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Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin (Part 2)

July 21, 2025 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin (Part 2) | July 21, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: there is a difference between sin
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  • And the sinner.
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  • We do not become a sinner again just because we commit a sin.
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  • I've never been this straightforward before, this
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  • Is cool.
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  • It's liberating.
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  • I've always had to go over that sentence and not quite say it.
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  • I'll say it again.
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  • We do not become a sinner again just because we committed a sin.
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  • What jesus did on the cross is stronger than that.
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  • Announcer: as a christian, what happens after you sin?
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  • Do you lose your righteousness?
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  • God's gift of righteousness gives us peace with him,
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  • Not through our works,
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  • But through faith in jesus's finished work on the cross.
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  • Creflo: now, look at romans chapter 5, verse 12-21 in
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  • The nlt.
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  • Romans chapter 5, verse 12-21 in the nlt.
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  • All right.
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  • "when adam sinned, sin entered the world.
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  • Adam's sin brought death," do you understand that when god
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  • Made man, man was never supposed to die?
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  • He made man immortal.
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  • He was not--man was not--adam and eve were not made
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  • Mortal beings.
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  • They were made never to die.
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  • They were supposed to live forever.
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  • "but when adam sinned, sin entered the world.
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  • Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for
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  • Everyone sinned."
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  • Have you noticed in the old testament, people would live
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  • 500 years?
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  • It took a long--it took hundreds of--i'd say thousands
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  • Of years to work out eternity from the body.
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  • That's why adam and eve didn't have no natural clothing.
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  • They didn't put nothing on their body until they sinned and they
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  • Lost the glory.
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  • They were naked of natural clothing, but they were covered
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  • With their natural coat, which was the glory that was going to
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  • Be responsible for immortality that was lost when one man
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  • Sinned and death came on one man, and eternity went from
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  • Eternity to a thousand years to 800 and some years to 500 and
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  • Some years, and then here's what people don't understand, the
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  • Bible says you're gonna live a minimum of 70 years, and more if
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  • You like, and you think that's a blessing.
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  • That's a part of the curse that occurred in the garden.
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  • Seventy years?
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  • From 800 to 70?
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  • Do your math.
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  • I would love for y'all to have to put up with me for 800 years,
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  • That'd be something else.
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  • I told your great, great, great, great, great--whatever, i lost
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  • Count of the greats.
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  • Adam's sin brought death.
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  • That wasn't supposed to be a part of our existence.
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  • "so death spread to everyone, for everyone's sinned."
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  • Now what's this: "yes, people sinned even before the law
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  • Was given.
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  • People said even before the law was given.
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  • But it was not counted as sin," why?
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  • "because there was not yet any law to break."
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  • You can't cause something wrong if there's not anything
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  • Prohibiting it.
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  • So that's one of the reasons the law came in, to curb sin.
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  • It was getting crazy out there.
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  • They said, "we got to do something."
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  • You got giants coming out here and angels coming out here
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  • Having sex with women and they producing giants, and you got
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  • Brother killing brother, and then you got them building the
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  • Tower trying to reach the heaven with the tower--there all kinds
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  • Of stuff going on.
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  • So you can't call something sin without a law.
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  • So they've been sinning since adam failed, but there was no
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  • Law to curb sin.
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  • "still, everyone died--from the time of adam to the time of
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  • Moses--even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment
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  • Of god, as adam did.
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  • Now adam is a symbol, of a representation of christ, who
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  • Was yet to come.
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  • But there is a great difference between adam's sin and god's
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  • Gracious gift.
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  • For the sin of this one man, adam, brought death to many.
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  • But even greater is god's wonderful grace and his gift of
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  • Forgiveness to many through this other man, jesus christ."
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  • My goodness.
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  • Sixteen.
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  • "and the result of god's gracious gift is very different
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  • From the results of that of man's sin.
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  • For adam's sin led to condemnation, but god's free
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  • Gift leads to our being made right with god, even though we
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  • Are guilty of many sins."
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  • 'cause, you see, it wasn't you, it was adam that started this,
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  • And it was jesus that ended it.
