Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rhythms Of Grace

May 5, 2025 | S25:E110

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  • Creflo dollar: "well, the doctor said i'm sick."
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  • Well, god says your healing is done.
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  • It's finished, it's completed.
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  • "i don't understand."
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  • No, it ain't that you don't understand.
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  • You ain't--you don't receive it, because you won't
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  • Realize that it is done in that realm, and as soon as faith
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  • Reaches out for what's finished, grace will supply more of what
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  • Is needed.
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  • It's a rhythm.
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  • Male announcer: god has given us a grace gift to help overcome
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪♪
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  • Creflo: go with me to the book of matthew, chapter 11, and
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  • Verse 28 and 29 in the message translation, and i wanna--this
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  • First lesson in this series today is gonna be a lot of
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  • Teaching and foundation because this is literally gonna blow
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  • Your mind.
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  • It's like, i promise you, on the inside, when it clicks, you'll
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  • Say, "yeah," but it's just something that we've been doing
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  • For so long out of--based in religion, just nobody ever just,
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  • You know, we just hadn't thought about it.
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  • All right, verse 28.
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  • He says, "'are you tired?'"
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  • And somebody said, "sure, yeah."
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  • No, he's talking about playing church and religion.
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  • "'are you tired?
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  • Worn out?
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  • Burned out on religion?'"
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  • He said, "'come to me.
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  • Get away with me.
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  • You'll recover your life.
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  • I'll show you how to take a real rest.'"
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  • How many of you ready to take a real rest?
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  • He said, "'walk with me and work with me--watch how i do it.
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  • Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
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  • I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.'"
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  • Now remember that, he says, "i'm not gonna lay anything heavy and
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  • Ill-fitting on you."
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  • If you're gonna learn the rhythms of grace, i won't be
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  • Laying anything heavy and ill-fitting on you.
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  • In all my life as a christian, in religion, it's all
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  • Been heavy.
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  • He said, "'keep company with me and you will learn to live
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  • Freely and lightly.'"
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  • So i want to start this next series, and i call it, "living
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  • In the rhythms of grace."
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  • How does that work?
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  • "living in the rhythms of grace."
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  • Now, i feel glad to share this scripture before--i'm gonna tie
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  • What we've been talking about and where we're going.
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  • Go to galatians chapter 2 and verse 20 in the king james.
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  • Galatians 2 and verse 20 in the king james.
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  • Now, this is all about us staying on the bus this morning
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  • And really getting a hold of what i'm saying.
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  • All right, galatians chapter 2, verse 20.
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  • "i am crucified with christ: nevertheless i live; yet not i,
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  • But christ liveth," where?
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  • Congregation: in me.
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  • Creflo: christ lives where?
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  • Congregation: in me.
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  • Creflo: "and the life which i now live in the flesh," so right
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  • Now we are living life in this physical body.
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  • The life that i now live in the flesh, how do i live it?
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  • I live that life "by the faith of the son of god."
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  • All right, so i'm living my life right now as a born again
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  • Christian, in the flesh, i'm living my life right now by the
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  • Faith of the son of god.
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  • Whose faith is it?
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  • Congregation: the son of god.
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  • Creflo: whose faith is it?
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  • Congregation: the son of god.
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  • Creflo: so he says, "i'm living my life by the faith
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  • Of the son of god.
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  • I'm not living my life by my own constructed faith.
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  • I'm living my life by the faith of the son of god."
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  • Now, you have to understand that, you know, jesus said this.
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  • Jesus said, "if you've seen me, you've seen the father."
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  • So jesus is a reflection of the father.
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  • We would know nothing about the father had jesus not come.
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  • Jesus is a reflection, a perfect reflection of the father.
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  • If you've seen jesus, you've seen the father.
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  • So you have to understand that the faith of the son of god is
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  • Just a reflection of the faith of god almighty.
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  • Everybody follow me now?
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  • So the faith of god was wrapped up in flesh called jesus,
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  • All right.
