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Creflo Dollar - Experience God's Glory In The Midst of Discomfort

December 12, 2024 | S24:E1212

Creflo Dollar - Experience God's Glory In The Midst of Discomfort
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Experience God's Glory In The Midst of Discomfort | December 12, 2024
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: whatever horrible, secret thing you've
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  • Been holding that pushed you out of the church, and maybe that's
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  • The only reason why you watch online and won't come back, your
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  • Crazy is not strong enough to overcome his infinite,
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  • Eternal love!
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  • He will not let you go!
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  • You cannot divorce god!
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  • He gonna keep showing up.
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  • You go to the bar to get drunk, he gonna show up.
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  • If you go to a strip club, he gonna show it up.
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  • He gonna keep showing up.
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  • You are not gonna push him out.
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  • Divorcing god is not as easy as it is divorcing your human mate.
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  • ♪ this is your world ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed ♪♪
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of 1
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  • Peter chapter 5, we have been, been digging into this series.
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  • I think this is the last installment for today, or for
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  • Today, but next week is another story, huh?
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  • Now, you know there's gotta be something to this.
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  • It's like you can't just throw all those scriptures away that
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  • In this world you'll have tribulation.
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  • "they that live godly shall suffer persecution."
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  • I mean, it's too many places, you know, the trial of your
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  • Faith being much more precious than gold.
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  • So what are we to do with the trouble, the trials, the
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  • Persecution, the suffering that is to come our way?
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  • We certainly don't ignore it and say, "well, you know, ignore
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  • That because, you know, if you're experiencing any of that,
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  • Then your faith is just not right."
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  • That's-- you know he's not saying that.
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  • I mean, what--you can't say that and look at the life of peter.
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  • You can't say that and look at the life of paul.
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  • You can't say that and look at the life of jeremiah and david
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  • And all of the emotional and physical attacks, and trials,
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  • And tribulations.
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  • So you have to dig into the fact that there's a purpose for this.
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  • 1 peter 5 and 10 says, "but the god of all grace," let me read
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  • That in the nlt, the god of all grace: "in his kindness god
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  • Called you to share in his eternal glory by means of
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • So after you have suffered a little while, then he'll restore
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  • And then he'll support, and then he'll strengthen you, and he'll
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  • Place on you a firm foundation.
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  • That's glory.
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  • He says after you have suffered a little while, you're gonna
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  • Experience some glory.
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  • You're gonna experience word manifestations, some
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  • Manifestations of his promises and manifestations of his power.
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  • Now, understanding that you're going to, in this life,
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  • Especially if you live godly, you're going to experience
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  • Tribulation, persecution, trials, how do you handle them?
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  • Now, my issue today is not to talk about where they came from.
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  • All i know is they're being permitted, and if they're being
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  • Permitted, they're being permitted for a purpose.
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  • And we are not to just sit in the midst of trouble, and trial,
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  • And suffering and just kinda take it.
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  • No, our job is to resist anything that doesn't line up
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  • With the victory that jesus died to obtain.
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  • We resist it, and we resist it because we're maintaining the
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  • Victory in the midst of the trial.
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  • We're maintaining the victory in the midst of the trouble.
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  • We're maintaining the victory in the midst of the tribulation.
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  • That's our job, maintain healing even though sickness is touching
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  • Your body.
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  • Maintain righteousness even though there's a doubt and the
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  • Temptation that you are righteous.
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  • That's the job, you maintain that, okay?
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  • And by maintaining it, it's like we're doing this by faith
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  • Because grace is going to show up in the midst of discomfort.
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  • And either way, you're gonna have to understand faith because
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  • Of what we're about to read in romans 5 and 2, romans 5 and 2.
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  • He says, "because of our faith, christ has brought unto us this
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  • Place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we
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  • Confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing god's glory."
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  • Now look at that in the king james.
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  • Because of our faith, everything that grace has made available,
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  • Grace is a gift, okay?
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  • It's something you can't earn or even deserve.
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  • That's why he said "undeserved favor."
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  • He says, "by whom also we have access by faith into this grace
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  • Wherein we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of god."
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  • Today you're gonna see every time grace showed up, the glory
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  • Showed up.
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  • And i'm not talking about some mystical mist that
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  • Floats around.
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  • I'm talking about the promises of god being manifested in
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  • Your life.
