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Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of saint
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John, chapter 6.
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And i want to read just a few passages, verse
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26 through 29, and i'll tell you what we're going to talk
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About tonight.
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We're gonna--we're gonna dig deep tonight.
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Welcome to our classroom tonight.
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Sometimes you just, you got to get in the classroom, amen?
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And what i'm about to talk about is extremely controversial.
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But, i--it's time, it's time.
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Verse 26: "jesus answered them and said, verily, verily, i say
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Unto you, ye seek me, not because you saw the miracles,
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But because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
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Labour not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat
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Which endureth unto everlasting life, which the son of man shall
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Give unto you: for him hath god the father sealed.
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Then said they unto him, what shall we do, that we might work
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The works of god?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of god,
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That you believe on him whom he hath sent."
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Tonight i want to talk to you about the life-sustaining grace.
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Life-sustaining grace.
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After the feeding of the 5000, the people sought jesus because
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They had eaten of the loaves, and they were filled as a result
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Of that.
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And now, because of this, he said something to them in john
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6, verse 27, because of what they've experienced, the miracle
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Of the loaves.
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They'd eaten, they were full.
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And in verse 27, let's start off with the king james, and then
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Nlt, and then the message.
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There's a lot in this verse.
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He said, "labour not for the meat which perishes, but for
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That meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the son
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Of man shall give unto you: for him hath god the father sealed."
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And then in the nlt, he says it like this: "but don't be so
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Concerned about perishable things like food.
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Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that the son of man
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Can give you.
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For god the father has given me the seal of his approval."
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And then finally in the message bible: "don't waste your energy
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Striving for perishable food like that.
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Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes
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Your lasting life, food the son of man provides.
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He and what he does are guaranteed by god the father
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To last."
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Now, please understand something.
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That this does not mean that "the meat which endureth unto
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Everlasting life," it doesn't mean that it can be obtained
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Through works.
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I'm speaking specifically of "the meat which endureth unto
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Everlasting life."
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This is not obtained through works.
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Someone said, "how can you say that?
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That's what it just said."
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No, no, no.
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That would be a contradiction to the statement right in verse 27
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That says, "the son of man shall give it."
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So, the life that can be obtained through works--it's
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Not--you--we can't contradict the fact that "the
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Son of man shall give it."
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When god gives something, you can't take credit for getting
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It, it came from him.
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So, the fundamental condition of grace says this.
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Now get this: that man can do nothing to deserve that which
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God bestows or gives freely.
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You can't do nothing.
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I can't do anything to deserve or to merit that which god
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Bestows or that which god gives us freely.
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We didn't do anything to deserve salvation.
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He gave it to us.
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Bestowed it upon us, and it wasn't because we deserved it.
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It would also be--if we did this, if we said that we got
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This eternal everlasting life through works, it would also be
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Adding the law principle of works to grace.
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And that would be a problem.
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Because i'll show you in a minute that if it is of works,
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There is no longer grace.
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If it is grace, then you ain't got no works.
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But we keep mixing works with grace, and you can't add your
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Performance to what comes from god.
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Are you listening to me?
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Now, while we're at work--so, let's make a distinction here.
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Let's go to ephesians chapter 2, in verse 8 through 10.
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I want to show you three types of works real quick.
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Now, i'm headed somewhere, but like i said, it's sometimes you
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Got to do line upon line, you got to get this in you.
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Verse 8 says, "for by grace are you saved," you're saved
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By what?
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But you got it through what?
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All right, "and that not of yourselves," you didn't have
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Anything to do with it.
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You didn't bring anything to the table.
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It is the gift of god.
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You don't work for a gift, you don't earn the gift, you don't
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Deserve a gift.
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It's something that was given by god, and you brought nothing to
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The table.
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Verse 9, now he's talking about this gift from god, and he says,
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"it's not of your own merit," he says, "not of works," well,
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Specifically, what works is he referring to here?
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Not of works of the law.
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You were saved by grace, it's a gift, and you didn't get it by
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The works of the law.
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It's not dead works that cause this to happen.
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Dead works is all about you doing something to deserve
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Something from god.
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He says--so, this is the first work we see, the works of
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The law.
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Dead works, "lest any man should boast."
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Verse 10: "for we are his workmanship," here's the second
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Work, god's work.
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See, we are god's workmanship.
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Whether you believe it or not, god is going to be working, and
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He is working on us.
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We are his workmanship.
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God's working on you.
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God's work--you are the assignment for god's work.
