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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Christ - The Preeminent One | February 2, 2025
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- Coming up next on "changing your world."
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- Creflo dollar: and for most christians, they don't know
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- That, even coming to church, you leave with your mind occupied
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- With your self-effort.
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- "how am i going to forgive?
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- How am i gonna walk in love?
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- How am i gonna do this?"
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- And you're trying to come up with a strategy in self-effort
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- To try to accomplish something, and you don't even realize that
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- Your soul is drawn away from christ because you're so
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- Occupied with how you gonna do it.
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- ♪ this is your world ♪
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- ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place ♪
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- ♪ let every heart that needs to know ♪
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- ♪ your love is here to stay ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, it's time we live a new life ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, let his love shine bright in you ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, we're saved by his grace ♪
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- ♪ so we embrace your love today ♪
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- Creflo: i'm going to talk to you about christ, the preeminent
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- One, christ, the preeminent one.
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- When something is preeminent, it's the strongest, it's the
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- Most important, it's the most powerful.
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- When something is preeminent, it towers above any and
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- Everything else.
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- What happens in the life of a christian when christ becomes
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- Greater than anything else, greater than anybody else?
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- What happens when your relationship with him towers
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- Above any and everything else?
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- He knows how to get you where you wanna be, or should i say
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- Where we need to be.
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- But it is not going to be through intellect alone.
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- This is not gonna take place because of how well you can
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- Dissect the scripture.
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- Listen to me carefully.
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- This, we're going too far with this.
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- You're, it's important to intellectually be able to
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- Understand the word of god.
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- But that's not the bulk of this.
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- The bulk of this is to know him versus knowing about him and
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- Able to articulate him, to know him.
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- There was a time where men followed god, and they didn't
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- Have this thing, this instrument we have today called the bible.
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- But they knew him.
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- And today we have this instrument of the bible, and we
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- Know about him, and, because of this, which i don't deny,
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- I praise god for this, this is my foundation for everything.
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- But i am saying it is not just this by itself; there is
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- A portion of it that requires you to know him so that you
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- Won't marry the mechanics.
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- And, by marrying the mechanics, you judge everybody's whose
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- Mechanics are different than yours.
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- But, when you know him, all the things that you're
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- Intellectualizing cannot accomplish, can be accomplished
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- Because you simply know him, not just about him.
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- You feel him, you sense him, you know him.
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- I don't want to get to heaven and ask jesus to sit down while
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- I show him everything i know.
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- I want to get to heaven and make sure i don't walk past him
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- Because i know him.
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- So i want you to follow me very carefully here because, in this,
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- There's a lot of things that came together for me.
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- The story of abraham's oldest servant going to find his son,
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- A wife, rebekah.
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- What was that all about?
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- It was a shadow of something.
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- Now, i know.
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- The scriptures that talk about the holy spirit's job was to
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- Magnify jesus and give him glory, i didn't quite
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- Understand that.
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- Now, i know.
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- And all that i have learned and known from these scriptures has
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- Driven me to want to know him better.
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- And i pray that that happens to you today, that you know
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- Him better.
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- Glory to god.
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- Saint john chapter 16, verse 13-14; he said, "howbeit when
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- He, the spirit of truth, is come, he--" the spirit of
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- Truth-- will guide you into all truth; for-- and here's a part
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- Of the truth, "for he shall not speak of himself--" the
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- Holy spirit is not speaking of himself; "but whatsoever he--"
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- The holy spirit-- "shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will
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- Show you things to come," based on what he hears.
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- Verse 14, "he shall glorify me--" now, jesus is
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- Speaking here.
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- "he shall glorify me--" underline that-- "he shall
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- Glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and then he gonna show
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- What's mine unto you."
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- And he says, by him receiving from jesus and showing it to
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- You, he gives glory to jesus.
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- And i wanna know, what is it that he's gonna show me that's
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- Gonna give glory to jesus?
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- Not just go around and say, what the holy ghost is gonna show,
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- And then you fill in the blank with all these weird things.
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- But he's telling you here, "he shall glorify me, for he shall
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- Receive of mine.
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- He shall show it unto you."
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- So the work of the holy spirit is to glorify christ.
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- Oh, that sounds so christian-like; oh, that sounds
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- So religious, that he's gonna glorify christ.
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- I couldn't stop there, and months and months went by, and
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- I'm like, "uh, what do you mean by glorifying him?
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- What do you mean by glorifying him?"
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- I don't want to just use another christian word.
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- What does that mean?
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- What does that look like?
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- The work of the holy spirit is to glorify christ.
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- And, if the work of the holy spirit is to glorify or
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- To magnify christ, then it follows that it is god's purpose
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- That the believer shall see the fullness of the beauty in him
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- Because he says, "he's gonna glorify me, and he shall show it
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- Unto you."
