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Creflo Dollar - The Glory of Grace

April 21, 2025 | S25:E98

Creflo Dollar - The Glory of Grace
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Glory of Grace | April 21, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: the glory from the only begotten was jesus.
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  • Jesus is the glory of grace because he was full of grace
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  • And truth.
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  • And on the cross when he died, and the death of a testator,
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  • Released this grace unto mankind and made it available to
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  • Everybody; where now, it's no longer what you do to make it
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  • So, but what he has already done.
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  • Creflo: i dare you say that someone's living so bad
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  • That god can't love them.
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  • Kendra ketter chavis: we have to walk in obedience today.
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  • Announcer: grace isn't just an idea.
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  • It's the heartbeat of our faith.
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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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  • ♪ oh, oh ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh ♪
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  • ♪ we're saved by his grace, so we embrace your love today ♪
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  • Creflo: tonight, we're gonna talk about the glory of grace
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  • And what that is, and then, we're going to move into
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  • Something that, i just gotta be honest with you, i just
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  • Probably, a few, about an hour ago closed my bible, because i
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  • Was like, i ran into something, i'm like, "is this true?"
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  • And i'm thinking, "no."
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  • And i looked at it again and i'm like, "no!"
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  • And i'm thinking, "lord, are they gonna believe me when
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  • I show them this?"
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  • It's gonna be a pretty good journey tonight.
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  • We're gonna talk about the glory of grace.
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  • I wanna start off in john, chapter 1, and verse 14.
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  • We're doing this study on the book of john.
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  • John was pretty fascinating because, you know, out of all
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  • The apostles, god, god chose john to write this and to get
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  • This strong revelation on grace.
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  • And one of the things that i'm commissioned to do, and that i
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  • Plan on doing in this series is teaching every jot and tittle
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  • Of it.
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  • And the whole book is comparing the law of moses with the grace
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • And about time you finish this, you would consider it an insult
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  • For you to even think about trying to add anything to what
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  • Jesus has already done.
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  • So in the book of saint john chapter 1:14, let's go and start
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  • With this.
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  • I saw myself the night just sitting and, and just like
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  • Teaching as if five people are around and just sharing and
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  • Sharing the word to you.
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  • I'm so hungry to get this to you.
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  • So i don't, i don't even know if i'll finish it.
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  • But i, i there's a place i'd love to get to tonight probably
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  • Won't get to it.
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  • But it's a place i'd love to get to tonight that's really gonna
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  • Stir you up.
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  • So john 1 verse 14, he says, and the word was made flesh.
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  • The word was made flesh.
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  • Uh, and we're talking about in the beginning was the word, the
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  • Word was made flesh in verse 14.
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  • And that word that, that was made flesh.
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  • We refer to him as jesus.
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  • Okay.
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  • The word that was wrapped in flesh was made flesh.
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  • We call him jesus.
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  • And here's what he says and, and he dwelt among us, he dwelt
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  • Amongst men and we beheld his glory.
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  • Now what--what did they behold?
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  • It was called glory.
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  • We beheld his glory.
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  • And then it said the glory as of the only begotten of the father.
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  • So we beheld the glory of god, the glory of the father and
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  • The glory of the father is jesus christ.
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  • We beheld the glory of the father.
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  • I so that you can follow me.
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  • I spent years trying to figure out how to, how to talk about
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  • Glory in a practical manner so that people could get it or they
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  • Wouldn't super spiritualize it.
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  • And just kind of you lose what we were talking about.
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  • But when i think of glory, i think about manifestation.
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  • Okay?
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  • And, and it fits everywhere.
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  • The manifestation of god, jesus christ, the word that was made
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  • Flesh is the manifestation from god.
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  • The only begotten of the father from god.
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  • And, and so glory is manifestation.
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  • When you see the glory of his written word, that's the
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  • Manifested word.
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  • That's something you experienced in your life, whether you stood
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  • On the word of healing and then healing came, that's glory.
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  • Okay?
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  • It's manifested word.
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  • And so he says, uh and the glory as of the only begotten of the
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  • Father, he says, the only begotten, the glory of god.
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  • Jesus christ was full of grace and truth.
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  • The glory of god.
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  • Jesus christ is full of grace and full of truth.
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  • And so john says, we beheld his glory.
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  • The glory is the only begotten of the father.
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  • Now compare it with the law of moses, the law giver moses also
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  • Had glory, but it was passing glory.
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  • Okay?
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  • So we're gonna, we're gonna look at those comparing, we're
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  • Talking about the glory of the father jesus christ.
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  • But we're also talking about that passing glory.
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  • That was uh that was on uh moses.
