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Creflo Dollar - Defining Self-Deception

August 6, 2025 | S25 E190 | 28:52

Creflo Dollar - Defining Self-Deception
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Defining Self-Deception | August 6, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: so a person who's deceived loves to take that
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  • Deception to somebody else.
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  • And when you hear deception, know that it came from someone
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  • Who was deceived.
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  • Creflo: i want to deal in lessons of us getting better so
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  • We can have impact.
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  • And not keep throwing the church stuff to you, so you can
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  • Go, "hallelujah."
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  • I wanna get in your business.
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  • I wanna come to you, get in your house.
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  • I wanna, i wanna get around the corner, not in your bedroom, but
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  • Around the corner in your bedroom, and me and taffi, we're
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  • Going there.
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  • We're going there because we were talking about couples who
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  • Are talking about getting a divorce.
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  • And we were, like, saying, "okay, well, what do we do?"
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  • I said, well, i stopped looking at the marriage like it's an
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  • Institution and it is, you know, the marriage is not doing well.
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  • The marriage is having problems.
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  • It ain't the marriage, it's you.
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  • The marriage?
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  • I said, "so taffi, what--do you remember what we did?"
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  • She said, "yeah, we put the marriage on the shelf and we
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  • Started dealing with the individual."
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  • She said you remember you went and did your work.
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  • I went and did my work, and because both of us was doing our
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  • Work, when we got back together, the marriage was able to come
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  • Off the shelf and be what it needed to be because we were
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  • Able to do what we needed to do because we found out that we as
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  • Individuals, we had some issues in our past life that have not
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  • Been dealt with yet.
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  • I didn't even remember that i was in the middle of a shootout.
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  • That my dad came and picked me up.
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  • I was about 8 from my grandma's house and in college park, in
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  • College park we had paths everywhere.
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  • There was always a quick way to the next street.
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  • And we were on--leaving columbus avenue.
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  • That's the real college park.
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  • College park was a city that was named after colleges.
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  • And we were on columbus avenue going to princeton and my dad
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  • Was walking.
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  • I don't know what--we didn't have a car, the car was messed
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  • Up or something, and so he walked and picked me up and
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  • Because stay with grandmama and then walked me back home and and
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  • Then one of our neighbors, he saw somebody breaking in the
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  • House and he had his uniform on, gun, everything.
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  • And he said, "i want you to--" you know the curb?
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  • "i want you to get next to the curb, hold your head down, put
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  • Your fingers on your ear, and don't move until i come
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  • Get you."
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  • And all of a sudden i'm hearing, pop, pop, and you know, a gun
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  • Live sounds really loud.
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  • Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
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  • And i'm like, "you're kidding."
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  • I'm traumatized.
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  • What?
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  • And i had totally forgot all about that.
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  • But when i went to start doing my--doing my work.
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  • I realized that from that traumatic moment, i built up a
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  • Resistance to anybody that would attempt to try to hurt me.
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  • So i was always on the ready.
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  • And so when i get married, if taffi would say something that
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  • Seemed like it was attack me, i was always on the attack, always
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  • On the ready.
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  • And my god said, "listen, that's over with.
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  • You didn't get hurt.
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  • Nobody's trying to fight you anymore.
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  • Nobody's trying to kill you.
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  • You don't have to fear dying in bullets or anything."
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  • I forgot all about that.
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  • That would never happen until i decided to do my work.
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  • I had to do my work.
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  • Then she had to do her work and then we'd meet once a week to
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  • Share our progress, what i was going through, what she were
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  • Going through.
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  • Y'all looking at me like, "oh, y'all have issue?"
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  • Is we--is we human?
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  • Yeah, we had issues.
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  • I know y'all ain't--none of y'all never had issue.
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  • Y'all did: "this is the way we go to church.
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  • Hi, darling.
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  • Hello, honey.
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  • What are we gonna do today?
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  • Whatever you want to do."
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  • That wasn't like that in our house.
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  • It was, "hey, darling."
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  • "don't call me no darling after you hit me in here last night.
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  • Where the food at?
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  • That's what i wanna hear.
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  • No no darling.
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  • What we gonna eat?"
