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Creflo Dollar - Crazy Expectation

August 1, 2025 | S25 E186 | 28:55

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Taffi: i remember when we started the record company,
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Arrow, here, and everyone was saying you've gotta meet this
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List of people.
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They gave me a short list of everybody that you need to go to
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And meet, and you need to, you know, get in front of them,
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Because it's all about relationship, who you know and
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Who knows you, and things that you can develop between the two
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Of you, and things that would help to enhance and expand
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The company.
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So, in my mind i'm thinking, oh, man, i don't even know any of
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These people, god.
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I'm just at a loss, it's just about to fail before even
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Takes off.
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Oh, goodness, gracious.
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And so, you know, i prayed about it, because i realized that,
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Okay, lord, if this happens, this relationship and these
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People that i'm supposed to meet, it's gonna have to be by
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Your grace and by your favor.
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And i remember one of the persons, and ben, you could
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Attest to this, was bobby jones, and someone had said you gotta
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Meet dr. bobby jones.
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He's, you know, got the number-one rated cable tv show
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On bet, and you gotta go through bobby if you wanna have a
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Successful record, if you wanna have a successful label.
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And i said, well, i don't know anybody, and i'm not just gonna
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Show up on somebody's doorstep.
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So, it was god's doing that all of a sudden, we were at an event
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And god allows him to sit right down in front of me.
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Found out his wife, miss ethel, is a member of the church, and
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I'm thinking, wow.
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Lord, it's something about just resting, and not striving, and
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Calling, and pleading, and plucking, and all these things
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To try to follow the rules of what man says needs to happen in
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Order for you to experience success, to experience success.
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And i just remember chasing that hit record.
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So many artists deal with that, just trying to get a number one
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Record, trying to be successful at radio.
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What is a good radio single that you have to get the right
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Producer, you gotta get the right songwriter, it's gotta be
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This length, it's gotta have all this on it, and you know what?
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We have to really understand that god wants to be involved,
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And he wants to intervene in every area of our life, because
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You can spin--i spun my wheels trying to arrange for this
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Artist to work with this producer and this person to
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Write this song in order to meet the expectations of what
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Success is.
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So, that's what we're looking at, the measures and the
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Mechanisms that we place on ourselves in rule-keeping, and
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Instances where god wants us to be free from complications, free
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Of the demands.
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He says here, "i am free of the expectations of everyone."
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Think of that.
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"i have voluntarily become a servant," voluntarily, that's
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The key word.
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Of his own volition and will, he laid down to become a servant to
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Any and all, "in order to reach
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A wide range of people, religious, nonreligious."
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Think of that, not just the religious people, because, you
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Know, so many times we're just focused on one, but you
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Know what?
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Jesus is concerned about the all.
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What are we doing to reach the all?
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He says meticulous, those who are meticulous.
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How many of you know, it's some meticulous folks?
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"moralists, loose-living, immoralists, the defeated, the
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Demoralized, whoever.
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I didn't take on their way of life.
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I kept my bearings in christ,
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But i entered their world and tried to experience
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Things from their point of view."
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Because you know what?
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When we are only concerned about the rules, we're seeing it from
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Our point of view.
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But god wants us to see things from other people's point
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Of view.
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"i've become just about every sort of servant there is in my
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Attempt to lead those i meet into a god-saved life.
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I did all this because of the message."
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I did it all because of the message.
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And so, we wanna look at this area of our lives, because we
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Create internal, mental list of all the things that good moms,
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Good wives, good fathers, good parents, good christians do, and
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Measure ourselves how close we are able to follow these
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Practices and be the best person that these things have described
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For us to be, and instead of the worst that we desperately hope
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To avoid.
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So, you have to ask yourself what rules that you've told
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Yourself to follow, and that you have aligned yourself with,
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Amen, what expectations?
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Now, let's look at a couple of these.
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Let me just go down this list, because i want us to understand
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That if we're not ever into a place of receiving the rhythm of
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Grace, the unforced rhythm of grace, then we'll get into a
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Place of living under the law.
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Expectations can hurt or help.
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Expectations, let's go to number two, pressure us so that we feel
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Guilt, hopelessness, and overwhelmed.
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Like i said, just not being able to meet those expectations, and
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You know what?
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The enemy opens up the door to self-condemnation, guilt,
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Hopelessness, and overwhelmed.
