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Creflo Dollar - The Chastening Of The Lord

September 2, 2025 | S25 E902 | 28:52

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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Chastening Of The Lord | September 2, 2025

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Creflo dollar: you know what?
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There's gonna come a time for those who will exercise
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In this chastening that you're gonna have a harvest
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And you're gonna be able to see the results
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Of the exercise or the training that comes from this chastening.
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Creflo dollar: hopefully you're gonna choose to let
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Heaven determine your thinking because whatever choice you
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Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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Creflo: can you say that he's a way-maker, yes!
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Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low, yes!
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Creflo: 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?
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"no, no, i don't believe the righteous have to suffer."
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Boy, read the bible.
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"they that live godly shall suffer," what?
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Audience: persecution.
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Creflo: how many y'all trying to live godly?
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All right, you're going to go through some stuff.
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You're gonna meet some stuff.
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I just get so freaked out when i meet christians
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Who are playing like they never went through nothing.
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Hey, man, how you doin'?
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"perfect, flawless, all is well."
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Is all well all the time?
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"oh, yes, amen."
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What? no, no, no, you're lying.
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You're lying because god is going to use these afflictions
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And the things we have to go through and the persecutions
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And people talking about you and losing your job and not having
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Enough money to pay your rent, all your money's spent,
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Little bit to buy some food, baby need a pair of shoes,
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Look, you got a light bill due, you even got a gas bill too.
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Telephone disconnect, wait 'til your next paycheck.
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Paycheck bounce on you. what are you gonna do?
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We have issues.
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It's called life.
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No one's exempt from it, so what does he plan on doing with all
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Of these things, persecutions, and stuff that comes our way?
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And so, this answers the question,
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Why do righteous suffer?
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The unrighteous, all who have not accepted righteousness
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Of god, all who are not born again,
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They are not in the sight of god's goal to be chastened.
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There's no chastisement for people
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Who have not been born again.
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But it's for those who are sons.
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It's not for those who have not been born again, okay?
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There is no spiritual life to free from impurities
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Of this world.
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There is no spiritual life to free from the impurities--
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That means a guy who is not born again,
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He ain't got no spiritual life so we're not--he already bound
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To hell so there is no need to try to do any getting rid of
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Impurities of self-dependence 'cause that's how he live.
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"it's my life, i'm gonna do what i wanna do with it."
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Ephesians 2, verse 1, says something.
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Look at that.
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I wanna show you this real quick.
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I mean, those people are already dead in trespasses and sin.
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There's no--there's no spiritual life to free somebody
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From some impurity.
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Verse 1 says: "and you hath he quickened,
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Who were dead in trespasses and sin."
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There are people that are dead in trespasses and sin.
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So while the unrighteous do not suffer by chastening,
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There awaits the judgment and the fiery indignation which
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Shall devour them who fail to make jesus lord of their life.
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People don't go to hell because of their behavior.
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They go to hell because they reject jesus.
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Hebrews chapter 10:27, let me show you that real quick.
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Hebrews chapter 10:27.
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Is everybody on the bus still?
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I know i'm over-emphasizing this but you'll see why.
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We got to--it's like, got to get this foundation down.
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Verse 27 says: "but a certain fearful looking for of judgment
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And fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries."
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And so, yeah, unless the unsaved receive jesus as their lord
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And personal savior, they will be devoured.
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They're going to hell.
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There's none of this still of,
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"well, you know, everybody's going to heaven."
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Only those who accept the sin offering,
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Only those who accept the peace offering,
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Only those who accept the ransom that was paid for us,
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And that's jesus.
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You don't--somebody says,
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"well, you're going to hell because of bad behavior."
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Well, everybody got some.
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That's why you need the grace of god to help you
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Through the bad behavior.
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The behavior will get better but you're going to heaven
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'cause you accept jesus as the lord and savior of your life.
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That's why you go to heaven.
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And for a long time, we were part of churches that said,
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You know, "you know, if you keep doing that,
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You're going to hell."
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No, i believe in jesus, and i believe jesus
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Is gonna help me stop doing this.
