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Creflo Dollar - The Gifts of Grace and Faith

March 11, 2025 | S25:E63

Creflo Dollar - The Gifts of Grace and Faith
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Gifts of Grace and Faith | March 11, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: faith is a nonwork.
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  • If--this is strong.
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  • If faith requires performance, then that faith destroys grace
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  • Or your opportunity to take it.
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  • You can't take--romans 11.
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  • If grace is works, then grace is no longer grace.
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  • It's no longer grace.
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  • See, what happens?
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  • So if you add work to your faith, you destroy grace.
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  • It's no longer grace.
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  • And everything that you're believing for and all the
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  • Promises he made came by grace, and to add works to the gift of
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  • Faith destroys what came by grace.
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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: all right, now here it is.
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  • So everything that's been made available, we access this
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  • Through what?
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  • We access this through what?
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  • All right, real quick romans 5 and 2 and romans 4:16
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  • In the nlt.
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  • Romans 5 and 2 and romans 4:16.
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  • We'll come back to this now. all right.
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  • Verse 2, "because of our faith, christ has brought us into this
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  • Place of undeserved privilege where we now stand."
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  • Isn't that interesting?
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  • We now stand.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • "and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing," watch
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  • This, "god's glory," or these manifestations i started off
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  • Talking to you about.
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  • Glory here is the manifested word, and notice how it starts.
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  • Beginning of verse 2 again.
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  • Notice how it starts.
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  • He says that because of our faith christ has brought us into
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  • This place of undeserved privilege.
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  • It's not because of our labor, not because of our effort, not
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  • Because of our performance.
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  • Do you see this?
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  • It is because of our faith that he has brought us into these
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  • Undeserved privileges.
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  • So i am all that he has done, all right, because of my faith.
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  • Now look at romans 4:16.
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  • Now, this is going to be a little shocking, but i've got to
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  • Take my time on this but--amen.
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  • Here we go.
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  • He says, "so the promise is received--" all of the promises
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  • We just--we talked about the promises of sozo and
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  • Soteria, right?
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  • All of the promises is received.
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  • See, all of these gifts have to be received.
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  • They got to be received.
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  • We've been trained--we've been working for it.
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  • They got to be received.
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  • Get a picture of that.
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  • They got to be received.
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  • I have a gift in my hands.
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  • I extend that gift to you, it's got to be what?
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  • Received.
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  • It's got to be taken.
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  • It's got to be received.
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  • It doesn't require you to work to get it.
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  • You already got it.
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  • It's got to be received.
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  • Not working to get healed, not working for soundness, not
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  • Working for preservation, but receiving.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Receive.
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  • Say it. "received."
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  • This promise is received.
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  • And guess what faith is?
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  • Faith is your receiver mechanism.
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  • Faith is your receiver mechanism.
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  • Faith is not your go-get-it mechanism, faith is
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  • Your receiver.
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  • It's your receiving mechanism.
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  • So god gave you grace, which is a gift.
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  • All right?
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  • Watch this.
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  • He--"so the promise is received by faith.
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  • It--" what is this it referring to?
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  • Faith.
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  • "it is given as a free gift."
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  • It's interesting because the promise was given as a free gift
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  • And faith was given as a free gift.
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  • "and we are all certain to receive it, whether or not we
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  • Live according to the law or--of moses--" you don't need faith to
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  • Live by the law 'cause the law is clear, "do this and
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  • This happens."
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  • You don't need faith to live by the law, but you need faith to
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  • Receive under this new covenant what jesus has already
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  • Given you.
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  • "and if we have faith like abraham's.
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  • For abraham is the father of all who believe."
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  • He's not just the father of all jewish people, he are the
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  • Fa--he's the father of all who receive.
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  • He's the father of receivers who received like him.
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  • And how did he receive?
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  • "abraham, you're going to have a son."
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  • Abraham, "i'm a--" he said, "i'm 100.
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  • My wife's--she 90-something.
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  • We old.
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  • We don't have the equipment.
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  • There's nothing we can do to make this happen.
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  • We old.
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  • We don't even feel like getting it on.
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  • We--there's nothing we can do to make this happen.
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  • If this is going to happen, if this promise is going to take
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  • Place, you going to have to do it.
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  • All we can do is believe and receive this child.
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  • We can--the only thing we can do is receive an isaac.
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  • We can't make him.
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  • We can't work for him.
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  • We have to receive an isaac."
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  • But religion's taught you now you got to sweat for an isaac,
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  • You got to perform for an isaac, you got to do all these things
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  • To get an isaac.
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  • And he says, "no, no, no.
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  • I only require for you to hear the promise, believe the
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  • Promise, and take the promise.
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  • I ain't ask you to do nothing else."
