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Creflo Dollar - Living The Grace Life

December 30, 2024 | S

Creflo Dollar - Living The Grace Life
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Living The Grace Life | December 30, 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: grace will mature you in your everyday living.
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  • Not in your segregated, set aside time in a closet.
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  • Well, i got up this morning.
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  • I spent an hour and a half with the lord in my closet.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • What, okay, whatever dude, whatever, whatever.
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  • But then what you don't recognize is you spent your
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  • Hour with him in the closet and i ain't said nothing to him for
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  • The rest of the day.
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  • Now, how does that work in a natural relationship?
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  • You speak to your wife just an hour and ain't got nothing to
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  • Say to her for the rest of the day.
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  • This thing ain't gonna work.
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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 say ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh ♪
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  • ♪ it's time we live a new life ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh ♪
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  • ♪ let his love shine bright in you ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh ♪
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  • ♪ we're saved by his grace, so we embrace your love today ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed ♪♪
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  • Creflo: 1 john 4:10 nlt.
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  • "this is real love-not that we loved god, but that he loved us
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  • And sent his son as a sacrifice as a propitiation to take away
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  • Our sins."
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  • Well, somebody said, well, people are still saying, please
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  • Listen to me.
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  • What separated you from god was your sinful nature.
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  • That's what separate you.
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  • Your sinful nature, okay?
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  • And god took care of that.
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  • Now, your sin and actions are gonna start lining up with your
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  • New creation.
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  • It's a journey and you're human and it's a journey and
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  • You're human.
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  • But he started to work.
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  • He'll continue to work.
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  • He gonna finish the work, hallelujah.
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  • 1 john 2 and 2 in the king james and he says this, he says, "and
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  • He is the propitiation for our sins."
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  • Propitiation that would satisfy's divine justice.
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  • Jesus was the sin offering.
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  • Jesus was the ransom that was paid for your sins so you can
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  • Go free.
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  • And not for ours only get this but also for the sins of
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  • The whole world.
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  • Get it straight church folks.
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  • Jesus came for the whole world.
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  • He came for that drug addict.
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  • He came for that prostitute.
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  • He came for that adulterer.
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  • He came for that liar.
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  • Everything i'm preaching here.
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  • He came from all of all of the mess that an institutional
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  • Church told you to despise.
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  • Jesus said, "i knew it before the beginning of the world and i
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  • Came for them, the people you kick out."
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  • He said, "i came for them."
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  • Your enemies he said, "i came for them."
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  • What's wrong with us?
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  • Why are we so judgmental against people who are in trauma and
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  • People are going through stuff?
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  • Jesus came for them.
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  • Church folks want to dump them to friend, they never.
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  • What is this?
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  • Grace people got to be gracious people
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  • Or this doesn't work.
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  • Apart from the death of christ, god cannot deal with fallen man
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  • On any of their basis than the law and justice.
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  • But when jesus died, the restraint, i suppose my mind,
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  • The restraint upon god's love was removed and love was set
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  • Free to act.
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  • God's love is free to operate in grace.
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  • "well, what about them democrats?"
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  • What is the matter with us?
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  • "what about them republicans?"
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  • What is the matter with us?
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  • His grace has been set free to love democrats.
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  • His grace has been set free to love republicans.
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  • How come republicans and democrats can't love one another
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  • When god's love has been set free?
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  • And the party affiliation cannot restrain his law.
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  • So grace then is more than love.
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  • It is love operating righteously in view of the fact that the
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  • Penalty for sin has been paid.
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  • Something was done, something was done for god on the cross.
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  • We just think something was done for us on the cross,
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  • But something was done for god on the cross.
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  • He removed our sins on the cross, but he removed
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  • The restriction.
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  • He became free to fully exercise his love without compromising
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  • His justice because jesus has justified us.
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  • Oh, so grace there, is therefore, it's not a mirror
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  • Expression of pity or compassion on the part of god.
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  • It is not the setting aside justice and passing over sin,
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  • Which should be punished.
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  • But like some people think, "well, you know, it was just
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  • Passover sin."
