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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - From Condemnation To Grace | June 1, 2025
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- Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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- Creflo dollar: jesus was not sent to condemn the world, to
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- Shame the world, to say to the world that you're not enough.
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- I--literally, he says, "i have come to end your shame, your
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- Blame, your guilt, your condemnation, because through me
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- You will get a free gift of no condemnation and begin to do
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- Outstanding things because the root has been dealt with."
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- Creflo: hopefully you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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- Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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- Gonna be your mentality for the day.
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- Creflo: can you say that he's a way maker?
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- Yes!
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- Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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- Yeah!
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- Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of exodus
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- Chapter 19 and we're gonna start at verse 8.
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- I wanna kind of set a foundation for where we're going here.
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- We've been talking about overcoming condemnation and
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- Really trying to understand it in light of our living,
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- You know?
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- And sometimes we hear the word condemnation, but we're not
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- Really visualizing what it looks like in our everyday lives.
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- And condemnation becomes the foundation, basically, for a lot
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- Of negative things that you're trying to overcome.
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- For example, condemnation is responsible for fear.
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- I thought fear was the bottom line, but condemnation is
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- The root.
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- Condemnation produces the fear, and all the fears you have to
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- Deal with, and if you don't understand the root of it and
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- You just try to deal with fear, then you'll find yourself moving
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- To the next stage where you're dealing with the stresses of
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- Life, and stress is absolutely an enemy that will be
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- Responsible for transferring the curse in your physical body and
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- In your soul.
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- And because, as a result of stress, you begin to see and
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- Experiences the manifestations of the curse, the death cycle
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- Begins to take place.
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- And yet, i still don't think that the body of christ as a
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- Whole has really gotten a hold of condemnation and what it
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- Looks like and what it looks like on your journey, you know,
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- Because our christian life is a journey that we're taking.
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- And so, i wanna look at this scripture.
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- We were studying the book of john on wednesday night with the
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- Wednesday night crew and we're getting into just, like, every
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- Detail, right?
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- And so, the word of the lord came by moses to the people of
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- God and something really happened here, and i encourage
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- You to read the whole chapter, but when he gave the word in
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- Verse 8, exodus 19, he said, "and all the people answered
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- Together," all of them, "and they said, all that the lord
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- Hath spoken," these three words right here, "we will do.
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- And moses returned the words of the people unto the lord," and i
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- Encourage you to read the rest of it, but then when he returned
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- The three words back to god, something happened because god
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- Was like, "go and get everybody cleansed because from this
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- Point, if you even touch the bottom of this mountain, you're
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- Gonna die.
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- And if you do this, you're gonna die.
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- And if both of y'all do that, both of y'all gonna die."
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- And i'm like, what ticked god off?
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- From my view i'm looking at what happened because they were
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- Allowed to touch the bottom of the mountain before.
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- There's something that took place that i don't think
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- We noticed.
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- What happened before exodus 19:8 and then god--everything changed
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- After exodus 19:8--and these three words are the only things
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- That i can see, "we will do"?
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- And if you read this entire chapter, you'll notice in the
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- Next few chapters, immediately he begins to establish the law.
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- The law was something that was perfect.
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- It was flawless.
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- It represented god's character.
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- You knew god based on the law that he gave because there was
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- No in between.
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- It was perfect.
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- However, it was too perfect for a fallen man to be able to keep
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- With his own performance and his own effort.
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- So, you can see clearly, i'll draw to conclusion and then
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- We'll see as we teach it today, that god was saying to those who
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- Said, "we will do," he was saying, "not by yourself,
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- You won't."
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- He was saying something a little deeper.
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- He was saying, "you by yourself, you are not enough to do what i
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- Sent you."
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- So, the law was sent to condemn--that which was perfect
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- Was sent to condemn man.
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- Listen to this now.
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- The law of moses was sent to condemn man.
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- Now, remember, the--condemnation was all about this sense of not
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- Enough and the law was sent to convince mankind you're
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- Not enough.
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- Now, imagine christian people trying to keep something that
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- Was sent to condemn you.
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- Yes, it's flawless. yes, it's perfect.
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- But it was sent to say to you, "not enough," because as they
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- Tried to keep the law, they constantly failed, constantly
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- Failed, constantly failed.