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- So the believer is going to see something.
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- Let's look at this.
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- What is it?
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- What, let's answer that question.
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- What does it mean to glorify god?
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- It means to acknowledge his greatness and his splendor.
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- The holy spirit's job is to acknowledge the greatness, the
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- Splendor, the awesomeness, the grace, the mercy, and i
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- Realized, "oh, i have seen it."
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- What have i seen?
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- I have seen the greatness and the splendor of the grace of god
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- Working in my life, tearing out that shame and guilt and pain,
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- Taking you and completely turning you around, and you're
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- Still trying to figure out, "how did i get where i am right now?
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- I was such a fool.
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- And now all i want is jesus.
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- How did that happen?"
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- The holy spirit says, "i'm glorifying him because i've
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- Received in him, and i am showing you his greatness."
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- Oh, look how great he was when he saved you from
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- That addiction.
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- Oh, look how awesome he was when he healed you.
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- Oh, look how amazing he was when he gave you something you
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- Didn't deserve.
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- Oh, look out, look at the splendor of him giving you
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- Peace, and now you went from two hours to sleep to seven hours
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- Of sleep.
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- I see his glory, mmm.
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- So, when the mind of a man and when the heart of a man, when it
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- Becomes occupied with christ, think, think, think with me,
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- When your mind becomes occupied with christ, when your heart
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- Becomes occupied with christ, i don't, i can't speak for anybody
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- In here.
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- I don't know what your mind's occupied with.
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- I don't know what your heart's occupied with.
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- But, if it's not christ, we got an issue here.
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- Because, when your mind and heart becomes occupied with
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- Christ, then the grace and the truth of which he is full of,
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- John chapter 1:14, "jesus full of--" what-- "grace and--"
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- What-- "truth."
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- The grace and the truth which he is full of, jesus is full of,
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- Must become a great influence for godly living.
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- The grace and truth that jesus is full of must become
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- An influence for godly living.
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- Not the fact that you know all the laws and then you work hard
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- To keep all the rules, but the grace and the truth of jesus has
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- So influenced you that godly living springs up in your life
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- Because of the influence.
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- And you're no longer looking to see how to keep that
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- Commandment, that commandment, how to do this, how to do that,
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- How to love, how to forgive, how to do all those things.
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- But you're so influenced by him.
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- His glory has been shown to you.
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- His grace and truth has been made real to you.
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- And your mind is occupied with his grace.
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- Your mind is occupied with his truth.
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- It is no longer just what you get on sunday.
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- But monday, you're occupied with this grace and truth, and
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- Tuesday, you're occupied with this grace and truth because,
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- All your christian life, you've been trying to arrive at a
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- Certain point, and you never got there.
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- But something happened when you submitted yourself to depend on
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- This grace and truth.
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- And now you look at yourself now, and you're just not what
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- You used to be.
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- Now, on the other hand, when a believer struggles in self
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- Effort to do that which he thinks is right, your mind then
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- Becomes occupied with self, and your soul is drawn away from
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- Christ because you're just thinking about, "how i can
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- Do this.
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- How can i do that? how can i do that?
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- How can i be successful?
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- How can i get enough money to do this?
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- How can i do that?
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- How can i forgive this?"
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- Your mind is occupied with self, and you're struggling in your
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- Self-effort.
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- And, for some people, they don't even know that the struggle is
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- In their self-effort.
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- And, for most christians, they don't know that, even coming to
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- Church, you leave with your mind occupied with your self-effort.
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- "how am i going to forgive?
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- How am i gonna walk in love?
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- How am i gonna do this?"
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- And you're trying to come up with a strategy in self-effort
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- To try to accomplish something, and you don't even realize that
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- Your soul is drawn away from christ because you're
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- So occupied with how you gonna do it.
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- Therefore, when the holy spirit takes of the things that are
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- Christ and he shows them to the believer, he is now carrying out
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- God's purpose of the teaching by grace.
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- He's showing you, i mean, are you kidding me?
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- He is showing you that you're righteous, even though you ain't
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- There all the way yet.
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- He is, he's disrupting a desire that has plagued you all
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- Your life.
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- And one day you woke up and that, the strength of that
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- Desire begins to be depleted.
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- And one day you realize, "i don't even desire that anymore."
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- Anybody know what i'm talking about here?
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- "how, how did i get here?"
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- You remember those days where you heard something at church?
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- You heard something about this, and you knew it was right.
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- And so you accepted the challenge, and you went home and
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- Wrote some formulas down, some plans down, and you say you were
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- Gonna do it every day.
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- And you started off right, with the right heart, but it didn't
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- Last for two days.
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- And then the fourth day, you forgot all about it.
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- And all god wanted you to do is, "can you spend some time
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- With me?
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- Can we talk today?
