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Creflo Dollar - Holiness Vs. The Flesh

March 8, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Holiness Vs. The Flesh
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Holiness Vs. The Flesh | March 8, 2026
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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
  • 00:13:58.417 --> 00:14:02.721
  • World's way of doing things.
  • 00:14:02.721 --> 00:14:04.056
  • So when people--and you're separate because of who you have
  • 00:14:04.056 --> 00:14:07.793
  • And whose you are, that's what separates you.
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  • You put so much stock in your conduct that you put
  • 00:14:11.063 --> 00:14:15.868
  • 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
  • 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.443
  • You're his, the conduct's gonna change.
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  • Once you realize whose you are and your identity, the conduct's
  • 00:14:28.113 --> 00:14:31.717
  • Gonna change.
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  • You focus it on your conduct and ignore jesus.
  • 00:14:33.052 --> 00:14:36.522
  • And you come in with rules and laws, trying to get a better
  • 00:14:36.522 --> 00:14:40.225
  • Conduct and don't know jesus.
  • 00:14:40.225 --> 00:14:42.461
  • And that's what's happening: a lot of people are trying to live
  • 00:14:42.461 --> 00:14:46.065
  • Under the conduct of holiness and they don't even know who
  • 00:14:46.065 --> 00:14:49.401
  • Holiness is.
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  • When people don't see the beauty of holiness, they won't
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  • Pursue it.
  • 00:14:59.378 --> 00:15:02.247
  • The beauty, david said, "worship the lord and the beauty of his
  • 00:15:02.247 --> 00:15:04.783
  • Holiness," 1 chronicles 16.
  • 00:15:04.783 --> 00:15:06.452
  • When they don't see the beauty of holiness or the benefit of
  • 00:15:06.452 --> 00:15:09.054
  • Holiness or understand what holiness is, they won't
  • 00:15:09.054 --> 00:15:11.457
  • Pursue it.
  • 00:15:11.457 --> 00:15:12.925
  • So number one, holiness is a person.
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  • His name is jesus.
  • 00:15:18.130 --> 00:15:20.399
  • 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.
  • 00:15:26.972 --> 00:15:28.307
  • So holiness does not depend on human input.
  • 00:15:28.307 --> 00:15:33.245
  • Holiness does not depend on human input.
  • 00:15:33.245 --> 00:15:37.383
  • Holiness does not depend on human conduct or human input.
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  • If holiness depends on us, if holiness depends on our
  • 00:15:44.056 --> 00:15:49.228
  • Feelings, if holiness depends on our experiences, if holiness
  • 00:15:49.228 --> 00:15:54.233
  • Depends on our consciousness, then we will always be depressed
  • 00:15:54.233 --> 00:15:59.671
  • If it depends on some human input.
  • 00:15:59.671 --> 00:16:06.945
  • So whenever you look at you, now this is important.
  • 00:16:06.945 --> 00:16:11.717
  • Whenever you look at you, all you see is corruption and
  • 00:16:11.717 --> 00:16:17.923
  • Darkness and all of that stuff.
  • 00:16:17.923 --> 00:16:19.491
  • 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.
  • 00:16:25.564 --> 00:16:28.634
  • 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.
  • 00:16:33.439 --> 00:16:35.140
  • 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.
  • 00:16:44.149 --> 00:16:46.185
  • For some years, he'll let you look at you.
  • 00:16:46.185 --> 00:16:49.021
  • Until you get tired of looking at you or depending on you, and
  • 00:16:49.021 --> 00:16:52.424
  • Then you make a decision, i'm gonna look at him because
  • 00:16:52.424 --> 00:16:55.094
  • Looking at me ain't changing nothing.
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  • Are you listening to me?
  • 00:16:59.331 --> 00:17:02.801
  • 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.
  • 00:17:10.042 --> 00:17:16.448
  • Paul's conflict with the flesh.
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  • Looking at you or looking to you for the answers or looking at
  • 00:17:20.686 --> 00:17:26.258
  • You or looking to you for the way out, it's a position
  • 00:17:26.258 --> 00:17:31.864
  • Of self-preservation.
  • 00:17:31.864 --> 00:17:33.365
  • I don't trust that god can preserve me, so what i'm gonna
  • 00:17:33.365 --> 00:17:37.369
  • Do is trust me to preserve me.
  • 00:17:37.369 --> 00:17:41.673
  • And you know, all of your big talkers, you know, online will
  • 00:17:41.673 --> 00:17:46.345
  • Teach this, you know, you're the guy you look to, to do that.
  • 00:17:46.345 --> 00:17:50.516
  • That's wrong.
  • 00:17:50.516 --> 00:17:51.884
  • You gotta look at their lives.
  • 00:17:51.884 --> 00:17:54.186
  • And one day you'll wake up and say, well, they're giving you
  • 00:17:54.186 --> 00:17:56.488
  • Advice that's not working because they need you to
  • 00:17:56.488 --> 00:17:58.490
  • Pay them.