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- The failure was so bad, if you keep reading from exodus on
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- The--it was so bad that god had to institute the sacrificial
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- System of bringing sacrifices to a priest to cover your sins just
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- So you can make it another year.
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- You think that it lasted another year.
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- No, in some cases, they brought a sacrifice, it was acceptable,
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- The blood of the animals covered their sin, and then 15 minutes
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- After they walked away, they sinned.
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- So they had to live under sin condemnation, sin consciousness,
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- For the rest of the year until they could get back here to
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- Present another sacrifice to cover it.
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- So, now you're dealing with condemnation, you're dealing
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- With constantly seeing that you're not enough, that you're
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- Not enough, that you're not enough, and now you're dealing
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- With the creation of sin consciousness.
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- You're now more conscious of sin than anything else.
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- And so, that's a summary of putting everything together and
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- Shows you this is not the way of the new covenant.
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- And yet, christian people are still fighting to live by a law
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- That brings condemnation.
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- Church full of people that show up at church feeling like, "i'm
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- Not enough," because they are coming week after week knowing
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- They hadn't kept this, they hadn't kept that, they hadn't
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- Kept this, and you know what's going on, ultimately?
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- You're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough.
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- And so, condemnation and the feeling of not enough leads you
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- To sin more.
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- And it's happening with the stuff that the majority of the
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- Body of christ is coming to church.
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- They're coming to church and they're hearing the law, they're
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- Hearing, "do good and you'll get good."
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- And so, what happens is when you don't get good, you'll say, "oh
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- My god, that's because i didn't do good," and you're constantly
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- Beating yourself up.
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- You get up in the morning and you say, "lord, forgive me for
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- The sin i hadn't even done yet," because you're more conscious of
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- Sin than you are the righteousness of god.
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- So, how does this teaching fit today?
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- It fits with every individual that is not seeing the gospel of
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- Grace yet and they're still stuck into the law and, you
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- Know, eventually you have to act phony to make it seem like
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- You're actually doing it.
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- And then you have to start judging somebody to make you
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- Feel better about yourself not being able to do it.
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- And then, eventually, you have to start taking sin and dividing
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- It into big sin versus little sin when there was never that
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- Division in the whole bible, was never that division of big sin,
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- Little sin.
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- Sin was just sin.
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- Is everybody following me?
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- So, now we move--and listen, there are still people--when
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- You're living by the law, it's so hard to see grace.
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- All you got--all you gotta do is back up.
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- When--before you heard the message of grace and remember
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- Your struggle.
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- You kept trying over and over again.
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- You have to lie to be able to say you perfected it.
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- You have to, because ain't nobody in this house was able to
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- Keep the law perfectly, for if you were, you would be
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- Called savior.
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- And there was only one savior and there was only one man that
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- Could perfectly keep the law, and the bible says he kept it
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- Every jot and tittle.
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- So, the next time you brag about how many commandments you've
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- Kept this week, if you hadn't kept all of them, keep your
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- Mouth closed because james says, "if you have offended in one
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- Area, then you're guilty of the whole thing."
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- Are you listening to me?
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- Now, that's humbling to hear, right?
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- Now, all of a sudden, your religious pride is like, "oh,
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- Okay, so what we got here?"
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- You came in here bragging on, "well, i'm apostle,
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- I'm prophet."
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- And?
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- You apostle and prophet that's still going to be under
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- Condemnation and you still not enough.
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- Your title will not make you enough.
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- Your so-called anointing won't make you enough, glory to god.
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- The only person that can make you enough is jesus
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- Christ, hallelujah.
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- He's the only one that can make you enough.
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- Now, that's foundation.
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- Let's get started this.
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- All right, john chapter 3, we're gonna trace from condemnation to
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- Grace, from condemnation to grace.
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- Now, john chapter 3, verse 17, and i want you to read this
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- Out loud with me.
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- St. john chapter 3, verse 17.
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- Well, let's back up a little bit.
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- You're familiar with verse 16.
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- Let's look at verse 16 because i want you
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- To see it in the context.
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- Verse 16 says, "for god so loved the world," so his love was
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- His motivation.
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- "for god so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
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- Son, that," watch this, "whosoever believeth in
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- Him," what?
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- Okay, so what do you have to do to not perish?
