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Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rhythms of Grace (Part 1)

May 6, 2025 | S25:E111

Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rhythms of Grace (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rhythms of Grace (Part 1) | May 6, 2025
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  • Male announcer: this program is brought to you in part by the
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  • 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: to act crazy--like, you think i'm
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  • Telling you to act crazy is inconsistent with who is in you.
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  • So that ought not be a question no more.
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  • You know not to be asking me, is it a sin to drink wine and
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  • Get drunk?
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  • Is it inconsistent with who lives on the inside of you?
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  • Instead of you trying to find all the loopholes, quit looking
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  • For the loopholes.
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  • Announcer: prepare for an event that will shift the atmosphere.
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  • David winston: no one can stop you from reaching your destiny
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  • But you.
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  • Creflo: in him i can do all things.
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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: let's read romans 2:1 through 4 in the mirror, and
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  • Then we'll get started.
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  • Somebody said, "i thought you already start.
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  • How many starts you going to get?"
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  • Well, how many starts you want god to give you?
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  • Well then.
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  • All right, watch this.
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  • "therefore, oh!
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  • Fellow-human, by taking what god did in christ out of the
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  • Equation," if you take what god did in christ out of the
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  • Equation, delivered us, freed us, made us righteous, "there
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  • Remains no alternative way for you to defend your innocence.
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  • Your presumed knowledge of what is right or wrong does not
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  • Qualify you to judge anyone; especially if you, the
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  • Self-appointed judge, do exactly the same stuff you criticize
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  • Others for."
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  • So he's saying most likely when you criticize others you
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  • Guilty yourself.
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  • Isn't that amazing, how somebody who can be doing the same thing
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  • Want to be critical of somebody else?
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  • A hit dog holler the harde--loudest, don't it?
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • "you effectively condemn yourself," he says, when you
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  • Do that.
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  • "but, in contrast to your judging one another, we have
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  • Clearly perceived the content of god's righteous judgment.
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  • Again, fellow-human, why be so presumptuous in your reasoning
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  • In keeping your performance-based system alive
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  • In your hypocritical 'jew versus gentile' judgment of
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  • One another.
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  • In the process, you are fleeing away from your redeemed
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  • Innocence, unveiled in the righteous judgment of god."
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  • Verse 4, "do not underestimate god's kindness."
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  • Don't underesti--and people have.
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  • They've underestimated god's kindness.
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  • That you think we got to tell everybody they going to hell all
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  • The time.
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  • You've underestimated god's kindness.
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  • You think they're going to be judged so bad for that stupid
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  • Thing they did?
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  • You underestimate god's kindness.
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  • You think they went to hell.
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  • You underestimate god's kindness.
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  • "the wealth of his benevolence and his resolute refusal to let
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  • Go of us--" his refusal to let go of you.
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  • You old, nasty, no-good-for-nothin', cussin',
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  • Betraying thing, he refuses to let go of you.
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  • He refuses to let go of you.
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  • Everybody else done let you go, but he refuses to let go of you.
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  • "it is because he continues to hear the echo of his likeness
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  • In us.
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  • And thus, his patient passion is to shepherd over--is to shepherd
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  • Everyone into a radical mind shift."
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  • His passion is to shepherd us into a radical mind shift.
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  • His passion is to get our minds shifted from all this stuff i've
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  • Been talking about and shifted into the place where we can see
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  • God's love and grace and mercy in operation and understand
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  • Clearly how it applies to our everyday radical living.
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  • But you can't live radically until you have a mind shift.
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  • So something's wrong with our thinking.
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  • Something needs to change in our mind and in our thinking about
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  • Our relationship with god.
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  • What is it that needs to be adjusted about our relationship
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  • With god?
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  • It's just so easy to go along with the flow of religion.
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  • Get dressed, go to church, sing a song, shout, do a cartwheel,
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  • Hallelujah, come home, and not live none of it.
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  • Because in all your getting, you get understanding.
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  • "and i don't understand what that preacher was
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  • Talking about."
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  • A radical shift in your mind.
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  • So you see where this series is about to go.
