Creflo Dollar

Creflo Dollar - The Grace To Change

July 28, 2025 | S25 E182 | 28:54

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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Grace To Change | July 28, 2025

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Taffi: so let's begin in romans chapter 12 verse 2.
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Romans chapter 12 verse 2.
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And we're looking at last time i called this
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"grace to change" and i'll continue on that.
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We can just say it's part two "grace to change"
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Because i believe that you can change.
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Somebody say, "i can change."
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Just like jesus saved you and brought you out of darkness,
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Took you out of hell being your destination, took you into
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A different path where you now have a heavenly destination
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When you receive him as your lord and as your personal savior
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So it is that other areas of your life can change.
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Other things in your life can be different.
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When creflo and i got married, we decided, you know, we weren't
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Gonna continue to do the things that we saw in our family and
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Different things that have been passed on from generation
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To generation.
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We wanted things to be different.
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We decided we were gonna change.
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We weren't gonna live based on hurt and get over different
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Things in our life.
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And so, the word of god gives us the grace to change.
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Somebody say, "i can change."
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And so it says, "i beseech you therefore, brethren, and by the
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Mercies of god, that you present your body as a living sacrifice,
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Holy, acceptable unto god, which is your reasonable service."
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Reasonable service.
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So when i got saved, i didn't know anything about a body being
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A living sacrifice.
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I was talking with my daughter about that earlier today about
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What that means for your body to be used as an instrument or as a
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Vessel to please god and how we can honor our temple and honor
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Our body in living a life that glorifies god and the choices
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That we make and how we are stewards over this temple.
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What we fill it with, who we allow it to engage with.
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So he says that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.
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The amplified says, "i beg of you in view of [all]
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The mercies of god, to make a decisive dedication."
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And that's what we're talking about tonight.
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A decisive dedication because change does require a decision.
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It requires a decision of quality.
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Everything begins with a decision.
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Every change begins with a decision.
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How many of you know things will never be different
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Unless you decide?
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Once you decide i receive jesus as my lord and as my personal
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Savior, how many know heaven is on--hell is on notice and heaven
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Is on notice to begin to open up the things that are available
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For us by god.
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And so it says, "make a decisive," we have to do that.
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We have to make that decisive dedication.
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"of your bodies [presenting all of your members,
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All of your faculties]
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As a living sacrifice."
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God's not just concerned about our mind or our spirit
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Just being saved, but he's also concerned about our body this
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Temple being presented to him where maybe there were things
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That you did before you became saved, but now that you're
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In christ, you make a decisive decision to present
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Your faculties and your members as a living sacrifice.
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So he says, holy, that means set apart, one with god.
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We align ourselves with the word, what god's word has said
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Concerning our bodies, how to exist and live in this body,
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To live the zoe kind of life in this body, the abundant life.
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He says, "to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
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Devoted," that means to be set apart as well, "consecrated
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And well pleasing to god."
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The amplified says.
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So he says, "to be a living sacrifice, holy,
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(devoted, consecrated)
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And well pleasing to god, which is your reasonable,
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(rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship."
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So when we understand how god wants us to see our bodies and
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How he wants us to present our bodies to him, we have to change
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Our mind.
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And so maybe in the world or the world's way of doing things, you
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Know, you just did whatever felt right, you just did whatever
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The desires were.
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But he says now that you're in christ by the mercies of god,
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He says, make a decision to do these things that will be holy,
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That will be yielding that which will be honorable to god.
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The intelligent service that we can give unto god as our
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Reasonable service as our honor as our response to him that
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We serve god with our bodies.
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That is not just our minds, it's not just our spirit that
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Is saved, but now we serve him with our worship.
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We serve him by going and doing what it is that he tells us
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To do.
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We recognize that we have the holy spirit on the inside of us
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And where the holy spirit leads us, we go and we do and we obey,
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Because why?
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We are carriers, we're holy because of god living
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On the inside of us.
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And he says, that's your intelligent, that's your
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Rational, reasonable service and that is your spiritual worship.
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And then he says in verse 2, "do not be conformed to this world,
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But be transformed."
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Someone say, "transform."
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You know, there's this movie out this whole cartoon thing
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Called "transformers."
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And from what i understand, they change into all kinds of things
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And as a result, you know, what it was previously, it becomes
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Something all together different.
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You might say, "how do you know that?"
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Creflo, he watches all this stuff.
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So i just in passing can understand the "transformers."
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And so the scripture says here "be ye transformed."
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The amplified says, "to be (changed)
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By the [entire] renewal of your mind."
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That word transform is in the greek, it means "metamorphoó,"
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Talking about a metamorphosis, a process, a series of events that
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Takes place from how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
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There are series of events, phases, stages that a
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Caterpillar goes through and it goes back into the cocoon
