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Creflo Dollar - The Consequences of Being Out of the Will of God (Part 1)

May 4, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Consequences of Being Out of the Will of God (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Consequences of Being Out of the Will of God (Part 1) | May 4, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: now, so the point of the old covenant, here's what
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  • I want you to see, is that in the old covenant, god's will was
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  • Tied to your performance.
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  • If you stepped out of god's will, judgment came.
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  • Misalignment meant wrath and anger because god was a judge.
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  • Jesus had not yet died on the cross.
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  • And it was clear when he judged, the wages of sin is death.
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  • So in the old testament, the consequences were always
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  • External and physical: poverty,
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  • Captivity, defeat, and death.
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  • Creflo: today we're gonna start a new series.
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  • And the series is gonna be more about your relationship not only
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  • With god, but your relationship with people.
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  • We're gonna talk about the vertical relationship and the
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  • Horizontal relationship.
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  • And here's what we're going to deal with in this session.
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  • We're gonna deal with, first of all, today, the consequences for
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  • Being out of the will of god.
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  • The consequences for being out of the will of god.
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  • I see people that go through things and they ask questions
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  • Like, "where is god?
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  • Where are my provisions?
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  • Where's my favor?
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  • How come it didn't happen for me like it happened for
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  • Somebody else?
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  • Why did that person have to die?
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  • Why did that person have to get sick with that?
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  • Why did that not take place?"
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  • And they have all of these questions for god.
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  • And then god gets the blame for everything that people
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  • Don't understand.
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  • But i still today believe that nothing just happens.
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  • And i think we have to really locate why certain things happen
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  • The way they happen.
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  • You're either going to understand life and learn how to
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  • Deal with it according to the word, or you can not understand
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  • Anything and life then will deal with you.
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  • For the next three to four weeks, i want to
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  • Talk to you about this journey.
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  • I want to talk to you about life.
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  • And a whole lot of it has to do with where you're located.
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  • The decisions you make to move off the path.
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  • You don't talk to god about it.
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  • You're led by a lot of things to do the things you do and go to
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  • Where you go, and you don't acknowledge him at all, even
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  • Though he said, "acknowledge me in all my ways, and i'll direct
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  • Your path," and you don't.
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  • And so when your desire or when somebody else influences you to
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  • Make a move to the left, to the right, to make a move to another
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  • State, another church, to make a move to another, whatever it
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  • Might be, you never even consider, "wait a minute,
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  • Where does god want me?
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  • What is--what god wants me to do?"
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  • You never consider those things.
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  • That just kind of goes over your head, because it depends on what
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  • Was the influence that's moving me.
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  • So motivation is still very, very important.
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  • What's the motivation behind what you do, what you do and why
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  • You do, what's the motivation behind your move?
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  • Just because somebody offers you, you know, great things in
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  • The natural world doesn't necessarily mean that you should
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  • Take it because you need to consult with god.
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  • I can't tell you the number of people i've met.
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  • And they suffer with great struggle.
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  • And they have great questions, and i just got kind of tired of
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  • Just seeing people go through that, and they
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  • Not understand why.
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  • There's a reason why.
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  • It didn't just happen 'cause god's mad at you, or wanted to
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  • Get you back.
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  • And so i want to get in the word.
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  • Today, i want to talk about the consequences of stepping off
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  • The path.
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  • And it's not going to be like you think.
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  • We have to rightly discern it between the consequences of the
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  • Old covenant and the consequences of the new
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  • Covenant, because a lot of times you'll think old covenant
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  • Consequences will still exist in a believer's life under the new
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  • Covenant, okay?
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  • So we're going to talk about that today.
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  • And if we finish this, next week, we're going to talk about
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  • The danger of settling.
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  • People settle, they just settle.
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  • You settle for the husband, you settle for the wife, you settle
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  • For what you're doing every day in your life.
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  • You settle, and there's a danger that happens when you settle.
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  • And then the last part of this series we're going to deal with:
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  • Who has offended you and blocked your anointing?
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  • Who--the power of offense and the progression that
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  • Offense takes.
