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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Holiness vs. The Flesh | May 15, 2025
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- Creflo dollar: you put so much, so much stock in your conduct
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- That you put very little stock in who you are in christ and who
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- You have, jesus christ, not understanding that once you
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- Realize that you're his, the conduct's gonna change.
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- Once you realize whose you are and your identity, the conduct's
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- Gonna change.
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- You focus it on your conduct and ignore jesus.
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- And you come in with rules and laws, trying to get a better
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- Conduct and don't know jesus.
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- And that's what's happening: a lot of people are trying to live
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- Under the conduct of holiness and they don't even know
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- Who holiness is.
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- Creflo: let's look at 1 corinthians chapter 1 and 30, in
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- The king james and then in the mirror translation.
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- And if you don't mind, i'd just like to hop right on into this,
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- Amen, and we're gonna focus in on what does it mean to live by
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- The flesh?
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- What is the flesh?
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- What does that mean when somebody says you're in
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- The flesh?
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- Now, does it mean that--is it referring to your physical body?
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- No, it's much more than your physical body, and we need to
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- Understand what it means to walk in the flesh versus walking in
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- The spirit.
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- Now, 1 corinthians chapter 1 and 30.
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- Now here's what he says.
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- He says, "but of him are you in christ jesus, who of god is made
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- Unto us wisdom."
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- So he says, "of him are you in christ jesus."
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- Now those of you who have been born again, you are in
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- Christ jesus.
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- Say out loud, "i am in christ jesus."
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- So you're born again "and you're in christ jesus, who of god,"
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- Jesus, "who of god, jesus has been made for us wisdom."
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- So jesus is our wisdom, and we're in jesus, so we have
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- Access to that.
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- He has been made our righteousness.
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- Jesus is righteousness, and we're in him, we have access
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- To that.
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- We're in him, we live by the faith of jesus of the son
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- Of god.
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- He has been made righteous, we're righteous.
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- He has been made wisdom, we have been made wisdom.
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- He says, "and he has been made unto us sanctification,"
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- Or holiness.
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- Sanctification and holiness come from the same greek word.
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- Sanctification and holiness.
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- He's been made holiness.
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- He's been made sanctification.
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- So we are in him, so we've been made sanctification.
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- We've been made holiness.
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- He says, "and he's been made redemption," which means we
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- Are redeemed.
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- Now, based on this scripture, practical holiness is not
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- Possible if you don't understand what we just read here.
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- If you don't understand that we are as he is, i am righteous
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- 'cause he is righteous.
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- I'm not righteous 'cause i do right.
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- I'm righteous because jesus is my righteousness.
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- I don't have wisdom because i got degrees.
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- I have wisdom because jesus has been made wisdom.
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- I am not holy because of my conduct.
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- I am holy because of what-- because jesus is holy.
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- So once you get in him, you're going to have to now step up and
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- Mature and now realize i am holy 'cause he is holy, versus i am
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- Holy because i've got good conduct.
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- And if you don't have good conduct, then you're not holy.
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- Oh, there's something about the flesh that i have yet to see.
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- But it is this--it is this performance-based christianity
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- That is the biggest devil that we've ever seen in our life.
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- In fact, satan is now disguised in your self-performance.
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- And so you have to really look at what's happening here.
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- I am sanctified because he is.
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- Now, realize that, so you can receive that, so you can rest
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- In that.
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- I am holy because he is, i realize i am holy.
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- Say that, "i realize that i'm holy."
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- Now, maybe several years ago, you would have never said you
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- Was holy because now you're weighing it against
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- Your conduct.
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- And if your conduct is good enough to make you holy, then we
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- Don't need jesus.
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- All we got to do is depend on the conduct of people.
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- But we're not holy because of our conduct.
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- We are holy because of our jesus.
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- And we realize i'm holy because of jesus.
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- Wait a minute, i stand out or i'm sanctified because of jesus.
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- Wait a minute.
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- I am righteous because of jesus.
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- For so long, the church has deceived us into thinking, you
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- Are righteous only because you do right.
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- And that's not right.
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- That's not right.
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- You are right.
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- Jesus is the center of all of this.
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- Of every bit of this, he's the center of it.
