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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Faith of God vs. Faith in God (Part 3) | March 28, 2025
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- Creflo dollar: you can't define me no more as a black man.
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- You can't define me no more as as a male man or a
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- Female person.
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- You can't define me.
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- You can only define me by jesus.
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- My identity is jesus.
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- And that is what's under attack.
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- He wants to attack your identity in jesus.
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- He can't get you.
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- He can't see it.
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- Devil ain't gonna sit back and just let you walk around with
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- Your identity in jesus.
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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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- Creflo: acts 17:28 and 29.
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- Please understand what i'm saying.
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- It was through the faith that was in christ jesus is what he's
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- Saying here, the faith that is in christ jesus, that is
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- Possessed, that is embodied, by christ jesus, the reflection of
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- God's faith.
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- Paul is not saying that we are sons because of our faith in
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- Christ jesus.
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- Acts 17:28 and 29: "in him we live.
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- In him we move.
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- In him we have our business--our being: as certain also of your
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- Own poets have said, for we are also," what?
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- "his offspring."
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- Verse 29, "forasmuch then as we are the offsprings of god, we
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- Ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, or
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- Silver, or stones, or graven by art and man's devices," and
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- Stuff that came from his stuff.
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- To tell you the truth, we have always been sons.
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- It was his doing, not ours, that made us sons.
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- We came from him.
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- He is our daddy.
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- Okay, so here we go the christian folks: "not if you're
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- Not saved."
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- Please understand, the whole world has access to all of the
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- Gifts that have been made available to mankind.
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- What's the only thing standing between them and the gift, the
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- Only thing that was standing between us?
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- We accepted him.
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- So we are accessing, we are taking a hold, or laying a hold,
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- Of what we realize now that is ours.
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- We're accepting the gift.
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- What's the only difference?
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- The only difference is everything that he made
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- Available for all of us here in church, he made available to
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- Everybody in the club.
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- So what's the deal?
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- They're not accepting it in the club.
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- But you know what?
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- They will.
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- You know why?
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- 'cause you and me, and more than that, the holy ghost, the
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- Holy ghost saying, all right, so you won't accept this, so now i
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- Got to--i got a way already planned.
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- The path has already been planned.
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- You say you ain't gonna accept it here, but i already got
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- The path.
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- I know what you got to--i know where you're gonna be at the day
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- You realize that you want to accept me.
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- I already know.
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- So go ahead, but i got this thing covered.
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- I--you gonna want me.
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- You gonna want what i got.
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- You gonna need what i got.
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- You're gonna get tired of what life is dealing to you.
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- And once you get tired of that, i'm gonna be whispering in your
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- Ear, hey, i got something better.
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- Hey, hey, it's already done.
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- It's already finished, it's completed, it's done.
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- It's a gift.
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- Let me give you a gift.
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- Everybody like gifts?
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- Let me give you a gift.
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- But the issue is, as simple as what i just explained to you,
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- Religion has made it hard.
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- Religion has made it so hard, and with it, religion has put
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- The threat of hell and the fear of death.
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- And then consequently with the threat of hell and the fear of
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- Death, then you fear the most comes upon you and all of the
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- Stuff happens and people end up dying without accepting a free
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- And gracious gift because they kept going to the church.
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- It's like a drug push--
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- Would just give you a little taste so you keep wanting more
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- Of the same bad stuff.
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- Why do you keep going to that church?
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- Because my mama went there.
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- Where your mom at?
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- She dead.
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- I have nothing else to do in this life.
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- I have done everything i want to do.
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- I could leave the earth today, and say: "what a ride."
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- But every time i think about y'all, and the religious journey
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- That i've gone through with others and the condemnation,
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- Coming to church condemned, coming to church and get more
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- Shame from the pulpit.
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- The sermon changed me.
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- They preach on fatherhood, and they tell me how bad of a father
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- I am, in so many words, by talking about all the things i
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- Needed to do.
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- And they ain't say nothing to me about god trying to help me
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- And god gonna help me and god got this planned out.
