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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - How To Overcome Self-Deception | August 19, 2025
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- Creflo dollar: deception is huge when you're living in a world
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- Full of deception.
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- And as a christian, you have the advantage.
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- You have the holy spirit, you have access to the truth.
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- You have access to contact the spirit of truth.
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- Creflo: pray: holy spirit show me my areas where i might be
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- Deceiving myself and guide me into the truth.
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- I pray this prayer almost every day.
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- Lord, help me not to deceive myself.
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- Help me not to deceive myself.
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- Show me what's true.
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- Show me what's true about what i'm deceived in.
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- Lord--i don't wanna live my life in deception.
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- I don't want the end of my term--and then
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- I realized i was deceived.
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- I don't want that.
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- So, i'm willing to be talked about, slandered.
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- I'm willing all that stuff for the sake of the truth.
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- I don't want to be deceived.
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- If nobody else is preaching what i'm preaching, i don't wanna
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- Be deceived.
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- Lord, help me not to be deceived.
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- It's not okay when all this truth is around.
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- I don't wanna be deceived.
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- I don't wanna be deceived about marriage.
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- I don't wanna be deceived about finances.
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- I don't wanna be deceived about jesus, the holy spirit.
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- I don't wanna be deceived about none of that.
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- Help me, help me not to deceive myself.
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- Show me where i'm wrong.
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- Don't let me sit there and justify what i'm doing until i
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- Start feeling okay about what i'm doing and it ain't right
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- What i'm doing.
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- All right, number three, practice humility
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- And teachability.
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- Practice humility and teachability.
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- James chapter 4:10 in the nlt.
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- Practice humility.
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- Now, what do i mean when i say humility?
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- I see humility like this, it's surrendering to god and letting
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- His word shape my decisions.
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- I surrender to god and i say, "god, shape my decisions."
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- I don't wanna just make a decision.
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- I want god to shape my decisions.
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- I want god to shape my decision.
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- I want what's in his heart.
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- That's what it means to delight in the lord, he'll give you the
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- Desires of your heart.
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- Well, no, i want to delight in the lord.
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- I want him to shape my heart so i can get his desire.
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- I want his desires.
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- I want his heart. give me your heart.
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- Trusting his wisdom over my own wisdom and allowing my actions
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- To line up, allowing my actions to align themselves with
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- His instructions.
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- That's humility, always seeking an alignment with god's word and
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- God's way.
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- Always wanting to submit to how he wants it done.
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- To the point where before you start doing it, you back up and
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- Say, "let me yield to the holy spirit.
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- Lord, how you want me to do this?"
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- That's how powerful this is.
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- That's how powerful this is.
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- James chapter 4:10, he says, "humble yourselves before the
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- Lord, and he will lift you up in honor."
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- So, when i surrender my life, my decisions, my career, my job,
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- When i surrender myself unto the lord trying to get myself in
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- Alignment with his instructions, he said he'll lift me up.
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- He'll lift me up.
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- And he says he'll give grace to the humble.
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- That's what i want.
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- I don't wanna lift myself up.
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- That's what pride is all about.
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- It's lifting yourself up.
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- That's what it's all about.
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- And so, pride blinds us to truth.
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- When you're in pride, you're blind to the truth.
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- Especially the truth about being self-deceived.
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- But humility invites god's perspective in.
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- When i humble myself before god, i'm inviting
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- His perspective in, his voice.
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- He's speaking to me about these kind of things.
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- But when you operate in pride--pride is an
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- Overestimation of yourself.
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- You're too high strung.
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- You think more of yourself than what you should.
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- And you don't wanna live life like that.
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- If you hang around prideful people, that pride stuff gonna
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- Rub off on you.
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- But humility invites god's perspective.
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- I want his perspective in my life.
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- "how am i doing this, lord?
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- Why am i doing this, lord?"
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- I wanna tell myself, "well, i'm doing this for a godly reason.
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- And god is saying, "no, you're doing this because you're trying
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- To achieve some prideful objective."
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- Every time i got invited to be a part of a movie or a television
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- Show, i had to ask myself, "why am i doing this?"
