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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Danger of Maintaining Sin Consciousness | October 1, 2025
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- Creflo dollar: if i keep--if i talk about sin all the time, i
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- Am aiding the law and the devil in maintaining your
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- Sin consciousness.
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- I don't want you to come here every sunday and hear me talk
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- About sin.
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- I want you to come here every sunday and hear me talk about
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- How sin is no longer part of the agenda.
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- I want you to hear about your righteousness.
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- I want you to hear about your redemption.
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- I want you to hear about your deliverance from sin.
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- I want you to hear about you've been pardoned from sin.
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- I want you to hear about jesus came to set the entire world
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- Free from sin, praise the lord.
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- 'cause if i can get you stop--you think about it all the
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- Time, stop it.
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- Creflo: so today we're gonna focus on the danger
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- Of maintaining sin consciousness.
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- I mean, what happens to that person who says, yeah, i've
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- Heard the last four sessions, but, you know, i'm still gonna
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- Stay sin conscious.
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- Now i'm gonna share with you the dangers of doing that,
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- What happens in the life of a person who maintains his
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- Sin consciousness.
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- So let's define this and begin this morning.
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- Sin consciousness is someone who has become or who is
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- Consistently aware of the guilt and they're focused on sin in
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- Their life.
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- They don't receive that jesus has already dealt with their
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- Sin issue.
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- And what happens is the more you wake up every morning aware of
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- Your sins instead of waking up aware of your righteousness,
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- Then whatever you're focused in on the most, that becomes your
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- Living, that becomes your life.
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- And it's a little trick the devil's been playing to try to
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- Keep us sin conscious.
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- I mean, you're the guy that wakes up in the morning and you
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- Pray, "father, forgive me for the sin i hadn't committed yet."
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- That's sin consciousness.
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- And the thing that causes or supports sin consciousness is
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- Your attempt to try to live according to the law.
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- Well, the bible makes it clear that according to the law,
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- Romans chapter 3, is the knowledge of sin.
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- And what you've got to understand is as long as you
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- Attempt to do that, the law was given to continually make you
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- Aware of your shame, your guilt, of your sin, and you walk around
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- Sin conscious.
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- So the problem is, is when you walk around sin conscious,
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- You're not walking around in the gift of grace that god's
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- Given you.
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- This is innocence consciousness that we're talking about.
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- To be innocent conscious means that you realize and you are
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- Focused on that god has forgiven you of your sins.
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- You are focused on that i now live by a new covenant that i am
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- No longer living under the law, but i'm under the grace of god.
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- You walk around with no shame, you walk around with no guilt,
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- And even when it shows up, you remind yourself of
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- Your innocence.
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- You remind yourself, i've been pardoned.
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- You remind yourself that i am righteous not because of what i
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- Do or what i have performed.
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- I am righteous because of what jesus has done.
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- And it's a huge deal.
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- There's a huge difference in the lives of people who are living
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- Life sin consciously versus those who have accepted their
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- Innocence and they are righteous in their thinking.
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- This is huge.
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- And so what happens, you can meet people who go to church all
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- The time and they're in sin consciousness because they go to
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- Church and they hear about sin consciousness.
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- They hear about, you know, your sin this and your
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- Sin that, you gotta do this, and if you don't do that, then
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- God's gonna get you, and that just continues to promote and
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- Increase sin in your thinking.
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- You've got to understand that sin is no longer part of
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- The agenda.
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- Hebrews 9:28 says that jesus has already taken care of your sin.
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- When did he take care of it?
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- Listen, when he was raised from the dead, when he died on the
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- Cross and then he got up on the third day, he took care of
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- Your sin.
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- It was dealt with once and for all time.
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- God's not dealing with your sin, you know.
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- Let's say you go out and sin today and you're like, oh god,
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- Do something, forgive me of sinning.
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- Only thing he's gonna do is say, "i already have.
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- I just need you to go ahead and accept, realize, and receive
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- What i've already done."
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- But sin consciousness is the trick that the devil's been
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- Playing on people.
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- So you walk around as if jesus hadn't died, as if he hadn't
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- Shed his blood, and as if your freedom has not been presented
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- To you.
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- And so we got to learn how to play this chess game and walk
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- Away from sin consciousness and receive what it means to walk
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- In innocence.
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- You have been pardoned.
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- Your sins have been forgiven.