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- That you just going to hell.
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- You're a bad father.
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- You ain't no good.
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- God don't like ugly.
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- And i just was condemned and just beat myself up.
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- And i'm just trying, lord, i'm just trying, lord.
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- And then you try and then, you don't slip up, but you cuss
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- Somebody out and--cause you condemned and shamed in church.
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- And you just, you know, you're human, so you gotta
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- Release this.
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- And you're supposed to deny you're human.
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- You ain't human.
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- You are human. you are human.
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- Then you deny your emotions like you're not supposed to
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- Have emotions.
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- You do have emotions, you have emotions.
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- You get sad, you get happy.
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- Then they tell you you can't even be sad at your
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- Mama's funeral.
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- 'cause if you're sad at your mama's funeral, then you ain't
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- Got no faith.
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- I just--i was like: "you know what?
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- I'm over this."
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- That's just several times i thought: "well, you know what,
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- Maybe the atheist has got it better than some of this.
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- This stuff don't even make no sense to me.
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- I'm just tired.
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- Time i think i got it, and then something else come up.
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- And then something else come up.
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- "well, you need to confess the word."
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- "well, what do i need to confess?"
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- And then i write it down, and then that wasn't enough.
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- So i wrote another page down.
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- Then it wasn't enough, and then i wrote--i got five pages
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- Of confession.
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- I'm gonna be late to work.
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- I got all these confessions i gotta say.
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- And then i talked to god.
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- Then it wasn't enough to talk to god.
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- Now i got to talk to god for an hour.
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- I'm like: "well, where that at?"
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- "you know, well, you should you not pray for one hour?"
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- "okay, well, yeah, that's what he said."
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- And, you know, so i'm gonna pray for one hour.
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- And then i get up some morning and i'm tired because i went to
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- Bed at midnight that night.
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- And i got up and i set my clock for one hour.
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- And i said: [speaking in tongues].
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- And then i got up some morning, and i got to going
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- [speaking in tongues].
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- I'm, like: "oh boy, i'm getting this thing.
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- I'm in the spirit."
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- Looked at the clock, ain't but two minutes went by.
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- I'm like: "it's--it's--and then finally one day god was, like:
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- "you know--" i told him, i said: "i just gotta be honest
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- With you.
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- If i can't be honest with you, who i'm gonna be honest with?"
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- And i went to god, and i said: "i don't enjoy this
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- Prayer time."
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- And you know what he's said: "me neither."
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- [congregation laughing]
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- Because god don't want you to have to pray out of you got to.
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- He wants you to pray out of i want to.
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- He don't want you to give out of i got to.
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- He wants you to give out of i want to.
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- He don't want you to love out of i got to.
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- He wants you to love out of i want to.
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- He wants a desire from you to want him, to want to do him,
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- And he wants to work on you and to give you the delight of your
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- Life, so you can live life in abundance to the full until
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- It overflows.
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- That's the kind of god life he wants you to have.
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- But you can't have it because you're too entrenched and stuck
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- Into religious law and tradition.
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- And you tired.
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- You tired like i was when i--you know, we used to have, you know,
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- Morning service, then we had to come back for evening service.
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- And we had tuesday night bible study and wednesday night
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- I study, friday night something, and
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- Saturday something.
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- And i said: "i had to do all of that if i'm gonna get
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- To heaven."
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- If you wanna see jesus, you know, 99 1/2 won't do.
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- You gotta make 100.
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- I wasn't making no 100, never.
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- I wasn't never making no 100.
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- Sometime i'm making 50.
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- Pastor called me one evening, he said: "you coming back
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- To church?"
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- I said: "no."
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- He said: "come on, son, just this one time.
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- I said: "i'm tired, i'm exhausted.
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- I didn't know serving jesus was so hard.
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- I'm tireder after sunday than i am after work."
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- And i was believing god for some shoes because they said: "the
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- Faith stuff will work."
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- The best thing i did is i just forgot about it.
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- I said: "whatever.