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- And i was very careful.
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- Even down to the simplest cussing word.
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- I'm like, "i'm not saying that."
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- "oh, your church will understand."
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- I'm like, "no, you don't know them church folk like i know
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- Them church folk."
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- I got roles where i was playing the father or something, but
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- Before my scene came in, it was sex, and after my scene it
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- Was sex.
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- How you gonna see me?
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- You gotta go through all the sex stuff to--i said, "i can't
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- Do that."
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- The holy spirit will come in and start talking to you about stuff
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- Like that.
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- And then you can deceive yourself and say that's
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- Not pride.
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- Then all of a sudden you start looking for accolades for what
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- You did.
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- "no, bro i don't need to do that."
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- Where is your pride and ego this morning?
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- Before you say you don't have none, let me make sure you
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- Understand that pride and ego sits at your table.
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- Your job is to make sure it doesn't sit at the head of
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- The table.
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- But it's at the table.
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- Ego is at the table every day trying to figure out how to get
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- In the seat where it can call the shots.
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- So, don't deceive yourself about that.
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- You're so quick to wanna say, "well, i don't have ego."
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- Well, everybody got some ego.
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- You just gotta make sure it's not sitting at the place where
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- It determines what's gonna happen in your life.
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- "well, how you know i got ego?"
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- Here's a practical step.
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- Be willing to admit when you're wrong and ask trusted friends or
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- Mentors for honest feedback.
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- Be willing to admit when you're wrong and ask trusted friends or
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- Mentors for some honest feedback.
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- I did that a couple of months ago.
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- And i was like, "for real?
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- Oh, wow, well, i'm gonna go to work on that."
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- I was deceived about that.
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- I didn't see that.
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- It blew my mind like, "do i do that?"
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- Like, "yeah, you do it all the time."
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- And then once i could see it, i could start seeing myself
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- Doing that.
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- And i said, "lord, help me."
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- But that's what fellowship is for, and that's why you don't
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- Need a whole bunch of good friends, you just need somebody
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- That you can put in your holy of holies.
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- You understand what-- like, mr. king, that's my
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- Holy of holies, that's my ride or die."
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- I didn't know what that used to mean, but i got it now.
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- And you need somebody to be honest with you.
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- And if you don't have that, maybe that's not a real friend.
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- You need somebody that can help you see what you can't see.
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- And a lot of men have a problem with that.
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- They don't wanna be with nobody that's gonna sit and talk about
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- The truth 'cause, see, we're afraid of confrontation.
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- Confrontation is good for the person who's being confronted
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- And the person who's confronted because confrontation will
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- Amount to growth for both parties.
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- But some people don't wanna grow.
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- "just leave me alone.
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- Y'all do the little church stuff, keep y'all business,
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- Keep out of my business.
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- I don't want them church people all in my business."
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- While you hide behind whatever you hiding behind and everybody
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- Can see it, but nobody feels like telling you about it
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- Because they wanna offer you truth, and every time they do it
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- There's an incident.
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- So, you've chosen to stay in deception because the truth
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- That's offered was not received.
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- And it's a big thing.
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- Deception is huge when you're living in a world full
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- Of deception.
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- And as a christian, you have the advantage.
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- You have the holy spirit.
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- You have access to the truth.
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- You have access to contact the spirit of truth.
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- You have access to all of that.
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- So, even when you're deceived, you'll know it, you'll be able
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- To see something, and you can repent, or make a 180 degree
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- Turn, or change your mind about something.
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- But ain't no need of us coming to church, learning some more
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- Scriptures for you to use the scriptures to hide your
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- Self-deception behind.
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- You know, church folks like to do that.
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- "i'm gonna get a scripture and i'mma hide behind
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- The scripture."
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- "hey, brother, how's your marriage?"
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- Well, my marriage is awesome, it's perfect, it's flawless,
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- It's all that god has called it to be.
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- And your wife's sitting there like, "i don't know what
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- You doing."
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- And then go, "i can hardly stand you."
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- What would happen?
