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Creflo Dollar - Holiness vs. The Flesh

May 19, 2025 | S25:E122

Creflo Dollar - Holiness vs. The Flesh
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Holiness vs. The Flesh | May 19, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: he said, "here's what i'm gonna do.
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  • I'm gonna give you everything you need, even before you
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  • Need it.
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  • Just know i did it, and quit trying to do it yourself, and
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  • Watch what i can do."
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  • We can't see that.
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  • "well, you know, i--you know, you got to do something."
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  • Yeah, believe that he is everything you need.
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  • Realize, "i'm righteous. i'm sanctified.
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  • I got good conduct."
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  • Realize all that and stop trying to see, "well, i'm righteous,"
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  • Or "right now, i got to do these ten things to really make
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  • It righteous--" you don't even believe it.
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  • You got to believe you righteous when the craziest, stupidest
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  • Thing just happened to you and you still got enough mitigated
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  • Gall to look up towards heaven and say to the devil, "i'm
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  • Still righteous."
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place ♪
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  • Creflo: let me show you something.
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  • Philippians chapter 3, verse 4-6 in the nlt and then in
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  • The mirror.
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  • Philippians 3:4 and 6--4-6.
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  • Oh, wow.
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  • You can see all of this is coming down to that
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  • Unrenewed software.
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  • All right, watch this. paul knew exactly what this was.
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  • He said, "though i could have confidence in my own effort."
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  • Or i think another version says "in my flesh."
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  • "though i could have confidence in my own effort," look what he
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  • Says, "if anyone could."
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  • He said, "indeed, if others have reasons for confidence in their
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  • Flesh," or their own effort, he says, "i have even more
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  • Confidence in my flesh," or "my own efforts!"
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  • And look at the list, verse 5. "i was circumcised when i was
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  • Eight days old," paul says.
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  • "i'm a pure-blooded citizen of israel.
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  • I have no gentile blood in me.
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  • I'm a pure citizen of israel, and i'm a member of the tribe
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  • Of benjamin.
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  • I'm a real hebrew if there were ever one!
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  • I was a member of the pharisees, who demanded the strictest
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  • Obedience to the jewish law.
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  • If i'm gonna get ahead, i could do it with my own efforts, with
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  • My flesh, what i got.
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  • Look, see, hear, touch.
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  • Look at who i am.
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  • I was so zealous that i harshly persecuted the church.
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  • And as for righteousness, i obeyed the law without fault."
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  • Huh, wow.
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  • "i once thought these things were valuable, but now i
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  • Consider them worthless because of what christ has done."
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  • Now, go back to, what was that, verse 4, in the
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  • Mirror translation.
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  • Buckle your seat belt.
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  • "i have more reason than anyone else to rely on my years of
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  • Diligent and most sincere devotion to jewish sentiment
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  • And rituals.
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  • More than anybody else, i have-- i can rely on my self-effort.
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  • I can rely on my effort, my own effort.
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  • I don't need no jesus, i can rely on my effort."
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  • Next verse.
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  • "if gaining god's approval had anything to do with striving and
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  • Personal effort," and that's what the church thinks.
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  • The church thinks that through their striving and their working
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  • And their self-effort that they can gain god's approval.
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  • In religion, all it preaches is, "here's what you gotta do to
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  • Gain god's approval."
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  • And he says--paul says, "if gaining god's approval had
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  • Anything to do with striving and personal effort," he said, "i
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  • Would beat the best in the business.
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  • My pedigree is obvious: i received the famous cut when i
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  • Was 8--" the famous cut, you know what that is?
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  • Circumcision.
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  • "i received the famous cut when i was 8 days old, exactly as the
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  • Law prescribed.
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  • I am israeli by birth; the head of my tribe is benjamin.
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  • I am a hebrew of the hebrews.
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  • In my observance of the law i belonged to the strictest party;
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  • I was proud to be a pharisee."
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  • But he was sad, you see.
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  • "the extremities of my fervor were demonstrated in the way i
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  • Fiercely opposed and persecuted anyone who identified themselves
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  • In christ.
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  • [the so-called ekklesia.]
