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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst of Discomfort

December 2, 2024 | S24:E1202

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst of Discomfort
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst of Discomfort | December 2, 2024
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  • Creflo dollar: jesus's part of the fellowship of his suffering
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  • Is this, he suffered to obtain the victories that we
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  • Didn't have.
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  • He suffered so we can now have healing.
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  • He suffered so we can now be made righteous.
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  • He suffered because now we can be made whole, okay?
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  • Now he's not expecting for us to go through the same suffering to
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  • Try to get what he's already gotten.
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  • That wouldn't make sense.
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  • He suffered because he needed to get what we didn't have.
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  • Creflo: now, let's look at the book of 1 peter chapter 5 and
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  • Verse 10, first through the king james and then the nlt and i
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  • Wanna talk to you about "discomfort."
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  • This is not anything we should complain about.
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  • "well, i'm in the midst of discomfort."
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  • You're not the only one and you won't ever be the only one.
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  • Every man or woman who's alive will understand the place of
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  • Pain and the place of discomfort, but it's designed so
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  • That we ultimately can mature into the image of the lord
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • First into king james, 1 peter chapter 5 and 10.
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  • He says, verse 10, "but the god of all grace, who had called us
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  • Unto eternal glory by christ-- jesus christ," or by
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  • Christ jesus.
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  • "after that you have suffered a while."
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  • He's gonna make you perfect after you suffered a while.
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  • He'll establish you after you suffered a while.
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  • He'll strengthen you after you suffer a while and he'll settle
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  • You after you've suffered a while.
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  • The nlt says it like this.
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  • He says, "in his kindness god called us to share in his
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  • Eternal glory by means of jesus christ.
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  • So after you have suffered a little while, he will
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  • Restore you."
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  • After you've suffered a little while, he will support you.
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  • After you've suffered a little while, he'll strengthen you, he
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  • Will place you on a firm foundation.
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  • Now, i'm not here to talk about where the suffering came from,
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  • Whether you know god did it, or the devil did it.
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  • All i know is the bible says, "they that live godly shall
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  • Suffer persecution."
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  • And all i know is is that you know, when people won't allow
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  • God to teach them, life will, you know, there'll be some
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  • Things to happen in your life to help you to understand that you
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  • Need god, all right?
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  • And you can grow in those particular areas.
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  • So one of the things i want to submit to you is that suffering
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  • Is the catalyst or let me use a synonym,
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  • The stimulus or the
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  • It's the thing that will ultimately kind of help you to
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  • Understand that you can grow from what you go through.
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  • You don't have to quit from what you go through, you can go.
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  • Suffering will encourage christ likeness.
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  • Someone says, "i don't believe that keep living."
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  • It will be the catalyst for christ likeness.
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  • See jesus suffered with us even though he already suffered for
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  • Us and that's powerful that he suffered for us, but he's also
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  • Willing to suffer with us.
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  • Now go to romans chapter 8 and 29 romans 8 and 29.
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  • I tell you the devil is gonna be in trouble because all of the
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  • Stuff he's been able to do to move you.
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  • Once you understand what's going on, you're not gonna be able to
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  • Be moved.
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  • In fact, he's gonna get frustrated.
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  • "i used to do this to you five years ago and this
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  • Would happen."
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  • And now you'll say to him, "i'm not like i was five years ago.
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  • I have grown.
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  • You are not dealing with the same person you dealt with five
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  • Years ago."
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  • And i just thank god for that.
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  • I thank god we have a growing, maturing church that life can't
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  • Do to you what it used to do to you and expect for the same
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  • Thing to happen.
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  • Maybe you would curl up and cry five years ago.
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  • Now you would turn to your scripture and read the word and
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  • Pray in the holy ghost or call somebody and bless them.
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  • God wants to mature you.
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  • Now look at this in romans chapter 8 and verse 29 he says,
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  • "for whom he did foreknow, he also did--he predestined."
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  • I mean, before time he predestined for us to be
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  • Conformed to the image of his son that he might be the first
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  • Born amongst many brother.
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  • Now, here's what god said.
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  • Each of us, he has predestined for us to be conformed into the
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  • Image of jesus, the objective of this life that when it is over
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  • With as christians that we look like christ, that we're
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  • Being conformed.
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  • Right now all the stuff you're going through, you're being
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  • Conformed into the image of jesus.
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  • All the stuff you've been through, you're being conformed
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  • Into the image of jesus.