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I used to think god was chilling somewhere.
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No, he's working on you, he's working on me.
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In fact, while you're seated here minding your business
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Tonight, god is working on you.
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We are his workmanship.
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So that's the second work.
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And he said, "we were created in christ jesus unto good works,"
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So now, because of the new creation in us, then the love of
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God can motivate us to do good works, "which god hath before
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Ordained that we should walk in them."
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So, you have the works of the law, you have god's work, and
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You have good works.
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And the one he has problems with is the works of the law.
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The works of the law said, if you do something good, then god
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Will do something good for you, and now you're doing something
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To get something from god.
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You're doing something to deserve something from god.
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That's the works he's got a problem with.
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And i wanted to make a distinction of that, so as we
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Get into this, we're going to just see how much we need jesus.
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So the meaning here in verse 27 is this: "be not occupied with
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Obtaining the meat which perishes, but be occupied with
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Obtaining that meat which endureth unto everlasting life,"
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Here's the key, "which the son of man shall give unto you."
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You see, jewish people knew nothing about grace
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At this time.
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All they knew was the righteousness, which is of the
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Law which moses described.
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Look at romans chapter 10:5 in the nlt.
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Here's what jewish people knew at the time, before jesus came.
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Here's what they knew: he says, "for moses writes that the law's
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Way of making a person right with god requires obedience to
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All of its commands."
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So here's all jewish people knew: if i do good, i'll
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Get good.
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Here's what they knew: if i do bad, i get bad.
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They knew that whatever happened is going to be based on what
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They do.
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And so, as a result of this, see where they're coming from.
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Notice in john chapter 6, and verse 28, based on, this is what
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They understood.
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They understood do good, get good, do bad, get bad.
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And so, now the generation of israel to whom the--to whom
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God--to whom moses gave the law to--let me read verse 28 first
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Before i go there.
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In verse 28, he said, "then said they unto him, what shall we,"
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Watch this, "do?"
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Based on--based on romans 10:5.
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"what shall we do, that we might work the works of god?"
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This is--this is what they understood.
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This is what they understood from the mosaic law.
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We got to do something in order to see this come to pass.
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And so, now in john, with that same mindset in john, he says,
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"well, what shall we do that we might work the works of god
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Because we understand you got to do something to get this thing
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To happen."
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Now, go to exodus chapter 19:8, and we're going to see how this
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Whole thing started now.
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The generation of israel to whom moses spoke when the law was
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Given, here's what they said: moses came and said, "here is
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The law that i am delivering to you from god."
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And here's their response, verse 8: "all that the lord hath
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Spoken," watch this, "we will do."
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Somebody says, "well, what's the deal with that?"
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Everything changed right there.
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"all that the lord hath spoken we will do."
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There was no mention of the fact that "lord, we can do this if we
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Have you."
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There was something going on here when they said this.
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The generation to which jesus spoke, they were quick to do the
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Same thing.
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To do the works of god.
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What do we have to do to do the works of god?
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Moses brought the law, and they said, "we can do it.
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We can do it."
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And then they come up to jesus and john, said, "hey, what do we
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Need to do to work the works of god?"
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They had full confidence in themselves.
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But not realizing their inability to do so.
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Just like in exodus 19: "oh, we can do it."
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And god like, "really, you really think you can do it?"
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Now, read genesis--i mean exodus 20, and that's when the law
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Was given.
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"you think you can--you think you can do this?
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So, here's what i'm going to do.
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I'm going to give you the law."
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This is what was presented to you.
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You have the law.
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But what you don't realize is this law is perfect.
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This law is flawless.
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This law represents the character of god.
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And you think you can do this?
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You're fallen, you're a fallen man, and here is perfection like
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You've never known.
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And your response is, "we can do it"?
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Man now has confidence in himself.
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Let me say this, fallen man, fallen man who's no longer
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Flawless, has confidence in himself that he can keep
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Something that's flawless.
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The problem wasn't with the law, the law is not bad, the law
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Is good.
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The problem is that man is no longer perfect.
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Man has faults.
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And a faulty man is trying to keep perfection without god in
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His fallen state.
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Is everybody still on the bus, now?
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So, genesis 6:29, i mean, excuse me, john 6:29 is now responding
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To this confidence that they had in themselves.
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"jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of god,"
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You want to know the works?
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"this is the work of god, that you believe on him whom he
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Hath sent."
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So, "it's not a matter of doing," jesus says, "it is a
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Matter of believing."
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Now, what does that look like?
