  • And i responded in such a--it kind of caught me off guard.
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  • I said, "i wanna be like you for real."
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  • And there was just quietness, you know, as i continued
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  • To walk.
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  • And i said to me now, "lord, the most important thing is that the
  • 00:16:01.997 --> 00:16:07.002
  • Character of jesus starts flowing through me because the
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  • Thing that you're more concerned about is how we treat
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  • One another.
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  • And if you're concerned about how we treat one another, i
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  • Wanna be concerned about how i treat people.
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  • Help me."
  • 00:16:21.650 --> 00:16:23.052
  • Now, i don't mean i need to go out and prove to people
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  • My change.
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  • It's just--as long as i know it, just as long as god knows it,
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  • And just as long as taffi knows it, because people would
  • 00:16:31.894 --> 00:16:34.396
  • Love to hang over your head your past issues, right?
  • 00:16:34.396 --> 00:16:43.205
  • And then you get in the habit of thinking you've got to prove to
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  • Somebody that doesn't care.
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  • You think they're thinking about you every day.
  • 00:16:49.078 --> 00:16:51.346
  • That just amazes me.
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  • Why would you think that i'm thinking about--"oh, i'm sorry
  • 00:16:52.848 --> 00:16:56.385
  • I ruined your day."
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  • I don't know you well enough for you to ruin my day.
  • 00:16:57.753 --> 00:17:02.458
  • And we get in the habit of trying to impress people or
  • 00:17:02.458 --> 00:17:07.396
  • Deserve the validation for people that don't care.
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  • I mean, that's the first thing you gotta deal with.
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  • You gotta quit thinking that everybody cares about what
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  • You're doing or what you did.
  • 00:17:14.470 --> 00:17:18.507
  • And that's shocking when you get down to it and you realize how
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  • Much they don't care.
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  • And you're losing sleep over it.
  • 00:17:24.546 --> 00:17:28.417
  • And i'm like, "lord, the thing that's more important than
  • 00:17:28.417 --> 00:17:34.156
  • Anything--not my principles, not any of those things--it's, can i
  • 00:17:34.156 --> 00:17:41.864
  • Produce character that looks like you?
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  • Can i love what's not lovely?
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  • Can i forgive quickly--not for them, but for myself?
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  • Can i take the offense that's offered to me and say, "nah, i'm
  • 00:17:57.146 --> 00:18:03.085
  • More mature now.
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  • It'll be all right. it'll be all right.
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  • They'll be alright.
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  • It's fine."
  • 00:18:09.024 --> 00:18:10.459
  • I hear some guy up just preaching against the gospel of
  • 00:18:10.459 --> 00:18:13.095
  • Grace and preaching against me, and i just say, "oh well,
  • 00:18:13.095 --> 00:18:15.964
  • They're just immature, they'll be alright."
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  • Because i read the book, i know how it ends.
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  • You think it's good, but after a while to live by the law, next
  • 00:18:20.502 --> 00:18:23.772
  • You're going to be judged by the law.
  • 00:18:23.772 --> 00:18:26.475
  • And then that's when you say, "i don't know what's happening
  • 00:18:26.475 --> 00:18:28.443
  • Here, but jesus help me."
  • 00:18:28.443 --> 00:18:29.811
  • And he'll say, "will you be a student of grace?"
  • 00:18:29.811 --> 00:18:34.316
  • So, we gotta come to a point where we're not allowing those
  • 00:18:34.316 --> 00:18:38.654
  • Things to be a part of who we are.
  • 00:18:38.654 --> 00:18:41.657
  • Again, it's about our identity.
  • 00:18:41.657 --> 00:18:43.091
  • Look at luke chapter 17, and verse 1 in the king james and
  • 00:18:43.091 --> 00:18:46.461
  • Then we'll go to the mirror.
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  • Luke chapter 17, verse 1--excuse me.
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  • Luke chapter 17, and verse 1.
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  • And jesus gives us a warning here concerning offense.