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  • So the faith of jesus christ is god's faith wrapped up in flesh,
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  • Mhm, and god's faith is faith where everything is perfect,
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  • Complete, and done.
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  • God called the end at the beginning.
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  • So everything about our lives as christians has already
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  • Been finished.
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  • It's already been done.
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  • Faith has come, faith lived on the earth, people saw faith,
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  • Experienced faith, that's called his name jesus.
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  • Then jesus got on the cross, and here's what jesus, or faith,
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  • Said on the cross, "it is finished."
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  • And that's what faith is saying today, "it is finished," and so
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  • God's faith is finished faith.
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  • God's faith is completed faith.
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  • God's faith is done faith and can't be undone.
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  • So jesus comes to the earth in flesh, in an earth suit, with
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  • God's faith, where everything is finished, it is done.
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  • That's why he could do everything he did, and went
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  • Through everything he went through, 'cause it was finished.
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  • He could go to a hell and not be afraid because his resurrection
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  • Was already finished.
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  • Glory be to god.
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  • And then god declares in romans 12 that, "i am gonna give you
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  • The measure."
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  • "the measure" means not, you get a measure and you get another
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  • Measure and you get another measure, or he would have said,
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  • "i give you a measure," and then you got degrees of measure.
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  • He says, "the faith that i have, i now put in jesus," and the
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  • Faith that we have, you now have that faith because you live by
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  • The faith that's in jesus, which is the faith of god, finished,
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  • Completed, and done.
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  • So everything about god concerning you is finished,
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  • Completed, and done.
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  • If you look at jesus, how he talked when he was on earth, he
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  • Talked in the tenses of finished, completed, and done.
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  • He told people that, "one day i'm gonna die, i'm gonna spend
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  • Three days, and you're gonna raise it up again."
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  • He talked like that, and now, we are now forgetting about the
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  • Faith of jesus, the reflection of god, and we are going around
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  • Talking about, "i got my faith, and with my faith i'm gonna try
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  • To get healed, and with my faith i'm gonna try to get delivered."
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  • Why are you trying to use your faith to perfect something
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  • That's already been perfected?
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  • You're using your faith, and i don't know where we get
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  • The term.
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  • If your faith is not his faith, where you get that faith from?
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  • Your faith should be his faith.
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  • See, i'm gonna tell you what your faith is.
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  • Your faith is based on works.
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  • Your faith says, "i got to add work to my faith in order for my
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  • Faith to work."
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  • See, all of our life, we've been living like this, "i gotta add
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  • Works to my faith in order for my faith to work," and i said,
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  • "where you get that from?"
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  • "well, james says that faith without works is dead," and so
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  • Now you're still adding works to your faith to try to get your
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  • Faith to work.
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  • But james was not saying that you have to add works to your
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  • Faith to get your faith to work.
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  • James was saying, "if you really got his faith, then from your
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  • Faith works are gonna come.
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  • From your faith we'll see fruit.
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  • From your faith we'll see evidence."
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  • He wasn't talking about adding works to faith so faith
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  • Could work.
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  • God's faith already works.
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  • In fact, god's faith has already worked, e-d.
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  • It is the invitation to live in the realm of the finished.
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  • To put all that together, he says, "now that you realize who
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  • You are, and you've accepted me and you're born again, now live
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  • In the realm of the finished, the completed, the done," and so
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  • Whatever needs you see in your life, call it finished,
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  • Completed, and done.
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  • Doctors say, "you sick."
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  • What do you say?
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  • "my healing is finished.
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  • It's done."
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  • You say, "well, financially, i don't have the money to meet
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  • This particular thing."
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  • So you, so you don't live in that realm about what you don't
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  • Have and what you do have.
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  • You see what you need and you call it finished, 'cause you
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  • Live in the realm of the finished.
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  • You need to try this, folks.
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  • See, what you're doing is you're still trying to get something to
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  • Happen, 'cause you hadn't realized, excuse my english,
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  • It done happened.
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  • Stop it.
