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Creflo Dollar - Experiencing God's Glory In The Midst Of Discomfort

January 4, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Experiencing God's Glory In The Midst Of Discomfort
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Experiencing God's Glory In The Midst Of Discomfort | January 4, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: god has promised us that grace--three things:
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  • His presence will be there, his power will be there, and his
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  • Provision will be there.
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  • When you go through any kind of suffering, those things
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  • Are guaranteed.
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  • His presence is gonna be there.
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  • Now see, we've been playing church for so long we think his
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  • Presence is the really googoo-gaga feeling.
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  • I don't want no googoo-gaga feeling, i want help in the time
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  • Of trouble.
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  • And that's where the provision comes in there.
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  • See, i might still be in the fire, but the provision says
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  • Your clothes are not gonna be burned, neither will i allow
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  • Them to have the smell of smoke.
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  • That only can come from god's provision.
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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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  • ♪ your love is here to stay ♪
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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: faith worketh by love.
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  • Faith can't work when you think that discomfort is proof that
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  • God hates you.
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  • If you think your discomfort is proof that god hates you, faith
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  • Can't work.
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  • What you've been going through, are you convinced that god
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  • Hates you?
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  • "i mean, look at me.
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  • Look at me, i'm struggling, i'm divorced, i got these children,"
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  • And the devil wants to use all that.
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  • You're in discomfort, and i'm teaching this series because you
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  • Gotta respond differently to discomfort.
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  • Because what you're saying is, "i'm in discomfort and i'm
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  • Trying to find comfort."
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  • And god wants to mature you in the midst of that discomfort,
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  • But if you struggle to try to find comfort by any means
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  • Necessary, you might find yourself in another addictive
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  • Bondage because you just want comfort.
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  • "oh, i'm in discomfort, so i go get drunk to try to
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  • Get comfort."
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  • Then you become an alcoholic.
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  • "oh, i feel like i'm in discomfort, you know?
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  • I've been fooling around sexually all my life and i feel
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  • Like i'm in discomfort."
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  • And then you go and, you know, you go spend a little money for
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  • It now, and now he wakes up that worst habit.
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  • And i believe what we have to do as christians is we've got to
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  • Change the question from, "why me?"
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  • To, "what is you want me to get out of this?"
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  • How should i mature out of this?
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  • Because god is serious about your maturity.
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  • I don't know what it is that he is so serious about us maturing,
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  • But you gotta mature.
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  • And if you're still holding unforgiveness, that's a sign
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  • Of immaturity.
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  • If you're still, you know, in strife, if you're still holding
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  • Onto unforgiveness and then it comes out with bitterness, all
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  • That's baby stuff.
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  • So discomfort will be permitted to help you grow and mature.
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  • I know when i went through the crazy physical attack on my
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  • Body, i am more empathetic towards people who are in pain.
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  • I am more empathetic towards people who go to the doctor and
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  • They say, "you have cancer."
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  • I am more empathetic to people who have the trauma of
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  • Wondering, "am i gonna be here this time next year?"
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  • It's so easy for us to be judgmental of people until they
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  • Come to your house.
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  • Yeah, something happens differently until it shows up in
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  • Your house.
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  • All of a sudden, your former political views begin to melt a
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  • Little bit because you didn't really know what this was about
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  • Until it showed up in your house, in your family, in
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  • Your marriage.
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  • Faith is my positive response to what grace has made available.
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  • That's what it is.
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  • Faith is me responding positively to what grace has
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  • Already made available.
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  • Grace has made righteousness available, so my faith responds,
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  • "i'm righteous."
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  • Grace has made healing available, and even when your
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  • Body is under attack, i respond, "i'm healed."
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  • Grace, whatever it has done, and it has done everything that
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  • Pertains to life and godliness, my faith is my response to what
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  • Grace is made available.
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  • How are you responding to jesus?
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  • Are you responding to jesus in complete dependence or are you
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  • Responding to jesus with, "yeah, i know you did that but now i
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  • Can help by doing these two things."
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  • Faith is your response to what grace has made available.
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  • Let me give you an illustration.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians chapter 4:13, 2 corinthians
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  • Chapter 4:13.
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  • This is how i respond in the midst of discomfort and pain.
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  • Now look at this.
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  • He says, "we having the same spirit of faith, according as it
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  • Is written," he said, "i believed," everybody say, "i
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  • Believed," "and therefore have i spoken; we also believe, and
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  • Therefore we speak."
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  • See, i'm not speaking the word to try to be magical.
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  • I'm speaking the word because i'm responding to what
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  • I believe.
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  • I believe in what grace has made available, so i'm gonna say out
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  • Loud, "i'm healed."
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  • I believe what grace has made available, so i'm gonna say out
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  • Loud, "i'm the righteousness of god."
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  • I'm not saying that trying to be magical, i'm saying it because i
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  • Believe it, praise god.
