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Creflo Dollar - Dead Works vs. Good Works

February 10, 2025 | S25:E38

Creflo Dollar - Dead Works vs. Good Works
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Dead Works vs. Good Works | February 10, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: after the cross, dead works are over.
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  • Change your thinking.
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  • Quit trying to do something to deserve something.
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  • Well, god, i went to church today.
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  • Don't i deserve some favor?
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  • If favor could be deserved, it wouldn't be favor.
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  • Creflo: the apostle paul was a zealous, old covenant person.
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  • He was law-based.
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  • He was a pharisee.
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  • He was jewish.
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  • I mean, he was very zealous about the law.
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  • And you would think, "why would you call somebody that was so
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  • Law-based to teach the gospel of grace?"
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  • Had to--you see what god had to do.
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  • He met god on the road of damascus, and he said, "saul,
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  • Saul, why persecuteth me?"
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  • And saul looking at him like, "man,
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  • I ain't did nothing to you."
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  • He says, "when you do it to the least of them, my brethrens,
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  • You've done it unto me."
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  • And when that experience was over with, he was blind.
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  • He couldn't see. glory be to god.
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  • He couldn't see.
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  • All of us can relate to being blind.
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  • Under the law, we were blind.
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  • There are people today that are blind.
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  • They just can't see it. we have to be gracious.
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  • We have to be patient, but they just can't see it.
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  • I remember when i just couldn't see it because this is all i
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  • Ever heard.
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  • I always heard it this way. i always heard it like this.
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  • I always heard you had to have your hands in it.
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  • I always heard, you got to take one step--
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  • ♪ and he will do the rest. ♪
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  • We sung about it. we taught about it.
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  • And so, when i was first presented the gospel, my comment
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  • Was, "what the world is he talking about?"
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  • Kenan, you remember we went to that seminar and we all got in
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  • The car, we were kind of quiet and everybody and then start
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  • Leaking questions like, "well, but how you gonna do that?
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  • But don't the bible say."
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  • We didn't have a clue. we was blind as a bat.
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  • But we knew something wasn't right.
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  • We knew we was missing something because we--there would be
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  • Times when we would do things and it didn't work.
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  • There would be times when we did multiple things
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  • And it didn't work.
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  • Fasted for a long time.
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  • Prayed for a long time. put on the jewish garments.
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  • Used the whole bottle of oil.
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  • I mean, man, they was slipping for five days, just slipping.
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  • And they still died, and they still got put out the house, and
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  • Still didn't have the money to do this, and still the tumor was
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  • Still up the same.
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  • And i stopped, i said, i said, "hold up, hold up."
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  • And i'm preaching it hard and doing the greek and hebrew like
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  • It made it better.
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  • Hebrew and greek won't help lack of context.
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  • Don't come telling me the hebrew word you can't pronounce.
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  • I don't care.
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  • You know, the hebrew word for this is shakakuku.
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  • I don't care. i can't even say it.
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  • I don't know how to spell it. why are you telling me that?
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  • Hebrew ain't going to correct a lack of context.
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  • Let me calm down because sweet lips increase learning.
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  • I'm like, you know, we didn't know.
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  • And here's paul.
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  • He says, "though i might also have confidence in the flesh."
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  • He's referring to that law-based, performance-based,
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  • Dead work-based operation.
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  • "though i might also have confidence in the flesh.
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  • If any other man thinking that he hath were of might trust in
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  • The flesh," and trust in his performance and trust in his
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  • Dead works, he says, "i more.
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  • I more."
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  • And then he goes on and he says, verse 5, he says,
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  • "circumcised--" he starts telling you about all the stuff
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  • He had in the flesh that should have qualified him without
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  • No problem.
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  • "i was circumcised the eighth day.
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  • I'm of the stock of israel.
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  • I'm of the tribe of benjamin.
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  • I'm a hebrew of hebrews.
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  • As touching the law, i'm a pharisee.
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  • Concerning zeal, i was so zealous, i was persecuting the
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  • Church, touching the righteous, which is in the law, blameless.
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  • But what things were gain to me, all those things i had, those i
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  • Counted lost."
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  • All of those things that i had in my life, all of those
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  • Advantages i had in my life, all of those things that i thought
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  • Would put me ahead, all of those things i thought would make me
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  • Righteous, all those things that i thought would make me good.