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- Wonder what would happen just to our church if we get a hold of
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- This thing and we can walk out of this
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- Self-perfected phoniness.
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- You know, church folks's phony.
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- And they--it becomes even more phony.
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- You don't know what's real and what's not real.
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- You ask the question, "how you doing today?"
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- "blessed and highly favored."
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- "okay, i know the bible say that, but how you doing?"
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- And the way to deal with questions like that is, "how you
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- Doing today?"
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- "well, i've been under a little emotional attack and not really
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- Been feeling myself that much--as feeling good
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- Like i wanna feel.
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- But you know, god's delivering me, and helping me, and all
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- Is well."
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- Oh, i know i can agree with you on that right now 'cause at
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- Least i know we have come and reasoned together, and now i can
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- Put an extra bit of faith with what you got going on.
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- But stop all this phony stuff.
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- I can't deal with it.
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- I can't even deal with it.
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- When i'm out in public sometime and i got my little hat on and
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- My jeans on, talking about,
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- "i know who you are with your disguise."
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- "i ain't got no disguise on. ain't no disguise on.
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- What you talking about, your disguise?
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- I got just some jeans and a hat on."
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- "no, you can't fool me, creflo, i know who you are."
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- I'd be one like, "get you some business."
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- All right, number four.
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- Now, this is the big one, number four.
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- The fourth way to deal with some things.
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- Deals with--fourth way to get out of self-deception: confess
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- And surrender.
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- Confess and surrender.
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- Now, listen to this, when you recognize
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- Self-deception, confess.
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- Now, let me stop right there.
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- Confess what?
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- 'cause 1 john 1:9 talks about confessing your sins.
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- "if we confess, then he's faithful and just to forgive you
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- Of your sins, and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness."
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- Okay, so i got a problem with that.
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- You're telling me i got to do this in order for
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- God to do that.
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- So we already know something wrong.
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- And we already know something wrong when hebrews says
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- That because of the blood of jesus our sins have been
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- Forgiven and wiped away.
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- So, when you recognize self-deception, you
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- Confess what?
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- Now, here's what i found out we're supposed to be confessing.
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- You confess the details of your redemption and your deliverance.
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- There's been a big argument about, "well, if you don't
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- Confess your sins, god ain't gonna forgive you."
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- Well, that's--the deception here is, i got to perform something
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- In order to get something that's by grace.
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- "confessing your sins is how you get rid of it."
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- No, how i got rid of it is when i submitted myself to jesus, and
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- What the blood has done, and my sins have been forgiven by past,
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- Present, and future because of what jesus did.
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- My sins aren't forgiven because of what i do.
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- My sins are forgiven because of what jesus has already done.
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- So, what's up with this?
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- If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just to forgive
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- You of your sins.
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- And then he'll cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
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- But he cleansed me with his blood.
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- And so, majority of my christian life was based on,
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- If i confess it, he forgave me.
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- What if i forget to confess it?
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- Then he won't forgive me?
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- And what if i forget to confess one of 'em?
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- Then he won't forgive me?
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- Some of us, if we spent time confessing, we'd beat up half
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- The problems confessing.
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- So, i'm thinking because you know god, now i'm thinking, what
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- Was the real context?
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- What was the real context?
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- Because this is performance-based.
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- Performance-based christianity is self-deception.
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- You think that by performing, you will earn god's favor.
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- And hebrews calls that, he says it's sin-conscious.
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- You need to be delivered from your sin consciousness so you
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- Can freely serve the living god.
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- Something's wrong with that.
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- And i keep reading and i'm like, "what is going on here?"
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- So, here's what i wanna do real quick.
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- I wanna read the context of the greek translation to see if we
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- Can find the context of what they were
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- Trying to say in verse 9.
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- Are y'all with me on this?
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- All right, so here's verse 1.
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- "the logos," it's referring to jesus, "is the source."
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- "the logos is the source; everything commences in him.
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- The prophetic record concerning him, jesus, which continues to
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- Echo in our ears, and that which we indeed bore witness to with
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- Our own eyes," when jesus came to earth, "as we have observed
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- Him--to a point that--to the point that we became
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- Irresistibly attracted and captivated in our gaze.
