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Creflo Dollar - God's Ways vs. Man's Ways

June 9, 2025 | S25 E140 | 28:55

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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - God's Ways vs. Man's Ways | June 9, 2025

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Creflo dollar: god is so far from the thought of repayment.
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You know, you are-- you've been good so,
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He's gonna do something good to you to pay you for being good.
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That has--that is not his way, that has never been his way
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But us humans have kind of made it like that.
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And his way's much higher than that.
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Creflo: we started this some weeks back.
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We talked about god's ways versus man's ways and we have to
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Know this, 'cause we keep trying to bring god down on our level
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And he ain't coming.
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He came down on our level when he bought jesus,
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Yeah, who was touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
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But not so we can stay at that level,
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But to come up to where we need to be.
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And so, i need you to listen, man.
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I need you to listen.
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Let me start off with this.
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It's one of things god instructed me to begin
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To do everywhere i go.
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Life, once you get born again, you get on a journey,
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Life is a journey life, that spiritual life,
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Your saved life is a journey.
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I may have mentioned this to you before,
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But it's like if you take a road trip from atlanta to la,
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It's on a--you're on a journey, okay?
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And there will be different things that may come up
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On that journey.
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You might be on your way to la and take a wrong turn and you're
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Off the path.
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And it may take some time to get back on the path.
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You may be on your way to la from atlanta and you're gonna
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Have to have a pit stop.
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You might have to stop and get some gas,
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Or a tire.
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There are a lot of things that could happen on the way
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To the journey.
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But nobody is there to condemn you to hell just because you
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Took a wrong turn, just because you had a flat tire,
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Just because it was necessary for you to get a refill.
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Nobody's gonna condemn you to hell.
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And yet, as christian people, we don't understand that this life
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Is a journey and on this journey you're gonna fall,
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You're gonna say the wrong things,
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You're going make--but that doesn't mean condemn them
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Because the journey continues.
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And you know what's great about the journey?
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Is jesus is going on a road trip with you,
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Not to beat you up but to say to you,
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"okay, i got you, let's get back on the journey here.
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Oh, okay, no problem. you need a refill?
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I'll go ahead and fill you up again.
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You need a--you need your wheels aligned?
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I'll line you up. you're out of balance?
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I'll give you a balance."
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There's nothing wrong with all of--all the stuff that happens
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In our lives on this journey.
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It's like god says, "that's the stuff that's to be expected
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On the journey."
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Why do we get on this journey and don't expect for anything to
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Show up on the journey?
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So, it's all right.
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You don't spend two years in condemnation because you
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Had to fill up.
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You don't spend ten years in shame because you had
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A flat tire.
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You're gonna get fat tires on journeys but it's okay because
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Jesus is your role dog.
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No, no, no, you know, the dog park god,
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That's the illustration, you know.
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Forgive me, jesus, again.
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We gotta start thinking like that.
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So, what happens sometimes is in real life you mess up.
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It took you probably 30 minutes to mess that up,
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And you spend ten years being condemned by it.
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He says, "stop doing that, you're on a journey.
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We still got a ways to go.
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Nobody has time for you to sit at the rest station for a week.
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Nobody has time for you to sit there pitying yourself for
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Another week.
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You had the flat tire, change the tire and get back
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On the road."
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You might be tired, take a nap, get back on the road,
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That's how life is.
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So, shake off all the things you've encountered
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And thank god that today you are still on this journey.
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[congregation applauding]
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You're still on this journey.
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So, stop beating yourself up.
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Stop beating yourself up and stop beating one another up.
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That's how god's looking at it. you're on a journey.
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Your kid first started walking, your kid's gonna fall,
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That's what happens on the journey of learning how to walk.
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When he falls, you don't beat his brains out and speak all
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Kinds of crazy stuff to him.
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"you ain't no good, you fell.
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Now don't fall no more, if you fall i'mma--"
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Nobody does that, everybody understands this is for a time.
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You wear a pamper for a time.
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How many of you know there's a problem if you're still wearing
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A pamper and you're 21?
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You're on a journey.
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Now god has a way of doing things.
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And human mankind, natural man has a way of doing things,
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And we need to see the difference because too many
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Times we're coming up with ways of saying,
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"god's just like this."
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No, look what he says here, romans 55, verse 8 and 9.
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Isaiah, thank you. you can tell i'm excited.
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"for my thoughts are not your thoughts,
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Neither are your ways my ways, saith the lord.
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For as the heavens are higher than the earth," heaven's ways
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Are higher than the earth, god's ways are higher than your ways.
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He says, "so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts
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Are higher than your thoughts."
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And there is no instance in-- that this is more true than
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In the connection with promptings to proper conduct.
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There's no instance where this is more true than in connection
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To proper conduct.
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So, we look at your conduct, and you look at how you have chosen
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To conduct and carry yourself.
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And god is saying, "my ways are higher than your ways where this
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Is concerned," because under grace,