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Are you understanding what i'm saying?
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And so, you know the distinction.
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I just wanna make sure you hadn't forgotten it, amen?
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Now, what then are the impurities
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To be removed by chastening?
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Specifically, what are the impurities to be removed
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By chastening?
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I kinda already told you but, as the purpose of the discipline
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That comes by grace, that discipline by grace
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Is to produce godly living.
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And this was seen all throughout the new testament
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As complete dependence upon god.
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Complete dependence upon god.
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So it is the life of the believer that is not dependent
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Upon god that's called impurity.
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It's that life that does not depend upon god.
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That life that does not trust god.
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That's the--that's the impurity that needs to be removed
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By chastening.
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The life that doesn't depend upon god.
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Now, this is how i understand this.
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It's like, okay, we live our lives and we have come
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To the point where it's, like,
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"okay, god, i'm not dependent on you.
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I'm trusting me.
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I'm trusting me more than i trust you.
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I'm trusting me to do this and i'm trusting me
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To get that done.
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I'm trusting me," and there is no--there's no depending on god.
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The most important thing that i have learned in this walk
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Of grace is to make my declaration of dependence
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Upon god every day.
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I do not want to go to heaven, walk up to the gate,
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And show god all the things that i have been able to do in my own
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Power and my own self-effort.
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I wanna walk up to the gate and say,
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"totally depend on you.
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Me being here is totally you, lord."
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And i don't wanna go to heaven thinking i'm this dude,
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Man.
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I don't wanna go to heaven think i'm this guy that gets up there
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And i am most holy on my own, i am most anointed on my own,
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And i'm gonna tell god about all the things i did.
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God help us.
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God help us.
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And my prayer is, "lord, help me not to deceive myself.
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I depend on you.
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I depend on you to wake me up in the morning.
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I depend on you for my health, my strength.
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I depend on you for my promotion."
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When--there are some people right now who don't think that
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There's any need for them to even ask god to bless a thing.
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They get an idea which came from god.
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"all things come of thee, o god,
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And of thy own have we given thee."
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And we don't even--we don't even feel like it's necessary
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To get god to bless it because now we're smart.
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We have a degree.
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We know people. we got money.
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What is all that gonna do?
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It's gonna try to distract you from your dependence on him.
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I trust god.
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And i trust god and i need to let him know i trust him.
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I need--i don't wanna start nothing
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Without starting depending on him.
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I need him. how'd you do this?
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Well, you know, i, you know, god,
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I had the five ways of doing that.
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You know-- gotta work real hard to do--"
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No, no, no, no, not me.
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What taffi say this morning?
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"not by might, not by your power,
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But by my spirit, saith the lord."
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I depend on god.
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What's happening right now?
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I don't want--and listen.
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I don't want the church to grow because of my intellect.
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I don't want things to happen and they give me
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A community service award because of my work.
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Whatever is done through the life of creflo dollar
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And the world changers, we gotta look to the hills
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From whence cometh our help.
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Our strength and our help and our dependence comes from him,
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But you have to really open your eyes to see
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How bad off this is right now.
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Listen to people's testimony.
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Jesus is not getting the credit no more.
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And that is an impurity that cannot exist in heaven because
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God has already seen that movie and he knows how it ends.
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You remember the one called "lucifer"?
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And that impurity is something that he's gonna burn off.
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So it follows that all in the life of a believer
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That is not in dependence upon him is an impurity.
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Every self-centered thing is included.
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All dependence upon self, all self-will,
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All satisfaction of selfish desire,
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All glory for self, wow.
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That causes you to examine yourself.
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I hope so, it caused me to examine myself.
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I'm thinking, like, "dude, before i get up
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And think i'm just like, 'oh, i am just--look at me, god.
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I'm awesome.
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I minister to the poor, i build houses,
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I pray for those who need prayer.
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Yes, i speak in tongues, [speaking in tongues].
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I do all.'"
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And then you'll squeeze in a little quick
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"to the glory of god."
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I'm thinking, "oh my god, dude, i don't know.