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- Believe in him, right?
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- And so, what does belief look like?
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- It looks like total dependence on god.
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- See, eventually we gotta get from the point of saying, "i
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- Believe," and not really know what that means, to believe
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- Something is to receive something, and then what you
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- Believe and receive equals dependence upon it.
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- What you believe equals dependence upon it.
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- Abraham had faith in god that he was gonna give--was gonna have a
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- Child like god said, all right?
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- He was fully persuaded.
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- But what was he--what was it really?
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- He was dependent on god because he couldn't depend on himself.
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- Bro a hundred years old, he's shooting blanks, he can't depend
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- On hisself.
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- He cannot depend on hisself.
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- But he believed god, which means that he depended on god.
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- And abraham was 90, those eggs were fried, diced, chopped,
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- And--you understand?
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- She couldn't do nothing but depend on god, but their
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- Dependence on god is called believing.
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- I need to say that to you because i don't want you to just
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- Keep articulating, "i believe," and it's not matching,
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- "i depend."
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- Are you listening to me?
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- I depend on god when i'm sick.
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- I depend on god when i'm in lack.
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- I depend on god when i'm acting like a fool.
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- I depend on god when i'm hurting.
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- And all of a sudden none of those things will have victory
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- Over you because of your declaration of dependence on
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- Him, which now translates and means "i believe."
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- So he says, "for god so loved the world, that he gave his only
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- Begotten son, that whosoever believeth," or depends, "on him,
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- He's not gonna perish, but he's gonna have everlasting life."
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- Now, please understand something.
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- When you believe in the lord jesus, you have
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- Everlasting life.
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- Somebody says, "when are you gonna have everlasting life?
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- When you die?"
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- No, when the day you start believing on jesus, you now--you
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- Have everlasting life because he is ever--oh, glory.
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- He is everlasting life.
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- Everlasting life is not time, honey.
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- Everlasting life is a person.
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- Y'all know that's in the bible, don't you?
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- "i ain't got time. i'm already," you know.
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- Everlasting life is a person.
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- The day you believe on jesus, everlasting life.
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- You have everlasting life. all right, now watch this.
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- "for god sent not his son into the world to condemn the world."
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- He didn't send jesus in the world to tell you that you're
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- Not enough.
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- He sent jesus in the world to tell you, "i'm here.
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- I'm getting ready to end all of those insufficiencies."
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- "he sent him into the world, not to condemn the world, but that
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- The world through him might be saved" from being not enough.
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- Saved from guilt,
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- Saved from not enough,
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- Saved from condemnation.
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- Jesus was sent in the world not to condemn it.
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- So, if he wasn't sent to condemn, how do you know we're
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- Not to be--we're not supposed to be condemning people or
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- Judging people?
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- That is one of the major things you see in the church today, is
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- Slanderous judgment motivated by mammon.
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- In other words, most of the people that slander folks,
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- There's some money involved somewhere that's motivating
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- Your slander.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- Jesus was not sent to condemn the world, but to save
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- The world.
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- A lot of times we see things in general and we ignore
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- The context.
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- Jesus was not sent to condemn the world, to shame the world,
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- To say to the world that you're not enough.
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- I--literally, he says, "i have come to end your shame, your
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- Blame, your guilt, your condemnation, because through me
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- You will get a free gift of no condemnation and begin to do
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- Outstanding things because the root has been dealt with."
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- Condemnation is the root, a lot of--it's the route to all sin,
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- And if you can deal with the root to all sin, how many of you
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- Know the fruit is gonna be greatly damaged?
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- Yeah.
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- All right, now.
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- We can see the huge difference between the condemnation of the
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- Pharisees and the salvation of jesus in this story we left off
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- With last week dealing with a tax collector by the name
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- Of zacchaeus.
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- So, look at luke chapter 19 and let's begin at verse 1 in
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- The--let's go with the nlt.
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- Luke chapter 19, verse 1, so you're gonna see the difference
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- Between the condemnation of the pharisees and the salvation
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- Of jesus.
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- Somehow, the church has been convinced that we can maybe see
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- People transform their life by condemning them.
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- Condemn them, make them feel bad, tell them they're gonna go
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- To he hell by 12, and jesus is getting ready to show you that
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- He can do so much more without condemnation than people
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- With condemnation.