  • 00:18:53.635 --> 00:18:56.605
  • He says, "then said he unto the disciples"--now this is
  • 00:18:56.605 --> 00:19:00.676
  • Interesting--"it is impossible but that offences will
  • 00:19:00.676 --> 00:19:04.980
  • Come," okay.
  • 00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:07.883
  • So, don't get the--"well, there ain't no offense showed up yet."
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  • No, they will come.
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  • "but woe unto him, through whom they come!"
  • 00:19:14.456 --> 00:19:19.027
  • He's warning us about the bait is coming.
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  • Somebody says, "but i pray all the time."
  • 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:25.334
  • Still coming.
  • 00:19:25.334 --> 00:19:27.135
  • "but i go to church all the time."
  • 00:19:27.135 --> 00:19:28.470
  • Still coming.
  • 00:19:28.470 --> 00:19:29.838
  • "yeah, but i'm a part of the grace gang.
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  • Still coming.
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  • And woe unto the ones that will be confronted with offense.
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  • Now, look at this in the mirror translation.
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  • He warns that offense is unavoidable, but carrying it
  • 00:19:45.921 --> 00:19:51.093
  • Leads to destruction.
  • 00:19:51.093 --> 00:19:52.894
  • If you carry it, it's gonna lead to destruction.
  • 00:19:52.894 --> 00:19:55.230
  • Now, look what he says in the mirror.
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  • "he said to his disciples, it is inevitable that there will be
  • 00:19:56.665 --> 00:20:00.802
  • Occasions to stumble and take offense at what people say in
  • 00:20:00.802 --> 00:20:07.976
  • Their attempts to discredit the message--the gospel.
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  • It is always a shameful thing that those of influence would
  • 00:20:12.614 --> 00:20:20.222
  • Lead others astray!"
  • 00:20:20.222 --> 00:20:23.158
  • "those of influence will"--that caught me--"those of influence
  • 00:20:23.158 --> 00:20:30.465
  • Will lead others astray!"
  • 00:20:30.465 --> 00:20:35.871
  • Paul uses the word that means stumbling block.
  • 00:20:35.871 --> 00:20:40.742
  • I had already told you, skándalon.
  • 00:20:40.742 --> 00:20:43.245
  • And in romans 16 and 17, he warns us to, "be alert to avoid
  • 00:20:43.245 --> 00:20:49.051
  • Anything that causes disunion or offense."
  • 00:20:49.051 --> 00:20:52.688
  • Look at romans 16:17 in the king james and then i'll finish
  • 00:20:52.688 --> 00:20:56.024
  • Reading this.
  • 00:20:56.024 --> 00:20:57.359
  • This is in the mirror.
  • 00:20:57.359 --> 00:20:58.727
  • "be alert to avoid anything that causes disunion or
  • 00:20:58.727 --> 00:21:01.563
  • Offense, contrary."
  • 00:21:01.563 --> 00:21:03.832
  • And then he says, "now i beseech you"--in the king james--"i
  • 00:21:03.832 --> 00:21:06.768
  • Beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
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  • And offenses."
  • 00:21:10.972 --> 00:21:13.442
  • There are some people that just go around causing division, and
  • 00:21:13.442 --> 00:21:17.446
  • Trying to offend you.
  • 00:21:17.446 --> 00:21:19.414
  • You know, if you have any kind of ministry online, there are
  • 00:21:19.414 --> 00:21:22.784
  • People that'll get paid to show up on your page just to try to
  • 00:21:22.784 --> 00:21:26.688
  • Offend you.
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  • And like i said, the best answer you can give to a fool
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  • Is silence.
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  • You don't respond.
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  • "well, let me tell you something."
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  • "give you a piece of my mind."
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  • You need all the pieces of your mind to stay intact, okay,
  • 00:21:38.600 --> 00:21:43.839
  • You know.
  • 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:45.207
  • "which cause division and offences contrary to the
  • 00:21:45.207 --> 00:21:47.209
  • Doctrine which you have learned."