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Look at number three, expectation demand to be met,
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Leaving us either exhausted or elated.
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Let's keep going.
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Expectations never letting us rest until they are satisfied.
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Expectations rob relationships and can leave us disconnected.
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Expectations are extremely self-focused if our expectation
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Is not from god, and his word, and the hope that we look
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Towards him in receiving.
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And so, we must take our expectations to jesus and ask
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Ourselves these questions, let me ask you these questions.
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What expectations are making you feel exhausted and overwhelmed?
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How can you practically let them go?
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What does love require of you?
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And lastly, what does freedom look like right now?
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Is that helping you?
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Let's go a little further here.
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Turn over to galatians, more of this rule-keeping that we place
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On ourselves, the rules.
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I'm telling y'all, this rule thing is serious.
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I didn't realize it was so serious until i came to church.
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I'm like, do i need to go back to the world?
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Because y'all are serious about these rules.
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Giving honor to god who is the head of all my life, i gotta say
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That before i say anything.
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I just do what?
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Lord, help us, jesus.
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Look at this.
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Y'all know what i'm talking about, my goodness.
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Galatians 3:11-12, my god.
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"the obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral
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Program should make it plain that no one can sustain a
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Relationship with god that way."
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The person who believes, or let's see, "the person who lives
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In right relationship with god does it by embracing what god
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Arranges for him.
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Doing things for god."
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"doing things for god is the opposite of entering into what
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God does for you.
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Habakkuk had it right, 'the person who believes god is set
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Right by god, and that's the real life.'"
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Listen to this, rule-keeping, somebody say, "rule-keeping,"
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That's what we're talking about, crazy
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Expectations, rule-keeping.
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"rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but
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Only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping."
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My goodness, "a fact observed in scripture:
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'the one who does these things [rule-keeping] continues to live
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By them.'"
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Now, skip down further to verse 21, same chapter verse 21, let's
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Look at this.
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"if such is the case, is the law, then, an anti-promise, a
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Negation of god's will for us?
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Not at all.
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Its purpose was to make obvious to everyone that we are, in
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Ourselves, out of relationship with god, and therefore to show
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Us the futility of devising some religious system for getting by
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Our own efforts what we can only get by waiting in faith for god
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To complete his promise."
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Because there's a lot of emphasis on our own self-effort
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And we've been taught about that, and i won't belabor that
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Point, but we understand here concerning the need to get by
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From our own efforts what we can only get by waiting in faith.
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It requires us waiting in faith, but you know what?
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We have our timetable, we have our length of time that we want
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To allot to certain things, but you know what?
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We've got to learn how to wait on god, his time, when he wants
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To do, what he wants to do, how he wants to do it.
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How many of you know that's the best way?
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That's the surest way.
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That's the eternal way.
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And so he says, "for if any kind of rule-keeping had power to
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Create life in us, we would certainly have gotten it by
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This time."
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Oh my goodness, thank you, lord.
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And so, you know, this area of crazy expectations is so so very
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Key, so very key to our lives, and i am so thankful that we can
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Shine the light on this area, because if not, you will drive
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Yourself crazy trying to do the
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Things and spin your wheels to
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Try to accomplish the things in and of your own ability, when
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God says come to me, let me show
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You, let me reveal it unto you.
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Let me take away the strife, and the striving, and the busyness,
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So that the word can bring forth a harvest in our life.
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So, we're talking about something very simple
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This morning.
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I didn't come to get deep, and go to the greek, and back to the
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Hebrew, and back to the greek, and we'll do that another
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Time, okay?
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I just want you to take a moment and just look on the inside and
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Recognize the things that god wants to do and retire manmade
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Success and the success that the world deems
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Impressionable, amen?
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Look over at philippians chapter 3. philippians chapter 3 verses
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7 through 9, is this helping you this morning?
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Yes, indeed, i am so learning, we are growing together and
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Walking this area of life out so that we can please the father.
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Because it can become so much easier and less cumbersome when
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We enter into the rest.
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It says his burden is easy and what?
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His yoke is light.
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What we wanna do is look at philippians chapter 3 and then
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We're gonna look at the message translation on verse 7 through
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9, "the very credentials these people are waving around as
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Something special."
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My god, you hear their resume of all the things that they have
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Accomplished, and you think, lord, i'm just a failure.