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  • If you go to second corinthians chapter three verse seven and
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  • Eight, and this is just the foundation of where we're
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  • Getting ready to go.
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  • Second corinthians chapter three verse seven and eight.
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  • And he says, but if the administration of death written
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  • And engraven in stones, all right now now think for a moment
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  • The administration of death written and engraven in stones.
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  • He says, if it was glorious now, as far as iii, i wanna be clear
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  • About this, you know, the law is perfect.
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  • The law is godly, the law is right.
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  • The problem is not with, with the what was written on stone.
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  • The problem is with what was written on stone was so perfect
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  • And men were not.
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  • So you got imperfect people trying to keep something that's
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  • Perfect and that's where the problem came in.
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  • That's why we needed a new agreement so that we could be
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  • Successful because there's nobody could be successful
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  • Under this.
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  • No man alive could be successful under this except jesus, okay?
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  • And so he says, but if the ministration of death, now
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  • Notice what he called that which was written and engraven
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  • In stones.
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  • He called it the ministration of death.
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  • Whoa, alright.
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  • But if the administration of death written and engraven in
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  • Stones, he said it was glorious so that the children of israel
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  • Could not steadfastly behold the face of moses for the glory of
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  • His countenance, okay?
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  • Now watch this, which glory was to be done away.
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  • So the glory that was on the face of moses, he had to wear
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  • A veil.
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  • We have a wrong conception of this.
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  • The the veil was not to cover up the glory to uh from being seen.
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  • It was to co cover up the fact that the glory was disappearing.
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  • I'm gonna read that to you.
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  • It was, the glory, was fading away.
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  • And as a leader, you know, if, if the glory was responsible for
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  • Them following, then the concern was if they saw the glory fading
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  • Away, they might start acting up so cover it and i'll show you
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  • What, what the veil is all about too.
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  • He says which glory was to be done away.
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  • Verse 8, how shall not the ministration of the spirit?
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  • So now you have the ministration of death, which was written and
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  • Engraven in stones which glory was fading away versus the
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  • Ministration of the spirit, which is rather more glorious.
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  • Okay?
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  • So i think in order for you to get a hold of really what's
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  • Going on here, i think i wanna use, i wanna read
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  • The entire passage out of the new living translation.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 3.
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  • And let's start at verse 6 and read through verse 18 because
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  • You see the contrast between the glory of the law and that of,
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  • Of grace.
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  • You're talking about, you know, glory that's going to be eternal
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  • Versus fading glory.
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  • Okay?
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  • The glory of the law versus the glory of grace.
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  • And i think it's--i think it's worth the time for us to, to
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  • Look at this and to read it.
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  • So let's do that again.
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  • He has enabled us to be ministers of the new testament.
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  • So all of us are ministers of the new testament, not of
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  • The old.
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  • This is a covenant.
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  • This is a covenant, not of written laws.
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  • The new testament is not a covenant of written laws but of
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  • The spirit.
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  • So please understand in these last days, we got to learn about
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  • The presence of god.
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  • We've got to engage with the spirit of god because this is
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  • Gonna be very important.
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  • All right, this is a covenant of not of written laws, but of
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  • The spirit.
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  • The old written covenant ends in death.
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  • But under the new covenant, the life or the spirit is one
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  • That gives life.
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  • You.
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  • We talked about this last time i was here, you, the law is
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  • Not going to in part life.
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  • Okay?
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  • But in this new covenant life is imparted.
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  • All right, verse uh seven, the old way with laws etched in
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  • Stone led to death though it began with such glory that the
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  • People of israel could not bear to look at moses's faith.
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  • Faith.
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  • That's what it begin with for his face shone with the glory of
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  • God, even though the brightness was already fading away.
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  • All right.
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  • Next verse, should we expect far greater glory under the new way
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  • Now that the holy spirit is giving life?
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  • See the comparison in verse 10.
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  • He says, if the old way which brings condemnation was
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  • Glorious, how much more glorious is the new way which makes us
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  • Right with god.
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  • Next verse.
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  • In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared
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  • With the overwhelming glory of the new way.
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  • You know what he's saying?
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  • Don't even think about trying to compare this glory, which with
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  • That, which has already passed away.
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  • All right.
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  • So if the old way which has been replaced, was glorious, how much
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  • More glorious is the new, which remains forever?
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  • So you have glory that remains forever under the new covenant
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  • And you have fading glory, which is already faded away under the
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  • Old covenant.
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  • Wow.
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  • Alright, since this new way gives us such confidence, we can
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  • Be very bold.
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  • We are not like moses who put a veil over his face.
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  • So the people of israel would not see the glory even though it
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  • Was destined to fade away.
