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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Does Faith Require Works? | October 27, 2025
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- Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of
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- Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38.
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- And again, agree with me that i have sweet lips this morning
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- 'cause the bible says, "sweet lips increase learning," right?
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- One of the things that i'm understanding is if you spent a
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- Whole lot of time thinking a particular way for years and
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- Years and for some of you all your life, it's quite a
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- Challenge when presenting something that goes against that
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- Way of thinking to receive it real quickly and i
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- Understand that.
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- But we've got, we've got to be willing if we say we believe the
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- Word of god and if that is what we live by, i mean, we can't say
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- We believe the word of god and we live by the word of god and
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- Then when we see something in the word of god our tradition
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- Becomes more valuable to us than the word of god.
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- And it's all right to change.
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- I think that change and flexibility is a good thing.
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- I think there's something wrong if you're the same for the next
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- Ten years maybe that indicates you hadn't grown.
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- But i think we've gotta be willing to grow, we gotta be
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- Willing to evaluate what we thought at one time versus what
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- We are now seeing in the the word i just think there should
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- Be a consistent evolving towards maturity as we go.
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- If not then you'll find yourself in tradition stuck in a
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- Traditional way of believing and you just only believe that way
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- 'cause you've always believed that way.
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- And that's not healthy to believe a certain way just
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- 'cause you always believe that way.
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- God intended us we're on this path where he intends for us to
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- Mature and to develop and to grow and to understand more as
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- We go down this journey than we did when we first started, okay?
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- Imagine if you were a 2-year-old and today you're 40 and you
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- Still understanding like a 2-year-old.
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- You follow what i'm saying?
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- And it's the same way.
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- Not to say that certain things were wrong as you were going
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- Together, as you were growing up, but you're finding clarity.
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- Everybody say, "clarity," okay.
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- And you're becoming, you're seeing precision in what
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- You're doing.
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- And that's all i'm trying to do.
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- You know, people say, "creflo dollar, rewriting the bible."
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- I ain't rewriting the bible, i'm just reading it, okay?
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- And so what we wanna do today is this subject is so important
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- Today as we deal with true faith and i wanna start off with this
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- Scripture here in hebrews 10:38 in the king james and in
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- The nlt.
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- I really wanna make sure that i have sweet lips today so we can
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- Increase learning and sometimes i don't wanna go back into my
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- Past experience and then get emotional about it and get the
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- Fussing over it and then you're like, "what's wrong with him?"
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- I want you to get this and i want us to grow together, amen.
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- Verse 38, king james, he says this, "now the just shall live
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- By," what?
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- "but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure
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- In him.
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- If any man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."
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- Now, the just are those who've been declared righteous.
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- Now, the just shall live by faith.
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- So the day you got born again, you were declared
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- Righteous, okay?
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- Now, those of us who have gotten born again, we are now declared
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- Righteous, okay.
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- And that means now that we have to find out how we're supposed
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- To live now that we've been declared righteous, all right?
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- And the nlt that same verse of scripture he says, "and my
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- Righteous ones will live by faith," okay?
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- Or those who you--you're righteous by faith, okay?
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- And you can see why i taught that two weeks of teachings on
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- Righteousness before we got here.
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- We are righteous because we believe in jesus and the day we
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- Believe in jesus, he declares us righteous.
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- Now, you might not be living totally right, but you're on a
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- Journey, you're getting, you're getting there.
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- You're better now than you were last year.
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- You're getting there, but you're righteous by faith, okay?
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- And by faith that means you're righteous, you're standing
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- Before god as if you've never sinned because your
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- Righteousness is based on your stance now that you're
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- In christ.
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- I am righteous because i am in christ.
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- That's the only way i'm righteous because of my status
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- And where i am in christ.
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- "and my righteous one will live by faith."
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- Now the lord spoke to me and he said, "i'm about to increase my
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- Glory as you begin to increase men's understanding of the life
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- Of faith and living by faith."
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- And so i wanna dig into this and clarify some things, move some
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- Things aside so you can see better.
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- So that you will understand that this life of faith doesn't
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- Involve you adding works of the flesh to faith in order to get
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- What grace is made available.
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- Now let's go to ephesians chapter 2 and verse 8
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- Through 10.