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I don't know.
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I don't wanna say anything but i don't want you to get to heaven
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And suffer loss and then look back at me, like,
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'dude, why you didn't tell us?'"
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Many humanly admirable things together with all worldly lust
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And all immorality require the chastening work of god.
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The chastening work of god burns off self-dependence.
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And at times, the chastening work of the lord is
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A preventive work.
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Sometime, god releases something to stop you
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From doing something.
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Somebody say, "how that work?"
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Well, paul--paul knows about it.
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Paul experienced that--this kind of chastening in 2 corinthians.
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2 corinthians chapter 12 and 7, look at this.
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2 corinthians chapter 12 and 7, yeah.
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Check this out.
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And he says, "and lest i should be exalted above measure,"
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This is paul.
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"and lest i should be exalted above measure through
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The abundance of the revelations, there was given
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To me a thorn in the flesh, the message of satan to buffet me,
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Lest i should be exalted above measure."
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So this provision of god's grace was a means to hold
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In subjection the tendency of the flesh to boast.
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God allowed this to happen to deal with the tendency
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Of the flesh to wanna boast.
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Can you imagine the apostle paul getting this groundbreaking
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Revelation of grace, more revelation
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Than any man ever got, and he was a former pharisee,
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By the way.
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How tempted he would be to really get arrogant
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And boastful and eventually say, "look at the revelation--
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Look at my revelation."
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And i saw this, whew.
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The grace of god loves paul-- jesus loves paul so much
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That a provision of god's grace wrapped up in a thorn
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To prevent that from happening, because men had the seed.
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This was a revelation from god almighty.
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And paul was just an instrument where god could flow his love
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Through one man and deliver men from the law
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Into this new testament of grace.
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That's how important it was, that he was not in the way.
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They had to see god, not paul.
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We love picking out our heroes and forgetting
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That you already have one.
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I'm good, bro.
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I want nobody admiring me like that.
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I don't--lightning--i'm good, bro.
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I'm good being a slave to christ.
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I'm good.
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I do not want to be going to heaven and then god say,
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"you suffer loss because you up here in your self-dependence."
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No, no, no, lord. no, no, no, lord.
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I mean, when i get to the gate,
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I ain't got no lists about what i did.
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They ask me, "why should we let you in?"
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I'm gonna say, "because of god's grace,
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I am what i am.
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I am not who i am because of anything about me.
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I depend on god, and i depend on god to unlock that gate
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And let me in."
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No other help i know.
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If i withdraw myself from thee, i don't even know where to go.
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That kind of dependence.
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And you know what the church has done?
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Most of 'em have declared a declaration of independence
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From god.
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"god helps those who help themselves.
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The bible says that he'll help those who help themselves."
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And i thought it was scripture until i went to looking for it
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One day.
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And you know what i discovered?
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God never said that.
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God didn't say he helps those who helps themself.
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You know what he said?
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He said, "i help those who need help."
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That's just an excuse we use to go at it without god.
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"well, if you just-- if you take one step,
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He'll do the rest."
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So you mean, do you mean to tell me all of god's stepping
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Is gonna be based on my one step?
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So god's power is limited to my one step?
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Honey, i have had things that happened in my life
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When i couldn't take a step, hallelujah,
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But he start taking a step and start carrying me every time
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He stepped, hallelujah.
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That's the kind of god i serve: a god that'll pick me up,
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Hallelujah, and i can depend on him to step when i can't step.
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I apologize.
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I'm not trying to, like, scream on purpose like this
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Because it's really hurt my voice, but i--he is so awesome.
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I mean, what a god.
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Oh, he's doing all this stuff.
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He loves me, and i need him.
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And i don't wanna be without him.
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That's why you will never hear me say--
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Thank you, lord, for bringing that back.
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You'll never hear me say, "if you don't have enough faith,
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Don't come down here."
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You know, we're having a prayer or something.
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"i tell you one thing: you gotta have prayer faith.
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If you don't have enough faith, don't come down here."
