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Creflo Dollar - Grace-Based Success: Living Whole, Walking In Purpose

March 23, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Grace-Based Success: Living Whole, Walking In Purpose
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Grace-Based Success: Living Whole, Walking In Purpose | March 23, 2026
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  • Creflo: most people think that purpose is what you do.
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  • Listen to me.
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  • Most people think that purpose is what you do, but in the
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  • Kingdom of god purpose flows from who you are.
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  • We think it's what you do.
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  • It flows from who you are.
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  • So instead of asking, "lord, what's my purpose?"
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  • I know we're tempted to do that.
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  • Today we're tempted to go out and say, "lord, what's
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  • My purpose?"
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  • The better question becomes how does christ want to express
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  • Himself through me today?
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  • So you're changing the question.
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  • I'm not going to ask what's my purpose.
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  • I'm going to ask, "lord, how do you want to express yourself
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  • Through me today?" and what happens is, whether that's
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  • Through a conversation--"how do you want to express yourself
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  • Through my conversation today?
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  • How do you want to express yourself through my
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  • Business today?
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  • How do you want to express yourself through my creativity
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  • Today, or just showing up with some love and peace?
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  • How do you want for me--how do you want to express yourself
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  • Through me?" and that should be the purpose in everything we do.
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  • In my preaching today, it's not--i mean, if i just went by
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  • The notes, it would be over in 20 minutes, but i'm concerned.
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  • This is what you called me to do.
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  • How do you want to express yourself through me today
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  • Through this sermon, or do i just throw something together,
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  • Give it to you, and it's just real nothing, so i just, you
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  • Know, try to hype you up and give you some emotions?
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  • To every praise leader, how do i express myself when i get on
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  • That stage, to a praise leader, or are you just going to pick a
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  • Bunch of songs, throw them together, and say, "i did my
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  • Job," and, you know, and then when nobody's responding, then
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  • You start performing, and nobody can follow you because we can't
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  • Hit them high notes and we can't do those riffs, and you don't
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  • Respect the melody, and it just, you know, why are we here?
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  • I thought you were supposed to be leading us into praise, not
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  • Performing, because you think purpose is what you do.
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  • Purpose is what flows from you.
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  • Am i in the right house?
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  • Y'all act like y'all ain't heard--
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  • It ain't the first time i said some of this.
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  • Oh, you ain't been here in a minute.
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  • That might be what it is.
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  • You ain't been here.
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  • How do you want to express yourself through me today, lord?
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  • Your life isn't random.
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  • You've been custom designed to carry something of heaven in a
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  • Way nobody else can carry it.
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  • You've been put together to carry something of heaven, the
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  • Way that nobody else can.
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  • That's--the way you carry it is better than the way anybody else
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  • Can carry it because god custom designed you to carry this thing
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  • From heaven, and nobody else can do it like you can do it.
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  • So yeah, you might say, "god, find somebody else."
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  • He said, "no, but i determined from the foundation of the world
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  • That you're going to be the person that i have designed and
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  • Wired to carry this thing like nobody else can carry it.
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  • So until you discover what that purpose is, i ain't going to be
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  • Finding somebody else.
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  • Now, there are other people that can do it, but i wired you to
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  • Do it."
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  • You don't want god to use somebody else.
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  • He decided to use you, and when you are rooted in your original
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  • True identity, you stop comparing yourself.
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  • You don't need to prove anything.
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  • You just flow from grace.
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  • It's the sweetest thing in the world.
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  • It's the sweetest thing in the world not to compare yourself.
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  • Oh, my god, i'm getting ready to go to a meeting this week.
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  • They got 12 of the most dynamic speakers in the world, and i am
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  • The freest free as i want to be.
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  • Free as i want to be.
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  • I ain't comparing myself with nobody.
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  • Whatever they're doing, that's what--they must have been custom
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  • Designed to do it the way they do it.
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  • Ain't no use to me dismissing my identity and who i am to take a
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  • Cheap copy of who somebody else is.
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  • God wants you to operate by your original design, and the people
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  • Who don't have your wiring don't understand you.
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  • They might say you're weird or something going on with you.
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  • I say that with autism.
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  • I think autism might be another level that you just
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  • Don't understand.
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  • Ain't nothing wrong with them, but there's something awesome
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  • About them, and you think it's a sickness, and it's an advantage,
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  • And you don't even understand how that happens.
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  • I don't know how long we got.
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  • I don't know when jesus is going to break through the crowd.
