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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Chastening Of The Lord | September 1, 2025
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- "because of god's punishment,
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- You are being dealt with by a father who loves you?
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- Remember, this is chastening of the lord,
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- It's the father dealing with you in love,
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- Creflo: i'm going to talk to you about
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- "the chastening of the lord."
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- What is that?
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- How does it work?
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- Is god going to go back to punishing people?
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- If you know him, you know the answer to that.
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- But, what i need to do,
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- Is really dig into this this morning.
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- And i need you to really dig in this with me this morning.
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- I don't have any cartwheels or flips,
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- Just digging into this thing, just going line by line.
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- You can do a cartwheel when you get it, amen?
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- So let's go to the book of hebrews, chapter 12
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- In the king james.
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- Hebrews chapter 12 as we begin to deal with this issue
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- Of the chastening of the lord.
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- Hebrews chapter 12 and let's start at verse 5, and i read
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- It--read verse 5 through 11, hebrews 12:5 through 11:
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- "and you have forgotten
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- The exhortation which speaketh unto you
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- As unto children.
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- My son despise not the chastening of the lord."
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- Don't despise it, there's a reason for it,
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- There's an objective behind it.
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- There's something that he's trying to work out of you.
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- He says, "nor faint."
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- So don't despise it, nor faint, "when thou art rebuked of him.
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- For whom the lord loveth he chasteneth and scourges every
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- Son whom he receiveth.
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- If you endure chastening, god deals with you as with sons.
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- For what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
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- But if you be without chastisement, whereof
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- All are partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.
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- Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which
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- Corrected us and we gave them reverence or respect.
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- Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto
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- The father of spirits and live?
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- For they, verily, for a few days, chastened us
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- After their own pleasure, but he for our profit."
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- So this is gonna be for our profit.
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- "that we might be partakers of his holiness.
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- Now, no chastening for the present seemeth
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- To be joyous but grievous.
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- Nevertheless, after it yielded the peaceable fruit
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- Of righteousness, unto them which are exercised--
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- It's yielded unto them which are exercised thereby."
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- Now, one aspect of the discipline of grace,
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- Is not always recognized as being of grace,
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- And it is the chastening of the lord.
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- It's an aspect of the discipline of grace.
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- We gotta--we gotta-- we gotta teach on this too.
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- We can't bypass this, you know.
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- "well, i know it's in the scripture somewhere, but i don't
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- Really wanna hear about it."
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- Chastening is god the father dealing with his child in love.
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- Now that's the foundation of this.
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- Chastening is god the father.
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- Now what i just said, god the father.
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- It's god acting as father, disciplining or dealing with
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- His children in love.
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- God deals with us.
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- He doesn't punish us, but he deals with us.
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- Under the old testament, there was punishment
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- For not keeping the law.
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- But in this new testament, under this covenant of grace,
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- God is not the judge, he's the father,
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- And he will deal with his children, how?
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- In love. everybody say, "in love."
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- Cause the scripture just said, "for whom the lord loveth,
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- He chasteneth."
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- Now, he says, "if he loves you, he chasteneth."
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- Wow.
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- It is a sign of sonship and a reminder that one
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- Has not been forsaken by god.
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- Chastisement is a sign that you are a son of god.
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- If you don't know chastisement, your sonship is in question.
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- And if everybody's on the bus, say amen.
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- I know i ain't lost nobody that quick, i just got started, amen?
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- [laughs]
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- Now, because chastening is at times, accompanied
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- By the visitation of distress and affliction, it is at time,
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- In fact, let me show you this before i get going.
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- 1 peter chapter 5 and 9--i was pretty fascinated with this
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- Because, you know, he says that, you know, our--
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- The the chasing of the lord is a sign that we are sons of god
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- And that he chasteneth all of those who are his sons.
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- In 1 peter chapter 5 and 9 he says, "whom resisted for--
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- Steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions,
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- Afflictions are accomplished in your brethren
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- That are in the world."
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- So not only you and me, but all of our brethrens
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- Around the world, he said, there are some afflictions
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- That are gonna be accomplished.
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- Now i don't want you jumping ahead of me, 'cause if you do,
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- You might get in fear or you might get a little depressed,
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- So don't jump ahead.
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- This is a good story.
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- Like for a moment it's gonna feel like, oh my god,
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- What happened to the freedom in grace?
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- Now we gotta get to the nitty gritty on this stuff, amen?
