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Creflo Dollar - Life-Sustaining Grace

January 2, 2025 | S25:E3

Creflo Dollar - Life-Sustaining Grace
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Life-Sustaining Grace | January 2, 2025
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  • Male announcer: this program is brought to you, in part, by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Male announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: god said, "what i need to do is go through some
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  • Stuff with you.
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  • So, i'm gonna let you go through a trial, and i'm not gonna move
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  • The trial, i'm gonna get in it with you."
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  • Have you noticed, god ain't moving none of your trials what
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  • You've been praying?
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  • "god move this."
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  • He said, "ain't.
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  • I'm gonna get in here with you because i'm gonna show you life
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  • With me."
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  • Hallelujah!
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  • Peter was walking on the water, and he sunk, and he said, "come
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  • On, peter, walk with me, and i'll show you life depending
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  • On me."
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  • Female announcer: look no further for encouragement to
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  • Walk in the grace of god.
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  • ♪ this is your world ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed ♪♪
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  • Creflo: philippians, chapter 2 and verse 13, in the nlt,
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  • Philippians 2:13.
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  • Oh boy, watch this:
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  • "for god is working in you," say out loud:
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  • "god's working in me."
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  • I don't care what nobody say about you, i don't care about
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  • Your crazy crazy, god is working in you.
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  • God is working in you.
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  • Say it again: "god's working in me."
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  • And every time you do something crazy, just remind yourself,
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  • "god's working in me."
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  • And remind yourself of this, no matter what you do, it is never
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  • Gonna outdo god's work.
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  • "yeah, but you got to do something."
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  • No, god is bigger than anything you can do.
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  • You've been doing the last 20 years, look at you.
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  • It's time for you to let go of what you do and hop on to what
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  • God is working in you.
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  • God knows every path you got to go down.
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  • He knows every issue you gotta go through, he knows every trial
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  • You gotta go through.
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  • God is working in you.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, right now, people can get saved without
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  • Somebody trying to tell them about jesus.
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  • They could be in their truck, all by their self, and jesus
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  • Will show up.
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  • And they don't even know why, they can't even explain it, they
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  • Just know they need to get saved.
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  • They just know they want jesus, they know they don't want to do
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  • That no more, or do that no more, go there no more.
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  • God is working.
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  • But god knows everything about us, and that used to make me
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  • Uncomfortable, until i realized that he knows everything about
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  • Me so in order to correct me and to make me and to work on me, he
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  • Knows where the roots to everything is.
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  • "for god is working in you, giving you the desire and the
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  • Power," watch this, "to do what pleases him."
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  • God is giving you the--let me tell you something: the greatest
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  • Thing about grace is when you can testify about what grace has
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  • Done in your life.
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  • Can you identify areas in your life where you didn't do the
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  • Work, but god did it?
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  • And you looked at yourself one day and said, "whoa, when did
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  • This happen?"
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  • "oh i used to cuss everybody out, but i said, 'bless you'?
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  • When did that happen?
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  • Oh my god, when did that take place?"
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  • And god said, "oh, i've been working on you."
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  • And he said, "my best work was done when you were asleep.
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  • I'll drop a dream in the middle of your sleep that will shake
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  • You up and shake you right.
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  • I know how to work on you 'cause i know you.
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  • And when i'm finished, you're gonna depend on me a whole
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  • Lot more.
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  • You know, the independence you've declared?
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  • You're gonna take that back."
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  • And he says, "i'm not going to let you go.
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  • So, if you think by quitting on me, it's gonna get rid of me?
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  • It ain't gonna happen, it ain't gonna happen.
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  • I was committed to you before the foundations of the world.
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  • I am still committed to you, i got plans for you, i wired you.
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  • I'm so committed to you, i went ahead and wired you a
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  • Certain way."
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • "i went ahead and put something in you.
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  • I went ahead and put a desire to call you.
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  • See, i saw the end at the very beginning.
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  • I've seen something about you you ain't seen about yourself.
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  • And you think you just gonna quit on me because you don't
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  • Come to church no more, because you don't pray no more?
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  • That don't matter.
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  • I'll get you when you're drunk, i'll take you when you're high,
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  • I'll take you when you're in a bedroom, in adultery.
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  • And i'll go to work on you in places and in situations where
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  • You didn't think god would work."
