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Creflo Dollar - Condemnation - The Result Of Rejecting Grace

April 24, 2025 | S25:E101

Creflo Dollar - Condemnation - The Result Of Rejecting Grace
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Condemnation - The Result Of Rejecting Grace | April 24, 2025
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  • Creflo: saint john chapter 3 and verse 17 through 19.
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  • All right, now read this carefully.
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  • He says, "for god sent not his son into the world to condemn
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  • The world; but that the world through him might be saved."
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  • And part of that salvation is saved from condemnation.
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  • Verse 19, or--okay, "he that believeth on him," now
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  • Watch this.
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  • "he that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
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  • Not is condemned already."
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  • So, right here he says, "you believe on him, you're
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  • Not condemned.
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  • You don't believe on him, you're already condemned."
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  • Because why?
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  • "he hath not believed in the name," the name of.
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  • I'm gonna show you that phrase i discovered, "the name of," those
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  • Three words are very significant to everything that jesus is and
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  • Everything that jesus has done.
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  • He says, "they didn't believe in the name of the only begotten
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  • Son of god."
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  • Verse 19, "and this is the condemnation," this is the
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  • Condemnation, here's the condemnation, "that light,"
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  • Referring to jesus, "has come into the world, and men loved
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  • Darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil."
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  • And because of that unbelief and that rejection of the light of
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  • Jesus, of the grace of god, condemnation is a result.
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  • Now, in this passage it reveals an entirely new cause for
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  • Condemnation of man.
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  • Under this covenant of grace we live in, an entirely new cause
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  • For the condemnation of man.
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  • He is condemned because he hath not believed in the name of the
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  • Only begotten son of god.
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  • He is condemned.
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  • So the entire human race now--let's make a distinction
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  • Between this condemnation that comes because you don't believe,
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  • And the condemnation that we--that jesus came and
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  • Delivers from.
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  • He says, "the entire human race came under the condemnation of
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  • Death by one sin that came from adam."
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  • So, let's look at this.
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  • Go to romans chapter 5 and verse 18.
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  • Romans chapter 5 and verse 18.
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  • It becomes pretty fascinating when you see this.
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  • Romans 5 and verse 18.
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  • Now, read verse 18 with me.
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  • Ready?
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  • Read.
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  • "therefore as by the offence," underline that word "offence."
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  • There was an offense that took place here.
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  • "therefore as by the offence of one," now who's that one?
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  • Judgment came because of adam, right?
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  • "therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men
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  • To," what?
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  • "condemnation."
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  • Okay, so he makes it very plain here that judgment came upon all
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  • Men to condemnation because the offense of one man by the name
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  • Of adam, okay?
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  • So, the calls for the condemnation of all mankind was
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  • Then the sin of one man.
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  • Now, this condemnation was later on--this condemnation right here
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  • That came as a result of what adam did in the garden was
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  • Intensified in romans chapter 5 and 20.
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  • Let me show you what intensified it.
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  • It says that the law entered in.
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  • Now, notice that word "offence," okay.
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  • "moreover the law entered in, that the offence might abound."
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  • The word "abound" means increase.
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  • So, the law entered in and that offense that took place in
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  • The garden that brought condemnation?
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  • He said that offense, that condemnation, increased.
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  • It increased as a result of it.
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  • So, this is referring to the law all of moses.
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  • It is specifically called in 2 corinthians chapter 3:9 the
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  • Ministration of condemnation.
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  • Go there.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 3 and verse 9--it is specifically
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  • Called the ministration of condemnation.
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  • "for if the administration of condemnation be glory, much more
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  • Doth, the administration of righteousness succeed in glory."
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  • So under the law, when the law came in and intensified
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  • Condemnation, it was called the ministration of condemnation,
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  • But then, one more time, in james chapter 2 and verse 10,
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  • You just put all these together and you're like, "how did i
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  • Miss this?"
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  • James chapter 2 in verse 10 he says, "for whosoever shall keep
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  • The whole law," okay, "and yet you offend," he's talking about
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  • That offense, "you offend in one point," he says, then, "you
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  • Are guilty."
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  • That's what condemnation is.