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Well now, what if you got a whole bunch of folks who,
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"well, i ain't got no faith but i sure am in pain"?
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Here's what i believe: honey, if you ain't got no faith,
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Come on down here, we'll believe god will get you
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Some on your way on down here, c'mon.
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I depend on him to give you whatever you need
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On the way down here, hallelujah.
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We gotten a bit too high-strung in church.
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Everybody think they know it, all men--
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Listen, i just believe what i preach.
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God'll fix it all when i get there, glory to god.
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I might not have it all like you perfect preachers do.
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I just preach what i believe and i preach what i see
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In my life and look at what god has done here.
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And it might not be 100% flawless but it'll get you
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There, i guarantee you.
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It'll get you there.
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And he might have to take half my book and just tear it out
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And leave me with a paragraph and say,
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"baby, this is what you got right."
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That's all right with me, because i'm not there
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Because of the whole book he tore out.
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I'm there because i totally depend on him, hallelujah.
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I need to take a breath, all that hollerin' again, my god.
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So, the one purpose of this purifying work of the father
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Is that we might be partakers of his holiness.
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Go to 1 thessalonians 4 and 7,
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And this is about to get really radical.
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1 thessalonians 4 and 7.
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He says: "for god has not called us unto uncleanness,
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But he's called us unto," what?
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"holiness."
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Not to uncleanness, but holiness.
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So that's number one.
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Number two, the second purpose is that it might--
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That it might yield
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The peaceable fruit of righteousness.
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So, righteousness is the root, but the fruit of righteousness
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Is the results.
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And so, he's talking about chastening us so we can see
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The fruit of righteousness which is results.
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How many of y'all ready to see some results in your life, amen?
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Partakers of his holiness, and so we can see some fruit
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Of righteousness.
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So, the peaceable fruit of righteousness is said to be
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Unto them which are exercised.
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Go back to hebrews 12 and 11.
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But let's--let me read this in the nlt.
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Hebrews 12 and 11 in nlt.
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So the peaceable fruit of righteousness is said to be
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Unto them which are exercised by the chastening.
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Exercised by the chastening, the chastening that exercises us.
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He says this in verse 11: "no discipline is enjoyable
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While it is happening."
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How many of you ever--how many ever went back in the exercise
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Room and you ain't been there in 2 years and you're back
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In that exercise room and you used to could do 100 push-ups;
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You can't do but a half of one?
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That is not enjoyable while it's happening.
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It's painful and you go there and you get sore and then you
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Start lifting weights up and you're more sore and you think,
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"is the soreness ever gonna stop?"
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"it's painful!
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But afterwards there will be a peaceable harvest.
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Here it'll be a peaceable harvest of right living
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For those who are trained in this way,"
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For those who are exercised in this chastening.
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There's a training that god is taking us through
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So we can enjoy the results of that training.
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And whatever it is you might have been addicted to:
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Drugs, sex, whatever it is, god loves you.
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He says, "i'm gonna start exercising you.
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I'm gonna start training you, and it's not gonna be enjoyable
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For a moment.
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You're gonna have to say 'no' to this and 'no' and 'lord,
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Help me here,' and you might find yourself praying
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Past one hour [speaking in tongues]."
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But he says, "you know what?
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There's gonna come a time for those who will exercise
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In this chastening that you're gonna have a harvest
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And you're gonna be able to see the results of the exercise
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Or the training that comes from this chastening.
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You gotta let god train you 'cause here's gonna be the key
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To this training.
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Yielding.
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Somebody say "yielding."
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The clay must yield to the potter's exercise
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If it is to become a vessel of beauty.
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The gold must yield to the exercise of the fire
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If it is to become pure.
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The drops of water must yield to the exercise of the sun's rays
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And the cool of the night to be transformed into the dewdrop.
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Yield is the key word in each of these cases.
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Heavenly father, come into my heart,
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Save me, i receive you now, by faith,
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And i declare in jesus's name that i am saved.
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Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen.
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Creflo Dollar - The Chastening Of The Lord

September 2, 2025 | S25 E902 | 28:52

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