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Creflo Dollar - Living The Grace Life

December 26, 2024 | S

Creflo Dollar - Living The Grace Life
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Living The Grace Life | December 26, 2024
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  • Male announcer: this program is brought to you in part
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  • By the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: we keep trying to make sin greater than grace.
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  • And it's not and it will never be because when sin increases
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  • Grace will keep increasing more.
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  • You walk around here actually thinking that your mess is
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  • Bigger than his grace.
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  • Creflo: hopefully you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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  • Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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  • Gonna be your mentality for today.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way maker?
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  • Yes.
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Yeah.
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  • Announcer: get the message of grace any way you want.
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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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  • ♪ 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 saint
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  • John chapter 1, verse 14 and verse 17.
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  • I'm gonna read out of the king james and the nlt.
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  • This morning, i wanna lay a structure and a foundation and i
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  • Call this "living the grace life."
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  • How do you do that?
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  • How does that work?
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  • Saint john chapter 1, verse 14 says: "and the word was made
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  • Flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory
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  • Of the only begotten of the father,)
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  • Full of grace and truth."
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  • Now, he makes it very clear here that jesus has--is the one
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  • That's full of grace and full of truth.
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  • And then verse 17, he says: "for the law was given by moses," the
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  • Law by moses.
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  • "but grace and truth came by jesus christ."
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  • Now, one of the first things that we wanna understand in
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  • Living the grace life is that grace never means license to
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  • Sin, as some people think.
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  • It's on the contrary.
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  • It is grace that prevents a believer from sinning.
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  • The bible talks very clear in romans chapter 6:14, that we are
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  • Not under the law, but we are under the grace of god.
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  • Under the law, that's when people sin.
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  • Under grace, we are-- we are free from that.
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  • And so grace is to be considered and we need to understand what
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  • It is and what it is not.
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  • And so, let me give you the definition that we'll be working
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  • With here.
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  • Grace is the unmerited--it is unmerited.
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  • It is abounding, which means it increases.
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  • It's the unmerited, abounding provision.
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  • Grace is unmerited, abounding provision of the unrestrained
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  • Operation of god's infinite love.
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  • The unrestrained operation of god's infinite love.
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  • And it happens through jesus christ on behalf of
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  • Mankind, especially for those who depend on him.
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  • Now, let's look at that one more time.
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  • Grace is the unmerited--means it's not earned.
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  • You can't do anything to deserve it.
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  • It is the unmerited abounding provision.
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  • Grace is provision and it increases.
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  • The unmerited abounding provision of the unrestrained
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  • Operation of god's infinite love, the unrestrained--in
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  • Other words, his infinite love cannot be stopped by your crazy,
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  • All right?
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  • His infinite love, and it happens through
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  • Jesus christ, right?
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  • And it's on behalf of man.
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  • This grace is for mankind.
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  • It's on behalf of mankind, but it is especially, especially,
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  • For those who depend on him.
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  • That's big.
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  • Those who have more confidence in him than they do in them--
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  • In themselves.
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  • And so one of the things i want you to recognize is that god is
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  • Committed to the protective care and provision for all of his
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  • Natural creations.
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  • What god created, he is committed to taking care of, and
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  • He created us, amen?
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  • What he created, he's committed to take care of.
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  • Let me give you a few examples.
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  • For example, you have the rain, you have the sunshine, and you
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  • Have the elements in the earth.
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  • They're all a part of his providence for plant life.
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  • He created plant life and there's rain that will provide,
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  • There's sunshine that will provide, the elements there that
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  • Are gonna provide.
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  • Whatever he creates, he is committed to taking care of.
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  • And then you have food for animals and all other things
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  • That are needed to sustain their lives.
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  • These are gifts of his care.
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  • This is--this is a gift of his providence.
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  • And so we look at us.
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  • We have been created by god and look what he's given us: food,
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  • Clothing, shelter, everything needed for the wellbeing of
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  • Man's, now, this is a key--of man's natural life.
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  • All of these are provisions by the creator for the benefit of
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  • The created.
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  • God's providence, god's commitment to take care.
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  • God's commitment to provide.