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  • If keeping the law, these credentials could possibly have
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  • Given me a blameless standing before god, i had it made."
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  • Next verse.
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  • "i had it made."
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  • Uh-oh, i don't know if i gave you all that verse.
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  • Somebody say, "here you go?"
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  • Oh, you got one?
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  • You got verse 7? all right.
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  • Thank god for the congregation when the preacher
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  • Ain't prepared.
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  • "the sum total of my religious pedigree and devotion amount
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  • To zero.
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  • What we have been gifted with in christ has reduced what once
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  • Seemed so important to meaningless information.
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  • To esteem the law is to your loss.
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  • Faith is your profit."
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  • All right, watch this, watch this, verse 8, "in fact, i have
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  • Come to the conclusion that every association i have had
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  • With that which defined me before as a devout jew, is by
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  • Far eclipsed by what i have gained in knowing the messiah.
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  • Jesus christ and his masterful redemption define me now.
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  • Religion is like dog pooh; and it stinks, avoid stepping
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  • In it."
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Creflo: dang.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Creflo: you see why i had--i just had to read that.
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  • "religion's like--" another version calls it dung.
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  • It's still translated poop.
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  • He said, "it stinks, avoid stepping in it."
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  • And you know what the issue is?
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  • We've been stepping in it for all this time, walking around
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  • With the stench of self-effort.
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  • The stench of the flesh.
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  • Dead flesh stinks.
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  • And we hadn't recognized it because we're still trusting in
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  • Our own preservation, our own efforts.
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  • We're still looking at it based on how we would tackle it.
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  • So when you do that, you have no need for christ.
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  • You have no need for jesus.
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  • You got it all figured out.
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  • Can't nobody tell you nothing.
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  • And a lot of things god didn't do or couldn't do until we allow
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  • Death to come to our self-effort.
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  • Wow.
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  • Don't expect good from your flesh.
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  • The flesh and sin in the flesh has been crucified with christ,
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  • So don't let the flesh condemn you.
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  • And that's the thing that it'll do.
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  • The flesh will condemn you.
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  • The flesh, all it does is condemn you.
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  • The flesh tells you to do something and then condemns you
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  • From doing it.
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • The flesh gives you advice.
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  • "hey, handle this."
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  • And then you get condemned when you do it that way.
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  • But look at romans chapter 8, in verse 1, king james and
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  • Then mirror.
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  • Romans 8:1.
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  • King james and then mirror.
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  • Watch this.
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  • Romans 8 gives us the assurance that "there is therefore now no
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  • Condemnation to them which are in christ jesus."
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  • How many of you have got born again and you're in
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  • Christ jesus?
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  • I have an announcement: you have the gift of no condemnation.
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  • But you gotta realize there's no condemnation.
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  • But you know what the flesh does?
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  • All it does is condemn.
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  • The flesh tries to make you think that something good comes
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  • Out of it, and i'm telling you, there's nothing good that comes
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  • Out of it, and then you walk around in condemnation.
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  • "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are
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  • In christ jesus," period, period.
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  • Let me show you the little sneaky stuff of the translators.
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  • This phrase, "who walk not after the flesh, but after the
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  • Spirit," that appears in a lot of your bibles in italicized.
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  • Does anybody have bibles where you see it in italicized?
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  • That represents the fact that it does not appear in the
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  • Original language.
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  • That line is not even in the original language.
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  • It is, "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which
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  • Are in christ jesus," period.
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  • If "who walk after the flesh, and not after the spirit," if
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  • That was there, that would now mean you have to do something in
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  • Order to not have condemnation in christ jesus.
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  • But when you are in christ jesus, there's no condemnation.
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  • There is no condemnation.
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  • It is not, "there is no condemnation if you don't walk
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  • In the flesh."
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  • There is no condemnation if you walk in the flesh.
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  • There's no condemnation if you walk in the spirit.
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  • There is no condemnation! why, because you're in christ.
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  • It is christ that is the freedom from that condemnation.
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  • It is not how you walk, what you do in your conduct, not to say
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  • You just go out walking and doing all kinds of crazy stuff.
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  • That's not even possible.