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- Show you what i'm talking about here now.
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- Ephesians 2 verse 8, he says, "for by grace are you saved
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- Through faith; and that not of yourself; it is the gift
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- Of god."
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- And then he goes, next verse, verse 9, "not of works," not of
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- Works of the law, not of performance, "lest any man
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- Should boast about it."
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- So you can't boast about something that you didn't do
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- Anything to make happen.
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- He says verse 10, "for we are his workmanship created in
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- Christ jesus unto good works."
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- And so you're saved by grace so that good works can flow out of
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- You, all right, but you don't add good works to faith in order
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- To get salvation, you know what i'm saying?
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- So he says, "which god has before ordained that we should
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- Walk in them."
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- Now let's go back to verse 8 and let's begin this morning.
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- In verse 8, he says this, "for by grace are you saved."
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- Grace, you're saved by grace.
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- Now, remember the word saved does not just mean you're born
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- Again by grace.
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- I showed you last week that this word save comes from one of the
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- Greek words is "sozo," and it talks about your preservation,
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- It talks about your soundness, it talks about your safety, it
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- Talks about your healing.
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- It talks about your deliverance from evil.
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- It's ultimately all of the finished works that jesus has
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- Made available to you, he says, is your salvation.
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- So i need you to renew your thinking that when you see, "for
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- By grace are you saved," that doesn't just mean you got
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- Born again.
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- That means by grace you are healed.
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- By grace you are sound.
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- By grace you are delivered.
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- By grace you have safety.
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- By grace you have all of these, the finished works of jesus, by
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- Grace, which means all of those finished works of jesus,
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- Soundness, safety, security, provision, all of those are
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- Gifts of grace.
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- You're saved by grace.
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- In other words, your salvation or your "sozo" came as a gift to
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- You without your performance and without you bringing anything to
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- The table, just cause god decided he wanted to give it to
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- You, okay.
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- So that's what a gift is.
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- Is somebody deciding they want to do something for you.
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- You didn't earn it and in some cases you didn't even
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- Deserve it.
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- And here god says, "you didn't deserve it, you didn't earn it."
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- So by grace you got all of this soundness, born
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- Again, deliverance.
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- Oh, so when you see saved or salvation, know it's talking
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- About all of those things that are finished because of
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- Jesus christ.
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- All right, so we got that.
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- But now here's the part that we're focusing in on.
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- "for by grace are you saved."
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- But how did you receive what grace has made available to you?
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- How did you receive your salvation that grace made
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- Available to you?
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- You received it through, watch this, faith.
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- So i know everybody in the room is pretty solid on faith.
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- We've been preaching it for centuries.
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- And here i am coming to say, i just don't know if we really got
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- This thing right because we should be seeing more glory.
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- So i have to go and examine your receiver.
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- For by grace are you save and you receive it through faith.
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- You get it through faith.
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- You have access through faith.
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- Real quick.
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- Romans 5 and 2, real quick.
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- Romans 5 and 2, in king james and romans 4:16 in king james.
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- So the just shall live by faith and, you know, he says, "by whom
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- Also we have access to the grace of god."
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- We have access to the grace of god that gives us as a gift,
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- Salvation and all this other stuff.
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- We have access by faith.
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- "we have access by faith into this grace.
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- We have access by faith into this grace."
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- Our faith gives us access to what grace is made available.
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- Everybody on the bus got that, right?
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- All right, go to romans 4:16.
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- I'm not gonna miss a corner this morning.
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- Romans 4:16.
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- He says, "therefore it is of," what?
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- "faith that it might be by," what?
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- Whoa.
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- So if you're gonna get what's by grace, he says, it is gonna be
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- Of faith.
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- It is gonna be of faith.
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- Look at this in the nlt, verse 16.
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- Look at this in the nlt, romans 4:16, and he says this, "so the
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- Promise is received," how?
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- "by faith, it is given as a free gift," but the free gift is
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- Received by faith.
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- See what we've been doing is using our faith to try to get
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- What grace has already given.
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- We've been trying--we've been using our faith to try to
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- Earn gifts.
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- You can't earn a gift.
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- We've been using our faith to try to make the gift.
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- We've been using our faith to try to create the gift.
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- Grace has already presented the gift.
