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Creflo Dollar - The Finished Life of Faith

April 1, 2025 | S25:E81

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 | April 1, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: jesus came to finish all the stuff that
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  • Mankind couldn't finish, and then he said, y'all ain't gotta
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  • Do nothing, all i want y'all to do is realize that
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  • It's finished.
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  • So, whatever prayer you plan on praying today, most of it's
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  • Done, so that's gonna change a lot of our prayer time.
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  • You spend your time praying about everything
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  • That's finished.
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  • Lord, heal me, help me, guide me,
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  • Finished, done, completed.
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪
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  • Creflo: everything that god had in mind for mankind is voiced
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  • 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.
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  • Jesus is god's language.
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  • His final words were, watch this, watch, watch, watch,
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  • Watch, watch, watch, watch his final words, "it is finished."
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  • "it is finished."
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  • And i don't know what we were thinking about, we know he said
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  • It's finished, we say it every easter, "it is finished."
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  • We have little children plays, "it is finished."
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  • Well, what you think he was talking about?
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  • And so, that has to be the lens through which we read scripture.
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  • Therefore now, when you come back to romans chapter 3 verse
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  • 22, go back to romans 3:22, you see the faith of christ or you
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  • See faith in christ, you have to choose.
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  • If you see the faith in christ, then you see yourself in a
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  • Conditional place where you got to do something in order to
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  • Receive a gift.
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  • Well, if you had to do something to receive a gift, that's not a
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • Holiness, the source of it, not you.
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  • All of it is nothing but gifts that came from him, and because
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  • Of that choice, because of that choice, it speaks the language.
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  • The language that is spoken is the 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
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  • Being in this conditional place where you're always having to
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  • Struggle to do something.
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  • 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
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  • In greek, and i believe that's essential.
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  • I think it's very important, but we've trusted in the translators
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  • And we've trusted in the theologians and we've trusted in
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  • The biblical commentaries.
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  • We've trusted in their interpretation for a long time,
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  • And so we read these verses thinking if i can just have
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  • Enough faith or if i can just believe enough, not realizing
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  • And resting in the truth that there is only one faith and that
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  • Is his faith in us, and we are simply reflections of the one
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  • Faith, the one faith of god, the one faith of christ.
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  • And so, by translating these verses, faith in christ, the
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  • Translators allowed for only one interpretation, putting our
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  • Faith in christ.
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  • They forced upon us their own interpretational decision of
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  • What the verse means, and it began to rule out the passages,
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  • Reading as saying that it is the faith of christ, it's christ's
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  • Faith and not our own, and these faulty interpretations have been
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  • Passed down for centuries, resulting in the believer who
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  • Believed the finished works of christ is conditional upon
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  • Putting our faith in christ.
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  • And so, 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.
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  • I thought it was this, 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 gotta 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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  • Ain't he all right?
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  • [laughing]
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  • That's just to wake some of y'all up because y'all like why
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  • Are we talking about this?
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  • Because i'm trying to get you to move from--this is what religion
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  • Teaches you, religion keeps teaching you come to church so
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  • We can show you all the stuff you got to do, and if you do
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  • These things then god will be god in your life.
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  • And god's like, no, we tried that in the old covenant.
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  • We tried it in the old covenant.
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  • We even tried to put the fear of death there, and if you don't do
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  • It, you're gonna die.
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  • If you do these things, you'll be blessed, if you do these
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  • Things, you'll be cursed.
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  • We tried all of that, it didn't change nothing it just made
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  • It worse.
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  • And now you as church folks, y'all do the same thing.
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  • You look at people in all kinds of situations and you sit there
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  • And take them apart, they're going to hell, they're going
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  • To hell.
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  • That ain't god, they're going to hell and they're going to hell.
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  • And today, i decided let's talk about this heaven and hell
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  • Stuff, because you're focusing in on the heaven and hell piece
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  • And you still not focusing in on finished.
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  • Once you get this, you're gonna realize how awesome jesus is,
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  • It's done.
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  • Jesus came to finish all the stuff that mankind couldn't
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  • Finish, and then he said y'all ain't got to do nothing, all i
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  • Want y'all to do is realize that it's finished.
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  • So, whatever prayer you plan on praying today, most of it's
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  • Done, so that's gonna change a lot of our prayer time.
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  • You spend your time praying about everything
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  • That's finished.
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  • Lord, heal me, help me, guide me, finished, done, completed.
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  • And he's trying to find somebody on the planet that will just
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  • Line up with him and start living your life in
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  • The finished.