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  • That's glorious, man.
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  • That's glorious, praise the lord.
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  • He says we access by faith this grace of god.
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  • Now, let's take just a moment and let's examine this issue of
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  • Faith, because we've got to kinda know what it is.
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  • We have to know what it is.
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  • Faith, we access--and notice, this faith is used, is to be
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  • Used to access what grace has made available.
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  • This faith is to be used to lay hold of what grace has
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  • Made available.
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  • We were saved by what?
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  • Grace.
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  • So salvation is a gift of grace. salvation is a work of grace.
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  • We have been saved by grace, but how did we, how did we access
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  • The salvation?
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  • By our faith.
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  • It's pretty important for us to understand what this is and not
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  • To misunderstand it, okay?
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  • And so, the first thing i wanna show you is the fact that in
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  • Galatians 5 and 6, he tells us really the background of how our
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  • Faith is gonna work, and this is, this is very important.
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  • He says, "for in jesus christ neither circumcision availeth
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  • Any thing, nor uncircumcision," watch this phrase, "faith which
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  • Worketh by love," faith which worketh by love.
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  • Now, i need to access grace, and remember grace is a person.
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  • His name is jesus.
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  • Grace is not just a curriculum.
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  • Grace is a person, jesus, full of grace and truth.
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  • And start looking at that.
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  • I mean, even when they caught the woman in adultery, everybody
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  • There was under the law 'cause they were trying to stone her
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  • Under the law.
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  • And then, they looked up, and they, they asked grace,
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  • A person.
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  • They asked grace, a person, jesus, jesus.
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  • They asked jesus a question.
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  • They asked grace a question: "what do you have to say about
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  • This woman being stoned?"
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  • She was caught in act of adultery.
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  • Everybody know that.
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  • She was caught in the very act.
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  • The law, everybody in there was operating by the law.
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  • The law asked grace a question. [speaking in tongues]
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  • "what do you think should be done?"
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  • And grace bent down and doodled on the ground.
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  • And grace stood up and said, "you who are without sin," now,
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  • They were under the law, so we know they had sin.
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  • You can't be under the law and not have sin.
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  • See, we look at people in dark--we look at people in sin
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  • And say they're in darkness, but people who live under the law,
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  • They're in darkness.
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  • Because the bible says in 1 corinthians 15 that "the law is
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  • The strength of sin."
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  • They go together.
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  • Excuse me, i sound a little collipark this morning.
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  • All right, so, grace stood up and spoke to all of those under
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  • The law and said, "those of you who have no sin, go ahead and
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  • Stone her."
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  • What he was saying was "those of you who are living by the law,
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  • 'cause the only reason you're getting ready to stone her is
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  • Because the law says if you commit adultery to stone her."
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  • He said, "go ahead and stone her according to the law if you
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  • Don't have no sin," and every last one of 'em dropped their
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  • Stone, the old people first because they knew they had
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  • Plenty of sin.
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  • And then the younger ones later on dropped it and nobody
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  • Was there.
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  • And grace said to the woman who was just caught in an act of
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  • Adultery, "is there anybody here left to condemn you, the law?
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  • Is there any law left to condemn you?"
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  • She said, "no."
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  • And grace said, "neither do i condemn you."
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  • But if the law was still here, the law would still be
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  • Condemning you, but grace is here and he said, "neither do i
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  • Condemn you."
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  • And now that grace has given you the free gift of no
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  • Condemnation, you can now conquer sin, "go and sin no
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  • More," because you no longer see yourself as inadequate,
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  • Insecure, nothing, and not enough.
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  • Grace has shown up to give you the strength to do what you
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  • Could not do under the law.
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  • It's all over the new testament.
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  • But by faith, she had to get it.
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  • Faith works by love.
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  • And then immediately, by the law, we say.
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  • 'cause here's what the law does.
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  • The law--oh my god, help me, lord jesus.
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  • Whatever is done by grace, the work of grace, doesn't need your
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  • Help, but under the law, the law is all about your help.
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  • The law is all about what you do.
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  • Grace is all about the work of god.
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  • So when you read the scripture, immediately, you think, "faith
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  • Works by how much i love god."
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  • And then we preach, you gotta love god if your faith don't
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  • Work, 'cause if you don't love god, look there, we're preaching
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  • The to-do.
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  • We're preaching, "you gotta work."