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  • All right, go back to ephesians 2.
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  • It's like a month and a half
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  • Now 'cause i--i'm not going to--all right now.
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  • "for by grace are you saved through faith; and that--"
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  • So what is the that referring to?
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  • Some theologians say, "well, he's referring to grace."
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  • Well, if that was referring to grace, it would make
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  • It redundant.
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  • You following what i'm saying?
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  • It's now redundant.
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  • We already know by definition that grace is a gift of god and
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  • That--it's redundant.
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  • "for grace--for by grace are you saved through faith; and that,"
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  • Faith is, "not of yourselves."
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  • And for most of my life i made faith about me.
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  • "do i have enough faith to get this?"
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  • And then when i don't get it and i don't get healed and i don't
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  • Get anything, then i blame it on my lack of faith.
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  • But he has given to every man what?
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  • The measure, not a measure.
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  • Because if he gave to every man a measure, then it would be
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  • Another measure and degrees of measure.
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  • But that's why he said he gave to every man the measure, which
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  • Means every man got the same measure that another man got.
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  • Think about it.
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  • Think about god, who's not a respecter of person, giving
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  • Pastor ken a measure and then i get a different measure and you
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  • Get a different measure, and then you look at people that got
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  • Manifestations and you think, "well, the reason why they got
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  • It is 'cause their measure of faith was greater than my
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  • Measure of faith."
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  • And watch the condemnation that come.
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  • "now i feel condemned because now i got to go and figure out
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  • How to work my measure of faith and work my faith muscles so it
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  • Can get big like theirs."
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  • Y'all hearing what i'm saying? i'm talking about me.
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  • How many of you know i can talk about me?
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  • I'm not going to get mad at me.
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  • I'm not going to walk by me and not speak
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  • To me and nothing like that.
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  • I'm talking about me.
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  • So don't you think i'm talking about nobody else.
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  • I'm talking about my journey to get where i am right now.
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  • That faith is not of yourselves.
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  • So you trying to manufacturing more faith to handle your issue
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  • That you don't believe you received it because you can't
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  • See it yet.
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  • Everything that is is, but it's just not--it may not have
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  • Appeared yet in this dimension that you live in.
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  • There are angels.
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  • You can't see them right now, but your lack of seeing the
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  • Angels doesn't mean the angels are not there.
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  • Remember the story with elijah?
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  • Was it elijah who--i think it was elijah.
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  • And he had a servant and, yeah, he told him to go up.
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  • "tell me what you see."
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  • They surrounded elijah getting ready to destroy him.
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  • He said, "go up and tell me what you see."
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  • He said, "i don't see nothing."
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  • He said, "go up there again."
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  • "oh, i see a bunch of angels surrounding that army."
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  • Now, the angels were always there.
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  • Just 'cause you can't see them--they here right now.
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  • If god were to open your spiritual eyes, we would all see
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  • That we have more than one guardian angel.
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  • Who said there's got to be one angel per person?
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  • There are enough angels to take care of you in fulfilling the
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  • Mission that god called you to fulfill.
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  • Don't let your angels be lounging around because you're
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  • Not following the leadership of the holy spirit.
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  • Now, watch this faith.
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  • That faith is not of yourselves.
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  • Think about what we've done with that.
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  • We've made it all about ourselves.
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  • When it worked, we made it about ourselves and boasted.
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  • Anytime you can boast about your faith--it shouldn't be
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  • Boast about.
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  • You should be boasting about god.
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  • We've made it about all of that, that not of yourselves.
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  • This faith is a gift of god.
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  • I was so blown away that god gave me grace as a gift and then
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  • Turned around and gave me a gift to receive what grace.
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  • Grace is a gift, and faith is a gift.
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  • Faith is a gift.
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  • It was dealt in the measure, equal measures.
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  • Faith is a gift.
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  • He gifted every man with the measure of faith.
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  • Glory to god. glory to god.
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  • And i'm going to teach on these phrases, little faith, big
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  • Faith, 'cause that's just real simple.
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  • Your faith is little or big based on if it's active or not,
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  • Based on your receiving or not.
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  • It's not measured.
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  • All right, now watch this.
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  • "and that not of yourself; it--" this faith is a gift of god.
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  • All right, now watch what he says about this gift.
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  • Here it said this faith is not of works.
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  • Okay, so this is the first session so i'm going to kind of
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  • Go with it just a little bit and then we'll do details later.
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  • This faith is not of works.
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  • Now, that freaks people out because bible says faith without
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  • Works is dead.
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  • The bible didn't say that.
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  • Yeah, james 2 says, you know, so then your faith without works is
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  • Dead, but you got to understand, watch this, context.
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  • So i'm going to teach on it.
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  • So i'm going to give you a week to read it.
