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Creflo Dollar - Don't Let Offense Derail Your Journey

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Creflo dollar: jesus died and shed his blood so you can
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Receive salvation as a gift.
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But if you have to endure in order to be saved, then it's no
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Longer a gift of salvation.
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What is wrong with this picture?
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And you're walking around, oh, you got to endure to the end,
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And you dare think that your striving needs to be added to
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What jesus, through his blood, has already accomplished for us?
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Creflo: i want you to think about something now: offense
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Would have derailed the cross, but forgiveness secured
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Our redemption.
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Forgiveness secured our redemption, but offense could
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Have derailed the whole thing.
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Look at what--look at the enemy's main method
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Of operation.
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You think it's just a human thing.
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I can't tell you the number of people--tomorrow, when you go
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To work, or wherever you go, i bet you can count the number of
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People who are walking around in offense, the christian ones.
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The ones who say [speaking in tongues]
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In offense.
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Stephen, stephen in acts chapter 6.
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Man, he is being stoned to death.
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Offenses would have made him curse his killers.
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The word "curse" here is to say something negative against them,
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But love kept him christlike.
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And then, finally, paul, i want you to see this one.
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2 corinthians 11:23-28 in the mirror translation.
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2 corinthians 11:23-28.
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Offense would have silenced paul's ministry.
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Oh, i've been there.
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I've been there.
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I am trying my best to teach people away from the striving
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Religion to show you that god has gifted you with everything
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You'll ever want, and all you have to do is learn how to rest
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In him.
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And i tell you the number of times offense has come into my
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Face to say, "just quit.
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I don't want to do this anymore.
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I don't need this.
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Why don't i just quit, go to bali somewhere, and get some
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Flip flops and a tank top, and hang around and become a
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Beach bum?"
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If paul would have received offense, it would have silenced
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His ministry, but joy kept him unstoppable.
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Look at this scripture 2 corinthians.
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I'm going to read 22 to 28.
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He says, "if you want to compare notes, i eclipse their claims as
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Ministers of christ.
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I speak from personal experience; none of them could
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Compete with me when it comes to the extremities of wearisome
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Labors endured: i was beaten up many times, frequently jailed,
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Often face to face with death, often.
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To be more specific, i received the infamous forty lashes less
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One, five times from jews.
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Three times the romans beat me up with sticks; once i was
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Stoned and left for dead.
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Three times on my journeys i have been shipwrecked.
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I have been adrift at sea for a night and a day.
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My frequent travels have kept me on the road more than most
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People i know; i faced flooded rivers, i was attacked by
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Robbers and encountered life threatening dangers from both
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Jews and gentiles.
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Everywhere i turned i was confronted with great danger,
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Whether in the city, countryside or at sea.
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It seemed like there was no safe place left for me on the planet.
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Even amongst fellow christians--" even amongst them
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Church folks, "i was snared into controversy and betrayal.
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I was often extremely exhausted with burdensome workload.
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The list goes on and on: i had many a sleepless night; i was
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Frequently forced to fast since i had nothing to eat or drink; i
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Suffered extreme exposure in the bitterly cold conditions with
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Nothing warm to wear," man.
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"and beside the many external challenges i face daily, i
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Continuously care for the churches in every place--" i
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Still did it "with all my heart."
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If anybody had a reason to get offended, if anybody had an
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Excuse to get offended, he did, but it would have silenced
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His voice.
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And the joy wouldn't leave him, because over here in acts 16:22
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And 25, one of those times he was arrested, telling you that
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Joy would not leave him.
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See, everybody can come up with an excuse to keep offense, or
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You can respond to it appropriately and not let it
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Derail you.
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"and the multitude rose up against--rose up together
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Against them: and their--and the magistrates ripped off their
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Clothes, commanded to beat them."
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You're talking about seeing police brutality here in our
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Society today?
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This brother didn't do nothing, he still got beat.
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"and when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast
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Them into a prison, charging the jailers to keep them safely:
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Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the
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Inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks," or
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Chains, or--"and at midnight paul and silas prayed, and sang
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Praises unto god: and the prisoners heard them."
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They still had joy, not offense.
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They could have sat in prison and complained all night long
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About how this isn't fair.
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How "i'm going to get you.
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Wait till my lawyer call you."
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And everybody was listening intently, trying to hear what
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They were saying.
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What in the world?
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They sang so loud, and prayed so loud that they were heard by
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Other people.
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See, we like to go with the-- you know, with the majority.
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And if the majority says we're awesome and we're cool, and they
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Celebrate us, and they honor us, then oh it must be something
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Right about this person.
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But then when we look at people that don't go with the majority,
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But they're downtrodden, they're slandered, something must be
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Wrong, because look at that-- look at the number of people
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They got, and look at the number of--oh, i thought i was
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Big-time, going around the world gathering thousands, and
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Thousands, and thousands of people into stadiums and in
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Basketball arenas.
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Oh, big-time, until i realized i was preaching them the law.
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And when i shift, because i was convinced that jesus had done it
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All, and i don't need to add my striving to jesus, and i don't
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Need to add what i do with jesus.