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- And so if you don't understand what verse 30 is talking about,
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- Practical holiness is just not gonna be possible.
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- So you are in christ.
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- You are holy 'cause you're in christ.
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- And because you're in christ, you're all these things that
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- He mentions.
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- Now, once you have and understand that the person of
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- Jesus christ is what makes you who you are, then you quit
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- Questioning whether or not you can be all these things.
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- Look at the mirror translation real quick, this, before we go
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- Forward 'cause i got a lot i want to cover.
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- I got this one area i can't wait to get to, so.
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- He says in verse 30 here, "of god's doing are we in christ."
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- It's god's doing that you're in christ.
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- It's not your doing that you're in christ.
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- "he is both the genesis and the genius of our wisdom."
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- My god.
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- Did you see that?
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- He said, "a wisdom that reveals how righteous and sanctified and
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- Redeemed we already are in him," already are righteous in him,
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- Already are redeemed, already are holy in him, and he is the
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- Genesis and the genius of making you righteous without you
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- Doing right.
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- Now, let's move on to this.
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- And once you have the person, you have all these things.
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- Once you have jesus, you have all these things.
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- You have righteous, you have everything.
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- But look what he said in romans chapter 8, and verse 32.
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- Romans 8 and verse 32 with king james first and then mirror.
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- Look at what he says here.
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- He says, "he that spareth not his own son, but delivered him
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- Up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
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- All things?"
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- He gave us jesus.
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- Look at what he said.
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- I gave you jesus, and when i gave you jesus, i gave you
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- All things.
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- 'cause all things exist in jesus.
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- And instead of me, you know, taking all the little things out
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- And making a list of them, i just gave you jesus and then
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- Jesus is everything.
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- Now look at this in the mirror translation, verse 32.
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- He says, "the gift of his son is the irrefutable evidence of
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- God's heart towards us.
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- He held nothing in reserve; but freely gave everything we could
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- Ever wish to have; this is what our joint sonship is all about."
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- We are joint sons and--sons of god.
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- We are--we're joint heirs together, which means all that
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- Jesus is, we are.
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- All that jesus has, we have.
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- You now have got to go through what the scripture says, a
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- Radical mind shift and bring your mind into a place where you
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- Can realize that i don't have to go get what already been gotten.
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- I don't have to go make what's already been made.
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- I've got to realize, receive, rest, and if trouble should
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- Come, open my mouth and remind myself and the devil that it is
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- Already done.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- So holiness, digging a little deeper, holiness is a person.
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- Holiness is not a conduct, holiness is a person.
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- Let's think on that for a moment now, because for a long time,
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- We've been pretty satisfied with this conduct.
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- And you try to conduct yourself.
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- I remember back in the day where a woman had to wear a long dress
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- And you ain't holy if you wear pants.
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- And so she out there playing softball with a long dress on.
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- Y'all, some of y'all, how many of y'all know what i'm saying is
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- True, right?
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- Yeah, that was a time, and especially where women
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- Were concerned.
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- If you wore makeup, oh that wasn't good behavior, you
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- Were jezebel.
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- And then we found out that the spirit of jezebel can also
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- Inhabit the body of a man.
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- It's not conduct.
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- You should--please understand, if it was conduct, if it was
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- Left up to conduct, then you don't need jesus.
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- You don't need jesus.
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- And holiness, clearly in verse 30, is a person.
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- Jesus is our holiness.
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- And i look at some of you right now, it's--and i know what
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- You're going through.
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- It's like, wait a minute, it is the conduct, yeah, you know, you
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- Got to be holy, you gotta be baptized and you gotta do this
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- If you want to see jesus, you got to be holy and, you know,
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- Without holiness, no man can see the lord.
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- Well, that makes sense.
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- Without jesus, no man can see the lord.
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- Brother dollar, they said without holiness
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- You can't see the lord.
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- And what we heard was without having the correct conduct.
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- Well, your conduct gonna be off, your conduct, your conduct, may
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- I--please may i speak, collipark,
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- Your conduct is always gonna be kind of off
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- Until you see jesus.
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- You're seriously--you're seriously trusting your effort.
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- Religion is built on trusting your effort.
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- And he is saying, i need you to trust me.