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And it does all these different things and then ultimately
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It becomes a butterfly.
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But how many know, it started off small, it started off slow,
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It started off something totally different, but through
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The transformation and through the change that took place,
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The metamorphosis, it became something different.
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So it says be changed, the amplified says.
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Somebody say, "i can change."
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You can change your life.
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Jesus can change your life.
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You cooperating with jesus can make a wonderful combination
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Of something totally different,
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Unrecognizable from what it was before.
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And i look back at old tapes and old ways and old things,
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It's just amazing how the glory of god can change your life and
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How you can change and you're not the same, you're not stuck,
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You're not stranded, limited.
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I'm telling you in god, there are no limits.
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And so he says, "be transformed, be changed
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By your new attitudes, your new ideals so that you can prove
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[for yourselves]
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What is the good and acceptable and perfect will of god,
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Even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect
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[in his sight for you]."
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Somebody say, "i can change."
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So i want you to just let that resound in your mind tonight.
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Maybe there are things that you want to change.
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Maybe you want other folks to change.
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You know, they would just change, they would stop getting
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On my last nerve.
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But how many of you know, sometimes it's us needing
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To change.
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Sometimes before our circumstances will change,
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We have to change.
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Sometimes it's how we look at circumstances in our life.
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So quickly we can point the finger, we can look
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At the other person, we can think that they're the problem.
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That's the reason why things are as they are.
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But you know what?
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God's looking at us and he says, have a new ideal,
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Have a new attitude.
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And he says, through the entire renewal of your mind so that
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You can prove the good, the acceptable,
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The perfect will of god.
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And so maybe there are things that you're dealing with.
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Maybe there are people that you're dealing with.
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Maybe there are things at work at home, whatever the case may
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Be, but know through the word of god, if you stay with god,
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God will give you the grace and give you the opportunity
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To experience change.
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And so that's what he talks about here even in verse 3.
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He goes from the renewal of the mind, the transformation of the
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Mind to the grace here in verse 3, "through the grace that's
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Given unto me, every man that is among you, not to think more
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Highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according
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As god had dealt to every man, the measure of faith."
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The measure of faith.
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Now look with me at 2 corinthians chapter 3 verse 18.
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We wanna look at some things, line upon line, some scriptures
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So that you can understand.
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Number one, the change begins on the inside.
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Change begins, doesn't begin, you know, out there somewhere,
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But change begins within.
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And so when change begins within, how many of you know
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It can't help but be manifested on the outside?
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Change begins with a decision of quality.
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Life is a series of decisions.
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Bible says, choose this day whom you will serve.
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He says, choose life not death.
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So once we make choices, when we allow our will to be expressed,
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God honors our will and he gives us the free will right.
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He made us free moral agents and he honors our desire,
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Whether we choose life or whether we choose death.
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And so we have this opportunity, this intelligent, rational,
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Reasonable service that we can extend unto god and experience
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The change as we honor his word and we allow his word to become
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First place in our life.
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So change is a life long daily challenge that will end with
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The eternal harvest of holiness.
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So it's an ongoing, it's a life long, every day
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There are new things.
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The word of god is pregnant.
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The holy spirit is pregnant full of revelation.
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There are so many things that we can learn from the word of god
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Because we allow the word of god to speak into our lives
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Every day.
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There are more things that we can learn this time, this season
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That maybe it clicks this time than what it did before.
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And so expect the supernatural, expect the manifestation,
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Expect revelation as a result of desiring to experience
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More of god in your life.
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So some of the keys for anyone wanting to help others to change
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Are ensuring the what, the why, the how of change.
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We have to understand that change is not self effort
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Or self oriented, but it is god oriented.
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Otherwise, we'll get ourselves in a place of legalism where
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We'll try to change ourselves.
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We'll try to do things of our own natural ability.
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And we put so much pressure on ourselves and we can even put
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A lot of pressure on people to try to change, to measure up
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To our acceptance of them.
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But how many of you know god never did that to us?
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And so we have to understand that there's a grace to change.
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There's a grace, there's a goodness, there's favor, there's
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A holy spirit that god sends to us to enable us to experience
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This ability, this grace, this supernatural
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That comes from god.
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And as a result, we don't have to rely upon our flesh or rely
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Upon legalism and our own ability, our human ability.
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So we aren't looking merely at human behavior, but we're
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Looking at the heart because everything begins on the inside,
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It begins in the heart.
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Because, you know, we can go through the behaviors and try to
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Modify behavior and try to resist certain habits, but if we
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Allow the holy spirit to begin to come in, how many of you know
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All of a sudden he can get the work and get down to the depths
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And the crevices?