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  • I believe that i'm blessed, i believe that i'm protected, i
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  • Believe in the promises that he made, and i believe that he
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  • Loved me, so i'm gonna respond in faith, and my response is
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  • Gonna be, "if i believe it, i'm gonna say it."
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  • So when you hear me saying stuff that may be scriptural, when you
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  • Hear me saying stuff, i'm not saying it to try to be deep.
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  • "i'm saying it because i believe it."
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  • That's my response.
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  • Y'all see what i'm doing?
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  • Because, you know, there have been times in my past i've said
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  • Stuff, i ain't believe it.
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  • And i found that that's not too bad, because it's something
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  • About if you keep saying a thing, you'll talk yourself
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  • Into it.
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  • You'll talk yourself into it.
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  • Because, man, when shingles was knocking me down--because that
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  • Nerve pain went from my spine to my brain, i said, "i'm healed."
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  • I'm like, "lord, help me believe."
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  • You remember that guy who said, "lord, i believe, but help
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  • My unbelief."
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  • I was believing until it knocked me down.
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  • Help my unbelief, i was believing, it didn't knock me
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  • Down, help my unbelief.
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  • But after a while, i was like saying, "i ain't got time for no
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  • More unbelief.
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  • I just--i believe."
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  • Are you listening to me now?
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  • Now, i want to show you something now.
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  • Romans 4:18 through 21 in the king james, and then i wanna
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  • Talk to you about how grace will manifest itself.
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  • I got one more thing to say about faith, but i wanna show
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  • You how grace will manifest itself through suffering,
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  • Through tribulations, through trial.
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  • You can expect it.
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  • In fact, some people say, well, the glory of god didn't show up
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  • Until the atmosphere was charged for the glory.
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  • Honey, i'm telling you, grace will show up and go to work for
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  • You in the craziest situation in your life.
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  • There will be some grace there.
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  • Notice the fourth man didn't show up while they were chilling
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  • On the beach, he showed up when they got put in the
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  • Fiery furnace.
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  • God has promised us that grace-- three things; his presence will
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  • Be there, his power will be there, and his provision will
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  • Be there.
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  • When you go through any kind of suffering, those things
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  • Are guaranteed.
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  • His presence is gonna be there.
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  • Now see, we've been playing church for so long we think his
  • 00:10:06.808 --> 00:10:09.811
  • Presence is the really googoo-gaga feeling.
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  • I don't want no googoo-gaga feeling, i want help in the time
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  • Of trouble.
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  • And that's where the provision comes in there.
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  • See, i might still be in the fire, but the provision says
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  • Your clothes not gonna be burned, neither will i allow
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  • Them to have the smell of smoke.
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  • That only can come from god's provision.
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  • He didn't take away the fire, but he was providing for you
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  • While you was walking through the fire.
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  • Hallelujah, glory to god.
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  • And some of y'all are walking through the fire right now and
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  • You wonder, "god, why don't you take this from me?"
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  • He says, "no, i'm gonna work something in the midst of this.
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  • We gonna keep the fire, but you gonna learn that there's a
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  • Fourth man that will show up every time you get in your fire.
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  • And when you come out, you're gonna be looking for that
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  • Fourth man."
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  • I know this goes against all of the little cutie cutie religion
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  • Stuff you done heard in your-- in the church, all the little
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  • Cutie cutie, little fable things you've heard.
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  • That ain't true because people don't even read the bible
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  • No more.
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  • They up there declaring stuff nationwide that ain't even in
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  • The bible.
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  • They misinterpreted the scripture.
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  • It ain't even in the bible.
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  • I remember i told this guy one time, he was in the midst of
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  • Preaching to a bunch of ministers.
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  • I was like, "that ain't in the bible."
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  • I said, you know--he said, "who can," something about, "who can,
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  • You know, being able to walk without any challenge and sin?"
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  • I said, "nobody."
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  • And he called and said, "yeah, that's right.
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  • Nobody, nobody."
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  • "well, the lord will not dwell in filthy vessels."
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  • Ain't no other kind.
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  • And i know that offends you because somewhere in your head
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  • You think you are a clean vessel.
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  • But if you was clean, the holy ghost wouldn't have to be
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  • Dwelling in you because you already clean.
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  • And i keep trying to tell you to quit buying that story you
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  • Tell yourself.
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  • "i'm the clean vessel."
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  • No you ain't, you as dirty as everybody else in here and
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  • That's why we need a permanent ajax to live in us and to walk
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  • In us and to abide in us and to constantly cleanse us.
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  • But you done bought that religious favor, you think
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  • You're good.
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  • You, you--i just, like, have had it with people who
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  • Can't read.
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  • Okay, where am i?
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  • Okay, so i'm gonna say this real quick.