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When i understood that jesus has done it all, that jesus has
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Already healed me and made me righteous, and jesus has already
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Delivered me, and i didn't have to work to earn my salvation, it
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Was a gift!
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But i used to preach, "those who endure to the end--if you don't
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Endure to the end, you can't be saved.
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You got to endure to the end."
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Well, that's an insult to the christ.
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That's an insult to the cross!
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Because jesus died and shed his blood so you can receive
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Salvation as a gift, but if you have to endure in order to be
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Saved, then it's no longer a gift of salvation.
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What is wrong with this picture?
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And you're walking around, oh, you got to endure to the end,
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And you dare think that your striving needs to be added to
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What jesus, through his blood, has already accomplished for us?
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And i was preaching fear-based doctrine, so that you could be
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Fearful enough that maybe you'll start living right.
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And if i can scare the hell out of you, then maybe you might be
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Start--maybe you'll start working--start living holy.
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No, no, it's not through fear that people are transformed, but
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It's through his love that people are transformed.
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[congregation applauding]
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So when i switched, it got weird.
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It got weird.
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The balcony emptied itself.
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The basketball arenas were not necessary anymore.
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The stadiums were not full anymore.
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I was like, "what happened?"
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I chose the truth over a lie.
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[congregation applauding]
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And oh, when i told you that tithing was not a new testament
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Deal, but that god wanted you to give out of your heart, and
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Wanted you to give out of joy, and god wanted you to give out
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Of love and devotion, and not out of obligation and duty of
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Giving 10%, oh, the rest of everybody else left.
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And i thought, "well, finally, the purging has done, has been
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Finished," praise the lord.
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You would think, if i was so wrong about that, i'd be broke,
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Busted, disgusted, and we'd be pitiful.
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And god is still blessing us so we can be a blessing to
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Somebody else.
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And he's doing it more than he's ever done before.
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I don't want you to give any amount of money in this church
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Out of obligation.
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If it can't come out of your heart, keep it in your
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Pocketbook, 'cause it does you no good if you can't give out
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Of devotion.
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If you can't give out of love, if you can't give out of a
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Cheerful heart.
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If you can't give because you want to give, it does you no
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Good that you--that i have to get up here and put fear in you
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And tell you, you ain't going to give, you're not gonna prosper,
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And you're not gonna be blessed when, in fact, you're
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Already blessed.
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But you're blessed not because you gave, you're blessed because
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Of jesus christ.
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And through jesus christ, you're blessed, and your giving just
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Opens your eyes to the generosity flow that you already
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Have in christ jesus.
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That won't get me any awards.
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That won't get me invitations.
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That won't get me invitations to sit at the table with the
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Big boys.
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But i tell you, one day, when i leave my physical body, i'll sit
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With him because i'm already seated with him in heavenly
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Places, in christ jesus.
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But i will not be offended.
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Offense is a choice, and so is freedom from it.
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It's a choice.
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These men didn't let offense pull them out of the will of
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God, they leaned on god's strength to forgive.
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You have to lean on god's grace and his strength to forgive.
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It's--some of this stuff is hard, it's some of this stuff
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Hard to forgive.
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A husband that beat you, and manipulated you, and cheated on
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You, and brought a disease home to you.
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It's hard to forgive.
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That's why you got jesus, that's why you have grace--
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That you can lean on him, and you can forgive what's ugly, and
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You can forgive what, at one time, was unforgivable, and you
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Can do it, and all of a sudden, you look at yourself and say,
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"oh, but for the grace of god."
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It's god's strength to help you to forgive, to help you to
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Trust, to help you keep moving forward.
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The same grace that worked in those men that i just mentioned,
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This is available for you today.
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Now, let's get into something real quick.
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Offense has progressions, once you take it.
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Offense grows--and just real quickly, i won't spend much
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Time here.
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But offense grows into, number one, hurt.
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It came from the outside, externally, it grows into hurt.
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I wouldn't even ask how many people in there have ever been
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Hurt, because now you know what i'm talking about.
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It grows into hurt.
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It's like a seed that's planted.
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And then, when it grows into hurt, it grows into bitterness.
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Whew, when bitterness comes, the bible says you trouble yourself.
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He says, "don't fail at the grace of god, because when
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Bitterness shows up, it will trouble you."
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Then it grows into resentment.
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That's where the division and the betrayal takes place.
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Resentment shows there, and you start resenting everything
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Around you.
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Now you're able to betray, now you're able to operate
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In division.
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And then it goes to cold, cold love, and when your love gets
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Cold, when your love waxes cold, that's because you have a
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Hardened heart, a heart that's been hardened by the progression
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Of offense that you would not deal with quickly.
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And then it goes from a cold heart to, all of a sudden, you
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Have the enemy's foothold in you, spiritual attacking you.
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And then it finally gets to the place it wants to be.
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You begin to abandon god's words, you begin to abandon the
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Nearness of god.
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You're not only derailed, but you are out of his will, into
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Something else.
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And the death cycle is now working in your life, and it
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Won't be long before you're out of here before your time.
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People die before their time because they didn't realize that
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The little thing called offense, the small fox.