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  • A part of the definition is guilt, it's guilt.
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  • He says, "yet offend in one point, he's guilty of all
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  • Of it."
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  • And what happens?
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  • You offend in one point, you're guilty of all of it.
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  • Condemnation comes, again, because of the law.
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  • So, let's put this together.
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  • Under the law, under law, condemnation is because man does
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  • Not do all that the law demands, and then he's condemned because
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  • He doesn't do everything that the law demands, and does do and
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  • He ends up doing the thing that god forbids.
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  • So, in this merit, everybody say "merit," or the demerit--see,
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  • One of them is you deserve praise and reward for good
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  • Works, the other one is you have a mark against you because of
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  • Something you didn't do.
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  • You remember getting demerits in school?
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  • I don't even know if they do that now.
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  • A mark awarded against someone for a fault or an offense.
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  • So, if you got caught talking in class, teacher say, "i'm gonna
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  • Give you a demerit," all right?
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  • All right, so now listen to what i'm leading up to, the amplified
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  • Version of what we just read in john chapter 3:17 through 19.
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  • Now, under under this new condition, this new covenant,
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  • This new condition for condemnation is not at all based
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  • On what man does.
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  • It is in no way related to what a person does.
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  • Yes.
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  • Before, it was all related to what they--what you can do and
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  • What you can't do.
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  • The condemnation, this new condemnation that comes up as a
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  • Result of not believing in jesus christ, it's not based on what
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  • You do, it's based on whether you believe or not, right?
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  • It's because of the failure of man to believe--this
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  • Condemnation i'm talking about comes because man fails to
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  • Believe and he fails to depend upon the goodness of god, and so
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  • Those three words i was telling you about, "the name of," put
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  • That in parentheses, "the name of."
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  • I thought it was just three words, but it actually is a
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  • Phrase that means "that which the son of god is, and that
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  • Which the son of god has done."
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  • That which the son of god is, and that which the son of god
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  • Has done, "the name of," okay?
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  • Now, here's what, if we pull it all together, here's what i
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  • Believe he is saying in john chapter 3 that brings about this
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  • New condition for condemnation.
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  • Again, i wanna repeat.
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  • Before, you broke the law, so condemnation came in
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  • In the garden of eden.
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  • Don't eat of the tree of the garden, you ate of it,
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  • Condemnation came.
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  • Then, the law came in and intensified it and said, "if you
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  • Don't do this, this, this, this, this, then you're gonna be
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  • Cursed," condemnation came in as well.
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  • But now, this new condition for condemnation is a condition
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  • Where you do not believe in the son of god based on who he is,
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  • And you don't believe in the son of god based on what he
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  • Has done.
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  • So, now we put it all together, here's what i believe it says.
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  • He who will depend upon that which the only begotten son of
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  • God is and that which he did while he was in the world is
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  • Not condemned.
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  • Let me read it again.
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  • He who will depend upon that which the son of--the son--the
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  • Only begotten son of god is, you depend on that.
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  • So, let's talk about something for a moment.
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  • We articulate things with our mouth that don't translate into
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  • Our life, okay, and so what we need to understand is when we're
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  • Talking about, do you believe, that the real question is, do
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  • You believe receive, depend, trust, rely on, lean on?
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  • All of those go together to try to help you to see if you're
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  • Just talking, or has it translated into your life?
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  • Okay, do i believe?
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  • Do i receive?
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  • Do i depend?
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  • Do i trust?
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  • Do i rely on?
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  • Do i lean on?
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  • Okay, because that's gonna be really important because right
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  • Now i'm gonna show you some real crazy things.
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  • It's right in the middle of grace, but it is gonna happen.
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  • But it's not gonna be jesus's fault and that's--it's not gonna
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  • Be because grace is weak, it's gonna be because you
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  • Don't believe.
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  • So, i'm here tonight to say we need to get to believing and
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  • That's been in my spirit for a couple of weeks right now.
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  • We need to get to believing, and i don't think people are really
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  • Getting what i'm saying.
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  • It's, like, cut out the church religious games and have a real,
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  • Believing, dependent upon god relationship in your daily
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  • Living and not in a segregated time you put aside to
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  • Act religious.