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  • Now, in light of that, i just want you to understand that
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  • Principle that god takes care and provides for what he
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  • Created, okay?
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  • So now in light of that, how does grace fit with this?
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  • Well, grace is a similar great and abounding provision of god.
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  • Grace is a provision of god.
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  • It is something that god has provided.
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  • But instead of being for physical creation, it is
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  • Essentially for the spiritual realm.
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  • Watch this.
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  • It is a provision of god to restore all that was lost
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  • Spiritually because man sinned and makes possible--this grace
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  • Makes possible and this grace sustains a new creation on a far
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  • Higher plane than any other creation.
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  • The new creation that god provides for a man when he gets
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  • Born again, that's something that's provided by the grace of
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  • God that what happened in the garden is not the end of it.
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  • God says, "now, i created you and regardless of what you've
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  • Done, i have provision even for what happened in the garden, i
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  • Now will supply you with a new creation."
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  • Is everybody following me?
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  • All right, now, this great provision of god is summed up in
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  • Romans 8:32 in the nlt.
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  • Look at that.
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  • This great provision for god is summed up in romans 8:32.
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  • And this great provision is something i really want you to
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  • Get a hold of.
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  • He said in verse 32: "since he did not spare even his own son,"
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  • He didn't even spare his own son, "but he gave him up for us
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  • All," he said, "now, won't he also give us everything else?"
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  • So he says, "i have given you my own son.
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  • Why are you doubting everything else that you're gonna need?
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  • I created you and look what i gave you, i gave you my son.
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  • I will give you everything else because i am committed to
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  • Your care."
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  • And so ultimately, here, what i want you to see is that jesus is
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  • That provision for every need of mankind.
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  • I gotta give him a name because grace is more than a curriculum.
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  • Grace is more than a subject matter.
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  • Grace is a person.
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  • His name is jesus and jesus is god's provision.
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  • I know a lot of people don't wanna lack.
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  • Jesus is my provision for everything i need.
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  • He is my provision.
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  • God created me and gave me jesus, and jesus is
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  • My provision.
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  • He's my provider.
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  • He's my righteousness.
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  • He's everything i ever need.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Are you listening to me?
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  • So let's dig into this.
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  • This is the grace life, and in living the grace life, you've
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  • Got to know jesus is my provision.
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  • Jesus is my provision and i don't want you to turn this into
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  • A work so you can continue to give yourself credit for
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  • What happens.
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  • I want you to believe, but i don't want you to take your
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  • Belief and turn it into a work.
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  • Mm, i want you to see jesus every time a need shows up in
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  • Your life and that's why it's so powerful when things happen in
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  • Your life and you forgot the scripture and you don't know
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  • What that is and you say, "jesus!"
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  • And things start happening because he is my provision.
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  • I love scriptures, so let's look at about six of them right
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  • Now, okay?
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  • All right, here's the first thing i want you to check out.
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  • Let's look at this.
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  • Grace is the operation of god's love.
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  • Look at john 3:16 in the king james book.
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  • He's the operation of god's love.
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  • Notice what he says: "for god so loved the world," look at what
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  • He does out of his love, "that he gave his only begotten son,
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  • That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
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  • Everlasting life."
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  • Grace is the operation of god's love.
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  • Hebrews chapter 2 and 9 in the nlt.
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  • Hebrews 2 and 9 in the nlt.
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  • He says, "what we do see--what we do see is jesus, who for
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  • A little while was given a position 'a little lower than
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  • The angels'; and because he suffered death for us, he is now
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  • 'crowned with glory and honor.'
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  • Yes, by god's grace, jesus tasted death for every man."
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  • All that came out of his love.
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  • Grace is something that is a result of his love.
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  • Grace is born out of the love of god.
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  • Look at what he's--what he's doing here.
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  • This giving of his son of god in death.
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  • For every man is said to be by the grace of god born out of
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  • His love.
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  • John 1 and 16 in the nlt.
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  • I'm just pretty fanatical about you knowing it's in the bible,
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  • That these speakers are not making none of this stuff up.
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  • We just know how to read.