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  • An offense is a bait of the devil to try to get you off the
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  • Will of god.
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  • Somebody offend you, your real justification of getting out of
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  • The will of god, but you don't know you're getting out of the
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  • Will of god is the fact that you got offended, but it will take
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  • Years later before you admit you got offended.
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  • You'll come with a little sorry excuse, "well, the lord
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  • Told me."
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  • The lord is not double-minded.
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  • And so this is going to be a relational type of teaching.
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  • I'm gonna do all i can not to get really excited, not to
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  • Scream and holler.
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  • It's just part of my--who i am.
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  • I get excited, i get loud.
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  • I'm gonna try not to be loud, but i probably will, okay?
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  • Because god is so good.
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  • And i want you to--i want you to know that i am teaching this
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  • Series out of love because i need you to be a little bit more
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  • Sensitive to you deciding to do something by your own interest
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  • And not paying no attention to the holy spirit who was given to
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  • Us to lead and to guide us into all truth.
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  • I went to do an interview at-- in texas the other day, and i
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  • Walked in and the head of that network came to me and she just
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  • Paused, she said, "wow, i can see the peace on you."
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  • I'm like, "oh, yeah, i'm good.
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  • I'm good.
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  • I'm not nervous or afraid of who you have on the platform.
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  • I'm good."
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  • I had my little comfortable suit on with my comfortable shoes.
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  • You know, when it's time to be comfortable,
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  • Ain't nobody think about style.
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  • When your feet hurt, you need to put the right kind of stuff on.
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  • Ladies know what i'm talking about, get them high heel things
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  • And you walking like this...and you look up the next four
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  • Months, you got hammer toes coming in and that big toe going
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  • To the left while some strange thing is coming to the right.
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  • Man, i'm gonna be nice today, boy.
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  • All right, so let's get in this.
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  • I need to make sure you see the scriptures so you know it's in
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  • The bible.
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  • And so let's go forth.
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  • The consequences of being out of alignment, the consequences of
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  • Being out of the will of god.
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  • So what happens when i step out of the will of god?
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  • Now, under religion, this question often causes and comes
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  • With fear.
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  • People think if i am out of the will of god, he's going to
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  • Curse me.
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  • People think that if i'm out of the will of
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  • God, he's going to punish me.
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  • If i'm out of the will of god, he's going to abandon me.
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  • But under the new covenant of grace, that's not the truth.
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  • You will find that some of that is true under the old covenant,
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  • But under the new covenant of grace, that's not true.
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  • So let's lay a foundation this morning.
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  • Let's lay a foundation for this series.
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  • We're going to look at the difference between the old
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  • Covenant and the new covenant, and then i'm going to show you
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  • How being in his will is like being at elijah's brook of
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  • Cherith, where everything that was ever needed was already
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  • There ahead of him.
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  • So let's go through this.
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  • Let's look at the old covenant consequences, law-based, old
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  • Covenant consequences of being out of the will of god.
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  • So under the law, being out of the will of god meant curses.
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  • Under the law it meant wrath.
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  • Under the law it meant destruction and even death.
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  • Let's go through some of the old testament proof that this
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  • Happened because, you know, the will of god back in the old
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  • Testament was obedience to the law and obedience to what god
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  • Told you to do.
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  • So let's look at deuteronomy 28, verse 15, and let's show you
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  • Where disobedience brought forth the curses.
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  • Deuteronomy 28 and verse 15.
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  • He says, "but it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken
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  • Unto the voice of the lord thy god, to observe to do all--all
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  • His commandments and his statutes which i command thee
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  • This day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and
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  • Overtake you," if you don't keep all of the
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  • Commandments and all of the law.
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  • Now by the way, there were like, what, 613 of them?
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  • And james says if you violate in one, just one law, then you're
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  • Guilty of the whole thing.
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  • So it's pretty rough.
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  • But if you kept reading in deuteronomy 28, after verse 15,
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  • It told you about a lot of people that died and a lot of
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  • People that were cursed because they would not fulfill this part
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  • Of god's will at that time in the old testament.
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  • Let's look at isaiah 59:2.
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  • So disobedience bought a curse.