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  • Watch out for them grace people because they just wanna pass
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  • Over sin.
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  • Don't talk about grace too much because if you talk about grace
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  • Too much, you will start living a loose life.
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  • Honey, grace is for your loose life, [speaking in tongues]
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  • With your loose self, grace, with your loose life, sweet lips
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  • And sweet lips increase learning.
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  • Grace is not a forbearance or a tolerance of sin.
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  • It's a forgiveness of sin because the full penalty has
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  • Been paid by jesus.
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  • Book of titus 10:11, 12.
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  • He says the grace of god has been made available to
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  • The whole world.
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  • So grace is available and ready for anybody who will sign for
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  • The package.
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  • You might not think they should be forgiven.
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  • It's amazing to me.
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  • I'll take some murderers that have been put in jail and they
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  • Murdered 1,000 of people.
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  • And you have the mitigated gall to say, "well, i know they,
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  • I know they're in hell."
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  • You know what people in hell?
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  • For rejecting jesus not doing a bunch of s crazy stuff because
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  • God can deal with all that.
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  • But what he can't deal with is unbelief and a person that
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  • Refuses to accept jesus.
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  • What he gonna do?
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  • But he says this grace for us, who will receive it, this grace
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  • For us, who will accept it, it'll start teaching you.
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  • Grace will teach you.
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  • Think of that grace teaches you.
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  • Somebody say, "when does grace teach you?"
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  • Honey, let me tell you something.
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  • The trials of your faith are excellent instructions and
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  • Courses that god uses to mature you.
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  • Listen one thing we can all relate with pain and discomfort.
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  • And let me tell you something about pain and discomfort.
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  • Everybody got some?
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  • And let me tell you pain and discomfort may be your most
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  • Powerful witnessing tool.
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  • Look how god has brought me out of this.
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  • Look at the work of grace in my life.
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  • I thought i was a goner but look at the work and there ain't
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  • Nothing like going through discomfort with god on your
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  • Side, depending on him.
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  • Because when you come out of that rough patch, you're gonna
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  • Be closer to him like never before.
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  • You gotta have empathy like never before.
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  • You gotta be more sensitive than what people have gone through.
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  • Some of y'all just need to-- because it's so easy for you to
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  • Be critical in judgment of somebody else's issue until that
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  • Issue visits your house.
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  • So easy you to talk about how, "i don't understand why
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  • They homeless.
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  • I mean, there are jobs everywhere."
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  • That's because you don't have no empathy and you have no idea
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  • What that person went through, that landed them in the place
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  • Where they are right now.
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  • You ought to be grateful and thankful to god.
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  • God if it weren't for you, i would be in that same situation.
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  • If it wasn't for you and then give me, give me the compassion
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  • To move on their behalf.
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  • Grace will teach you.
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  • Grace will teach you.
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  • It's just not unmerited favor.
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  • Grace is a teacher.
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  • Remember we talking about a person.
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  • He will teach you.
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  • But this is amazing to me.
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  • He will teach you.
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  • Oh lord, i know y'all.
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  • But i got to go with this.
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  • He'll teach you how to live godly lives.
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  • Wait a minute, wait a minute before you shout because what
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  • You sound about.
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  • You are defining godliness by its results and not by its
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  • Nature and we define ungodliness by its results.
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  • Oh, they're ungodly, look at the sin,
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  • Look at this and look at this.
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  • No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  • To be ungodly
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  • Is to have a disregard for god.
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  • So you might not have the results of ungodliness.
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  • But as a christian, you're still as ungodly
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  • Because you disregard god.
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  • You no longer see it important to even get god to bless what
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  • You doing.
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  • And your disregard from god doesn't even see it necessary to
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  • Even get god's attention on this thing.
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  • So, while you're walking around, keeping the laws and saying this
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  • Is the way we go to church and i'm a christian and christian
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  • Teachers and all that stuff.
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  • You're not regarding god on anything because i've been
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  • A christian for 30 years and in those 30 years i know
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  • How to shop.
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  • Hey, hiyah.
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  • Oh, i don't need to talk to god about this, but it's ungodly
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  • To disregard him and it is godly to regard him.
