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

May 7, 2025 | S25:E112

Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rythms of Grace (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Living In The Rythms of Grace (Part 1) | May 7, 2025
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  • Creflo: to give one's body entirely to god, to be burned
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  • Out in service for him, to deny oneself all the things that are
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  • Pleasant to man, to deny oneself of all the things that are
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  • Pleasant to man, for his sake, it seems to man a most
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  • Unreasonable thing 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 live 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,
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  • The acceptable, and the perfect will of god.
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  • We need to figure this out.
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  • I know we've read the scripture, and you know what we did when we
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  • Read the scripture?
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  • 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?
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  • Now watch this.
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  • Now the renewing of the mind has to do with the intellect.
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  • Man is a spirit being, he possesses a soul, he lives in
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  • A body.
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  • Your spirit and your soul are not the same.
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  • We have used them interchangeably
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  • As if they are the same.
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  • You have some people say soul and they say, "i mean spirit,"
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  • And no, no.
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  • You are a spirit being, you possess a soul, and you live in
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  • A body.
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  • That's the three part being of man: spirit, soul, body.
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  • Your soul has your mind, your will and your emotions.
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  • Your soul possesses your intellect, your feelings, your
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  • Thinker, your feeler, and your chooser is in your soul.
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  • When he talks here about renewing the mind, he is dealing
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  • With the intellect.
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  • It is not the emotions that are considered here.
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  • The intellect is more stable than the emotions or
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  • The feelings.
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  • So he's referring to the intellect.
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  • So what paul urges in self sacrifice can never be made to
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  • Seem reasonable on the basis of any human argument, and yet it
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  • Is called a reasonable service.
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  • So what then makes it reasonable?
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  • The whole issue rests on the introductory words of romans 12.
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  • What makes it reasonable?
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  • "i beseech you therefore, brethren," watch this, "by the
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  • Mercies of god, by the mercies of god."
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  • It is only because of the mercies of god that it is
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  • Reasonable for those called brethren to comply with what
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  • He's asking.
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  • In fact, it's not going to be able to happen without the
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  • Mercies of god.
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  • We're used to saying, "present your bodies as a living
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  • Sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto god, which is your
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  • Reasonable service."
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  • And we conveniently miss out on, "i beseech you, brethren, by the
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  • 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.
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  • I'm not asking you to do this, because you're not going to be
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  • Able to do this unless you do this based on my mercy, glory
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  • To god.
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  • All right, now, all of this being true, it is essential for
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  • Us who are going to make this sacrifice, we have to understand
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  • The mercies of god.
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  • Because the word therefore, again, shows that paul rests the
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  • Whole argument on that which he has in the preceding chapters
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  • Talked about the mercies of god.
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  • "i beseech you, brethren, based on the mercies of god."
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  • Therefore, so we got to go back and see what he already said
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  • About the mercies of god, so we can clarify the therefore part.
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  • If you understand that, say amen.
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  • So, as paul pleaded on the basis of the mercies of god, it is
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  • Perfectly clear that this appeal is without force until these
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  • Mercies are known, understood, and accepted.
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  • Until we know about these mercies that he talked about in
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  • Chapter 1, all the way up to 12.
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  • Until we know about these mercies, until we understand
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  • These mercies, until we accept these mercies, the appeal here
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  • Is never going to be done until we understand that.
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  • Now, on the other hand, if the studies of these mercies of god
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  • Are neglected and we don't study them, and we keep doing like
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  • We've done for so long, just take that scripture and then
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  • Just play with it religiously, and we don't understand the
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  • Mercies of god, then, you know, there's no reason to heed it in
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  • The first place.
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  • Now, it then becomes, the next two phrases, you need to write
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  • Them down, you need to tuck them away.
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  • You need to never forget them.
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  • It then becomes evident that neglect of the study and the
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  • Teachings of the doctrines of grace.
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  • If you neglect the study and the teachings of grace, if you
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  • Neglect the studies and the teachings of grace, how many
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  • People is that in the body of christ?
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  • Well, it was all of us at one time, wasn't it?
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  • If you neglect the study and the teachings of the doctrines of
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  • Grace, it can lead to nothing else but failure in
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  • Godly living.
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  • Where godly living and your conduct is concerned, if you
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  • Neglect the teachings of grace, you will not be successful in
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  • Godly living.
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  • We've been successful in religion, but we've not been
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  • Successful in godly living.
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  • We either go to one extreme or the other extreme.
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  • And then when we first mentioned grace, people thought, "well, i
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  • Can use it as a license to sin."
