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Creflo Dollar - How To Overcome Self-Deception

March 4, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - How To Overcome Self-Deception
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - How To Overcome Self-Deception | March 4, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: to be self-deceived is to participate
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  • In an act that produces a false view of your circumstances.
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  • To be self-deceived is to be blind to the truth of
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  • A situation.
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  • And this blindness, like i said before, has two characteristics:
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  • Seeing the truth falsely, you see the truth as untruth, and
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  • Then secondly, being blind to the fact that your own act, the
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  • Thing you're doing, the wrong that you're doing has produced
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  • That false view.
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  • So it's a false view because you're actually doing it, so you
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  • Gotta come up with something to feel better about what you're
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  • Doing, self-deception.
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  • Creflo: all of us have been in the position where we've been
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  • Maybe deceived about something.
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  • Self-deception is kind of tricky because we're often not
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  • Aware of it when we're doing it.
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  • I mean that's how good we are with it.
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  • We're not aware of self-deception while we're doing
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  • It, why?
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  • Because, you know, when you're self-deceived, you think you're
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  • Right, but you're wrong, but you think you're right, but you
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  • Can't see it, okay?
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  • And as we grow in the lord and especially in the word of god,
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  • We begin to develop above self-deception's ability to
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  • Blind us.
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  • And so as christian people, there are lots of things we have
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  • Been deceived about, mainly because of what has come through
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  • The pulpit.
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  • And then we bought it and then it became religious in
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  • Our lives.
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  • And then we defended it, and you know, from that point on how we
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  • Listened to the word became a whole lot different.
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  • And so, lives are not really the way they are.
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  • From my study, especially in 2024 and up to now, as i read
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  • The new testament, it appears to me that god is doing his best to
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  • Try to get us to realize who we really are.
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  • This word shocked me.
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  • I don't know if it was on a friday or saturday, but the
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  • Spirit of the lord said to me, and when i say he said to me,
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  • This was really impressed in my heart.
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  • He said, "when you look at the word and when you look at me,
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  • Jesus, i want you to see the reflection of yourself."
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  • He says, "when you look at jesus, i want you to see the
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  • Reflection of yourself.
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  • When you look at the word, i want you to see the reflection
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  • Of yourself."
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  • It's like when you look in the mirror in your bathroom, you see
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  • The reflection of yourself.
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  • And jesus says, "when you look at me, see the reflection
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  • Of yourself.
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  • You--i'm trying to get you to see that you are me."
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  • And that was freaking me out, but i kept reading, reading,
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  • Reading, reading, and i keep coming up with it, your true
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  • Identity, your true self--
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  • And if there's one area, that if it is corrected, we will see
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  • Phenomenal change and differences in our life, and
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  • That is the area of us finally realizing who we really are.
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  • What's happened with us is we are focused so much on sin, sin,
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  • Sin, and bad, bad, bad, we can't see the real--our real
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  • Reflection, because we've allowed our bad behavior and
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  • Sin, sin, sin to determine our identity.
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  • And it should be our identity that determines our behavior,
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  • But religion says, you know, "don't do that, don't do this,
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  • Don't do this--" and then they--
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  • Now they can just say anything because your identity
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  • Is now going to be based on your behavior when god is like, "no,
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  • No, no, no, no, no, no, i am telling you who you are and i
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  • Need you to receive that by faith immediately.
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  • I say to you, you're righteous, and i want you to live out of
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  • That righteousness that i say you are.
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  • Even though your behavior is not righteous, live out of the
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  • Righteousness i say you are.
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  • The behavior is going to change, but not until you accept and
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  • Realize your true identity.
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  • So if deception from the garden of eden was all about deceiving
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  • Adam and eve about who they were--
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  • Somebody says, "oh well, that's not a big deal."
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  • But it's a big deal when jesus shows up, and then instead of
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  • Going to the garden of eden, he went to the wilderness.
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  • And that same devil came with the same trick, attack
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  • His identity.
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  • "if thou be the son of god."
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  • Jesus said, "wait a minute, you hadn't learned yet?
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  • I am the son of god."
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  • He says, "no, but if thou be the son of god, turn
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  • This stone into bread."