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  • So i'm sure most of you thought when i was talking about
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  • Ungodliness, i was gonna talk about the sinners.
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  • Now, i'm talking about the church folks, the grace folks,
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  • I'm talking about the, the faith grace folks, i'm saying,
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  • Stop disregarding god
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  • And grace will teach you how to regard him.
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  • We just, we get to a point in our christian life where we just
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  • Do whatever we want to half check with god on something.
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  • When i prayed about it, it was like a second prayer and you say
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  • I prayed about us who appear to be spiritual in front of
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  • Other people.
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  • But that's all right.
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  • Grace will teach you how to be godly.
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  • And when grace finish with you, he gonna show you about
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  • Your ungodliness.
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  • And when grace finished with you, you're gonna be making sure
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  • God is regarded on everything.
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  • Go out there and get mad if you want to.
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  • Hilda, wake up the next morning and you ask hilda to get you
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  • Some coffee.
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  • I said hilda and he had to cuss you out with cussing words.
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  • You hadn't even been privileged to hear and you say god he like,
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  • "bro, you didn't even think i needed to bless it.
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  • You didn't regard me with none of this."
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  • So you and hilda gotta figure this thing out.
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  • I mean, y'all got here by yourself.
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  • You wasn't talking to me then you didn't bring it to my
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  • Attention then grace
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  • Because it's a relationship.
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  • This is a relationship.
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  • Grace will mature you in your everyday living.
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  • Not in your segregated, set aside time in a closet.
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  • Well, i got up this morning.
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  • I spent an hour and a half with the lord in my closet
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • What, okay, whatever dude, whatever, whatever it is.
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  • But then what you don't recognize is you spent your hour
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  • With him in the closet and i ain't said nothing to him
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  • For the rest of the day.
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  • Now, how does that work in a natural relationship?
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  • You speak to your wife just an hour and ain't got nothing to
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  • Say to her for the rest of the day.
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  • This thing ain't gonna work.
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  • And yet it's supposed to be adequate and sufficient in
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  • A relationship with the father.
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  • If we stop playing church, look at the prayers of jesus.
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  • They wasn't that long.
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  • Oh, you should pray an hour that day.
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  • Lord help me.
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  • I wasn't looking forward to that and god was looking forward
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  • To it.
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  • You get up there trying to get that one hour in.
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  • Y'all remember-- [speaking in tongues]
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  • La la la la la la la...
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  • That's basically saying the same thing over and over again.
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  • La la la la la la la.
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  • Look at the clock, see how much time gone by two minutes.
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  • God dog, god almighty.
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  • Now you're throwing everything in there, "shaka zulu,
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  • Come outside in [speakin in tongues]"
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  • Remember that story about the neighbor waking up bammin' on
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  • The door trying to get his neighbor to let him borrow some
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  • Bread because he had an unexpected visit to come in.
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  • And you know we took that whole thing.
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  • Knock, keep on knocking.
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  • Seek, keep on seeking.
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  • The whole moral of that story was jesus was saying i'm not
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  • Gonna be that kind of friend.
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  • You ain't got to try to knock the door down to get me to come
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  • And do something for you just ask and knock one time and i'm
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  • Gonna be there.
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  • There's a battle of religion going on in the church.
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  • And we don't have a relationship with god.
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  • We can't even say it.
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  • But grace will teach you.
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  • And he said, while grace is teaching you how to, how to live
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  • A godly life, while grace is trying to teach you how to be
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  • Live righteous.
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  • Because when you get born again, you become a part of the stance
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  • That god has provided for you.
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  • The stance is this is who you are and this is what we're gonna
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  • Be working on your state is i just gotta saved i got up this
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  • Morning and started cussing.
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  • I had to remind myself like i saved yesterday.
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  • But when you got saved, you got saved with god's stance.
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  • You are righteous, you are redeemed, you are godly, you
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  • Are perfect.
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  • You are all these things in christ.
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  • Your stance is that's what you get when you get saved.
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  • But god says, "i'm gonna start working on you."
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  • And grace will teach you.