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'cause i'm sure everybody in the room says, "i believe."
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It's a matter of believing.
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It's a matter of depending upon him whom god sent to do on
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Your behalf.
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See, you're trying to ask him, "what do i do?"
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And he says, "i need you to believe because what needs to be
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Done has already been done, and you're trying to do what jesus
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Has already done.
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And i'm telling you, all we need from you is to believe in the
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One who's already done the work."
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Now, please do not interpret this verse as teaching that
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Believing is a work.
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Let's pause there for a moment.
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Believing--don't--he's not saying believing is not
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The work.
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Oh my goodness.
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Believing is not the work.
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Believing is not the work in the sense of
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Something accomplished by man.
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If you think, "well, i'm going to accomplish this by
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Believing," don't do that.
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No, we don't need no accomplishments from a man
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To do what's already been done.
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See, we have belittled believing so much.
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We always ask the question: "well, what do you do?"
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"believe."
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"yeah, but what do you do?"
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See, that's the spirit from that old covenant.
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"but you got to do something.
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Yeah, but you got to do something."
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Yeah, you believe.
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"yeah, but you got to do something."
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Yeah, you believe.
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See, god did the work, and then he rested.
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So, you want to know what to do, you believe.
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"well, what's--how do you authenticate belief?"
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"rest."
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Yeah, y'all didn't hear what i'm saying.
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You think god needs you to be god.
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"so, what do we do to do the works of god?"
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"believe in the one that i sent you."
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And the highest, highest level of belief is resting.
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You keep laboring to try to get rich, you keep laboring to try
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To get healed.
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You keep laboring to try to get what has already been given to
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You, and he is saying, "i don't want you to labor for
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What's finished."
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Why are you laboring for what is done?
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Why are you laboring for what is finished?
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And we keep coming up with something to do, because you
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Just can't rest.
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You got to do something.
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No, you're trying to accomplish stuff that comes from you.
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So then, when you receive the manifestation of it, you can go
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Talk about what you did.
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Yeah, y'all don't know--let me--go to romans chapter 11, and
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Verse 6.
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Romans in chapter 11 and verse 6.
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We take, we even take all of our spiritual stuff
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And turn it into a work.
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We take our prayer and turn it into a work.
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We take our confessions and turn it into a work.
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You don't--your confession is not a work, your confession
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Should be your rest.
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I say it--i say it because i believe it.
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And because i believe it, i say it.
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But i'm not--i'm not using it as a work to accomplish something,
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It's--we are so result-minded.
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I know that sounds real, but we're always looking for "what
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Can i do to get this?"
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Or "what can i do to get that?"
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And you forget about, let's just live, let's just live, take god
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Off the time clock, and let's just live.
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The greatest two years of my life, this year and last year,
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Came when i resigned from trying to find a work to do.
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You know what i'm saying, a work in the sense of accomplishing
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Something for god.
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All right, that's--that--that's the first heavy, but it's going
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To get heavier than that heavy, all right?
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'cause i am attacking your mixtures.
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So, you believe in grace, but you also still believe in all
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The other stuff you believe in.
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And you got to let one of them go.
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You got to choose grace or choose working and trying to
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Accomplish something and taking credit for yourself.
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Where you gonna go with it?
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I done tried mixtures.
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Mixtures don't work.
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It's when i was at rest that god was at his best.
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See, god's trying to get you back to something he prophesied
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Way back when he says, "i'm going to give you houses you
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Didn't build.
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I'm going to give you vineyards you didn't plant.
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Do you think i need what you can accomplish to be added to what
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I've already done?
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I don't need you to add nothing to jesus.
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I gave you jesus, believe in jesus, quit trying to add
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Something to it."
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Male announcer: you can't do what you don't understand.
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This is common knowledge.
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Yet, people continuously try to walk in the grace of god without
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Understanding it.
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Creflo dollar takes a deep dive into the life-sustaining grace
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Of god in his three-message series,
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"the transparency of grace."
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Creflo: grace is the operation of god's love.
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What god created, he is committed to taking care of.
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Jesus is that provision for every need of mankind.
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Jesus is my provision, he's my provider, he's my righteousness.
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He's everything i ever need.
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He started the work, he'll continue to work.
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He's going to finish the work.
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Some of the hard questions, and the people that asked the
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Creflo: when you think about "what could have happened to
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Me, what should have happened to me, and now look at what's
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Available to me," that's enough for me to tear something up
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Right now all by itself.
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I got to give him the glory. he saved us.
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