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God does everything apart from human merit.
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When i use the word merit, i'm--
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It really means being good to deserve a reward.
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So, god does, under grace, everything apart from
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Influencing you to do something in order to deserve a reward.
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And so, under grace, he does everything apart from that.
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He's not doing anything.
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Under grace, he does everything apart
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From any thought of repayment.
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So, god under grace, is not trying to do something because
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You've been good, so you deserve a reward.
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We may might do that.
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"i'm gonna be good so i can deserve a reward."
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God is so far from that.
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God is so far from the thought of repayment.
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You know you are-- you've been good,
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So, he's gonna do something good to you to pay you
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For being good.
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That has--that is not his way, that has never been his way.
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But us humans have kind of made it like that.
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And his way's much higher than that.
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He cannot offer his blessing as an inducement or influencing
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Someone to do something.
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He can't offer his blessing, he can't say,
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"i'm gonna bless you if you do this."
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He's not saying--he can't say,
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"i'm gonna bless you if you're good."
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He cannot say, "i'm gonna bless you if your behavior lines up
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Right, then i'll-- and bless you."
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God can't do that.
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His blessings, he cannot offer his blessing as an inducement,
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Nor can he offer his judgment as a threat to encourage
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Godly living.
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So, he wants you to live godly, but he can't use the blessing
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To get you to live godly.
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And he can't use judgment to threaten you to live godly.
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He can't do it and i am telling you,
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All my life, i'm thinking that's how it worked.
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I go to church this sunday, god gonna repay me by letting me get
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A raise.
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How many of y'all thought that?
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Raise your hands or come up here and let me cast that lying devil
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Out you.
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And i guess that's why it's taken me so long to preach this,
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'cause this goes against everything that we heard
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About god.
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Now, it is true that what i just said,
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It's true for humans.
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If you do good, i'm gonna do something to reward you.
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If you do good, then i'm gonna repay you for doing good,
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That's our way.
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But what's gonna happen now, i'm gonna judge you
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If you don't do good.
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Then we do that with our kids.
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"if you act right in school, i'm gonna do you good,
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But i'm gonna threaten you if you don't act right in school."
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That's our way.
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And somehow, we have made our way, god's way.
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And that ain't god's way.
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Oh, jesus, everybody on-- still on the bus with me now?
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We--you still on bus with me? you still on the bus with me?
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All right.
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Therefore, under grace, under grace,
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God first reminds us of what he has done in grace and then on
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The basis of that, he appeals for a life of godliness,
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With that in mind.
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In other words, god has this work of grace.
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He reminds us of his grace, and he reminds us of his mercy and
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Then he makes an appeal for us to live godly.
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But not without us understanding his work of grace.
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Let me show you the phrase that god gave me that--
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To pull all this together.
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It may help you. i wrote it down.
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I was so excited about it, i signed my name just
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In case i leave it back and hundreds of years later,
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Someone, nobody else won't have to struggle with what i'm
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Getting ready to preach.
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And it's no longer a struggle but here's what he said.
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"god will not make an appeal."
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When i use the word appeal, he won't appeal to you to say,
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"all right, you need to live godly,
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Or "all right, you need to present your body as a living
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Sacrifice holy, and acceptable unto god."
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All right, you need to treat everybody--
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That's what i refer to as an appeal.
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So, i'm going to use the word appeal this morning.
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The appeals that god make.
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He appeals to you to live holy, appeals to you to do right,
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Appeals to you, to do that, but he never appeals to you--
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Here's what he says, "god will not make an appeal without first
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Providing mercy and grace for our failures."
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Oh, boy.
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So, what is--what he means there is,
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"i'm not asking you to live right until i first of all have
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A work of mercy and grace for when you don't live right
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That day."
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So now, all of a sudden, you're not too afraid to accept that
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Appeal because the threat of me not being able to do it has been
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Taken away because he said, "before i ask you to live godly,
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Notice my mercy and grace is at every beginning of every appeal
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That i have asked you."
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So, i went and checked that out.
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I said, "oh yeah?" and i started seeing it.
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I saw how we skip the mercy and grace part and went straight
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To the appeal.
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"live godly."
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But god says, "no, no, no, i won't ever request for you to do
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Anything without first of all recognizing my work of grace
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In being able to ask you to live this way.
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So don't be afraid that you can't live this way because
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I've already worked this thing out for your bad days."
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[congregation applauding]
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Oh, now--yeah, i know, i know, i got my handkerchief,
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I got my handkerchief here.
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Any time, we're gonna cry in a minute, babe,
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I got--one for you.
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All right, now watch this now:
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"but man's ways are not god's ways."
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In general, man clings to the idea that benefits always come
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Because of good conduct, and man's ways are that losses come
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Because of bad conduct.
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So, man's ways are, "all right these good things showed up
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Because we did something good.
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Or this bad thing showed up 'cause we did something bad."
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That's man's way, losses and rewards based on our conduct
