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Creflo Dollar - Is Faith Without Works Dead?

October 30, 2025 | 28:54

Creflo Dollar - Is Faith Without Works Dead?
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Is Faith Without Works Dead? | October 30, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: faith is a person, faith is a person.
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  • His name is jesus.
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  • Faith is a person. his name is jesus.
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  • The day you got born again, jesus came in.
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  • Faith came in.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • When jesus came, he came perfect.
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  • When that faith came in you, it's perfect.
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  • You cannot separate the christ from the faith.
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  • I live by his faith if his faith is of him.
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  • ♪ this is your world ♪
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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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  • Creflo: you have to question yourself, christians, if you are
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  • A christian and ain't nothing came out of you yet.
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  • The bible says we are the branch, he is the vine.
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  • What kind of tree we got when the branch ain't never given?
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  • That's what james was saying.
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  • If you read the whole book of james, james was sitting up
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  • There, and he was first of all talking about how we show
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  • Favoritism to the rich and don't pay no attention to the poor.
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  • So pastor james, james is a pastor.
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  • He's concerned about how y'all going around here talking about
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  • How you all saved, sanctified, [speaking in tongues],
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  • Come on outside and tie my tie.
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  • And ain't no evidence, no proof, no fruit.
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  • Okay now, let's read verse 14 through 26 again in the message.
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  • So now you know what james is saying, now read it in, let's
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  • Read it in the message.
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  • My god, all right, and that's just foundation, i'm gonna tear
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  • This--ain't nothing up here to tear up, but i'm gonna wreck.
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  • I got to get something out here to wreck, get a trash can
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  • Or something.
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  • "dear friends, do you think you'll get anywhere in this if
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  • You learn all the right words but never do anything?
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  • Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really
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  • Has it?
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  • For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and
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  • Half starved and say, 'good morning, friend!
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  • Be clothed in christ! be filled with the holy spirit!'
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  • And walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of
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  • Soup--what does that get you?
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  • Isn't it obvious that god-talk without god-acts is
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  • Outrageous nonsense?"
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  • And that's what it's turned into.
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  • At one time, we got so spiritual it was outrageous nonsense.
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  • "i can already hear one of you agreeing by saying,
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  • 'sounds good.
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  • You take care of the faith department, and i'll handle the
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  • Works department."'
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  • He said, "not so fast.
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  • You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than
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  • I can show you my faith apart from my works.
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  • Faith and works, works and faith, they fit together, hand
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  • In a glove.
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  • Do i hear you professing to believe in the one and only god,
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  • But then observe you complacently sitting back as if
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  • You had done something wonderful?
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  • That's just great.
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  • Demons do that, but what good does it do them?
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  • Use your heads!"
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  • Use your heads.
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  • Oh, i got something right there.
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  • Don't be afraid to think.
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  • Don't sit up there and bite off anything somebody throw at you.
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  • Just cause they said that, you know, they've been saying it for
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  • Four decades don't mean you ought to bite off of it.
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  • My god, that's what i did.
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  • I bit off of it.
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  • I don't, just--don't be afraid to think.
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  • Don't be afraid to look back and say, "wait a minute, i know this
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  • Person came to me and prophesied that this is gonna
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  • Happen," but don't you be afraid to think.
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  • Don't you buy everything somebody come up to you
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  • And prophesies.
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  • You pray, you hear from god, you talk to him, you read your word.
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  • Don't be sitting up there.
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  • Think, use your heads.
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  • "do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works
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  • In two and not end up with a corpse on your hand?
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  • Wasn't our ancestor abraham 'made right with god by works,"'
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  • You see what he's saying now, right?
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  • That abraham, who knew god, who was right with god, and from him
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  • Came that obedience to do what god told him to do.
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  • "when he placed his son isaac on the sacrificial altar?
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  • Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that
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  • Faith expresses itself in works?"
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  • Did you see that?
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  • Faith expresses itself in works.
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  • "that the works are 'works of faith?'
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  • The full meaning of 'believe' in the scripture sentence, 'abraham
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  • Believed god and was set right with god,' includes his action."