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  • John 1 and 16.
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  • He says, "from this abundance, we have all received one
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  • Gracious blessing after another gracious blessing."
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  • One gracious favor after another gracious favor, and it keeps
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  • Going on.
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  • It's grace upon grace, upon grace upon grace.
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  • And when you think he's about out of it, it's grace and
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  • Blessings and blessings and grace and blessings and grace.
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  • Those who receive grace upon grace, out of his fullness are
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  • The same whom jesus loved unto the end.
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  • It's born out of his love.
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  • Ephesians 1 and 4. ephesians 1 and 4 in the nlt.
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  • He says, "even before he made the world," now this got me kind
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  • Of choked up as i was look-- this--check what he said.
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  • "even before he made the world."
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  • You gotta understand that stuff that happens in life, it doesn't
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  • Surprise god, doesn't catch god off guard.
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  • He doesn't have to go back and restructure stuff.
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  • Even before he made the world, god loved us.
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  • That blows my mind.
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  • Before he made the world, he loved me, okay?
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  • Before he made the world, he loved me.
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  • God loved us and he chose us before he made the world, okay?
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  • He chose us in christ.
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  • He saw us in christ because he-- before he made the world, to
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  • Be holy.
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  • He saw me holy in christ before he made the world, hallelujah.
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  • And he saw me without fault in his eyes before he made
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  • The world.
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  • So no matter what it looks like right now, i believe what god
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  • Saw before he made the world.
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  • And before he made the world, he saw me holy.
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  • Before he made the world, he saw me righteous.
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  • He gave me a stance, praise god.
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  • He gave me something to stand on while i was going through
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  • My transformation.
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  • He gave me--and i'm not coming off that stance.
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  • I am holy, i am righteous.
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  • I am out with--without fault.
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  • And then your neighbor might say, "i don't see it like that,"
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  • But that doesn't matter.
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  • God sees it like that.
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  • And now we need to see it like god sees it.
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  • Are you listening to me?
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  • Man, and all of those who chose to be before him in love.
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  • Ephesians 2, verse 7, in the nlt.
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  • This is my last one.
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  • I just--god's amazing.
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  • He's awesome.
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  • He's--you cannot live this grace life without a
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  • Relationship with jesus.
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  • Christianity will not be fruitful if you think it's
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  • Just rule-keeping.
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  • Christianity requires a relationship because everything
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  • In this new covenant is heart-based and we keep trying
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  • To do things law-based.
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  • When it's heart-based, you're not looking at whether it's 10%
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  • Or 90%.
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  • What is my heart telling me to do?
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  • When it's heart-based, you're not going to church because, oh,
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  • I wanna fulfill my duty and obligation.
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  • When it's heart-based, you're not keeping up with the time
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  • When you're in prayer.
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  • Get rid of the measurements.
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  • Get to know jesus and he'll-- jesus will start showing you
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  • Stuff that's in the bible that you didn't know was in
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  • The bible.
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  • And one day you start reading it and realize he told you before
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  • You saw it.
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  • That's what relationship does.
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  • I need to seriously calm down.
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  • This--this really happens to me.
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  • Ah, all right, so here's the-- here's the second part i wanna
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  • Look at from that definition that god's love is infinite.
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  • It's infinite.
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  • Look at 1 john chapter 4 and 16.
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  • God's love is infinite.
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  • "we know how much god loves us, and we have put our trust in
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  • His love."
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  • Have you put your trust in his love?
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  • We have put our trust in his love.
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  • "god is love, and all who live in love live in god, and god
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  • Lives in them."
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  • As god is infinite.
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  • How many of you know god is infinite, right?
  • 00:17:20.452 --> 00:17:23.222
  • Then so are his attributes.
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  • His character is infinite.
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  • Therefore, that love which is must be infinite.
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  • That love doesn't have a date where it's over.
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  • That love doesn't have, well, based on what you did,
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  • It's over.
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  • You saw he said he loved you before he created the world.
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  • Why would you ever ask the question, "well, god, do you
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  • Still love me?"
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  • You're trying your best to try to get him out of love with you.
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  • He ain't gonna do it.