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  • Context is that pastor james was dealing with a situation of
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  • People showing up on the porch and saying, "i'm naked and
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  • I'm hungry."
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  • And you say to them, "be ye clothed and be ye full."
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  • And james was saying, "okay, this saving faith that you say
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  • You have, you say you've been saved by this saving faith--"
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  • He said, "now, if you've been saved by this saving faith and
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  • You have this relationship with god, then this saving faith and
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  • This salvation in you should produce out of you some
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  • Good works."
  • 00:15:03.705 --> 00:15:09.177
  • Watch this.
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  • And then he said, "show me your faith--" i'm going to use
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  • A synonym.
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  • "show me your faith without proof, works, fruit; and
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  • I'll show you my faith with proof, works, fruit."
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  • In other words, now that you're saved and have a relationship
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  • With god, what should be brewing out of you because you're saved
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  • Is, "i got to clothe you.
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  • I got to give you something to eat."
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  • Paul was saying, "don't talk to me about you have saving faith
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  • And there is no fruit or works coming out of
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  • That relationship."
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  • Context.
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  • Then he goes on and he says abraham was justified by works.
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  • Well, we clearly see in romans 4 that the bible says that abraham
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  • Was justified by his faith.
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  • But james was not saying add works to your faith in order to
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  • Be justified, james was saying that if you are really born
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  • Again and you have this gift on the inside of you then it'll be
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  • Demonstrated and proved.
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  • Out of that will come the proof or the evidence of your works.
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  • Like abraham was justified by his fruit when he was asked by
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  • God to take his son up and sacrifice his son, we know he
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  • Had a relationship with god 'cause look at what he did.
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  • Are y'all seeing this?
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  • James was not contradicting paul at all.
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  • James was saying, "show me your faith without works, or proof,
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  • Or evidence, or fruit and i'll show you my faith and what's
  • 00:17:29.417 --> 00:17:34.355
  • Come out of my relationship with god in clothing folks and
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  • Feeding folks and carrying out the good works that are being
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  • Ministered on the inside of me to carry out."
  • 00:17:42.563 --> 00:17:45.032
  • So you were saved by grace so you can do good works.
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  • There are certain things that comes out of you that maybe
  • 00:17:48.870 --> 00:17:52.106
  • Wasn't in your mind before you got saved, but now that you're
  • 00:17:52.106 --> 00:17:54.942
  • Saved you got mercy and empathy and you find yourself doing
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  • Something for people that you would have normally not done
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  • For them.
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  • But now that that saving grace has inter--to interrupted your
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  • Life, you can't help but to look at people with mercy and grace
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  • And saying, "look at what god's done for me.
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  • I got to do it for them."
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  • Proof of your faith, and the way we interpret it was james said
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  • Faith without you doing something and that's
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  • Pretty--that's--if you understand what he was saying,
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  • But that's not how we did it.
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  • We took it to we got to add performance to our faith in that
  • 00:18:36.651 --> 00:18:41.522
  • Of--in order for our faith to work.
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  • So if you were receiving healing for your eyes, the way we've
  • 00:18:44.091 --> 00:18:47.929
  • Been trained is you got to take your glasses off 'cause "faith
  • 00:18:47.929 --> 00:18:51.399
  • Without works is dead."
  • 00:18:51.399 --> 00:18:54.302
  • See, you're trying to get your faith to make; and faith doesn't
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  • Make, faith takes.
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  • What does faith take?
  • 00:19:03.377 --> 00:19:04.712
  • It takes what grace has made.
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  • Faith doesn't make; and you're trying to get faith to make your
  • 00:19:07.248 --> 00:19:09.517
  • Healing, you're trying to get faith to make your prosperity,
  • 00:19:09.517 --> 00:19:11.886
  • You're trying to get faith to make you a new job.
  • 00:19:11.886 --> 00:19:13.955
  • You're trying to get faith to make all this other stuff and
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  • Faith doesn't make.
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  • Faith is a nonwork.
  • 00:19:20.228 --> 00:19:25.132
  • Faith is a nonwork.
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  • If--this is strong.
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  • If faith requires performance, then that faith destroys grace
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  • Or your opportunity to take it.
  • 00:19:41.415 --> 00:19:43.517
  • You can't take--romans 11.
  • 00:19:43.517 --> 00:19:50.458
  • If grace is works, then grace is no longer grace.
  • 00:19:50.458 --> 00:19:56.430
  • It's no longer grace.
  • 00:19:56.430 --> 00:19:58.766
  • See what happens?
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  • So if you add work to your faith, you destroy grace.
  • 00:20:00.101 --> 00:20:02.837
  • It's no longer grace.