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  • Because somebody told us, somebody told us that god only
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  • Can't--only dwells in clean vessels, that god can't dwell in
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  • Filthy vessels.
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  • Well, ain't no other kind, ain't no other kind, ain't no
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  • Other choice.
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  • Honey, your dirty vessel ain't gonna run him away.
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  • God is committed to you, god is in love with you, god is not
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  • Gonna let you go.
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  • You're not gonna divorce god like you would divorce a husband
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  • Or a wife.
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  • God is stuck on you until you get stuck on him, praise god.
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  • He will do the work.
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  • Whoo, i'm about to preach myself happy.
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  • I got--hey, hallelujah, glory to god.
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  • Hallelujah, glory to god!
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  • I'm telling you, i know what i'm talking about.
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  • I'm not just preaching some sermon, i'm telling you, he got
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  • To work on the inside of me, glory to god.
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  • He rearranged my furniture, glory to god.
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  • I didn't do it, because i didn't know how to do it, but he
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  • Did it.
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  • And if he did it for me, he getting ready to do it for you.
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  • Somebody shout: "god's working on me!"
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  • He's working on your desire.
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  • The stuff you used to wanna do, you ain't wanna do it one day.
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  • He changing your desire--hallelujah!
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  • He's changing your want-too.
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  • Just because you want to do it, don't mean you gonna always want
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  • To do it, because god's working like an eagle stirring in the
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  • Nest, he's working on you.
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  • Why would god start the work on you, and then turn it over to
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  • You to finish it?
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  • He started to work on you, he's continuing to work on you, and
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  • He said the day when he comes back, he's gonna finish the work
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  • On you.
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  • I'm telling you to rest from all of your chores, get rid of your
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  • Independence, because if god started to work, and honey, he
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  • Started to work, he is gonna finish the work.
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  • I guarantee you on that day you're gonna look just like him.
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  • I don't know what you gotta go through, i don't know what got
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  • To hurt, i don't know what you got to lose, but i know this one
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  • Thing: when jesus breaks through the clouds, you're gonna look
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  • Just like him.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • [creflo laughing]
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  • The devil thought he had you bound, but jesus lifted me.
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  • The devil thought he had you bound, but jesus set you free.
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  • The devil thought he had you in hell,
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  • ♪ and jesus lifted you up. ♪♪
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  • See, the thing is, you think you bad, but you ain't bad enough
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  • For the holy ghost.
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  • You think you bad, but you ain't bad enough for this god who is
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  • Full of love.
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  • He loves you, he gonna always love you, he loved you from the
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  • Foundation of the world, and he is not gonna let go of you.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • "well, how?
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  • How is he gonna bring me to this constant dependence upon him?"
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  • And that's all god is saying.
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  • God is not saying, "all right, i want you to be perfect, i want
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  • You to be flawless."
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  • You know what he's saying?
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  • "i want you to depend on me, i want you to depend on me.
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  • I want you to depend on me for your bills.
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  • I want you to depend on me for your relationships.
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  • I want you to depend on me for your job.
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  • I want you to depend on me for your bag.
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  • I want you to depend on me for your ministry.
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  • I want you to depend on--all i'm asking you to do is depend
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  • On me.
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  • Give me a shot.
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  • Give me an opportunity to show you what you've been depending
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  • On, can't outdo me."
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  • "so, how?
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  • How are you gonna do that?
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  • He gonna work in me, change my desire?
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  • Give me the desire to do what pleases him?
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  • How he gonna do that?
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  • Surely, i gotta do something."
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  • Yeah, believe and rest, that ain't hard, and wake up
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  • Every day.
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  • "lord, i completely depend on you."
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  • Why?
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  • "because i don't know what this day got."
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  • You pull out of a parking lot, somebody get mad at you and they
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  • Want to do something.
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  • I don't know what the day gonna bring you.
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  • That's why i depend on you.
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  • I depend on you, lord.
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  • "many times i put me out my house.
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  • I can't see no way i'm gonna get the money to do that, but i
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  • Depend on you.
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  • They told me i got three tumors, i'm gonna die.
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  • I don't know what to do with that, lord, but i depend
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  • On you."
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  • And that's what grace is.
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  • He said, "my love is unrestrained, especially for
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  • Those who depend on me."
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  • Mm-mm-mm.
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  • Well, how is he gonna do it?