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  • "well this--" "you ain't gotta talk to me like that.
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  • I ain't no little child.
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  • You don't talk to me like i'm some little girl or something
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  • Like that, you understand?"
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  • "well, if you don't talk to me like that," and then it
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  • Escalates and escalate and we had to learn how
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  • To fight fairly.
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  • We're gonna do some preaching up here together 'cause some of
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  • Y'all are in self-deception where relationships
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  • Are concerned.
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  • There's a reason why you by yourself after the
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  • Third divorce.
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  • There is a reason.
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  • And you won't look at yourself.
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  • You mean as--you mean, you mean.
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  • You mean.
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  • And you don't know why you're mean.
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  • You don't mean to be mean, but you're just mean.
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  • And there's a reason why.
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  • There's an issue that hadn't been dealt with before.
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  • Let me--let me see 'cause y'all ready for this to be over with.
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  • Let me give you some examples of blaming others.
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  • You remember in genesis chapter 3, verses 11 and 12, when this
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  • Whole thing started off and everything that happened in
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  • Genesis 3 between adam and eve, and he said, "who told thee that
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  • Thou was naked?
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  • Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof i commanded thee that
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  • Thou shouldest not eat of?"
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  • Verse 12: "and the man said, the woman who thou gavest me, she
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  • Gave me--she gave me of that tree, and i did eat.
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  • It was her.
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  • If you hadn't given me her, we'd have been--we'd have been
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  • Rocking and rolling.
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  • I didn't say i needed no help."
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  • Look at verse 15.
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  • Genesis 3:15 again.
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  • He says, "and i will--i'll put enmity between thee and the
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  • Woman, and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy
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  • Head, thou shalt bruise his heel."
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  • And talking about jesus's way to get out of this, but deception
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  • Is always followed by blame.
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  • Or even preceded by blame.
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  • Well, you'll know that there's deception there when you
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  • See blame.
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  • When blame shows up, deception is somewhere.
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  • So are you still blaming somebody?
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  • There's--that's deception somewhere.
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  • You still blame some--because when you blame, you remain
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  • The same.
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  • You're still blaming, still blaming.
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  • And before the clock strikes 12 midnight, you're gonna be
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  • Blaming somebody.
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  • And i'm asking you to stop, take a look at yourself and accept
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  • Responsibility for what's going on with you and in your life.
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  • Hm, look at the romans 2:1 in the message, and then i'll lead
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  • Into some signs in these few minutes we have left, something
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  • That happens, you can tell deception, self-deception,
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  • Is there.
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  • He says, "those people are on a dark spiral downward.
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  • But if you think that leaves you on the high ground where you can
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  • Point your finger at others, think again."
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  • You have to think you're on a higher ground to be able to
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  • Point your fingers at somebody else.
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  • Oh man, "every time you criticize someone, you
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  • Condemn yourself.
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  • It takes one to know one.
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  • Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way to escape
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  • Detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.
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  • But god isn't so easily diverted.
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  • He sees right through all such smoke screens and holds you to
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  • What you've done," wow.
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  • Pointing fingers.
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  • See, it's not, well, let's go to church and the holy spirit and
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  • In prophecy and [speaking in tongues]
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  • What good is that when we have no character and we don't know
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  • How to live?
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  • What good is that?
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  • I'm not hungry for that if we have no character, we don't
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  • Know how to live.
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  • That's weird.
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  • Why do we--we still pointing fingers.
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  • We're still blaming others.
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  • We're still walking in self-deception and we wanna talk
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  • About the holy spirit, the holy spirit, we--and the
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  • Holy spirit can't even get you to see the lie you're
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  • Telling yourself.
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  • Oh, he has, but you told him to hush.
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  • He has.
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  • So that's the kind of church i'm believing for.
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  • We have this church that's maturing and developing and
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  • We're no longer blaming and criticizing and we're constantly
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  • Walking out of self-deception and we're moving away from the
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  • Lies and the stories we believe that we tell ourselves and we're
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  • Growing up because these are baby things.
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  • That's why we have to mature.
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  • How can god tell you something about yourself when you've
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  • Already decided you know about yourself?
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  • Here are some signs of self-deception.