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  • Wake up in the morning, you got a challenging day, you say to
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  • Yourself, "my victory is a finished work, hallelujah," and
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  • You start praising god and they can't figure you out.
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  • Why are you praising god?
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  • Because i know what's been done?
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  • Oh, my goodness.
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  • Let me keep moving so we can be finished.
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  • But what if we would have gotten the right translation?
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  • What if we would have translated it right as the faith of god?
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  • How might this have changed the entire western theology?
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  • What i'm talking about is the entire western theology.
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  • So, what would have happened?
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  • Would we have thought that salvation, justification,
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  • Redemption was conditional, or what we have understood that all
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  • Was finished for all times, requiring nothing on our part?
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  • All right, so let's look at this.
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  • Ephesians chapter 2 and 8, now for paul, our faith is not a
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  • Condition of our justification or our salvation.
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  • Paul knew that.
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  • Paul knew that our faith, this individualized faith away from
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  • God and jesus is not a condition for a justification of faith.
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  • Ephesians chapter 2 and 8, watch this.
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  • This is interesting, watch this.
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  • Verse 8 in the king james, he says this, "for by grace are
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  • You," what?
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  • And you got it through what?
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  • And this is not of yourselves, it's not of yourselves.
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  • All right, let me see.
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  • All right, what did do you have to do with grace?
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  • What did you have to do with salvation?
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  • What did you have to do with faith?
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  • Ah, but see here's what they taught you.
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  • "for by grace are you saved," or, you know, delivered, or
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  • Sound and--but you got it through your faith.
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  • He didn't say that.
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  • He said it came through faith that was not of your own.
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  • Faith was not of your own, salvation was not of your own,
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  • And grace was not of your own, it was all grace, it was
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  • All god.
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  • But somehow, seriously, i want you to just think about the
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  • Mighty, wise, loving god.
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  • I want you to think about something.
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  • So, this guy gets to heaven and somebody in the back said he
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  • Never did go to the prayer room to pray the prayer of salvation,
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  • But when he was listening to the word he had a moment in his
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  • Heart where he said, yes, god, and he decided, you know, i
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  • Don't do good around people, so i receive you right now, lord,
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  • And he never did go to the room.
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  • So, tell me this, tell me this, now, tell me, is god gonna tell
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  • Him to depart from him because he didn't say the prayer?
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  • Because he had christ in his heart, which is where
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  • He belonged.
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  • See, religious people put all of these rules on you about what
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  • You got to do to get what god got, and god's just trying to
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  • Get you to do it out your heart because he weighs your heart.
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  • Because if you can get it in your heart, it'll flow into
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  • Your life.
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  • If you can get it in your heart, fruit comes out the branch.
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  • You are the branch, he's the root.
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  • Get it in your heart and something will get on
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  • The branch.
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  • But all these religious people ready to judge and condemn other
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  • People's fruit when they don't even realize because a heart
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  • Change is going on, the fruit is changing.
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  • And then we have this idea that the day you get saved,
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  • You're perfect.
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  • Some of y'all been saved 30 years, ain't reached that yet,
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  • What you talking about?
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  • The day you can say, oh, you got caught doing that, you got
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  • Caught, you were doing it.
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  • The reason why they had to hide to get caught because you're
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  • So judgmental.
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  • Come on, come on, come on, come on.
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  • Sweet lips, sweet lips, sweet lips.
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  • You're so judgmental, you take people apart while you continue
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  • To ignore your own life like you ain't got nothing that need to
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  • Be dealt with in your own life.
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  • Well, i don't cheat.
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  • I don't smoke, i don't sleep around, but you cuss and you got
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  • A bad attitude and you cheat on your taxes and all sin has the
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  • Same manner.
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  • The mirror bible says this, this is awesome.
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  • In ephesians chapter 2 and 8, he says, "it was a grace-thing from
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  • Start to finish.
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  • Even the gift to believe simply reflects his faith."
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  • Grace reveals who we are and the faith of god persuades us of it.
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  • Oh, yes, grace reveals who we are and the faith of god's
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  • Trying to persuade you of it.
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  • Grace is saying you're righteous, faith is saying, come
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  • On, man, believe it, believe it, you really are.
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  • Go ahead and accept this.
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  • Go ahead and realize this.
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  • But religion says, no, no, no, no, grace reveals who you are
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  • And you have got to have faith and believe and pray and don't
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  • Miss church.
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  • You gotta do all of that.