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  • Jesus says, "i can turn this stone into bread.
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  • I can turn the stone into a waffle.
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  • I can turn the stone anything i wanna turn the stone in, but
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  • I'm not going to turn the stone in because you're questioning
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  • My identity.
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  • I know who i am.
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  • If i would have turned the stone into bread, i would be doubting
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  • My identity when god said, 'this is my beloved son, in whom i'm
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  • Well pleased.'"
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  • Why is he constantly after our identity?
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  • Because he knows that our identity determines our
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  • Behavior, and if you ever get a hold of who you really are, then
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  • Your behavior is going to change.
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  • Let me say one more thing before i start teaching this.
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  • In looking at this, it seems like we're always--we're
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  • Christians, but we're always referring to sin.
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  • We give too much credit to sin.
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  • We give no attention to what jesus has done for us.
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  • We give most of our attention to sin, "better watch out, better
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  • Not pout, better not do that, better not do that.
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  • If you do that, you're going to hell.
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  • That's going to send you to hell, that's going to send
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  • You--" got dog, hell everything.
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  • It's just, why all the attention on sin?
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  • And the last thing i saw was, i don't know where i heard this
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  • From, but it was like, "sin separates you from god."
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  • And i thought, "well, yeah," and god said, "no."
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  • I'm like, "well, it does separate you from god."
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  • He says, "listen to me."
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  • He said, "what separates you from me is when you neglect to
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  • Have daily contact with me."
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  • He says, "you know what separates you from me?
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  • When you're not talking to me, when you're not spending no time
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  • With me, when you're not having contact with me, when you
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  • Don't--when you ain't letting me have no contact with you.
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  • And what's happened is the separation has come because of
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  • Lack of fellowship and communion."
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  • I said, "okay, i get it."
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  • He says, "so what happens is when the separation takes place
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  • Because of lack of fellowship and communion, then sin
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  • Comes in."
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  • And sin comes in to try to keep you separate from god.
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  • 'cause when sin comes in, the shame comes in, and the guilt
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  • Comes in, and the condemnation comes in, desperate to keep you
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  • Separate from god, don't want you to reestablish your
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  • Communion and your fellowship.
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  • But now that's where grace comes in.
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  • Grace says, "even though you got separated from god, and even
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  • Though sin is trying to keep you separated from god, because of
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  • His grace, you can go right back, right back close to god."
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  • Draw right back close to him, and leave the guilt and the
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  • Shame and the condemnation there.
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  • So that's why coming to a church that teaches the
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  • Word is so vital.
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  • Spending time looking at at least one scripture a day.
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  • You ain't got to be there no hour, but some contact, some
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  • Contact with god, some contact with his presence, some contact.
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  • Listening to a song and, "oh i like that," lift my hands up.
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  • Have some daily contact with the presence of god so that it wakes
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  • Up something on the inside of you, to let you know, i am a
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  • Christian, i am a son of god, a child of god, belong to god.
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  • So when sin comes in to try to separate you, you too close to
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  • God in communion to pay it any attention.
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  • Y'all don't hear what i'm saying, i'm just--
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  • I'm gonna share something with you today which is radical, it's
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  • Probably going to go viral because it's wrong.
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  • What we've learned--i thought the same way
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  • I thought about you.
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  • And i sat there and i looked at 1 john, chapter 1, i read a few
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  • Scripture, then i went back and read it from the top to
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  • The bottom.
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  • And then i wondered how did they translate this, because the
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  • Bible is not an american book.
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  • The bible was not originally written in english.
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  • The bible was originally written in the original languages, old
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  • Testament in hebrew, and some of the new testament, most of it in
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  • The greek.
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  • And when you want to find out what it really means you have to
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  • Go to the original language.
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  • I'mma see if i can explain this to you.
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  • I said i wasn't gonna do it, but i'mma try it.
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  • What happens is, if i take the english bible, that's not the
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  • Original language, and i say, "oh, i want to take the greek
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  • Word for some word in the english bible."
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  • And then i take the greek word for that, you know, like the
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  • Greek word for, you know, pharisee or whatever.