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  • And you keep trying to put yourself in the middle of
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  • All that.
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  • "for the sin of this one man, adam, caused death to rule
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  • Over many.
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  • But even greater is god's wonderful grace and his gift of
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  • Righteousness, for all who received it will live in
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  • Triumph," all who receive it will--all who receive it will--
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  • All who receive it--see, our problem is we won't receive it.
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  • We receive the law based teaching in religion.
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  • We receive rules keeping--some of us are more concerned about
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  • Rules than we are people.
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  • Remember, with the woman that was caught in the act
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  • Of adultery?
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  • They were more concerned about what rule was broken than
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  • Concerned about this lady.
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  • And that's what the church has become.
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  • We're more concerned about rules and doctrine than we do people.
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  • We don't care about people no more.
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  • We care more about who keeping the rule and who ain't keeping
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  • The rule.
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  • You ain't got to clap.
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  • "they all have triumph over sin and death through this one man,
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • You can't do it except through the man.
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  • Eighteen.
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  • "yes, adams one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but
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  • Christ's one act of righteousness brings a right
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  • Relationship with god and a new life for everyone."
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  • All you got to choose.
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  • You go choose adam, and you get condemnation for everybody who
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  • Choose adam.
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  • Choose jesus, and he'll make everything right for everyone.
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  • He--so far ain't no list of the stuff you got to do to qualify
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  • Except choose who you gonna choose.
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  • Verse 19.
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  • "because one person disobeyed god, many became sinners.
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  • But because one other person obeyed god, many will be made,
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  • Made, made, made, made."
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  • Not "became," but "made."
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  • Not, "you did something to make it," but, "made righteous."
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  • Verse 20.
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  • "god's law was given so that all people could see how sinful
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  • They were."
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  • Whoa.
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  • He said, "god gave you the law so you can see
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  • How sinful you are.
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  • You didn't have nothing to break, so you didn't
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  • Know how bad you were.
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  • So let's give some--give 'em the law so you can see how
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  • Sinful you are.
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  • You a mess."
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  • And the problem with that is the church religion today still
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  • Trying to give you laws, and you still looking at the law is
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  • Trying to show you how sinful you are.
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  • You still looking at how sinful you are, so you've developed a
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  • Sin consciousness, and that proves that you have not
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  • Switched sides over here to god, because instead of having a god
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  • Consciousness, you're more conscious of sin and how big of
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  • A mess you are and less conscious of you've been made
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  • Righteous and you have a new creation.
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  • So you keep going and hearing how bad you are.
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  • You keep doing it.
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  • Honey, why don't you leave there?
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  • "my grandmama went to this church, her mama went to this
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  • Church, and bless god, i'm going to this church."
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  • And you're gonna live all your life in bondage, because here's
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  • One thing i know about people who keep the law.
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  • You can't go around here acting like you don't do no wrong,
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  • Because if you keep the law, the law was made for you to do
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  • Something wrong.
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  • "but as people sinned," look what happens, "as they sinned
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  • More and more, god's wonderful grace became more and
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  • More abundant."
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  • Twenty-one.
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  • "so just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to
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  • Death," just like sin did, "god's wonderful grace rules
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  • Instead, giving us right standing with god and resulting
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  • In eternal life through jesus christ our lord."
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  • This seems like an easy decision.
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  • This seems like an easy decision, except we done
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  • Bought religion.
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  • We done bought traditional, law-based,
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  • Rule-keeping religion.
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  • And instead of caring and loving people out of our hearts, we
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  • Checking the rules.
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  • And by the way, you checking the very rules you break.
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  • Is everybody still on the bus?
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  • All right, here we go.
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  • There is a difference between sin and the sinner.
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  • We do not become a sinner again just because we commit a sin.
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  • I've never been this straightforward before.
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  • This is cool.
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  • It's liberating.
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  • I've always had to go over that sentence and not quite say it.
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  • I'll say it again.
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  • We do not become a sinner again just because we committed a sin.
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  • What jesus did on the cross is stronger than that.
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  • This is about our nature.
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  • Jesus dealt with the sin and the sinner.
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  • This is about our nature.