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- If god want to bless me with some shoes, he'll bless me with
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- Some shoes.
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- If not, then i'll just figure out, get me some money,
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- And go and buy me some."
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- And the only person to remember this is ken when had put
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- Plastic on a rainy day.
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- Didn't you have some holes in your shoes, too?
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- It was just--we both had holes, right?
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- I'm so glad to know that.
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- I thought--all this time, i thought i'm the only
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- One who had holes in his shoes.
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- Yeah, we both had holes in his shoes.
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- Sometimes we try to wear each other's shoes, whichever one
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- That was the best one.
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- Figured out a way to put plastic, you know, your socks
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- On, i think we put plastic over the socks and then put
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- The shoes on.
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- It wasn't funny 'cause, you know, sometimes we step on
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- A rock, a pebble.
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- And so i said: "man, let's use this faith."
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- And it was the time i wasn't gonna come to church.
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- And i said: "i'm tired, boy."
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- So i went, i had an attitude.
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- Y'all know nice-nasty?
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- Praise the lord, reverend dollar, mm-hmm, praise him,
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- Praise him.
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- You need to praise him because i'm too tired to praise him.
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- I don't praised him all morning and now i'm tired
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- Of praising him.
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- Walked out there and they called me to the front, and first thing
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- They pulled out the back was some shoes.
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- I needed that.
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- I just needed something.
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- That just let me know that god cares because i realized it's
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- Hard to give financially when you don't believe that god will
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- Take care of you.
- 00:12:13.813 --> 00:12:17.616
- So you ain't trying to give nothing to an offering because
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- You don't believe that god will take care of you.
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- And then you make up excuses for all the reasons why you don't
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- Do it.
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- And the real reason is you don't believe that god--
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- You can't trust.
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- And so all of this mis-translations has got us to
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- Where we bought all of the con.
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- We didn't stay in context, and then we took the text out of
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- Context, and we were left with the con.
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- Not that people were doing it to everybody.
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- We just only teaching what we all knew.
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- But when you know better, you can teach better, and when
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- You're taught better, you can receive better, and you can
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- Live better.
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- And that's all i'm trying to do.
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- I ain't just trying to be a problem.
- 00:13:02.928 --> 00:13:08.133
- "he's just trying to be a problem talking about all
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- That stuff.
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- Why don't you just keep it like it is?"
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- We had a lady call the office this week talking about: "y'all
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- Need to stay away from all that greek."
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- [congregation cheering]
- 00:13:17.776 --> 00:13:21.280
- "it wasn't but three greek words.
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- What you talking about?
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- You think we were sitting up here talking in greek
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- And--"
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- [congregation laughing]
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- I'm not sure why we, as believers, struggle with it
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- Being his faith and not ours.
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- We realize that it's his strength.
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- We realize that it's his wisdom.
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- We realize that it's his righteousness.
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- So why won't--why wouldn't it--why wouldn't we realize that
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- It's his faith in us, that it's his faith through us--here's
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- A scripture that convinced me.
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- 1 corinthians chapter 4 and 7 in the nlt, 1 corinthians chapter 4
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- And 7 in the nlt--well, let's look at the king james and then
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- The nlt.
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- Oh, father: "for who maketh thee to differ from one another?
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- And what hast thou that thou did not receive?
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- Now, if thou didn't receive it, what does thou glory as if thou
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- Had not received it?"
- 00:14:37.690 --> 00:14:40.960
- Now look at this in the nlt: "for what gives you the right to
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- Make such a judgment?
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- What do you have that god hasn't given you?"
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- All right, stop right there.
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- Answer that question.
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- What do you have that god hadn't given you?
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- No, no, some of y'all really think: "well, he ain't give
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- Me--it's just like my daddy when we, you know, when my nephew,
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- Somebody asked him, and he got a bike for christmas.
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- He said: "who got you that bike?"
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- Ryan said: "jesus."
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- My daddy said: "no, jesus didn't get you that bike.
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- I bought you that bike."
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- Well, he didn't know.