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- Trust me, not your effort.
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- Look at--look, look at where trust in your efforts has
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- Gotten you.
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- And then you got so tired of your effort that one day you
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- Said, "i'm just gonna trust jesus," and, man, the bottom
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- Fell out.
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- Everything started working and you're like, "what happened?
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- What happened?"
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- And you don't even see it was jesus, you're now gonna give
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- Credit to your self-preservation, wow.
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- So holiness comes from the word "complete."
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- Think about that.
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- Jesus is complete.
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- It comes from the word "whole."
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- See, jesus made us whole.
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- Complete, whole.
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- The opposite of holiness, we used to think it was sin, but
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- The opposite of holiness is not sin.
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- The opposite of holiness is being common with the world.
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- That's what the opposite of holiness is.
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- So when god says be holy, he is saying stand out, be separate.
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- You're my people.
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- Stand out, be separate.
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- You're my people.
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- So when the people of the world are worried, you're gonna be
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- Full of peace.
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- When the people of the world are broke, you're gonna have all
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- Your needs met.
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- When the people of the world are sick, you're gonna be meditating
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- And thanking god that you're healed.
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- Stand out. stand out.
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- Whatever's going on with them, you are not a part of that.
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- You are holy, you are a part of me and what i am, that's what
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- You are, so stand out.
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- Stand separate from that.
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- Holy literally means separate from the world's system or the
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- World's way of doing things.
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- So when people--and you're separate because of who you have
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- And whose you are, that's what separates you.
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- You put so much stock in your conduct that you put
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- Very little stock in who you are in christ and who you have,
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- Jesus christ, not understanding that once you realize that
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- You're his, the conduct's gonna change.
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- Once you realize whose you are and your identity, the conduct's
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- Gonna change.
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- You focus it on your conduct and ignore jesus.
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- And you come in with rules and laws, trying to get a better
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- Conduct and don't know jesus.
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- And that's what's happening: a lot of people are trying to live
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- Under the conduct of holiness and they don't even know who
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- Holiness is.
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- When people don't see the beauty of holiness, they won't
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- Pursue it.
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- The beauty, david said, "worship the lord and the beauty of his
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- Holiness," 1 chronicles 16.
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- When they don't see the beauty of holiness or the benefit of
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- Holiness or understand what holiness is, they won't
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- Pursue it.
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- So number one, holiness is a person.
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- His name is jesus.
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- Holiness is a person, and you are in this jesus.
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- You are in him.
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- You live in him.
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- So holiness does not depend on human input.
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- Holiness does not depend on human input.
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- Holiness does not depend on human conduct or human input.
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- If holiness depends on us, if holiness depends on our
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- Feelings, if holiness depends on our experiences, if holiness
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- Depends on our consciousness, then we will always be depressed
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- If it depends on some human input.
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- So whenever you look at you, now this is important.
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- Whenever you look at you, all you see is corruption and
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- Darkness and all of that stuff.
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- When you look at you.
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- Try that.
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- Try looking at you when you're in trouble.
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- Try looking at you when you're broke.
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- See, 'cause we're used to looking at us.
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- I'm gonna make it happen.
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- I'm gonna figure this thing out.
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- And i'm not saying stop living, but i'm saying you are depending
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- More on you.
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- You're looking at you more than you're looking at him who has
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- Everything, and he'll let you look at you.
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- For some years, he'll let you look at you.
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- Until you get tired of looking at you or depending on you, and
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- Then you make a decision, i'm gonna look at him because
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- Looking at me ain't changing nothing.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- Let's go to romans 7, verse 18 through 24.
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- And i'm gonna read that out of the mirror translation.
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- It's paul's conflict with the flesh.
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- Paul's conflict with the flesh.
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- Looking at you or looking to you for the answers or looking at
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- You or looking to you for the way out, it's a position
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- Of self-preservation.
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- I don't trust that god can preserve me, so what i'm gonna
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- Do is trust me to preserve me.
- 00:17:38.459 --> 00:17:42.763
- And you know, all of your big talkers, you know, online will
- 00:17:42.763 --> 00:17:47.435
- Teach this, you know, you're the guy you look to, to do that.
- 00:17:47.435 --> 00:17:51.606
- That's wrong.