- 00:18:30.288 --> 00:18:31.656
- I remember, when i first got in the ministry, most of the
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- Ministries that i was with and the pastors and preachers, they
- 00:18:35.026 --> 00:18:39.797
- Used condemnation, okay?
- 00:18:39.797 --> 00:18:42.700
- You know, we'd do stuff like, you know, god--what was that?
- 00:18:42.700 --> 00:18:45.770
- About adam and eve and adam and steve?
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- And that wasn't helping nobody, that was condemning people.
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- You know what they do?
- 00:18:51.309 --> 00:18:52.643
- Just don't come no more.
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- You can do so much more through compassion than you can do
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- Through condemning.
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- And then, as parents, we turn it around and make it
- 00:19:03.054 --> 00:19:05.423
- Reverse psychology.
- 00:19:05.423 --> 00:19:06.757
- It's still condemning.
- 00:19:06.757 --> 00:19:09.060
- "you better watch out.
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- You're gonna be just like your no good for nothing daddy.
- 00:19:10.394 --> 00:19:12.530
- Look at you, you already acting like it."
- 00:19:12.530 --> 00:19:14.865
- He like, "okay, well, i'm gonna go do some more because i'm
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- Enjoying myself.
- 00:19:17.068 --> 00:19:20.104
- Daddy don't look too bad to me."
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- Transformation is blocked if condemnation is your
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- Motivator, all right?
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- Look at this.
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- "jesus entered jericho and made his way through the town.
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- There was a man there named zacchaeus.
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- He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become
- 00:19:43.728 --> 00:19:47.665
- Very rich.
- 00:19:47.665 --> 00:19:49.900
- He tried to get a look at jesus, but he was too short.
- 00:19:49.900 --> 00:19:53.704
- So he," you already know he's--he already got the
- 00:19:53.704 --> 00:19:55.640
- Napoleon complex.
- 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:56.974
- He already got an issue.
- 00:19:56.974 --> 00:19:58.542
- "i'm rich and short."
- 00:19:58.542 --> 00:19:59.877
- He already got an issue.
- 00:19:59.877 --> 00:20:02.847
- "but he was too short to see over the crowd.
- 00:20:02.847 --> 00:20:06.450
- So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree."
- 00:20:06.450 --> 00:20:10.154
- Turn to your neighbor and say, "you sick of yours?"
- 00:20:10.154 --> 00:20:16.127
- Somebody said, "i'm sycamore."
- 00:20:16.127 --> 00:20:22.033
- "besides the road," he said, "for jesus was going to pass
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- That way.
- 00:20:26.404 --> 00:20:28.372
- So when jesus came by, he looked up--" ain't that something?
- 00:20:28.372 --> 00:20:32.243
- God knows when your time is gonna be.
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- You ain't got to announce it.
- 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:37.515
- You ain't gotta try to set up nothing.
- 00:20:37.515 --> 00:20:39.917
- It's the same way with david, man.
- 00:20:39.917 --> 00:20:41.919
- David was in the back, tending to the sheep, and all them boys
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- Was up there and the prophet said, "ain't--
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- None of these, they're not the one.
- 00:20:47.024 --> 00:20:48.359
- You sure you ain't got one more?"
- 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:49.694
- "yeah, we got one boy, but he ain't nothing, a little red
- 00:20:49.694 --> 00:20:51.629
- Headed boy back down there," and they called him up.
- 00:20:51.629 --> 00:20:53.964
- "call him here."
- 00:20:53.964 --> 00:20:55.299
- See, god knows when to call you, all right?
- 00:20:55.299 --> 00:20:59.637
- You just keep doing what god told you to do last and he knows
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- How to call you up front.
- 00:21:03.774 --> 00:21:05.509
- And while i'm at it, let me say, those of you who are--have been
- 00:21:05.509 --> 00:21:09.146
- The last, get ready, there's a season coming where he's getting
- 00:21:09.146 --> 00:21:12.983
- Ready to call the last to the front.
- 00:21:12.983 --> 00:21:18.456
- So your boss better watch out.
- 00:21:18.456 --> 00:21:20.424
- You might end up being his boss.
- 00:21:20.424 --> 00:21:25.763
- "when jesus came by, he looked up at zacchaeus and called
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- Him by name."