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  • See, we don't really believe that god is doing the work under
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  • This, and i see the issue if you don't know how to rightly divide
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  • The word of truth.
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  • In the new testament, when it says "the word of god," it's
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  • Making reference to the word of grace.
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  • In the old testament, when it makes reference to the word of
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  • God, it's making reference to the word of the law.
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  • And if you don't know how to rightly divide between what was
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  • True under the old agreement verse what is true under the new
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  • Agreement, you will operate in mixtures.
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  • And then you'll go around and you will say, "faith worketh by
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  • How much you love god, and if you don't love god," now watch
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  • The condemnation showing up.
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  • In the days that i'm not loving god the way i think i need to
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  • Love god in comparison to how somebody else is loving god,
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  • Condemnation comes, i'm not enough.
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  • Shame comes, i'm not enough.
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  • Guilt comes, the same thing that came on peter when jesus was
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  • Crucified on the cross and he left.
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  • He like, "i'm over it, i'm over it, man."
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  • He feels so guilty, full of shame, and he's waddling in
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  • Guilt and condemnation on the beach because all of the stupid
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  • Stuff he did.
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  • He didn't--he can't believe he denied jesus three times.
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  • He can't believe that he got up there and told jesus, you know,
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  • "oh lord, you will not die."
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  • And jesus said, "satan, you know, i"--he can't believe he
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  • Did all that.
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  • But peter represents us, all the dumb stuff we did.
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  • But he went and just walk--and you know what jesus did?
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  • Jesus found him, and he said, "hey, you love me?"
  • 00:13:42.601 --> 00:13:49.441
  • Now, it was easy to respond to that because jesus found him.
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  • Jesus found him.
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  • "you love me?
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  • Then get up and preach.
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  • Get up and teach.
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  • I ain't gonna let you go.
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  • I ain't mad at you.
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  • I'll never let you go, peter."
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  • Jesus was showing him love that he didn't even know about.
  • 00:14:06.592 --> 00:14:13.299
  • So it's not about how much you love god.
  • 00:14:13.299 --> 00:14:18.337
  • Notice the whole church is doing that, "how much you love god?"
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  • "you don't love god if you do that.
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  • You don't love god.
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  • Why don't you love god?"
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  • No, no, no.
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  • This is not about that.
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  • In context, this is about you believing how much god
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  • Loves you.
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  • 1 john 4:19, flip there, 1 john 4:19.
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  • You can't love god unless god equips you to love him.
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  • Watch this, verse 19: "we love him," how is that so?
  • 00:14:42.795 --> 00:14:47.733
  • "because he first loved us."
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  • And the day you realize how much god loves you, when you know how
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  • Much god loves you, faith is not a problem, because you believe
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  • He loves you, and because you believe he loves you, you
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  • Believe he gonna do what he said.
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  • You believe god loves you, you believe he'll heal you, you
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  • Believe you're righteous, you believe that you're redeemed,
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  • You believe and all the finished works, why?
  • 00:15:13.058 --> 00:15:15.561
  • 'cause you believe god loves you.
  • 00:15:15.561 --> 00:15:17.663
  • Well, how did you get to the point where you believe god
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  • Loves you?
  • 00:15:19.598 --> 00:15:20.966
  • Because he loved me first.
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  • He died for me.
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  • He--look at what he did.
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  • He shed his blood for me.
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  • He came to this earth for me.
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  • He loved me first so i can love him, and when i believe he loves
  • 00:15:29.308 --> 00:15:35.214
  • Me, then faith can work because i love him, and i believe that
  • 00:15:35.214 --> 00:15:41.854
  • He loves me.
  • 00:15:41.854 --> 00:15:43.222
  • So faith doesn't come by how much you love jesus.
  • 00:15:43.222 --> 00:15:45.724
  • Faith comes by you believing he loves you.
  • 00:15:45.724 --> 00:15:48.927
  • So when you miss it, do you believe god still loves you?
  • 00:15:48.927 --> 00:15:51.563
  • You see what the devil is doing?
  • 00:15:51.563 --> 00:15:52.898
  • When you miss it, the first question you ask myself, "well,
  • 00:15:52.898 --> 00:15:55.300
  • God don't love me no more."
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  • Do you actually think your little crazy
  • 00:15:56.635 --> 00:15:59.638
  • Gonna stop god love?