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  • See, we're so focused on the scripture that says what's that
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  • Thing where they try to condemn people by not coming to church?
  • 00:15:03.983 --> 00:15:06.752
  • Because sometimes they just tired, what now?
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  • Yeah, forsake not the assembling of yourself as some do.
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  • You know what the greek is talking about there?
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  • Make sure you keep community.
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  • And so, we're so worried about coming to church that we don't
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  • Even know--we we don't have no community outside church.
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  • Where's the community outside the church?
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  • Where's the community that when somebody goes to the hospital,
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  • There's a community that can get together and pray for them.
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  • Where's the community at when somebody needs something, the
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  • Community gets together?
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  • It ain't just picking the phone up and calling pastor ken.
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  • Where's the community?
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  • Where's the community? forsake not community.
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  • Don't turn into a hermit, forsake not community.
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  • Grace reveals it, faith's trying to persuade you.
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  • Grace completely, successfully, 100% saved us.
  • 00:16:11.016 --> 00:16:17.189
  • Putting our faith in jesus didn't result--putting our faith
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  • In jesus didn't result--putting our faith in jesus didn't result
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  • In our salvation.
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  • That's strong, ain't it?
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  • We had zero contribution to our salvation.
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  • Both grace and faith are his gifts in us.
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  • And in romans chapter 1 and verse 17, where it talks about
  • 00:16:40.012 --> 00:16:44.750
  • From faith to faith, he said, "for therein is the
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  • Righteousness of god revealed."
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  • Is revealed from faith to faith.
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  • "as it is written, the just shall live," watch this,
  • 00:16:59.731 --> 00:17:07.272
  • "by faith."
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  • By the faith of jesus christ, and then later on you're gonna
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  • See at the end of this that the just live from the faith of
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  • Jesus christ that's in them, from the faith that god has
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  • Given them, from the faith, by faith.
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  • Romans 1:17, it talks about faith to faith.
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  • The subject of the sentence is not the believer or the
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  • Believer's faith, what's the subject of the sentence?
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  • Righteousness, righteousness of god, how it is revealed through
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  • The gospel.
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  • It is god's righteousness revealed from the faith of jesus
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  • Unto the believer's faith.
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  • It's revealed from the faith of jesus unto the believer's faith,
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  • Which is the same faith.
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  • Faith, faith to faith, like a reflection, you understand?
  • 00:17:51.216 --> 00:17:56.688
  • You look at yourself in the mirror, image to image, from
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  • Faith to faith.
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  • God's righteousness is revealed in the origin of his faith, so
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  • You have to understand that god's faith is the source of
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  • Our righteousness.
  • 00:18:14.706 --> 00:18:16.842
  • His faith is the origin of our righteousness, not your faith or
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  • How you're believing or any condition that you'll try to
  • 00:18:23.916 --> 00:18:26.718
  • Meet to try to deserve righteousness, but his faith
  • 00:18:26.718 --> 00:18:30.422
  • Originated from his righteousness and we have
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  • To realize.
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  • You know when you realize something you come to a place
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  • Where you are aware of it as fact?
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  • I am aware as fact that this is done and it is finished, and
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  • Faith is trying to convince you of that fact.
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  • So, if we miss that part of the origin of faith, we'll always
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  • Strive to have--we'll work hard to try to have enough faith on
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  • Our own, work real hard to do that.
  • 00:18:57.482 --> 00:19:01.920
  • We don't have to believe in our own faith for anything, we
  • 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.791
  • Simply need to realize that it is his faith in us.
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  • The power to walk in healing, the power to walk in prosperity
  • 00:19:12.064 --> 00:19:16.201
  • And deliverance, the power to walk in wholeness is by resting
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  • In his faith in us, as us, through us.
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  • Faith to faith is his faith lived out as our faith.
  • 00:19:24.243 --> 00:19:29.147
  • Faith to faith is his faith lived out as our faith, and if
  • 00:19:29.147 --> 00:19:36.822
  • We believe for those things in our faith, we end up striving.
  • 00:19:36.822 --> 00:19:41.426
  • We strive then, if we don't do it this way, we strive to
  • 00:19:41.426 --> 00:19:44.930
  • Overcome the doubts in our thinking by finding scriptures
  • 00:19:44.930 --> 00:19:49.434
  • To stand on and confessing those scriptures repeatedly, and then
  • 00:19:49.434 --> 00:19:53.372
  • Louder and then longer trying to figure out why we aren't getting
  • 00:19:53.372 --> 00:19:58.477
  • What we are believing for, whether it be healing, why are
  • 00:19:58.477 --> 00:20:04.016
  • We not getting healing?