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  • 1 peter chapter 1:6 and 7, let's look at it in the
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  • King james, and then the nlt.
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  • Somebody said, "you there yet?"
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  • Nope, not there yet, on my way, on my way.
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  • I ain't letting this go till i get this out of me.
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  • You think i'm gonna go home and go to sleep with this?
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  • I ain't going home with none of this--peter, verse 6: "wherein
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  • Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are
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  • In heaviness through manifold temptations," and look at this
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  • In the nlt, how is he gonna get us to depend on him?
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  • "be glad that there is wonderful joy ahead."
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  • And now, check what he said: "be glad that there's wonderful
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  • Joy ahead."
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  • He ain't talking to you about the journey, there's a journey
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  • Before you can get to what's ahead.
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  • "and even though you must endure many trials," watch this, "for a
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  • Little while.
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  • I want you to get to the joy that's ahead, but i need you to
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  • Go through some stuff for a little while while you're on
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  • Your way.
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  • Because in your discomfort, my god, you're gonna be--you're
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  • Gonna have the guarantee of my presence.
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  • In your pain you're gonna have a guarantee of my presence."
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  • See, most folks think the presence of the lord is just
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  • Here when we're singing real nice songs and lifting our
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  • Hands up.
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  • I'll tell you, when you can absolutely depend on the
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  • Presence of the lord, when you are in a trial, when you are
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  • In discomfort,
  • 00:13:57.416 --> 00:13:58.751
  • He said in 1 corinthians 1, he said, "i will comfort you in all
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  • Of your trouble."
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  • Why?
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  • It's like a ride or die, you're closer after you done went
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  • Through what you done went through.
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  • And god said, "what i need to do is go through some stuff
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  • With you.
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  • So, i'm gonna let you go through a trial, and i'm not gonna move
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  • The trial, i'm gonna get in it with you."
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  • Have you noticed, god ain't moving none of your trials what
  • 00:14:25.911 --> 00:14:29.782
  • You've been praying.
  • 00:14:29.782 --> 00:14:31.116
  • "god move this."
  • 00:14:31.116 --> 00:14:32.484
  • He said, "ain't.
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  • I'm gonna get in here with you because i'm gonna show you life
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  • With me."
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  • Hallelujah!
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  • Peter was walking on the water, and he sunk, and he said, "come
  • 00:14:39.158 --> 00:14:41.894
  • On, peter, walk with me, and i'll show you life depending
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  • On me."
  • 00:14:45.164 --> 00:14:48.801
  • Mm-mm-mm.
  • 00:14:48.801 --> 00:14:50.936
  • "so, i'm gonna need you to go through some stuff."
  • 00:14:50.936 --> 00:14:53.372
  • Somebody say, "well, where did it come from?
  • 00:14:53.372 --> 00:14:54.773
  • God, the devil?"
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  • I don't know none of that.
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  • All i know is that--all i know is something happens when you go
  • 00:14:57.476 --> 00:15:05.384
  • Through a hard time with somebody, and you come out of
  • 00:15:05.384 --> 00:15:08.921
  • That hard time, you closer to that somebody after that hard
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  • Time, than you were before that hard time.
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  • "wow, we done been through something, praise god," god
  • 00:15:16.829 --> 00:15:19.465
  • Said, "i know how this thing works, so we're gonna go through
  • 00:15:19.465 --> 00:15:21.533
  • Some stuff together.
  • 00:15:21.533 --> 00:15:22.901
  • And when there's nobody around you but me, nobody to talk to
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  • You but me, nobody to encourage you but me, i'm gonna do you
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  • Just like i did them three hebrew boys in the
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  • Fiery furnace.
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  • I didn't take away the furnace, and i didn't take away the fire,
  • 00:15:34.179 --> 00:15:37.282
  • But i was the fourth man that joined them in the midst of the
  • 00:15:37.282 --> 00:15:40.486
  • Fiery furnace."
  • 00:15:40.486 --> 00:15:43.922
  • And there were certain provisions, so when you get
  • 00:15:43.922 --> 00:15:46.392
  • Through trouble, you're gonna have the presence of god, but
  • 00:15:46.392 --> 00:15:48.594
  • You're gonna have the provision of god.
  • 00:15:48.594 --> 00:15:49.928
  • And god showed up and said, "i'm gonna get in the fiery furnace,
  • 00:15:49.928 --> 00:15:52.331
  • And then i'm gonna provide for you the stuff that could get
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  • Worse because i'm in it with you.
