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Creflo Dollar - How To Deal With Unbelief

December 1, 2024 | S24:E1201

Creflo Dollar - How To Deal With Unbelief
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  • Creflo: today, we're gonna talk about how to deal with unbelief.
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  • How do you deal with unbelief?
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  • There's nothing wrong with your faith when you put your faith
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  • Out there for something to happen.
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  • There's nothing wrong with your faith.
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  • It's just, you have too much unbelief.
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  • You don't need but faith the size of a mustard seed.
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  • You just have too much unbelief and it's feeding you every day
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  • Through your eyes and it's feeding you through your ears
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  • And it's feeding you through your experiences and too much
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  • Unbelief will counteract your faith.
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  • And you'll always be in a point where you sit back and you
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  • Wonder, well, why didn't this work or why didn't that work?
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  • And so, if you don't mind, i wanna jump right into this and i
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  • Want to talk about the three different forms of unbelief.
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  • I want to define that for you right now.
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  • The three different forms of unbelief.
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  • Number one, the first form of unbelief is ignorance.
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  • Ignorance.
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  • It's when something just--it's when someone just doesn't know
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  • The truth.
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  • You just don't know.
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  • Now, you can only go so far as that--as an excuse with that.
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  • But ignorance, you just don't know.
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  • And there's nobody in here that hadn't been in a situation
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  • Where, i just didn't know.
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  • I just didn't know how to be a father.
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  • I just didn't know how to be a wife.
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  • I just didn't know how to be saved.
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  • But ignorance is the first form and it's when someone just
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  • Doesn't know the truth.
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  • When you just don't know the truth.
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  • The second form of unbelief is something called disbelief.
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  • And disbelief occurs
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  • As a result of wrong teaching.
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  • It comes from being taught wrong.
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  • Disbelief--i'm having a hard time believing the truth because
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  • I am prejudiced to what i've always heard.
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  • Number three, the third form of unbelief is something called
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  • Natural unbelief.
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  • Natural unbelief.
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  • And that comes mainly from what you see in your experiences,
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  • Natural inputs that may be contrary to the truth.
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  • Natural inputs that may be contrary to the proof.
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  • In other words, you're saying, you know, the word says you're
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  • Healed, but then i can see that big old thing on my leg.
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  • It's unbelief that comes from the viewing of the natural
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  • Circumstances and situations.
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  • So, three forms of unbelief: ignorance, disbelief, and
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  • Natural unbelief.
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  • Now, let's deal with them one at a time, apply some scripture to
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  • It and add a little bit more to the definition.
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  • Let's deal with ignorance.
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  • Just don't know.
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  • Ignorance, it just means that just don't know, it's
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  • Not knowing.
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  • The bible says, "my people are destroyed because they just
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  • Don't know."
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  • Ignorance can set you up for destruction.
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  • And so, due to a person's lack of knowledge, they
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  • Have unbelief.
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  • Due to, "i just didn't know," that they have unbelief.
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  • So, the cure to that is just tell the truth and, if received,
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  • The ignorance will be dealt with.
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  • That's the truth.
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  • How many of you know of some ignorant folks that love
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  • Staying ignorant?
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  • It seems like it's an easy thing to do.
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  • Let me show you something.
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  • Go to 1 timothy chapter 1 and verse 13 in the king james and
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  • Then look at it in the nlt.
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  • 1 timothy chapter 1 and 13.
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  • We look at paul and how paul persecuted the church and how
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  • Paul had stephen stoned to death.
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  • And you think, why did he do this?
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  • Verse 13, he says, "who was before," referring to paul.
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  • Paul was before a blasphemer.
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  • Paul was a blasphemer, he was a persecutor, he was injurious.
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  • He said, "but i obtained mercy, because i did it ignorantly
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  • In unbelief."
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  • How many things that you look back and you're like, why did i
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  • Do that?
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  • You were--you probably did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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  • Now, look at this in the nlt.
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  • He said, "even though i used to blaspheme the name of christ.
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  • In my insolence, i persecuted his people.
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  • But god had mercy on me because i did it in ignorance
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  • And unbelief."
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  • Now, here's the thing i want you to celebrate.
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  • Even when you were ignorant and unbelieving, god had mercy
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  • On you.
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  • Now, sometimes people want to hold the thing against you, but
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  • In your ignorance and unbelief--i mean, as a parent,
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  • There were certain things i did ignorantly, but thank god he had
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  • Mercy on me, which means everything gonna be all right.
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  • Amen?
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  • Now, let me show you an illustration of how this works.
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  • Go to john, let me show this--how it works.
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  • John chapter 12, verse 31 and 32.