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- It is not a part of the agenda.
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- The sin meter has been turned off, okay?
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- Now, let's deal with the danger of maintaining
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- Sin consciousness.
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- 1 corinthians chapter 15, verse 56 in the king james version.
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- Number one, i'm gonna give you five dangers of maintaining
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- Sin consciousness.
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- Number one, sin consciousness keeps you in bondage to the law.
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- Sin consciousness keeps you in bondage to the law.
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- Remember what you focus on the most, that's how you're
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- Gonna live.
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- Sin consciousness keeps you in bondage to the law.
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- All right, now notice what the scripture says.
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- I'm gonna read it out of three translations, king james, nlt,
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- And the message.
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- Now notice what he says here, "the sting of death is sin; and
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- The strength of sin," the thing that strengthens your sin, "is
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- The law," is the law.
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- Now look at this in the nlt.
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- "for sin is the sting that results in death, and the law
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- Gives sin its power."
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- The law gives sin its power.
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- So you continue to live by the law of moses and not repent and
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- Change your mind to live by the new covenant of grace, he says,
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- All it's doing is the more you stand the law, the more you
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- Strengthen sin's power over your life.
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- And then look at this in the message translation.
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- I like this one.
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- I like all of them.
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- He says, "death?
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- Oh, death, who's afraid of you now?
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- It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt
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- That gave sin its leverage."
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- Ooh.
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- "its destructive power came from law called guilt.
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- But now in a single victorious stroke of life, all three--sin,
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- Guilt, death--are gone, the gift of our master, jesus christ.
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- Thank god!"
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- But you have to receive that, right?
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- Think about this.
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- What i'm talking about today is, is making an adjustment in
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- Your thinking.
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- What i'm talking about today is--the bible makes it clear.
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- Repent and believe the gospel.
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- The word repent means to change your mind.
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- Change your mind about what you used to think about, which was
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- The law, which gave you sin consciousness.
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- Repent, change your mind, and do what?
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- And believe the gospel.
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- Believe that it's been taken care of.
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- Believe that it is dealt with.
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- Believe that the law of moses is now obsolete when it comes to
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- Living by this new covenant of grace.
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- 'cause if you don't change your thinking where this is
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- Concerned, you're still going to spend your time with
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- Sin consciousness.
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- You have to change your thinking.
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- Change your thinking, change your life.
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- Change your thinking, change your life.
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- You have to change your thinking where this is concerned.
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- Sin has been dealt with.
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- Now you and i both know, you go to most churches, and i've been
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- Criticized for saying, you know, he just don't talk about
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- Sin enough.
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- If i keep, if i talk about sin all the time, i am aiding the
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- Law and the devil in maintaining your sin consciousness.
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- I don't want you to come here every sunday and hear me talk
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- About sin.
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- I want you to come here every sunday and hear me talk about
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- How sin is no longer part of the agenda.
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- I want you to hear about your righteousness.
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- I want you to hear about your redemption.
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- I want you to hear about your deliverance from sin.
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- I want you to hear about you've been pardoned from sin.
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- I want you to hear about jesus came to set the entire world
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- Free from sin, praise the lord.
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- 'cause if i can get you stop--you think about it all the
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- Time, stop it.
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- So, this scripture tells us that you will stay in bondage to
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- The law.
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- If you are constantly focused on sin, you'll live as if you're
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- Still under the old covenant, always striving and working for
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- Forgiveness rather than resting in christ's finished work.
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- Think about it. is that you?
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- Are you always working for god's forgiveness?
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- You're striving for god's forgiveness.
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- I mean, i'm going to church 'cause i'm working on god
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- Forgiving me, i need to do this.
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- No, that was wrong, that's not how we do that.
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- What we do is we rest in christ's finished works.
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- He says that i am innocent, he says i'm forgiven, he says i'm
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- Righteous, i'm gonna now rest in what jesus has given me.
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- If you understand that, say amen.
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- All right, number two, sin consciousness hinders your
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- Relationship with god.
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- Sin consciousness hinders your relationship with god.
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- Now, i don't want my relationship hindered with god,
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- But sin, walking around with a sin conscience will hinder your
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- Relationship with god.
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- Look at ephesians 5:1 in the nsv.
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- It will hinder your relationship with god.
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- He says, "therefore be imitators of god, as beloved children."
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- So here's what i spend my focus on.