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  • And while grace is teaching you, did you realize what he said
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  • In the next verse?
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  • He said, "while grace is teaching you, get your eyes
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  • On a return."
  • 00:20:29.174 --> 00:20:33.478
  • Start looking for jesus because there's something about eternal
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  • Expectation that when you're going through something and
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  • You're trying to figure out how i'm gonna get out of this
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  • Eternal expectation.
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  • So while grace is working on you and while you're in discomfort
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  • And while you're maturing and while you're growing, get your
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  • Affection set.
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  • Jesus is coming back, hallelujah.
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  • Get yourself--
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  • Focus on the stance.
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  • I am the righteousness of god.
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  • Focus on the eternal expectations right there.
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  • Grace has been made available for everybody.
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  • Grace will teach you if you receive it, grace will show you
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  • How to be all of these things.
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  • And while you're doing that, keep your hope and your
  • 00:21:19.991 --> 00:21:23.395
  • Expectation that jesus is on his way back.
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  • Grace therefore, is not the mere expression like i said, of pity.
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  • It's a forgiveness of sin because the full penalty
  • 00:21:44.049 --> 00:21:47.953
  • Has been paid by jesus.
  • 00:21:47.953 --> 00:21:54.593
  • Living the grace life, it's a journey.
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  • But all of the things that god will do with us, he wants us to
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  • Do with somebody else.
  • 00:22:06.104 --> 00:22:08.840
  • 1 corinthians says, "i will comfort you in all of your
  • 00:22:08.840 --> 00:22:16.281
  • Trouble so you can comfort somebody else."
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  • Okay, so let's back up a little bit.
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  • Did you, did you see what he just said, 1 corinthians 1?
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  • He said, "you'll trouble every last one of them."
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  • And you gonna have that, you know that you know that
  • 00:22:33.598 --> 00:22:35.333
  • Don't you?
  • 00:22:35.333 --> 00:22:36.668
  • In this world, you will have, come on.
  • 00:22:36.668 --> 00:22:38.036
  • Tribulation then that god is yourself away, persecution, you
  • 00:22:38.036 --> 00:22:40.472
  • Gonna have them.
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  • But he says, i'm gonna be with you in all of your trouble.
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  • You know what we do?
  • 00:22:49.381 --> 00:22:51.016
  • "god, turn the fire off, it's hot."
  • 00:22:51.016 --> 00:22:55.520
  • You, know what he says?
  • 00:22:55.520 --> 00:22:56.855
  • "no."
  • 00:22:56.855 --> 00:22:58.223
  • And that shocks you.
  • 00:22:58.223 --> 00:22:59.558
  • "i'm not gonna turn the fire off.
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  • I'm not gonna take you out of the fire.
  • 00:23:01.893 --> 00:23:04.329
  • This is an opportunity, this is a growth opportunity.
  • 00:23:04.329 --> 00:23:07.933
  • This is a maturity opportunity.
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  • I'm not gonna take you out of the fire.
  • 00:23:09.634 --> 00:23:11.603
  • But what i will do is i'm gonna get in the fire with you so that
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  • In the fire, if you need something while you're in the
  • 00:23:16.074 --> 00:23:19.311
  • Fire, i'm gonna provide for you in the fire.
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  • I'm gonna comfort you in the fire.
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  • I'm gonna make sure your clothes ain't smelling like smoke
  • 00:23:23.882 --> 00:23:26.218
  • In the fire.
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  • And i'm gonna make sure i bring you out in the fire.
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  • I'm not taking away the fire, but i will comfort you
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  • In the fire."
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  • Announcer: you can't do what you don't understand.
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  • This is common knowledge yet people continuously try
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  • To walk in the grace of god
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  • Without understanding it.
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  • Creflo dollar takes a deep dive
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  • Into the life-sustaining grace of god.
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  • In his three message series, "the transparency of grace."
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  • Creflo: grace is the operation of god's love.
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  • What god created, he is
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  • Committed to taking care of.
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  • Jesus is that provision for every need of mankind.
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  • Jesus is my provision.
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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'll continue to work.
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