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  • When you--if you have a battle today, the victory is finished.
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  • The victory that you need for that battle is completed,
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  • Finished, done, can't be undone.
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  • But you keep trying to come up with a religious five steps.
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  • "well, first of all, you need to pray for four hours, and then
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  • Secondly, you might need to add a little fasting with that, and
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  • Then thirdly, you need to say these three pages of
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  • Confessions, and then after you say them pages of confession,
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  • You need to go love somebody that don't love you."
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  • "well, i can't find them.
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  • I don't know who they are.
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  • There are lots of people."
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  • And it just adds burdens upon burdens upon burdens, and it
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  • Makes it hard and it makes it just tough, and eventually you
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  • Get so confused you quit.
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  • Now, if you confuse what i'm saying today, you're confused
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  • From the simplicity.
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  • You're confused cause i won't make this difficult.
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  • I won't give you a list of things you got to do to make
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  • It happen.
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  • Only thing i'm saying to you is, "whatever you need, it's done,
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  • Live," and you're like, "i'm confused."
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  • What you confused for?
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  • "well, the doctor said i'm sick."
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  • Well, god says your healing is done.
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  • It's finished, it's completed.
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  • "i don't understand."
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  • No, it ain't that you don't understand.
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  • You ain't--you don't receive it, because you won't
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  • Realize that it is done in that realm, and as soon as faith
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  • Reaches out for what's finished, grace will supply more of what
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  • Is needed.
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  • It's a rhythm.
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  • Everybody still on the book?
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  • Now, if you--if this is your first time here, i understand
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  • You're looking like, "what in the world did he just say?"
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  • I am saying the day you realize and believe that jesus is lord,
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  • And you accept him into your life, he's already completed
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  • Everything you'll ever need in this life.
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  • He just needs you to realize it, agree with it, and live
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  • According to what's done, and not to live trying to get it
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  • Done, 'cause what i just said is real faith.
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  • The other stuff we've been doing, "i'm gonna use my faith
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  • To try to get this done," is against what this whole thing
  • 00:12:41.663 --> 00:12:47.769
  • Is about.
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  • It's finished.
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  • It's done.
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  • Most of the things i'm gonna say to you today is gonna have to do
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  • With your thinking and your thoughts, 'cause i'm getting
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  • Ready to show you something that's just mind boggling, you
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  • Just--i'm getting ready to absolutely destroy religion in
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  • Your life.
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  • Wait, let me define religion.
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  • A return to bondage, in the latin.
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  • Religion is performance based.
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  • Religion is all about what you got to do to see if you can get
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  • God to do something.
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  • Religion is, i got to be good in order to get god to do
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  • Something good.
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  • That's not according to the new covenant.
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  • That was according to the law, and according to the law, nobody
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  • Was ever good enough.
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  • Yeah, so this is gonna be interesting.
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  • I'm--i am teaching this today.
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  • It is going to be something that's gonna challenge you, and
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  • I will start off with this statement that i told taffi this
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  • Morning that woke me up and blew my mind, "heaven is not our
  • 00:13:58.506 --> 00:14:03.511
  • Goal, it's our starting point."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Now i'm--that's what, that's what i'm gonna be explaining
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  • To you.
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  • Heaven used to be my goal, until i found out that i'm
  • 00:14:15.156 --> 00:14:19.961
  • Already there.
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  • Yeah, i sit with him in--what what did you say, rick?
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  • I am seated with him in heavenly places.
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  • So once you realize that you're seated with him, that ain't my
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  • Goal, that's been accomplished.
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  • I am seat--oh, see, now some of y'all like, "i ain't sitting in
  • 00:14:40.581 --> 00:14:43.885
  • Heaven, i'm sitting in church."
  • 00:14:43.885 --> 00:14:45.253
  • No, you don't understand.
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  • See, you, this is what faith is all about.