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- I'm--i wanna be just like him as his beloved children.
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- You remember i told you, i don't know when, that jesus is what
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- God thinks about you.
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- And i know this is strange for some people's hearing, but you
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- Are the reflection of jesus christ.
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- Whew. see that?
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- That's one thing that might let you know you still got some sin
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- Consciousness up there.
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- You are a reflection of jesus christ.
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- In other words, when you look at jesus, you ought to
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- See yourself.
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- No, no, no, no, no, let's not be phony here.
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- That bothers you because of the sin consciousness that
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- You heard.
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- But all throughout the new covenant, it's making
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- This declaration, that your reflect--just like jesus is
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- The reflection of the father, you and i are the reflection
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- Of jesus christ.
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- In him we move, in him we breathe, in him we have
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- Our being.
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- We live by the faith of the son of god, but it's so difficult
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- For people to accept that jesus is what god thinks about you
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- Because when god looks at you, he sees his son, praise god.
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- But when you look at you, you see that old shameful, guilty,
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- Sin conscious person, and that's got to stop.
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- You got to look boldly into that mirror.
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- When you look at the word and when you read the word, you
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- Gotta see that's talking about me.
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- That's talking about me.
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- That's talking about me.
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- There goes jesus, i look just like him.
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- When we see him, we will be just like him.
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- We are the reflection of jesus christ.
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- Mmm, mm.
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- The only thing that stops you from quickly grabbing hold of
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- That is sin consciousness.
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- He says we should be imitators of god as beloved children.
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- In other words, instead of seeing yourself as a beloved son
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- Of god, you may feel distant as if you must earn his acceptance.
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- You're still trying to earn his acceptance.
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- You're still trying to do something so you feel like he's
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- Accepted you.
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- Let me let you in on something.
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- God accepted you when you was raisin' hell.
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- God accepts you right now.
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- The bible says you are accepted in the beloved.
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- To be accepted in the beloved means that--beloved means that
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- You're greatly loved by god.
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- God made his mind up before the foundations of the world that
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- You were gonna be his beloved.
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- He made his mind up that i already accept you as
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- The beloved.
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- I know you missed it.
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- I know you messed up, but i got that taken care of.
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- I'm just trying to get you to change your mind and start
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- Receiving what i've already done.
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- And you can't do that if you're stuck into sin conscious
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- Religious teaching.
- 00:15:04.806 --> 00:15:07.775
- And you'll walk around like that.
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- And then when you die, you'll find out that creflo was right.
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- Number three, here's the third danger of maintaining
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- Sin consciousness.
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- Sin consciousness prevents boldness and confidence.
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- Sin consciousness prevents boldness and confidence.
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- Look at the scripture in hebrews 4, verse 16 in the king james.
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- When you are walking around sin conscious, more aware of the
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- Guilt, more aware of the sin in your life, more aware of the
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- Shame and the inferiority in your life than you are all the
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- Things that god has done to deliver you out of that, you're
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- Gonna find yourself struggling to be bold and confident.
- 00:15:54.155 --> 00:15:57.892
- Look what he says in verse 16.
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- "let us therefore come," how?
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- "boldly."
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- To come to anything boldly means you're coming as if you have the
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- Right to do so.
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- It's kind of like your kid coming in your office when you
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- Got a meeting and they're four years old and they want
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- Something to drink and they just, nobody else can come in
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- The office, but they bust through the door, go and get
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- Something to drink and stand there and look at y'all like,
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- What you looking at?
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- I have a right to do this.
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- That's what boldness is all about.
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- You have a right to come boldly before the throne of god.
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- You don't have to do anything to qualify to become
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- Boldly to the throne of god.
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- You have a right to be there.
- 00:16:40.835 --> 00:16:42.203
- You have a right to come there, why?
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- That's your daddy, praise the lord.
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- Hallelujah, glory be to god.
- 00:16:45.873 --> 00:16:48.709
- He said, "let us therefore come boldly into the throne
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- Of grace."
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- I have a blood-bought right to come boldly before the throne of
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- Grace with zero qualifications.
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- I do not have to qualify.
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- I don't have to come to church consistently for five weeks in
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- Order to go boldly before the throne of grace.
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- I don't have to give a certain amount of money to go boldly
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- Before the throne of grace.
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- I don't have to do a bunch of goody-goody things to come
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- Boldly before the throne of grace.