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  • When he believed, and he had faith in god, it includes
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  • Everything that was gonna come out from that.
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  • "it's that weave of believing and acting that got abraham
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  • Named 'god's friend.'
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  • Is it not evidence that a person is made right with god not by a
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  • Barren faith but by faith
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  • Fruitful in works.
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  • The same with rahab, the jericho harlot.
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  • Wasn't her action in hiding god's spies and helping them
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  • Escape--that seamless unity of believing and doing--what
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  • Counted with god?
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  • The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with
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  • A corpse."
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  • Ain't that right?
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  • Soon as your spirit leaves your body, you end up with a corpse.
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  • "separate faith and works and you get the same thing:
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  • A corpse."
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  • Dead faith, dead faith.
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  • You get a corpse, dead faith.
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  • So as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
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  • Good works coming from it.
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  • Man, this has gotta set you free.
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  • Good work's coming from it.
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  • So james 2 makes the case that how one acts, their works are a
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  • Sign of the kind of faith they possess.
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  • So-called faith, which doesn't lead a person to participate in
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  • Good works, is not a saving faith.
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  • It is a dead thing.
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  • It is pointless and meaningless to believe or to wish a poverty
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  • Stricken person to be well if such an opinion leads to
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  • No action.
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  • In exactly the same way, james insists that this is not enough
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  • To mentally, it's not enough to mentally agree about certain
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  • Facts of god.
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  • If what a person believes about god does not lead them to act
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  • Accordingly, then their faith is not saving faith.
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  • It is merely opinion.
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  • And james never says that faith is not essential for salvation.
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  • He didn't say that.
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  • He never claims works are required to obtain or to
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  • Keep salvation.
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  • He never said that.
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  • He is, however, crystal clear that truly saving faith cannot
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  • Be separated from the evidence of good works, from the evidence
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  • Of fruits of good works.
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  • So, you were saved by grace to bring forth good works.
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  • He saved you for good works, you see?
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  • He saved you for good works.
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  • If we don't do it, who do you think gonna do it?
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  • We were saved to go into the clubs, and get involved in human
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  • Trafficking, and doing everything we can do in
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  • "prestige ministry" to get these girls off the pole, and get them
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  • Away from their pimps, and to house them, and it takes money
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  • To do it, but we were saved to do that.
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  • You can't sleep when god got that kind of fruit coming out
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  • Of you.
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  • Genuine saving faith in god leads to good and
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  • Loving actions.
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  • Good works don't lead to faith.
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  • Faith leads to good actions, good work, good actions.
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  • Now, i want to make these two statements.
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  • If you can jot this down, it's gonna require you to meditate
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  • On this.
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  • But, works are to faith what breath is to the body.
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  • Works are to faith as breath is to the body, and what's that?
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  • A sign of life, a sign of life.
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  • Here's the second one, a faith without works or proof, a faith
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  • Without works or proof, a faith without proof, a faith without
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  • Fruit, a faith without works is like a body without breath.
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  • A faith without proof is like a body without breath, dead.
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  • So, james was just simply saying, "if you're saying you
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  • Got this saving faith, and we can't see no fruit and no proof,
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  • Your faith must be dead" versus what we've been trained in all
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  • Our lives.
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  • "oh god, i got faith, but i got to, i gotta go and get some
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  • Works to add to faith."
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  • And we're not even talking about good works.
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  • We're talking about we got to do something or we gotta perform in
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  • Order to get this faith to work.
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  • That's not correct.
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  • I don't believe it is.
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  • That, this is what i believe, okay?
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  • You know, this is what i believe.
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  • For everybody who's ready to debate about it, this is what i
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  • Believe and jesus will get us all straight when we get there.
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  • But for rat now, r-a-t, quick as a rat, for rat now, i'm gonna
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  • Trust that i have god.
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  • It's god's faith in you.
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  • You gotta understand, this is the first thing you need
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  • To understand.
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  • The faith you have is not your faith.
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  • The faith you have is god's faith, 'cause there's only one
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  • Faith and god got the perfect faith.
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  • You have the faith of jesus christ.
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  • And the bible says in galatians 2:20, "we live," look at 2:20,
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  • In galatians 2:20, "we live by the faith of the son of god."