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  • Look at it in the king james.
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  • John 12:31.
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  • There's certain things that, you know--when certain things are
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  • Shared and you just--you believe ignorant.
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  • You're in unbelief of some things because you just
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  • Didn't know.
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  • Here's some things we just didn't know.
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  • Now, i'm gonna show you a scripture you've always heard.
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  • "if i be lifted up from the earth, i will draw all men
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  • Unto me."
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  • How many of you heard that before?
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  • "now," verse 31, "now is the judgment of this world."
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  • Now is the judgment of this world, colon, which means
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  • Judgment is the subject that we're talking about, followed by
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  • The list.
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  • "now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of
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  • This world be cast out.
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  • And i, if i be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men
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  • Unto me," and all my life i'm wondering, something must be
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  • Wrong with you being lifted up because all men have yet to be
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  • Drawn unto you.
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  • And then i went back and looked at it.
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  • The word men is in italicize, which means it did not appear in
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  • The original language and that's not what he's talking about.
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  • They left something out.
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  • The subject here is not men.
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  • The subject here is judgment.
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  • And what he said was, "if i be lifted up from the earth, i will
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  • Draw all men's judgment unto me."
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  • All of the judgment that we have received from all the things
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  • That we have done ignorantly.
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  • God said, "if i lift my son up, he is gonna draw every judgment
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  • That was rightfully yours.
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  • Instead of the judgment coming on you, the judgment is gonna
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  • Come on him."
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  • Do you see what happens when you don't know?
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  • And so, i'm thinking, all men are coming.
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  • He says, "no," and, see, they translate--if you don't
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  • Understand the gospel message in this new and living way, yeah,
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  • You'll say, "i'll draw all men unto me," and it sounds good.
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  • "and if i be lifted up from the earth, i'll draw all men unto
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  • The"--oh, yes, amen.
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  • And we just don't know how to read, sometimes.
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  • You go back to your grammar, all that teaching you had on grammar
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  • And diagramming sentences.
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  • "if i be lifted up from the earth, i'll draw all of man's
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  • Judgment unto me."
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  • Judgment is the subject.
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  • So, we've got to open ourselves up.
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  • We can deal with this first area of unbelief.
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  • We can deal with ignorance how?
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  • By continuing to expose ourselves to the truth.
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  • And the more you expose yourself to the truth, the less and less
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  • Ignorant you're gonna live and be because of your exposure to
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  • The truth.
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  • Amen?
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  • Now, let's deal with this one.
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  • It's gonna take a little time with this one because
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  • Disbelief--people, they get violent in this area.
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  • This is more difficult to overcome than ignorance.
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  • As a person who has who has been taught wrong, they have the
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  • Prejudices against the truth.
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  • You have to receive the truth of god's word above man's
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  • Traditional thinking in order to overcome this unbelief that came
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  • Through wrong teaching.
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  • But the majority of the church today, it's like, "that's what
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  • I've always heard.
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  • That's the way i've always believed.
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  • And if it ain't broke, i ain't--ain't no need to fix it."
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  • Ah.
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  • Let me show you something. matthew chapter 5.
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  • Let me walk an example through with you and
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  • I'll show you an area where this has been around forever.
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  • Matthew chapter 5, verse 17 and 18.
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  • Alright, now.
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  • Now, check this out.
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  • Disbelief as a result of--you believe the way you believe
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  • Because you were taught wrong.
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  • That's been my journey.
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  • I've been on a journey of discovering those areas where i
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  • Was taught wrong so i can clear up the disbelief.
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  • Notice in verse 17--this is a big one.
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  • I may even go viral on this one, but this is a big one.
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  • "think not that i am come to destroy the law," jesus is
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  • Speaking, "or the prophets."
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  • "think not that i have come to destroy the law or the prophets:
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  • I am not come to destroy," the law, "but i've come to fulfill,"
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  • The law.
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  • "for verily i say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one
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  • Jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.
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  • Nothing will pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."
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  • Now, the first thing is, jesus said, "i didn't come to destroy
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  • The law."
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  • Jesus said, "i come to fulfill it."
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  • He didn't say you are to fulfill it.
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  • He said he came to fulfill it because if you could fulfill it,
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  • He would not have to come to fulfill it.
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  • Right?
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  • So, he said, "i came to do something that no man could do."
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  • The law is perfect.
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  • Men, because of the failure of adam and eve, we are
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  • Not perfect.
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  • Imperfection can't fulfill perfection, only perfection can
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  • Fulfill perfection and jesus is the only one i know is perfect,
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  • That can come and fill something that's perfect.
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  • You can't.