  • 00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:58.103
  • I'm your shield, i ain't gonna let nothing get worse than what
  • 00:15:58.103 --> 00:16:02.174
  • It already is if you'll depend on me.
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  • I'll just take you through this and then i'm gonna walk with you
  • 00:16:04.743 --> 00:16:07.679
  • Through this whole thing.
  • 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.014
  • So, you're not gonna get burned, your clothes ain't gonna even
  • 00:16:09.014 --> 00:16:11.683
  • Smell like smoke.
  • 00:16:11.683 --> 00:16:13.152
  • I got you, i got you, i got you."
  • 00:16:13.152 --> 00:16:15.788
  • By the time they come out of the fiery furnace, they said, "who
  • 00:16:15.788 --> 00:16:19.425
  • Is this fourth man?"
  • 00:16:19.425 --> 00:16:29.401
  • Anybody ever been through a fiery furnace?
  • 00:16:29.401 --> 00:16:33.939
  • Now, that was the first question.
  • 00:16:33.939 --> 00:16:35.441
  • Anybody ever been through a firey furnace
  • 00:16:35.441 --> 00:16:37.776
  • Depending on jesus?
  • 00:16:37.776 --> 00:16:40.846
  • Well, you god, boy, i'm telling you.
  • 00:16:40.846 --> 00:16:44.116
  • So, somebody says, "well, god, do we have to have it?"
  • 00:16:44.116 --> 00:16:46.985
  • Yeah, they that live godless shall suffer persecution.
  • 00:16:46.985 --> 00:16:49.455
  • In this world, you're gonna have tribulation.
  • 00:16:49.455 --> 00:16:51.590
  • Yeah, everybody got some of this, everybody got some
  • 00:16:51.590 --> 00:16:54.293
  • Of this.
  • 00:16:54.293 --> 00:16:55.627
  • Now, how you handle this--now, here's what happens, now: if you
  • 00:16:55.627 --> 00:16:58.730
  • Don't depend on god and you start looking for other things
  • 00:16:58.730 --> 00:17:01.433
  • In the natural to depend on, the devil might slip you into
  • 00:17:01.433 --> 00:17:03.902
  • An addiction.
  • 00:17:03.902 --> 00:17:07.873
  • "i'm in discomfort, i feel sad.
  • 00:17:07.873 --> 00:17:09.575
  • I think i'll get drunk."
  • 00:17:09.575 --> 00:17:10.943
  • Now, you're down the road to alcoholic, because every time
  • 00:17:10.943 --> 00:17:14.313
  • That's gonna be your way to hop back in the comfort.
  • 00:17:14.313 --> 00:17:16.415
  • "i'm discomfort, i need some comfort real quick.
  • 00:17:16.415 --> 00:17:18.250
  • Whatever's gonna give me some comfort."
  • 00:17:18.250 --> 00:17:19.585
  • And then, you're just--you're gonna--you're still
  • 00:17:19.585 --> 00:17:21.487
  • Ignoring god.
  • 00:17:21.487 --> 00:17:22.855
  • You're still looking for "whatever can give me comfort,
  • 00:17:22.855 --> 00:17:24.423
  • Except god."
  • 00:17:24.423 --> 00:17:25.757
  • And then all those other things you think it's giving you
  • 00:17:25.757 --> 00:17:27.960
  • Comfort, but it's giving you an addiction.
  • 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:29.728
  • It's giving you a bad road down somewhere else.
  • 00:17:29.728 --> 00:17:36.568
  • Let's depend on god, dude.
  • 00:17:36.568 --> 00:17:39.705
  • Let's depend on god and let's rest.
  • 00:17:39.705 --> 00:17:42.741
  • All right, so, few people realize the very purpose of god
  • 00:17:42.741 --> 00:17:47.980
  • And grace.
  • 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:50.315
  • They don't realize that purpose in god and grace is to bring
  • 00:17:50.315 --> 00:17:53.085
  • About a state of absolute dependence upon him, and to make
  • 00:17:53.085 --> 00:17:56.822
  • Man see that he is nothing in himself.
  • 00:17:56.822 --> 00:18:02.027
  • Now, look at this, john chapter 6, verse 3.