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  • Grace is not a license to sin, but on the other hand, there's
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  • This condemnation part that comes when you do sin.
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  • And we're not going to be successful in godly living if we
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  • Neglect the teachings of grace.
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  • Now, here's the next point. grace then--
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  • Grace here has always, it's got to always be laid as the
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  • Foundation for any appeal that god makes.
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  • Any appeal that god makes is going to have to be founded on
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  • What god has already done for the believer.
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  • Now think about it, anytime you're reading the new testament
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  • And he's saying, "i want you to put somebody's needs
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  • Above yours.
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  • I want you to walk in love.
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  • I want you to present your body as a--" all of that's got to be
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  • Based on what god has already done.
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  • If we keep trying to do what god is asking us to do and it's not
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  • Based on what god has already done for us, we're just not
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  • Going to be successful.
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  • And then with that as a basis, then he makes the appeal for
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  • Conduct, and then that is reasonable, only in the view of
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  • That which god has already done.
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  • So, if god is asking you to love one another, that's got to be
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  • Based on his grace that says he loved you first.
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  • Or you'll try to love somebody out of your own ability, instead
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  • Of being based on what he's already done.
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  • We love him, 1 john 4:19, because he what?
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  • First loved us.
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  • And so what happens, our empowerment comes from what he
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  • Has already done.
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  • So when he asked me to present my body as a living sacrifice,
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  • I'm going to show you all of the things he's already done with
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  • Your body, including having it preserved and seated in heavenly
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  • Places, including saying he's going to raise it up, including
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  • Says he's going to change it, including, says he's going to
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  • Deliver it from the wrath to come, including that he's also
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  • Going to glorify it.
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  • That would make it reasonable.
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  • That would make it reasonable. are you listening to me now?
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  • Now let's get into this now.
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  • Come on, let's focus.
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  • So let's do what i just said.
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  • Let's go and look at the mercies; let's know them, let's
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  • Understand them, and let's accept them.
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  • So let's look at a brief reference of the mercies of god
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  • Based on what romans 12, 1 and 2 says.
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  • So we start off with romans chapter 1, and you can write
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  • This down.
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  • Romans chapter 1, verse 18, all the way to romans 3, and 20.
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  • Why are you giving us this-- 'cause i don't want you
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  • To just sit up here and trust what i say.
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  • I want you to go home and read it, say, "let me see what this
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  • Man is saying."
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  • Romans chapter 1, verse 18 to romans 3, and 20, it deals with
  • 00:11:06.812 --> 00:11:12.585
  • The sinfulness of man, and it concludes that, "there is none
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  • Righteous, no not one: there is none that seeketh after god,
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  • There is none that doeth good, no, not one."
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  • In fact, go to romans 3, go to romans 3, verse 10 through 19.
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  • Let's read this.
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  • This is pretty amazing here. romans 10--
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  • Romans 3, verses 10 through 19.
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  • All right, so look at what he said about this.
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  • This is about all human beings, all mankind.
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  • And he said this about old covenant, and then you're going
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  • To wonder how do we get out of this.
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  • "as it is written, there is none righteous."
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  • Now, listen to me, you can't say that for today.
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  • This is what it was before jesus came.
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  • "as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one: there is
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  • None that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after god.
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  • They are all gone out of the way, they are all together
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  • Become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no,
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  • Not one.
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  • Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues
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  • They have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their
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  • Lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their
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  • Feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in
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  • Their ways: and the way of peace have they not known," 19, "now
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  • We know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them
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  • Who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and
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  • All the world may become guilty before god."
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  • So now you can see right there, that man is shown to be
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  • Incapable of doing anything whatsoever that is acceptable
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  • To god.
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  • Before jesus, he couldn't do nothing that was acceptable
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  • Before god.
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  • And he was guilty before him, and man is subject to
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  • Everlasting condemnation based on this.
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  • But if you'll keep reading the scripture, in verse 20, it talks
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  • About a righteousness of god.
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  • It talks about, "but a righteousness of god has been
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  • Made and manifested by jesus christ.
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  • And this righteousness is offered to all men, even to
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  • Those whom it was said there is none righteous.
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  • Moreover, it is upon all who believe in jesus christ.
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  • In other words, he is justified.
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  • All of this has been made possible by the redemption that
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  • Is in jesus christ, because he on the cross sanctified or
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  • Satisfied the demands of god's justice.
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  • And god is therefore free to count everyone righteous who
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  • Believes in jesus christ.
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  • All of this has been accomplished by god for man
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  • Apart from any human effort."