  • 00:21:47.209 --> 00:21:49.678
  • He said--this is interesting--"and avoid them."
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  • Avoid those who cause offenses.
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  • I think that's what they do.
  • 00:21:58.286 --> 00:21:59.921
  • You ever seen those little smarty-smart people that just
  • 00:21:59.921 --> 00:22:01.957
  • Know everything, and no matter what you tell them, "yeah, but
  • 00:22:01.957 --> 00:22:04.493
  • What about this?"
  • 00:22:04.493 --> 00:22:05.827
  • And, "yeah, but what about that," or, "yeah but how do
  • 00:22:05.827 --> 00:22:08.330
  • You know?"
  • 00:22:08.330 --> 00:22:09.664
  • Brother, you just talking, you don't live none of this.
  • 00:22:09.664 --> 00:22:13.502
  • You just want--you're not qualified to even talk to me
  • 00:22:13.502 --> 00:22:15.771
  • About the bible 'cause you don't believe none of it.
  • 00:22:15.771 --> 00:22:17.906
  • You just wanna cause offense concerning the message.
  • 00:22:17.906 --> 00:22:21.910
  • "yeah, but what about the scripture saying that?
  • 00:22:21.910 --> 00:22:23.311
  • You talking about we're righteous and we ain't got to do
  • 00:22:23.311 --> 00:22:25.113
  • Nothing about it.
  • 00:22:25.113 --> 00:22:26.481
  • And what about this?"
  • 00:22:26.481 --> 00:22:27.816
  • Why am i talking to you?
  • 00:22:27.816 --> 00:22:29.184
  • Why should i waste my time and take the bait of being offensive
  • 00:22:29.184 --> 00:22:32.087
  • By somebody like you.
  • 00:22:32.087 --> 00:22:33.455
  • Paul said, "why should i care and be bothered by what you have
  • 00:22:33.455 --> 00:22:38.360
  • To say?"
  • 00:22:38.360 --> 00:22:40.328
  • You gotta mark people all they wanna do is cause offense.
  • 00:22:40.328 --> 00:22:46.001
  • And the way i mark 'em is, "all right, there they go."
  • 00:22:46.001 --> 00:22:51.072
  • Let me show 'em love.
  • 00:22:51.072 --> 00:22:52.441
  • "hey, brother, how are you doing?"
  • 00:22:52.441 --> 00:22:53.775
  • Or, "why are you speaking to me?
  • 00:22:53.775 --> 00:22:55.143
  • I thought i got you the last time?"
  • 00:22:55.143 --> 00:22:56.711
  • "no man, give me a hug."
  • 00:22:56.711 --> 00:22:58.079
  • "no, i don't wanna hug you."
  • 00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:59.414
  • He's like, "this guy," you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:22:59.414 --> 00:23:01.583
  • And you have to build boundaries in those cases because
  • 00:23:01.583 --> 00:23:04.286
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  • 00:23:04.286 --> 00:23:07.622
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  • Or text "app" to 51555 today.
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  • Creflo: the bible teaches us to give generously with a cheerful
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  • Heart, not out of necessity, but out of a cheerful heart.
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  • And that's why i'm so grateful for the friends and partners of
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  • This ministry who freely and cheerfully give financial
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  • Offerings to support us.
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  • You understand our vision.
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  • You know that when people understand grace, they're
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  • Empowered to change their lives for the better.
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  • Thank you for supporting us with your financial donations.
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  • And every time you give, you're
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  • Being used by god to stop
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  • Misfortune in someone else's life.
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  • And for that, we say thank you.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Male announcer: if you want to honor the lord by sowing
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  • Financial seeds into creflo dollar ministries, call the
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  • Number on your screen or log on to creflodollarministries.org.
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  • Announcer: because of you, creflo dollar ministries is
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  • Providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change in
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  • The lives of millions of people every day.
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  • Thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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