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  • You can't even bring that into the equation because now that
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  • You're in christ jesus, he is the one now that's governing
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  • Your conduct.
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  • He is the one now that's gonna give you the desire to do
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  • What's right.
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  • He's gonna give you the desire to please god.
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  • We think, "well, the brother dollar said you can just
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  • Do anything."
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  • You ain't gonna want to do nothing.
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  • That's what i'm trying to show you.
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  • Once you're in christ jesus, the desires start to change.
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  • You don't need to do nothing for god, who has already done
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  • Everything that needed to be done.
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  • What you gonna do now?
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  • He knows how to change us.
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  • Much better than we know how to change ourselves.
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  • He just wants a shot at it, and you won't get out of the way.
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  • He said, "here's what i'm gonna do.
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  • I'm gonna give you everything you need, even before you
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  • Need it.
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  • Just know i did it, and quit trying to do it yourself, and
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  • Watch what i can do."
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  • We can't see that.
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  • "well, you know, i--you know, you got to do something."
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  • Yeah, believe that he is everything you need.
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  • Realize, "i'm righteous.
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  • I'm sanctified.
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  • I got good conduct."
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  • Realize all that and stop trying to see, "well, i'm righteous,"
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  • Or "right now, i got to do these ten things to really make
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  • It righteous."
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  • You don't even believe it.
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  • You got to believe you're righteous when the craziest,
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  • Stupidest thing just happened to you and you still got enough
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  • Mitigated gall to look up towards heaven and say to the
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  • Devil, "i'm still righteous."
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  • And you know what happens?
  • 00:14:21.674 --> 00:14:23.008
  • Then the holy ghost starts working on the inside of you,
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  • Because, contrary to popular opinion, the day you got born
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  • Again, the holy ghost came on the inside of you.
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  • It wasn't when you started speaking in tongues that he
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  • Came in.
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  • He came in-- [speaking in tongues].
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  • He came in the day you got born again, hallelujah.
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  • In fact, you--he said, "no man comes to the father unless he's
  • 00:14:39.358 --> 00:14:42.194
  • Drawn by the spirit of god," hallelujah.
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  • And that same holy ghost is working on the inside of you.
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  • He's working on the desire that makes you want to smoke weed.
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  • He's working on the desire that makes you wanna sleep around.
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  • He's working on all of those desires, and you are going to be
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  • His masterpiece.
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  • He already declared, "you are my workmanship.
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  • You are who i am working on.
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  • I'm working on you," praise god.
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  • "yeah, it don't look right now.
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  • It don't sound right now.
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  • And it don't look like you're nothing but a thug, but i'm
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  • Gonna take that thug, and i'm gonna rearrange this, and i'm
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  • Gonna put this here, and i'm gonna put that there.
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  • And when i finish with you, i'm gonna take that thug, and i'm
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  • Gonna use him to deliver people out of their bondage.
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  • And i'm gonna take that former thug, and i'm gonna use him to
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  • Lay hands on the sick.
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  • And i'm gonna take that former thug."
  • 00:15:33.846 --> 00:15:42.287
  • But you won't get out of the way.
  • 00:15:42.287 --> 00:15:47.960
  • Because religion tells you that god helps those who
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  • Help themselves.
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  • That's a lie.
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  • God helps those who need help.
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  • And how many of y'all know that be me?
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  • That means that be you too.
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  • That means all of us need some help.
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  • But you--see, religion's got you so blind you can't see--how
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  • Do i say this, lord?
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  • Well, i ain't gonna lie about it--
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  • You can't see you don't matter in this new testament.
  • 00:16:19.725 --> 00:16:25.564
  • "what do you mean? you don't love me?"
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  • No, i didn't say that.
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  • I'm saying all of the things that you try to bring to the
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  • Table don't matter.
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  • Whatever you bring to the table that doesn't find its source in
  • 00:16:35.174 --> 00:16:41.313
  • Him, you'll eventually end up boasting about it.
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  • It's gotta come to the place where there are things going on
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  • In your life, and somebody ask you about it, and you're
  • 00:16:52.958 --> 00:16:55.094
  • Like, "jesus."
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  • "i noticed you've been doing-- how you doing that?"
