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Creflo Dollar - The Law By Moses vs. Grace By Jesus

April 14, 2025 | S25:E92

Creflo Dollar - The Law By Moses vs. Grace By Jesus
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Law By Moses vs. Grace By Jesus | April 14, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: there's a-- there's a lovely consequence
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  • For you believing in the lord jesus christ and having life
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  • Through that name.
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  • There's a consequence.
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  • What happens when a person decides, based on what he's
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  • Read, "i believe in jesus christ and i have life now.
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  • I have life now through his name"?
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  • Creflo: the book of john is obviously different than--you
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  • See a distinction between st. john and matthew, mark,
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  • And luke.
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  • And if you study it real well, you'll look at some stuff, and
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  • We're gonna be talking about tonight the law by moses and
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  • Grace and truth by jesus christ, and you're gonna have a whole
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  • New appreciation for the gospel of john.
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  • And these days and times and where we are right now, it gives
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  • Me an opportunity to dig deeper and deeper into this--to this
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  • Gospel of grace.
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  • So if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of, of
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  • Course, john.
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  • We'll be there every week, and let's go to chapter 20 and
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  • Verse 31.
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  • John chapter 20 and verse 31 and just kinda build a framework for
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  • What we're dealing with here.
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  • Now, the apostle john states clearly why the gospel bearing
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  • His name was written and he states it in these words, and
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  • I'm gonna look at it in the king james up here, verse 30 and 31.
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  • 30 and 31, i'll look at the king james and then--
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  • He says, "but these are written," and he's referring to
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  • All that has been written so far in the book of john, "these were
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  • Written, that you might believe that jesus is the christ, the
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  • Son of god; and that believing you might have life through
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  • His name."
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  • Now, notice what he says here.
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  • Look at verse 30.
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  • Did i read verse 30?
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  • Verse 30.
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  • All right, he says, "and many other signs truly did jesus in
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  • The presence of his disciples, which are not written in
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  • This book."
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  • So what he says is this.
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  • He says, "you're reading the things that we wanted you to
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  • Read in this book," but a whole lot more happened that he didn't
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  • Write down, that was not written.
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  • And he says, "there were other signs that were not written,"
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  • And he says, "and many other signs truly did jesus in the
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  • Presence of his disciples."
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  • So his disciples saw a whole lot more than what we read about.
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  • He says, "and these were not written."
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  • But now the question comes, well, why are you pointing out
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  • For us to pay attention to the signs that were written?
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  • What was allowed to be written for us to read about?
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  • In verse 31 now you see the context of that.
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  • Verse 31, he says, "but these things are written," "these
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  • Things" referring to writings about all of the other signs
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  • That jesus did.
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  • They were written for this reason, "so that you can believe
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  • That jesus is the christ, so you can believe that jesus is
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  • The anointed one, so you can believe that jesus is the son
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  • Of god."
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  • And he says, "so we wrote this so you can believe in jesus, so
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  • You can believe he's the christ, the anointed one.
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  • So you can believe he's the messiah.
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  • That's why we wrote it, so you can read it."
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  • And then he made this statement, "and that by believing you might
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  • Have life through his name."
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  • By believing, by believing, that by believing, you might
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  • Have life.
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  • Not by working, okay, not by sweating, but by believing you
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  • Might have life.
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  • Listen to that again now.
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  • "i wrote this stuff so you can believe that jesus is the son of
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  • Christ and by believing," so we're talking about believing
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  • Jesus, right?
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  • "so by believing," he says, "you might have life," okay, we were
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  • All showed up here spiritually dead and he's also referring to
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  • That abundant life.
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  • If you'll believe, you're gonna have life.
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  • Now, i don't see anywhere in between that so far where it's
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  • Requiring any work or effort on your part.
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  • He says, "i wrote it so you can believe, and if you believe,
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  • You're gonna have life, and you're gonna have life through
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  • The name."
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  • So notice he's not talking about, you're gonna have life
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  • Through your own ability, you're gonna have life through
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  • The name.