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  • But the people's minds were hardened and to this day
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  • Whenever the old covenant is being read, the same veil covers
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  • Their minds so they cannot understand the truth.
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  • Now go to verse 15, behold there.
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  • I wanna define this veil for you.
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  • So you, you're gonna keep bumping into it.
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  • So we need to, we need to see what it is.
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  • Let me give you a definition of the of, of this the veil.
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  • What is the veil today right now?
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  • The veil today is the condemnation that comes from the
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  • Law that says they don't measure up to the standard, the
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  • Condemnation that comes from the law that says that they are
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  • Deserving of punishment the condemnation that comes from
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  • The law that say that, that they are, they have a cursed life.
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  • That's the veil, that's the veil.
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  • And he says that veil, even when they read the old testament
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  • Today, when you read that old test, that old law, that old,
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  • The law, he says, condemnation comes and,
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  • That's what it was sent to do.
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  • It was sent to condemn and to shame condemnation comes and,
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  • And you're condemned.
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  • You don't think you measure up.
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  • You don't think that you're deserving.
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  • You think you deserve punishment.
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  • You think you deserve to live a cursed life.
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  • So who puts the veil over people's eyes?
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  • 2 corinthians 3 through 4, satan is the one that
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  • Blinds the minds of those lest they, the light of the
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  • Glorious gospel should come in.
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  • So when we turn to jesus, the veil of condemnation is removed,
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  • The only way you get the veil of condemnation off is to turn to
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  • Jesus and to make him your lord and personal savior.
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  • We're here, he's comparing this.
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  • He says, yes.
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  • Even today when they read moses' writings, their hearts are
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  • Covered with that veil condemnation.
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  • The feeling that i'm condemned that i don't, i have a--
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  • That's god's punishing me, that i'm cursed.
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  • That's the condemnation.
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  • Even when you read it today.
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  • Okay.
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  • He says, "their hearts are covered with the veil and they
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  • Do not understand."
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  • They don't understand what they're doing when they choose
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  • To live by a old covenant where the glory has already faded
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  • Away--all right, verse 16.
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  • "but whenever someone turns to the lord," he says what?
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  • "the veil is taken away."
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  • So to deal with that condemnation, to deal with that
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  • Shame, to deal with all that stuff, he says, you're gonna
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  • Have to turn to the lord jesus is your way out of
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  • That condemnation.
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  • Amen.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • Alright, now watch this.
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  • He says, "for the lord is the spirit and wherever the spirit
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  • Of the lord is, there is freedom."
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  • Now, in context, you know what that means where the spirit of
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  • The lord is, there's liberty.
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  • We thought it was liberty to shout, liberty to do
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  • A cartwheel.
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  • Liberty to shout hallelujah.
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  • No, in context, he says: where the spirit of the lord is?
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  • There is freedom and liberty from what?
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  • From the condemnation of the law deliverance, from the law
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  • Deliverance, from the veil.
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  • You, you see how when you take scriptures out of context,
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  • You're left with the khan and you know most of us all
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  • Are alive.
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  • We just thought, well, where the spirit of god is,
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  • There's liberty.
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  • So i got the liberty to shout.
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  • Hallelujah, i got the liberty to dance.
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  • That ain't what they're talking about.
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  • He said, and and isn't it interesting?
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  • We take the cheaper over the deeper every time it is
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  • The freedom from that old administration of death.
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  • Freedom from what the law brings to your life.
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  • That's what he says there.
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  • And he says in, in verse 18, i love it.
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  • "so all of us who have had the veil removed," how many of you
  • 00:15:55.334 --> 00:15:59.204
  • Have had the veil removed?
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  • It doesn't make a difference when you know what the veil is
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  • Because i mean, all my life, i just thought veil some over.
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  • I know we're talking about but we have had the veil removed and
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  • We can see and we can reflect the glory of the lord and the
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  • Lord who is the spirit makes us more and more like him as we are
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  • Changed into his glorious image.
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  • And i still don't see nothing there that says you bring
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  • Something to the table so you can be made more and more
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  • Like him.
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  • I'm trying not to get excited like i did the last time here.
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  • I'm trying to say at least some level of calmness here because
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  • Iii i got blown away.
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  • I got blown away--by 5:30 i told taffi let me close this.
  • 00:16:46.985 --> 00:16:49.955
  • I said i am too blown away.
  • 00:16:49.955 --> 00:16:51.623
  • And then ii i said it to her and she's kind of looked at me
  • 00:16:51.623 --> 00:16:55.294
  • Like, mmm, you're gonna have to show me that.
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  • And i'm like taffi, that's what i've been doing all day.