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  • Yes, it will challenge you, but every time you get it, a little
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  • Piece here and a little piece there, it's going to be a
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  • Radical shift.
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  • And all of the work and the sweat you've put in to try to
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  • Achieve godly conduct is going to be sweatless because he's
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  • Going to be working on your heart and your desires to
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  • Want to.
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  • Ain't nobody got to threaten you with fear to come to church.
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  • You going to want to.
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  • Nobody's got to threaten you with fear that you now get no
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  • Results if you don't pray.
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  • You going to want to pray.
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  • Ain't nobody got to make you stand up and sing no praise song
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  • Out of somebody.
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  • You don't even like that kind of music, but before you know it,
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  • It'll be coming out your heart.
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  • Ain't nobody even wrote it yet and it's just flowing out your
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  • Heart because you want to sing about something that god has
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  • Done and is doing in your life.
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  • Are you listening to me?
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  • So y'all ready?
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  • Somebody said, "i thought you started preaching."
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  • I done told you this is my fourth start.
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  • I mean, are you interested in what we--this series--if this
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  • Series doesn't do it where your conduct is concerned--you always
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  • Walking out of here, either you worrying about your conduct or
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  • Somebody condemning you about your conduct or you think that
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  • The heavenly goal is in trouble because of your conduct.
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  • Now, am i going to give you a license to have bad conduct?
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  • Well, you--listen to what you saying.
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  • It's inconsistent with who you are.
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  • It's inconsistent with who lives in you.
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  • To act crazy, like you think i'm telling you to act crazy, is
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  • Inconsistent with who is in you.
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  • So that ought not be a question no more.
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  • You know not to be asking me, is it a sin to drink wine and
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  • Get drunk?
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  • Is it inconsistent with who lives on the inside of you?
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  • Instead of you trying to find all the loopholes, quit looking
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  • For the loopholes.
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  • 'well, the lord let david have 300 women, you know.
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  • I ain't asking but for one more."
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  • And you can't handle the one you got already at home.
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  • Is that consistent with who lives in you?
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  • You see, i'm glad i have a personal relationship with jesus
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  • Because people going crazy.
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  • These folks all online, "this ain't right.
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  • This ain't true.
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  • Throw the bible away.
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  • I don't even know if there was a jesus.
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  • There ain't no heaven.
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  • There ain't no hell."
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  • I mean, the bible says he created hell for the devil and
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  • His angels.
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  • We know that at least, but dear god, they just all over
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  • The place.
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  • Then you got a bunch of young preachers in there that just
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  • They in there and they not submitted to nobody, they don't
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  • Want to be submitted to nobody.
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  • "stay out of my business.
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  • I'm going to do it the way the lord telling me."
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  • But you don't realize the lord ain't talking to you.
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  • You speaking to a foreign spirit.
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  • I'm glad i know him.
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  • So when i hear something, i'm like, "that ain't you, is it?"
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  • He said, "no."
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  • "well, i mean, he told me my right address."
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  • Honey, you can get your address off facebook.
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  • Just find out who coming then, then go to that friend who
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  • Follow that friend who follow that friend who you know going
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  • To be at church tonight, find out their address.
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  • And they say, "ooh, the lord says 2248 fairbairn lane 30125."
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  • "oh, you got my address."
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  • Now you done bought in to it 'cause you forgot that the bible
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  • Talks about lying wonders.
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  • And so you done subjected yourself to a big magic trick.
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  • "i want them to do that stuff to me."
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  • All right.
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  • Just 'cause you--"oh, yeah, that's my address, but i still
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  • Don't sense god.
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  • So you can say something else right.
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  • I still don't sense him.
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  • I smell a devil somewhere."
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  • You don't have that without a relationship with the holy ghost
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  • 'cause the bible says the holy ghost will tell you things and
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  • Reveal things to you, but if you don't have a relationship with
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  • God and you just walking around, you know, spontificating 'cause
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  • You want people to know that you have a deep knowledge of the
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  • Scripture, that's just like you going around--you remember them
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  • Bible scriptures we used to listen to, you know.