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  • Now, let's look at romans chapter 3, verse 20 and 22 in
  • 00:14:01.987 --> 00:14:06.592
  • The mirror translation.
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  • So the deal was, man, based on what we just read, is shown to
  • 00:14:07.993 --> 00:14:13.032
  • Be incapable of doing anything right, anything acceptable
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  • Unto god.
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  • And then, so he couldn't do nothing that was acceptable unto
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  • God, so jesus showed up and did something he couldn't do.
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  • Look at this, verse 20, "the law proves all of mankind equally
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  • Guilty and confirms that their most sincere duty-driven
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  • Decisions and 'self-help' programs within the confines of
  • 00:14:35.387 --> 00:14:40.059
  • The flesh could not give them any sense of improved confidence
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  • In their standing before god.
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  • We are now talking a completely different language: the gospel,
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  • The gospel unveils what god did right not what we did wrong!"
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  • The gospel talks about what god did right, not what we
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  • Did wrong.
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  • The gospel talks about what god did right, not what we
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  • Did wrong.
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  • Religion talks about what we did wrong, and won't tell us what
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  • God did right.
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  • Next verse, "both the law and all the prophetic writings
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  • Pointed to this moment!"
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  • It pointed to this moment where the gospel would begin to show
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  • Us what god did right.
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  • We could do nothing right before the eyes of god, but jesus
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  • Showed up and made us righteous.
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  • Oh, next verse 22, "jesus is what god believes about you!
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  • Jesus is what god believes about you!"
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  • He looks at you and he says, "oh, i see jesus.
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  • Everything jesus is, you is.
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  • Jesus is righteous, you righteous.
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  • Jesus is holy, you holy.
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  • Jesus is perfect, you're perfect."
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  • Jesus, jesus is what god believes about you.
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  • Glory be to god.
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  • He doesn't believe all of that other stuff.
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  • He doesn't believe that you're unrighteous.
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  • He doesn't believe that you're just a sinner.
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  • He doesn't believe any of that anymore.
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  • Now that jesus has come, without your help, without your bringing
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  • Anything to the table, without you deserving it, without you
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  • Earning it.
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  • You didn't do nothing.
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  • You didn't do nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
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  • And then jesus showed up and said, "i'm going to do
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  • Everything right.
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  • You did everything wrong.
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  • I'm going to do everything right and i'm going to invite you into
  • 00:16:32.471 --> 00:16:34.373
  • My right, i'm going let you have my right even when you ain't do
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  • Nothing right."
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  • "jesus is what god believes about me," say that.
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  • Say it again.
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  • Let me see if you got it.
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  • Jesus believes you're righteous.
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  • Jesus believed you're redeemed; i'm redeemed.
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  • Jesus believes you're holy.
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  • Jesus believes you're delivered.
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  • Jesus believes you're prosperous.
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  • Jesus believes you're healed.
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  • Hey, glory to god.
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  • Y'all don't hear what i'm trying to say.
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  • He's trying to move you over to the realm of the finished.
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  • He sent the moving trucks.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • And he's trying to get you out of all of the things that you
  • 00:17:50.449 --> 00:17:53.218
  • Could never do.
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  • Jesus is what god believes about me, hallelujah.
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  • When the devil says you're no good, when the devil says you're
  • 00:18:08.033 --> 00:18:10.869
  • Going to hell, when the devil
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  • Says you can't ever
  • 00:18:12.271 --> 00:18:13.705
  • Do nothing right.
  • 00:18:13.705 --> 00:18:15.073
  • When the devil says you ain't holy, you ain't righteous, you
  • 00:18:15.073 --> 00:18:17.176
  • Ain't heaven bound,
  • 00:18:17.176 --> 00:18:18.544
  • You tell the devil,
  • 00:18:18.544 --> 00:18:19.878
  • Heaven's not my goal,
  • 00:18:19.878 --> 00:18:21.313
  • It is my starting point.
  • 00:18:21.313 --> 00:18:23.315
  • I already sit with him
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  • In heavenly places,
  • 00:18:25.284 --> 00:18:27.686
  • In christ jesus.
  • 00:18:27.686 --> 00:18:47.105
  • A radical mind shift.
  • 00:18:50.642 --> 00:18:56.014
  • A radical mind shift.
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  • Some people might not want to shift this way, but, ain't
  • 00:19:05.424 --> 00:19:08.927
  • Nothing in living -- gone work right
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  • Until you shift this way.
  • 00:19:12.097 --> 00:19:14.066
  • Because you can't do nothing without him.
  • 00:19:14.066 --> 00:19:17.102
  • And you got to realize his mercy is the basis of your
  • 00:19:17.102 --> 00:19:20.005
  • Godly living.