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  • I live by the faith of the son of god.
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  • He says, "my old self has been crucified with christ.
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  • It is no longer i who live, but christ lives in me."
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  • Christ lives in me. christ lives in me.
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  • Oh, christ lives in me.
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  • I got, i just, i saw something there.
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  • Christ lives in me. christ lives in me.
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  • I say, i say, "christ lives in me."
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  • Yeah, but brother, what about, what are we talking about?
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  • Faith lives in you.
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  • No, he said, "christ lives in me."
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  • Oh, christ lives in me.
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  • Say, "christ lives in me."
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  • The day you got born again, "christ lives in me."
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  • All right, hold your place right there, and go to galatians 3,
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  • Verse 23 and 25.
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  • Do it in the king james, i wanna do a familiar verse only, and
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  • Then go to the end of it when i tell you.
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  • "but before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto
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  • The faith which should afterwards be revealed."
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  • Well, who was it that came?
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  • Christ came.
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  • Before faith came, christ came.
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  • Look at verse 25, before christ came, he says, "but after faith
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  • Is come," who has came and who has come?
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  • Jesus, "we are no longer under the schoolmaster," or under
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  • The law.
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  • Here we go.
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  • I'm gonna say it out loud.
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  • Faith is a person, his name is jesus.
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  • Faith is a person, faith is a person, his name is jesus.
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  • Faith is a person, his name is jesus.
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  • The day you got born again, jesus came in, faith came in.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • When jesus came, he came perfect.
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  • When that faith came in you, it's perfect.
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  • You cannot separate the christ from the faith.
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  • Go back to galatians chapter 2:20, oh y'all gotta hear what
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  • I'm saying.
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  • I didn't mean to go here, but you gotta catch this.
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  • I'll finish it a little bit later.
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  • I'll get it straight for you.
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  • He says, "i am crucified with christ: nevertheless i live; yet
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  • Not i, but christ," faith, christ, faith, christ, faith
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  • "liveth in me: and the life which i now live in the flesh i
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  • Live by the faith of the son of god."
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  • It's his faith.
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  • I live by his faith, it's his faith because it's him.
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  • We keep trying to make it our faith so we can do what we want
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  • To do with it.
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  • [speaking in tongues].
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  • We keep making it our faith so we can do what we wanna do
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  • With it.
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  • But the fact of the matter, it's his faith, and everything that
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  • Has been needed to be done is already done.
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  • He showed up.
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  • When he got off that cross, it was finished.
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  • It's finished, it's not something that's gotta be done,
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  • Or something that's gotta be fixed, or something that's gotta
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  • Be renovated.
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  • When the faith of jesus came on the inside of you, it came
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  • In perfect.
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  • It came in complete.
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  • It came in finished.
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  • It came in done.
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  • Finished, completed, done.
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  • And i live by something that's already finished, completed,
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  • And done.
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  • I live in the dimension of the finished, the completed,
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  • The done.
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  • I don't live trying to get it done, trying to work it out,
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  • Trying to figure it out.
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  • I live in the realm of done.
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  • I live in the realm of finished.
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  • I live in the realm of the faith finder.
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  • He's the author and the finisher of your faith.
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  • The mirror translation says, "he's the faith founder."
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  • He's the faith founder.
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  • Hebrews 12:2, he says, "he's the author and the finisher of
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  • Your faith."
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  • The greek says, "he's the faith founder and finisher."
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  • So, if you go to god and say, "god," and you're born again and
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  • You've received this faith, that's the measure he gave.
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  • And he received this faith?
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  • You say, "god, make me righteous," you know what he's
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  • Gonna say?
  • 00:19:02.654 --> 00:19:04.122
  • "righteous, finished."
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  • "god, redeem me."
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  • "redeemed, finished."
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  • "god, heal me."
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  • "healed, finished."
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  • "god, prosper me."
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  • "prospered, finished."
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  • In other words, you know, it's his world and you're living in
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  • It, you understand?
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  • Hey, he not trying to, he ain't trying to do what he's
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  • Already done.
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  • He's not trying to do what he's already done.