  • 00:16:58.464 --> 00:17:02.801
  • "jesus."
  • 00:17:02.801 --> 00:17:07.706
  • "what you--that business you start, you know, that's a
  • 00:17:07.706 --> 00:17:09.508
  • Multi-million dollar business, how'd you do that?
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  • What degree you got?"
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  • Man, i ain't even finished high school.
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  • So i know i can't brag about it, i--but i can brag about the one
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  • Who did it: jesus.
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  • Don't you see that's when you give him the glory?
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  • He wants the glory, praise god.
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  • You keep trying to take what belongs to him.
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  • Honey, if you didn't have his breath, you wouldn't
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  • Be breathing.
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  • If you didn't have his craftsmanship, you wouldn't have
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  • A body to live in.
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  • If you didn't have his wisdom, you'd be dumb as a rock,
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  • Praise god.
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  • It's everything.
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  • It is in him we move.
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  • It is in him we breathe.
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  • It is in him we have our being.
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  • Don't you get it?
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  • He is worthy of my praise!
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  • He's worthy of my hand claps!
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  • He's worthy of my shout!
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  • He's worthy of it all because without him, i am nothing!
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  • I'm nothing!
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  • Do you guys--you understand what i'm saying?
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  • That flesh majors on self-effort.
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  • Look at this in the king james, and i'll be done.
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  • Romans chapter 7, in verse 5, it then shows you the correlation
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  • Between flesh and the law.
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  • He says, "for when we were in the flesh," in our self-efforts,
  • 00:18:36.461 --> 00:18:44.870
  • "the motions of sin, which were by the law."
  • 00:18:44.870 --> 00:18:48.340
  • The law is a performance-based agreement founded
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  • In self-effort.
  • 00:18:54.580 --> 00:18:57.382
  • And when you reject the gospel of grace for the law, you are
  • 00:18:57.382 --> 00:19:04.556
  • Attaching your life to the flesh.
  • 00:19:04.556 --> 00:19:09.695
  • The law is flesh-based.
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  • It's performance-based.
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  • Why?
  • 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:19.838
  • To bring you to an end of yourself so that you can see
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  • Your need for a savior.
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  • The law says you gotta be good in order for god to be good
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  • To you.
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  • And god's not good to us because we're good.
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  • God's power is not based on our behavior.
  • 00:19:39.725 --> 00:19:43.695
  • Seriously, you think your conduct is what determines
  • 00:19:43.695 --> 00:19:47.766
  • God's power?
  • 00:19:47.766 --> 00:19:52.704
  • "for when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
  • 00:19:52.704 --> 00:19:55.774
  • By the law, it did work in our members to bring forth the fruit
  • 00:19:55.774 --> 00:20:02.314
  • Unto death."
  • 00:20:02.314 --> 00:20:09.054
  • I will, for as long as i have breath in my body, preach this
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  • Gospel until you get it.
  • 00:20:15.294 --> 00:20:21.533
  • "oh, i tell you what, that creflo and taffi, they done lost
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  • Their mind."
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  • Yeah, we have.
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  • We--praise god, we finally got rid of it.
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  • This is god, guys.
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  • If you just back up to the how religion has gotten you to feel.
  • 00:20:35.547 --> 00:20:40.852
  • You're full of shame, full of condemnation.
  • 00:20:40.852 --> 00:20:45.223
  • You're scared all the time.
  • 00:20:45.223 --> 00:20:47.693
  • You come to church, they put more fear on you so they can get
  • 00:20:47.693 --> 00:20:50.195
  • You to do something.
  • 00:20:50.195 --> 00:20:52.364
  • You're thinking you always got to earn god's favor when he
  • 00:20:52.364 --> 00:20:55.334
  • Calls that dead works.
  • 00:20:55.334 --> 00:20:56.902
  • Dead works is when you're trying to do something to get god to do
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  • Something good to you.
  • 00:21:00.005 --> 00:21:02.941
  • Religion makes it seem impossible that this god can be
  • 00:21:02.941 --> 00:21:07.679
  • This good, that his goodness will cause you to change
  • 00:21:07.679 --> 00:21:13.118
  • Your mind.