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  • Faith is receiving what god has already did--done and finished,
  • 00:14:48.156 --> 00:14:52.527
  • And your goal, and the goal of most christians, the goal is to
  • 00:14:52.527 --> 00:14:56.397
  • Get to heaven, and i'm telling you i am already seated in
  • 00:14:56.397 --> 00:15:00.034
  • Heavenly places.
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  • Heaven is not my goal.
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  • Heaven is my starting point.
  • 00:15:03.104 --> 00:15:05.173
  • So what we're getting ready to talk about today, we're talking
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  • About it from the starting point of where i sit, 'cause if you
  • 00:15:14.248 --> 00:15:19.220
  • Don't talk about it from the starting point of where you sit,
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  • Then you can just forget about it ever being done.
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  • I'm gonna show you these things god's asking us to do, and i'm
  • 00:15:24.826 --> 00:15:27.662
  • Gonna become an enemy to it at first because he's telling us
  • 00:15:27.662 --> 00:15:30.298
  • To, you know, to give our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
  • 00:15:30.298 --> 00:15:35.636
  • Acceptable unto god, which is the reasonable service, which is
  • 00:15:35.636 --> 00:15:37.805
  • Completely denying everything and giving it to him, and i
  • 00:15:37.805 --> 00:15:41.142
  • Don't see how that's reasonable to me.
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  • How can you make that appeal?
  • 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.383
  • How can you ask me to do that?
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  • Y'all ready?
  • 00:15:52.286 --> 00:15:54.022
  • So, before we get to that, i'm a way ahead of myself, go to
  • 00:15:54.022 --> 00:15:56.457
  • Romans chapter 2, verse 3 through 4.
  • 00:15:56.457 --> 00:16:01.629
  • Romans chapter 2:3 through 4, and then i'm gonna
  • 00:16:01.629 --> 00:16:04.265
  • Read romans 2:1 through 4 in the mirror.
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  • This is all foundation.
  • 00:16:06.267 --> 00:16:08.302
  • I got to get your mind free from religion so you can hear how it
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  • Is, how it really is.
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  • Since i have been living in the realm of the thinnest, i so much
  • 00:16:16.344 --> 00:16:20.081
  • Has changed.
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  • I mean, so much has changed.
  • 00:16:21.416 --> 00:16:23.785
  • So much has--including the increase of the glory, including
  • 00:16:23.785 --> 00:16:27.255
  • The increase of manifestations.
  • 00:16:27.255 --> 00:16:29.223
  • Very interesting.
  • 00:16:32.693 --> 00:16:34.028
  • Verse 3, he says, "and thinkest thou this, o man, that thou
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  • Judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that
  • 00:16:38.866 --> 00:16:44.205
  • Thou shalt escape the judgment of god?
  • 00:16:44.205 --> 00:16:47.775
  • Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness," the riches of
  • 00:16:47.775 --> 00:16:51.412
  • His what?
  • 00:16:51.412 --> 00:16:52.780
  • "the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering;
  • 00:16:52.780 --> 00:16:56.717
  • Not knowing that the goodness of god leadeth thee to repentance?"
  • 00:16:56.717 --> 00:17:04.392
  • The goodness of god leadeth thee to repentance.
  • 00:17:04.392 --> 00:17:08.996
  • Now the word repent means--it is the change of mind, to change
  • 00:17:08.996 --> 00:17:16.137
  • The mind.
  • 00:17:16.137 --> 00:17:17.472
  • It literally means, to change the mind.
  • 00:17:17.472 --> 00:17:20.942
  • The other scripture says, "repent, for the kingdom of god
  • 00:17:20.942 --> 00:17:23.444
  • Is at hand."
  • 00:17:23.444 --> 00:17:24.779
  • In other words, change your mind from your way you thought about
  • 00:17:24.779 --> 00:17:29.484
  • One thing to where you think about--basically, in that verse
  • 00:17:29.484 --> 00:17:33.654
  • Of scripture, it is literally talking about changing your mind
  • 00:17:33.654 --> 00:17:36.224
  • From the law to the gospel of grace, 'cause that kingdom it
  • 00:17:36.224 --> 00:17:39.927
  • Was talking about was the kingdom of this grace.