- 00:17:51.606 --> 00:17:52.974
- You gotta look at their lives.
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- And one day you'll wake up and say, well, they're giving you
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- Advice that's not working because they need you to
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- Pay them.
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- "no!" yeah.
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- All right now, watch this.
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- I'm gonna read verse 18 through 24 and everybody in here will be
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- Able to relate with paul's dilemma.
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- Verse 18.
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- Now i'm gonna read directly from the greek translation into
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- The english.
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- I discovered this yesterday.
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- I just didn't think about it.
- 00:18:29.844 --> 00:18:31.345
- You have to be careful when you read a greek bible because you
- 00:18:31.345 --> 00:18:34.682
- Gotta ask yourself, was this greek bible translated from an
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- English version into greek or was it translated from the greek
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- Language into english?
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- Because if it was translated from the english version into
- 00:18:44.725 --> 00:18:48.162
- Greek, then it's just gonna go right back to the english
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- Version, okay?
- 00:18:51.732 --> 00:18:53.834
- I stumbled across it last night when i was looking for a greek
- 00:18:53.834 --> 00:18:56.204
- Bible because i couldn't find mine and i'm like, "oh, they
- 00:18:56.204 --> 00:18:58.072
- Just translated that directly from the king james bible, so
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- All i'm gonna get is the king james because i knew that that
- 00:19:01.209 --> 00:19:03.544
- Word was not the greek word here to do that.
- 00:19:03.544 --> 00:19:07.148
- And so i'm gonna read a bible that's gonna translate it from
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- The greek language to the english language.
- 00:19:10.685 --> 00:19:13.521
- Greek language pays a lot of attention to verbs.
- 00:19:13.521 --> 00:19:17.024
- And the english language pays a lot of attention to objects,
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- Which means in translating, you're gonna, it's not gonna be
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- Certain words that you have in the english that's available to
- 00:19:23.764 --> 00:19:27.535
- You in the greek and vice versa.
- 00:19:27.535 --> 00:19:29.937
- So this is going to be, it's an updated language.
- 00:19:29.937 --> 00:19:34.475
- But it is amazing of the accuracy of the greek that we
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- Can look at it and i think this will bless you.
- 00:19:40.881 --> 00:19:42.850
- So look at paul's dilemma here.
- 00:19:42.850 --> 00:19:45.052
- Some of you think, "well, i didn't care about none of that
- 00:19:45.052 --> 00:19:46.921
- Stuff you just said, let's just read," you know?
- 00:19:46.921 --> 00:19:50.825
- Well, i do.
- 00:19:50.825 --> 00:19:52.159
- It just, it--i get happy over that kind of thing.
- 00:19:52.159 --> 00:19:54.528
- All right, verse 18: "the total extent and ugliness of sin that
- 00:19:54.528 --> 00:20:00.468
- Inhabits me, reduced my life to good intentions that could not
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- Be followed through."
- 00:20:08.776 --> 00:20:10.878
- How many of you had some good intentions, but you were not
- 00:20:10.878 --> 00:20:13.948
- Able to follow them through?
- 00:20:13.948 --> 00:20:16.384
- And then somebody made you feel bad and said, "well, hell is
- 00:20:16.384 --> 00:20:19.287
- Paved with good intentions," okay?
- 00:20:19.287 --> 00:20:23.691
- Good intentions.
- 00:20:23.691 --> 00:20:25.026
- In other words, i had an--i wanted to do that.
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- That's how i wanna live.
- 00:20:29.730 --> 00:20:31.232
- That's how i want to respond.
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- That's how i want to act.
- 00:20:32.600 --> 00:20:34.602
- I fully intended on doing that.
- 00:20:34.602 --> 00:20:36.304
- However, i couldn't follow through.
- 00:20:36.304 --> 00:20:40.241
- Now, no matter what you think as a christian, that's everybody in
- 00:20:40.241 --> 00:20:43.811
- Here that has something in our lives that we intended to do,
- 00:20:43.811 --> 00:20:46.247
- But we didn't follow through, okay?
- 00:20:46.247 --> 00:20:49.684
- And it was used to condemn us.