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  • And then--and it'll give me, and i'll translate it from english
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  • To greek.
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  • But i'm not--english is not the original language.
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  • So the only thing that's going to happen is when i translate it
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  • From english to greek, when i go back from greek to english, it's
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  • Still going to mean the same thing.
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  • Did everybody see that?
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  • But if i translate it from the original language to english,
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  • Mm, i'm going to find out what they really meant because
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  • Context is important.
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  • Why they say what they say?
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  • What was going on at the time?
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  • Who was saying that?
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  • Because most of the time when the scriptures in greek refer to
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  • The holy spirit, most of the time it is "she did that."
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  • In the book of john it was she, "when the comforter shall come,
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  • She shall lead you into all truth."
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  • She--somebody say, "well why it ain't a he?"
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  • Because it wasn't translated in he, it was translated in she,
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  • Because that word is exemplifying the word ezra,
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  • Which is the great, the high rescuer, the strong rescuer.
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  • Ezer means strong rescuer and it was referring to a woman, ezer,
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  • And the holy ghost, the helper, ezer, glory to god.
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  • So it's in the gender of a she, and now you have a problem with
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  • That--so you just go change it to a he.
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  • And so in king james it's translated into he, but in the
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  • Original greek it was ezer, strong rescuer, "she shall lead
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  • You into all truth, and she shall show you things to come,
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  • And she--"
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  • And you think i'm crazy, "well, where he got that from?"
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  • I got it from how it was said in the original language.
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  • You went to the american bible when they said, "nah, i don't
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  • Think we want to say that in our culture 'cause i don't want
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  • Women to think they all that where rank is concerned."
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  • But that's what happens when you unite with a woman.
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  • It's not your woman is your helpmeet or your helper.
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  • Your woman is your strong rescuer.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • And you know you need a strong rescue with your
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  • Hard-headed self.
  • 00:13:51.267 --> 00:13:52.902
  • Some men need a strong rescuer, but because you see them as weak
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  • And you minimize who they are, they're the only one--that
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  • Gender is equal to the holy spirit.
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  • And the holy spirit, you can't live your life without the holy
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  • Ghost, and he's saying you can't live your life without a ezra.
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  • That's why your business ain't working, 'cause you don't have
  • 00:14:11.687 --> 00:14:13.923
  • A ezra.
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  • That's why you're not happy, 'cause you don't have a ezra.
  • 00:14:15.257 --> 00:14:17.960
  • That's 'cause your money acting funny 'cause you don't have
  • 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:19.995
  • A ezra.
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  • You don't--you want--you don't wanna say nothing.
  • 00:14:24.333 --> 00:14:30.673
  • That all slipped out.
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  • I didn't mean to say none of that, excuse me.
  • 00:14:32.041 --> 00:14:40.115
  • And so when i read the american translation of the bible, i am
  • 00:14:40.115 --> 00:14:46.855
  • Wondering, is this what it really meant?
  • 00:14:46.855 --> 00:14:52.061
  • Now, here's what's helping me.
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  • The more contact i have with god, i read stuff in that
  • 00:14:54.129 --> 00:14:58.367
  • American translated bible, which, mostly okay to get
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  • You through.
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  • But i read stuff and i say, "oh lord, is that what you meant?
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  • Because now i know you.
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  • Now i know you're not trying to dominate any human."
  • 00:15:10.913 --> 00:15:13.415
  • So when i see that, when i see that and somebody tells me,
  • 00:15:13.415 --> 00:15:17.987
  • "the bible says the man is the head of the woman in rank,
  • 00:15:17.987 --> 00:15:21.957
  • And dominant," no, no, no.
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  • When i see "head of the woman," all my life i thought
  • 00:15:23.625 --> 00:15:25.661
  • Head means you the boss and you get to tell everybody what
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  • To do while you sit around, eat popcorn, while everybody
  • 00:15:29.531 --> 00:15:32.334
  • Else doing what they do.
  • 00:15:32.334 --> 00:15:34.103
  • And just decided, "well, let's see what that is."
  • 00:15:34.103 --> 00:15:39.675
  • And i saw the greek word for it, kephale.