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  • Oh my goodness,
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  • I'm trying to stay up here but i just, you
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  • Know, i'm on the edge right here.
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  • Good god. hey!
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  • I want--i need y'all to say this to me.
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  • Say, "sweet lips increase learning."
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  • What kind of lips?
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  • Now say this, "pastor dollar, you heard that?"
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  • Yes, i did.
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  • Yes, i did. sweet lips increase learning.
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  • So, and i'm trying not to have a breakdown moment on this because
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  • This is how awesome he is.
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  • So in the old covenant of the law, the old agreement of the
  • 00:14:15.456 --> 00:14:20.528
  • Law, we had to do the work in order to reap the benefit.
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  • If you do good, you get good, right?
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  • If you are obedient [speaking in tongues]
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  • If you are obedient to the law, then you get blessed.
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  • You know, that's even different in the new covenant?
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  • There's an obedience to the law, then there's an obedience to
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  • The faith.
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  • In the new cov--old covenant, obedience to the law is what you
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  • Carry out in your commitment to do what the law tells you to do.
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  • But in the new covenant, obedience to faith is your
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  • Believing in what jesus has done.
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  • Now, so god's allowing us to do the work we had to do, we didn't
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  • Have to do it, but exodus 19:8, when moses presented the law to
  • 00:15:22.490 --> 00:15:27.495
  • Children of israel.
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  • Exodus 19:8, here's how they responded, "we can do all
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  • You said."
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  • The creator of everything, including man, had never seen
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  • Such prideful arrogance.
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  • Everything god ever created depends on him completely for
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  • Everything they do.
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  • The birds, the vegetation, everything--the earth,
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  • Everything he created depends on him, including man.
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  • Until adam declared independence from god, "we don't need him,
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  • You can be just like him."
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  • That's where it started.
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  • It started in the garden of eden when they said, "i am like god,
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  • So i don't need god," and they declared independence from god.
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  • So you see, the situation is the situation of man now having more
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  • Confidence in himself than he does in god.
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  • So i can keep this, no problem.
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  • And so here is why he gave the law.
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  • The law is perfect, the law is flawless, the law represents
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  • God's perfect character, and he gives the law to a fallen man.
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  • And they said, "we got it."
  • 00:17:04.025 --> 00:17:07.261
  • And if you'll read exodus 19 on to chapter 20 and 21, all hell
  • 00:17:07.261 --> 00:17:12.533
  • Broke loose.
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  • Don't touch the mountain, don't even touch the bottom of it or
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  • You will die.
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  • You think you can keep these laws as perfect as they are?
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  • Do you know the number of people that died just because
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  • They murmured?
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  • You know how many--do you know the millions that died under
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  • The law?
  • 00:17:28.883 --> 00:17:30.251
  • See, they're not teaching that to you--and look at the bible,
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  • All the stuff that happened, all them people died.
  • 00:17:33.321 --> 00:17:37.258
  • You know, some people died because they wouldn't give glory
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  • To god and wouldn't give thanksgiving to him?
  • 00:17:40.728 --> 00:17:46.167
  • And they said they could do it.
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  • Man was trying to operate independent of god.
  • 00:17:48.436 --> 00:17:53.708
  • And you know, that's what's happening in some of the church
  • 00:17:53.708 --> 00:17:55.810
  • Circles today?
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  • We got this, i have faith in my faith.
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  • We got this, and we still try to do it based on how we can
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  • Work it.
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  • And you failed miserably in the old testament, to such a point
  • 00:18:12.860 --> 00:18:17.999
  • Hebrews 8 says that "he says, 'i found fault with that
  • 00:18:17.999 --> 00:18:23.938
  • First covenant.
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  • That's why i'm gonna give you a better covenant.
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  • Because that first covenant, too many people died because they
  • 00:18:31.712 --> 00:18:36.584
  • Could not do it independent of me.
  • 00:18:36.584 --> 00:18:41.322
  • But in this covenant, i'm going to do the work.
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  • It's gonna be my work,' and he says, 'and all of mankind will
  • 00:18:49.597 --> 00:18:55.469
  • Be my workmanship.'"
  • 00:18:55.469 --> 00:18:58.139
  • So god said, in this covenant, i'm gonna go to work on you.
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  • I'm gonna write the law on your heart.
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  • I'm gonna make you, i'm gonna forgive you, i'm gonna do the
  • 00:19:06.714 --> 00:19:10.184
  • Work, i'm gonna save you.
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  • Stuff we get on this new covenant we didn't have on the
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  • Old covenant.
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  • So here's the thing that blew my mind.
  • 00:19:16.824 --> 00:19:18.359
  • I don't know where my head, maybe in my religious
  • 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.695
  • Traditional head, i never quite saw god, like, accepting full
  • 00:19:20.695 --> 00:19:26.867
  • Responsibility for the work on me.
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  • I thought i get saved and now come to church and get all
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  • The rules.