- 00:15:22.634 --> 00:15:27.439
- Some of us think the same way.
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- "oh yeah, jesus did."
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- You don't understand, it took inhaling and exhaling for you to
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- Do whatever it is you do.
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- It took divine protection for what was gonna happen, what
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- Could have happened, what should have happened.
- 00:15:39.685 --> 00:15:46.125
- "what do you have that god hadn't given you?
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- And if everything you have is from god, why boast as though it
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- Were not a gift?"
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- Everything you have is from god.
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- It's a gift.
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- And you're boasting like it's not a gift, but something
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- You earned.
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- You're boasting like it's something you earned, something
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- You worked for, something you should be congratulated for,
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- Something you should get a pat on on the back for.
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- He said: "everything comes from god," and you're boasting like
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- It's not a gift.
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- And he even said: "on our salvation we were saved by grace
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- Through faith."
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- He said: "it's not of your own lest any man should boast."
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- The only time you boast is when you think you're responsible
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- For it.
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- You see why i gotta take my time with this?
- 00:16:47.152 --> 00:16:49.254
- There's a lot.
- 00:16:49.254 --> 00:16:50.622
- It's like an onion.
- 00:16:50.622 --> 00:16:51.957
- You just peel that onion, there's still another lever, and
- 00:16:51.957 --> 00:16:53.325
- You peel it.
- 00:16:53.325 --> 00:16:54.693
- And then there's still another level, and you peel it.
- 00:16:54.693 --> 00:16:56.028
- There's still another level--that's why you can't come
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- To church this month.
- 00:16:57.362 --> 00:16:58.730
- And i see y'all in january.
- 00:16:58.730 --> 00:17:03.602
- You're liable to come back here and don't even understand what
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- We're saying.
- 00:17:05.704 --> 00:17:10.843
- What they talking about?
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- You come back here talking about: "yes, look at what i did
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- In my faith."
- 00:17:14.179 --> 00:17:15.547
- And people be looking at you, like, naw, you ain't
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- Been to church in a long time, have you?
- 00:17:16.882 --> 00:17:23.755
- The word "received," you remember the greek word from
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- Last week, iris, it's talking about the tense.
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- What we've received from him is finished.
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- It's finished.
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- It's a finished fact.
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- All that we have received, which includes his faith in us, his
- 00:17:40.005 --> 00:17:46.011
- Faith in us is finished.
- 00:17:46.011 --> 00:17:47.913
- His faith in us is perfected.
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- His faith in us is complete in us.
- 00:17:50.048 --> 00:17:55.587
- And then if you go back to galatians 3:27, he says: "for as
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- Many as were baptized into the christ have put on christ."
- 00:18:03.662 --> 00:18:08.433
- He's not talking about water baptism.
- 00:18:08.433 --> 00:18:12.337
- I've seen preachers do that.
- 00:18:12.337 --> 00:18:13.972
- Well, in order to put on christ, you got to get baptized.
- 00:18:13.972 --> 00:18:18.644
- He's talking about immersion into christ.
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- He's talking about our identity that we're so in him that christ
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- Is now my identity.
- 00:18:26.885 --> 00:18:28.854
- Who was immersed or who was baptized into christ?
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- Notice what it is.
- 00:18:32.958 --> 00:18:34.326
- He says: "as many as," that phrase, "as many as," and that's
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- What paul here is talking about in this verse.
- 00:18:39.464 --> 00:18:43.735
- He's talking about baptism in christ as it equates to those
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- Who died with him, those who were buried with him, those who
- 00:18:49.341 --> 00:18:53.378
- Are raised in him, raised with him.
- 00:18:53.378 --> 00:18:55.814
- He's talking about our identity.
- 00:18:55.814 --> 00:18:57.516
- I identify with the with the burial.
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- I identify with the death.
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- I identify with the resurrection.
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- This is my identity, praise god.
- 00:19:04.856 --> 00:19:09.094
- Who is it that died with him?
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- We did.
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- Who is it that was buried with him?