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  • He said, "those things i counted lost, so i can receive christ.
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  • Yea doubtless, and i count all things but loss for the
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  • Excellency of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord: for whom i
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  • Have suffered the loss of all things."
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  • And he says, "and i do count them but dung, just waste that i
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  • May win christ."
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  • And then verse 9 says, "and be found in him, not having my own
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  • Righteousness, which is of the law."
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  • Notice what he says, "not my own righteousness, which is of
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  • The law."
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  • That's what people are trying to do right now.
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  • They're trying to get their own righteousness.
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  • And if i do these things, i feed the poor, if i show up and cut
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  • The grass at the church, if i show up while we're giving food
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  • Away, if i--and you come up with all the things so that you
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  • Can have your own righteousness, which is of the law.
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  • He says, "but that which is through the faith of christ is
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  • What i have, the righteousness which is of god by faith in
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • And that's it.
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  • Paul counted it all dung.
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  • So in summary, dead works would be any attempt to find favor,
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  • Earn acceptance, or be made righteous before god by your own
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  • Effort, by your own ability, and by your own willpower.
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  • If you understand that, say, amen.
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  • Now, religion puts emphasis on doing right, and in contrast,
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  • Jesus and the apostles put emphasis on believing right,
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  • Because when we believe right, we will do right as a
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  • Consequence of believing right.
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  • And so, i'm saying to the church, hey, let's back up a
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  • Little bit.
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  • Instead of working hard to believe right, i mean, working
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  • Hard to do right, let's believe right.
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  • See, doing right follows believing right.
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  • If you look at stuff you ain't doing right, go and ask
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  • Yourself, do i believe it?
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  • And if you'll straighten out your believing, then your doing
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  • Will follow suit.
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  • Now, let's go to hebrews chapter 6, verses 1 through 3.
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  • Someone said, "what kind of church is this?
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  • When are you going to start preaching?"
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  • This is a--i'm a--this is how i do it.
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  • I can't--i can't do that thing where i'm hollering and
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  • Screaming and you hollering and screaming and everybody
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  • Hollering and screaming and you walk out here, i don't
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  • Understand no more what i tried to tell you and you don't
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  • Understand that at all.
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  • And then we say we had a good time at church.
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  • I can't do that, because if your mind is not renewed, you
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  • Won't change, okay?
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  • "well, i didn't come here for this.
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  • I didn't came here to learn nothing.
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  • I came so i could have church."
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  • Yeah, but you still don't know how to do life,
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  • And now you know how to do church.
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  • [speaking in tongues] all that stuff.
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  • I can't do that no more. i done sing too many.
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  • I can't. i can't.
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  • Vote me out, but you can't, cause i was here first.
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  • Vote and try to vote me out.
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  • Can't do it.
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  • "well, i don't know.
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  • It's kind of boring, all that teaching."
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  • I can't do it.
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  • I tell you what, by the time the devil finished whooping your
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  • Butt, you're going to be running here one day.
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  • "show me.
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  • Teach me, preacher. teach me, preacher."
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  • All right, look what he says here, verse 1 through 3.
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  • That's why i try to warn people, when you invite me somewhere to
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  • Preach, you know what you're getting.
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  • You know what you're getting.
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  • If you invited me somewhere to preach and you thought i was
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  • Going to be preaching like t.d. jakes, t.d. jakes
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  • Is a preaching machine.
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  • I am a teaching machine. know what you're getting.
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  • Know what you're getting. know what you're getting.
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  • They're different gifts.
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  • I don't know nobody in the world that can preach like that man.
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  • And it's awesome.
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  • And it's wise and wisdom, and somehow you learn a whole
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  • Bunch too.
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  • But that's, don't do that.
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  • Know what you're getting when you come.
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  • I teach.
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  • Don-da-da, i teach.
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  • Go to the next scripture. yeah, this means that.
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  • That means this, you know, this is defined like this.
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  • Oh, look at this. yeah, i'm a teacher.
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  • Teaching teacher.
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  • You know, just you got to know what you get.
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  • You got to know what you get.
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  • You got to know what you get, you know.
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  • You got to know your, excuse me, you got to know your preacher.
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  • Oh, my gosh.
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  • All right, now watch this.
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  • "therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine,"
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  • Doctrine means teachings, "leaving the principles of the
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  • Doctrine of christ, let's go on unto perfection," or completion.