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  • And people are tripping on me for saying that.
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  • So, if they feel like it's the truth, but they don't feel like
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  • You ought to be saying that at church, well, where else would
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  • You say it?
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  • Okay, so here is the key part here.
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  • This is huge.
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  • He that believes who--he who will depend upon that which the
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  • Only begotten son of god is, i depend on who jesus is, and
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  • Depend that which he did while he was in the world, i depend on
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  • What he did and how he shed his blood and everything to--why he
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  • Was--he says this person is not condemned.
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  • But he that fails to do so is condemned already, and that's
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  • Solely because he does not depend--he's condemned solely
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  • Because he's--he's condemned because he doesn't depend upon
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  • That which the son of god has done for him.
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  • He is condemned because he will not rely on, he will not depend,
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  • He will not trust, lean on what the son of god has done for him.
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  • So, you got all of these amazing things that god has done for us
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  • And we don't depend on it.
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  • And part of it is because preachers won't preach it, and i
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  • Just--i--you know, you can't--you just gotta pray for
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  • People because you can't be judgmental and stuff like that,
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  • But i--because, i mean, we--people of grace have got to
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  • Be--we gotta be gracious because there was a time i didn't know
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  • None of this.
  • 00:13:51.844 --> 00:13:54.446
  • There was a time you didn't know none of this.
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  • So, we can't just start freaking out on people who don't know.
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  • We got to pray that god will put them on the path.
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  • But i am so--i'm like, you know anything, like, i'm saying,
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  • God's gonna send somebody to hell.
  • 00:14:07.793 --> 00:14:09.528
  • God don't send nobody to hell, people go there on their own,
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  • You know what i'm saying?
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  • But this thing about depending on what he did while he was
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  • Here, depending on who he is, and just believing.
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  • And you gotta know it before you believe it, and i meet a lot of
  • 00:14:22.841 --> 00:14:26.078
  • People in christianity, they just don't know.
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  • But how adequate is that gonna be at the gate?
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  • I don't know if you read the bible well, but there's a great
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  • Responsibility in teaching the word.
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  • I ain't trying to get to the gate and, like, talking about
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  • You going to hell because you deceived everybody.
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  • No, that's why i like to wear it myself to see if it work.
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  • And then i wear it, and then taffi put it on, she wear it,
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  • And then some friends, if i put it on, they wear it, and it's
  • 00:14:59.845 --> 00:15:02.915
  • Like, everybody getting the same results.
  • 00:15:02.915 --> 00:15:05.317
  • Well, it's safe to say, okay--and i asked god one time,
  • 00:15:05.317 --> 00:15:09.955
  • I said, "lord, this grace thing."
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  • He said, "don't even say another word."
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  • He said, "you know this is right.
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  • You do not wait until somebody wants to validate the message
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  • Of grace.
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  • I have already validated it."
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  • And he said, "i told you when you start teaching this not to
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  • Expect everybody to embrace it.
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  • Do you know how long this has been put out?
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  • Every generation has had some man or woman teaching the gospel
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  • Of grace, some man or woman doing it."
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  • Now, this is a serious issue here, probably the biggest one i
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  • Think i've ever shared since i've been teaching the gospel,
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  • But he that fails to do so, to depend on him, is
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  • Condemned already.
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  • The question i asked was, "okay, lord, show me where in my life
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  • I'm not dependent on you."
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  • I ain't got time to be playing with this.
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  • "where am i not depending on you?
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  • And where do i need to depend on you more?"
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  • So the obvious question would be, what is it then that the son
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  • Of god was, and what did he do upon which we should be begin
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  • To depend on?
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  • So we--let's just find it in the scripture.
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  • I don't wanna make up no religious stuff and just shoot
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  • It at you.
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  • According to scripture, what was the son--the son of god was
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  • This, and he did do that, so i know exactly what i need to be
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  • Dependent on.
  • 00:16:52.591 --> 00:16:53.959
  • All right, so let's stick with john, saint john chapter 1:14.
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  • Saint john 1:14 tells us that he was full of grace and truth.
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  • He was full of grace and truth.