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  • He said, "for verily i say unto to you, till heaven and earth
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  • Pass away, not one jot, not one tittle, not one little bit of
  • 00:14:27.513 --> 00:14:31.784
  • The law gonna pass away, until i prove that i can fulfill
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  • It all."
  • 00:14:37.957 --> 00:14:39.325
  • Now, once i fulfill it all, it can pass away.
  • 00:14:39.325 --> 00:14:45.831
  • But there's been this thing about the law, like you're
  • 00:14:45.831 --> 00:14:48.467
  • Trying to hold on to it like you can keep it.
  • 00:14:48.467 --> 00:14:51.971
  • Oh, don't pay no attention to pastor dollar.
  • 00:14:51.971 --> 00:14:53.706
  • And then you go somewhere else, "well, jesus didn't come to
  • 00:14:53.706 --> 00:14:56.241
  • Destroy the law.
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  • He didn't come to destroy the law.
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  • Hallelujah."
  • 00:14:59.678 --> 00:15:02.581
  • And what you're insinuating is he didn't come to destroy it, he
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  • Can't fulfill it, so i'm gonna fulfill it.
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  • You can't.
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  • The law will beat you down.
  • 00:15:12.291 --> 00:15:17.062
  • So, what did he say?
  • 00:15:17.062 --> 00:15:18.530
  • Look at romans chapter 10.
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  • I'm gonna finally go through this whole thing.
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  • Romans chapter 10 in the king james first and then the nlt.
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  • Romans 10 and 4.
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  • I'm gonna add all the balances to this.
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  • Romans 10 and 4.
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  • Here's what he said, "for christ is the end of
  • 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.784
  • The law for righteousness to every one that believe."
  • 00:15:38.784 --> 00:15:45.124
  • So, now he's getting ready to make a distinction.
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  • He is saying, for people who believe and gotten born again,
  • 00:15:47.493 --> 00:15:52.398
  • Your belief in jesus is an end to the law in your life.
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  • Look at this in the new living translation.
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  • In the new living translation.
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  • "for christ has already accomplished the purpose for
  • 00:16:05.444 --> 00:16:09.815
  • Which the law was given."
  • 00:16:09.815 --> 00:16:11.250
  • So, he says, "when it is fulfilled, it'll pass away."
  • 00:16:11.250 --> 00:16:14.787
  • It's not gonna pass away until it is fulfilled.
  • 00:16:14.787 --> 00:16:17.489
  • Well, here he's saying it's accomplished.
  • 00:16:17.489 --> 00:16:20.125
  • "christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law
  • 00:16:20.125 --> 00:16:23.162
  • Was given.
  • 00:16:23.162 --> 00:16:24.530
  • As a result, all who believe in him are made right with god."
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  • For you to say, "no, i'mma still live by the law," it's for you
  • 00:16:30.102 --> 00:16:34.673
  • To say, "i have yet to believe in jesus," because those who now
  • 00:16:34.673 --> 00:16:38.510
  • Believe in jesus he says, "that's an end to the law
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  • Because you believe in jesus."
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  • All right.
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  • Hold on, hold on.
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  • Real quick, luke 16:16 and matthew 11:13.
  • 00:16:49.621 --> 00:16:54.093
  • And then i'm gonna show you something that's gonna bring
  • 00:16:54.093 --> 00:16:56.295
  • This--no, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:16:56.295 --> 00:16:57.663
  • But help me, lord, help me, help me.
  • 00:16:57.663 --> 00:16:58.997
  • Let's go to 1 timothy first.
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  • 1 timothy.
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  • Sometime in my anal thinking i wanna show you every little bit
  • 00:17:03.702 --> 00:17:06.572
  • And sometimes it ain't necessary.
  • 00:17:06.572 --> 00:17:08.107
  • Sometimes you need to just go straight to the point.
  • 00:17:08.107 --> 00:17:10.776
  • 1 timothy chapter 1 and verse 8 through 11.
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  • All right, we're finna milk this, man.
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  • I'm gonna put my--we're gonna milk this thing, put it in a
  • 00:17:21.286 --> 00:17:25.691
  • Bottle and put it in the refrigerator.
  • 00:17:25.691 --> 00:17:28.360
  • 1 timothy chapter 1.
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  • Alright, now, watch this.
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  • Now, for those who are born again and believe in jesus, you
  • 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:38.704
  • Have a new way of living.
  • 00:17:38.704 --> 00:17:41.273
  • Your living is gonna be by the holy ghost.
  • 00:17:41.273 --> 00:17:45.611
  • Watch this word.
  • 00:17:45.611 --> 00:17:46.979
  • Verse 8. "but we know that the law is good," it's not only
  • 00:17:46.979 --> 00:17:52.885
  • Good, it's perfect.