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  • Go to romans chapter 6, verse 5, king james.
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  • Verse 5-7.
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  • All right, i'm assuming you speak english, 'cause we're
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  • Gonna read some english.
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  • Are you there?
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  • You ready?
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  • "for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his
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  • Death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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  • Knowing this," here's what you gotta know: "that our old man,"
  • 00:13:37.463 --> 00:13:45.504
  • Look at there, "old man."
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  • What happened to your old man?
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  • It was crucified with christ, and that old man is also
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  • The body of sin.
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  • And what happened to the body of sin?
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  • It was destroyed.
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  • "that henceforth we should not serve sin."
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  • Look at the sentence.
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  • He defines sin as the body of sin and the old man.
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  • Sin, here, is a noun.
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  • Person, place, or thing.
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  • Sin is a noun.
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  • This is not a verb.
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  • He didn't say, "your old man was crucified, the body of sin was
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  • Destroyed, and now you won't be sinning no more."
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  • What he says is: "you're not gonna serve the old man because
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  • The old man is responsible for your sinning, but if the old man
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  • Has been destroyed, and if the old man has been crucified, then
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  • You don't have to serve the old man."
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  • Verse 7, "for he that is dead is freed from," watch this: "the
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  • Old man."
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  • You're free from the old man.
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  • We keep looking at this as a verb--sinning, what you're
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  • Doing wrong--and not the one that was responsible for
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  • Sinning: the old man.
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  • You don't have the old man no more.
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  • Now that you're born again, you don't have to worry about
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  • Sinning because the new creation doesn't produce sinning.
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  • It was the old man that produced sinning.
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  • And you were captured by the old man, that was your nature.
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  • Listen, a mule is a mule.
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  • You can raise him like a race horse, you can cut his hair like
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  • A race horse, you can talk to him like a race horse, but as
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  • Soon as you put him behind the gates and they blow their
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  • Whistle or hit the gun, that joker gonna start acting like a
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  • Mule and not gonna run not one bit.
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  • He gonna be looking for something to eat because that is
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  • His nature.
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  • And so, likewise, the nature of somebody who sins is the sinner,
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  • Glory to god.
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  • And the sinner in you, glory to god, is no longer in you.
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  • That sinful man has been destroyed.
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  • That old man has been crucified.
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  • You don't have to serve the old man no more because he ain't
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  • There to be served no more.
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  • He has passed away.
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  • Someone said, "well, what do you do with that knowledge?"
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  • Well, go to verse 1, there's only one place in romans chapter
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  • 6 where sin is used as a verb, and that's verse 15.
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  • Every time you see sin in romans 6, it's a noun.
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  • It's talking about the man of sin, the old man.
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  • Now watch this: "what shall we say then?
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  • Shall we continue--" i'm gonna translate and define sin so you
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  • See what i'm saying.
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  • "shall we continue in the old man, that grace may abound?"
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  • You know how we read that?
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  • "what shall we say then?
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  • Shall we continue sinning?
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  • Shall we continue to do sinful acts?"
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  • Man, what are you talking about?
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  • See, we're always dealing with the fruit instead of the
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  • Very root.
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  • We're dealing with the cheaper, instead of the deeper.
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  • If you hit the thing where the root is, the fruit gonna stop.
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  • Take care of the old man, and the old behavior gonna
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  • Eventually leave, 'cause you ain't--he ain't there no more.
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  • You got a new creation who's after god, who is perfect and
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  • Holy and flawless, and eventually your belief in that
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  • New creation in you is gonna eventually start training that
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  • Old software, and it's gonna start producing holy and
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  • Righteous things, because you believe you have a new creation
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  • And you believe you're righteous.
  • 00:18:23.815 --> 00:18:25.450
  • But some of you still think the devil is living on the inside of
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  • You still.
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  • Listen.
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  • "what shall we say then?
  • 00:18:33.892 --> 00:18:35.527
  • Shall we continue in the old man, that grace may abound?"
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  • Or "increase?"
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  • Now watch paul.
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  • "god forbid."