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- You ain't even got to pray a formal prayer, of the rules you
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- Learned about prayer at church.
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- Can we just talk?
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- In fact, if you want to, you can just be quiet, and i'll fill you
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- With my presence."
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- And you look up, and he has worked on a desire and taken
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- Away a desire and even gave you a new one.
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- And the struggle you had with loving that person is not
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- A struggle anymore.
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- I've been hanging around the essence of pure love, and it has
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- Rubbed off in me and on me, and i can't explain intellectually
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- To you what has happened.
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- But i can love now.
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- I can love stuff that's not lovely, that i don't need it to
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- Be lovely for me to love because of the holy spirit on the inside
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- Of me, pouring the love of god on the inside of me, revealing
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- To me jesus and seeing this part of his greatness and
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- His awesomeness.
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- I don't need you to be all right for me to love you because now
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- I've made room for your faults because the holy ghost has shown
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- Me my own.
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- And you find that you have willingly left all, and you
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- Hunger for him.
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- That's where i am right now.
- 00:18:06.598 --> 00:18:10.369
- How can i separate myself from my bad tradition?
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- How can i separate myself from my self-effort?
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- How many fables have i created?
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- And told myself it must be true.
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- Genesis chapter 24 gives an illustration here of something
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- That i saw.
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- Flip over there, genesis 24; i looked at this thing, and i was
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- Like, "lord, i don't think i've ever seen this like
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- This before."
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- The holy spirit is showing you things about him.
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- So this is a story here about abraham, who was old; sarah
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- Had just died.
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- He called his oldest servant to go and seek out a wife for his
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- Son, isaac, verse 10, "and the servant took ten camels of
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- Camels of his master's, and departed; for all the goods of
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- His master were in his hands: he arose, and went to mesopotamia,
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- Unto the city of nahar--nahor."
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- So he takes ten camels.
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- He takes a lot of the goods that abraham had.
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- What is he gonna do with this?
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- Abraham had already prophesied to him exactly how this was
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- Gonna go down.
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- She was gonna show up, she was gonna have a bucket in her
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- Hands, when she does, do this and do that.
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- And so, in verse 33, i wish i could read the whole thing,
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- But i'm skipping around.
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- Verse 33, he says, "i will not eat, until i have told
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- Mine errand.
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- And he said, speak on.
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- And he said, i am abraham's servant.
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- And the lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he has
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- Become great; and he has given him flocks, and herds, and
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- Silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants,
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- And camels, and asses.
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- And sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was
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- Old; and unto him hath he given all that he had."
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- See, right now, this servant is glorifying abraham and his
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- Master and isaac.
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- And he said, verse 39, "and i said unto my master,
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- Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
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- And he said unto me, the lord, before whom i walk, will send
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- His angel with thee, and he will prosper your way; and thou shall
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- Take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my
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- Father's house."
- 00:21:10.949 --> 00:21:12.317
- So he went to his kin folks to find a wife.
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- That was not so weird back then.
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- It'd be weird now, grossamona.
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- "and then laban, bethuel answered and said, the thing
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- Proceeded from the lord; we cannot speak unto thee bad
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- Or good."
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- He said, "behold, rebekah is before thee, take her, go, let
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- Her be thy master's son's wife, as the lord has spoken."
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- And they worshiped him, verse 53, "and the servant brought
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- Forth jewels of silver, jewels of gold, raiment, and gave to
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- Rebekah; and he gave also to her brother and to her mother
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- Precious things."
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- What was happening here?
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- It was by presenting gifts from isaac through the servant and
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- Telling about him that abraham's servant attracted the heart
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- Of rebekah.
- 00:22:17.716 --> 00:22:20.185
- Her heart was attracted from what she heard about him and the
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- Things that was given to her, and she went with him and she
- 00:22:24.256 --> 00:22:29.327
- Became isaac's bride because of what she heard and what she saw,
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- And her heart was attracted towards him.
- 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:40.272
- So also the holy spirit, by glorifying christ, seeks to draw
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- Believers away from the things of the world and to bring them
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- To christ.
- 00:22:54.252 --> 00:22:56.988
- The holy spirit says, "what i want to do is i wanna show you
- 00:22:56.988 --> 00:23:03.695
- He can change you.
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- I wanna show you he can give you peace.
- 00:23:05.130 --> 00:23:08.066
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- 00:23:08.066 --> 00:23:11.803
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- 00:23:11.803 --> 00:23:13.138
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- 00:23:13.138 --> 00:23:15.607
- Punished for it, and the goodness showed up instead of
- 00:23:15.607 --> 00:23:18.176
- The punishment, i want that to attract your heart, to leave the
- 00:23:18.176 --> 00:23:23.748
- World, to leave what you were doing, and come to him because
- 00:23:23.748 --> 00:23:28.920
- I have shown you the beauty of his glory."
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