  • 00:15:39.675 --> 00:15:44.113
  • And kephale means the source, the source for which everything
  • 00:15:44.113 --> 00:15:49.118
  • Comes from.
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  • Says god is the source of every man, and every man is the
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  • Source of every woman, and every woman the source--
  • 00:15:55.624 --> 00:15:58.460
  • And it goes on.
  • 00:15:58.460 --> 00:15:59.828
  • And then i say, "well source of what?"
  • 00:15:59.828 --> 00:16:01.230
  • He says, "the source of love, the source of a man's love
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  • Comes from god.
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  • The source of a woman's love comes from a man," and so forth
  • 00:16:05.734 --> 00:16:09.071
  • And so on.
  • 00:16:09.071 --> 00:16:10.439
  • And i'm thinking, it ain't got nothing to do with rank and
  • 00:16:10.439 --> 00:16:12.274
  • Who's the boss.
  • 00:16:12.274 --> 00:16:13.642
  • It ain't got nothing to do with that.
  • 00:16:13.642 --> 00:16:15.577
  • But you read the american bible, they say, "creflo,
  • 00:16:15.577 --> 00:16:18.580
  • Creflo just messed up."
  • 00:16:18.580 --> 00:16:19.948
  • No, no, no, no, you has been deceived.
  • 00:16:19.948 --> 00:16:29.992
  • And i am telling you, one day you're going to get tired of not
  • 00:16:33.328 --> 00:16:38.901
  • Knowing the truth.
  • 00:16:38.901 --> 00:16:44.106
  • Everything in your marriage flows right when you understand
  • 00:16:44.106 --> 00:16:47.876
  • What was said.
  • 00:16:47.876 --> 00:16:50.546
  • And now you see it's equal partnership.
  • 00:16:50.546 --> 00:16:54.716
  • Everybody playing their role, but not according to the world's
  • 00:16:54.716 --> 00:17:00.456
  • Roles but according to the anointings, to search for
  • 00:17:00.456 --> 00:17:08.664
  • Equality, that on jesus we stand on equal grounds.
  • 00:17:08.664 --> 00:17:16.305
  • And do you know, most church people won't hear what i
  • 00:17:16.305 --> 00:17:21.343
  • Just said.
  • 00:17:21.343 --> 00:17:23.912
  • This is--y'all, hear me, i can't preach no too many places
  • 00:17:23.912 --> 00:17:26.682
  • But here.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • If i say this stuff outside, half the church
  • 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:33.989
  • Be empty in five minutes.
  • 00:17:33.989 --> 00:17:35.357
  • "now this joker done lost his got doggone mind.
  • 00:17:35.357 --> 00:17:38.861
  • I don't know what just happened to creflo.
  • 00:17:38.861 --> 00:17:40.329
  • What the world?"
  • 00:17:40.329 --> 00:17:44.900
  • Now, listen to me carefully.
  • 00:17:44.900 --> 00:17:50.239
  • Let's have a little review.
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  • Self-deception, it's when someone convinces themselves of
  • 00:17:52.808 --> 00:17:57.779
  • Something that isn't true.
  • 00:17:57.779 --> 00:18:01.016
  • They convince themselves of something that isn't true or
  • 00:18:01.016 --> 00:18:04.520
  • Avoids acknowledging the truth they find uncomfortable.
  • 00:18:04.520 --> 00:18:11.493
  • Now, i said, now wait a minute, it's time to deal with this.
  • 00:18:11.493 --> 00:18:14.129
  • What is truth?
  • 00:18:14.129 --> 00:18:15.831
  • What is truth?
  • 00:18:17.432 --> 00:18:20.669
  • All right, let's take it from a general place.
  • 00:18:20.669 --> 00:18:24.473
  • At its core, truth is reality, the way things actually are.
  • 00:18:24.473 --> 00:18:31.613
  • Regardless of the perception or regardless of the opinion, truth
  • 00:18:31.613 --> 00:18:35.617
  • Is reality, the way things actually are.
  • 00:18:35.617 --> 00:18:40.088
  • But biblically speaking, truth is closely tied to god's nature.