  • 00:17:52.885 --> 00:17:55.020
  • He said, "now, if a man use it lawfully, it is good."
  • 00:17:55.020 --> 00:18:00.459
  • If a man use it lawfully, it is good.
  • 00:18:00.459 --> 00:18:05.764
  • How was the law--how do you use the law lawfully?
  • 00:18:05.764 --> 00:18:09.535
  • By using it the way that it was intended to be used.
  • 00:18:09.535 --> 00:18:13.005
  • The law is good if used as it was originally intended.
  • 00:18:13.005 --> 00:18:19.545
  • And what was it originally intended to do?
  • 00:18:19.545 --> 00:18:23.882
  • The law was to make us aware of sin and the law was to push us
  • 00:18:23.882 --> 00:18:29.855
  • Towards jesus.
  • 00:18:29.855 --> 00:18:31.990
  • The law was given to make everybody aware of the
  • 00:18:31.990 --> 00:18:36.228
  • Sinfulness of their sin because without the law, you don't know
  • 00:18:36.228 --> 00:18:41.133
  • What's right or wrong.
  • 00:18:41.133 --> 00:18:42.501
  • That was the problem before the law.
  • 00:18:42.501 --> 00:18:44.002
  • They're doing everything, killing each other
  • 00:18:44.002 --> 00:18:45.504
  • And everything.
  • 00:18:45.504 --> 00:18:46.838
  • And god's like, we gotta do something, they just
  • 00:18:46.838 --> 00:18:48.173
  • Doing stuff.
  • 00:18:48.173 --> 00:18:49.541
  • There's no standard of right and wrong.
  • 00:18:49.541 --> 00:18:50.976
  • So, he said, "i'm gonna give them something perfect and
  • 00:18:50.976 --> 00:18:53.212
  • Flawless and the law is gonna show them the sinfulness of
  • 00:18:53.212 --> 00:18:56.448
  • Their sin and then the law is gonna show them their need for
  • 00:18:56.448 --> 00:18:59.851
  • A savior."
  • 00:18:59.851 --> 00:19:03.522
  • But it was not legal and lawful to use the law to drive us
  • 00:19:03.522 --> 00:19:11.396
  • To legalism.
  • 00:19:11.396 --> 00:19:14.499
  • The law was never intended to drive us to legalism.
  • 00:19:14.499 --> 00:19:20.639
  • What is legalism?
  • 00:19:20.639 --> 00:19:22.407
  • It's focusing on god's law more than the relationship with god.
  • 00:19:22.407 --> 00:19:27.379
  • Legalism: focusing on god's law and not the relationship
  • 00:19:27.379 --> 00:19:31.016
  • With god.
  • 00:19:31.016 --> 00:19:32.384
  • In other words, you're focusing on that rule and you have no
  • 00:19:32.384 --> 00:19:34.620
  • Relationship with god.
  • 00:19:34.620 --> 00:19:37.389
  • The law, or legalism, is keeping the eternal law without
  • 00:19:37.389 --> 00:19:44.029
  • Submitting your heart to god.
  • 00:19:44.029 --> 00:19:45.697
  • Your heart is not even in it.
  • 00:19:45.697 --> 00:19:48.433
  • And so, he says, "but we know that the law is good, if a man
  • 00:19:48.433 --> 00:19:52.104
  • Use it lawfully."
  • 00:19:52.104 --> 00:19:53.472
  • If the law is being used to show the sinfulness of your sin and
  • 00:19:53.472 --> 00:19:57.376
  • If the law is being used to drive you to christ, then he
  • 00:19:57.376 --> 00:20:01.713
  • Says that's using it lawfully.
  • 00:20:01.713 --> 00:20:03.081
  • Next verse, "knowing this, that the law is not made for a
  • 00:20:03.081 --> 00:20:08.420
  • Righteous man."
  • 00:20:08.420 --> 00:20:14.426
  • I'm telling--if you use it lawfully, but those of you who
  • 00:20:14.426 --> 00:20:16.695
  • Are righteous because you made jesus the lord of your life, the
  • 00:20:16.695 --> 00:20:19.731
  • Law is not for you.
  • 00:20:19.731 --> 00:20:21.066
  • No matter how you look for it, a guy who believes in jesus and
  • 00:20:21.066 --> 00:20:24.269
  • The guy who's got born again has to divorce itself from the law
  • 00:20:24.269 --> 00:20:28.907
  • And allow the new way of living, allow the holy ghost to be the
  • 00:20:28.907 --> 00:20:33.879
  • Administrator of morality versus rules and regulations being the
  • 00:20:33.879 --> 00:20:37.883
  • Administrator of morality.