  • 00:17:58.490 --> 00:18:02.794
  • "no!" yeah.
  • 00:18:02.794 --> 00:18:06.598
  • All right now, watch this.
  • 00:18:06.598 --> 00:18:07.933
  • I'm gonna read verse 18 through 24 and everybody in here will be
  • 00:18:07.933 --> 00:18:13.438
  • Able to relate with paul's dilemma.
  • 00:18:13.438 --> 00:18:17.209
  • Verse 18.
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  • Now i'm gonna read directly from the greek translation into
  • 00:18:19.611 --> 00:18:26.051
  • The english.
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  • I discovered this yesterday.
  • 00:18:27.386 --> 00:18:28.754
  • I just didn't think about it.
  • 00:18:28.754 --> 00:18:30.255
  • You have to be careful when you read a greek bible because you
  • 00:18:30.255 --> 00:18:33.592
  • Gotta ask yourself, was this greek bible translated from an
  • 00:18:33.592 --> 00:18:37.196
  • English version into greek or was it translated from the greek
  • 00:18:37.196 --> 00:18:41.433
  • Language into english?
  • 00:18:41.433 --> 00:18:43.635
  • Because if it was translated from the english version into
  • 00:18:43.635 --> 00:18:47.072
  • Greek, then it's just gonna go right back to the english
  • 00:18:47.072 --> 00:18:50.642
  • Version, okay?
  • 00:18:50.642 --> 00:18:52.744
  • I stumbled across it last night when i was looking for a greek
  • 00:18:52.744 --> 00:18:55.113
  • Bible because i couldn't find mine and i'm like, "oh, they
  • 00:18:55.113 --> 00:18:56.982
  • Just translated that directly from the king james bible, so
  • 00:18:56.982 --> 00:19:00.118
  • All i'm gonna get is the king james because i knew that that
  • 00:19:00.118 --> 00:19:02.454
  • Word was not the greek word here to do that.
  • 00:19:02.454 --> 00:19:06.058
  • And so i'm gonna read a bible that's gonna translate it from
  • 00:19:06.058 --> 00:19:09.595
  • The greek language to the english language.
  • 00:19:09.595 --> 00:19:12.431
  • Greek language pays a lot of attention to verbs.
  • 00:19:12.431 --> 00:19:15.934
  • And the english language pays a lot of attention to objects,
  • 00:19:15.934 --> 00:19:19.404
  • Which means in translating, you're gonna, it's not gonna be
  • 00:19:19.404 --> 00:19:22.674
  • Certain words that you have in the english that's available to
  • 00:19:22.674 --> 00:19:26.445
  • You in the greek and vice versa.
  • 00:19:26.445 --> 00:19:28.847
  • So this is going to be, it's an updated language.
  • 00:19:28.847 --> 00:19:33.385
  • But it is amazing of the accuracy of the greek that we
  • 00:19:33.385 --> 00:19:39.791
  • Can look at it and i think this will bless you.
  • 00:19:39.791 --> 00:19:41.760
  • So look at paul's dilemma here.
  • 00:19:41.760 --> 00:19:43.962
  • Some of you think, "well, i didn't care about none of that
  • 00:19:43.962 --> 00:19:45.831
  • Stuff you just said, let's just read," you know?
  • 00:19:45.831 --> 00:19:49.735
  • Well, i do.
  • 00:19:49.735 --> 00:19:51.069
  • It just, it--i get happy over that kind of thing.
  • 00:19:51.069 --> 00:19:53.438
  • All right, verse 18: "the total extent and ugliness of sin that
  • 00:19:53.438 --> 00:19:59.378
  • Inhabits me, reduced my life to good intentions that could not
  • 00:19:59.378 --> 00:20:07.686
  • Be followed through."
  • 00:20:07.686 --> 00:20:09.788
  • How many of you had some good intentions, but you were not
  • 00:20:09.788 --> 00:20:12.858
  • Able to follow them through?
  • 00:20:12.858 --> 00:20:15.294
  • And then somebody made you feel bad and said, "well, hell is
  • 00:20:15.294 --> 00:20:18.196
  • Paved with good intentions," okay?
  • 00:20:18.196 --> 00:20:22.601
  • Good intentions.
  • 00:20:22.601 --> 00:20:23.935
  • In other words, i had an--i wanted to do that.
  • 00:20:23.935 --> 00:20:28.640
  • That's how i wanna live.
  • 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:30.142
  • That's how i want to respond.
  • 00:20:30.142 --> 00:20:31.510
  • That's how i want to act.
  • 00:20:31.510 --> 00:20:33.512
  • I fully intended on doing that.
  • 00:20:33.512 --> 00:20:35.213
  • However, i couldn't follow through.