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  • You keep making excuses for yourselves and for others.
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  • You can't accept--number two, you can't accept responsibility
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  • For things.
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  • I mean, you know how amazing a relationship is when anything
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  • Happens the first thing you do is look at you?
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  • The first thing, "well, it's your fault.
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  • You should have got the directions for--before we got
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  • Going down here."
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  • It would be much better if you said, "man, i should have
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  • Programmed the guidance thing, or man, i should have checked
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  • With you before i left."
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  • You're looking at your part that you play because it takes two
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  • To dance.
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  • I mean, you can't blame the floor for your inability
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  • To dance.
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  • Get a picture of that.
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  • It's the floor's fault i can't dance.
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  • No, it's not.
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  • Number three, you keep blaming others.
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  • That's a sign of deception.
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  • Number four, you're avoiding feedback.
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  • I don't want no feedback.
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  • That's why--that's why a lot of--that's why a lot of men
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  • Are, of course, i'm so proud of the men at this church.
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  • They're getting vulnerable, they get in groups, they open up,
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  • They share, they're getting better.
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  • But a lot of times people just, "i don't wanna--i don't wanna
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  • Go to no therapy."
  • 00:12:34.556 --> 00:12:36.090
  • But people don't wanna get involved in going and get help,
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  • Going to marriage counseling and marriage things.
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  • They don't wanna get involved because they don't want
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  • No feedback.
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  • "i don't want no feedback.
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  • I already know how bad i am."
  • 00:12:48.670 --> 00:12:50.004
  • And so they walk around in shame and condemnation and would
  • 00:12:50.004 --> 00:12:52.807
  • Rather just kinda keep that hidden and so what happens when
  • 00:12:52.807 --> 00:12:55.743
  • You keep your junk hidden, okay, then the only thing we see is,
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  • You know, we see through the cover.
  • 00:13:01.449 --> 00:13:03.251
  • You got a cover covering up the real you, and the identity that
  • 00:13:03.251 --> 00:13:07.021
  • You are allowing people to see is what we see through the cover
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  • Which is a false identity.
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  • And you walk around the rest of your life afraid of somebody
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  • Discovering who you really are.
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  • You walk around with a cover.
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  • You remember when you was a kid and you wanna play casper the
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  • Friendly ghost?
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  • Probably nobody did this and you put a sheet over your head and
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  • You bump into the walls and all that kind of stuff?
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  • Nobody did that but me, okay, so, you live--your identity
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  • Comes through the cover, and you're afraid you're gonna be
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  • Found out that this woman is gonna find out that you're not
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  • The casanova that you portrayed yourself to be.
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  • That you were really an emotionally out-of-control man.
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  • And you don't want any feedback.
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  • There's something so important about somebody somewhere giving
  • 00:14:00.208 --> 00:14:05.780
  • You feedback.
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  • You won't take it from your wife.
  • 00:14:08.516 --> 00:14:10.752
  • Even your kids grow up and they tell you stuff.
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  • My kids told me something the other day.
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  • I thought i was pretty cool, until they told me.
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  • They said, "dad, we noticed that every time we talk to you on the
  • 00:14:22.063 --> 00:14:25.533
  • Phone, no matter what we start off with, the conversation
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  • Always end up about what you're doing."
  • 00:14:29.037 --> 00:14:31.439
  • I said, "what?
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  • I'm talking about myself?"
  • 00:14:32.774 --> 00:14:34.142
  • She said, "yeah, all the time," and taffi said, "mm-hm."
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  • I said, "oh no, no, i can't do that.
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  • No, i can't do that.
  • 00:14:40.014 --> 00:14:41.649
  • No, no, no, no."
  • 00:14:41.649 --> 00:14:43.017
  • Immediately, it affected me because i didn't notice that.
  • 00:14:43.017 --> 00:14:47.956
  • And now that i notice it, now i notice it, i'm more aware of it
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  • When i'm doing it.
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  • You gotta get some feedback from somebody.
  • 00:14:53.361 --> 00:14:57.465
  • You gotta get some feedback from somebody.
