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Creflo Dollar - The Finished Life Of Faith

March 31, 2025 | S25:E80

Creflo Dollar - The Finished Life Of Faith
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Finished Life Of Faith | March 31, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: we think, "well, i believe in the finished works,
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  • But it's conditional.
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  • Yeah, but you got to believe it, and i thought it was this.
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  • Yes, you gotta believe it."
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  • No, i gotta believe that it's his faith.
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  • I gotta believe it's his faith.
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  • I gotta believe that it is finished.
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  • I gotta believe that it's done.
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  • That's what i believe.
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  • I don't believe in a conditional manner where believing becomes
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  • The condition by which i get something that's finished that
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  • Doesn't even go together.
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  • If it's finished, why am i having to do this to finish it?
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of romans
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  • Chapter 3 and verse 22.
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  • We're gonna read this in the king james, first of all.
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  • Romans 3, verse 22 in the king james.
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  • And we're gonna talk about "the finished life of faith."
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  • "the finished life of faith."
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  • In other words, what does life look like through the lens
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  • Of the finished?
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  • What does it look like living a life of faith through the
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  • Lens of the finished?
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  • Now, in romans chapter 3 in verse 22, he says: "even the
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  • Righteousness of god which is by faith and of jesus christ and it
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  • Is unto all and is--it is upon all them that believe."
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  • Underline that phrase, "all them that believe."
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  • He says, "for there is no difference."
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  • "all them that believe."
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  • Now notice the subject is, you know, the righteousness of god,
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  • Which is by the faith of jesus christ.
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  • It's by the faith of jesus christ to all them
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  • That believe.
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  • Now, i wanna read this out of the mirror translation and i've
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  • Tried to convince you of certain things looking at the greek
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  • Language, but we're now going to look through the lens of jesus.
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  • The mirror study bible says: "jesus is what god believes
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  • About you!
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  • In him the righteousness of god--in him the righteousness
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  • Of god is on display in such a way that everyone may be equally
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  • Persuaded about what god believes about them."
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  • That everyone can be persuaded about what god believes about
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  • Them, "regardless of who they are, there is no distinction."
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  • Now follow me very carefully, the first part of this teaching
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  • This morning.
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  • Our justification, us being declared righteous.
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  • Our justification in the eyes of most christians, it is viewed
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  • From a conditional perspective rather than a
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  • Finished perspective.
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  • In other words, our justification is viewed based on
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  • What i can do to make this--to make this happen or to get this
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  • To happen in my life.
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  • What do i have to do to be made righteous?
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  • And you see that little phrase "to all them that believe" and
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  • That gives the indication that, well, you've got to believe to
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  • Be made righteous.
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  • Now, i'm gonna--i'm gonna challenge your mindset.
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  • I'm getting ready to just go.
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  • I've eased into this thing and i'm getting ready to really go
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  • For it.
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  • But we've been trained that we've got to believe it, that's
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  • Our work.
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  • We're seeing it as our work in order for it to be.
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  • So we're emphasizing what man must do to bring about their
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  • Salvation rather than what god has already done, rather than
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  • What is finished.
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  • So we don't, we don't emphasize what god has already done.
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  • Religion doesn't teach us to emphasize what is
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  • Already finished.
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  • Religion teaches us, well, it's conditional.
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  • You've got to believe and then you gotta do this and then you
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  • Gotta do that, and then it'll be done.
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  • And i am--i'm trying to get you to see it is finished and you're
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  • Trying to say, "no, no, but you gotta believe and you gotta do
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  • That and you gotta confess it and you gotta do that."
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  • Well, that's no longer unconditional.
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  • It's no longer a gift because the conditions are that you do
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  • All the things that we've been taught to do.
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  • So we gotta understand that christ, his faith, his one
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  • Faith, you know, one lord, one faith, there's just one
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  • Faith, okay?
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  • He saw the end from the beginning.
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  • And so christ's faith was his overwhelming yes to the
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  • Father's faith.
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  • Basically, it's one faith, it's the father's faith, and then the
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  • Father's faith was embodied in the body of jesus.
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  • And then our faith is a reflection of jesus's faith,
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  • Which is a reflection of god's faith.
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  • He's not--he's not given everybody some different faith.
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  • He's dealt to every man, the measure, one measure, the only
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  • Measure, the only true faith.
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  • It's not you got a measure, you got a measure, you got a
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  • Measure, you all got a measure.
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  • No, you all have the faith of god.