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  • In isaiah 59:2, it lets us know that separation from god's
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  • Presence happened when you got off course.
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  • Isaiah 59 and verse 2, he says, "but your iniquities have
  • 00:12:24.657 --> 00:12:31.130
  • Separated you--separated between you and your god, and
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  • Your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."
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  • So the old testament consequence is you're separated, you and god
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  • Are separated, and he's not hearing from you.
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  • Let's look at jeremiah 25, verses 8 through 11.
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  • And here's the third consequence in the old covenant.
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  • Captivity, slavery, and evil as a result
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  • Of being out of the will of god.
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  • Jeremiah 25, verses 8 through 11, he says, "therefore thus
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  • Saith the lord of hosts; because you have not heard my words,
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  • Behold, i will send and take all the families of the north, saith
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  • The lord, and nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon, my servant, and
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  • Will bring them against this land, and against the
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  • Inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about,
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  • And will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment,
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  • And a hissing, and perpetual desolation.
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  • Moreover i will take from them the voice of mirth, and the
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  • Voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, the voice of the
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  • Bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of
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  • The candle.
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  • And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
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  • And these nations shall serve the king of babylon
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  • Seventy years."
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  • Captivity and all of that evil came as a result of and as a
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  • Consequence of them being out of the will of god.
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  • And so as leaders and pastors we got to be careful not to take
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  • What was supposed to be in the old testament and start
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  • Preaching that like it's supposed to be happening today.
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  • That scare the fire out of you.
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  • I mean, it ain't no use me coming to church no more.
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  • Good lord, god mad at me, all right?
  • 00:14:30.316 --> 00:14:33.419
  • Let's look at a couple more.
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  • Deuteronomy 28, verse 65 and 67, and here you'll see fear and
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  • Guilt that dominated because they were out of the will
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  • Of god.
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  • Verse 65 through 67: "and among these nations shall thou find no
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  • Ease," wow, "neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but
  • 00:14:53.439 --> 00:14:59.144
  • The lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of
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  • Eyes, and sorrow of mind: and thy life shall hang in doubt
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  • Before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have
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  • None assurance of thy life.
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  • In the morning thou shalt say, would god it were even!"
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  • Well, evening i like to say, that--i don't know why they did
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  • That in translation.
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  • "i wish it was evening.
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  • At evening thou shalt say, would god it were morning!
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  • For the fear of thine heart.
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  • Wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes
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  • Which thou shalt see."
  • 00:15:41.286 --> 00:15:44.423
  • So you see here very, very clearly, fear and guilt
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  • Dominated because they were out of the will of god.
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  • And then finally, ezekiel chapter 18 and verse 4.
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  • So we're seeing the consequences in the law and the prophets, the
  • 00:16:00.839 --> 00:16:05.511
  • Book of the prophets, of what happened when you were out of
  • 00:16:05.511 --> 00:16:08.947
  • The will of god.
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  • Ezekiel 18:4.
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  • He says, "behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father,
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  • So also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it
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  • Shall die."
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  • Ezekiel 18:4.
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  • When you got off and when you got out of the will of god,
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  • Death was the penalty for sin.
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  • Now, let me ask you something.
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  • Aren't you glad you're not living under the old covenant?
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  • There are lots of people who fight to live under the law and
  • 00:16:52.024 --> 00:16:55.360
  • Fight to live under the old covenant.
  • 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:58.397
  • But they don't understand that there are consequences for when
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  • You can't walk in the will of god that happen when you decide
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  • To be disobedient.
  • 00:17:09.908 --> 00:17:11.243
  • There are consequences in the old covenant now.
  • 00:17:11.243 --> 00:17:14.113
  • Now, so the point of the old covenant, here's what i want you
  • 00:17:14.113 --> 00:17:19.418
  • To see, is that in the old covenant, god's will was tied to
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  • Your performance.
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  • If you stepped out of god's will, judgment came.
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  • Misalignment meant wrath and anger because god was a judge.
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  • Jesus had not yet died on the cross.
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  • And it was clear when he judged, the wages of sin is death.