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  • It might not look like it, it might not feel like it, but
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  • You're gonna wake up one day and realize you got more love
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  • Operating now than you had before.
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  • You have more empathy operating in your life than ever before.
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  • You're more generous than ever before.
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  • The stuff you'll give somebody now, you wouldn't even thought
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  • About giving it to him before you're being conformed to glory
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  • To god.
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  • All of the stuff that you've had to go through every time you got
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  • Knocked down, disappointed all this stuff, all of it.
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  • God says, "i'm gonna take all of the mess that you had to
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  • Encounter in your life.
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  • And as long as you keep pursuing me, i'm gonna use it, i'm gonna
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  • Mold you.
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  • I'm the potter, you're the clay, i'm gonna make you after
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  • My will."
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  • You're gonna look back one day and you're gonna just, you
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  • Remember that song, "my soul looks back and wonder how i
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  • Got over?"
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  • Well, i'm telling you how you got over.
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  • It was jesus that was helping you over, alright?
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  • So now how does this work?
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  • We're being conformed, predestined to be conformed into
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  • The image of his son so that he might be the first born amongst
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  • Many brethren?
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  • All right, philippians chapter 3 and 10, let me do this and
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  • That'll be our summer and i think we can move on.
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  • Philippians chapter 3 and 10.
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  • He says, "that i may know him."
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  • Now, i think this past week, the lord said to me that
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  • Christianity without a relationship with the christ is
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  • Nothing but religion that keeps you in bondage.
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  • Think about it.
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  • What is christianity if you don't have a relationship
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  • With jesus?
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  • If all christianity is in your life is coming to church,
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  • Learning the rule and trying to keep the rule, then your
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  • Christianity is nothing but a religion.
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  • But real christianity has relationship with the christ.
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  • So you can come to know him.
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  • So you don't have to act like a christian when church is
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  • Over with.
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  • You're just walking in your relationship with jesus christ.
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  • You ain't got to be cautious of who's around or who saw you at
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  • The mall and, you gonna be, you gonna act like you act because
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  • You know christ, you're not gonna act like you act because
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  • You afraid somebody watching you and that's a problem.
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  • You got to get fed up with trying to do stuff to get
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  • People's approval.
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  • You gotta learn how to live this christian life in a relationship
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  • With the christ, amen?
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  • "that i might know him, and that i might know the power of his
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  • Resurrection, that i might know the fellowship of his
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  • Sufferings, being made."
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  • Now notice now you can be made conformable unto his death, the
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  • Fellowship of his suffering.
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  • Remember i defined that for you.
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  • In this word fellowship, it comes from an old greek word
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  • "koinonia" which means giving and receiving.
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  • If you go out to lunch to somebody and you fellowship with
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  • Them, they got a part of that fellowship at the lunch and you
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  • Have a part of that fellowship at the lunch.
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  • There's a giving that comes from you and a receiving from the
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  • Other and a giving that comes from the other and a receiving
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  • From you.
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  • That's what fellowship is all about.
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  • Well, he says that we ought to know him in the fellowship of
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  • His suffering.
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  • That means that we're not gonna suffer the same way
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  • Jesus suffered.
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  • Jesus's part of the fellowship of his suffering is this, he
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  • Suffered to obtain the victories that we didn't have.
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  • He suffered so we can now have healing.
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  • He suffered so we can now be made righteous.
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  • He suffered because now we can be made whole, okay?
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  • Now he's not expecting for us to go through the same suffering to
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  • Try to get what he's already gotten.
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  • That wouldn't make sense.
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  • He suffered because he needed to get what we didn't have.
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  • So we already have everything that pertains to life
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  • And godliness.
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  • So what's my part of the fellowship of the suffering?
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  • His part was to die to get the victory.
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  • My part is to maintain the victory that he died to get
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  • For me.
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  • So that means satan's job is to see if he can stop you from
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  • Holding on to what jesus obtained.
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  • Our job: maintain.
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  • Maintain righteousness.
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  • Alright, i'm born again now, i'm the righteousness of god.
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  • Now, all hell is coming against me to try to convince me that i
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  • Am not righteous.
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  • So the attack for you daily is gonna be in your mind trying to
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  • Change the way you think.
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  • Because if he can change the way you think, if he can get you to
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  • Quit believing in your mind, then you'll see it translated in
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  • Your life.
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  • If he can work on you enough to say, for you to say, "i don't
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  • Believe i'm righteous."