  • 00:17:39.927 --> 00:17:43.498
  • But he says something here.
  • 00:17:43.498 --> 00:17:44.899
  • He says, "god's going to use his goodness to lead people to
  • 00:17:44.899 --> 00:17:48.736
  • Change their mind," and that ain't what i was told.
  • 00:17:48.736 --> 00:17:56.677
  • I was told, "if you don't change your mind and and act right and
  • 00:17:56.677 --> 00:18:00.548
  • Do right, god gonna get you.
  • 00:18:00.548 --> 00:18:02.083
  • He gonna put a--put somethin' on you.
  • 00:18:02.083 --> 00:18:04.318
  • He's gonna take something from you.
  • 00:18:04.318 --> 00:18:06.387
  • He gonna hurt you.
  • 00:18:06.387 --> 00:18:09.624
  • He ain't gonna bless you."
  • 00:18:09.624 --> 00:18:11.359
  • And what we created is a fear-based religion.
  • 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.029
  • Just back up a little bit.
  • 00:18:15.029 --> 00:18:17.732
  • You ain't got to go--go back, go back 10, 20 years ago.
  • 00:18:16.397 --> 00:18:19.934
  • It was all based in fear.
  • 00:18:19.934 --> 00:18:22.403
  • You know, god don't like ugly.
  • 00:18:22.403 --> 00:18:26.641
  • "if you don't give, you're gonna be cursed."
  • 00:18:26.641 --> 00:18:30.144
  • "if you get a divorce, then the blessings are gonna weaken in
  • 00:18:30.144 --> 00:18:32.647
  • Your life."
  • 00:18:32.647 --> 00:18:34.849
  • And it was, it was--and "if you don't come to church, then don't
  • 00:18:34.849 --> 00:18:38.286
  • Expect for favor to be in there.
  • 00:18:38.286 --> 00:18:39.720
  • That's the reason why you didn't get that job,
  • 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:41.923
  • 'cause you don't come to church.
  • 00:18:41.923 --> 00:18:43.424
  • If you come to church a little bit more, then maybe god will be
  • 00:18:43.424 --> 00:18:45.293
  • Able to do something for you," and you're coming to church out
  • 00:18:45.293 --> 00:18:46.928
  • Of fear.
  • 00:18:46.928 --> 00:18:48.296
  • You're giving out of fear.
  • 00:18:48.296 --> 00:18:50.531
  • And, dog, praying.
  • 00:18:50.531 --> 00:18:52.066
  • "now, if you don't pray like this, then he not gonna hear
  • 00:18:52.066 --> 00:18:55.102
  • Your prayer."
  • 00:18:55.102 --> 00:18:56.470
  • "what, dang, i'm just trying to talk to him.
  • 00:18:56.470 --> 00:18:57.805
  • I ain't never met him before."
  • 00:18:57.805 --> 00:18:59.507
  • "you ain't met jesus yet?"
  • 00:18:59.507 --> 00:19:00.875
  • "well, you know what i'm saying.
  • 00:19:00.875 --> 00:19:02.210
  • I'm talking to somebody i can't see, i can't hear, and then
  • 00:19:02.210 --> 00:19:04.412
  • You're telling me i need to talk to him like this.
  • 00:19:04.412 --> 00:19:06.847
  • How come i just can't talk to him and he can teach me how
  • 00:19:06.847 --> 00:19:09.250
  • To"--it's all fear based.
  • 00:19:09.250 --> 00:19:10.985
  • It's fear based.
  • 00:19:10.985 --> 00:19:12.320
  • We have been living in a fear-based religion, and
  • 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:18.326
  • Everything about what we do, and every religion is fear-based.
  • 00:19:18.326 --> 00:19:21.696
  • Look at all the religions of the world.
  • 00:19:21.696 --> 00:19:23.431
  • They all come with an attachment of fear.