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  • "and genesis chapter 2, 'and the lord said--'" and
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  • You listen.
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  • I'm like, "what you listening for?
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  • You don't know what they saying."
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  • "well, i just need the spirit."
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  • That ain't how you get the spirit.
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  • You have to have a personal relationship, right?
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  • Okay.
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  • Now, romans 12, verse 1 and 2. let's get started.
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  • All right, now, watch this.
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  • Romans 12:1 and 2, "i beseech you, brethren--i beseech you
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  • Therefore--" therefore is huge because you don't ever use
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  • Therefore without considering what was said before.
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  • Therefore says there was something that took place in the
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  • Previous chapters that brought you to a place to say therefore.
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  • He says, "i beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
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  • Mercies of god i beseech you, brethren, that you present your
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  • Bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto god, which is
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  • Your--" what?
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  • Verse 2, "and be not conformed to this world: but be
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  • Transformed," notice, "by the renewing of your mind, that you
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  • May prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
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  • Of god."
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  • Now, he asked for two things here.
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  • Number one, he asks for you to surrender your body to him, and
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  • Number two, he asks for you to surrender your mind to him.
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  • These two scriptures ask for a complete surrender to god.
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  • So this involves the mind as well as the body.
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  • So there's a plea here.
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  • There is a request here.
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  • There is--i call it an appeal.
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  • And that plea is that the body be made a living sacrifice.
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  • That's the plea.
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  • Now, i'm not telling you that's what you ought to do.
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  • I'm telling you what it's saying right here, and then i'm going
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  • To become an enemy to this.
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  • The plea is that the body be made a living sacrifice.
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  • The word sacrifice signifies a change of ownership for the
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  • Purpose of being consumed and that for the benefit of the
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  • New owner.
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  • So the word sacrifice, all right, changing who owns it for
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  • The purpose of being consumed.
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  • So he's asking for your body to go out of your ownership and put
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  • Into the ownership of god.
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  • And god says, "i want to consume it."
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  • And then it's going to be the benefit of the new owner.
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  • So god's saying, "i want your body.
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  • Turn it over to me.
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  • I'm going to consume it, and it'll be for the benefit of the
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  • New owner."
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  • A sacrifice is presented by man to god and it is something that
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  • Has real value to the one who offers it.
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  • So it's value to me to offer what he just asked for.
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  • Now, if you'll remember in the old testament, that which was
  • 00:14:58.243 --> 00:15:01.647
  • Sacrificed to god had to be perfect.
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  • If you going to sacrifice it to god, it had to be perfect.
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  • We--what you asking for is we know it ain't perfect.
  • 00:15:11.023 --> 00:15:14.059
  • But in the old testament, the sacrifice had to be perfect.
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  • Anything with a blemish or any defect whatsoever was not
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  • Acceptable to him.
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  • Now, the sacrifice here in question is to be a living one
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  • That he's talking about.
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  • So this can only mean that the sacrifice of the believer's
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  • Body--if it's a living one, the sacrifices of the believer's
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  • Body, it is to be continuous and one that brings forth results.
  • 00:15:42.087 --> 00:15:49.028
  • So he's talking about sacrificing your body,
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  • Living sacrifice.
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  • It's going to be continuous and it's going to bring
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  • Forth results.
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  • It is also to be holy and acceptable unto god.
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  • It's supposed to be holy and acceptable unto god.
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  • Okay, so without god, it ain't holy, and it's not acceptable.
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  • But if it's going to be received right, it's supposed to be holy
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  • And acceptable unto god.
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  • This is the only pos--is it--this is only possible when
  • 00:16:13.485 --> 00:16:16.822
  • The body is pure and undefiled by sin.
  • 00:16:16.822 --> 00:16:20.592
  • So the body is got to be pure, it's got to be undefiled by sin
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  • In order for it to be holy and acceptable unto god.
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  • Kind of similar to what he required in the old testament
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  • When they had the sacrificial offerings.
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  • Those sacrificial offerings had to be without blemish.