  • 00:17:39.972 --> 00:17:44.643
  • So in the old testament, the consequences were always
  • 00:17:44.643 --> 00:17:48.447
  • External and physical: poverty,
  • 00:17:48.447 --> 00:17:54.987
  • Captivity, defeat, and death.
  • 00:17:54.987 --> 00:18:00.859
  • That was the consequences for missing or being out of the will
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  • Of god in the old covenant.
  • 00:18:07.499 --> 00:18:10.669
  • Now, let's look at the new covenant consequences.
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  • Thank you, god.
  • 00:18:15.507 --> 00:18:16.842
  • It can't be nowhere near worse than that.
  • 00:18:16.842 --> 00:18:20.245
  • But there are consequences.
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  • And you may recognize some of them when you look at this.
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  • Okay, romans chapter 14 and 17.
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  • Verse 17: "for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink; but
  • 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:38.997
  • Righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy ghost."
  • 00:18:38.997 --> 00:18:43.101
  • So the consequences of being out of the will of god in the new
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  • Covenant: there are no curses.
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  • There's no curses.
  • 00:18:51.877 --> 00:18:53.212
  • Curse--curses or you being cursed is not a consequence for
  • 00:18:53.212 --> 00:18:58.383
  • Being out of the will of god in the new covenant.
  • 00:18:58.383 --> 00:19:00.285
  • However, you will have a loss of peace, and you will have a loss
  • 00:19:00.285 --> 00:19:05.490
  • Of joy.
  • 00:19:05.490 --> 00:19:07.593
  • You might be wondering, "am i out of the will of god?"
  • 00:19:07.593 --> 00:19:10.696
  • You can look at your life and say, "all right, how has my
  • 00:19:10.696 --> 00:19:14.166
  • Peace meter been reading lately?
  • 00:19:14.166 --> 00:19:19.705
  • Where's my joy lately?"
  • 00:19:19.705 --> 00:19:24.109
  • Yeah, they promised you 6 figures, but when you moved
  • 00:19:24.109 --> 00:19:26.478
  • There and you took the job, you were happier with $50,000 a year
  • 00:19:26.478 --> 00:19:33.018
  • Than you were with $100,000.
  • 00:19:33.018 --> 00:19:34.686
  • You ain't got no peace, you can't sleep, and you have
  • 00:19:34.686 --> 00:19:40.892
  • No joy.
  • 00:19:40.892 --> 00:19:42.227
  • Do you know that's the consequence of being out of the
  • 00:19:42.227 --> 00:19:43.895
  • Will of god?
  • 00:19:43.895 --> 00:19:46.064
  • It's not just 'cause, "well, i just don't feel good today."
  • 00:19:46.064 --> 00:19:50.068
  • In some of those cases, you need to pause and say, "wait
  • 00:19:50.068 --> 00:19:52.771
  • A minute.
  • 00:19:52.771 --> 00:19:54.106
  • I just don't know what happened to my peace.
  • 00:19:54.106 --> 00:19:57.542
  • I'm angry all the time," because anger is an expression of fear.
  • 00:19:57.542 --> 00:20:04.082
  • I'm afraid.
  • 00:20:04.082 --> 00:20:06.184
  • I'm nervous.
  • 00:20:06.184 --> 00:20:08.987
  • Something happens when you get out of the will of god, you get
  • 00:20:08.987 --> 00:20:12.124
  • Out of the flow of the peace and the joy.
  • 00:20:12.124 --> 00:20:17.829
  • Let's look at the second one.
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  • Hebrews chapter 13 and 5.
  • 00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:23.935
  • So you're not cursed, but check your peace out.
  • 00:20:23.935 --> 00:20:28.874
  • I know people who have gotten offended at work and god told
  • 00:20:28.874 --> 00:20:34.379
  • 'em to be there, and they left because of that offense.
  • 00:20:34.379 --> 00:20:39.084
  • I remember when i was working at the hospital, and at the end of
  • 00:20:39.084 --> 00:20:45.657
  • The day you'd have to chart all of your sessions and everything,
  • 00:20:45.657 --> 00:20:48.827
  • And i went up to chart my sessions and i charted the wrong
  • 00:20:48.827 --> 00:20:53.665
  • Instructions in one area and a supervisor came down.