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- We were.
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- Who was raised with him?
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- We were, all right, watch this.
- 00:19:16.835 --> 00:19:18.237
- All mankind, that is--you listen to me, all mankind.
- 00:19:18.237 --> 00:19:23.008
- Now everything i'm talking about, it ain't just for
- 00:19:23.008 --> 00:19:24.776
- Everybody in this room.
- 00:19:24.776 --> 00:19:26.111
- You just accepted it, but all mankind, all were baptized, all
- 00:19:26.111 --> 00:19:31.850
- Were immersed in the christ, so that we could live in the
- 00:19:31.850 --> 00:19:34.553
- Newness of life, so in the resurrected life, his life
- 00:19:34.553 --> 00:19:38.023
- In us.
- 00:19:38.023 --> 00:19:39.358
- And here's the sad thing.
- 00:19:39.358 --> 00:19:41.560
- Not all yet are awakened to that truth.
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- Not even everyone in church who prayed to sinner's prayer and
- 00:19:46.999 --> 00:19:51.770
- Asked christ to come into their heart has awakened to the
- 00:19:51.770 --> 00:19:55.240
- Fullness of his resurrection life in us.
- 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:57.943
- We don't believe that what jesus did, he did and made it
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- Available for the whole world.
- 00:20:01.179 --> 00:20:03.015
- They have yet to accept it.
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- You have.
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- Our job is show them jesus.
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- Show them jesus.
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- Let your life be a living in pencil and show them jesus so
- 00:20:14.693 --> 00:20:20.699
- They can come to the place of realizing.
- 00:20:20.699 --> 00:20:22.968
- "oh, you mean i can have that, too?"
- 00:20:22.968 --> 00:20:25.404
- "yes."
- 00:20:25.404 --> 00:20:35.447
- His strength is our strength.
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- His wisdom is our wisdom.
- 00:20:38.417 --> 00:20:40.952
- His righteousness is our righteousness.
- 00:20:40.952 --> 00:20:43.722
- And his faith is our faith.
- 00:20:43.722 --> 00:20:46.858
- And then in verse 28, he continues with mankind's
- 00:20:46.858 --> 00:20:51.396
- Identity being in christ.
- 00:20:51.396 --> 00:20:53.565
- They are no longer defined by their own personal identities.
- 00:20:53.565 --> 00:20:59.004
- Huh?
- 00:20:59.004 --> 00:21:00.372
- No longer--you're not defined by your identity as a jew or
- 00:21:00.372 --> 00:21:03.809
- A greek or a slave or free, or a male or female, but all are
- 00:21:03.809 --> 00:21:07.412
- Defined by him.
- 00:21:07.412 --> 00:21:09.414
- All are defined by jesus.
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- You can't define me no more as a black man.
- 00:21:12.551 --> 00:21:15.520
- You can't define me no more as as a male man or
- 00:21:15.520 --> 00:21:17.889
- A female person.
- 00:21:17.889 --> 00:21:19.224
- You can't define me.
- 00:21:19.224 --> 00:21:20.592
- You can only define me by jesus.
- 00:21:20.592 --> 00:21:22.260
- My identity is jesus, and that is what's under attack.
- 00:21:22.260 --> 00:21:26.398
- He wants to attack your identity in jesus.
- 00:21:26.398 --> 00:21:28.834
- He can't get you.
- 00:21:28.834 --> 00:21:30.202
- He can't see it.
- 00:21:30.202 --> 00:21:31.536
- Devil ain't gonna sit back and just let you walk around with
- 00:21:31.536 --> 00:21:33.372
- Your identity in jesus.
- 00:21:33.372 --> 00:21:34.806
- He gonna attack your identity just like he attacked
- 00:21:34.806 --> 00:21:37.042
- Jesus's identity.