  • 00:16:35.607 --> 00:16:39.778
  • And then he goes around and he says that this sacrifice in this
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  • Verse of scripture is called your reasonable service.
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  • It's called your reasonable service.
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  • Now, to give one's body entirely to god to be burned out in
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  • Service for him, to deny oneself all the things that are pleasant
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  • To man, to deny oneself of all the things that are pleasant to
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  • Man for his sakes it seems to man a most unreasonable thing,
  • 00:17:08.207 --> 00:17:14.313
  • And yet it is called a reasonable service.
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  • So why should anyone give up all that is pleasing in this world
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  • If god so wills and lives solely to please him?
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  • That should be the question of a human.
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  • "why should i give all this up to solely please him?"
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  • And in addition to the sacrifice of the body, the entire being
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  • Should be transformed by the renewing of the mind so as not
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  • To be conformed to this world but to be conformed to the good,
  • 00:17:45.677 --> 00:17:50.449
  • The acceptable, and the perfect will of god.
  • 00:17:50.449 --> 00:17:53.185
  • We need to figure this out.
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  • I know we've read the scripture.
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  • And you know what we did when we read the scripture?
  • 00:17:55.988 --> 00:17:57.956
  • By our willpower we tried to make it so.
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  • It ain't never did work.
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  • You've never been able to give your body holy and acceptable
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  • Unto god.
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  • You just acted like you did.
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  • All right, now, you follow me now?
  • 00:18:11.336 --> 00:18:12.838
  • Now, watch this.
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  • Now, the renewing of the mind has to do with the intellect.
  • 00:18:14.206 --> 00:18:19.344
  • Man is a spirit being.
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  • He possesses a soul, he lives in a body.
  • 00:18:22.114 --> 00:18:25.384
  • Your spirit and your soul are not the same.
  • 00:18:25.384 --> 00:18:29.054
  • We have used them interchangeably as if they are
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  • The same.
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  • You have some people say soul and they say, "i mean spirit
  • 00:18:32.724 --> 00:18:34.393
  • In spirit."
  • 00:18:34.393 --> 00:18:35.727
  • No, no.
  • 00:18:35.727 --> 00:18:37.062
  • You are a spirit being, you possess a soul, and you live in
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  • A body.
  • 00:18:41.166 --> 00:18:42.534
  • That's the three-part being of man.
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  • Spirit, soul, body.
  • 00:18:44.002 --> 00:18:45.604
  • Your soul has your mind, your will, and your emotions.
  • 00:18:45.604 --> 00:18:52.544
  • Your soul possesses your intellect, your feelings,
  • 00:18:52.544 --> 00:18:57.983
  • Your thinker, your filler, and your chooser.
  • 00:18:57.983 --> 00:19:00.319
  • It's in your soul.
  • 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.387
  • When he talks here about renewing the mind, he is dealing
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  • With the intellect.
  • 00:19:06.258 --> 00:19:07.626
  • It is not the emotions that are considered here.
  • 00:19:07.626 --> 00:19:10.329
  • The intellect is more stable than the emotions or
  • 00:19:10.329 --> 00:19:13.765
  • The feelings.
  • 00:19:13.765 --> 00:19:15.133
  • So he's referring to the intellect.
  • 00:19:15.133 --> 00:19:16.468
  • So what paul urges in self-sacrifice can never be made
  • 00:19:16.468 --> 00:19:20.205
  • To seem reasonable on the basis of any human argument, and yet
  • 00:19:20.205 --> 00:19:23.909
  • It is called a reasonable service.
  • 00:19:23.909 --> 00:19:27.913
  • So what then makes it reasonable?
  • 00:19:27.913 --> 00:19:31.149
  • The whole issue rests on the introductory words of romans 12.
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  • What makes it reasonable?
  • 00:19:37.723 --> 00:19:40.259
  • "i beseech you therefore, brethren," watch this, "by the
  • 00:19:40.259 --> 00:19:46.164
  • Mercies of god--" by the mercies of god.