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I just need to throw in the towel.
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He says, "the very credentials these people are waving around
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As something special," he says, "i'm tearing up and throwing out
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With the trash."
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But you know, that's what impresses us.
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My god, your discography is just so amazing.
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He says i throw it out with the trash and i tear it up.
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Only if we could start thinking and seeing like god.
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And the writer writes here, "along with everything else i
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Used to take credit for.
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And why?
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Because of christ.
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Yes, all the things i once thought were so important are
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Gone from my life.
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Compared to the high privilege of knowing christ," my goodness.
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The high privilege of knowing christ.
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Selah, think on that.
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That should be our highest privilege, our aim, our desire,
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Our ambition, our focus, our motor, our drive, our motive,
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Our motivation.
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It's like he says here, of knowing christ, instead of all
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These crazy expectations to give the accolades and the
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Affirmation of other people, and determining it to become
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Our value.
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Oh, i'm somebody now because i have done x, y, and z, but god
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Says, "i valued you because of jesus.
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See your value in me."
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See your value in the word, not in your doing, but in
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Your being.
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He says, "i once thought were so important
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Are gone from my life.
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Compared to the high privilege of knowing christ jesus
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As my master, firsthand."
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Not secondhand, not
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What grandma said, and what my parents said, he says
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Firsthand knowledge.
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"everything i once thought i had going for me is insignificant,
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Dog dung."
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I won't even say the slang, y'all know what they mean.
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Insignificant dog dung.
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I've dumped it all, dumped it all.
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How many of you know we gotta renew our minds?
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"i've dumped it all in the trash so that i can embrace christ and
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Be embraced by him.
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I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness
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That comes."
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A petty, inferior brand of righteousness, and that's what
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Religion does.
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It's petty, it's inferior, it treats one person this way and
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Treats others the other way, and it exalts one and demeans
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The other.
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He says that's petty, because in the eyes of god we're all equal.
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He says, "keeping a list of rules."
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Keeping a list of rules.
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Now, you know, you probably don't have it written down
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Anywhere, but it might be your system, your mechanism, it might
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Be how you show up in life, the rules.
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"keeping a list of rules when i could get the robust kind that
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Comes from trusting christ," trusting christ, god's
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Righteousness, god's righteousness.
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And so, these are things that we must get ahold of.
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Doing more and trying harder causes us to perform in order to
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Earn our keep, to keep our spot, and to earn god's love.
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Expectations that we place on ourselves.
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The real issue isn't sin, but it is whether you're trying hard
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Enough, trying harder to receive the affirmation and the love
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That god has already made available for his people.
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Will power, self-effort, emphasizing the key to happiness
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And love, and staying in good graces in order to stop doing
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The problem behavior and start doing what is right.
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And so, it's important that we understand what has already been
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Done and what has already been made available through the word
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Of god, and that our righteousness becomes available
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Because of jesus's righteousness.
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And so this morning, we're talking about these areas of
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Promises in many instances that we placed on ourselves.
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And so child of god, i want you to understand today,
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You don't need to try harder.
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You can sit down on the inside,
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Knowing your god knows exactly what you need
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And he is working hard on your behalf.
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It was a painful thing to give
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Because we didn't have much at all financially.
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However, we made a decision to be givers.
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And one of the most-quoted scriptures
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In the bible is john 3:16.
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"god so loved the world that he gave."
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Therefore, as christians we give.
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Taffi: listen to me closely right now.
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God is not mad at you.
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He is not tallying up your sins, holding your sins against you.
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Jesus paid the price, he paid the debt,
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And he has made available to you grace and salvation through the
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Precious blood that was shed on the cross.
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That's how much god wants to have a personal,
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Intimate relationship with you.
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And that, eternally, you can be with him.
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So if you've not received jesus as your lord and as your
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Personal savior and you'd like to have a relationship with him,
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Repeat this prayer after me right now.
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Heavenly father, come into my life, save me.
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I believe jesus died and shed his blood for my sin.
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Come into my heart right now.
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I believe i receive salvation and i'm seated at the right hand
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Of god the father.
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In jesus's name, amen.
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All right, just that simple.
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God bless you.
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Creflo Dollar - Crazy Expectation

August 1, 2025 | S25 E186 | 28:55

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