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  • He's already done it, it's finished.
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  • Ain't nothing you can ask him for that he won't respond in the
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  • Realm of the finished, finished.
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  • Finished, what you gotta ask him?
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  • Finished, his response is, "finished."
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  • His response is not, "okay, let's see what we can do."
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  • His response is, "finished."
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  • He said, "i already did all i'm gonna do.
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  • Now, what do you do?"
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  • Now, what do we do? oh, [speaking in tongues].
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  • Now, how do we live this life of faith?
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  • Oh help me, jesus, oh glory.
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  • Now, how do we live this life of faith?
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  • Two things, two things every time you wake up every morning.
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  • Number one, realize it's finished.
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  • Whatever you're asking for, whatever you need, realize, this
  • 00:20:30.309 --> 00:20:34.646
  • Is done.
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  • Second thing, you gotta rest
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  • In the finished.
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  • [speaking in tongues], y'all gotta hear what i'm saying.
  • 00:20:51.496 --> 00:20:52.864
  • You gotta rest in the finished.
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  • You can't rest in, "i don't see it yet, what i need to do?"
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  • You gotta rest in the done.
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  • You gotta rest in the completed.
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  • You gotta rest in the finished.
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  • The bible says, "labor to enter into the rest."
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  • You know what we've been doing?
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  • We've been laboring to get healed, laboring to prosper,
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  • Laboring to, "oh god, oh god, but when, god."
  • 00:21:19.191 --> 00:21:22.427
  • And you keep seeing yourself without it instead of abiding in
  • 00:21:22.427 --> 00:21:26.298
  • The realm of the finished.
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  • All week, i wake up several times a day saying, "i live in
  • 00:21:28.734 --> 00:21:34.172
  • The dimension of the finished."
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  • What am i doing? i'm renewing my mind.
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  • I'm getting away from, "what we got to do to get it?"
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  • To, "it's already been gotten."
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  • And i lived this life by the faith of the son of god.
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  • I'm not living this life by my faith, i'm living my life by his
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  • Faith, which is perfect, which is flawless, which is finished,
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  • Which is completed, which is done.
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  • So i only have two, i only have two, i only have two things
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  • To do.
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  • Oh, tell you what, if i hadn't overworked yesterday and did all
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  • That walking, i was getting ready to run, girl.
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  • I was getting ready to run.
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  • I ain't gonna do it though, baby, that's it.
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  • It ain't necessary because it's finished.
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  • Hey, hey, woo!
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  • I abide in the realm of the finished, the done,
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  • The complete.
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  • Now it's still hurting, but it's finished.
  • 00:22:44.342 --> 00:22:51.783
  • Light's still off, but it's finished.
  • 00:22:51.783 --> 00:22:54.686
  • Still hurting, but it's finished.
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  • They found a third tumor, but it's finished.
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  • Ah, glory to god.
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  • Ain't nothing in the natural seem to change, but
  • 00:23:02.994 --> 00:23:04.830
  • It's finished.
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  • And if you'll hold on in the finished until you can find rest
  • 00:23:06.731 --> 00:23:10.602
  • In the finished, you start singing to laborers and stay in
  • 00:23:10.602 --> 00:23:14.406
  • The finished.
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  • You start praying in tongues to labor to stay in the finished.
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  • You come to church to labor to stay in the finished.
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  • You meditate on the word to labor to stay in the finished.
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  • If you can stay in the finished, what you could not see, you are
  • 00:23:25.383 --> 00:23:31.957
  • About to see, because his faith is finished.
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  • Hey, woo!
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  • Male speaker: what is faith and what happens to your spiritual
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  • Walk if you don't have the right answer?
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  • Creflo: it's not his faith and our faith, he is the faith.
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  • He is the one faith, 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. it is a perfected faith.
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  • So ain't but one thing to do, rest.
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  • Creflo dollar: hopefully, you're gonna choose to let
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  • Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Yes!
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  • Yes!
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  • It is from this point that we can move into the fullness of
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  • Heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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  • I believe that he died, that he rose again,
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  • And that he lives today.
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  • Come into my life.
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  • 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,
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