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  • And he says, "the way you're going to do that is you got to
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  • Stop laying again certain foundations over and over
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  • And over.
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  • Laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works."
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  • Repentance means it's your mindset.
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  • It's your thinking. it's your thinking.
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  • And basically, what he says here, he says repentance from
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  • Dead works, number one, is a foundational thing.
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  • But repentance means to change the way you think concerning
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  • Dead works.
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  • Change the way you think concerning dead works.
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  • We need to change our thinking about dead works.
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  • And how should we think about it?
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  • That that is no longer acceptable under this
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  • New testament.
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  • After the cross, dead works are over.
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  • Change your thinking.
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  • Quit trying to do something to deserve something.
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  • "well, god, i went to church today.
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  • Don't i deserve some favor?"
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  • If favor could be deserved, it wouldn't be favor.
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  • It would be something you earned or something that you deserve,
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  • And favor, grace is undeserved favor.
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  • Now, that's dead works.
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  • Everybody understand what dead works are?
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  • Do you want me to do that again?
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  • Do we understand dead works?
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  • Okay, now let's look at good works.
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  • Good works.
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  • From the outside looking in, we may be challenged with seeing
  • 00:13:12.705 --> 00:13:19.144
  • The difference between dead works and good works.
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  • From the outside looking in.
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  • Is that a dead work or is that a good work?
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  • They can look a whole lot and very much the same outwardly.
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  • They can be the same works, but they have, i mean, listen, i
  • 00:13:32.424 --> 00:13:40.532
  • Mean, you're talking about they can be the same work, but they
  • 00:13:40.532 --> 00:13:44.570
  • Have different, listen to this, here it is, motives.
  • 00:13:44.570 --> 00:13:51.110
  • Motives.
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  • Praying can be a dead work or good work.
  • 00:13:53.779 --> 00:13:57.516
  • What's the motive?
  • 00:13:57.516 --> 00:13:59.785
  • Attending church can be a dead work or good work.
  • 00:13:59.785 --> 00:14:03.689
  • What's the motive?
  • 00:14:03.689 --> 00:14:05.958
  • Reading the bible can be a dead work or a good work.
  • 00:14:05.958 --> 00:14:09.929
  • If you're sitting up there reading the bible, "well, maybe
  • 00:14:09.929 --> 00:14:11.664
  • If i read the bible, then god will do."
  • 00:14:11.664 --> 00:14:14.833
  • Or, "man, let me open that bible up.
  • 00:14:14.833 --> 00:14:16.368
  • I just, oh my god, i want him to speak to me through this bible
  • 00:14:16.368 --> 00:14:19.071
  • Because i just love him."
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  • Motive.
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  • Telling others about jesus can be a dead work or a good work.
  • 00:14:23.075 --> 00:14:27.313
  • Motive.
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  • Giving an offering can be a dead work or good work, motive.
  • 00:14:29.782 --> 00:14:36.588
  • Under the new testament, it's different from the law.
  • 00:14:36.588 --> 00:14:39.892
  • Under the law, if you did it, then, you know, if i could, if i
  • 00:14:39.892 --> 00:14:45.097
  • Would, what's that, if i would keep the commandments, then i'll
  • 00:14:45.097 --> 00:14:50.235
  • Get blessed.
  • 00:14:50.235 --> 00:14:51.904
  • But it's not about that, with good work.
  • 00:14:51.904 --> 00:14:54.540
  • What good works is, is it coming out of a heart that he loves me?
  • 00:14:54.540 --> 00:15:01.113
  • Motive, why you doing what you do?
  • 00:15:01.113 --> 00:15:03.716
  • If we can't tell outwardly, then how do we know what a good work
  • 00:15:03.716 --> 00:15:11.490
  • Is if i can't, you know, somebody's, i mean, listen,
  • 00:15:11.490 --> 00:15:14.827
  • They're out there feeding the poor.
  • 00:15:14.827 --> 00:15:17.096
  • They're sweating.
  • 00:15:17.096 --> 00:15:18.497
  • They've been doing it for 12 hours.
  • 00:15:18.497 --> 00:15:21.934
  • They even got a atlanta service award for giving people the
  • 00:15:21.934 --> 00:15:27.106
  • Most food.
  • 00:15:27.106 --> 00:15:30.075
  • But it was a dead work because the motive was off.