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  • You all have the faith of jesus christ, glory to god.
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  • So he--it was an overwhelming yes to the father's faith.
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  • God's faith, the one faith, the faith of christ, saw us
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  • In christ.
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  • God saw us in christ.
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  • And in paul's understanding, it is the faith of christ.
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  • It is the faith that is in christ.
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  • It's the faith of god that he embodies, that jesus embodies.
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  • It is that faith that justifies us.
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  • It is christ's faithful yes to the father's belief in us that
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  • Justified all men.
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  • See, we spend so much time talking about what you believe
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  • About the father, we spend no time talking about what the
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  • Father believes about you.
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  • If everybody's on the bus, say "amen."
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  • And it is that faith that is our faith.
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  • I need to make sure you get this.
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  • When i now refer to my faith, i'm referring to jesus's faith.
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  • I'm referring to god's faith.
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  • It's that faith that is my faith.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • It's god's faith that is jesus's faith, and i'm in jesus and now
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  • My faith is jesus's faith, which is god's faith, but i don't have
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  • A faith outside of the only true faith.
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  • I know, i know.
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  • You see how it is to break up the fallow ground of a
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  • Religious mindset?
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  • But, but i thought we had--see, let me show you this.
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  • If it's your faith, you know what you're gonna be struggling
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  • With all the time?
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  • You're gonna struggle--you're gonna be struggling with how
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  • Inadequate your faith is, how little your faith is.
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  • Do i have enough of the faith?
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  • Oh, it didn't work, maybe it was because of my faith.
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  • And you'll keep looking at your faith like it's just not enough.
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  • But i'm trying to get you to see your faith as his faith,
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  • As god's faith, and god's faith is the faith.
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  • It is strong, it is powerful, it is complete, it is done.
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  • When you--when he gave you his faith, it's not your personal
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  • Faith aside from jesus's faith, aside from god's faith.
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  • Honey, you got faith, you got faith to move a mountain because
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  • God created the mountain with his faith and you possess
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  • That faith.
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  • It is that faith that is our faith.
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  • And you know what about the faith that we have that is
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  • Jesus's faith because we live by the faith of the son of god.
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  • So we're not ever talking about your faith.
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  • We live by the faith of the son of god, [speaking in tongues]
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  • I ain't even got started yet.
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  • I'm--i got an itch in my feet.
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  • I'm ready to dance.
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  • I'm ready to tear something up because you--when you get this,
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  • Nothing will be withheld from you because what you think is
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  • Being withheld is already done.
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  • And i'm just trying to get you to realize and submit to it.
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  • You--a perfect illustration.
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  • The other day i was on my phone, looking for my phone.
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  • Ever happen to you?
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  • I was on my phone, actually, i heard--i heard it come out of
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  • My mouth.
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  • I'm on my phone, saying, "oh lord, where my phone?"
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  • And i had to realize, i already got my phone.
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  • Y'all don't hear me.
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  • You say, "lord, where is my righteousness?"
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  • You gotta realize you got your righteousness.
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  • "where is my healing?"
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  • You gotta realize you got your healing.
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  • "lord, where's my power?"
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  • You gotta realize you got your power.
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  • It's not about getting it, you got it.
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  • And don't ever say an issue in your life is because something
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  • Must be wrong with your faith 'cause that ain't yours, that's
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  • His and his faith is perfect and his faith is finished and his
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  • Faith is completed and you live by the faith of the son of
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  • God, hallelujah.
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  • You live by the faith of god almighty, oh glory, of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Now i know i'm dismantling the whole faith structure, but
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  • Not really.
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  • Because when you get down to it, the bottom line of faith is you
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  • Got to stand on what jesus has already done.
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  • So, this subject of faith, it's a huge, big argument amongst
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  • Theologians, especially romans 3:22, because in romans 3:22,
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  • You know, if you wanna get just how theologians look at it then
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  • They look at the genitive subject which will come out to
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  • Be the faith of christ or they look at the genitive object
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  • Which will turn out to be the faith in christ and i'm sure
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  • Paul didn't mean for us to be having some argument about
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  • Something that small.
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  • So, i wanna take it another perspective, another direction.
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  • I want to see if i can attack it, attack it from
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  • Another place.
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  • Hebrews chapter 1, verses 2 through 3, i'm gonna read it out
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  • Of the mirror bible.
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  • "what is your sudden obsession with the mirror bible?"
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  • Oh, it comes just straight from the greek.