  • 00:14:57.465 --> 00:14:59.334
  • I don't know who you're gonna choose, but you gotta
  • 00:14:59.334 --> 00:15:01.202
  • Get somebody in your life that can give you some feedback.
  • 00:15:01.202 --> 00:15:07.875
  • "i don't need nobody."
  • 00:15:07.875 --> 00:15:09.277
  • See, that's another lie.
  • 00:15:09.277 --> 00:15:10.645
  • That's another deception.
  • 00:15:10.645 --> 00:15:12.013
  • You're deceived into thinking that your whole life is
  • 00:15:12.013 --> 00:15:15.149
  • An island and you don't need nobody.
  • 00:15:15.149 --> 00:15:17.151
  • You're deceived into thinking that a team of one can get you
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  • To where you wanna be.
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  • And it's not.
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  • You know, i don't know how much time we got before jesus comes
  • 00:15:30.031 --> 00:15:32.934
  • Back and all that, but there's one thing it's like, you ain't
  • 00:15:32.934 --> 00:15:37.372
  • Gonna be gone before the--on the throne.
  • 00:15:37.372 --> 00:15:40.341
  • And god said, "what church you went to?"
  • 00:15:40.341 --> 00:15:41.843
  • "world changers."
  • 00:15:41.843 --> 00:15:44.178
  • "well, didn't y'all understand how important it was to mature
  • 00:15:44.178 --> 00:15:46.214
  • In the gospel of grace?"
  • 00:15:46.214 --> 00:15:47.582
  • "no, pastor never taught that."
  • 00:15:47.582 --> 00:15:48.916
  • I'm gonna be right behind the throne.
  • 00:15:48.916 --> 00:15:51.586
  • I'm gonna stick my head out behind the--
  • 00:15:51.586 --> 00:15:53.287
  • "you's a lie."
  • 00:15:53.287 --> 00:16:00.428
  • I realize the day that i heard that i was in bondage to people
  • 00:16:00.428 --> 00:16:10.104
  • Was the greatest gospel i ever heard.
  • 00:16:10.104 --> 00:16:14.142
  • Because there were scriptures that didn't make sense that now
  • 00:16:14.142 --> 00:16:16.277
  • Make sense.
  • 00:16:16.277 --> 00:16:17.612
  • That if i am so concerned about pleasing people, i can't be
  • 00:16:17.612 --> 00:16:21.716
  • A servant to god.
  • 00:16:21.716 --> 00:16:25.053
  • And there's so many of us that are so concerned about pleasing
  • 00:16:25.053 --> 00:16:27.922
  • People that we can't be a servant to god.
  • 00:16:27.922 --> 00:16:30.425
  • Even where social medias are concerned.
  • 00:16:30.425 --> 00:16:32.627
  • "well, how many likes did i get?"
  • 00:16:32.627 --> 00:16:34.829
  • That's a form of approval addiction.
  • 00:16:34.829 --> 00:16:38.599
  • You don't need their approval for you to go on there to say
  • 00:16:38.599 --> 00:16:41.702
  • Whatever you believe you're supposed to say.
  • 00:16:41.702 --> 00:16:43.404
  • Why are you looking for somebody's approval?
  • 00:16:43.404 --> 00:16:46.374
  • "but they my friends."
  • 00:16:46.374 --> 00:16:47.742
  • They ain't your friends.
  • 00:16:47.742 --> 00:16:49.077
  • You don't know them, they don't know you.
  • 00:16:49.077 --> 00:16:50.645
  • Another deception.
  • 00:16:50.645 --> 00:16:52.013
  • You think somebody on the computer really your friends.
  • 00:16:52.013 --> 00:16:53.915
  • Them same ones can be coming and say, i like that, and then next
  • 00:16:53.915 --> 00:16:56.818
  • Week they can be cussing you out and telling you all other kind
  • 00:16:56.818 --> 00:16:58.953
  • Of stuff.
  • 00:16:58.953 --> 00:17:00.321
  • Stop it.
  • 00:17:00.321 --> 00:17:04.025
  • You need to hear some feedback.
  • 00:17:04.025 --> 00:17:08.029
  • And i love you.
  • 00:17:08.029 --> 00:17:09.363
  • I pray for you.
