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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rhythms Of Grace | May 5, 2025
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- Coming up next on "changing your world."
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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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- The limitations of our understanding so that we can
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- Receive clear direction.
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Heaven, i'm sitting in church."
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- 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,
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- And your goal, and the goal of most christians, the goal is to
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- Get to heaven, and i'm telling you i am already seated in
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- Heavenly places.
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- Heaven is not my goal.
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- Heaven is my starting point.
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- 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
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- 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
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- Gonna become an enemy to it at first because he's telling us
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- To, you know, to give our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
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- Acceptable unto god, which is the reasonable service, which is
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- Completely denying everything and giving it to him, and i
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- Don't see how that's reasonable to me.
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- How can you make that appeal?
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- How can you ask me to do that?
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- Y'all ready?
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- So, before we get to that, i'm a way ahead of myself, go to
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- Romans chapter 2, verse 3 through 4.
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- Romans chapter 2:3 through 4, and then i'm gonna
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- Read romans 2:1 through 4 in the mirror.
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- This is all foundation.
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- 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
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- Has changed.
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- I mean, so much has changed.
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- So much has--including the increase of the glory, including
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- The increase of manifestations.
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- Very interesting.
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- 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
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- Thou shalt escape the judgment of god?
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- Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness," the riches of
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- His what?
- 00:16:51.412 --> 00:16:52.780
- "the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering;
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- 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.
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- Now the word repent means--it is the change of mind, to change
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- The mind.
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- It literally means, to change the mind.
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- The other scripture says, "repent, for the kingdom of god
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- Is at hand."
- 00:17:23.444 --> 00:17:24.779
- In other words, change your mind from your way you thought about
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- One thing to where you think about--basically, in that verse
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- Of scripture, it is literally talking about changing your mind
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- From the law to the gospel of grace, 'cause that kingdom it
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- Was talking about was the kingdom of this grace.
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- But he says something here.
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- He says, "god's going to use his goodness to lead people to
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- Change their mind," and that ain't what i was told.
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- I was told, "if you don't change your mind and and act right and
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- Do right, god gonna get you.
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- He gonna put a--put somethin' on you.
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- He's gonna take something from you.
- 00:18:04.318 --> 00:18:06.387
- He gonna hurt you.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Stand up here on the floor."
- 00:20:20.254 --> 00:20:29.363
- Women couldn't do nothing.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Overwhelmingly loving, so overwhelmingly good, i'm gonna
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- I mean, what i'm talking to you about now in romans, ken brought
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- It up in the middle of a set.
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- 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
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- You, mean to you, pressuring you.
- 00:22:38.092 --> 00:22:41.295
- He wants you to want him 'cause you want him.
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- 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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- Male announcer: how can christians thrive and flourish?
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- Our lives are supposed to be better in christ, but sometimes
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- Creflo dollar uncovers the answers to this and more in his
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- Creflo: if you neglect the teachings of grace, you will not
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- Be successful in godly living.
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- We have to understand the mercies of god.
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- Our empowerment comes from what he has already done.
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- And as soon as faith reaches out for what's finished,
- 00:23:49.730 --> 00:23:54.134
- Grace will supply more
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- Of what is needed.
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- It's a rhythm.
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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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- 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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