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  • See, the reason--one of the reasons why i'm glad teaching
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  • This, we just gonna take our times because we're gonna nail
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  • Down some of the stuff that people--you know, when you're
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  • Teaching grace, then they'll say something because we hadn't had
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  • Time to go through all the particulars, all right, and dig
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  • Into this thing.
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  • Now, this is so interesting here now.
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  • So, he tells us--what we just read--let me read it in the new
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  • King james bible.
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  • So here's the purpose of the book of john.
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  • We just read it, the purpose of the book of john.
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  • "the disciple saw jesus do many other miraculous signs in
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  • Addition to the ones recorded in this book.
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  • But these are written so that you may continue to believe that
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  • Jesus is the messiah, the son of god, and that by believing in
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  • Him you will have life by the power of his name."
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  • That's why i tell everybody who get born again, they say, "what
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  • Book should i start reading first?"
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  • John.
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  • Start off with the book of john so you can believe in jesus,
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  • All right?
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  • Now, so let's go back to chapter 1, st. john chapter 1, and
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  • Let's just start this amazing journey, this amazing journey.
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  • Now, the verses we just read, they are accepted as key
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  • Passages to the gospel, but there is another verse in john
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  • Chapter 1, verse 17 that is the result,
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  • Or the consequence, of what we just saw.
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  • There is a result that comes from that scripture there, and
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  • The result of that scripture we just read is john chapter 1 in
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  • Verse 17.
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  • Now, you ever--you know the term correlation, all right?
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  • But there's an another term, "corollary."
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  • It just simply means resultant or the results.
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  • In other words, there's a consequence for you doing what
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  • We just read.
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  • There's a--there's a lovely consequence for you believing in
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  • The lord jesus christ and having life through that name.
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  • There's a consequence.
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  • What happens when a person decides, based on what he's
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  • Read, "i believe in jesus christ and i have life now.
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  • I have life now through his name."
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  • What are the consequences?
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  • Now, most of the time you use that you we're talking about
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  • Negative, but what are the--what are--what's the result of me
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  • Doing that?
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  • That's so important.
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  • We look at scriptures like this, but we don't think
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  • There's a consequence.
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  • There's a consequence in you making your mind up.
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  • I believe jesus christ.
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  • Therefore, i have life through his name.
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  • So now, what happens when you do that?
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  • St. john chapter 1, verse 17, let's read that.
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  • Verse 17, you know it.
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  • He says--read it.
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  • "for the law was given through moses, but grace and truth came
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  • By jesus christ."
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  • I believe in the lord jesus christ.
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  • Therefore, i have life through his name.
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  • And the result of me doing that--let me get on back up
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  • Here, i ain't been--done the rounds.
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  • And the result of me doing that is grace and truth comes because
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  • I believe in jesus and have life through his name.
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  • The consequences of that is grace and truth by jesus.
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  • Grace and truth comes as a consequence of you believing in
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  • Him, gaining life through his name, and now the results,
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  • Grace and truth.
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  • You ain't did nothing yet except believed and you got life
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  • Through the name and the grace says the consequences of you
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  • Believing like that is grace and truth by jesus christ.
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  • Boy, i said that's good.
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  • Now, i wanna stay on that just for a minute here.
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  • So, if you look at in verse 17, you're gonna see something here.
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  • He says, "for the law was given through moses, but grace and
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  • Truth came by jesus christ," all right?
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  • So the--this verse includes all that is mentioned in the first
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  • Verse we just read, the whole purpose of it.
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  • Now, let me see if i can give you an illustration so you find
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  • Out what i'm saying here.
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  • If i take a black velvet background, you got a picture?
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  • Black velvet background, and i put, against that background, a
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  • Big beautiful diamond.
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  • The black velvet background helps to amplify the brilliance
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  • Of that diamond.
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  • You--i'm looking funny because i know i'm going--you don't know
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  • Where i'm going.
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  • See, i'm feeling this thing, you're trying to catch up with
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  • Me, but hold on a minute now.