- 00:21:37.042 --> 00:21:38.410
- When jesus was led into the wilderness by the spirit of god,
- 00:21:38.410 --> 00:21:43.014
- And satan came and attacked--back then:
- 00:21:43.014 --> 00:21:44.783
- "if you are the son of god, 'cause i don't believe you
- 00:21:44.783 --> 00:21:49.921
- Believe you are, if you are the son of god, turn these stone
- 00:21:49.921 --> 00:21:54.793
- Into bread."
- 00:21:54.793 --> 00:21:57.295
- And jesus was thinking: "well, i can turn the stone into bread.
- 00:21:57.295 --> 00:22:03.135
- But if i do that, i am defending something i don't need to
- 00:22:03.135 --> 00:22:09.274
- Be defending.
- 00:22:09.274 --> 00:22:13.745
- I know who i am.
- 00:22:13.745 --> 00:22:15.847
- Why do i have to prove to you that i know who i am?
- 00:22:15.847 --> 00:22:20.118
- You're just trying to get me to doubt what i already know
- 00:22:20.118 --> 00:22:23.321
- About myself.
- 00:22:23.321 --> 00:22:24.756
- So i ain't gonna turn these stone into bread because i don't
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- Need your validation.
- 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:32.531
- I don't need you to validate my identity.
- 00:22:32.531 --> 00:22:34.900
- I don't need you to validate my sonship."
- 00:22:34.900 --> 00:22:37.536
- And that's what we got to stop doing.
- 00:22:37.536 --> 00:22:39.671
- You don't have to approve.
- 00:22:39.671 --> 00:22:41.006
- You don't need nobody's approval to have the identity that jesus
- 00:22:41.006 --> 00:22:44.509
- Has given you.
- 00:22:44.509 --> 00:22:46.344
- I don't need your approval.
- 00:22:46.344 --> 00:22:47.712
- I'm grown.
- 00:22:47.712 --> 00:22:49.047
- I don't need your approval for me to have the identity
- 00:22:49.047 --> 00:22:52.584
- Of jesus.
- 00:22:52.584 --> 00:22:54.319
- I ain't got to prove to you.
- 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:55.687
- "well, where is it in bible?"
- 00:22:55.687 --> 00:22:57.055
- "but i ain't got to show you nothing.
- 00:22:57.055 --> 00:22:58.390
- I know who i am.
- 00:22:58.390 --> 00:22:59.925
- I have the identity of jesus." [congregation applauding]
- 00:22:59.925 --> 00:23:09.968
- That's the gospel, folks.
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- That's good news.
- 00:23:13.405 --> 00:23:14.739
- That's the good, glad, happy news that will make a man jump
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- For joy.
- 00:23:16.908 --> 00:23:18.743
- Male announcer: what is faith?
- 00:23:22.414 --> 00:23:23.748
- And what happens to your spiritual walk if you don't have
- 00:23:23.748 --> 00:23:26.284
- The right answer?
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- Creflo dollar gets to the bottom of this and more in his power
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- Creflo: it's not his faith and our faith.
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- He is the one faith.
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- He is the founder and the finisher.
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- The faith we have is his faith in us.
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- It is a finished faith.
- 00:23:45.537 --> 00:23:47.906
- It is a perfected faith.
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- And when you give to this ministry, you partner with us to
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- Reach people everywhere who are hurting and in need of the
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- Revelation of god's grace and love.
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- Male announcer: if god has placed it on your heart to
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- Support the vision of this ministry to reach the world with
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- God bless you.
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- Creflo: salvation is the beginning of a new life for
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- A believer.
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- It is from this point that we can move into the fullness of
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- Who god has called us to be and see the manifestation of the
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- Finished works of jesus.
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- It is one of my greatest pleasures to help people to
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- Understand who christ is and to lead people to christ.
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- If you would like salvation today, pray this prayer with me,
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- A very simple prayer.
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- Heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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- I believe that he died, that he rose again, and that he
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- Lives today.
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- Come into my life, save me.
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- I receive you as my savior.
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- In jesus's name, amen.
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- Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, that's how
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- Simple it is.
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- Welcome to the family of god.
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- Male announcer: 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
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- The partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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- ♪♪♪
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