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- All of that's gonna come out of my heart.
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- But listen, i come boldly before the throne of grace because i
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- Come with the attitude that i have a right to do that because
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- Of who i am in him.
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- I need no permission.
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- I need no performance.
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- I need no somebody checking off on me before i come in, praise
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- The lord.
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- Ain't nobody checking the list to see if i qualify to come
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- Boldly before the throne of grace, hallelujah.
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- I come boldly or i come with confidence.
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- That confidence comes because i'm focused on my innocence and
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- Not the sin.
- 00:17:56.377 --> 00:17:57.745
- The sin has been dealt with.
- 00:17:57.745 --> 00:17:59.080
- Please understand, jesus is not coming back to deal with sin.
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- He's already dealt with sin.
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- He's not--would you go over there for a moment?
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- Go in the amplified bible.
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- Hold your place there, go in the amplified bible to hebrews
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- Chapter 9, i think, verse 28 in the nlt.
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- Let me show you this again and then let's come back to
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- Hebrews 4:16.
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- But you got to get this in your head, you got to get this in
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- Your thinking.
- 00:18:22.904 --> 00:18:24.238
- He said, "so also christ was offered once for all time."
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- So please understand that when jesus was offered as the lamb
- 00:18:27.842 --> 00:18:31.546
- That saved the whole world, the lamb that saved the whole world,
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- The lamb that saved the whole world, the lamb that saved the
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- Whole world, the lamb that saved humankind, the lamb that saved
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- Every human--you got to understand that somehow y'all,
- 00:18:46.527 --> 00:18:49.730
- Somehow--not y'all, but somehow people think that what jesus
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- Did, he only did it for people who are saved
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- And going to church.
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- Jesus died for everybody that was at the strip club
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- Last night.
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- And this provision is provided for everybody that's a
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- Hell raiser.
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- Every crazy thing you can think of, that's who jesus died for.
- 00:19:15.189 --> 00:19:21.362
- So i need to remind you, before you got saved, you was all
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- Those things.
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- But you just recognize, wait a minute, jesus is
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- Taking care of that.
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- I think i'll sign for the package.
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- All right so that's first of all.
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- So when he was raised from the dead, all of his sins--all of
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- Our sins were taken care of once and for all times, which means
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- He not doing that no mo'.
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- Why do it?
- 00:19:52.260 --> 00:19:53.594
- It was already perfect.
- 00:19:53.594 --> 00:19:56.697
- What he did was flawless.
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- He don't need to do it no more.
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- We act as if it--what you did wasn't good enough, so you need
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- To do it every time anybody sin, you need to do it again.
- 00:20:04.505 --> 00:20:08.576
- You think jesus crawling up on the cross every time you sin.
- 00:20:08.576 --> 00:20:12.046
- If that was the case, he just-- he stuck there.
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- 'cause people are doing it every second of the day.
- 00:20:16.083 --> 00:20:17.652
- I mean, he just stuck there.
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- I mean, if that was the case, jesus'd still be on the cross.
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- No, what he did, he did it one time, and this sacrifice, oh
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- Glory to god, lasted forever, one time, for all times.
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- Y'all hear what i'm saying?
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- One time for all times.
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- He said, "so christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice
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- For," what?
- 00:20:47.715 --> 00:20:49.083
- "to take away," what?
- 00:20:49.083 --> 00:20:51.185
- "the sins of many, many, many people."
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- Now watch this.
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- He will come again, amen.
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- What he coming again for?
- 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:01.329
- Get us out of here.
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- He will come again.
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- But that coming again is not to deal with our sins.
- 00:21:04.532 --> 00:21:10.204
- He's my question.
- 00:21:10.204 --> 00:21:11.572
- He coming again not to deal with our sins, and you still dealing
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- With it.
- 00:21:14.108 --> 00:21:16.210
- Why you keep dealing with something that jesus has already
- 00:21:16.210 --> 00:21:19.080
- Watch this, dealt past tense, done, done it?
- 00:21:19.080 --> 00:21:23.651
- He's already dealt with sin and you're still dealing with sin.
- 00:21:23.651 --> 00:21:31.025
- The only thing you need to do where this is concerned is
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- Change your thinking.
- 00:21:33.427 --> 00:21:35.863
- All right, so watch somebody.
- 00:21:35.863 --> 00:21:37.198
- Watch a little smart seminarian.