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  • And allows the update of where we live at now along with
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  • That greek.
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  • I just love it.
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  • Now to interpret it correctly, we need to look beyond the
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  • Grammar which we've been on for a while, and we need to look
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  • Through the lens of christ.
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  • We need to look through the lens of the finished.
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  • And so hebrews 1 and 2 tells us that god's final word to us is
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  • Spoken in his son jesus christ.
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  • Look at this.
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  • Hebrews chapter 1, verse 2 and 3.
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  • He says, "in a son--in a son,
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  • God declares the incarnate word to be the heir
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  • Of all things.
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  • He is, after all, the author of the ages," the incarnate word.
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  • So now we're talking about that faith and word wrapped up
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  • In flesh.
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  • "the messiah-message--the messiah-message is what has been
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  • On the tip of the father's tongue all along.
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  • Now he is the crescendo of god's conversation with us and gives
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  • Context and content to the authentic, prophetic thought.
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  • Everything that god has in mind for mankind is voiced in jesus.
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  • The incarnate christ, the messiah, jesus,
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  • Is god's language."
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  • Oh lord, have mercy.
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  • Jesus is god's language.
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  • Oh boy.
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  • "he is the radiant and flawless mirror expression of the person
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  • Of god."
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  • Jesus is the mirror expression of the person of god.
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  • Jesus said, "when you've seen me, you've seen the father.
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  • And also when you hear me, you have heard the father.
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  • And when you live through my faith, you've lived through the
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  • Faith of the father."
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  • "he makes the glorious intent of god visible and exhibits the
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  • Character and every attribute of elohim in human form."
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  • That's so powerful.
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  • Every attribute of god is that, is in the attributes, the
  • 00:15:20.788 --> 00:15:27.395
  • Attributes of elohim are seen in jesus christ.
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  • "having accomplished the cleansing of our sins, he sat
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  • Down, enthroned in the boundless measure of his majesty in the
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  • Right hand of god.
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  • He is the force of the universe, upholding everything that exists
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  • By the word of his power."
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  • I want to look at verse 3. again, "jesus is the crescendo
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  • Of god's conversation."
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  • He's the whole point and reason.
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  • "he gives context and content to the authentic thought.
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  • Everything that god had in mind for mankind is voiced in jesus."
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  • Now, let's break that down.
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  • "jesus is god's language."
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  • That's just heavy all by itself.
  • 00:16:25.987 --> 00:16:30.191
  • "jesus is god's language.
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  • His final words were," watch this, watch, watch, watch,
  • 00:16:32.126 --> 00:16:35.730
  • Watch, watch, watch, watch his final words.
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  • "it is finished."
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  • And i don't know what we were thinking about.
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  • We know he said it's--we say it every easter, "it is finished."
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  • We have our children plays.
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  • It is finished.
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  • Well, what d'you think he was talking about?
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  • And so that has to be the lens through which we read scripture.
  • 00:17:01.556 --> 00:17:06.494
  • Therefore, now, when you come back to romans chapter 3, verse
  • 00:17:06.494 --> 00:17:09.297
  • 22, go back to romans 3:22, you see the faith of christ.
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  • Or you see faith in christ, you have to choose.
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  • If you see the faith in christ, then you see yourself in
  • 00:17:19.807 --> 00:17:24.545
  • A conditional place where you got to do something in order to
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  • Receive a gift.
  • 00:17:28.015 --> 00:17:29.350
  • Well, if you had to do something to receive a gift,
  • 00:17:29.350 --> 00:17:31.052
  • That's not a gift anymore.
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  • If it's the faith of god, then it is something that came
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  • Through him.
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  • He now is the origin and he now is the source of that thing,
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  • Not you.
  • 00:17:42.563 --> 00:17:44.265
  • And he is the source of our righteousness, not you.
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  • He's the source of our salvation, not you.
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  • He's the source of our redemption, the source of our
  • 00:17:51.472 --> 00:17:53.708
  • Holiness, the source of it, not you.
  • 00:17:53.708 --> 00:17:56.911
  • All of it is nothing but gifts that came from him.
  • 00:17:56.911 --> 00:18:02.016
  • And because of that choice, because of that choice, it
  • 00:18:02.016 --> 00:18:06.587
  • Speaks the language, the language that is spoken is the
  • 00:18:06.587 --> 00:18:10.858
  • Language of it is finished.
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  • That's the language that's spoken.