- 00:20:49.684 --> 00:20:52.053
- And i'm gonna show you today the little trick that's been played
- 00:20:52.053 --> 00:20:55.656
- On mankind.
- 00:20:55.656 --> 00:20:58.159
- And you're gonna want to spine the devil and slap him after the
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- Sermon is over with.
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- All right, verse 19.
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- He says, "willpower has failed me."
- 00:21:03.931 --> 00:21:07.468
- Huh, how many of you have tried to use willpower to accomplish
- 00:21:07.468 --> 00:21:13.207
- Good conduct?
- 00:21:13.207 --> 00:21:15.009
- And you tried and you tried, tried all night long.
- 00:21:15.009 --> 00:21:20.748
- You tried and you tried.
- 00:21:20.748 --> 00:21:24.251
- "until i found the lord" who didn't need to be found because
- 00:21:24.251 --> 00:21:28.689
- He wasn't lost.
- 00:21:28.689 --> 00:21:30.024
- He's the one that found us 'cause we was lost, right?
- 00:21:30.024 --> 00:21:36.030
- Willpower.
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- I thought, well, i'm a christian now, but i didn't
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- Dismiss willpower.
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- I'm gonna use willpower and i'm gonna fast and i'm gonna
- 00:21:42.636 --> 00:21:45.439
- Use willpower.
- 00:21:45.439 --> 00:21:46.874
- And it was, it was looking pretty good maybe that first 2
- 00:21:46.874 --> 00:21:49.276
- Weeks, and maybe that month, it was willpower.
- 00:21:49.276 --> 00:21:52.246
- Maybe 2 months, it was willpower.
- 00:21:52.246 --> 00:21:54.482
- I'm gonna use willpower not to cuss.
- 00:21:54.482 --> 00:21:56.317
- I'm gonna use willpower to stop cussing.
- 00:21:56.317 --> 00:21:57.918
- I'm gonna--willpower to start cussing.
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- Somebody did something in the-- i ain't know what happened to
- 00:22:00.654 --> 00:22:03.257
- The willpower and the cuss just flowed out like i never stopped.
- 00:22:03.257 --> 00:22:11.665
- Paul said, "willpower has failed me."
- 00:22:11.665 --> 00:22:15.169
- He said, "this is how embarrassing it is, the most
- 00:22:15.169 --> 00:22:19.507
- Diligent decision that i make to do good," and you do that.
- 00:22:19.507 --> 00:22:24.011
- You come to church, you get inspired, and you make a
- 00:22:24.011 --> 00:22:27.014
- Diligent decision to live right.
- 00:22:27.014 --> 00:22:29.650
- You told yourself while you was at church, "i'm leaving roscoe.
- 00:22:29.650 --> 00:22:32.653
- We ain't married and this is over with.
- 00:22:32.653 --> 00:22:34.488
- I'm gonna leave him. i'm not doing it."
- 00:22:34.488 --> 00:22:36.524
- No, no, no pun intended, roscoe, because you and betty have been
- 00:22:36.524 --> 00:22:38.692
- Together for--you and betty have been together forever,
- 00:22:38.692 --> 00:22:40.561
- You know?
- 00:22:40.561 --> 00:22:41.896
- And so betty ain't left you, you know, you know, and listen.
- 00:22:41.896 --> 00:22:48.302
- I had good intentions. i wanted to do it.
- 00:22:48.302 --> 00:22:51.839
- "willpower has failed me; this is how embarrassing it is, the
- 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:54.275
- Most diligent decision that i make to do good, disappoints;
- 00:22:54.275 --> 00:23:00.915
- The very evil i try to avoid, that's what i do.
- 00:23:00.915 --> 00:23:07.855
- If i do the thing," paul says, "i do not want to do, then it is
- 00:23:07.855 --> 00:23:13.294
- Clear that i am not," now this is so interesting.
- 00:23:13.294 --> 00:23:16.096
- "if i do the things i do not wanna do, then it's clear that
- 00:23:16.096 --> 00:23:20.601
- I'm not evil.
- 00:23:20.601 --> 00:23:29.477
- It's clear that i'm not evil, but that i host, i play host to
- 00:23:29.477 --> 00:23:37.485
- Sin in my body.
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- And i host it against my will."
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