  • 00:20:53.665 --> 00:20:59.004
  • She said, "i need to meet with you."
  • 00:20:59.004 --> 00:21:01.139
  • Well, there were a couple of things too, because there was
  • 00:21:01.139 --> 00:21:02.874
  • One kid that wasn't going to make it and i knew he wasn't
  • 00:21:02.874 --> 00:21:04.976
  • Gonna make it, so i pulled him aside and got him saved and
  • 00:21:04.976 --> 00:21:07.512
  • Filled with the holy ghost.
  • 00:21:07.512 --> 00:21:08.847
  • That was a complete violation of what they were saying, but i
  • 00:21:08.847 --> 00:21:12.417
  • Don't work for them.
  • 00:21:12.417 --> 00:21:13.785
  • I work for jesus, you know, he got me there for a reason.
  • 00:21:13.785 --> 00:21:16.521
  • I don't advise you doing that unless the lord led you.
  • 00:21:16.521 --> 00:21:18.724
  • The lord led me to do that, so don't you go take that and,
  • 00:21:18.724 --> 00:21:21.727
  • "well, i'm gonna do--" you know, you can be fired.
  • 00:21:21.727 --> 00:21:27.366
  • And i just was honest with her.
  • 00:21:27.366 --> 00:21:31.837
  • I said--and she was freaking out.
  • 00:21:31.837 --> 00:21:34.005
  • She never--i don't guess she ever heard that.
  • 00:21:34.005 --> 00:21:35.474
  • I said, "you really think you're responsible for me being here?"
  • 00:21:35.474 --> 00:21:40.979
  • I said, "but i'm here because god put me here.
  • 00:21:40.979 --> 00:21:45.617
  • And nobody gonna be able to let me go until i finish why
  • 00:21:45.617 --> 00:21:50.689
  • I'm here."
  • 00:21:50.689 --> 00:21:52.724
  • So she got offended and she took it to the medical director.
  • 00:21:52.724 --> 00:21:55.994
  • Medical director called me in.
  • 00:21:55.994 --> 00:21:58.029
  • He said, "well, i heard you did such and such and so."
  • 00:21:58.029 --> 00:22:00.365
  • I said, "yes, sir."
  • 00:22:00.365 --> 00:22:01.700
  • "i heard you did such and such and such."
  • 00:22:01.700 --> 00:22:03.068
  • I said, "yes, sir."
  • 00:22:03.068 --> 00:22:04.403
  • He said, "next time, do it a little bit more quietly,
  • 00:22:04.403 --> 00:22:07.606
  • But congratulations."
  • 00:22:07.606 --> 00:22:11.009
  • He said, "that patient hadn't been the same since you did what
  • 00:22:11.009 --> 00:22:15.046
  • You did."
  • 00:22:15.046 --> 00:22:18.817
  • So god knows how to take care of you if you're where you're
  • 00:22:18.817 --> 00:22:21.486
  • Supposed to be, all right?
  • 00:22:21.486 --> 00:22:30.996
  • So, hebrews 13:5--and like i said, y'all got to be careful
  • 00:22:30.996 --> 00:22:35.300
  • About hearing people's testimonies and then taking it
  • 00:22:35.300 --> 00:22:38.069
  • For yourself.
  • 00:22:38.069 --> 00:22:39.938
  • Because that was revelation to me, not you.
  • 00:22:39.938 --> 00:22:43.108
  • Get your own revelation. you know what i'm saying?
  • 00:22:43.108 --> 00:22:46.945
  • Get your own--don't be going around talking about, "well, if
  • 00:22:46.945 --> 00:22:49.181
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  • 00:22:49.181 --> 00:22:51.283
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  • 00:22:51.283 --> 00:22:54.186
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  • 00:22:54.186 --> 00:22:57.456
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  • 00:22:57.456 --> 00:22:58.790
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  • 00:22:58.790 --> 00:23:00.525
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  • You better make sure that that's god leading and guiding you.
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