  • 00:18:40.088 --> 00:18:47.729
  • Remember in john 14:6, jesus said, "i am the way."
  • 00:18:47.729 --> 00:18:52.167
  • Jesus said, "i am the truth."
  • 00:18:52.167 --> 00:18:54.803
  • Jesus said, "i am the life."
  • 00:18:54.803 --> 00:18:58.173
  • Meaning, truth is both a person, christ, and the foundation of
  • 00:18:58.173 --> 00:19:03.679
  • All existence.
  • 00:19:03.679 --> 00:19:11.520
  • It even goes deeper than that.
  • 00:19:11.520 --> 00:19:12.854
  • The things that are seen, are temporal or temporary.
  • 00:19:12.854 --> 00:19:16.959
  • The things that are unseen are eternal.
  • 00:19:16.959 --> 00:19:20.963
  • Truth goes beyond what you
  • 00:19:20.963 --> 00:19:23.232
  • Can see, 'cause it's god.
  • 00:19:23.232 --> 00:19:26.602
  • And anytime you try to discover truth and omit god, then you're
  • 00:19:27.936 --> 00:19:37.212
  • Not going to get what full truth is all about.
  • 00:19:37.212 --> 00:19:40.082
  • Now, here's why i wanted to say that.
  • 00:19:40.082 --> 00:19:43.552
  • Because it's essentially, self-deception is essentially
  • 00:19:43.552 --> 00:19:48.190
  • Lying to yourself.
  • 00:19:48.190 --> 00:19:50.659
  • And a lot of times when you lie to yourself, you do it
  • 00:19:50.659 --> 00:19:52.794
  • Unconsciously to preserve a certain self-image or avoid
  • 00:19:52.794 --> 00:19:57.633
  • Emotional pain.
  • 00:19:57.633 --> 00:20:01.069
  • When you're deceiving yourself, you're denying evidence.
  • 00:20:01.069 --> 00:20:05.140
  • When you're deceiving yourself, you're denying reality of what--
  • 00:20:05.140 --> 00:20:09.044
  • How it really is.
  • 00:20:09.044 --> 00:20:11.046
  • When you--for example, if you're 400 pounds and i say you're fat,
  • 00:20:11.046 --> 00:20:17.686
  • That's not popular.
  • 00:20:17.686 --> 00:20:20.389
  • And you say, "no i'm not," you're denying reality.
  • 00:20:20.389 --> 00:20:26.094
  • What do you got to be, 800 pounds, before you realize that
  • 00:20:26.094 --> 00:20:28.930
  • That was real?
  • 00:20:28.930 --> 00:20:31.833
  • You're denying reality.
  • 00:20:31.833 --> 00:20:33.201
  • And then you start rationalizing and you start trying to explain
  • 00:20:33.201 --> 00:20:38.307
  • Or justify your behavior, your attitude and--wow.
  • 00:20:38.307 --> 00:20:45.847
  • That's what deception is.
  • 00:20:45.847 --> 00:20:48.116
  • Deception is there to serve a false narrative.
  • 00:20:48.116 --> 00:20:51.219
  • We're not seeing or viewing things accurately.
  • 00:20:51.219 --> 00:20:55.424
  • Self-deception can involve denial of sometimes hard truths.
  • 00:20:55.424 --> 00:21:03.365
  • Minimizing the painful matters, so i'll deceive myself.
  • 00:21:03.365 --> 00:21:08.937
  • Projecting the fault on somebody else, so i'll deceive myself.
  • 00:21:08.937 --> 00:21:13.508
  • I know it's my fault, but i feel better by saying it's
  • 00:21:13.508 --> 00:21:16.345
  • Your fault.
  • 00:21:16.345 --> 00:21:18.714
  • And you tell yourself to believe that, that's self-deception.
  • 00:21:18.714 --> 00:21:24.019
  • And so what i want us to do today, 'cause we got good news,
  • 00:21:24.019 --> 00:21:27.622
  • But i want to show you how far we've come.