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  • I ain't got time to be religious and be a religious preacher and
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  • Fill your head with a bunch of stuff you like, 'cause all of
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  • Us, every last one of us, are going to stand before god and
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  • Give an account, did you discover what i prepared
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  • For you?
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  • You think you're going up there, and he's gonna say--you think he
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  • Gonna get a checklist and you did that right, you did that
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  • Right, you did that right, you did--he knows you're dust, so he
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  • Knows you're not gonna do all that stuff right, but he wants
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  • You to discover your purpose, and in discovering your purpose
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  • You're going to discover how much you're going to need god,
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  • And so your relationship with him gets even bigger because
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  • When you go through with him, when he becomes--excuse the
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  • Expression, lord, but i--they don't understand it.
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  • When he becomes your ride or die, y'all going to be closer
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  • Than ever before because you went through something with him.
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  • "i wish you'd hurry up and go to number three."
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  • So practically speaking, what do i do?
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  • You wake up each day and you say, "father, show me today how
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  • To just be who you've made me to be.
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  • Lord, show me today how to be who you made me to be."
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  • Well, that's a simple prayer, isn't it?
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  • Show me today how to be who you made me to be, hallelujah.
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  • I trust you.
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  • I trust you to unfold the path for me.
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  • Purpose becomes less about finding something out there.
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  • It becomes less about finding something out there, and more
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  • About awaking to what's already here.
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  • Not there, but what's already here, that's purpose.
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  • Imagine everybody in the world changes, walking in
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  • Their purpose.
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  • Lord have mercy.
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  • You know, one enemy to purpose is self-centeredness
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  • Or self-interest.
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  • It draws you away from your purpose because you feel the
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  • Need to gain the validation of somebody else.
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  • I mean, what's going to happen when that time comes?
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  • All right, you're dead, all right.
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  • You just passed over, all right.
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  • So over here there's a physical life, and on this side there's a
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  • Spiritual life.
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  • So what happens is, i don't know, something happened, and
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  • Now you've passed over, and you look over there and you see
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  • Your body--what's that?
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  • But then you look over here and things in this dimension are as
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  • Real as things in that dimension.
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  • Oh, god, you want me sad.
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  • That's why you showed that to me, didn't you?
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  • Oof, now?
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  • I ain't asking y'all.
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  • Your eyes can only see what god designed them to see in this
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  • Physical world.
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  • So your eyes are seeing what they were designed to see in
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  • This physical world.
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  • Your eyes cannot see beyond what it was designed to see unless
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  • He intervenes and allows you sight to see beyond what he
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  • Created you to see.
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  • So there are dimensions--i promise you i was walking
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  • Yesterday, and this word came up again.
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  • There are dimensions that run concurrently...
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  • At the same time that our dimension is running, there is
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  • Another one running at the same time.
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  • And i said, "okay, so what do you mean?"
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  • He says, "right now while you're walking, you're walking through
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  • A dimension that you can't see, you can't comprehend, because i
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  • Have not designed you to see that yet."
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  • I said--okay, i ain't trying to get deep just to get deep,
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  • So, scripture.
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  • You remember when this prophet, i think it was elisha, and his
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  • Servant, i believe his name was gehazi.
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  • He told him to go look up and see what was going on, and he
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  • Says, "we're going to be destroyed.
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  • They're surrounding us from different nations," and elisha
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  • Said, "uh-uh, there are more for us than what you see,"
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  • And gehazi was like, "i don't know what you're talking about,"
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  • And elisha asked god, "open the eyes of this servant so he can
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  • See what i know."
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  • Elisha didn't have to see it.
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  • He knew.
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  • See, when you know, you ain't got to see.
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  • He opened his eyes, and he saw a multitude of horses and chariots
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  • Of angels surrounding the physical army.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • The existence of what he saw had already been there.
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  • They weren't there just when god opened his eyes.
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  • They were already there.
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  • See, there are things you can't see right now that are already
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  • Here, but you hadn't been allowed to look beyond where he
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  • Designed you to look right now.
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  • Oh, glory to god.
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  • But if god were to open your eyes.
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  • So you got to know that you know that if god be for me, then
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  • Nothing can be against me.
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  • I can't see all that's going on in that other dimension, but
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  • That other dimension exists.
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  • So when i was in that car accident 20-some years ago, the
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  • Lord opened my eyes.
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  • Now, this is something.
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  • It wasn't like he was blind.