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  • Some of you are trying to divorce god.
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  • He ain't gonna do it.
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  • He gonna be following you everywhere you go.
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  • You go get drunk, he gonna be right there with you.
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  • You go buy a little prostitute at the little--he gonna be
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  • Right there with you.
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  • You think you can just divorce god and go somewhere?
  • 00:18:08.901 --> 00:18:12.004
  • He said, "no, i'm tied to you.
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  • I'm invested in you.
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  • I'm not going nowhere.
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  • Your crazy ain't crazy enough.
  • 00:18:17.442 --> 00:18:19.611
  • Your sin is never gonna be bigger than my grace and my love
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  • For you.
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  • I dare you to try me.
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  • I ain't going nowhere.
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  • You can be high as a kite.
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  • You can go back to everything you said you weren't gonna go
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  • Back to.
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  • I'm gonna still be there, right there, and i'm not canceling--
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  • I'm not canceling the assignment on your life.
  • 00:18:37.429 --> 00:18:39.932
  • That assignment is still gonna be on your life.
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  • I will not leave you.
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  • I will not forsake you.
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  • I am eternal infinite love.
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  • You can't get rid of me.
  • 00:18:48.607 --> 00:18:50.609
  • Even if you're on your death bed and getting ready to die,
  • 00:18:50.609 --> 00:18:53.946
  • Eventually, you gonna recognize you still married to me.
  • 00:18:53.946 --> 00:18:57.282
  • I'm not going nowhere."
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  • All right, let me--let me slow down.
  • 00:19:00.852 --> 00:19:04.156
  • We keep trying to make sin greater than grace and it's not
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  • And it will never be, because when sin increases, grace will
  • 00:19:12.898 --> 00:19:17.536
  • Keep increasing more.
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  • You walk around here actually thinking that your mess is
  • 00:19:22.608 --> 00:19:26.912
  • Bigger than his grace.
  • 00:19:26.912 --> 00:19:34.720
  • Ooh, jesus.
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  • God's love is infinite because the measure of it, his only
  • 00:19:37.723 --> 00:19:42.494
  • Begotten son, is infinite.
  • 00:19:42.494 --> 00:19:48.333
  • Oh, the grace of god.
  • 00:19:48.333 --> 00:19:52.371
  • I gotta slow down because i-- i'm a cry baby now and i'm
  • 00:19:52.371 --> 00:19:54.873
  • Just--i'm thinking about, you know, when you have a
  • 00:19:54.873 --> 00:19:57.409
  • Relationship with him, you know, when you have--when you
  • 00:19:57.409 --> 00:20:01.046
  • Have a relationship with him, you just--the grace of god
  • 00:20:01.046 --> 00:20:08.787
  • Flowing from infinite love is inexhaustible.
  • 00:20:08.787 --> 00:20:16.828
  • It can never fail.
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  • One moment, folks, just a little bit.
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  • Just 20 seconds.
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  • Thank you, jesus.
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  • Thank you, lord.
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  • Thank you, jesus.
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  • I never try to exalt anything above--a new life.
  • 00:20:29.675 --> 00:20:33.011
  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • All right, all right.
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  • Let's look at this next one.
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  • Living the grace life.
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  • Understanding that grace is, watch this, unmerited.
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  • Quit trying to bring something to the table.
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  • If it's by grace, it's not by works.
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  • All right, now listen to me now.
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  • Man can do nothing or contribute nothing to that which god does
  • 00:21:00.706 --> 00:21:05.310
  • In grace nor do anything to be-- to merit it.
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  • He can't do anything to it.
  • 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:10.849
  • Now i'm really led to do something right here.
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  • Go to ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 and 9.
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  • I think i need to make it very clear.
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  • We get--we get kind of messed up on works, okay?
  • 00:21:20.992 --> 00:21:25.163
  • And we get upset because we're always saying, "well, what
  • 00:21:25.163 --> 00:21:27.733
  • Do you do?
  • 00:21:27.733 --> 00:21:29.067
  • Well, what do you do?
  • 00:21:29.067 --> 00:21:30.402
  • Well, what do you do?"