  • 00:19:20.005 --> 00:19:24.343
  • His mercy is the basis of your godly living.
  • 00:19:24.343 --> 00:19:28.547
  • You keep trying to be like god, without god.
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  • You keep--and that's religion.
  • 00:19:39.291 --> 00:19:41.827
  • It's a big pretense.
  • 00:19:41.827 --> 00:19:45.897
  • Your christian religion has become your halloween costume.
  • 00:19:45.897 --> 00:19:53.672
  • Got dog, glad i'm delivered from people.
  • 00:19:53.672 --> 00:19:58.844
  • Glad i ain't got no approval addiction.
  • 00:19:58.844 --> 00:20:02.347
  • Because i see this, people are using their christianity as
  • 00:20:02.347 --> 00:20:08.754
  • Their disguise.
  • 00:20:08.754 --> 00:20:17.863
  • And you can tell it's a disguise, because when it's time
  • 00:20:19.498 --> 00:20:22.100
  • To love somebody, it don't come out.
  • 00:20:22.100 --> 00:20:24.069
  • You just got the disguise on.
  • 00:20:24.069 --> 00:20:28.307
  • When it's time to help somebody, it ain't there, you just got the
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  • Disguise on.
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  • When it's time to speak blessings to somebody, you
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  • Speaking some --.
  • 00:20:34.613 --> 00:20:35.981
  • You just wearing the disguise and you show up once or twice a
  • 00:20:35.981 --> 00:20:38.884
  • Month to add validity to your disguise, because you believe
  • 00:20:38.884 --> 00:20:42.487
  • That people buying this.
  • 00:20:42.487 --> 00:20:44.189
  • And the world, it's just such a strange thing.
  • 00:20:44.189 --> 00:20:47.492
  • More church people buy it than the unsaved people.
  • 00:20:47.492 --> 00:20:49.795
  • Unsaved people see right through your disguise.
  • 00:20:49.795 --> 00:20:51.963
  • They see you fake and phony.
  • 00:20:51.963 --> 00:21:00.939
  • I apologize, i got to preach like this is my last sermon.
  • 00:21:00.939 --> 00:21:06.645
  • I got to preach like there's no tomorrow.
  • 00:21:06.645 --> 00:21:15.053
  • That's why you need to learn how to act like your authentic self
  • 00:21:17.889 --> 00:21:21.193
  • And quit trying to be fake and pretend, like you--what's wrong?
  • 00:21:21.193 --> 00:21:26.064
  • I ain't like that.
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  • I don't be going to my wife's bedroom and tonight my night,
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  • You know, "sister taffi.
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  • Oh, hallelujah.
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  • Do you feel the presence?"
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  • I ain't going in there like that.
  • 00:21:42.814 --> 00:21:44.683
  • I'm like, i'm going in there, "put the lou rawls on, girl.
  • 00:21:44.683 --> 00:21:46.551
  • Let's get this thing going, boy."
  • 00:21:46.551 --> 00:21:49.054
  • Hey, you'll never find, hey.
  • 00:21:49.054 --> 00:21:54.192
  • You sitting up there trying to find the scripture you going to
  • 00:21:54.192 --> 00:21:56.294
  • Read before y'all--what is that?
  • 00:21:56.294 --> 00:22:05.504
  • And this society today sniffs out your disguise.
  • 00:22:05.504 --> 00:22:13.612
  • This generation smells your phony fakeness.
  • 00:22:13.612 --> 00:22:22.721
  • And the church has perfected phoniness.
  • 00:22:22.721 --> 00:22:26.792
  • We'll sit in church and shout hallelujah all day, and tell you
  • 00:22:26.792 --> 00:22:29.995
  • Where you can go, how you can get there, and what to say when
  • 00:22:29.995 --> 00:22:32.097
  • You arrive.
  • 00:22:32.097 --> 00:22:38.703
  • I'm over it, man.
  • 00:22:38.703 --> 00:22:41.139
  • I'm going to stand before jesus and say, "i left it all on
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  • The field.
  • 00:22:45.010 --> 00:22:46.344
  • I left it all on the planet.
  • 00:22:46.344 --> 00:22:47.712
  • I gave you everything i possibly knew i could give you,
  • 00:22:47.712 --> 00:22:54.853
  • At whatever cost."
  • 00:22:54.853 --> 00:22:57.489
  • 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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  • 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, grace will
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  • Supply more of what is needed.
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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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  • 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, i receive you now by faith.
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  • And i declare in jesus's name that i 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 want to welcome you
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