  • 00:18:02.027 --> 00:18:09.601
  • If you remember nicodemus, nicodemus came to jesus at an
  • 00:18:09.601 --> 00:18:14.239
  • Odd hour and he asked jesus,
  • 00:18:14.239 --> 00:18:16.441
  • "you know, how can i please god?"
  • 00:18:16.441 --> 00:18:19.678
  • He said, "dude, by getting born again, by regeneration, by
  • 00:18:19.678 --> 00:18:25.184
  • Getting something from him that you can't get through your
  • 00:18:25.184 --> 00:18:27.553
  • Own works."
  • 00:18:27.553 --> 00:18:29.087
  • And then, people asked the same thing, "what do we do?"
  • 00:18:29.087 --> 00:18:30.923
  • And they--it's the same thing, depend on god, "trust in the one
  • 00:18:30.923 --> 00:18:34.259
  • That i sent you."
  • 00:18:34.259 --> 00:18:37.396
  • Now, there's something about these boys in john, chapter 6,
  • 00:18:37.396 --> 00:18:39.965
  • They were a little deceptive.
  • 00:18:39.965 --> 00:18:43.402
  • Verse 30 says: "they said therefore unto him, what sign
  • 00:18:43.402 --> 00:18:47.539
  • Shewest thou then, that we may see, and really believe thee?
  • 00:18:47.539 --> 00:18:52.444
  • What does thou work?"
  • 00:18:52.444 --> 00:18:54.079
  • They had just came out of the miracle of the loaves and bread,
  • 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:58.584
  • And they saw that and they still don't believe, talking about,
  • 00:18:58.584 --> 00:19:02.187
  • "give us--give me one more sign."
  • 00:19:02.187 --> 00:19:12.464
  • Oh jesus, now watch this, verse 31--oh lord, have mercy.
  • 00:19:12.531 --> 00:19:17.302
  • [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:19:17.302 --> 00:19:18.670
  • Now, watch this, 31: "our fathers did eat manna in the
  • 00:19:18.670 --> 00:19:23.408
  • Desert," they said, "as it is written, he gave them bread from
  • 00:19:23.408 --> 00:19:31.083
  • Heaven to eat."
  • 00:19:31.083 --> 00:19:35.454
  • Who gave 'em bread?
  • 00:19:35.454 --> 00:19:37.556
  • God did.
  • 00:19:37.556 --> 00:19:39.324
  • Now, bread stands for that which sustains life.
  • 00:19:39.324 --> 00:19:45.264
  • The manna sustained israel during their
  • 00:19:45.264 --> 00:19:49.601
  • Wilderness wandering.
  • 00:19:49.601 --> 00:19:52.271
  • Mm-mm-mm.
  • 00:19:52.271 --> 00:19:55.607
  • Now, look at verse 32: "then jesus said unto them, verily,
  • 00:19:55.607 --> 00:20:03.548
  • Verily," oh, two verilys.
  • 00:20:03.548 --> 00:20:07.352
  • Two verilys mean, "i really need you to get this."
  • 00:20:07.352 --> 00:20:14.860
  • "verily verily, i say unto you, moses gave you not that bread
  • 00:20:14.860 --> 00:20:23.669
  • From heaven."
  • 00:20:23.669 --> 00:20:25.637
  • [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:20:25.637 --> 00:20:28.774
  • Said, "i need you to get this: the bread from heaven did not
  • 00:20:28.774 --> 00:20:32.911
  • Come from moses.
  • 00:20:32.911 --> 00:20:35.380
  • Moses gave you the law, moses didn't give you the bread
  • 00:20:35.380 --> 00:20:41.353
  • From heaven.
  • 00:20:41.353 --> 00:20:45.524
  • My father giveth you the true bread from heaven."
  • 00:20:45.524 --> 00:20:51.863
  • Y'all don't hear what i'm saying, y'all don't hear what
  • 00:20:51.863 --> 00:20:53.465
  • I'm saying.
  • 00:20:53.465 --> 00:20:55.267
  • Y'all don't hear what i'm saying, lord have mercy,
  • 00:20:55.267 --> 00:20:56.902
  • Glory to god.
  • 00:20:56.902 --> 00:20:58.270
  • If moses had given them manna, there might have been reason to
  • 00:20:58.270 --> 00:21:02.374
  • Claim that with the law, was also given that which
  • 00:21:02.374 --> 00:21:06.011
  • Sustains life.