  • 00:21:30.402 --> 00:21:31.770
  • And i'm gonna go over this again, but he says,
  • 00:21:31.770 --> 00:21:33.105
  • "god saved you by his," what?
  • 00:21:33.105 --> 00:21:34.473
  • "grace."
  • 00:21:34.473 --> 00:21:35.807
  • When did he save you?
  • 00:21:35.807 --> 00:21:37.175
  • When you believed, okay?
  • 00:21:37.175 --> 00:21:38.510
  • And you can't take credit for this.
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  • It is a, what? a gift.
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  • You can't earn it, right?
  • 00:21:42.180 --> 00:21:43.548
  • Verse 9. watch this.
  • 00:21:43.548 --> 00:21:44.883
  • "salvation is not a reward for good things we have done,
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  • So none of us can boast about it," right?
  • 00:21:49.488 --> 00:21:53.625
  • Verse 10, and i'll look at it a little bit more.
  • 00:21:53.625 --> 00:21:57.629
  • "for we are god's masterpiece.
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  • He has created a anew and we-- created us anew in christ."
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  • Now, look at verse 10 in the king james for a moment.
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  • I want--i want you to see what's happening here.
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  • Did you hear what he just said?
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  • You're god's workmanship.
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  • So there's some work that god can do on you that you can't
  • 00:22:11.209 --> 00:22:13.979
  • Do on yourself.
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  • "we are his workmanship, created in christ jesus."
  • 00:22:17.816 --> 00:22:20.485
  • So god has work.
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  • Works, three types of works.
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  • God has work.
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  • His work is you, all right?
  • 00:22:26.825 --> 00:22:29.494
  • God ain't gonna never--see, he started a work in you.
  • 00:22:29.494 --> 00:22:32.664
  • He's not gonna turn it over to you to finish it.
  • 00:22:32.664 --> 00:22:37.602
  • If he started a work in you, he's gonna continue to work in
  • 00:22:37.602 --> 00:22:42.974
  • You and he gonna finish the work in you.
  • 00:22:42.974 --> 00:22:47.012
  • So i ain't worried about his work.
  • 00:22:47.012 --> 00:22:49.314
  • Somebody said, "well, what if-- what if i--what if i'm not
  • 00:22:49.314 --> 00:22:51.883
  • Finished when he come back?"
  • 00:22:51.883 --> 00:22:53.251
  • That's on him.
  • 00:22:53.251 --> 00:22:54.586
  • But i'm gonna be finished.
  • 00:22:54.586 --> 00:22:56.521
  • See, he working on you right now.
  • 00:22:56.521 --> 00:22:58.890
  • He working on me right now.
  • 00:22:58.890 --> 00:23:01.359
  • "i am his workmanship unto," watch this, "good works."
  • 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:05.530
  • So, now we've got--we've got god's works and we've got
  • 00:23:05.530 --> 00:23:08.867
  • Good works.
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  • Good works are born out of your heart.
  • 00:23:10.235 --> 00:23:12.537
  • Good works are not good works because of the action of
  • 00:23:12.537 --> 00:23:15.207
  • The work.
  • 00:23:15.207 --> 00:23:16.575
  • Good works are good works because of the motivation
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  • Behind the works.
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  • Announcer: you can't do what you don't understand.
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  • This is common knowledge.
  • 00:23:26.284 --> 00:23:27.786
  • Yet people continuously try to walk in the grace of god without
  • 00:23:27.786 --> 00:23:31.823
  • 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, "the transparency
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  • Of grace."
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  • Creflo: grace is the operation of god's love.
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  • Jesus is that provision for every need of mankind.
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  • Jesus is my provision.
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  • He's my provider.
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  • He's my righteousness.
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  • He's everything i ever need.
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  • He started the work.
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  • He'll continue to work.
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  • He gonna finish the work.
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  • Repeat after me, "heavenly father, i believe that jesus is
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  • The son of god and that he died and was raised from the dead and
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  • Has forgiven all of my sins and i receive him into my life right
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  • Now as my lord and personal savior.
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  • So by faith, i declare that i am saved.
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  • Praise god."
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