  • 00:17:09.363 --> 00:17:11.032
  • I prayed for you this morning.
  • 00:17:11.032 --> 00:17:12.366
  • I pray for you all the time that god's riches and best will
  • 00:17:12.366 --> 00:17:15.570
  • Continue to be yours.
  • 00:17:15.570 --> 00:17:17.805
  • 'cause i'd like to be here to see you through.
  • 00:17:17.805 --> 00:17:22.343
  • See you through.
  • 00:17:22.343 --> 00:17:24.278
  • To empty myself in you.
  • 00:17:24.278 --> 00:17:28.049
  • To take everything i know and learn and give it to you if you
  • 00:17:28.049 --> 00:17:31.185
  • Want it, but i am over trying to build my ministry myself.
  • 00:17:31.185 --> 00:17:39.393
  • "that's not my job; that's god's job."
  • 00:17:39.393 --> 00:17:42.930
  • No, we're gonna do this thing and i'd like for us to do
  • 00:17:42.930 --> 00:17:46.701
  • It together.
  • 00:17:46.701 --> 00:17:48.769
  • But if every time, like you decided, "i don't like what i'm
  • 00:17:48.769 --> 00:17:51.639
  • Hearing on this series, i'll see you next month in a new series,"
  • 00:17:51.639 --> 00:17:56.744
  • Then you're gonna still be the same.
  • 00:17:56.744 --> 00:17:59.347
  • 'cause won't nobody tell you about yourself.
  • 00:17:59.347 --> 00:18:02.150
  • And you believe the story you've been telling yourself.
  • 00:18:02.150 --> 00:18:05.653
  • I went to my kids when they were smaller and i said, "who's the
  • 00:18:05.653 --> 00:18:08.990
  • Greatest dad in the world?"
  • 00:18:08.990 --> 00:18:10.691
  • And i was expecting them to say, "you!"
  • 00:18:10.691 --> 00:18:13.828
  • And i heard nothing.
  • 00:18:13.828 --> 00:18:17.565
  • I said, "did you hear me?"
  • 00:18:17.565 --> 00:18:20.034
  • "yeah, dad, we heard you."
  • 00:18:20.034 --> 00:18:22.703
  • I said, "well, i'm the greatest in the world."
  • 00:18:22.703 --> 00:18:25.439
  • And i remember jordan, she said, "well--" and alice was just
  • 00:18:25.439 --> 00:18:30.611
  • Copying everything jordan did: "well--" and i'm like, "what?"
  • 00:18:30.611 --> 00:18:36.517
  • "well, we kind of missed you the last couple of weeks because you
  • 00:18:36.517 --> 00:18:40.955
  • Hadn't been here and we were expecting for you to play with
  • 00:18:40.955 --> 00:18:43.591
  • Us and stuff like that," and i was like, dang.
  • 00:18:43.591 --> 00:18:47.495
  • I didn't even see that because i'm flying around the world
  • 00:18:47.495 --> 00:18:50.097
  • Trying to be the world's superhero and i forgot that
  • 00:18:50.097 --> 00:18:53.401
  • I needed to be a superhero with them first.
  • 00:18:53.401 --> 00:18:58.839
  • Yeah, yeah. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:05.913
  • Number five, signs of deception: avoiding unpleasant realities.
  • 00:19:05.913 --> 00:19:12.653
  • Number six, you feel defensive or threatened when people
  • 00:19:12.653 --> 00:19:16.324
  • Challenge you.
  • 00:19:16.324 --> 00:19:19.927
  • Number seven, and then in the middle of that defense you
  • 00:19:19.927 --> 00:19:25.800
  • Defensively--seven, you defensively start shutting down
  • 00:19:25.800 --> 00:19:29.904
  • Conversations about sensitive topics.
  • 00:19:29.904 --> 00:19:32.106
  • People start talking, you defensively start shutting down
  • 00:19:32.106 --> 00:19:36.644
  • Conversations about sensitive topics.
  • 00:19:36.644 --> 00:19:41.849
  • Y'all wanna talk about communication and marriage?