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The bible says that the word is a discerner and it sifts out the
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Thoughts and the intents of the heart and it gets down to below
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The level of what therapy is.
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I'm not against therapy.
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I'm not against any of those natural things, but it's
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Something about the spirit, the word that can get to the root.
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And then all of a sudden when it gets to the root,
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Behavior begins to change.
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And so it's not this effort that you're placing on yourself to
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Try to modify your behavior, but then god begins to give you the
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Desires and then those desires begin to lead you in a totally
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Different direction.
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When i got saved and understood that this relationship that
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I was in was heading straight to hell, just full of ungodly
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Habits and ungodly desires, all of a sudden the desires on the
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Inside of me just left.
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I said, lord, i don't wanna stay in this relationship anymore.
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We were engaged to be married.
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I said, no, this is not god, this is not where i'm supposed
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To be.
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And then all of a sudden, i had a desire for the things of god.
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I had the right type of desire that i wanna have right
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Relationships in my life.
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But that's because the word of god went down to the root in
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My life.
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And i knew that i was different.
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I knew that there was something changing in my life where things
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That i would be accustomed to doing that all of a sudden
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I didn't have those same desires to wanna do anymore.
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And so let's look at this.
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I quoted it, but i want you to see this in hebrews chapter 4
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Verse 12.
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I'm telling you, you stick with the word of god
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And the word of god is alive.
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When jesus raised, was raised from the dead, raised out of sin
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That means that bless god, we can be raised out of sin.
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Sin is no longer to be an issue in our life.
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He dealt with the grave.
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He dealt with death.
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He dealt with separation.
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He dealt with death and sickness and in poverty and mourning
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And all the things that would enslave and keep us in a place
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Of bondage, but it is the word of god.
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It is god's word that equips us to be able to experience
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The life that is supernatural, that comes from god.
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So it says in verse 12, "for the word of god is quick,"
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That means it is alive.
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You know, i used to think when it said quick that it just,
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You know, it was moving real fast and, you know, there are
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Spiritual things in the material realm and things that are in the
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Supernatural realm.
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So he's not talking about in the sense of, you know, just i guess
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Earthly motion, but he's talking about the fact that the word
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Of god is alive.
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The word of god is alive and the scripture said it is full
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Of power.
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It has the power to change your life just like it changed you.
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It made you alive in christ by making you the righteousness of
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God through the power of god.
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It has the power to cause you to understand that you have
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Equality in christ and you have been made accepted
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In the beloved.
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So it says, "the word of god that god speaks is alive, is
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Full of power, [making it active, operative, energizing
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And effective]."
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I'm all about effectiveness and thank god for the word that
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It's not a hit or miss thing.
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But how many of you know god knows the--he knows how to find
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You just where you are.
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You can go to the ends of the earth, you can go to timbuktu,
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Run from god, but how many of you know as far as we run,
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The holy spirit will pursue us and say i'm here.
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I love you.
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I want a relationship with you.
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And so he says the word of god is effective.
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And so that's why we don't have to worry about trying to
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Change people.
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I'm telling you just stay in your rest, stay in your peace
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And release the holy spirit, release god, release his word.
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The bible says that his word won't return to us void, but it
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Will accomplish that which you sent it forth to accomplish.
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So it says the word is alive, child of god, it is active,
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It is operative even as you're sitting here right now and
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You're hearing the word of god, those seeds are being deposited
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In your spirit.
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The holy spirit is being stirred up on the inside of you.
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So there's an operation, there's activity in the realm
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Of the spirit, "energizing and effective.
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It is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating
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To the dividing line of the breath of life."
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So it gets down to the soul area, the soulish realm
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"and [the immortal] spirit,
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And of the joints and the marrow [of the deepest parts
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Of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and
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Judging the very thoughts and the very purposes of our heart."
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So this is powerful that the word of god can go
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Into our very marrow, our dna.
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It can go into our joints, the deepest part of who we are.
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That's because of the holy spirit that abides
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On the inside of us.
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That's why human will can only go so far.
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Human effort can only do so much.
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You can say i'm not gonna eat that cake.
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I'm not gonna eat that donut.
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Then you wake up and all of a sudden you didn't eat the cake,
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You didn't ate the donut, but it's something
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About the holy spirit.
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Man, you get before god and you just continue to stay with god
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And you trust god to change your desires, you trust god to put
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The right desires on the inside of you and help him to give you
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The right want to.
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Then all of a sudden you recognize, hey, i got authority.
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I got dominion.
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I got power.
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I got the ability to tread over serpents and scorpions
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Over all the power of the enemy, amen.
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In jesus' name, amen.
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Creflo Dollar - The Grace To Change

July 28, 2025 | S25 E182 | 28:54

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