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  • And so now we all have got to come to the place where we renew
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  • Our mind in the realm of the finished, instead of our mind
  • 00:18:22.403 --> 00:18:27.675
  • Being in this conditional place where you're always having to
  • 00:18:27.675 --> 00:18:32.547
  • Struggle to do something.
  • 00:18:32.547 --> 00:18:35.316
  • Now, a couple of things i'll admit over the last few weeks.
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  • We definitely have the tools to be able to look up these verses
  • 00:18:40.288 --> 00:18:43.524
  • In greek, and i believe that's essential.
  • 00:18:43.524 --> 00:18:46.127
  • I think it's very important.
  • 00:18:46.127 --> 00:18:48.429
  • But we've trusted in the translators and we've trusted in
  • 00:18:48.429 --> 00:18:51.532
  • The theologians and we've trusted in the
  • 00:18:51.532 --> 00:18:53.301
  • Biblical commentaries.
  • 00:18:53.301 --> 00:18:56.103
  • We've trusted in the--their interpretation for a long time.
  • 00:18:56.103 --> 00:19:03.444
  • And so we read these verses, thinking, "if i can just have
  • 00:19:03.444 --> 00:19:08.849
  • Enough faith.
  • 00:19:08.849 --> 00:19:10.851
  • If i can just believe enough, not realizing and resting in the
  • 00:19:10.851 --> 00:19:16.524
  • Truth that there is only one faith and that is his faith
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  • In us.
  • 00:19:22.263 --> 00:19:24.031
  • And we are simply reflections of the one faith, the one faith of
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  • God, the one faith of christ.
  • 00:19:28.669 --> 00:19:32.173
  • And so by translating these verses, faith in christ, the
  • 00:19:32.173 --> 00:19:37.311
  • Translators allowed for only one interpretation, putting our
  • 00:19:37.311 --> 00:19:42.283
  • Faith in christ.
  • 00:19:42.283 --> 00:19:46.053
  • They forced upon us their own interpretational decision of
  • 00:19:46.053 --> 00:19:50.224
  • What the verse means and it began to rule out the passages,
  • 00:19:50.224 --> 00:19:56.964
  • Reading as saying that it is the faith of christ.
  • 00:19:56.964 --> 00:20:01.235
  • It's christ's faith and not our own.
  • 00:20:01.235 --> 00:20:05.306
  • And these faulty interpretations have been passed down for
  • 00:20:05.306 --> 00:20:08.743
  • Centuries, resulting in the believer who believe the
  • 00:20:08.743 --> 00:20:12.980
  • Finished works of christ is conditional upon putting our
  • 00:20:12.980 --> 00:20:16.984
  • Faith in christ.
  • 00:20:16.984 --> 00:20:18.352
  • And so we think, "well, i believe in the finished works,
  • 00:20:18.352 --> 00:20:22.123
  • But it's conditional, yeah, but you got to believe it and i
  • 00:20:22.123 --> 00:20:26.193
  • Thought it was this, yes.
  • 00:20:26.193 --> 00:20:28.262
  • You gotta believe it."
  • 00:20:28.262 --> 00:20:29.597
  • No, i gotta believe that it's his faith.
  • 00:20:29.597 --> 00:20:33.734
  • I gotta believe it's his faith.
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  • I gotta believe that it is finished.
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  • I gotta believe that it's done.
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  • That's what i believe.
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  • I don't believe in a conditional manner where believing becomes
  • 00:20:40.808 --> 00:20:44.879
  • The condition by which i get something that's finished.
  • 00:20:44.879 --> 00:20:47.948
  • That doesn't even go together.
  • 00:20:47.948 --> 00:20:49.984
  • If it's finished, why am i having to do this to finish it?
  • 00:20:49.984 --> 00:20:59.193
  • Ain't he all right? ain't he all right?
  • 00:20:59.193 --> 00:21:05.399
  • Let's just wake some of y'all up cause y'all like, "why are we
  • 00:21:05.399 --> 00:21:08.202
  • Talking about this?"
  • 00:21:08.202 --> 00:21:10.237
  • Because i'm trying to get you to move from--this is what
  • 00:21:10.237 --> 00:21:12.873
  • Religion teaches you.
  • 00:21:12.873 --> 00:21:14.241
  • Religion keeps teaching you, come to church, so we can show
  • 00:21:14.241 --> 00:21:17.078
  • You all the stuff you got to do.