  • 00:21:27.622 --> 00:21:29.057
  • We're gonna talk about how to get out of it,
  • 00:21:29.057 --> 00:21:31.960
  • Snd then next week we're gonna talk about the consequences
  • 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:34.329
  • Of you ignoring everything i done said for the last four
  • 00:21:34.329 --> 00:21:36.631
  • Weeks and continuing to go into self-deception.
  • 00:21:36.631 --> 00:21:40.535
  • There are dark consequences.
  • 00:21:40.535 --> 00:21:43.672
  • Self-deception is more than a term that describes someone who
  • 00:21:43.672 --> 00:21:47.342
  • Does not see the truth.
  • 00:21:47.342 --> 00:21:48.710
  • It is a concept that accounts for how it is possible to be
  • 00:21:48.710 --> 00:21:53.515
  • Blind to the truth.
  • 00:21:53.515 --> 00:21:55.050
  • How is it possible to be blind to the truth?
  • 00:21:55.050 --> 00:21:57.285
  • Being blind to the truth is the condition of people who refuse
  • 00:21:57.285 --> 00:22:01.289
  • To live by the truth they have been offered.
  • 00:22:01.289 --> 00:22:03.825
  • Somebody offered you the truth, but you didn't want it.
  • 00:22:03.825 --> 00:22:08.296
  • How is it possible to be blind to the truth?
  • 00:22:08.296 --> 00:22:10.198
  • Somebody offered you the truth, but i ain't trying to hear that
  • 00:22:10.198 --> 00:22:12.434
  • Right now.
  • 00:22:12.434 --> 00:22:14.336
  • You meddling, you trying to be messy.
  • 00:22:14.336 --> 00:22:16.872
  • No, i'm trying to tell you the truth.
  • 00:22:16.872 --> 00:22:22.377
  • To be self-deceived is to participate in an act that
  • 00:22:22.377 --> 00:22:25.414
  • Produces a false view of your circumstances.
  • 00:22:25.414 --> 00:22:30.385
  • To be self-deceived is to be blind to the truth of
  • 00:22:30.385 --> 00:22:33.555
  • A situation.
  • 00:22:33.555 --> 00:22:35.624
  • And this blindness, like i said before, has two characteristics:
  • 00:22:35.624 --> 00:22:38.994
  • Seeing the truth falsely, you see the truth as untruth, and
  • 00:22:38.994 --> 00:22:44.666
  • Then secondly, being blind to the fact that your own act, the
  • 00:22:44.666 --> 00:22:48.637
  • Thing you're doing, the wrong that you're doing has produced
  • 00:22:48.637 --> 00:22:53.041
  • That false view.
  • 00:22:53.041 --> 00:22:54.509
  • So it's a false view because you're actually doing it,
  • 00:22:54.509 --> 00:22:57.279
  • So you got to come up with something to feel better about
  • 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:02.184
  • What you're doing, self-deception.
  • 00:23:02.184 --> 00:23:06.388
  • Given the kind of blindness, it seems that if i am
  • 00:23:06.388 --> 00:23:09.324
  • Self-deceived, if i am self-deceived, i cannot access
  • 00:23:09.324 --> 00:23:13.762
  • The knowledge that would set me free.
  • 00:23:13.762 --> 00:23:16.231
  • So, i cannot escape self-deception because i won't
  • 00:23:16.231 --> 00:23:21.102
  • Take the knowledge that'll set me free.
  • 00:23:21.102 --> 00:23:23.972
  • You're denying the very thing that'll set you free, "i don't
  • 00:23:23.972 --> 00:23:28.043
  • Wanna come to church, i don't wanna have nothing to do with
  • 00:23:28.043 --> 00:23:29.744
  • God, i don't wanna hear the word."
  • 00:23:29.744 --> 00:23:31.513
  • Well, you're just going to stay the same.
  • 00:23:31.513 --> 00:23:34.616
  • You're going to be 65 years old and deceived, why?
  • 00:23:34.616 --> 00:23:41.122
  • 'cause you completely, totally deny the truth that's offered.
  • 00:23:41.122 --> 00:23:47.796
  • I don't wanna live like that.
  • 00:23:47.796 --> 00:23:50.298
  • Male announcer: self-deception leads us to believe lies,
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  • Very simple prayer.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • Announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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