- 00:21:30.968 --> 00:21:32.303
- My god, called him by name.
- 00:21:32.303 --> 00:21:34.038
- Imagine that. imagine what that did for him.
- 00:21:34.038 --> 00:21:37.441
- "jesus know me. jesus know me."
- 00:21:37.441 --> 00:21:41.746
- Now, think about it now. you're zacchaeus.
- 00:21:41.746 --> 00:21:43.848
- "jesus know me and i've been stealing from these people.
- 00:21:43.848 --> 00:21:48.052
- Jesus know me and i've been taking advantage of
- 00:21:48.052 --> 00:21:50.588
- These people.
- 00:21:50.588 --> 00:21:52.056
- But jesus know me."
- 00:21:52.056 --> 00:21:55.493
- I'm sure the religious people say, "he need to condemn him.
- 00:21:55.493 --> 00:21:58.863
- Why--how come jesus know his name?
- 00:21:58.863 --> 00:22:02.166
- And he don't know my name?
- 00:22:02.166 --> 00:22:03.534
- I pray, i fast, i give my tithe, and he never called me by
- 00:22:03.534 --> 00:22:07.471
- My name.
- 00:22:07.471 --> 00:22:09.473
- In fact, when he told me to do this, right, he said,
- 00:22:09.473 --> 00:22:11.075
- 'whatchamacallit, boy--whatever, come here.'"
- 00:22:11.075 --> 00:22:20.251
- "he called him by name.
- 00:22:20.251 --> 00:22:21.585
- 'zacchaeus!'
- 00:22:21.585 --> 00:22:22.953
- And he said, 'quick, come down!'"
- 00:22:22.953 --> 00:22:26.123
- And you know zacchaeus wasn't taking his time.
- 00:22:26.123 --> 00:22:28.726
- He probably almost broke his ankle.
- 00:22:28.726 --> 00:22:30.060
- He probably didn't climb down.
- 00:22:30.060 --> 00:22:31.395
- He just, whoop, just came on down.
- 00:22:31.395 --> 00:22:32.830
- Jesus said, "quick!"
- 00:22:32.830 --> 00:22:34.265
- Because if jesus say do something, do it.
- 00:22:34.265 --> 00:22:35.800
- He got you covered.
- 00:22:35.800 --> 00:22:37.668
- "quick, come down!
- 00:22:37.668 --> 00:22:39.036
- I must be a guest in your home today."
- 00:22:39.036 --> 00:22:44.942
- "but jesus, i ain't ready yet.
- 00:22:44.942 --> 00:22:46.277
- My house dirty and i'm not"--no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 00:22:46.277 --> 00:22:48.813
- Because i believe, before this service is over with, jesus is
- 00:22:48.813 --> 00:22:52.216
- Gonna be a guest in your home today.
- 00:22:52.216 --> 00:22:59.857
- Now watch this.
- 00:22:59.857 --> 00:23:01.525
- "so zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took jesus to his house
- 00:23:01.525 --> 00:23:06.564
- In great excitement and joy."
- 00:23:06.564 --> 00:23:08.632
- I can't even imagine what that was like.
- 00:23:08.632 --> 00:23:11.902
- All right, understand something.
- 00:23:11.902 --> 00:23:13.404
- So, zacchaeus wasn't saved, at all.
- 00:23:13.404 --> 00:23:16.640
- In fact, if you just kinda really look at it, nobody was
- 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:20.311
- Because jesus had not yet died yet.
- 00:23:20.311 --> 00:23:22.947
- So, jesus is living in a situation where he is
- 00:23:22.947 --> 00:23:26.917
- Demonstrating and showing you the power of compassion
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- Over condemnation.
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- In this three message series "the danger of condemnation,"
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- Creflo dollar uncovers how condemnation is the root of many
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- Struggles for believers, but transformation comes from the
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- Love and compassion demonstrated by jesus.
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- Creflo: when you're living by the law, it's so hard to
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- See grace.
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- Literally, he says, "i have come to end your shame, your blame,
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- Your guilt, your condemnation, because through me you will get
- 00:24:02.553 --> 00:24:07.591
- A free gift of no condemnation."
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- When there is no condemnation, the transformation can take off.
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