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  • If your crazy could stop god's love, god's love is weak.
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  • Oh, i gotta get with this.
  • 00:16:06.678 --> 00:16:08.047
  • If your adultery could stop god's love, then god's love
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  • Is weak.
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  • Whatever horrible, secret thing you've been holding that pushed
  • 00:16:12.785 --> 00:16:17.723
  • You out of the church, and maybe that's the only reason why you
  • 00:16:17.723 --> 00:16:20.659
  • Watch online and won't come back, your crazy is not strong
  • 00:16:20.659 --> 00:16:25.531
  • Enough to overcome his infinite eternal love!
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  • He will not let you go!
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  • You cannot divorce god!
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  • He gonna keep showing up.
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  • You go to the bar to get drunk, he gonna show up.
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  • If you go to the strip club, he gonna show it up.
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  • He gonna keep showing up.
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  • You are not gonna push him out.
  • 00:16:41.547 --> 00:16:43.182
  • Divorcing god is not as easy as it is divorcing your human mate,
  • 00:16:43.182 --> 00:16:48.320
  • Because when god, when god marries you, he gets wrapped up,
  • 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:53.092
  • And tied up, and knitted in, and tangled up, and you can't get
  • 00:16:53.092 --> 00:16:57.129
  • Rid of him because he becomes a part of your life and your dna.
  • 00:16:57.129 --> 00:17:01.300
  • He made you.
  • 00:17:01.300 --> 00:17:05.904
  • You can't get rid of him, and he not going nowhere.
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  • He ain't going nowhere, hallelujah.
  • 00:17:12.177 --> 00:17:17.483
  • So when i step out on a promise, i step out knowing god loves me.
  • 00:17:17.483 --> 00:17:24.623
  • When i start walking in faith on something, i'm walking in the
  • 00:17:24.623 --> 00:17:28.393
  • Knowledge that god loves me.
  • 00:17:28.393 --> 00:17:30.729
  • God loves me.
  • 00:17:30.729 --> 00:17:32.097
  • That's why he gonna do that.
  • 00:17:32.097 --> 00:17:33.832
  • God loves me. that's why there's gonna be--
  • 00:17:33.832 --> 00:17:36.135
  • So in the midst of discomfort, discomfort is designed to cause
  • 00:17:36.135 --> 00:17:40.339
  • You to get into questionings.
  • 00:17:40.339 --> 00:17:43.542
  • There's a difference between asking a question
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  • And questioning.
  • 00:17:45.344 --> 00:17:47.079
  • Questionings always end up in doubt.
  • 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:50.182
  • "well, if the lord was so powerful, then why did he let
  • 00:17:50.182 --> 00:17:52.818
  • That happen?"
  • 00:17:52.818 --> 00:17:54.153
  • See, you're questioning him.
  • 00:17:54.153 --> 00:17:55.521
  • What you're saying is "i am doubting him because that didn't
  • 00:17:55.521 --> 00:17:58.757
  • Work out the way i thought it worked out," questionings.
  • 00:17:58.757 --> 00:18:02.694
  • So when we read, you know, somebody told you a long time
  • 00:18:02.694 --> 00:18:05.063
  • Ago, "it's sin to question god."
  • 00:18:05.063 --> 00:18:07.032
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:18:07.032 --> 00:18:08.367
  • People ask him questions the whole time.
  • 00:18:08.367 --> 00:18:09.735
  • Mary asked a question.
  • 00:18:09.735 --> 00:18:11.069
  • When they showed up, angel showed up and said, "mary,
  • 00:18:11.069 --> 00:18:12.538
  • You're gonna get pregnant without having sex."
  • 00:18:12.538 --> 00:18:13.906
  • Mary said, "i gotta question.
  • 00:18:13.906 --> 00:18:18.744
  • How is this gonna happen seeing i know not a man?"
  • 00:18:18.744 --> 00:18:23.115
  • And you know, he answered her question.
  • 00:18:23.115 --> 00:18:24.716
  • "the holy ghost."
  • 00:18:24.716 --> 00:18:27.186
  • So he's not talking about asking a question.
  • 00:18:27.186 --> 00:18:28.620
  • He's talking about questioning in doubt.
  • 00:18:28.620 --> 00:18:36.495
  • Look at this illustration in deuteronomy chapter 1:26
  • 00:18:36.495 --> 00:18:39.364
  • Through 28.