  • 00:15:30.075 --> 00:15:38.050
  • The whole reason why they did the 12 hours, because they heard
  • 00:15:38.050 --> 00:15:42.087
  • About the award and they said, "if i go out here and do this
  • 00:15:42.087 --> 00:15:46.191
  • And take pictures of it--" you don't hear me.
  • 00:15:46.191 --> 00:15:53.365
  • Take pictures of it.
  • 00:15:53.365 --> 00:15:55.734
  • Wow, it's just kind of, but how do i tell?
  • 00:15:55.734 --> 00:16:01.140
  • How do i know from the outside?
  • 00:16:01.140 --> 00:16:03.208
  • Because it looks like a good work.
  • 00:16:03.208 --> 00:16:04.676
  • I mean, we were always told this is a good work, that's a good
  • 00:16:04.676 --> 00:16:06.879
  • Work, that's a good work, and you can just pick out all the
  • 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:09.214
  • Good works.
  • 00:16:09.214 --> 00:16:10.682
  • I mean, taking somebody and, you know, giving them a home and,
  • 00:16:10.682 --> 00:16:13.218
  • Oh, good works and pat ya on the back, good works, and that's
  • 00:16:13.218 --> 00:16:16.021
  • Easy to fall into.
  • 00:16:16.021 --> 00:16:17.656
  • We all, we all kind of fell into it.
  • 00:16:17.656 --> 00:16:21.060
  • You know, i had this thing i shared at the women's
  • 00:16:21.060 --> 00:16:23.028
  • Conference, and this question was asked to me, you know, do
  • 00:16:23.028 --> 00:16:25.664
  • You think that pride and ego sits at your table?
  • 00:16:25.664 --> 00:16:32.504
  • And the christian part of me wanted to say, "absolutely not."
  • 00:16:32.504 --> 00:16:37.042
  • But before i answered, i thought i said, "it probably sitting
  • 00:16:37.042 --> 00:16:41.480
  • Around the table somewhere every now and then, and it may be all
  • 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:46.785
  • The time, but i just got to make sure it doesn't sit at the head
  • 00:16:46.785 --> 00:16:49.088
  • Of the table."
  • 00:16:49.088 --> 00:16:53.926
  • Pride and ego, because a lot of people have pride in 'em, and
  • 00:16:53.926 --> 00:16:59.932
  • That pride feeds their ego.
  • 00:16:59.932 --> 00:17:03.635
  • And so, i've accepted pride and ego probably sitting at my table
  • 00:17:03.635 --> 00:17:07.139
  • Somewhere, but i'm going to make sure i know where they sitting
  • 00:17:07.139 --> 00:17:09.741
  • At every day.
  • 00:17:09.741 --> 00:17:14.980
  • All right, now listen to this.
  • 00:17:14.980 --> 00:17:17.049
  • A good work is when we do the will of god as a response to his
  • 00:17:17.049 --> 00:17:25.224
  • Love, his mercy, and our new identity of righteousness
  • 00:17:25.224 --> 00:17:32.030
  • In christ.
  • 00:17:32.030 --> 00:17:33.465
  • Let me share three scriptures with you,
  • 00:17:33.465 --> 00:17:35.601
  • And we're going to settle this.
  • 00:17:35.601 --> 00:17:36.935
  • Ephesians 2:10 in the nlt. ephesians 2:10 in the nlt.
  • 00:17:36.935 --> 00:17:42.741
  • Now, this whole thing of, "well, i don't want to fall from grace
  • 00:17:42.741 --> 00:17:47.012
  • So i'm just not going to work.
  • 00:17:47.012 --> 00:17:48.413
  • I'm just going to say, you know, like james brown, 'hit me.
  • 00:17:48.413 --> 00:17:52.618
  • Hit me.'"
  • 00:17:52.618 --> 00:17:54.019
  • That's not how it works. he's not going to hit you.
  • 00:17:54.019 --> 00:18:01.994
  • God is not opposed to good works done out of the right motive.
  • 00:18:01.994 --> 00:18:09.401
  • Verse 10 says, "for we are god's masterpiece.
  • 00:18:09.401 --> 00:18:13.906
  • He has created us anew in christ jesus so we can do the good
  • 00:18:13.906 --> 00:18:19.811
  • Things he planned for us long ago."