  • 00:19:37.411 --> 00:19:39.180
  • I get saved and i come to church and i employ the law to keep
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  • What grace gave me.
  • 00:19:44.952 --> 00:19:47.688
  • You didn't hear what i just said.
  • 00:19:47.688 --> 00:19:49.590
  • You were saved by grace, but you employed the law to try to keep
  • 00:19:49.590 --> 00:19:55.329
  • What you got by grace.
  • 00:19:55.329 --> 00:19:58.499
  • In other words, you employed the law to sustain life that you got
  • 00:19:58.499 --> 00:20:04.438
  • By grace, but the law has no sustaining power.
  • 00:20:04.438 --> 00:20:13.814
  • The law can't sustain life.
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  • The law can't even give life.
  • 00:20:16.117 --> 00:20:18.753
  • If the law could give life, there would be no need for
  • 00:20:18.753 --> 00:20:21.555
  • A savior.
  • 00:20:21.555 --> 00:20:23.257
  • Yeah, ya'll didn't hear what i'm saying.
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  • I believe i was teaching this past week in, i think it was
  • 00:20:25.226 --> 00:20:28.796
  • John chapter 6, where jesus said, "i am the bread of life."
  • 00:20:28.796 --> 00:20:37.772
  • He said, "my father gave you manna and you did eat."
  • 00:20:37.772 --> 00:20:42.977
  • Now manna is bread that sustains life.
  • 00:20:42.977 --> 00:20:49.016
  • But then he made this comment, "moses did not give you manna."
  • 00:20:49.016 --> 00:20:55.323
  • What is he saying?
  • 00:20:55.323 --> 00:20:56.691
  • Moses gave you the law.
  • 00:20:56.691 --> 00:20:58.025
  • Moses was a lawgiver.
  • 00:20:58.025 --> 00:20:59.627
  • Moses didn't give you manna.
  • 00:20:59.627 --> 00:21:01.028
  • If moses could have given you manna, something to sustain
  • 00:21:01.028 --> 00:21:04.465
  • Life, then maybe there's life under the law, but moses did not
  • 00:21:04.465 --> 00:21:09.503
  • Give you life.
  • 00:21:09.503 --> 00:21:10.971
  • Moses gave you the law, only god
  • 00:21:10.971 --> 00:21:15.343
  • Through grace can give you life.
  • 00:21:15.343 --> 00:21:17.611
  • So why are you trying to live by
  • 00:21:17.611 --> 00:21:19.380
  • Something that can't give you
  • 00:21:19.380 --> 00:21:20.981
  • Life, that can't sustain life?
  • 00:21:20.981 --> 00:21:23.117
  • It was grace that gave you salvation, it'll be grace that
  • 00:21:23.117 --> 00:21:27.021
  • Will sustain your salvation.
  • 00:21:27.021 --> 00:21:29.890
  • Grace sustains your salvation, not the law.
  • 00:21:29.890 --> 00:21:35.663
  • And what do we do?
  • 00:21:35.663 --> 00:21:37.565
  • We get saved and come to church and say, preacher, give me
  • 00:21:37.565 --> 00:21:41.369
  • The rules.
  • 00:21:41.369 --> 00:21:43.437
  • Give me some rules.
  • 00:21:43.437 --> 00:21:45.139
  • Can we drink?
  • 00:21:45.139 --> 00:21:49.810
  • What god say about that?
  • 00:21:49.810 --> 00:21:52.346
  • What about a little weed just to calm down?
  • 00:21:52.346 --> 00:21:56.016
  • Not much, but a little weed?
  • 00:21:56.016 --> 00:22:02.890
  • How many women can we have at a time?
  • 00:22:02.890 --> 00:22:04.759
  • David had some mistresses.
  • 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:06.494
  • Can we still have some mistresses?
  • 00:22:06.494 --> 00:22:14.101
  • "and a woman, a woman, by the way, that woman ought to be just
  • 00:22:14.101 --> 00:22:19.507
  • Satisfied that she got a good ol' god-fearing man.
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  • Everything else you need to shut your mouth about and be
  • 00:22:23.911 --> 00:22:28.215
  • Dominated by your god-fearing man, because if he's
  • 00:22:28.215 --> 00:22:31.585
  • God-fearing, domination won't hurt."
  • 00:22:31.585 --> 00:22:35.756
  • I heard a preacher say that, i actually heard somebody
  • 00:22:35.756 --> 00:22:37.691
  • Say that.
  • 00:22:37.691 --> 00:22:40.494
  • What are you trying to do?
  • 00:22:40.494 --> 00:22:41.829
  • You're trying to sustain life that only comes from jesus's
  • 00:22:41.829 --> 00:22:47.635
  • Grace by employing the law as the administrator of something
  • 00:22:47.635 --> 00:22:54.542
  • You didn't get from the law.
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