  • 00:20:37.883 --> 00:20:40.719
  • "knowing this, that the law is not made for the righteous man,
  • 00:20:40.719 --> 00:20:43.455
  • But the law," watch this, "was made for the lawless, for the
  • 00:20:43.455 --> 00:20:48.327
  • Disobedient, for the ungodly, for the sinner, for the unholy."
  • 00:20:48.327 --> 00:20:55.000
  • Oh, my goodness.
  • 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.069
  • "for the murderers of fathers, murderers of mothers, for
  • 00:20:57.069 --> 00:21:00.939
  • Manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves,
  • 00:21:00.939 --> 00:21:06.678
  • For manpleasers, for liars and perjured persons.
  • 00:21:06.678 --> 00:21:11.583
  • If there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
  • 00:21:11.583 --> 00:21:16.455
  • According to the glorious gospel of the blessed god, which was
  • 00:21:16.455 --> 00:21:19.524
  • Committed to my trust."
  • 00:21:19.524 --> 00:21:22.260
  • Look at what he very clearly said.
  • 00:21:22.260 --> 00:21:25.230
  • This is who the law is for.
  • 00:21:25.230 --> 00:21:27.432
  • It's for people who don't believe in jesus.
  • 00:21:27.432 --> 00:21:32.237
  • People who are sinning, people who's screwing around, people
  • 00:21:32.237 --> 00:21:36.074
  • Who are doing stuff for--he said the law's for folks who's in the
  • 00:21:36.074 --> 00:21:40.312
  • Sinfulness of their sin and the law will even show them, you
  • 00:21:40.312 --> 00:21:47.119
  • Ain't no good.
  • 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:49.354
  • The law show you--the law can be--you'll go do it and you'll
  • 00:21:49.354 --> 00:21:53.325
  • Brag about having a good time, but there's something on the
  • 00:21:53.325 --> 00:21:55.927
  • Inside of you, the law will keep amplifying--if it's used for the
  • 00:21:55.927 --> 00:22:01.166
  • Purpose that it was given, it's gonna be used to show you
  • 00:22:01.166 --> 00:22:04.236
  • Your sin.
  • 00:22:04.236 --> 00:22:07.272
  • When certain sins take place in the life of people, some people
  • 00:22:07.272 --> 00:22:10.776
  • Have to get hooked on some kind of drugs to numb the emotional
  • 00:22:10.776 --> 00:22:18.383
  • Attack of doing what they do.
  • 00:22:18.383 --> 00:22:22.220
  • And so, there's a combination of the sin and the drugs, something
  • 00:22:22.220 --> 00:22:25.624
  • To numb it.
  • 00:22:25.624 --> 00:22:26.958
  • The bible calls it pharmakeia.
  • 00:22:26.958 --> 00:22:29.027
  • It's a demon that comes through a drug addiction that tries to
  • 00:22:29.027 --> 00:22:35.167
  • Numb that thing that the law is trying to bring you to.
  • 00:22:35.167 --> 00:22:39.771
  • The law is trying to say this ain't right.
  • 00:22:39.771 --> 00:22:41.106
  • The law is trying to say if you keep doing this,
  • 00:22:41.106 --> 00:22:43.141
  • It's gonna kill you.
  • 00:22:43.141 --> 00:22:44.643
  • The law gonna say, you know, you're just mean.
  • 00:22:44.643 --> 00:22:46.311
  • The law say you just, you're holding it on, forget it,
  • 00:22:46.311 --> 00:22:48.213
  • You need to let it go.
  • 00:22:48.213 --> 00:22:49.548
  • The law say, you know, you're murdering folks that--it stays
  • 00:22:49.548 --> 00:22:52.784
  • With a person because it shows them sin if you use it lawfully.
  • 00:22:52.784 --> 00:22:56.621
  • But if you try to use the law to have a relationship with jesus,
  • 00:22:56.621 --> 00:23:01.593
  • That is using it unlawfully because the law was not sent to
  • 00:23:01.593 --> 00:23:05.630
  • Do that.
  • 00:23:05.630 --> 00:23:06.965
  • The law was sent to show you your sins and show you a need
  • 00:23:06.965 --> 00:23:09.935
  • For a savior.
  • 00:23:09.935 --> 00:23:11.303
  • But once you get in relationship with the savior, you don't need
  • 00:23:11.303 --> 00:23:15.974
  • The law no more because you're born again.
  • 00:23:15.974 --> 00:23:19.544
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  • Over and over again, provision that will show up for those
  • 00:23:53.912 --> 00:23:58.149
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