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- And now, in him we have witnessed tangible life in its
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- Most articulate form."
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- We have witnessed.
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- When we saw jesus, we now have something that can be touched,
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- Tangible life in articulate form, tangible life.
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- Nobody knew what god was like.
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- It was a mystery.
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- What is god like?
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- And finally, jesus comes to the earth, and jesus said, "if you
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- Have seen me, you have seen the father."
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- And now we know.
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- In a tangible way, we have seen him and heard him.
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- And we can look at him face to face and not melt and die.
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- All right, you see this?
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- All right, now watch this. whoo, boy.
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- Verse 2, "the same life that was face to face with the father
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- From the beginning, has now dawned on us."
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- "the same life that was face to face--"
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- Somebody say, "what do you mean, face to face?"
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- You remember in the old testament when abraham took his
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- Son up and they says, "the angel of the lord came and said, 'stop
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- Abraham,'" that was jesus before he was known as jesus in a
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- Physical body.
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- That wasn't just no regular angel.
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- Oh, my god.
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- "and he was face to face with the father from the beginning,
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- And has dawned on us.
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- The infinite life of the father became visible before our eyes
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- In a human person."
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- So, when we saw jesus, we were able to face the infinite
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- Eternal life.
- 00:20:00.445 --> 00:20:03.915
- Oh, men could look upon jesus and finally see eternal life in
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- A physical human body.
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- Everybody with me?
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- All right, three.
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- "we include you," now here's this--he's--
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- This is amazing.
- 00:20:24.469 --> 00:20:25.804
- "we include you in this conversation."
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- So, the writer who he's writing to is saying, "we are including
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- Y'all in this conversation, mm.
- 00:20:35.714 --> 00:20:42.220
- "you are the immediate audience to the logic of god.
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- This is the word that always was; we saw him incarnate and
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- Witnessed his language as defining our lives.
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- In the incarnation jesus includes mankind in the eternal
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- Friendship of the father and the son."
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- So, mankind is included in this friendship, in this
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- Relationship, in this conversation with the
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- Father and the son.
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- So, it's the father and the son and humanity.
- 00:21:16.355 --> 00:21:22.327
- "this life now finds expression in an unreserved union."
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- So, here we do not invent fellowship, we are invited into
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- The fellowship.
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- We didn't invent the fellowship.
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- That's huge, where we're going.
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- We didn't invent the fellowship with the father and the son.
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- We were invited into the fellowship with the father
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- And the son.
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- Oh, my god.
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- All right, here we go.
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- "my heart," the writer says here.
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- He says, "my heart is bursting with joy as i write this
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- Epistle; the thought of you reading these words, completes
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- My delight."
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- He is as excited about writing 1 john as i am about preaching
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- What i'm getting--what i'm preaching to you right now.
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- All right, 5. again, watch this.
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- "my conversation with you flows from the same source which
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- Illuminates this fellowship of union with the father and
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- The son.
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- This then, is the essence of the message: god is radiant light,
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- And in him there exists not even a trace of obscurity, or not
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- Even a trace of darkness at all."
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- Now, i'll tell you ahead of time, you'll see it.
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- The darkness that is--i asked, i said, "what's the dark?"
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- The darkness that he's referring to is performance-based--human
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- Performance-based attempt to try to deserve this fellowship.
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- Trying to deserve or invent something that
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- You were invited to, oh, goodness.
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- That's this grace life, right?
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- We were invited into this grace.
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- But you're trying to perform to deserve it or invent it.
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- All right, here we go.
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- Here we go.
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- Verse 6, "this is the real deal.
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- To live a life of pretense is such a waste of time.
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- The truth has no competition.
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- Truth inspires the poetry of friendship in total contrast to
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- Fake, performance-based relationship."
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- Announcer: we cannot live in self-deception if we want to
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- Experience god's best.
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- I believe that jesus was the payment for my sins, that he was
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- The sin offering.
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- And i receive him as my peace offering.
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- Jesus, come into my heart, save me, and today by faith,
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