  • 00:21:13.118 --> 00:21:15.287
  • And mark chapter 1:15 says, "repent, for the kingdom of god
  • 00:21:15.287 --> 00:21:21.226
  • Is at hand."
  • 00:21:21.226 --> 00:21:22.627
  • What was he saying?
  • 00:21:22.627 --> 00:21:23.995
  • Change your mind about what you used to believe.
  • 00:21:23.995 --> 00:21:29.101
  • "repent and believe the gospel," is what he said.
  • 00:21:29.101 --> 00:21:33.805
  • Why?
  • 00:21:33.805 --> 00:21:35.273
  • Man, the kingdom of god's at hand.
  • 00:21:35.273 --> 00:21:39.211
  • And we just keep going to church and hearing what we
  • 00:21:39.211 --> 00:21:43.648
  • Already know.
  • 00:21:43.648 --> 00:21:46.017
  • And then when everybody wants to correct you, they go to james
  • 00:21:46.017 --> 00:21:48.687
  • Chapter 2, verse 17.
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  • They says, "yeah, but brother dollar, the bible says, 'faith
  • 00:21:50.222 --> 00:21:52.624
  • Without works is dead.'"
  • 00:21:52.624 --> 00:21:53.959
  • That ain't what he said.
  • 00:21:53.959 --> 00:21:55.660
  • That's what you read, but that ain't what that means.
  • 00:21:55.660 --> 00:21:59.264
  • Because we don't pay no attention to contexts.
  • 00:21:59.264 --> 00:22:02.701
  • The context here was--the illustration was a man showed up
  • 00:22:02.701 --> 00:22:07.038
  • Naked and showed up hungry, and he said, "well, do you just say
  • 00:22:07.038 --> 00:22:11.443
  • To them, 'be clothed and be filled?'"
  • 00:22:11.443 --> 00:22:13.712
  • And james challenged him and said, "if you really have this
  • 00:22:13.712 --> 00:22:16.248
  • Saving faith, it ought to produce some type of fruit or
  • 00:22:16.248 --> 00:22:21.853
  • Proof that it is that genuine saving faith."
  • 00:22:21.853 --> 00:22:26.158
  • But the word god translated works.
  • 00:22:26.158 --> 00:22:29.494
  • And what he says is, "if you really have this saving faith,
  • 00:22:29.494 --> 00:22:34.032
  • Out of your faith should produce some work or proof or fruit to
  • 00:22:34.032 --> 00:22:40.305
  • Give validation to that true faith on the inside of you."
  • 00:22:40.305 --> 00:22:45.277
  • James wasn't saying you got to add works to faith in order for
  • 00:22:45.277 --> 00:22:49.314
  • Your faith to work.
  • 00:22:49.314 --> 00:22:52.484
  • "well, i have faith i got 20/20 vision!
  • 00:22:52.484 --> 00:22:54.453
  • Oh, i'm gonna have to drive without no glasses on."
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  • That ain't what he said.
  • 00:22:56.721 --> 00:22:58.056
  • That's why folks had wrecks already, 'cause you got there
  • 00:22:58.056 --> 00:22:59.558
  • Misinterpreting the scripture, riding around without no glasses
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  • On, and wonder why nobody don't want to ride with you.
  • 00:23:02.861 --> 00:23:04.830
  • "i don't know why don't nobody won't let me give them a
  • 00:23:04.830 --> 00:23:06.798
  • Lift home--" 'cause you blind. you can't see.
  • 00:23:06.798 --> 00:23:12.871
  • And he turned around and said, "even moses--" or "abraham had
  • 00:23:12.871 --> 00:23:18.076
  • Works to justify his faith."
  • 00:23:18.076 --> 00:23:20.245
  • And then we went all crazy.
  • 00:23:20.245 --> 00:23:21.613
  • And what he was saying was, he had the real deal.
  • 00:23:21.613 --> 00:23:24.883
  • He proved it by what he did with his son.
  • 00:23:24.883 --> 00:23:30.055
  • Faith without proof, evidence, fruit of that faith is dead.
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  • And as soon as faith reaches out for what's finished, grace will
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  • Supply more of what is needed.
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