  • 00:18:41.700 --> 00:18:43.068
  • Now watch this: "how shall we," paul looked at this sentence and
  • 00:18:43.068 --> 00:18:46.738
  • Says, "okay--no, god forbid, but how are we gonna do that?
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  • How shall we?
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  • How shall we, who are dead and separated from the old man, how
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  • Shall we live any longer therein the old man?"
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  • Paul was like saying, "what you're saying can't happen no
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  • More because that which was responsible for that behavior,
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  • We're dead to it.
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  • We are separated from it.
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  • We have a new nature now."
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  • All nature has passed away, new nature has come.
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  • I will not continue to allow a old nature that i have been dead
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  • To continue to hunt and rule my life.
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  • I have a new creation, glory to god, created after god, and made
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  • In the image of god.
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  • And when i start believing that i have a new creation and having
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  • Confidence that i have a new creation, then when i behave in
  • 00:19:51.036 --> 00:19:57.476
  • Sinful behavior, i have to now credit that to my soul that has
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  • Yet to be renewed.
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  • And what it should say to you is if you start acting crazy one
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  • Day, what you should say is, "oh, i need to get in the word.
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  • I need to renew my mind because that's not me, that's not
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  • My nature.
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  • I don't do that no more.
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  • I used to cuss you out in three seconds but i got a new
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  • Creation, so i need to--i need--" what's that?
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  • "i need a telephone--i need to update.
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  • I need to update the software.
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  • I need to update--" it's the renewing of your mind.
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  • The renewing of your mind is why you can be dead to the sinful
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  • Man and still act in sin action.
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  • Woo, i'm tired.
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  • I mean, you're trying to crack open centuries of
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  • Religious beliefs.
  • 00:21:05.377 --> 00:21:10.349
  • Now, let me get back to my point though.
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  • Do you understand all that?
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  • I mean, i want you to read-- look at verse 15--the only
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  • Place where the action of sin is used as a verb.
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  • Verse 15.
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  • "what then?
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  • Shall we sin," action.
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  • That's not a noun.
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  • Now, "shall we sin," action.
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  • Okay, 48 times in the book of romans it's used as a noun.
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  • Only eight times in the book of romans it's--only eight times
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  • It's used as a verb.
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  • "what then?
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  • Shall we sin," sinning, action, "because we're not under the
  • 00:21:42.781 --> 00:21:45.917
  • Law, but under grace?"
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  • That's the only time.
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  • The rest of the time, you have to remind yourself when you're
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  • Reading is you got to meditate and you gotta say, "wait a
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  • Minute, that's a noun.
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  • The sin man. the sin man.
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  • The sin man.
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  • He's been destroyed, i'm dead to him.
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  • I'm dead to him.
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  • I'm alive to the new creation.
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  • I'm alive to the new creation, right now."
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  • In the same way, we couldn't become righteous by works.
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  • Could you become righteous by works?
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  • No.
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  • The old testament said in order to be righteous, you had to
  • 00:22:21.153 --> 00:22:22.888
  • Do right.
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  • In the new covenant, you're righteous because of your faith
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  • In jesus christ.
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  • So in the same way that we couldn't become righteous by
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  • Works, we don't lose our righteousness by works.
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  • We didn't become righteous by works, we don't lose it
  • 00:22:36.268 --> 00:22:39.471
  • By works.
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  • You didn't become righteous by your works, you don't lose it by
  • 00:22:43.408 --> 00:22:47.913
  • Your works.
  • 00:22:47.913 --> 00:22:49.848
  • Your work is not a factor.
  • 00:22:49.848 --> 00:22:52.851
  • It wasn't a factor in you getting righteous, and it's not
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  • Gonna be a factor in you losing your righteousness.
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  • It's a matter of faith in the redemptive work of jesus.
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  • Committing a sin doesn't make you partly righteous--
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  • Unrighteous, excuse me.
  • 00:23:15.874 --> 00:23:17.209
  • Committing a sin doesn't make you partly unrighteous.
  • 00:23:17.209 --> 00:23:25.650
  • Now, listen to this.
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  • I had to write this on a note card, i couldn't forget this.
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  • So we believe that we are still the new creation,
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  • Even if we make a mistake.
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