  • 00:19:41.849 --> 00:19:44.285
  • "oh, no, no, nobody want to talk about all that kind of stuff and
  • 00:19:44.285 --> 00:19:46.320
  • No communication and no marriage and stuff like that.
  • 00:19:46.320 --> 00:19:48.055
  • I mean, you just talk to one of those.
  • 00:19:48.055 --> 00:19:49.390
  • It's just what--how your day going?
  • 00:19:49.390 --> 00:19:51.692
  • You--" hold on, hold on.
  • 00:19:51.692 --> 00:19:56.163
  • Yeah, let me close with these two scriptures.
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  • I got about 2 minutes to go.
  • 00:19:59.834 --> 00:20:03.337
  • 2 timothy chapter 3:13 in the nlt and then galatians 6:7
  • 00:20:03.337 --> 00:20:08.709
  • In the nlt.
  • 00:20:08.709 --> 00:20:10.044
  • 2 timothy 3:13 in the nlt: "but evil people and impostors
  • 00:20:10.044 --> 00:20:19.420
  • Will flourish."
  • 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:23.724
  • Don't be an impostor.
  • 00:20:23.724 --> 00:20:27.528
  • Notice what they do.
  • 00:20:27.528 --> 00:20:29.530
  • "they will deceive others and will themselves be deceived."
  • 00:20:29.530 --> 00:20:35.569
  • So a person who's deceived loves to take that deception to
  • 00:20:35.569 --> 00:20:41.676
  • Somebody else.
  • 00:20:41.676 --> 00:20:46.047
  • And when you hear deception, know that it came from someone
  • 00:20:46.047 --> 00:20:51.452
  • Who was deceived.
  • 00:20:51.452 --> 00:20:53.587
  • And there's a lot of that going around.
  • 00:20:53.587 --> 00:20:56.023
  • That's why you gotta be careful who feeds you.
  • 00:20:56.023 --> 00:20:58.426
  • That's why you gotta be careful what you open yourself up to.
  • 00:20:58.426 --> 00:21:03.531
  • A lot of things sound good.
  • 00:21:03.531 --> 00:21:05.633
  • I mean, they sound good, they sound nourishing, they
  • 00:21:05.633 --> 00:21:08.336
  • Sound inspirational.
  • 00:21:08.336 --> 00:21:11.806
  • But it may be bawling in deception.
  • 00:21:11.806 --> 00:21:17.411
  • "they will deceive others and will themselves be deceived."
  • 00:21:17.411 --> 00:21:25.419
  • And then finally, galatians 6:7 in the nlt.
  • 00:21:25.419 --> 00:21:29.757
  • He said, "don't be misled."
  • 00:21:29.757 --> 00:21:31.425
  • I love this.
  • 00:21:31.425 --> 00:21:32.993
  • "you cannot mock the justice of god.
  • 00:21:32.993 --> 00:21:36.664
  • You will always harvest what you plant," wow.
  • 00:21:36.664 --> 00:21:42.803
  • Don't be misled, don't be fooled, don't be deceived.
  • 00:21:42.803 --> 00:21:46.474
  • "you cannot mock the justice of god," and many are trying today.
  • 00:21:46.474 --> 00:21:51.946
  • "you will always harvest what you plant."
  • 00:21:51.946 --> 00:21:55.983
  • Your harvest is always gonna tell on you.
  • 00:21:55.983 --> 00:22:01.756
  • Your harvest is always gonna reveal what you've been
  • 00:22:01.756 --> 00:22:06.260
  • Hanging around.
  • 00:22:06.260 --> 00:22:07.995
  • Your harvest is always going to reveal what you've been hearing
  • 00:22:07.995 --> 00:22:12.800
  • And what you've been listening to.
  • 00:22:12.800 --> 00:22:17.738
  • You don't have to be in the spirit.
  • 00:22:17.738 --> 00:22:22.109
  • When you know this truth and you hear tomfoolery, you know you
  • 00:22:22.109 --> 00:22:28.916
  • Had to be exposed to tomfoolery.
  • 00:22:28.916 --> 00:22:32.086
  • It reveals what someone has been planning in you and what you've
  • 00:22:32.086 --> 00:22:37.725
  • Allowed to be planted in you.