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  • I was saying to the lord, you got to show me that not this but
  • 00:17:00.833 --> 00:17:03.769
  • What, where we're going and, and if i'll shut up, go on, we'll
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  • Get there, amen.
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  • Alright.
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  • Alright, so the the glory they they uh there is
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  • In the light of grace.
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  • Let's start there in the light of the grace of god,
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  • The law has now no glory in the light of the grace of god.
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  • You can see that very clearly doesn't have any glory.
  • 00:17:27.693 --> 00:17:30.796
  • So this glory of grace and i want you to remember that what
  • 00:17:30.796 --> 00:17:34.366
  • Is the glory of grace?
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  • This glory of grace is not seen by those who are under the law.
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  • We couldn't see it.
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  • You remember when you were under the law, you couldn't see it,
  • 00:17:40.339 --> 00:17:42.574
  • You couldn't see it.
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  • You, we were, we were trained in religion and law that you, that
  • 00:17:43.942 --> 00:17:47.045
  • You gotta do good to get good.
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  • And if you do bad, you get bad people who are under the law,
  • 00:17:48.981 --> 00:17:53.252
  • Can't see this.
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  • And yet there was something that isaiah prophesized.
  • 00:17:54.820 --> 00:17:58.390
  • He prophesized the very thing that was going to see the glory
  • 00:17:58.390 --> 00:18:04.663
  • Of god, which is jesus glorified in the earth.
  • 00:18:04.663 --> 00:18:09.468
  • Go with me to isaiah chapter 53.
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  • You're familiar with this verse 2 and 3.
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  • This is the very thing that we see and glorify.
  • 00:18:15.107 --> 00:18:18.277
  • Isaiah is speaking prophetically of israel and israel
  • 00:18:18.277 --> 00:18:21.914
  • Rejected him.
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  • I don't know if you know that israel rejected him.
  • 00:18:23.482 --> 00:18:27.920
  • He was rejected.
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  • Now don't write me no letters.
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  • The bible say that i'm gonna show you where it was
  • 00:18:30.622 --> 00:18:32.691
  • Rejected him.
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  • Isaiah 53:2 "for he shall grow up before him
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  • As a tender plant and as a root out of the dry ground,
  • 00:18:37.729 --> 00:18:42.968
  • He had no form nor comeliness.
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  • And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should
  • 00:18:46.104 --> 00:18:49.841
  • Desire him.
  • 00:18:49.841 --> 00:18:51.843
  • He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow and
  • 00:18:51.843 --> 00:18:57.683
  • Acquainted with grief:
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  • And we hid as it were our faces from him.
  • 00:18:59.451 --> 00:19:03.622
  • He was despised and we esteemed him not."
  • 00:19:03.622 --> 00:19:10.596
  • And yet it was in this very suffering that was described
  • 00:19:10.596 --> 00:19:14.733
  • Here by isaiah, by which he fulfilled the demands of the law
  • 00:19:14.733 --> 00:19:20.072
  • And then did away with it that his glory shone forth on
  • 00:19:20.072 --> 00:19:25.210
  • The earth.
  • 00:19:25.210 --> 00:19:26.545
  • For it was on the cross that jesus was glorified.
  • 00:19:26.545 --> 00:19:30.782
  • Let's look at john chapter 12 verse 27 and 28.
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  • It was on the cross that he-- that he was glorified,
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  • The manifestation of the grace of god on that cross.
  • 00:19:38.156 --> 00:19:46.531
  • When the devil thought he was doing one thing, he didn't even
  • 00:19:46.531 --> 00:19:49.468
  • Realize he was being glorified right there on that cross.
  • 00:19:49.468 --> 00:19:52.904
  • Look at this, verse 27.
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  • Now is my soul troubled; and what shall i say?
  • 00:19:54.673 --> 00:19:57.776
  • Father save me from this hour.
  • 00:19:57.776 --> 00:19:59.911
  • But for this cause came i unto this hour."
  • 00:19:59.911 --> 00:20:04.549
  • Mm, "father glorify thy name.
  • 00:20:04.549 --> 00:20:08.654
  • Then came there a voice from heaven saying i have
  • 00:20:08.654 --> 00:20:13.058
  • Glorified, i have--i have both glorified it and will glorify
  • 00:20:13.058 --> 00:20:18.030
  • It again."
  • 00:20:18.030 --> 00:20:19.364
  • Now i asked this question, lord, what is the difference between
  • 00:20:19.364 --> 00:20:24.736
  • The glory of god and the glory of grace.
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  • Okay.
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  • So we saw very clearly at the beginning that the glory of god
  • 00:20:29.374 --> 00:20:32.611
  • Is jesus amen.