  • 00:21:17.078 --> 00:21:18.412
  • And if you do these things, then god will be god in your life.
  • 00:21:18.412 --> 00:21:23.150
  • And god's like, no, we tried that in the old covenant.
  • 00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:29.256
  • We tried it in old covenant.
  • 00:21:29.256 --> 00:21:30.725
  • I--we even tried to put the fear of death there.
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  • And if you don't do it, you're gonna die.
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  • If you do these things, you'll be blessed.
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  • If you do these things, you'll be cursed.
  • 00:21:37.865 --> 00:21:39.266
  • We tried all of that.
  • 00:21:39.266 --> 00:21:41.669
  • It didn't change nothing, it just made it worse.
  • 00:21:41.669 --> 00:21:44.372
  • And now you as church folks, y'all do the same thing.
  • 00:21:44.372 --> 00:21:47.408
  • You look at people in all kinds of situations and you sit there
  • 00:21:47.408 --> 00:21:50.978
  • And take them apart: they're going to hell.
  • 00:21:50.978 --> 00:21:53.614
  • They're going to hell.
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  • That ain't god, they're going to hell.
  • 00:21:55.516 --> 00:21:57.551
  • And they're going to hell.
  • 00:21:57.551 --> 00:21:58.886
  • And today i decided, let's talk about this heaven and
  • 00:21:58.886 --> 00:22:01.355
  • Hell stuff.
  • 00:22:01.355 --> 00:22:03.657
  • Because you keep--you're focusing in on the heaven and
  • 00:22:03.657 --> 00:22:06.894
  • Hell piece and you still not focusing in on finished.
  • 00:22:06.894 --> 00:22:13.634
  • Once you get this, you're gonna realize how awesome jesus is.
  • 00:22:13.634 --> 00:22:17.271
  • It's done.
  • 00:22:17.271 --> 00:22:18.606
  • Jesus came to finish all the stuff that mankind
  • 00:22:18.606 --> 00:22:21.208
  • Couldn't finish.
  • 00:22:21.208 --> 00:22:22.576
  • And then he said, "y'all ain't got to do nothing.
  • 00:22:22.576 --> 00:22:24.845
  • All i want y'all to do is realize that it's finished."
  • 00:22:24.845 --> 00:22:30.584
  • So whatever prayer you plan on praying today, most of
  • 00:22:30.584 --> 00:22:35.790
  • It's done.
  • 00:22:35.790 --> 00:22:37.925
  • So that's gonna change a lot of our prayer time.
  • 00:22:37.925 --> 00:22:41.829
  • You spend your time praying about everything
  • 00:22:41.829 --> 00:22:43.631
  • That's finished.
  • 00:22:43.631 --> 00:22:45.966
  • Lord, heal me, help me, guide me.
  • 00:22:45.966 --> 00:22:49.804
  • Finished, done, completed.
  • 00:22:49.804 --> 00:22:55.376
  • And he trying to find somebody on the planet that will just
  • 00:22:55.376 --> 00:22:59.780
  • Line up with him and start living your life in
  • 00:22:59.780 --> 00:23:02.616
  • The finished.
  • 00:23:02.616 --> 00:23:03.951
  • Wake up in the morning.
  • 00:23:03.951 --> 00:23:05.319
  • You got a challenging day.
  • 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:06.654
  • You say to yourself, "my victory is a finished work, hallelujah,"
  • 00:23:06.654 --> 00:23:10.124
  • And you start praising god and they can't figure you out.
  • 00:23:10.124 --> 00:23:12.893
  • Why are you praising god?
  • 00:23:12.893 --> 00:23:14.295
  • Because i know what's been done.
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  • Male announcer: what is faith and what happens to your
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  • Spiritual walk if you don't have the right answer?
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  • Creflo dollar gets to the bottom of this and more in his
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  • Creflo: it's not his faith and our faith.
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  • 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.
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  • It is a perfected faith.
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  • So ain't but one thing to do: rest.
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  • I want to say a prayer of salvation with any of you who
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  • Would like to receive it right now, receive the gift
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  • Of salvation.
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  • Pray with me and just repeat after me, "heavenly father,
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  • I believe that jesus died for my sins.
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  • I believe that jesus was the payment for my sins, that he was
  • 00:26:40.968 --> 00:26:45.639
  • The sin offering.
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  • And i receive him as my peace offering.
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  • Jesus, come into my heart, save me, and today by faith i receive
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  • You and declare that i am saved, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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  • The kingdom of god.
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