  • 00:21:06.011 --> 00:21:09.648
  • But jesus declares that there is no life-sustaining element in
  • 00:21:09.648 --> 00:21:16.388
  • The law.
  • 00:21:16.388 --> 00:21:21.860
  • The law can't sustain life--oh, glory.
  • 00:21:21.860 --> 00:21:27.165
  • Moses couldn't have given the bread that sustains life,
  • 00:21:27.165 --> 00:21:31.837
  • "verily verily."
  • 00:21:31.837 --> 00:21:33.205
  • Get this: moses did not give the bread.
  • 00:21:33.205 --> 00:21:38.276
  • So why, then, do men who have received eternal life as a gift
  • 00:21:38.276 --> 00:21:43.482
  • Of grace, why do they invoke the law as a means of sustaining and
  • 00:21:43.482 --> 00:21:48.754
  • Giving expression to that life, which they have received
  • 00:21:48.754 --> 00:21:52.424
  • Under grace?
  • 00:21:52.424 --> 00:21:53.759
  • You got saved under the grace of god, but you're imploring the
  • 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:56.595
  • Lord--the law to sustain that life that you got as a gift.
  • 00:21:56.595 --> 00:22:02.334
  • Y'all don't understand what i'm saying.
  • 00:22:02.334 --> 00:22:05.537
  • You got born again by grace.
  • 00:22:05.537 --> 00:22:10.175
  • Grace is supposed to sustain that gift.
  • 00:22:10.175 --> 00:22:16.114
  • "but we got born again by grace, and we're saying, 'now, we got
  • 00:22:16.114 --> 00:22:20.285
  • To learn all of the law so we can stay born again.'"
  • 00:22:20.285 --> 00:22:24.856
  • When that born-again was a gift by grace, and you got the gift
  • 00:22:24.856 --> 00:22:28.927
  • By grace, but now you're employing the law to maintain
  • 00:22:28.927 --> 00:22:33.098
  • That which was given to you by grace.
  • 00:22:33.098 --> 00:22:38.804
  • "well, i kinda understand what you're saying, what you
  • 00:22:38.804 --> 00:22:41.306
  • Mean now."
  • 00:22:41.306 --> 00:22:45.243
  • You're trying to get the mosaic rules, and you think by keeping
  • 00:22:45.243 --> 00:22:51.983
  • The rules that's gonna keep you saved.
  • 00:22:51.983 --> 00:22:57.889
  • And what he says is, "you got saved by grace without none of
  • 00:22:57.889 --> 00:23:02.060
  • The rules.
  • 00:23:02.060 --> 00:23:03.762
  • You didn't even know the rules, and grace came in and saved you.
  • 00:23:03.762 --> 00:23:08.633
  • And that same grace that saved you, without the law, is the
  • 00:23:08.633 --> 00:23:13.271
  • Same grace that can keep you."
  • 00:23:13.271 --> 00:23:18.844
  • You still--you ain't got it, you don't understand, you
  • 00:23:18.844 --> 00:23:21.012
  • Don't understand.
  • 00:23:21.012 --> 00:23:22.380
  • No, you don't--you don't have it.
  • 00:23:22.380 --> 00:23:24.416
  • Okay, you can't fool me with them little clumbsy clapping.
  • 00:23:24.416 --> 00:23:26.518
  • You don't understand.
  • 00:23:26.518 --> 00:23:27.986
  • You're doing this so you can say, "all right, keep going so
  • 00:23:27.986 --> 00:23:30.455
  • We can go home, shut up."
  • 00:23:30.455 --> 00:23:35.126
  • I got saved by grace.
  • 00:23:35.126 --> 00:23:39.097
  • I wasn't doing nothing right, didn't know no god, didn't know
  • 00:23:39.097 --> 00:23:42.868
  • Nothing about no law, no ten commandments, i don't even know
  • 00:23:42.868 --> 00:23:45.971
  • No moses, i don't know none of that.
  • 00:23:45.971 --> 00:23:49.307
  • All i know is that this gift was extended to me,
  • 00:23:49.307 --> 00:23:54.112
  • A person that deserves hell,
  • 00:23:54.112 --> 00:23:56.381
  • And i got saved by no doing of myself.
  • 00:23:56.381 --> 00:24:01.920
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