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  • He could see, but he couldn't see beyond what the, design for
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  • His sight was, physical.
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  • He now was able to see beyond the physical into the spirit
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  • World, and he saw angels and chariots of fire, and i'll teach
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  • On that one day, and i was--i'm in that car and the lord allowed
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  • Me to see, and i think there's a lot of reasons for that, 'cause
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  • When the car was hit and we took airborne flipping over, i didn't
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  • Have time to be concerned about flipping over and gathering
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  • Enough fear that i'm going to die because he had opened my
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  • Eyes to see, "you're going to be all right.
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  • I've sent angels."
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  • See, y'all, it ain't about, "oh, lord, i forgot to send my
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  • Angels out."
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  • No, god hadn't forgotten to send them out, and he had given
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  • Angels a charge to watch over you, lest you dash your foot
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  • Against the stone.
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  • So don't be moved by what you don't see right now because what
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  • You don't see right now doesn't tell you the whole truth.
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  • The whole truth is that you're surrounded.
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  • This dome is occupied and surrounded by multitudes.
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  • And just like everybody over there is not allowed anymore to
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  • See what's going on here, everybody over here is not
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  • Allowed to see what's going on over there until it's necessary
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  • To do what needs to be done, and that's why you should never be
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  • Afraid of dying.
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  • It's just like moving from one house to another house.
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  • Death is just a change of address.
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  • You're changing address.
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  • Somebody said, "pastor, you ain't getting ready to
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  • Go nowhere.
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  • Just to texas and back, that's all," you know.
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  • Are y'all listening to what i'm saying here?
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  • Now, that was a rabbit trail.
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  • Did i read ephesians 2:10?
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  • I did, didn't i?
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  • All right, number three, success is doing the will of god from a
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  • Place of rest.
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  • You got that one.
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  • It's doing the will of god from a place of rest.
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  • In the old covenant, success was tied to performance and effort,
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  • But in this--but under grace, it's about responding to his
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  • Leading, not striving to please him.
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  • It's responding to his leading, his leading.
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  • So success is doing the will of god from a place of rest.
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  • I'm responding from that place of rest, who i am in
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  • Christ jesus.
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  • It's about responding to his leading, not striving to please
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  • Him, but i'm responding to his leading.
  • 00:17:14.236 --> 00:17:17.005
  • Jesus said, "my food is to do the will of him who sent me."
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  • In fact, john chapter 4:34, that's amazing.
  • 00:17:24.246 --> 00:17:28.083
  • "my food is to do the will of him who sent me."
  • 00:17:28.083 --> 00:17:31.954
  • My nourishment is to do the will of him that sent me.
  • 00:17:31.954 --> 00:17:36.191
  • Jesus said--in king james, he said, "jesus said unto them, my
  • 00:17:36.191 --> 00:17:39.528
  • Meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish
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  • His work."
  • 00:17:43.265 --> 00:17:44.867
  • In the mirror translation of john chapter 4:34, he says,
  • 00:17:44.867 --> 00:17:48.370
  • "jesus said to them, my food is to fulfill the desire of
  • 00:17:48.370 --> 00:17:51.907
  • My sender."
  • 00:17:51.907 --> 00:17:54.276
  • "it's to fulfill the desire of my sender, and to leave no
  • 00:17:54.276 --> 00:17:58.247
  • Details undone."
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  • Success is when his will becomes your joy, not your job.
  • 00:18:01.850 --> 00:18:11.293
  • Success is when his will becomes your joy and not your job.
  • 00:18:11.293 --> 00:18:18.066
  • Number four--i got four minutes to go, 'cause some of y'all
  • 00:18:18.066 --> 00:18:21.904
  • Acting like i've been preaching for two hours.
  • 00:18:21.904 --> 00:18:23.305
  • I ain't. i'm still under hour.
  • 00:18:23.305 --> 00:18:29.411
  • You're going to get hungry one day.
  • 00:18:29.411 --> 00:18:30.779
  • You'll be all right.
  • 00:18:30.779 --> 00:18:32.114
  • Number four, success is christ formed in you.
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  • Some say, "i'm successful."
  • 00:18:38.220 --> 00:18:39.555
  • Oh, is christ formed in you? 'cause paul's definition of
  • 00:18:39.555 --> 00:18:42.090
  • Spiritual success wasn't status or numbers.
  • 00:18:42.090 --> 00:18:45.861
  • It was christ being formed in people.