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  • Man, i thought i was gonna finish this today.
  • 00:18:40.866 --> 00:18:42.234
  • It don't look like this gonna happen.
  • 00:18:42.234 --> 00:18:44.870
  • Deuteronomy 1:26 and 28.
  • 00:18:44.870 --> 00:18:47.739
  • He said, "notwithstanding ye would not go up, but you
  • 00:18:47.739 --> 00:18:51.243
  • Rebelled against the commandment of the lord your god."
  • 00:18:51.243 --> 00:18:56.048
  • Now i ask, even during the time of the law, what would move
  • 00:18:56.048 --> 00:18:59.751
  • Somebody to rebel against god?
  • 00:18:59.751 --> 00:19:03.188
  • He says, "you murmured in your tent."
  • 00:19:03.188 --> 00:19:05.157
  • Well, that's happening.
  • 00:19:05.157 --> 00:19:07.993
  • Why, why are you doing this?
  • 00:19:07.993 --> 00:19:10.495
  • "'cause the lord hated us," think of that, they believe that
  • 00:19:10.495 --> 00:19:15.200
  • God hated 'em, "and he's brought us forth out of the land of
  • 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:19.304
  • Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the amorites
  • 00:19:19.304 --> 00:19:23.242
  • To destroy us."
  • 00:19:23.242 --> 00:19:24.643
  • Think about the life of the person who's wrapped up in all
  • 00:19:24.643 --> 00:19:27.279
  • Kinds of sinful behavior and empathy would move us as
  • 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:31.984
  • Christians to ask, "how did this person get like this?"
  • 00:19:31.984 --> 00:19:36.021
  • And they got like this because they thought god hated 'em.
  • 00:19:36.021 --> 00:19:43.228
  • They thought that whatever they did in the booth in the back in
  • 00:19:43.228 --> 00:19:46.265
  • The corner of this dark, it--god, god don't like 'em
  • 00:19:46.265 --> 00:19:49.268
  • No more.
  • 00:19:49.268 --> 00:19:50.602
  • God don't.
  • 00:19:50.602 --> 00:19:51.970
  • God hated 'em.
  • 00:19:51.970 --> 00:19:53.305
  • Look what happens when a person believes that god hates him.
  • 00:19:53.305 --> 00:19:57.943
  • Look what happens when we keep preaching to people this, this,
  • 00:19:57.943 --> 00:20:02.648
  • This, this, this and--and god hates you.
  • 00:20:02.648 --> 00:20:10.922
  • And then people who got divorced thought that god hated them
  • 00:20:10.922 --> 00:20:13.625
  • 'cause they got a divorce.
  • 00:20:13.625 --> 00:20:16.328
  • God hates divorce because he knows what it does to people,
  • 00:20:16.328 --> 00:20:19.598
  • But he doesn't hate the people that get divorces.
  • 00:20:19.598 --> 00:20:24.069
  • He still loves you.
  • 00:20:24.069 --> 00:20:25.404
  • But somehow in the church, we've made people feel hated by god.
  • 00:20:25.404 --> 00:20:30.942
  • Somebody struggling in their sexuality, they feel like
  • 00:20:30.942 --> 00:20:33.278
  • They're hated by god.
  • 00:20:33.278 --> 00:20:36.548
  • The divorced person feels like they hated by god.
  • 00:20:36.548 --> 00:20:39.818
  • The girl who had an abortion, before she even knew god, you
  • 00:20:39.818 --> 00:20:43.955
  • Make 'em feel like they're hated by god.
  • 00:20:43.955 --> 00:20:47.259
  • The person that went to jail and had to spend some time in jail
  • 00:20:47.259 --> 00:20:50.329
  • Wants to come back to church, but he feels like he's hated
  • 00:20:50.329 --> 00:20:52.664
  • By god.
  • 00:20:52.664 --> 00:20:55.033
  • If a person from the preaching of the pulpit can feel like
  • 00:20:55.033 --> 00:20:58.170
  • They're hated by god, then your pulpit is in mount sinai and
  • 00:20:58.170 --> 00:21:02.708
  • Needs to be moved.
  • 00:21:02.708 --> 00:21:06.912
  • And i tell--let me tell you what i'm saying.
  • 00:21:06.912 --> 00:21:10.515
  • Because people will change if they know god still loves them,
  • 00:21:10.515 --> 00:21:16.288
  • And if you'll let jesus do the work.