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  • "and the word was made flesh, dwelt among the earth, (he was
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  • Beheld his--we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten
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  • Of the father,)
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  • He was full of grace and full of truth."
  • 00:17:13.145 --> 00:17:15.080
  • Now, i wanna depend on that grace and truth.
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  • He was full of grace.
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  • He was--that's what i'm depending on.
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  • I'm depending on the grace and the truth that that he was
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  • Full of.
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  • Let's make it plain.
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  • I'm dependent on jesus, okay?
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  • All right, let's look and see what else he was
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  • And what did he do.
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  • John 1:29, saint john chapter 1, verse 29.
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  • And notice this, he said, no sin, "the next day john seeth
  • 00:17:39.771 --> 00:17:46.378
  • Jesus coming unto him, and saith, behold the lamb of god,
  • 00:17:46.378 --> 00:17:49.314
  • Which taketh away," what?
  • 00:17:49.314 --> 00:17:51.617
  • "the sin of the world."
  • 00:17:51.617 --> 00:17:53.485
  • You have to depend on that.
  • 00:17:53.485 --> 00:17:55.154
  • "he was the lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of
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  • The world."
  • 00:17:57.256 --> 00:17:58.624
  • So, you know, you can't keep whining about something he's
  • 00:17:58.624 --> 00:18:01.160
  • Already accomplished in that area, right?
  • 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:03.896
  • And then look at john 3:14.
  • 00:18:03.896 --> 00:18:07.900
  • What did he do, and what was it?
  • 00:18:07.900 --> 00:18:09.568
  • Look at john 3:14.
  • 00:18:09.568 --> 00:18:12.004
  • He says, "and moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
  • 00:18:12.004 --> 00:18:15.207
  • Even so must the son of man be lifted up."
  • 00:18:15.207 --> 00:18:20.112
  • So he was lifted up.
  • 00:18:20.112 --> 00:18:21.446
  • So, by taking away the sin of the world, he was--when he took
  • 00:18:21.446 --> 00:18:25.417
  • Away the sin of the whole world, what did he actually do?
  • 00:18:25.417 --> 00:18:28.820
  • He forever removed the offense by which judgment came upon all
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  • Men to condemnation.
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  • That's what he did.
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  • He was lifted up on the cross and he removed the offense, the
  • 00:18:39.264 --> 00:18:43.769
  • Judgment of condemnation, that came on everybody.
  • 00:18:43.769 --> 00:18:46.605
  • So, the old condition for condemnation under the law
  • 00:18:46.605 --> 00:18:50.676
  • Extended back to the first law given to man in the garden
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  • Of eden.
  • 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:56.848
  • All of that was done away with when jesus died on the cross.
  • 00:18:56.848 --> 00:19:01.486
  • Now, watch this.
  • 00:19:01.486 --> 00:19:02.821
  • With the removal of the grounds for condemnation, the law, as a
  • 00:19:02.821 --> 00:19:11.496
  • Ministration of condemnation, it also came to an end.
  • 00:19:11.496 --> 00:19:17.936
  • All of that, from the garden all the way through the law, jesus
  • 00:19:21.807 --> 00:19:26.712
  • Got on the cross, over.
  • 00:19:26.712 --> 00:19:29.414
  • No more condemnation coming in that area.
  • 00:19:29.414 --> 00:19:32.651
  • So now listen to this.
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  • The initial work of grace that came by jesus christ and that
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  • Which is made--that which made it possible for its full
  • 00:19:41.660 --> 00:19:46.098
  • Operation for the removal of the condemnation under the law, that
  • 00:19:46.098 --> 00:19:51.236
  • Was the work of grace, that was the initial work of jesus.
  • 00:19:51.236 --> 00:19:55.107
  • The initial work of grace, grace is a person, his name is jesus.
  • 00:19:55.107 --> 00:19:59.077
  • The initial work of jesus christ was to remove the condemnation
  • 00:19:59.077 --> 00:20:03.582
  • That came through the offense of adam and the condemnation that
  • 00:20:03.582 --> 00:20:06.385
  • Came from the law.
  • 00:20:06.385 --> 00:20:08.720
  • But that did not remove condemnation from mankind.