  • 00:18:45.861 --> 00:18:49.398
  • He was more concerned about the number of people who had christ
  • 00:18:49.398 --> 00:18:52.234
  • Formed in them, not the number of people who showed up.
  • 00:18:52.234 --> 00:18:55.304
  • Galatians chapter 4:19, king james first.
  • 00:18:55.304 --> 00:18:57.539
  • Notice what he said, galatians chapter 4:19.
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  • Christ being formed in you is success.
  • 00:19:00.642 --> 00:19:03.212
  • "my little children, of whom i travail in birth again until
  • 00:19:03.212 --> 00:19:07.649
  • Christ be formed in you."
  • 00:19:07.649 --> 00:19:10.652
  • That was the key to success, christ being formed in you, and
  • 00:19:10.652 --> 00:19:13.488
  • Then the mirror bible says this.
  • 00:19:13.488 --> 00:19:15.724
  • Galatians 4:19, "my darling little children, my jealousy for
  • 00:19:15.724 --> 00:19:20.329
  • You compares to a mother over her newly born.
  • 00:19:20.329 --> 00:19:24.733
  • I gave birth to you once through my gospel; now i feel those same
  • 00:19:24.733 --> 00:19:30.639
  • Labor pains all over again.
  • 00:19:30.639 --> 00:19:33.275
  • I travail for the full realization of christ to be
  • 00:19:33.275 --> 00:19:38.480
  • Formed within you."
  • 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:40.082
  • Look at what he wants more than anything.
  • 00:19:40.082 --> 00:19:41.550
  • I want christ to be formed in you.
  • 00:19:41.550 --> 00:19:44.319
  • I want christ to be formed in you.
  • 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.722
  • So you got to ask the question, what's being formed in me?
  • 00:19:46.722 --> 00:19:49.224
  • Is christ being formed in me so that we can accomplish that
  • 00:19:49.224 --> 00:19:53.128
  • Mirror image of one another?
  • 00:19:53.128 --> 00:19:55.530
  • Your inner transformation into his image is the most powerful
  • 00:19:55.530 --> 00:20:00.636
  • Form of success.
  • 00:20:00.636 --> 00:20:02.671
  • When i look at your life and i can see the love of god
  • 00:20:02.671 --> 00:20:05.307
  • Operating in your life and the character of god operating in
  • 00:20:05.307 --> 00:20:07.743
  • Your life, that is the greatest form of success, is the
  • 00:20:07.743 --> 00:20:12.414
  • Transformation into his image.
  • 00:20:12.414 --> 00:20:15.117
  • That's the most powerful form of success, that when i can look at
  • 00:20:15.117 --> 00:20:18.754
  • You ten years ago, you were a messed up individual, and now
  • 00:20:18.754 --> 00:20:22.424
  • Christ has been formed in you.
  • 00:20:22.424 --> 00:20:27.296
  • That's the success that he's looking for, and that includes
  • 00:20:27.296 --> 00:20:31.166
  • Emotional maturity, it includes grace-based relationships, and
  • 00:20:31.166 --> 00:20:36.204
  • It includes spirit-led living, living your life being led by
  • 00:20:36.204 --> 00:20:40.976
  • The spirit instead of living your life being led by money or
  • 00:20:40.976 --> 00:20:44.680
  • Anybody else.
  • 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:46.048
  • Living your life being led by the spirit.
  • 00:20:46.048 --> 00:20:48.083
  • Number five, success is fruitfulness that flows from
  • 00:20:48.083 --> 00:20:54.589
  • Your union with god, and i'm not talking about fruitfulness
  • 00:20:54.589 --> 00:20:59.528
  • Meaning--you know how people say, "well, you're fruitful if
  • 00:20:59.528 --> 00:21:04.466
  • You--" you know, "if you have five houses you're just
  • 00:21:04.466 --> 00:21:07.135
  • Fruitful," or you--i'm talking about fruitfulness in
  • 00:21:07.135 --> 00:21:09.371
  • Every area.
  • 00:21:09.371 --> 00:21:12.708
  • Go to john 15:5 in the king james and the mirror.
  • 00:21:12.708 --> 00:21:15.577
  • So jesus, with this kind of fruitfulness he's talking about,
  • 00:21:15.577 --> 00:21:19.848
  • And this is success, when fruitfulness is flowing from
  • 00:21:19.848 --> 00:21:23.418
  • Your relationship with god.