  • 00:19:23.431 --> 00:19:27.068
  • Yeah, and they go so far, saying, you know, "if you don't,
  • 00:19:30.972 --> 00:19:34.542
  • If you don't shout in church, then you ain't got no spirit."
  • 00:19:34.542 --> 00:19:37.511
  • I'd rather you're not.
  • 00:19:37.511 --> 00:19:38.846
  • I'd rather just sit down and shut up, and listen
  • 00:19:38.846 --> 00:19:40.214
  • To what i got to say.
  • 00:19:40.214 --> 00:19:42.550
  • But they tell you, "now if you ain't, if you ain't shouting,
  • 00:19:42.550 --> 00:19:44.719
  • You ain't full of the spirit."
  • 00:19:44.719 --> 00:19:48.656
  • It's all fear, and we bought it.
  • 00:19:48.656 --> 00:19:53.594
  • We bought every bit of it.
  • 00:19:53.594 --> 00:19:57.131
  • "women ought not wear pants."
  • 00:19:57.131 --> 00:19:59.533
  • Well, buddy, you get up in a dress and try to do all the
  • 00:19:59.533 --> 00:20:02.470
  • Things you got to do then.
  • 00:20:02.470 --> 00:20:06.140
  • "women ain't supposed to be on the pulpit," and then you, and
  • 00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:09.343
  • This is so insulting, i--god forgive us.
  • 00:20:09.343 --> 00:20:12.813
  • "you gotta stay on the floor.
  • 00:20:12.813 --> 00:20:15.883
  • You can't come up to the pulpit.
  • 00:20:15.883 --> 00:20:17.251
  • You gotta stay on that.
  • 00:20:17.251 --> 00:20:18.586
  • Pulpit, that's for the holy men of god.
  • 00:20:18.586 --> 00:20:20.254
  • Stand up here on the floor."
  • 00:20:20.254 --> 00:20:29.363
  • Women couldn't do nothing.
  • 00:20:32.967 --> 00:20:34.335
  • They couldn't wear no dress.
  • 00:20:34.335 --> 00:20:35.670
  • They couldn't put on too much makeup.
  • 00:20:35.670 --> 00:20:37.038
  • If you put on too much makeup, you're a jezebel.
  • 00:20:37.038 --> 00:20:39.874
  • You can't get on the pulpit, you got to preach from the floor.
  • 00:20:39.874 --> 00:20:43.044
  • Now it's all right for you to sing in the pulpit, but now,
  • 00:20:43.044 --> 00:20:46.447
  • You know.
  • 00:20:46.447 --> 00:20:47.915
  • It just contradicted itself because it's tomfoolery, it's a
  • 00:20:47.915 --> 00:20:51.152
  • Bunch of crock.
  • 00:20:51.152 --> 00:20:52.520
  • God's not gonna change somebody's mind with that.
  • 00:20:55.623 --> 00:20:59.660
  • He says, "i'm gonna change your mind with my goodness."
  • 00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:02.697
  • He said--he says, "i'm gonna be so good, so good, so
  • 00:21:02.697 --> 00:21:09.270
  • Overwhelmingly loving, so overwhelmingly good, i'm gonna
  • 00:21:09.270 --> 00:21:13.441
  • Bless you when you don't even deserve it.
  • 00:21:13.441 --> 00:21:16.277
  • When you think you're least deserving, that's when my mercy
  • 00:21:16.277 --> 00:21:19.246
  • Gonna show up and blow your mind, because you know you
  • 00:21:19.246 --> 00:21:22.650
  • Don't--you know you deserve hell, you know you deserve
  • 00:21:22.650 --> 00:21:24.785
  • To die.
  • 00:21:24.785 --> 00:21:26.153
  • You know you deserve to get caught.
  • 00:21:26.153 --> 00:21:27.488
  • You know you deserve to have the disease.
  • 00:21:27.488 --> 00:21:28.856
  • You know you deserve it all, but i ain't gonna let that happen."