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  • So likewise, like the black velvet background amplifies
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  • The brilliance of that diamond, the law is that black velvet
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  • Background and grace, held against the law, causes you to
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  • See the brilliance and the glory of grace.
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  • So, we're not trying to get rid of the law, because the law and
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  • The religion and all the stuff we had to go through now put
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  • Grace in front of that background and it amplifies
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  • The brilliance of the grace and the truth that comes by
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • If you understand that, say, "amen."
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  • Oh yeah, boy.
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  • There is a scripture, if y'all can put it up, romans chapter 3,
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  • Verse 31.
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  • A lot of times people use this to go against grace.
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  • And you gotta understand, people hate paul even to this day.
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  • To this day they--even even in seminary school, you know, "we
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  • Hate the pauline teachings."
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  • It's just like, dude, he wrote, like, what?
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  • Most of the new testament?
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  • So you ain't even got a new testament if you hate that,
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  • You know?
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  • "i wanna know what jesus said."
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  • Well, somebody had to write down what jesus said.
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  • You hope they wrote it down right, or they translated right.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • He said, "do we then make void the law through faith?"
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  • The answer is no.
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  • So, here's what happens.
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  • You gotta be careful.
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  • As people of grace, you gotta be careful not to say, "well, we're
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  • Gonna void out the law."
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  • I know what you're talking about, and people who understand
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  • Grace know what you're talking about, but please
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  • Understand this.
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  • He says, "we don't--we're not gonna void it out."
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  • He says, "yea, we establish the law," or that word "established"
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  • Originally is the word "esteem" the law, or we "regard," highly
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  • Regard, the law.
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  • Why?
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  • Because if it wasn't for the law and the religion that it brought
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  • With it, we would have never come to see how much we needed
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  • A savior, all right?
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  • So the other part i wanna add to this is, no, we don't wanna void
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  • The law because without it you won't see the brilliance of
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  • The grace of god when you set it in front of that background.
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  • Look at all the crazy stuff you done went through in church.
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  • Look at all the stuff you done heard.
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  • Look at all the religion, look at all the struggle, look at all
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  • The trying you had to do.
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  • Now take all of that that you've already gone through, that was
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  • Miserable, it was awful, it was tedious, it was all that stuff,
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  • Now put grace in front of it.
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  • It now keeps us in memory.
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  • It makes us--reminds us that, "oh, had i never went through
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  • That, i'd have never known how amazing this grace was."
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  • So i say keep the background of the black velvet and put that
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  • Diamond in front of it so you can see how brilliant what jesus
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  • Has done for you.
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  • And so, that's what i do.
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  • I am thanking and praising god for this opportunity to give him
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  • Glory for the gospel of grace that he's put into my life.
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  • Amen?
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  • Now, let's add a little bit more to this.
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  • I want you to see this progression.
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  • So to say that grace and truth came by jesus christ, we got
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  • That, and that's what it says here.
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  • The law by moses, grace and truth came by jesus christ.
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  • To say that grace and truth came by jesus christ is to also say
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  • That believing you might have life through his name.
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  • I'm telling you they're tied together.
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  • Grace and truth came by jesus christ and that by believing you
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  • Might have life through his name, because me believing and
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  • Having life through his name has given birth, or consequence,
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  • To grace and truth.
  • 00:16:32.326 --> 00:16:34.562
  • So, grace and truth, you back up a little bit, grace and truth by
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  • Jesus christ is attached to me believing and having life
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  • Through that name.
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  • Go the same way because one is a consequence for the other.
  • 00:16:45.673 --> 00:16:50.044
  • Now, there is one more piece that goes with this.
  • 00:16:50.044 --> 00:16:53.481
  • Look at the book of romans chapter 5 and verse 21.
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  • He says, grace and truth came by jesus christ, believing you have
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  • Life through his name because, you believe that you have life
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  • Through his name because grace reigns unto eternal life by
  • 00:17:09.363 --> 00:17:14.669
  • Jesus christ our lord, grace reigns.