  • 00:20:02.837 --> 00:20:05.139
  • And everything that you're believing for and all the
  • 00:20:05.139 --> 00:20:07.275
  • Promises he made came by grace, and to add works to the gift of
  • 00:20:07.275 --> 00:20:14.415
  • Faith destroys what came by grace.
  • 00:20:14.415 --> 00:20:19.654
  • So now what you have to do is you say, "by the grace of god i
  • 00:20:19.654 --> 00:20:24.358
  • Am healed, and by the faith of god i receive the healing.
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  • I'm not trying to make it.
  • 00:20:28.863 --> 00:20:30.264
  • I'm not trying to create it.
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  • I'm not trying to invent it.
  • 00:20:31.666 --> 00:20:33.134
  • I'm just taking what he has already made, and i will not add
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  • Works to that.
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  • But now that i'm saved by faith, hallelujah, you're going to see
  • 00:20:39.173 --> 00:20:43.544
  • The good works that come out of me because grace saved me so he
  • 00:20:43.544 --> 00:20:48.516
  • Can produce fruit out of me to impact this sick world."
  • 00:20:48.516 --> 00:20:56.490
  • See, you're disappointed because you've been using your faith
  • 00:20:56.490 --> 00:20:58.859
  • To get your car.
  • 00:20:58.859 --> 00:21:01.662
  • "yeah, but i got my car."
  • 00:21:01.662 --> 00:21:03.030
  • That's mercy and grace.
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  • They don't know.
  • 00:21:05.066 --> 00:21:07.068
  • --will teach them 10 years down the road.
  • 00:21:07.068 --> 00:21:08.969
  • They'll get it.
  • 00:21:08.969 --> 00:21:10.404
  • You keep adding works to a gift that is a nonwork.
  • 00:21:10.404 --> 00:21:20.881
  • This is as shocking to you today as the first day i started
  • 00:21:20.948 --> 00:21:24.218
  • Preaching on grace.
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  • But this is a gift.
  • 00:21:27.021 --> 00:21:29.623
  • Have we not proved that by scripture?
  • 00:21:29.623 --> 00:21:31.425
  • Now, the fight you going to have is, "do i let go of my tradition
  • 00:21:31.425 --> 00:21:37.264
  • Of the way i've always believed or am i ready to dig and pay
  • 00:21:37.264 --> 00:21:43.637
  • Attention to that voice in me that's saying, 'this is right.
  • 00:21:43.637 --> 00:21:49.243
  • This is right.'"
  • 00:21:49.243 --> 00:21:50.611
  • Because there's too much sweating.
  • 00:21:50.611 --> 00:21:53.781
  • Listen, i--a spiritual son of mine died years ago and i went
  • 00:21:53.781 --> 00:22:02.757
  • And i said, "well, i'm just going to raise him
  • 00:22:02.757 --> 00:22:04.191
  • From the dead."
  • 00:22:04.191 --> 00:22:05.526
  • Now, i'm going to compare that to when one person was raised
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  • With nothing and me trying to do it with works.
  • 00:22:10.631 --> 00:22:17.538
  • So i was in alabama and i told them, i said, "go get--i want to
  • 00:22:17.538 --> 00:22:21.609
  • See the body."
  • 00:22:21.609 --> 00:22:22.943
  • They said, "the body ain't ready yet."
  • 00:22:22.943 --> 00:22:24.278
  • I said, "bring it on out anyway."
  • 00:22:24.278 --> 00:22:27.448
  • And i had george with me.
  • 00:22:27.448 --> 00:22:29.216
  • He was like, "what the world are we doing?"
  • 00:22:29.216 --> 00:22:33.287
  • Dead body came in, and i was working my faith.
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  • I said, "in the name of jesus, rise up."
  • 00:22:38.993 --> 00:22:43.431
  • Just like they did in elijah day, just like they did--but see
  • 00:22:43.431 --> 00:22:48.602
  • In--"rise up."
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  • I ain't saying it.
  • 00:22:51.071 --> 00:22:52.440
  • I got to add some something to it.
  • 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:53.774
  • I keep trying to--"[speaking in tongues]"
  • 00:22:53.774 --> 00:22:58.679
  • Like, you feel more powerful when you say something you don't
  • 00:22:58.679 --> 00:23:00.848
  • Know what you're saying.
  • 00:23:00.848 --> 00:23:02.183
  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Get up."
  • 00:23:05.419 --> 00:23:06.787
  • Still didn't get up.
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  • "i ain't lay my hands right.
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  • Not enough oil."
  • 00:23:11.125 --> 00:23:12.827
  • The dead body sitting in there.
  • 00:23:12.827 --> 00:23:14.195
  • I got oil all on the dead body, hands all over.
  • 00:23:14.195 --> 00:23:16.664
  • "rise.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • He ain't get up.
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