  • 00:20:04.016 --> 00:20:05.384
  • Why are we not getting the financial miracle?
  • 00:20:05.384 --> 00:20:07.552
  • Why are certain family members not saved yet?
  • 00:20:07.552 --> 00:20:10.289
  • Why, why, why?
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  • I'm striving to do that because i will not receive or realize
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  • These things as being finished.
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  • Since i'm there, may i get extremely radical just for
  • 00:20:21.900 --> 00:20:24.603
  • A moment?
  • 00:20:24.603 --> 00:20:26.171
  • I won't stay there long, just for a moment.
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  • His faith is eternal.
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  • His faith is always now.
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  • His faith says now you are whole, now you are healed, now
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  • You are prosperous, now your family is saved.
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  • Now is not a time-bound word.
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  • Now is not a word that is bound by time.
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  • Some people would say, you know, as if they think that jesus will
  • 00:21:08.113 --> 00:21:12.284
  • Say, okay, now you can have it because you were faithful
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  • In obeying.
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  • Okay, now, okay, now, now, now you can have it because you were
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  • Faithful in tithing, you were faithful in waiting, you were
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  • Faithful in applying your faith to these things.
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  • No, his faith says now
  • 00:21:27.999 --> 00:21:33.238
  • As in you have always been whole.
  • 00:21:33.238 --> 00:21:38.710
  • Your family has always been saved.
  • 00:21:38.710 --> 00:21:42.147
  • You have always been healed.
  • 00:21:42.147 --> 00:21:45.283
  • Now, now was fleshed out in the time on the cross, done 2,000
  • 00:21:45.283 --> 00:21:51.089
  • Years ago.
  • 00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:52.424
  • Now was the lamb who was slain before time began.
  • 00:21:52.424 --> 00:21:56.828
  • Now is eternal, it is never bound by time's limitation, and
  • 00:21:56.828 --> 00:22:02.567
  • The language of his faith speaks now.
  • 00:22:02.567 --> 00:22:06.171
  • It speaks finished.
  • 00:22:06.171 --> 00:22:14.279
  • Now, i know that some people getting at what you trying to
  • 00:22:18.483 --> 00:22:23.355
  • Say my family always been saved?
  • 00:22:23.355 --> 00:22:26.224
  • You see what i'm saying?
  • 00:22:26.224 --> 00:22:30.228
  • Everybody know i'm talking about god's stance, but if they ever
  • 00:22:30.228 --> 00:22:35.100
  • Gonna get to where you want them to be, you got to operate in the
  • 00:22:35.100 --> 00:22:38.170
  • Now, and every time they do something wrong, you fall on
  • 00:22:38.170 --> 00:22:42.974
  • Your face again, lord, i don't know why you ain't--we ain't
  • 00:22:42.974 --> 00:22:46.244
  • Gonna save 'em, jesus.
  • 00:22:46.244 --> 00:22:48.447
  • He said i already have.
  • 00:22:48.447 --> 00:22:49.815
  • No, you ain't, no, you ain't.
  • 00:22:49.815 --> 00:22:55.620
  • How he gonna work with that?
  • 00:22:55.620 --> 00:22:58.056
  • How he gonna work with a bunch of unbelieving folks who just
  • 00:22:58.056 --> 00:23:01.092
  • Are so carnal they can't relate with him?
  • 00:23:01.092 --> 00:23:05.797
  • And he's having--he's like, how can i get this in your head?
  • 00:23:05.797 --> 00:23:12.771
  • Abide in the realm of the finished.
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  • Look at what's not finished and call that thing as though
  • 00:23:16.041 --> 00:23:21.046
  • It was finished.
  • 00:23:21.046 --> 00:23:22.881
  • Not to get it finished, but because of your relationship
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  • With god.
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  • As far as you're concerned, it's finished, and watch the
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  • Peace come.
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  • And i realize it, and so you look at your crazy uncle and you
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  • Say, man, you don't even know it, and this is so true.
  • 00:23:39.231 --> 00:23:42.868
  • You don't even know it, but you saved already, man.
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  • He looking at you, what you talking about, you don't know.
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  • Don't be putting that saved stuff on me, creflo over there
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  • Talking all that.
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  • Say, uh-uh, you don't even realize you saved already.
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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, i receive you as my savior.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Listen, if you prayed their prayer with me, that's how
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  • Simple it is.
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