  • 00:19:46.164 --> 00:19:50.769
  • It is only because of the mercies of god that it is
  • 00:19:50.769 --> 00:19:54.806
  • Reasonable for those called brethren to comply with what
  • 00:19:54.806 --> 00:19:59.011
  • He's asking.
  • 00:19:59.011 --> 00:20:00.379
  • In fact, it's not going to be able to happen without the
  • 00:20:00.379 --> 00:20:03.548
  • Mercies of god.
  • 00:20:03.548 --> 00:20:04.883
  • We're used to saying present your body as the--as a living
  • 00:20:04.883 --> 00:20:08.153
  • Sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto god, which is your
  • 00:20:08.153 --> 00:20:09.688
  • Reasonable service.
  • 00:20:09.688 --> 00:20:11.056
  • And we conveniently miss out on, "i beseech you, brethren, by the
  • 00:20:11.056 --> 00:20:14.793
  • Mercies of god i'm making this appeal.
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  • I'm asking you to do something based on my mercy.
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  • I'm asking you to do something based on what i've already done.
  • 00:20:23.468 --> 00:20:28.073
  • I'm not asking you to do this because you not going to be able
  • 00:20:28.073 --> 00:20:31.443
  • To do this, unless you do this based on my mercy."
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  • Glory to god.
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  • All right.
  • 00:20:38.150 --> 00:20:39.885
  • Now, all of this being true, it is essential for us who are
  • 00:20:39.885 --> 00:20:47.426
  • Going to make this sacrifice.
  • 00:20:47.426 --> 00:20:49.294
  • We have to understand the mercies of god.
  • 00:20:49.294 --> 00:20:54.900
  • Because the word therefore, again, shows that paul rests the
  • 00:20:54.900 --> 00:20:58.670
  • Whole argument on that which he has in the preceding chapters
  • 00:20:58.670 --> 00:21:03.775
  • Talk about the mercies of god.
  • 00:21:03.775 --> 00:21:05.410
  • "i beseech you, brethren, based on the mercies of god.
  • 00:21:05.410 --> 00:21:08.780
  • Therefore--" so we got to go back and see what he already
  • 00:21:08.780 --> 00:21:13.518
  • Said about the mercies of god so we can clarify the
  • 00:21:13.518 --> 00:21:18.090
  • Therefore part.
  • 00:21:18.090 --> 00:21:19.458
  • If you understand that, say amen.
  • 00:21:19.458 --> 00:21:21.059
  • So as paul pleaded on the basis of the mercies of god, it is
  • 00:21:21.059 --> 00:21:25.063
  • Perfectly clear that this appeal is without force until these
  • 00:21:25.063 --> 00:21:29.768
  • Mercies are known, understood, and accepted.
  • 00:21:29.768 --> 00:21:33.972
  • Until we know about these mercies that he talked about in
  • 00:21:33.972 --> 00:21:37.042
  • Chapter 1 all the way up to 12, if--until we know about these
  • 00:21:37.042 --> 00:21:40.746
  • Mercies, until we understand these mercies, until we accept
  • 00:21:40.746 --> 00:21:44.683
  • These mercies--the appeal here is never going to be done until
  • 00:21:44.683 --> 00:21:49.755
  • We understand that.
  • 00:21:49.755 --> 00:21:51.089
  • Now, on the other hand, if the studies of these mercies of god
  • 00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:53.592
  • Are neglected and we don't study them and we keep doing like
  • 00:21:53.592 --> 00:21:57.028
  • We've done for so long, just take that scripture and then
  • 00:21:57.028 --> 00:21:59.698
  • Just play with it religiously and we don't understand the
  • 00:21:59.698 --> 00:22:02.267
  • Mercies of god, then, you know, there's no reason to heed it in
  • 00:22:02.267 --> 00:22:05.704
  • The first place.
  • 00:22:05.704 --> 00:22:08.206
  • Now, it then becomes--the next two phrases, you need to write
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  • Them down, you need to tuck them away, you need to never
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  • Forget them.
  • 00:22:18.150 --> 00:22:19.484
  • It then becomes evident that neglect of the study and the
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  • Teachings of the doctrines of grace if you neglect the study
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