  • 00:21:16.288 --> 00:21:21.159
  • He said, "some plants, some water," but this is where your
  • 00:21:21.159 --> 00:21:25.831
  • Work stops and his starts, but god gives the increase.
  • 00:21:25.831 --> 00:21:32.471
  • And i don't know about you, but i'm fed of, i'm fed up with
  • 00:21:32.471 --> 00:21:35.540
  • Teaching that comes from a pulpit that's located at the
  • 00:21:35.540 --> 00:21:40.379
  • Bottom of mount sinai, where the law was given.
  • 00:21:40.379 --> 00:21:46.084
  • I want to hear from a pulpit.
  • 00:21:46.084 --> 00:21:53.125
  • You already know, so you finish the sentence in your own head.
  • 00:21:53.125 --> 00:21:57.529
  • But that's what's going on right now.
  • 00:21:57.529 --> 00:21:59.998
  • People like, "i don't wanna come to church and keep hearing
  • 00:21:59.998 --> 00:22:03.468
  • Sermons from mount sinai.
  • 00:22:03.468 --> 00:22:08.840
  • I want to hear something from the grace of god that says, 'god
  • 00:22:08.840 --> 00:22:16.381
  • Ain't gonna ever let go of you.
  • 00:22:16.381 --> 00:22:17.749
  • He gonna use all that.
  • 00:22:17.749 --> 00:22:20.852
  • He loves you so much.
  • 00:22:20.852 --> 00:22:23.355
  • You're not gonna be able to run him away.'"
  • 00:22:23.355 --> 00:22:25.757
  • And you know the shocking thing about it?
  • 00:22:25.757 --> 00:22:27.459
  • You look up and people's lives are changing and have changed
  • 00:22:27.459 --> 00:22:33.331
  • Because they heard a message from mount zion, and we still
  • 00:22:33.331 --> 00:22:40.472
  • Don't get that.
  • 00:22:40.472 --> 00:22:42.974
  • We still got to preach because we're scared if we don't try to
  • 00:22:42.974 --> 00:22:46.511
  • Put fear in you that you won't change, and so we preach
  • 00:22:46.511 --> 00:22:50.615
  • Messages of fear so you'll change.
  • 00:22:50.615 --> 00:22:54.052
  • You know, god don't like ugly.
  • 00:22:54.052 --> 00:22:55.420
  • And i love this one, i was telling ken about it.
  • 00:22:55.420 --> 00:22:57.255
  • It irritated me so much, i couldn't hardly work out.
  • 00:22:57.255 --> 00:22:59.925
  • Whenever the preacher wants you to really do something, they'll
  • 00:22:59.925 --> 00:23:03.028
  • Say, "and by the way, that's a commandment!
  • 00:23:03.028 --> 00:23:10.602
  • That's not an option, that's a commandment!"
  • 00:23:10.602 --> 00:23:13.238
  • "all right, so, now i'm supposed to do it
  • 00:23:13.238 --> 00:23:14.973
  • 'cause it's a commandment?
  • 00:23:14.973 --> 00:23:16.842
  • My mama taught me the ten commandments, i still ain't
  • 00:23:16.842 --> 00:23:18.910
  • Doing 'em.
  • 00:23:18.910 --> 00:23:20.245
  • My knowledge, my knowledge of knowing that's a commandment is
  • 00:23:20.245 --> 00:23:23.849
  • Not gonna change me!"
  • 00:23:23.849 --> 00:23:29.821
  • I seriously need to calm down.
  • 00:23:29.821 --> 00:23:37.796
  • "faith worketh by love."
  • 00:23:37.796 --> 00:23:40.499
  • Faith can't work when you think that discomfort is a--is proof
  • 00:23:40.499 --> 00:23:48.640
  • That god hates you.
  • 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.509
  • If you think your discomfort is proof that god hates you, faith
  • 00:23:50.509 --> 00:23:54.212
  • Can't work.
  • 00:23:54.212 --> 00:23:55.714
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  • We invite you to join us today.
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  • Text "2020partner" to 51555 to become a 2020 vision
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  • Partner today.
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  • Male announcer: because of you, creflo dollar ministries
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  • Is providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change
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  • In the lives of millions of people every day.
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  • Thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you, in part, by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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