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- So, because chastening is at times,
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- Accompanied by the visitation of distress and affliction,
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- It's often confused with punishment.
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- And so, we just showed you that afflictions and distresses will
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- Come as a result of chastening, but it's not punishment.
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- It's not true that it's punishment for punishment
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- Is of god, who was the judge.
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- Punishment is dealing-- is the god who is the judge
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- And justice exacting the full penalty of his broken law.
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- So, in the old testament, if you broke the law, you were punished
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- Because god--because of the god of justice,
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- There had to be that punishment.
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- The bible says the wages of sin is death.
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- People died for complaining.
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- You remember that little list about, i mean several thousand
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- People fell dead because they were complaining.
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- How many of you know the church would be empty this morning
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- If people still fell dead for complaining?
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- And the pulpit would be empty too.
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- In this covenant--in this covenant of the law, there is
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- No fatherhood of god in that covenant of the law, there
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- Is no expression of his love in that covenant of the law.
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- Punishment is the wrath of god poured out upon
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- All who reject his son today.
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- It is condemnation that should
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- Come upon this unbelieving world.
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- And the believer in christ, the bible says, shall not come
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- Into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.
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- I need you to see that.
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- John chapter 5 and verse 24, king james, john 5:24.
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- I need you to see, there is no way, now how,
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- You and i who are born again today, under the father of love,
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- We are not to come into condemnation.
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- He says, "verily, verily, i say unto you, he that heareth my
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- Word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life."
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- Now if you're saved, say out loud, "i have--" well say,
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- "i have everlasting life, with christ."
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- All right, he says,
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- "and he shall not come into condemnation."
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- But what happened is you passed from death when you were
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- Unsaved, to life, now that you're saved, praise god.
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- And then romans 6:14, just to verify this again for you,
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- Romans 6:14 says,
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- "for sin shall not have dominion over you--" why?
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- "you are not under the law, where there is punishment,
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- You are under grace," where there is this unrestrained,
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- Restricted of-- beloved--of love god.
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- He is--you are not under the law but under grace."
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- Say, "i am under the grace of god."
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- Okay, so if that comes up anytime throughout this sermon,
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- Just wipe it out.
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- If a thought comes up, "oh my goodness, god's punishing me
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- Or you know, because of god's punishment, i'm gonna end up
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- In hell," no, no, no your destiny has already been set.
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- You've already passed from death to life.
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- You are being dealt with by a father who loves you.
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- Remember, this is chastening of the lord.
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- It's the father dealing with you in love.
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- But he is going to be dealing with you.
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- Now, let no one presume, and this is just to get this out, to
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- Make sure we got it, the--that the grace of god--don't presume
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- Upon the grace of god and think that because he shall not come
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- Into condemnation, don't think that just because you
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- Don't come into condemnation, that you can live according
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- To the desires of this old carnal nature without suffering
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- The full consequences thereof.
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- What am i saying?
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- Sin has consequences.
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- "oh, but i'm under the grace of god and the father loves me."
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- Sin has consequences, it does.
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- I told you the other week, you go fooling around with
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- Somebody's wife and the husband come home early and pulls
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- The shotgun out and you died early and then god said,
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- "what you here for?" consequences.
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- You under grace, being buried.
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- You get that, right?
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- There's no way, nowhere where grace is the license
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- Or the okay to sin.
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- Grace is how you get out of sin, it's not permission to sin.
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- Amen?
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- And the church said amen.
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- And the wall said amen.
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- God does deal with the sins of believers.
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- This is by chastening.
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- He does deal with the sin of believers, and how is he gonna
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- Deal with the sin of believers?
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- This is by chastening.
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- Now, god's chastening is to correct and to purify.
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- So there is sin going on, there is some habits going on,
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- Stuff going on.
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- You're saved, you'll get to heaven, but he says,
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- "i have the job as a father to correct
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- And i have a job as a father to purify."
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- Not to imply that it's-- you know, to make you guilty.
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- God's not gonna use guilt to try to get you out of it,
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- But he wants to clear up the imperfections,
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- To correct and to purify.
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- The chastening is to correct it and to purify it.
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- See, we're no longer slaves to sin.
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- You just might need a little help.
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- To correct and to purify.
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- All right.
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- And the reason why i'm so--just kind of making sure we start
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- Off right, is that you sometimes don't go--you'll get--you'll
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- Go to the extreme, and every time something bad happened
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- To you, you're like, "well, god let that happen,
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- Ah, because he trying to show me something."