  • 00:20:35.213 --> 00:20:39.151
  • Now, no matter what you think as a christian, that's everybody in
  • 00:20:39.151 --> 00:20:42.721
  • Here that has something in our lives that we intended to do,
  • 00:20:42.721 --> 00:20:45.157
  • But we didn't follow through, okay?
  • 00:20:45.157 --> 00:20:48.593
  • And it was used to condemn us.
  • 00:20:48.593 --> 00:20:50.962
  • And i'm gonna show you today the little trick that's been played
  • 00:20:50.962 --> 00:20:54.566
  • On mankind.
  • 00:20:54.566 --> 00:20:57.069
  • And you're gonna want to spine the devil and slap him after the
  • 00:20:57.069 --> 00:20:59.338
  • Sermon is over with.
  • 00:20:59.338 --> 00:21:01.106
  • All right, verse 19.
  • 00:21:01.106 --> 00:21:02.841
  • He says, "willpower has failed me."
  • 00:21:02.841 --> 00:21:06.378
  • Huh, how many of you have tried to use willpower to accomplish
  • 00:21:06.378 --> 00:21:12.117
  • Good conduct?
  • 00:21:12.117 --> 00:21:13.919
  • And you tried and you tried, tried all night long.
  • 00:21:13.919 --> 00:21:19.658
  • You tried and you tried.
  • 00:21:19.658 --> 00:21:23.161
  • "until i found the lord" who didn't need to be found because
  • 00:21:23.161 --> 00:21:27.599
  • He wasn't lost.
  • 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:28.934
  • He's the one that found us 'cause we was lost, right?
  • 00:21:28.934 --> 00:21:34.940
  • Willpower.
  • 00:21:34.940 --> 00:21:38.243
  • I thought, well, i'm a christian now, but i didn't
  • 00:21:36.875 --> 00:21:40.212
  • Dismiss willpower.
  • 00:21:40.212 --> 00:21:41.546
  • I'm gonna use willpower and i'm gonna fast and i'm gonna
  • 00:21:41.546 --> 00:21:44.349
  • Use willpower.
  • 00:21:44.349 --> 00:21:45.784
  • And it was, it was looking pretty good maybe that first 2
  • 00:21:45.784 --> 00:21:48.186
  • Weeks, and maybe that month, it was willpower.
  • 00:21:48.186 --> 00:21:51.156
  • Maybe 2 months, it was willpower.
  • 00:21:51.156 --> 00:21:53.392
  • I'm gonna use willpower not to cuss.
  • 00:21:53.392 --> 00:21:55.227
  • I'm gonna use willpower to stop cussing.
  • 00:21:55.227 --> 00:21:56.828
  • I'm gonna--willpower to start cussing.
  • 00:21:56.828 --> 00:21:59.564
  • Somebody did something in the-- i ain't know what happened to
  • 00:21:59.564 --> 00:22:02.167
  • The willpower and the cuss just flowed out like i never stopped.
  • 00:22:02.167 --> 00:22:10.575
  • Paul said, "willpower has failed me."
  • 00:22:10.575 --> 00:22:14.079
  • He said, "this is how embarrassing it is, the most
  • 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:18.417
  • Diligent decision that i make to do good," and you do that.
  • 00:22:18.417 --> 00:22:22.921
  • You come to church, you get inspired, and you make a
  • 00:22:22.921 --> 00:22:25.924
  • Diligent decision to live right.
  • 00:22:25.924 --> 00:22:28.727
  • "willpower has failed me; this is how embarrassing it is, the
  • 00:22:28.727 --> 00:22:31.163
  • Most diligent decision that i make to do good, disappoints;
  • 00:22:31.163 --> 00:22:37.803
  • The very evil i try to avoid, that's what i do.
  • 00:22:37.803 --> 00:22:44.743
  • If i do the thing," paul says, "i do not want to do, then it is
  • 00:22:44.743 --> 00:22:50.182
  • Clear that i am not," now this is so interesting.
  • 00:22:50.182 --> 00:22:52.984
  • "if i do the things i do not wanna do, then it's clear that
  • 00:22:52.984 --> 00:22:57.489
  • I'm not evil.
  • 00:22:57.489 --> 00:23:06.364
  • It's clear that i'm not evil, but that i host, i play host to
  • 00:23:06.364 --> 00:23:14.372
  • Sin in my body.
  • 00:23:14.372 --> 00:23:17.776
  • And i host it against my will."
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  • A believer.
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  • It is from this point that we can move into the fullness of
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  • Who god has called us to be and see the manifestation of the
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  • Finished works of jesus.
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  • It is one of my greatest pleasures to help people to
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  • Understand who christ is and to lead people to christ.
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  • If you would like salvation today, pray this prayer with me.
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  • Very simple prayer, "heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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  • I believe that he died, that he rose again, and that he
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  • Lives today.
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  • Come into my life, save me.
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  • I receive you as my savior, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, that's how
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  • Simple it is.
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  • Welcome to the family of god.
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