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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Life-Sustaining Grace | December 31, 2024
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- Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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- Creflo dollar: we are his workmanship.
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- We are his workmanship.
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- He's working on us, but you gotta know what's going on here
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- Or you'll keep mixing stuff and you'll keep inventing ways where
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- You can add something to jesus.
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- And i realized, oh, my goodness, i have allowed religion to
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- Belittle my belief, to belittle my dependence upon god, and i
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- Find myself doing all of these things trying to get something
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- From god.
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- That's--that's old stuff, man.
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- I don't need to do good to get good.
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- I don't need to do bad and then back in.
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- I realized that i'm gonna get good because of what jesus did.
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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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- ♪ whoa-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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- ♪ whoa-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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- ♪ whoa-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: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of st.
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- John chapter 6, and i wanna read just a few passages, verse 26
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- Through 29.
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- And i'll tell you what we're gonna talk about tonight, we're
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- 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, but
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- 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 ye 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 has sent."
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- Tonight, i wanna talk to you about
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- The life-sustaining grace, life-sustaining grace.
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- After the feeding of the 5,000, 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 6,
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- Verse 27, because of what they experienced, the miracle of
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- The loaves.
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- They'd eaten, they were full, and in verse 27 let's start off
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- With the king james and then 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, that this does not
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- Mean that the meat which endureth unto everlasting life,
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- It doesn't mean that it can be obtained 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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- Somebody said, "how can you say that?
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- That's what he just said."
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- No, no, no, that would be a contradiction to the statement
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- Right in verse 27 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--it's not--we can't contradict the fact that the son
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- 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, now, get this,
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- That man can do nothing to deserve that which god bestows
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- 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, 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, and that would
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- Be a problem, because i'll show you in a minute that if it is of
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- Works then it's 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 works, let's make a distinction here.
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- Let's go to ephesians chapter 2 and verse 8 through 10.
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- I wanna show you three types of works real quick.
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- Now, i'm headed somewhere, but like i said, sometimes you gotta
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- Do line upon line.
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- You gotta get this in you.
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- Verse 8 says, "for by grace are you saved."
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- You're saved by what?
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- But you got it through what?
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- All right, "and that not of yourselves."
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- You didn't have 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, it's something that was given by god and you
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- Brought nothing to the table.
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- Verse 9, now he's talking about this gift from god and he said
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- It's not of your own merit.
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- He says, "not of works."
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- Well, 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 said--so, this is the first work we see, the works of the
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- Law, dead works, "lest any man should boast."
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- Verse 10, "for we are his workmanship."
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- Here's the second 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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- You are the assignment for god's work.
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- I used to think god was chilling somewhere, no, he's working on
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- You, he's working on me.
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- In fact, while you're seated here and 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 word.
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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, and the one he has problems with is the
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- Works of the law.
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- The works of the law said if you do something good, then god will
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- Do something good for you, and now you're doing something to
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- 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, and i wanted to
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- Make a distinction of that so as we get into this, we're gonna
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- 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 at this
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- Time, 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 and 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.
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- He says, "for moses writes that the law's way of making a
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- Personal right with god requires obedience to all of
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- Its commands."
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- So, here's all jewish people knew.
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- If i do good, i'll get good.
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- Here's what they knew.
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- 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, and so as a result of this, see where they're
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- 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--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 and 5, "what shall we do, that we
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- 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 and 8, we're gonna see how this
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- Whole thing started.
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- Now, the generation of israel to whom moses spoke when the law
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- Was given, here's what they said.
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- Moses came and said, "here is the law that i am delivering to
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- You from god," and here's their response.
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- Verse 8, "all that the lord has spoken," watch this, "we
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- 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 has 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, 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, 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, but not realizing
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- Their inability to do so, just like in exodus 19.
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- Oh, we can do it, and god's like, really?
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- You really think you can do it?
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- Now, read genes--i mean, exodus 20, 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 gonna do.
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- I'm gonna give you the law.
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- This is what was presented to you.
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- You have the law, but what you don't realize is this law is
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- Perfect, this law is flawless, this law represents the
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- Character of god, 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, 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 is
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- Good, the problem is that man is no longer perfect.
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- Man has faults, and a faulty man is trying to keep perfection
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- Without god in 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
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- Of god."
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- You wanna know the works?
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- "this is the work of god, that you believe on him whom he
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- Has sent."
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- So, it's not a matter of doing, jesus says it is a matter
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- Of believing.
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- Now, what does that look like?
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- Because i'm sure everybody in the room says i believe, it's a
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- Matter of believing, it's a matter of depending upon him
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- Whom god sent to do on your behalf.
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- So, 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
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- Be done has already been done, and you're trying to do what
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- Jesus has already done, and i'm telling you all we need from you
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- Is to believe in the 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, don't--he's not saying--believing is not
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- The work.
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- Oh, my goodness, believing is not the work.
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- Believing is not the work in the sense of--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 believing,
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- Don't do that.
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- No, we don't need no accomplishments from a man to do
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- What's already been done.
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- See, we have belittled believing so much, we always ask the
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- Question, well, what do you do?
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- Believe, yeah, but what do you do, see that?
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- That's the spirit from that old covenant, but you gotta
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- Do something.
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- Yeah, but you gotta do something.
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- Yeah, you believe, yeah, but you gotta do something.
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- Yeah, you believe.
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- See, god did the work and then he rested, so you wanna know
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- What to do?
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- You believe, why?
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- What's--what's--how do you authenticate belief?
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- Rest, y'all don'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, and the highest, highest
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- Level of belief is resting.
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- You keep laboring to try to get rich.
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- You keep laboring to try 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 just
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- Can't rest, you gotta do something.
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- No, you're trying to accomplish stuff that comes from you, so
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- Then when you receive the manifestation of it, you can go
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- Talk about what you did.
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- Y'all don't understand.
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- Let me--go to romans chapter 11 and verse 6, romans chapter 11
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- And verse 6, 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, and because i
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- Believe it, i say it, but i'm not--i'm not using that as a
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- Work to accomplish something.
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- 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 or what can i do to get that?
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- And you forget about let's live, let's just live.
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- Take god off the time clock and let's just live.
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- The greatest two years of my life came when i resigned from
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- 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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- Verse 6, all right, that's the first heavy, but it's gonna get
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- Heavier than that heavy, all right?
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- Because i am attacking your mixtures.
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- See, you believe in grace but you also still believe in all
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- The other stuff you believe in, and you gotta let one of
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- Them go.
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- You gotta choose grace or choose working and trying to accomplish
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- Something and taking credit for yourself.
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- Where you gonna go with it?
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- I done tried mixtures, 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 gonna give you houses you didn't
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- Build, i'm gonna 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 i
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- Have 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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