  • 00:18:19.811 --> 00:18:23.615
  • Another translation says, "we are his workmanship, created
  • 00:18:23.615 --> 00:18:26.985
  • Unto christ jesus, unto good works."
  • 00:18:26.985 --> 00:18:30.455
  • So good works are a part of the believer's life.
  • 00:18:30.455 --> 00:18:35.427
  • But it's not just the actual work that makes it good.
  • 00:18:35.427 --> 00:18:39.598
  • What makes it good is i'm doing this out of love.
  • 00:18:39.598 --> 00:18:44.336
  • Love is the motivation behind the work.
  • 00:18:44.336 --> 00:18:51.109
  • Look at hebrews chapter 6:10 in the nlt.
  • 00:18:51.109 --> 00:18:54.213
  • Hebrews 6:10 in the nlt.
  • 00:18:54.213 --> 00:18:57.616
  • "for god is not unjust.
  • 00:18:57.616 --> 00:18:59.184
  • He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you
  • 00:18:59.184 --> 00:19:04.056
  • Have shown your love to him."
  • 00:19:04.056 --> 00:19:07.359
  • You see that?
  • 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:09.094
  • "good works that he won't forget and how you've shown your love
  • 00:19:09.094 --> 00:19:13.165
  • To him by caring for other believers, as you still do."
  • 00:19:13.165 --> 00:19:18.537
  • So, what is he saying here?
  • 00:19:18.537 --> 00:19:20.539
  • Like i told you, that could be a good work, a dead work or a good
  • 00:19:20.539 --> 00:19:23.408
  • Work, but it's a good work because it was born out of
  • 00:19:23.408 --> 00:19:25.677
  • Your love, it was born out of your care.
  • 00:19:25.677 --> 00:19:28.447
  • It was born out of something you wanted to do for him.
  • 00:19:28.447 --> 00:19:32.217
  • That makes it a good work.
  • 00:19:32.217 --> 00:19:35.320
  • And then go to john 21:15 and 17.
  • 00:19:35.320 --> 00:19:39.291
  • I'm gonna say this. i want you to listen to it.
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  • Love for god is the condition for good works.
  • 00:19:41.927 --> 00:19:47.699
  • Love for god is the condition for good works.
  • 00:19:47.699 --> 00:19:52.170
  • You remember after the scripture says, "after breakfast, jesus
  • 00:19:52.170 --> 00:19:55.374
  • Asked simon peter, 'simon son of john, do you love
  • 00:19:55.374 --> 00:19:57.943
  • Me more than these?'
  • 00:19:57.943 --> 00:19:59.711
  • 'yes, lord,' peter replied, 'you know i love you.'"
  • 00:19:59.711 --> 00:20:03.115
  • Then he goes on again, next verse, "'then feed my lambs,'"
  • 00:20:03.115 --> 00:20:05.784
  • And jesus told him--next verse, "jesus repeated the question:
  • 00:20:05.784 --> 00:20:10.188
  • 'simon son of john, do you love me?'
  • 00:20:10.188 --> 00:20:12.858
  • Jesus, he said, 'yes, lord.'
  • 00:20:12.858 --> 00:20:15.127
  • Peter said, 'you know i love you.'
  • 00:20:15.127 --> 00:20:17.129
  • He said, 'then take care of my sheep.'
  • 00:20:17.129 --> 00:20:20.165
  • And then jesus said," next verse, "the third time he said,
  • 00:20:20.165 --> 00:20:23.168
  • He asked him, 'simon son of john, do you love me?'"
  • 00:20:23.168 --> 00:20:27.272
  • What was jesus doing?
  • 00:20:27.272 --> 00:20:29.341
  • That, bro, you can't feed my sheep with the wrong motivation.
  • 00:20:29.341 --> 00:20:37.449
  • Let's settle it.
  • 00:20:37.449 --> 00:20:38.884
  • You love me, then do this work. you love me, then do this work.
  • 00:20:38.884 --> 00:20:43.588
  • I don't think it would hurt for the five-fold ministry to
  • 00:20:43.588 --> 00:20:46.725
  • Hear this.
  • 00:20:46.725 --> 00:20:48.093
  • It's like you can't feed god's sheep if you don't love them.
  • 00:20:48.093 --> 00:20:51.863
  • You can't be a preacher and say, "i don't like people."
  • 00:20:51.863 --> 00:20:54.166
  • Well, you don't need to be trying to feed them.