- 00:21:37.198 --> 00:21:39.567
- All you gotta do is change your thinking.
- 00:21:39.567 --> 00:21:40.935
- "yeah, but you gotta do more than this.
- 00:21:40.935 --> 00:21:42.770
- You gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do that."
- 00:21:42.770 --> 00:21:44.839
- Well, now that means you're--now that means you're performing.
- 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:47.675
- Now what you gotta do, the first thing you got to do is you got
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- To accept and realize what he's done for you.
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- Once you accept and realize what he has done for you, then the
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- Whole system kicks in in operation.
- 00:21:55.850 --> 00:21:58.052
- You accept what he's done for you, then the holy ghost is able
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- To do the work that he needs to do in you.
- 00:22:01.255 --> 00:22:03.424
- So the holy ghost now, because you've accepted what he has done
- 00:22:03.424 --> 00:22:06.527
- For you, the holy ghost now because you have realized what
- 00:22:06.527 --> 00:22:09.530
- He has done for you, the holy ghost now is on the inside of
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- You, changing your desires and giving you the ability to do
- 00:22:12.466 --> 00:22:17.071
- What pleases god.
- 00:22:17.071 --> 00:22:18.506
- And the holy ghost on the inside of you starts giving you wisdom,
- 00:22:18.506 --> 00:22:22.309
- Telling you what to do, when to do it, and how to do it.
- 00:22:22.309 --> 00:22:25.212
- See, the rest of this life, once you believe and realize what he
- 00:22:25.212 --> 00:22:29.083
- Has done, is now the holy ghost, the administrator of the new
- 00:22:29.083 --> 00:22:32.820
- Covenant, leading and guiding you down the path that you're
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- Supposed to go.
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- It never requires you to bring something to the table in order
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- For god to be able to use his power.
- 00:22:40.795 --> 00:22:42.630
- Do you think that god's power is subject to what we do?
- 00:22:42.630 --> 00:22:48.903
- Then that would make what you do stronger than what jesus did.
- 00:22:48.903 --> 00:22:53.774
- Now, what you do is you realize your salvation.
- 00:22:53.774 --> 00:22:57.445
- You realize what he has done for you.
- 00:22:57.445 --> 00:22:59.780
- You realize that sin is a dead issue, hallelujah.
- 00:22:59.780 --> 00:23:03.384
- You realize that and you say, god, i receive my innocence.
- 00:23:03.384 --> 00:23:07.655
- And at that point, the holy ghost starts working in you.
- 00:23:07.655 --> 00:23:10.791
- He's gonna start snatching stuff from you that you like.
- 00:23:10.791 --> 00:23:13.494
- He's snatching the taste out of you.
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- He's snatching those secrets that nobody knows
- 00:23:15.463 --> 00:23:17.598
- About what you're doing.
- 00:23:17.598 --> 00:23:18.933
- He's snatching all that, and you waking up every day,
- 00:23:18.933 --> 00:23:21.101
- Oh my god, what's happening to me?
- 00:23:21.101 --> 00:23:23.003
- Because you're going on a journey with the administrator
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- Of the new covenant.
- 00:23:25.940 --> 00:23:27.308
- The holy ghost is changing you on the inside out.
- 00:23:27.308 --> 00:23:31.679
- So when you finally reach that place in your life, you
- 00:23:31.679 --> 00:23:34.515
- Ain't--you can't brag about what you did.
- 00:23:34.515 --> 00:23:37.952
- You can't boast about what you did.
- 00:23:37.952 --> 00:23:40.654
- You have no choice when you look at what god is doing with you,
- 00:23:40.654 --> 00:23:44.492
- You have no choice but to lift up your hands, your holy hands,
- 00:23:44.492 --> 00:23:48.796
- Hallelujah, and say, thank you, lord.
- 00:23:48.796 --> 00:23:51.732
- Hallelujah.
- 00:23:51.732 --> 00:23:53.200
- Look at what god has done.
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- It is one of my greatest pleasures to help people to
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- If you would like salvation today, pray this prayer with me.
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- Very simple prayer.
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- "heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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- I believe that he died, that he rose again, and that he
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- Lives today.
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- Come into my life, save me.
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- I receive you as my savior.
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- In jesus's name, amen."
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- Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, that's how
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- Simple it is.
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- Welcome to the family of god.
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- Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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- Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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