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- No, sometimes it happened 'cause of what you did.
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- Yeah.
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- God was like, "oh, i wasn't intending on using that at all,
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- What happened?"
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- Now, will he permit certain things?
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- Yes, and sometimes some of the stuff you start,
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- He'll just permit it on.
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- Yeah, i'm gonna show you this.
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- Now, before you pull out your degree, thinking you know more
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- Than everybody, just let me finish saying what i gotta say.
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- I can see it on some of you now.
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- "well, you know, i...i don't agree with that right now."
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- You ain't hurt me because i had a chance to sit down and look at
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- 40 something years of my life and ministry and said,
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- That's the truth.
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- That's the truth.
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- Oh my god.
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- Man, i wonder if that hadn't happened,
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- What would i have done?
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- God knows how to get your attention.
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- "well the lord--the lord-- the lord--the lord--
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- The lord corrects us with words."
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- I don't--i don't disagree, he does correct you with words.
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- The problem is you ain't listening to those words.
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- He told you to stop, he told you, "don't do that."
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- He told you, "do go no--that way."
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- He told you to leave that girl alone.
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- He told you, "don't call fred no more," and you keep calling him.
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- He's--he told you that, he told you that.
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- He told you that not only through your spirit, but he had
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- A prophet come up and say it, "thus sayeth the lord."
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- So he been trying to talk to you in words.
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- Ya'll know what i'm talking about don't--?
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- He been trying.
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- Some of y'all remember talkin' about,
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- "i knew i wasn't supposed to do that."
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- Or watch this, this is a famous one,
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- "something told me."
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- Now you--now you wanna call god a something.
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- "something told me not to come here."
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- You get married, wake up next morning, old roscoe wakes up
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- With his curly--curls in his hat and a six pack,
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- And he floating in the air, turning his head around,
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- Spitting up green stuff.
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- And he looks at you because you a biblically acquiring woman,
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- He says, "give me some coffee or i'll choke you out."
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- And you're like, "ahh.
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- Something told me not to marry roscoe."
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- So, let me show you something and i wanna use gold
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- And the dewdrops of the morning as an illustration of what
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- I believe's going on here.
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- Hebrews 12:29 reminds us that god is a consuming fire.
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- Gold is chastened that it may become pure.
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- How?
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- Intense heat melts it into a liquid and thus separates it
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- From all of the impurities.
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- And then there's the dewdrops sparkling in the morning
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- And that was by the heat of yesterday's sun,
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- Drawn as a vapor from the stagnant pool.
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- And then the cool of the night condenses it into water so pure
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- That it refracts the rays of the sun into full beauty of
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- The spectrum when you see it.
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- Now both of these, both these processes, the one dealing with
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- The gold and the one dealing with the dewdrops, both
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- These processes are for the sole purpose of purification.
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- And so likewise, is the chastening of the father's love.
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- It is to remove all which is unpleasing to him.
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- And what have we learned that is unpleasing to him?
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- Self-dependence. self-dependence.
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- Listen to me carefully, self-dependence.
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- Remember the series we did on the purpose of trials?
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- The trial of your faith is the purification of your faith.
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- It is a removal of all impurities
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- Of dependence on self.
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- Dependence on self versus dependence on god.
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- Self-dependence is impure and needs to be removed.
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- You cannot, will not spend time,
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- You will not spend time in heaven in self-dependence.
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- That is going to be burned off. you're gonna go to heaven.
- 00:19:55.274 --> 00:20:00.445
- Now, a lot of people like, "if i can just make it in,
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- I'll be all right."
- 00:20:02.214 --> 00:20:03.548
- I don't wanna just make it in, cause i'm gonna show you
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- Tonight, today, a lot of folks gonna make it in,
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- But some will have gain and some will suffer loss.
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- You still gonna be in heaven.
- 00:20:11.823 --> 00:20:14.326
- And i was looking at that, i'm like--
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- I got kind of nervous when i saw that.
- 00:20:16.628 --> 00:20:18.030
- Wait a minute, am i still in heaven?
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- And the scripture literally says, "you'll still be in
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- Heaven, but you may suffer loss versus gain."
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- And i'm like, man, i gotta to get in this.
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- I wasn't gonna teach it, i figured they ain't ready for
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- This, let's do this next year.
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- He said, "no, now."
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- Now the answers to this question, the unrighteous,
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- Why do the righteous suffer?
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- Why do the righteous have to go through stuff?