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- You get what's already finished through faith.
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- You receive it through faith.
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- You have access through faith.
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- Man, we gotta know what this faith--if we ain't straight on
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- Nothing, we got to be straight on this faith thing, all right.
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- Now, here's what i wanna talk about today.
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- How can salvation be not of works, we'll go back to
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- Ephesians 2 and 8.
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- I got one more thing to say before we start.
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- Ephesians 2 and 8.
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- No, no, no.
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, god said, "for by grace are you
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- Saved," you get it through faith, "and that," now i've
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- Studied homiletically and you have to get real, it's the most
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- Boringest thing in the whole world.
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- Bunch of boring reading about eastern religion, western
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- Religion to try to come up with what do we think that is
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- Referring to and what do we think it is referring to.
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- And most people, we understand grace is a gift.
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- Absolutely we understand salvation is a gift.
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- But we also must know that faith is a gift.
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- And if you're reading this correctly, "for by grace are you
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- Saved through faith; and that faith not of yourself.
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- That faith is the gift of god."
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- Now, many will say, "well, well, now, that referring to salvation
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- And it referring to salvation, that's cool too.
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- I mean if you want to get real technical, faith is a gift,
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- Salvation is a gift, and grace is a gift.
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- But what we got to understand, "and that not of yourselves; it
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- Is the gift of god."
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- I believe that it is saying, and may god correct us all when we
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- Get to heaven because we know in part.
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- That means nobody knows it all.
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- We know in part and so we'll take our part to heaven and
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- Somebody else will take their part to heaven and god will just
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- Show all of us how small our parts were.
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- But until we get there, this is the part that i believe
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- I understand.
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- It is referring to faith being a gift and faith is not of
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- Yourself, and faith is a gift of god.
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- Verse 9, and faith is not of works lest any man should boast.
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- In other words, he's talking about, you are boasting about
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- What you did to get it.
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- That's why i believe it's referring to faith.
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- There's a tendency to boast about what you did to get it.
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- Now, in light of this, i wanna ask the question, how can
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- Salvation be not of works when faith is required?
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- Because most of us, we understand that you have to have
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- Some works and i'm saying, how can, how can salvation be not of
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- Works when faith is required?
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- And what am i saying here?
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- When there's work required, we equate faith with the work to
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- Get it.
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- Does faith, here's the issue, does faith require works?
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- Does faith require works?
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- Now i wish i could say, just give you one answer, but you
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- Know, people are just so smart and boy, you just got to go
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- Through things and let them see it with their smart self.
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- We just gotta make sure we all get it.
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- Sweet lips, sweet lips.
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- We gotta make sure that they all get it, right?
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- All right, now, so let's go through a series of scriptures
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- Real quick.
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- Are you ready?
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- Now, does faith require works?
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- That's what we're trying to discover.
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- Our salvation depends solely upon who?
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- Jesus.
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- 2 corinthians chapter 5:21.
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- Turn there in the king james.
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- Our salvation depends solely upon jesus.
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- He is our substitute.
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- He's taking our sins penalty upon himself.
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- 2 corinthians 5:21 says, "for he hath made him to be sin for us,
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- Who knew no sin."
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- Jesus, who had never sinned was made to be sin for us who knew
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- No sin.
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- "that we might be made the righteousness of god" and we
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- Being made righteous, knew no righteousness.
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- So jesus took upon himself our sins and we took upon jesus his
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- Righteousness, glory to god.
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- So salvation depends solely upon jesus.
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- Righteousness depends solely upon jesus.
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- Take jesus out of the picture, we can't be righteous, we can't
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- Be saved, we can't be redeemed 'cause it depends solely
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- Upon jesus.
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- All right, look at john 1:29.
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- John 1:29.
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- Our salvation is solely upon jesus.
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- John 1:29.
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- He says, "the next day john seeth jesus coming unto him, and
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- Saith, 'behold the lamb of god.'"
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- They see jesus and call jesus the lamb of god, "which taketh
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- Away the sin of the world."
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- So he is our savior from sin.
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- He takes away sin from the world.
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- Now look at this.
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- Hebrews 12 and 2 in the tpt.
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- The passing translation.
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- Hebrews 12 and 2.
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- The bible says that jesus is the author and the
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- Finisher of our faith, right?