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  • He says, "that as sin has reigned unto death, even so
  • 00:17:17.438 --> 00:17:20.174
  • Might grace reign through righteousness," grace reigns,
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  • "unto eternal life," grace reigns unto eternal life.
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  • I believe that--and then, in believing, i might have life.
  • 00:17:26.948 --> 00:17:31.953
  • And then he says, "grace reigns unto eternal life."
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  • I want you to see how--you can't separate these.
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  • They all go together.
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  • Grace reigns unto eternal life by believing i have life through
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  • His name and grace and truth came, i just noticed that.
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  • He said it came, "by jesus christ."
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  • So here's the point i want you to see here: all gifted to those
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  • Who believe.
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  • You decided to believe, grace showed up, and grace
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  • Rules--my god.
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  • Say that, say, "grace rules."
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  • Yeah, yeah.
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  • And this is--this--what we're doing, we're, like, rightly
  • 00:18:18.032 --> 00:18:20.768
  • Divining the word of truth.
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  • You take those three scriptures here, you see that you have
  • 00:18:22.103 --> 00:18:26.440
  • Brought nothing to the table.
  • 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.678
  • You haven't bought anything.
  • 00:18:30.678 --> 00:18:32.013
  • And that's the thing that christians are struggling
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  • With today.
  • 00:18:33.881 --> 00:18:35.383
  • They just can't believe that they can get something
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  • Without nothing.
  • 00:18:43.124 --> 00:18:49.030
  • Man, i got so many series going on.
  • 00:18:49.030 --> 00:18:50.398
  • I got a series going on on morning confession.
  • 00:18:50.398 --> 00:18:52.466
  • I got a series that started here tonight in a bible study.
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  • I got a series, i don't even know where i am on sundays and
  • 00:18:54.402 --> 00:18:56.404
  • Just--but all of it is to get you to see the brilliance of the
  • 00:18:56.404 --> 00:19:03.978
  • Grace diamond standing in front of all of the bad, religious,
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  • Law-based, condemning, shameful,
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  • Guilty, work, work, work, gotta
  • 00:19:17.058 --> 00:19:21.529
  • Do this in order to get god to do that, and we've read nowhere
  • 00:19:21.529 --> 00:19:24.165
  • Where you had to do something to get grace and truth.
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  • But believe.
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  • He said, "believe in jesus, you'll have life, and grace and
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  • Truth to show up by believing in jesus, and
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  • The grace that shows up reigns."
  • 00:19:37.245 --> 00:19:43.084
  • I--that's how these teaching's gonna be.
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  • I'm gonna keep digging and digging.
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  • If it's the only thing i cover tonight, digging and digging
  • 00:19:48.256 --> 00:19:51.359
  • And digging.
  • 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:52.693
  • But what we're gonna do is we're gonna keep our focus on
  • 00:19:52.693 --> 00:19:55.930
  • Believing in jesus, knowing we got life through his name, glory
  • 00:19:55.930 --> 00:20:02.303
  • To god, and then the results is grace and truth shows up by
  • 00:20:02.303 --> 00:20:06.774
  • Jesus, and that grace rules unto eternal life by jesus christ.
  • 00:20:06.774 --> 00:20:14.315
  • Dude, i'm good.
  • 00:20:14.315 --> 00:20:15.650
  • I can go home right now.
  • 00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:17.018
  • I'm so serious.
  • 00:20:17.018 --> 00:20:18.352
  • I can go home right now.
  • 00:20:18.352 --> 00:20:19.720
  • Now, let's take it just a little further here now.
  • 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:24.025
  • The life, and the fact that believing is the condition for
  • 00:20:24.025 --> 00:20:29.163
  • Receiving life, you see that clear, believing is the
  • 00:20:29.163 --> 00:20:31.966
  • Condition for receiving life, again shows that life is
  • 00:20:31.966 --> 00:20:36.404
  • Of grace.
  • 00:20:36.404 --> 00:20:37.938
  • Life is of grace.
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  • The life that we have is a life that is of grace.