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How to release offense and bitterness so that you can see
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Your freedom restored.
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How to release offense and bitterness, because i need to
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Get practical.
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I can't preach this to you, then you just go home and, "well, i
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Still got it.
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I don't know what else to do," you know?
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And then you have a bad day one day, and it gets so bad and that
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Offense comes up on top of some more offense, and you could kill
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A person.
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Number one, this is very practical now, for all the deep
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People who want something prophetic, most of the stuff
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We've gotten is pathetic, but--yeah, it really is.
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It really is, but we--i don't know what's going on with us.
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"oh, hallelujah, the lord says that there are four--five
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People in here that can give $10,000."
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You need to just put your money in and lock your pocketbook,
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Because i am not giving you no $10,000 trying to play that
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Little pressure game, because the scripture says, "don't give
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Out of pressure."
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You know, taffi and i've got to be delivered.
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We know people slander us and talk about us, we don't care!
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In fact, i can't tell you how much we don't care, why?
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Because it's just an opportunity to be offended.
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I'm not online searching for who said what about me.
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They out there somewhere, i know!
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But if i should run into them, they're now on my prayer list,
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'cause i am not going to be offended by your tomfoolery.
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I'm going to love you no matter what.
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Number one, here's the first step in getting released from
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This bitter offense.
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This is so cool.
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I love this first one because nobody really thinks about this.
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But the first step: acknowledge the pain without feeling like
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You're judged.
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Now acknowledge the pain without judgment, acknowledge it.
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Now, for a long time, the church says, "no, you shouldn't
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Acknowledge it.
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That's bad confession."
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Let me show you something.
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God never asked you to deny what hurt you.
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Grace invites honesty, not suppression.
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Grace invites and allows you to be honest, not to suppress it.
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Let me show you a neat little scripture to bear witness
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To that.
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Psalm 62 and verse 8, in the king james, he says--
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Psalm 62, verse 8, he says, "trust in him at all times; ye
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People, pour out your heart before him: god is a refuge."
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Trust in him.
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Trust in him enough that you can pour your heart out for him.
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God doesn't want you coming before him in your pretense,
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Fake religiosity.
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The bible says "cast your care upon him," not that
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You care.
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He wants you to cast all of it on him.
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If you're mad at god, he can take it.
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"god, i'm mad at you."
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He said, "i appreciate that.
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What else you got?"
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He wants you to do that.
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Acknowledge your hurt.
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And the scripture says here, "pour out your heart
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Before him."
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"god, i don't understand.
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I don't know why you don't let-- why you let this happen to me?
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Well, how come that door couldn't happen?
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How long am i'm going to be able to do this?
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How long--" pour out your heart!
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"what did i do wrong to keep ending up with the--i'm in my
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Fourth marriage, why do i keep choosing the same old, no good
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For none man?"
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Why--pour it out!
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Why? he's your refuge.
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A refuge is a safe place, it's a sheltered place, pour it out!
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Man, i never forget when i was just surrounded by slander, and
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It happens in my life, like this...for the last almost
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44 years.
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And i'm walking around--you ever seen the movie about this
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Guy who fell down the steps?
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He said, "that didn't hurt. that didn't hurt.
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That didn't hurt."
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And then he fell real hard, he said, "now, that hurt."
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That's me, "that didn't hurt.
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No, i'm good.
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No, i'm fine. praise the lord.
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Hm, no, everything--" suppressing, suppressing, hiding
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Behind scriptures, perfecting phoniness that i now, later on,
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Call "faith."
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And i was taking a walk one day, and the lord is just so good.
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He just knows how to ask the question.
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He said, "this latest thing that you've gone through, where your
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Friends don't want to have anything to do with you, where
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Nobody wants you to come and preach, and nobody wants to hear
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What you got to say, except world changers," all right?
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So--all right, listen.
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And he said, "did that slander hurt you?"
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And i was getting ready to deal with god like i dealt with
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Preachers and say, "oh, no, praise the lord.
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God is my strength."
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But i knew he knew me.
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I said, "yes, sir.
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It hurt.
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It hurt really bad."
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And something happened when i acknowledged the hurt.
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See, the hurt can be a seed.
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I acknowledge the hurt.
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And then the lord started giving me instructions.
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That's the first time he says, "i want you to start praying for
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Your enemies.
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Pray for those who slandered you."
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And it started softening my heart, and i was being healed of
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The hurt.
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I walked in that day and i told taffi, i said, "taffi, god asked
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Me did all the slander hurt me?"
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She said, "what did he--what did you say?"
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I said "yes."
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She said, "good, because it hurt me, too!"
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And i'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, you should
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Acknowledge this.
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Now, why does it matter for you to acknowledge it?
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Because unacknowledged pain turns into bitterness, while
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Acknowledged pain turns into a seed of healing.
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Unacknowledged pain turns into bitterness, while acknowledged
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Pain turns into a seed of healing.
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That's where it starts.
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That's where it starts, right there at that particular point.
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Creflo Dollar - Don't Let Offense Derail Your Journey

July 9, 2026 | 27:29

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