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- All right, so watch this.
- 00:18:40.399 --> 00:18:42.000
- "we look away from the natural realm," glory to god, "and we
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- Fasten our gaze onto jesus who birthed faith within us and who
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- Leads us forward into faith's perfection."
- 00:18:59.384 --> 00:19:05.157
- Oh glory.
- 00:19:05.157 --> 00:19:06.525
- "his example is this: because his heart was focused on the joy
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- Of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the
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- Cross and conquered its humiliation, and now he sits
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- Exalted at the right hand on the throne of god!"
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- I go back to the beginning of this.
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- He birthed it.
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- Jesus birthed faith within us.
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- So how you gonna say that?
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- Well, i mean, he said it again in romans, romans 12.
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- He says he has given to every man the measure of faith.
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- Where did it come from?
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- Him.
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- Well, what about the law?
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- You don't need faith to live by the law 'cause the law is clear.
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- If you don't do this, you'll die.
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- If you do this, you get blessed.
- 00:19:59.978 --> 00:20:01.480
- You either do it and get blessed or don't do it and die or
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- Get cursed.
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- You don't need faith for the law.
- 00:20:06.985 --> 00:20:10.622
- But when we got jesus, jesus birthed faith within us and he
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- Leads us forward in faith's perfection.
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- So to try to perfect your faith without jesus is you trying to
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- Perfect your faith in your own ability and self-effort.
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- All right, let's go.
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- So the work necessary to provide salvation was fully accomplished
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- By jesus himself, who lived a perfect life.
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- He took god's judgment for sin.
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- The judgment that should have been on us, he took the judgment
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- Of sin and he rose again from the dead.
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- Look at hebrews 10:12 in the nlt.
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- Now why am i going to these scriptures?
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- Because we say we live by the bible, so i need to let you
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- Know it's in the bible.
- 00:21:03.975 --> 00:21:06.278
- 'cause if you're having some weird things going on cause you
- 00:21:06.278 --> 00:21:08.613
- Heard your faith hero say something and it's not lining up
- 00:21:08.613 --> 00:21:11.583
- With the scripture, you gotta make a choice.
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- "but our high priest offered himself to god as a single
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- Sacrifice for sins."
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- So in the old testament, you have a whole bunch of
- 00:21:24.663 --> 00:21:27.466
- Sacrifices, goats and doves and all of that, and it only covered
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- Their sin.
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- It never got rid of their sin.
- 00:21:32.838 --> 00:21:34.206
- So jesus, our high priest, offered himself to god as one
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- Sacrifice for sin and it was gonna be good for all times.
- 00:21:37.743 --> 00:21:42.013
- So you didn't have to come every year like they had to come.
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- Once you made jesus the lord of your life, he was the sacrifice
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- For your sin and it'll last for all time as long as time lasts,
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- The sacrifice is gonna last.
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- Oh my goodness.
- 00:21:56.328 --> 00:22:00.332
- And after he did it, he sat down in the place of honor at god's
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- Right hand.
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- Now the bible is pretty clear that our works don't help
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- Deserve salvation, soundness, safety.
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- Our works on--go to titus.
- 00:22:17.549 --> 00:22:19.284
- Titus chapter 3 and 5, king james, and then ephesians 2 and
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- 9, king james.
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- Everybody on the bus, everybody on the bus, yeah.
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- So it's pretty clear our own works don't help us
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- Deserve salvation.
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- You didn't do nothing to deserve salvation.
- 00:22:36.435 --> 00:22:45.143
- We grew up in tradition where tradition said, "do good in
- 00:22:45.143 --> 00:22:48.814
- Order to get good.
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- And if you do bad, you're gonna get bad."
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- That is the way of the law and the old covenant, the
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- Old agreement.
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- But under this new agreement, his mercy showed up, man.
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- Thank god for it.
- 00:23:03.829 --> 00:23:05.697
- Titus 3:5 says, "not by works of righteousness.
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- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
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- According to his mercy he," what?
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- Now you know what mercy is?
- 00:23:20.045 --> 00:23:21.379
- Mercy is the bad you deserve you don't get.
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- So god saved you because of his mercy.
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- As crazy as all of us were his mercy could look past
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- You're crazy.
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