  • 00:20:40.908 --> 00:20:46.547
  • We keep trying to figure out how we can take credit for the life
  • 00:20:46.547 --> 00:20:50.051
  • That we have.
  • 00:20:50.051 --> 00:20:51.419
  • The life that we have is of the grace of god, amen?
  • 00:20:51.419 --> 00:20:56.657
  • All right, and so it is of faith.
  • 00:20:56.657 --> 00:21:00.261
  • Romans 4:16, let's go there.
  • 00:21:00.261 --> 00:21:01.896
  • It is of faith that it might be by grace.
  • 00:21:01.896 --> 00:21:05.499
  • I'm gonna show you, and i think you already see it.
  • 00:21:05.499 --> 00:21:09.804
  • There--you can't separate faith from grace.
  • 00:21:09.804 --> 00:21:15.543
  • You already see this.
  • 00:21:15.543 --> 00:21:17.078
  • And we--it ain't no such thing as, well, the grace folks say
  • 00:21:17.078 --> 00:21:21.649
  • That and the faith folks say that.
  • 00:21:21.649 --> 00:21:23.317
  • If you got one of them, you got the other one.
  • 00:21:23.317 --> 00:21:27.455
  • You can't separate this.
  • 00:21:27.455 --> 00:21:28.789
  • Look at this.
  • 00:21:28.789 --> 00:21:30.157
  • He says, "therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace;
  • 00:21:30.157 --> 00:21:34.662
  • To the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to
  • 00:21:34.662 --> 00:21:38.532
  • That only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
  • 00:21:38.532 --> 00:21:44.138
  • Faith of abraham."
  • 00:21:44.138 --> 00:21:47.875
  • You cannot have--he said, "believe that you have this
  • 00:21:47.875 --> 00:21:54.348
  • Life--believe that you have this life through the name of jesus.
  • 00:21:54.348 --> 00:22:00.688
  • The consequences is grace and truth comes, and then that grace
  • 00:22:00.688 --> 00:22:05.559
  • Will reign unto eternal life unto to jesus christ."
  • 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:09.430
  • I don't see how you can separate faith from grace.
  • 00:22:09.430 --> 00:22:16.704
  • In fact, i think what we gotta be careful about is trying to
  • 00:22:16.704 --> 00:22:22.743
  • Separate faith from grace and then start using our faith for
  • 00:22:22.743 --> 00:22:25.746
  • Law-based stuff.
  • 00:22:25.746 --> 00:22:29.183
  • Yeah, you see that?
  • 00:22:29.183 --> 00:22:31.585
  • And then you turn faith into, like, this magic wand and you
  • 00:22:31.585 --> 00:22:35.689
  • Use it to fulfill everything except what grace has
  • 00:22:35.689 --> 00:22:39.126
  • Made available.
  • 00:22:39.126 --> 00:22:40.594
  • See, grace has already made everything available, but we
  • 00:22:40.594 --> 00:22:43.197
  • Separated from grace and now what's happening?
  • 00:22:43.197 --> 00:22:46.200
  • It's almost like, when purpose is not understood, abuse
  • 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:54.642
  • Is inevitable.
  • 00:22:54.642 --> 00:22:58.446
  • So what about--what about grace?
  • 00:22:58.446 --> 00:23:03.250
  • It cannot function without faith and life can't produce--the life
  • 00:23:03.250 --> 00:23:11.459
  • Of grace can't be seen and produced without this faith, so
  • 00:23:11.459 --> 00:23:18.466
  • Whatever is of grace is going to have to be by faith because in
  • 00:23:18.466 --> 00:23:27.174
  • Believing you have life--oh, man, if we'd heard this thing.
  • 00:23:27.174 --> 00:23:35.015
  • You know, nobody wants to talk about, really, the foundation
  • 00:23:35.015 --> 00:23:37.785
  • Of stuff.
  • 00:23:37.785 --> 00:23:39.153
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  • 00:23:39.153 --> 00:23:40.488
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  • 00:23:40.488 --> 00:23:41.822
  • I'm still thinking about that black velvet background.
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