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With no consideration of the grace and mercy that has been
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Put in this place.
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Natural man always feels that he must contribute something
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To earn god's favor.
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That's what church has been like for some of you,
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For the last 10, 20, 30 years.
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Natural man saying--and based on church and based on pulpit and
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Based on sermons, natural man says,
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"i've got to contribute something in order
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To get god's favor.
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And if i don't contribute something,
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I can't get god's favor."
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In the pulpits of the world, this is what you have
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To contribute to get god's favor, but you have to
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Understand, you did not contribute anything
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At the beginning of god's favor.
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God's favor was god's idea, not mine, not yours.
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Think about this, think about always thinking,
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"i've got to contribute something.
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I gotta go--" it so contradicts everything.
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If you have to contribute something to get god's favor,
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It's not favor.
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How is it favor if you had something to do with getting it?
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It's not.
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I contributed nothing to get born again except i believed.
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I believe there's a way.
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A lot of gifts that you're walking in now,
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You keep trying to find where your contribution
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Made this happen.
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That is not god's way, it's man's way.
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God's method under grace is seen in jesus dealing with that woman
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Taken in adultery.
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Let's look at that.
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John chapter 8 verses 3 through 11.
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"and the scribes and pharisees brought unto him a woman taken
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In adultery."
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I mean, in the very act of adultery,
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They bought the woman, sheets and all.
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Ain't no, "we think she in adultery."
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"and when they had set her in the midst,
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They say unto him, jesus, 'master,
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This woman was taken in adultery,
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In the very act.'"
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Now, 'cause they're trying to trick jesus because jesus
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Is supposed to be there fulfilling the law.
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And according to the law, this should be this woman's last day.
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"now moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned,
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But what do you say?"
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They're trying to trip jesus up.
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Watch him, this is why he my king.
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"this they said tempting him, that they might have
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To accuse him.
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But jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground
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As though he heard them not."
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He was egging them, you understand what i'm saying?
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"i ain't got time for this tomfoolery."
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"so, when they continued asking him,
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He lifted up himself and said unto them,
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'okay--'" and i like this 'cause he can't go against the law
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Because he had come to deliver people from the law and he
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Couldn't deliver them from the law unless he operated
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And fulfilled all the law.
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So, what do you say?
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So, he didn't say, "don't stone her."
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Here's what he said.
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"he lifted up himself and said unto him,
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'he that is without sin among you,
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Let him first cast a stone at her.'
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And he again stooped down and wrote on the ground."
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Somebody said, "do you know what he was writing?"
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No, i don't know what he was writing and you don't either.
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So don't get up and get a preach--don't get up and peach
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A sermon talking about what jesus was writing,
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You know, the day that he were--
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No, you don't know.
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He was--he might have been doodling,
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'cause that's what you do when people talking tomfoolery.
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You're just like, hmm.
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He says, "all right, fine.
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I'm not telling you not to stone her,
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Here's all i'm saying, anybody, anyone of you who don't have sin
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In your life, go ahead."
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And the bible says, "the older people left first,"
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Because they knew they had a whole bunch going on.
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The older people just got on out of there like,
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"man, let me go."
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The younger people thought they had hope,
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But they eventually left too.
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"and they which had heard it, being convicted by their own
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Conscience, they went out one by one,
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Beginning at the eldest, even unto the last.
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And jesus left her alone.
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And the woman standing in his midst,
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When jesus had left--lifted up himself and saw none but the
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Woman, he said unto her, 'woman, where are those,
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Thine accusers?
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Hath no man condemned thee?'
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She said, 'no man, lord.'
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Jesus said unto her," watch this,
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"neither do i condemn thee.
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This sin of adultery will not condemn you.
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"what you did deserved death and condemnation.
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You should have been condemned to death because you broke the
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Law and the law said you should be condemned to death."
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But in a sense he said, "but mercy has come before you today.
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Jesus, full of grace and truth.
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"and i forgive you.
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Now take this mercy and this grace that you've received today
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And go and sin no more, because grace has come onto you."
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Announcer: do you know who god really is?
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Creflo: under grace, god does everything apart
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By grace, you're already perfect.
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And now that you can see that it's available to you by grace,
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Then i'm gonna try to appeal to
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With what grace has already done.
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It was a painful thing to give
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However, we made a decision to be givers.
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And one of the most-quoted scriptures
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In the bible is john 3:16.
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I don't ever want to take for granted
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With christ.
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And begin an exciting, intimate relationship with jesus,
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Heavenly father, come into my heart,
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Save me, i receive you now, by faith,
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And i declare in jesus's name that i am saved.
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Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen.
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Creflo Dollar - God's Ways vs. Man's Ways

June 9, 2025 | S25 E140 | 28:55

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