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  • "oh oh i don't believe i'm redeemed."
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  • "i don't believe i'm holy."
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  • If he can do that either through religion or hard times, then he
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  • Has become very successful in stopping you from maintaining
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  • The victory that he died to obtain.
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  • So, understand how to play the chess game.
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  • It ain't about who did something to you at work.
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  • It's about the devil trying to get you to change your mind
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  • About the victory that jesus died to obtain.
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  • So every day you wake up, you're waking up believing what jesus
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  • Has obtained for you.
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  • I believe i'm healed even though when you're hurting, i believe
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  • I'm healed even though you're sick, i believe i'm righteous
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  • Even though you acted a fool last week, i believe i'm
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  • Redeemed even though it don't seem like you're redeemed.
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  • That's the whole game.
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  • Can he convince you through a variety of ways that you are not
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  • What he said you are?
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  • You know, the greatest fear that a believer can have is to be
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  • Afraid that what jesus said, to be afraid that what jesus
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  • Promised is not true.
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  • That's the greatest fear.
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  • I am afraid that what he said about me being righteous is
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  • Not true.
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  • That's the biggest fear you can have.
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  • I am afraid what he said about me being delivered is not true.
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  • And so you fall one crazy time and satan say, "see that?
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  • See that?
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  • If you was really like he said, then you wouldn't have failed
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  • That time."
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  • Don't let the devil do you like that.
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  • And when he talks that kind of stuff, you say, "hey devil, it
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  • Ain't over yet.
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  • It ain't over yet.
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  • I fell today but i'm like michael tomorrow.
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  • When i fall, i shall arise.
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  • Don't rejoice too quick devil.
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  • It ain't over yet.
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  • I have not finished my journey.
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  • When my journey is not--"
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  • And that's the attack.
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  • That's the spiritual attack-- satan has a meeting with his
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  • Demons every day to come up with a strategy to try to knock you
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  • Off what you're standing on.
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  • Unlike us, satan strategizes on how to defeat you.
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  • And you've got to say, "i am not defeated."
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  • Satan is a defeated folk.
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  • That's the thing he trying to convince you of what's true
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  • About him.
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  • Now, this is what's true about you.
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  • You're the one who was kicked out of hell.
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  • You're talking about yourself and it frustrates the devil when
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  • You keep responding in a way that contradicts what he's
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  • Trying to get you to fear.
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  • And every night you can go to bed knowing i defeated the
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  • Devil again.
  • 00:13:51.510 --> 00:13:52.878
  • He tried to make me think i was no good but i am.
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  • He tried to make me think i'm not holy but i said i'm holy.
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  • I felt a little funny when i said i'm holy, but i'm gonna say
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  • It anyway.
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  • I'm not saying i'm holy because i feel holy, i'm saying i'm holy
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  • Because he said i'm holy.
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  • I'm saying i'm holy because he died to make me holy.
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  • I'm saying i'm holy because that's the victory that i got.
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  • Be careful of the religion that's going forth today that
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  • Tells you you messed up so bad that you gotta forget everything
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  • Jesus has done for you.
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  • That's when you remember it. that's when you remember it.
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  • I just wanna just make the devil tremble.
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  • Could everybody shout, "i'm the righteousness of god now."
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  • Okay, now, watch this.
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  • This is really unusual in church.
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  • But would you say out loud, "i'm holy right now."
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  • Some of y'all struggled a little bit, what?
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  • No, now, how many of you believe that you're holy right now?
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  • Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, you're not holy because of what
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  • You have done to be holy.
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  • See, we no longer living through us.
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  • We are now living through him.
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  • Ha ha, i'm not living through me.
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  • I'm living through jesus christ.
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  • I am whatever jesus is.
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  • See, the only reason i'm righteous right now is because
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  • Jesus is righteous.
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  • If jesus wasn't righteous, i wouldn't be able to
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  • Be righteous.
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  • But because jesus is righteous, i'm righteous.
  • 00:15:23.235 --> 00:15:25.471
  • And somebody said, "yeah, but you misbehaved last week."
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  • Yeah, but as long as jesus is all right, i'm all right.
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  • Whenever you think you ain't all right no more, check in
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  • With jesus.
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  • "jesus, you all right?"
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  • "yeah, i'm all right." that means you still all right.
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  • And as long as he all right, you all right.
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  • As long as he holy, you holy, as long as he's righteous,
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  • You righteous.