  • 00:21:28.856 --> 00:21:32.960
  • And when that goodness shows up, you're gonna say, "my god, i got
  • 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:36.430
  • To change my mind about god."
  • 00:21:36.430 --> 00:21:47.375
  • You know bishop hayne, that's all we know, man.
  • 00:21:51.312 --> 00:21:53.848
  • That's all we knew, but we promised to never stop growing.
  • 00:21:53.848 --> 00:21:57.818
  • Just keep going, just keep going.
  • 00:21:57.818 --> 00:22:00.321
  • Just keep, and we were never afraid to get up to say, "hmm,
  • 00:22:00.321 --> 00:22:04.325
  • About what i said last week, we might need to look at that a
  • 00:22:04.325 --> 00:22:07.061
  • Little harder."
  • 00:22:07.061 --> 00:22:08.863
  • And to the day, to right now, i need you to know, all your
  • 00:22:08.863 --> 00:22:13.134
  • Pastors in this church, we're all digging.
  • 00:22:13.134 --> 00:22:17.471
  • Digging and digging and digging and digging and digging.
  • 00:22:17.471 --> 00:22:19.974
  • And just continue to do it.
  • 00:22:22.943 --> 00:22:24.578
  • I mean, what i'm talking to you about now in romans, ken brought
  • 00:22:24.578 --> 00:22:27.415
  • It up in the middle of a set.
  • 00:22:27.415 --> 00:22:28.883
  • One minute we lifting weights, and he brought it up, and i was
  • 00:22:28.883 --> 00:22:31.185
  • Like, "oh, god, that's it."
  • 00:22:31.185 --> 00:22:33.421
  • God ain't trying to change your mind about him by being bad to
  • 00:22:33.421 --> 00:22:38.092
  • You, mean to you, pressuring you.
  • 00:22:38.092 --> 00:22:41.295
  • He wants you to want him 'cause you want him.
  • 00:22:41.295 --> 00:22:46.834
  • And he says, "here's what i'm gonna use to change
  • 00:22:50.905 --> 00:22:55.543
  • Mankind, goodness."
  • 00:22:55.543 --> 00:22:59.847
  • And you know what the--you know what the church has done?
  • 00:22:59.847 --> 00:23:03.050
  • The church has become god's opponent, and said, "no, he not
  • 00:23:03.050 --> 00:23:06.554
  • Gonna use goodness.
  • 00:23:06.554 --> 00:23:07.922
  • He gonna use bad here, wicked there, a curse here.
  • 00:23:07.922 --> 00:23:12.493
  • You know, god'll still curse you."
  • 00:23:12.493 --> 00:23:13.961
  • And i'm like, "how did we buy that?"
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  • Creflo: the bible teaches us to give generously
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  • With a cheerful heart.
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  • Not out of necessity, but out of a cheerful heart, and that's why
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  • I'm so grateful for the friends and partners of this ministry,
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  • Who freely and cheerfully give financial offerings to
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  • Support us.
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  • You understand our vision.
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  • You know that when people understand grace, they're
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  • Empowered to change their lives for the better.
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  • Thank you for supporting us with your financial donations,
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  • And every time you give, you're being used by god
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  • To stop misfortune in someone else's life,
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  • And for that, we say,
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  • "thank you. god bless you."
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  • Male announcer: if you want to honor the lord by sowing
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  • Financial seeds into creflo dollar ministries, call the
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  • Number on your screen or log on to creflodollarministries.org.
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  • Creflo: as we wrap up today's broadcast, i'd like to take a
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  • Moment to pray for you.
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
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  • Jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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  • There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life
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  • Than to enter into a personal relationship with christ.
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  • So if you want to become born again and begin an exciting,
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, pray this prayer with
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  • Me now.
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  • Heavenly father, come into my heart.
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  • Save me.
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  • I receive you now by faith, and i declare in jesus's name that i
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  • Am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen.
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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  • The kingdom of god.
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  • Male announcer: thank you partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you, in part,
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  • By the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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