  • 00:20:32.611 --> 00:20:35.881
  • And the glory of grace is jesus.
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  • I heard uh somewhere i don't know if i was reading or
  • 00:20:41.386 --> 00:20:44.289
  • Something, but somebody used this illustration.
  • 00:20:44.289 --> 00:20:46.892
  • They said the glory of god is mount everest.
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  • The very top peak is the glory of grace and glory to god.
  • 00:20:53.732 --> 00:21:00.172
  • So from god, the glory from the only begotten was jesus.
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  • Jesus is the glory of grace because he was he was he was he
  • 00:21:08.780 --> 00:21:14.152
  • Was full of grace and truth.
  • 00:21:14.152 --> 00:21:17.622
  • And on the cross when he died and the death of a testator
  • 00:21:17.622 --> 00:21:23.328
  • Released this grace unto mankind and made it available to
  • 00:21:23.328 --> 00:21:29.234
  • Everybody where now it's no longer what you do to make it
  • 00:21:29.234 --> 00:21:37.743
  • So, but what he has already done that made it so all, all you
  • 00:21:37.743 --> 00:21:45.417
  • Follow me there now.
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  • Alright. alright.
  • 00:21:46.952 --> 00:21:49.654
  • So we're almost beginning where where we wanna be.
  • 00:21:49.654 --> 00:21:51.089
  • So when that is seen, there is no glory left in the law and
  • 00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:59.064
  • For anybody to claim any degree of glory for the law in
  • 00:21:59.064 --> 00:22:03.535
  • The present age of grace.
  • 00:22:03.535 --> 00:22:06.171
  • It's almost for you to confess a corresponding failure to behold
  • 00:22:06.171 --> 00:22:12.744
  • In the glory of the only begotten of the father.
  • 00:22:12.744 --> 00:22:15.680
  • There is no comparison between the glory and of jesus and what
  • 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:22.721
  • He did.
  • 00:22:22.721 --> 00:22:24.089
  • And and what happened under the law now but you seek something.
  • 00:22:24.089 --> 00:22:31.830
  • Go to john chapter 1 verse 6 through 8.
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  • Now i i wanna i wanna show you something here and i wanna go
  • 00:22:37.135 --> 00:22:39.404
  • Really, really slow and cautious at this now.
  • 00:22:39.404 --> 00:22:48.647
  • While grace and truth came by jesus christ, right?
  • 00:22:48.647 --> 00:22:53.118
  • Grace and truth came by jesus christ.
  • 00:22:53.118 --> 00:22:55.954
  • Uh, the witness to grace has been committed to a man and
  • 00:22:55.954 --> 00:23:04.029
  • We're talking about the man john the baptist.
  • 00:23:04.029 --> 00:23:07.265
  • Alright, let's look at verse 6 through 8.
  • 00:23:07.265 --> 00:23:11.102
  • He says there was a man sent from god whose name was john,
  • 00:23:11.102 --> 00:23:14.739
  • Not the writer john, but john the baptist.
  • 00:23:14.739 --> 00:23:18.276
  • The same came for a witness.
  • 00:23:18.276 --> 00:23:20.178
  • John came for what to be a witness to bear witness
  • 00:23:20.178 --> 00:23:25.083
  • To, watch this, the light, all right.
  • 00:23:25.083 --> 00:23:27.752
  • So please let's let's go ahead and define it right now.
  • 00:23:27.752 --> 00:23:30.121
  • What's the light, right?
  • 00:23:30.121 --> 00:23:32.691
  • So he was sent to bear the witness of jesus who is also
  • 00:23:32.691 --> 00:23:37.496
  • Come on the light.
  • 00:23:37.496 --> 00:23:39.831
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  • 00:23:39.831 --> 00:23:43.468
  • All men through him might believe.
  • 00:23:43.468 --> 00:23:47.305
  • So all men through the light through jesus christ
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  • They're empowered to change their lives for the better.
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  • Thank you for supporting us with your financial donations.
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  • And every time you give, you're being used by god to stop
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  • Misfortune in someone else's life.
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  • And for that, we say thank you.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Male announcer: if you want to honor the lord by sowing
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  • Financial seeds into creflo dollar ministries,
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  • Call the number on your screen or log on to
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  • Creflo: salvation is the beginning of a new
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  • Life for 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
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  • To understand who christ is and to lead people to christ.
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  • If you would like salvation today,
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  • Pray this prayer with me, 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,
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  • And that he lives today.
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  • Come into my life.
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  • Save me.
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  • I receive you as my savior.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me,
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  • That's how simple it is.
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  • Welcome to the family of god.
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  • Male announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring
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  • This message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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