  • 00:20:54.166 --> 00:20:56.935
  • You need to sit your tail down somewhere until you can figure
  • 00:20:56.935 --> 00:21:01.139
  • Out how to love them.
  • 00:21:01.139 --> 00:21:02.874
  • It's got to be born out of love because if you stand up in that
  • 00:21:02.874 --> 00:21:05.844
  • Pulpit and you feed them and you don't love them, it's dead work.
  • 00:21:05.844 --> 00:21:14.086
  • It's dead work.
  • 00:21:14.086 --> 00:21:15.687
  • So, if you're volunteering in the department and doing all the
  • 00:21:15.687 --> 00:21:18.990
  • Things you're doing, but it's not born out of love, it's
  • 00:21:18.990 --> 00:21:22.027
  • Dead work.
  • 00:21:22.027 --> 00:21:24.296
  • Somehow you think you deserve something because of what
  • 00:21:24.296 --> 00:21:29.067
  • You do.
  • 00:21:29.067 --> 00:21:30.435
  • It's dead work.
  • 00:21:30.435 --> 00:21:31.770
  • It's amazing he would say to him, "peter, do you love me?"
  • 00:21:31.770 --> 00:21:35.440
  • "yeah, lord, you know i do." "peter, do you love me?"
  • 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:37.476
  • "yeah, lord, you know i do."
  • 00:21:37.476 --> 00:21:38.810
  • "well, go on, you can feed my sheep.
  • 00:21:38.810 --> 00:21:40.145
  • Go on, you can take care of my lambs.
  • 00:21:40.145 --> 00:21:41.480
  • Go on, you can do all of that.
  • 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.981
  • But you cannot do that if what you do for my sheep is not born
  • 00:21:42.981 --> 00:21:50.322
  • Out of love."
  • 00:21:50.322 --> 00:21:52.424
  • I'm privileged to be your pastor.
  • 00:21:52.424 --> 00:21:56.495
  • I'm honored.
  • 00:21:56.495 --> 00:21:57.863
  • And so, when i pray for my wife and my family and my children
  • 00:21:57.863 --> 00:22:02.734
  • And world changers, you done been hit with prayer early this
  • 00:22:02.734 --> 00:22:06.772
  • Morning that you ain't even know what you been hit with.
  • 00:22:06.772 --> 00:22:10.308
  • Honey, i believe there's some stuff that's going to happen.
  • 00:22:10.308 --> 00:22:13.545
  • I've already bound the spirit of deception and compromise in your
  • 00:22:13.545 --> 00:22:17.749
  • Life, because that ain't going to be your problem.
  • 00:22:17.749 --> 00:22:19.651
  • I've already released, released abundance over your life and
  • 00:22:19.651 --> 00:22:23.655
  • Favor over your life and protection over your life,
  • 00:22:23.655 --> 00:22:26.691
  • Because i love me some world changers.
  • 00:22:26.691 --> 00:22:29.895
  • I love you.
  • 00:22:29.895 --> 00:22:35.934
  • So, i don't want to spend 60 years feeding you, then get to
  • 00:22:35.934 --> 00:22:44.142
  • Heaven and say, like, "lord, you know, i've fed your people for
  • 00:22:44.142 --> 00:22:48.213
  • 60 years."
  • 00:22:48.213 --> 00:22:49.581
  • He said, "yeah, but you couldn't stand them."
  • 00:22:49.581 --> 00:22:56.721
  • He said, "that's dead work, bro."
  • 00:22:56.721 --> 00:23:01.293
  • And then after falling on my face, "have mercy, lord.
  • 00:23:01.293 --> 00:23:07.132
  • Your mercy, jesus."
  • 00:23:07.132 --> 00:23:10.535
  • All right, now, so let's just put it in plain english.
  • 00:23:10.535 --> 00:23:16.241
  • So, in summary, how do we know what good works are?
  • 00:23:16.241 --> 00:23:21.279
  • And number one, love must be the motive.
  • 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:28.086
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  • He died and was raised from the dead and has forgiven all of my
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  • Sins and i receive him into my life right now as my lord and
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  • Personal savior.
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  • So by faith, i declare that i am saved.
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  • Praise god.
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  • Now, that simple prayer changed your entire eternal destination,
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  • And we want to welcome you to the family of god.
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  • By the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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