  • 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:15.894
  • You see why i'm being repetitive?
  • 00:20:15.894 --> 00:20:17.396
  • It did not remove condemnation from mankind.
  • 00:20:17.396 --> 00:20:21.533
  • It removed condemnation that you can get from the law and the
  • 00:20:21.533 --> 00:20:28.206
  • Offense of adam, but condemnation, it is still
  • 00:20:28.206 --> 00:20:35.147
  • Possible to show up if you don't do what needs to be done.
  • 00:20:35.147 --> 00:20:41.553
  • It simply changed the condition because of what happens if the
  • 00:20:41.553 --> 00:20:47.526
  • Conditions change now, in which condemnation can come.
  • 00:20:47.526 --> 00:20:52.764
  • Man could never meet the requirements of the law.
  • 00:20:52.764 --> 00:20:56.201
  • Condemnation all day long.
  • 00:20:56.201 --> 00:21:00.172
  • So, all of this is not so where grace is concerned.
  • 00:21:00.172 --> 00:21:04.409
  • All man has to do is to confess his sinful state, his own guilt
  • 00:21:04.409 --> 00:21:10.048
  • Under the law, and depend upon the merits of the son of god,
  • 00:21:10.048 --> 00:21:14.019
  • And he's free from condemnation.
  • 00:21:14.019 --> 00:21:17.289
  • But like i say, we have--this is gonna cause us to really
  • 00:21:17.289 --> 00:21:21.126
  • Examine, all right, what am i doing in my christian life?
  • 00:21:21.126 --> 00:21:26.064
  • Am i really believing god, or am i playing like i believe god?
  • 00:21:26.064 --> 00:21:30.502
  • Look at john chapter 3, verse 36.
  • 00:21:30.502 --> 00:21:35.207
  • And he says it a little differently here, but basically
  • 00:21:35.207 --> 00:21:38.477
  • The same.
  • 00:21:38.477 --> 00:21:40.312
  • He says, "he that believeth on the son hath," what?
  • 00:21:40.312 --> 00:21:49.721
  • So, how do you get everlasting life?
  • 00:21:49.721 --> 00:21:54.393
  • How do you get everlasting life?
  • 00:21:54.393 --> 00:21:59.297
  • How do you stay away from condemnation?
  • 00:21:59.297 --> 00:22:04.469
  • "and he that believeth not the son shall not see this life; but
  • 00:22:04.469 --> 00:22:14.146
  • The wrath of god abideth on him."
  • 00:22:14.146 --> 00:22:20.051
  • Because he don't believe.
  • 00:22:20.051 --> 00:22:22.721
  • So, man is not now condemned, because the law has been broken,
  • 00:22:22.721 --> 00:22:27.993
  • But because he has rejected the son of god and, in so doing, has
  • 00:22:27.993 --> 00:22:32.164
  • Rejected the grace and truth which came by jesus christ.
  • 00:22:32.164 --> 00:22:35.767
  • How often do you think that takes place on a daily basis,
  • 00:22:35.767 --> 00:22:39.171
  • Rejecting the grace and truth that's come by jesus christ?
  • 00:22:39.171 --> 00:22:44.810
  • What in the world do you think god can do for somebody that
  • 00:22:44.810 --> 00:22:48.547
  • Don't believe?
  • 00:22:48.547 --> 00:22:55.120
  • And that's why he says, "he that believeth on him shall not be
  • 00:22:55.120 --> 00:22:59.124
  • Put to shame.
  • 00:22:59.124 --> 00:23:00.492
  • He that believeth in him shall not be condemned.
  • 00:23:00.492 --> 00:23:03.762
  • He that believeth him"--but he that doesn't believe on him, he
  • 00:23:03.762 --> 00:23:07.899
  • Says you're condemned already, you're shamed already, you're
  • 00:23:07.899 --> 00:23:11.303
  • Sick already, you're staying in trouble already.
  • 00:23:11.303 --> 00:23:14.272
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  • 00:23:14.272 --> 00:23:19.377
  • Belief in jesus and his grace and truth puts you on
  • 00:23:19.377 --> 00:23:26.251
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