  • 00:22:37.725 --> 00:22:40.161
  • Okay, my time's up.
  • 00:22:40.161 --> 00:22:41.495
  • Y'all get anything out of that? [congregation applauding]
  • 00:22:41.495 --> 00:22:47.501
  • Okay, every head bowed, every eye closed.
  • 00:22:47.501 --> 00:22:50.137
  • Father, we thank you for what we're about to get into.
  • 00:22:50.137 --> 00:22:53.541
  • We thank you, lord, that we will not live our lives
  • 00:22:53.541 --> 00:22:57.845
  • In self-deception.
  • 00:22:57.845 --> 00:22:59.447
  • We're not gonna live our lives being fooled.
  • 00:22:59.447 --> 00:23:02.817
  • Oh lord, we know we're not perfect, but in you we are.
  • 00:23:02.817 --> 00:23:07.254
  • We know that in you we're flawless and we're perfect and
  • 00:23:07.254 --> 00:23:10.257
  • We're righteous in you and i'm asking, god, that you will
  • 00:23:10.257 --> 00:23:13.594
  • Mature us to the place of our stance in you.
  • 00:23:13.594 --> 00:23:19.099
  • Help us.
  • 00:23:19.099 --> 00:23:20.434
  • Help us to recognize the deception in our lives.
  • 00:23:20.434 --> 00:23:22.803
  • Help us to see where we've been fooled.
  • 00:23:22.803 --> 00:23:25.573
  • Help us to see where we've been misled.
  • 00:23:25.573 --> 00:23:28.576
  • Help us to see how we've constantly blamed others and
  • 00:23:28.576 --> 00:23:33.614
  • Refused to accept responsibility for ourselves.
  • 00:23:33.614 --> 00:23:38.419
  • We submit our lives to you, holy spirit, we can't do
  • 00:23:38.419 --> 00:23:41.121
  • Anything without you.
  • 00:23:41.121 --> 00:23:42.690
  • We can't change.
  • 00:23:42.690 --> 00:23:44.024
  • Without you, we can't do anything.
  • 00:23:44.024 --> 00:23:45.392
  • And so we trust you today and we say, lord, help us.
  • 00:23:45.392 --> 00:23:48.929
  • Help us, o god, to be everything that you want us to be.
  • 00:23:48.929 --> 00:23:53.868
  • Announcer: we cannot live in self-deception if we want to
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  • Experience god's best.
  • 00:23:59.607 --> 00:24:01.208
  • Self-deception leads us to believe lies, hardens our heart,
  • 00:24:01.208 --> 00:24:05.179
  • And keeps us from the truth.
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  • In his insightful five-message series, "defining
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  • Self-deception," creflo dollar shows how to overcome the trap
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  • Of fooling ourselves and see things from god's perspective.
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  • Learn how to identify deception, embrace truth, and experience
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  • Real transformation.
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  • 00:24:22.863 --> 00:24:26.433
  • You know i am a christian.
  • 00:24:26.433 --> 00:24:28.502
  • I am a son of god, a child of god, belong to god.
  • 00:24:28.502 --> 00:24:31.839
  • So when sin comes in to try to separate you, you too close to
  • 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:35.476
  • God and communion to pay it any attention.
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  • You partner with us to reach people everywhere who are
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  • Hurting and in need of the revelation of god's grace
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  • And love.
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  • Announcer: if god has placed it on your heart to support the
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  • Vision of this ministry to reach the world with the gospel of
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  • Grace, you may call in to make your financial donations or
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  • Log on to creflodollarministries.org.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Creflo: i don't ever want to take for granted that you've
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  • Received jesus christ as your personal lord and savior, and
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  • There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life
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  • Than to enter into a personal relationship with jesus.
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  • So if you want to become born again and begin an exciting
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, i want you to pray this
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  • Prayer with me and i'll say it so you can repeat after me.
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  • Repeat after me: "heavenly father, i believe that jesus is
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  • The son of god.
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  • And that he died and was raised from the dead and has forgiven
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  • All of my sins and i receive him into my life right now as my
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  • Lord and 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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  • Announcer: the preceding program was brought to you in part by
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  • The partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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