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- Why do the righteous have to be afflicted?
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- Y'all do know that right?
- 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:57.469
- "no, no, no, i don't believe the righteous have to suffer."
- 00:20:57.469 --> 00:20:58.937
- Boy read the bible.
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- "they that live godly shall suffer," what?
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- How many y'all trying to live godly?
- 00:21:06.912 --> 00:21:09.815
- All right, you're going to go through some stuff.
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- You're going to meet some stuff.
- 00:21:12.617 --> 00:21:15.454
- I just get so freaked out when i meet christians
- 00:21:15.454 --> 00:21:17.456
- Who are playing like they never went through nothing.
- 00:21:17.456 --> 00:21:21.960
- "hey man, how you doing?"
- 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:23.662
- "perfect, flawless, all is well."
- 00:21:23.662 --> 00:21:25.364
- "is all well all the time?"
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- "oh yes, amen."
- 00:21:26.865 --> 00:21:28.233
- No, no, no, you lying, you're lying because god is going to
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- Use these afflictions, and the things we have to go through and
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- The persecutions, and people talking about you, and losing
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- Your job and not having enough money to pay your rent,
- 00:21:45.617 --> 00:21:47.686
- All your money spent.
- 00:21:47.686 --> 00:21:49.121
- A little bit to buy some food, baby need a pair of shoes.
- 00:21:49.121 --> 00:21:50.956
- Look, you got a light bill due.
- 00:21:50.956 --> 00:21:52.290
- You even got a gas bill too.
- 00:21:52.290 --> 00:21:53.625
- Telephone disconnect.
- 00:21:53.625 --> 00:21:54.960
- Wait till your next paycheck, paycheck bounce on you,
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- What are you gonna do?
- 00:21:56.895 --> 00:21:58.296
- We have issues.
- 00:21:58.296 --> 00:22:06.538
- It's called life, no one's exempt from it.
- 00:22:06.538 --> 00:22:11.910
- So what does he plan on doing with all of these things,
- 00:22:11.910 --> 00:22:16.982
- Persecutions and stuff that comes our way?
- 00:22:16.982 --> 00:22:19.851
- And so this answers the question why do righteous suffer?
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- The unrighteous, all who have not accepted righteousness of
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- God, all who are not born again, they are not in the sight of god
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- Gold to be chastened.
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- There is no chastisement for people
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- Who have not been born again.
- 00:22:37.235 --> 00:22:39.738
- That--it's for those who are sons, it's not for those who
- 00:22:39.738 --> 00:22:45.010
- Have not been born again, okay?
- 00:22:45.010 --> 00:22:48.046
- There is no spiritual life to free from impurities
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- Of this world.
- 00:22:52.818 --> 00:22:54.219
- There is no spiritual life to free from the impure impurities
- 00:22:54.219 --> 00:22:58.056
- Of--i mean, a guy who's not born again, there--
- 00:22:58.056 --> 00:23:00.759
- He ain't got no spiritual life, so we're no--
- 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:02.661
- The--he already bound to hell.
- 00:23:02.661 --> 00:23:08.400
- So there is no need to try to do any getting rid of impurities
- 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:14.706
- Of self-dependence, cause that's how he live.
- 00:23:14.706 --> 00:23:19.578
- "it's my life, i'm gonna do what i wanna do with it."
- 00:23:19.578 --> 00:23:24.516
- Ephesians 2, verse 1 says something.
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- Look at that, i wanna show you this real quick.
- 00:23:27.986 --> 00:23:30.055
- I mean, those people are already dead in trespasses and sin.
- 00:23:30.055 --> 00:23:33.492
- There's no, there's no spiritual life to free something--
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- Somebody from some impurities.
- 00:23:37.729 --> 00:23:39.998
- Verse 1 says, "and you have-- he quickened,
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- Who were dead in trespasses and sin."
- 00:23:42.033 --> 00:23:46.171
- There are people that are dead in trespasses and sin.
- 00:23:46.171 --> 00:23:49.140
- So while the unrighteous do not suffer by chastening, there
- 00:23:49.140 --> 00:23:53.678
- Awaits the judgment and the fiery indignation which shall
- 00:23:53.678 --> 00:23:57.449
- Devour them who fail to make jesus lord of their life.
- 00:23:57.449 --> 00:24:02.554
- People don't go to hell because of their behavior, they go to
- 00:24:02.554 --> 00:24:06.791
- Hell because they reject jesus.
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