  • 00:21:23.418 --> 00:21:24.753
  • He said--in john 15:5 he says, "i'm the vine, you're the
  • 00:21:24.753 --> 00:21:27.756
  • Branches: he that abideth in me," to abide means to live.
  • 00:21:27.756 --> 00:21:32.427
  • "he that abideth in me and i in him, the same
  • 00:21:32.427 --> 00:21:35.530
  • Bringeth forth," what?
  • 00:21:35.530 --> 00:21:36.865
  • "much fruit: for without me you can do nothing."
  • 00:21:36.865 --> 00:21:38.734
  • So you get fruit just by abiding.
  • 00:21:38.734 --> 00:21:40.369
  • There's no striving there.
  • 00:21:40.369 --> 00:21:42.738
  • Look at the mirror translation.
  • 00:21:42.738 --> 00:21:44.373
  • The fruit comes automatically just by being in union with him.
  • 00:21:44.373 --> 00:21:49.177
  • The fruit of the spirit is what he's talking about.
  • 00:21:49.177 --> 00:21:51.346
  • It flows automatically just by being in union with him.
  • 00:21:51.346 --> 00:21:56.551
  • The mirror says, "'i am the vine, you are the branches.
  • 00:21:56.551 --> 00:21:59.321
  • It is the one who understands this mutual union that bears
  • 00:21:59.321 --> 00:22:03.759
  • Much fruit--which is impossible to happen apart
  • 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:06.561
  • From me.'"
  • 00:22:06.561 --> 00:22:07.896
  • He says, "i'm the vine, you're the branch."
  • 00:22:07.896 --> 00:22:09.264
  • He says, "'indeed--it is indeed in your seamless abiding in me
  • 00:22:09.264 --> 00:22:15.370
  • And i in you where your fruit-bearing is the natural--is
  • 00:22:15.370 --> 00:22:20.375
  • As natural as it is inevitable!'"
  • 00:22:20.375 --> 00:22:24.012
  • You will bear fruit, and it is inevitable that you will bear
  • 00:22:24.012 --> 00:22:27.249
  • Fruit, because of your union with him.
  • 00:22:27.249 --> 00:22:31.686
  • You're a branch.
  • 00:22:31.686 --> 00:22:33.321
  • You can't bear fruit if you are not tied to the vine.
  • 00:22:33.321 --> 00:22:39.394
  • Break the branch off the vine, you're not getting any fruit,
  • 00:22:39.394 --> 00:22:42.230
  • 'cause the fruit doesn't come as a result of the vine.
  • 00:22:42.230 --> 00:22:45.300
  • The vine displays--excuse me, the branches display what the
  • 00:22:45.300 --> 00:22:50.305
  • Vine produces.
  • 00:22:50.305 --> 00:22:52.174
  • So by being in union with god, stuff happens.
  • 00:22:52.174 --> 00:22:55.911
  • It's not hard to look at a christian to see if
  • 00:22:55.911 --> 00:22:57.679
  • They're real, why?
  • 00:22:57.679 --> 00:22:59.214
  • I don't never see nothing on they branch.
  • 00:22:59.214 --> 00:23:04.019
  • So i'm wondering, is there a union with you and the vine?
  • 00:23:04.019 --> 00:23:09.090
  • You're mean. you're nice-nasty.
  • 00:23:09.090 --> 00:23:11.793
  • You all of these things that show me that ain't nothing
  • 00:23:11.793 --> 00:23:15.564
  • Coming from the vine.
  • 00:23:15.564 --> 00:23:17.566
  • Is you still with the vine?
  • 00:23:17.566 --> 00:23:27.609
  • Under grace, success is not striving to bear fruit, but
  • 00:23:31.513 --> 00:23:35.517
  • Remaining in the vine.
  • 00:23:35.517 --> 00:23:38.353
  • Fruitfulness in business, fruitfulness in your family, and
  • 00:23:38.353 --> 00:23:42.157
  • What do i mean by that?
  • 00:23:42.157 --> 00:23:43.492
  • Fruitfulness in your business, fruitfulness in your family,
  • 00:23:43.492 --> 00:23:44.926
  • Fruitfulness in your ministry.
  • 00:23:44.926 --> 00:23:46.261
  • All right, so you see love and joy and peace and longsuffering
  • 00:23:46.261 --> 00:23:50.699
  • And all those characteristics of the fruit of the spirit, you see
  • 00:23:50.699 --> 00:23:53.201
  • That in the family, you see that in the business.
  • 00:23:53.201 --> 00:23:55.837
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