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  • So, since we find purpose in suffering and that purpose is to
  • 00:15:54.433 --> 00:15:59.638
  • Be conformed into the image of christ, the question is, should
  • 00:15:59.638 --> 00:16:05.110
  • We not resist the suffering?
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  • Should we not resist the tribulation and the persecution
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  • And the pain?
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  • Should we just tolerate it for our good and glory?
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  • No, i'm not gonna tolerate anything from the devil or
  • 00:16:16.622 --> 00:16:20.793
  • Anything from life.
  • 00:16:20.793 --> 00:16:23.595
  • Just because discomfort comes, doesn't mean you have to just
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  • Take it.
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  • I ain't gonna sit there and just take something that's not
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  • My victory.
  • 00:16:34.807 --> 00:16:38.277
  • "well, does god mind if you drink a little mad dog?"
  • 00:16:38.277 --> 00:16:41.647
  • So you're asking the wrong question.
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  • The question is, do i want to be a slave to anything?
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  • I'm getting ready to fight because in the midst of the
  • 00:16:57.162 --> 00:17:01.967
  • Discomfort, that's how i grow.
  • 00:17:01.967 --> 00:17:05.804
  • If i'm lifting weights and i'm trying to build muscle, it ain't
  • 00:17:05.804 --> 00:17:09.374
  • Gonna do me good to lift a broomstick every day.
  • 00:17:09.374 --> 00:17:14.880
  • Somebody got to apply some pressure and when that pressure
  • 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:19.718
  • Comes and i resist that weight, the heavier it gets, the more i
  • 00:17:19.718 --> 00:17:27.126
  • Resist, the more i develop.
  • 00:17:27.126 --> 00:17:31.029
  • So bring it on devil.
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  • I bench pressed the trouble you threw at me last month.
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  • I'm a little stronger this month.
  • 00:17:38.203 --> 00:17:40.038
  • Add it on, slap it on there.
  • 00:17:40.038 --> 00:17:43.041
  • Bring it on.
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  • Oh oh this a little, oh oh, this is a little rough.
  • 00:17:44.376 --> 00:17:46.879
  • I'm gonna need to watch this.
  • 00:17:46.879 --> 00:17:48.247
  • I'm gonna need a spotter.
  • 00:17:48.247 --> 00:17:50.149
  • And jesus is always there to spot you.
  • 00:17:50.149 --> 00:17:54.486
  • Jesus is there to spot you and he gonna stay there to spot you
  • 00:17:54.486 --> 00:17:59.191
  • Until you can do it yourself.
  • 00:17:59.191 --> 00:18:01.960
  • Which means i've developed.
  • 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.429
  • Get out of this little thing, as christians we're not supposed to
  • 00:18:04.429 --> 00:18:06.899
  • Have no problems.
  • 00:18:06.899 --> 00:18:08.233
  • You're not supposed to have no hard time.
  • 00:18:08.233 --> 00:18:09.668
  • Ain't nothing bad supposed to happen to you.
  • 00:18:09.668 --> 00:18:11.803
  • And if it does, then you ain't no real christian.
  • 00:18:11.803 --> 00:18:14.573
  • That is tom foolery.
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  • That's a bunch of crock.
  • 00:18:15.941 --> 00:18:17.442
  • Honey, when stuff happens in your life, that's an opportunity
  • 00:18:17.442 --> 00:18:20.379
  • For you grow.
  • 00:18:20.379 --> 00:18:21.713
  • That's an opportunity for you to bust up more demons.
  • 00:18:21.713 --> 00:18:24.082
  • That's an opportunity for you to get stronger and stronger and
  • 00:18:24.082 --> 00:18:27.386
  • Stronger until you done got so strong.
  • 00:18:27.386 --> 00:18:29.888
  • The devil don't even want to fool with you no more.
  • 00:18:29.888 --> 00:18:31.557
  • The devil gotta have a meeting to vote to see if anybody wanna
  • 00:18:31.557 --> 00:18:35.394
  • Stop by your house.
  • 00:18:35.394 --> 00:18:39.598
  • And they said, "who want to go in there today?"
  • 00:18:39.598 --> 00:18:41.200
  • "i ain't going in there today.
  • 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.068
  • I went in there last week and i tell you what they shouted out.
  • 00:18:43.068 --> 00:18:46.672
  • They never would shut up saying hallelujah.
  • 00:18:46.672 --> 00:18:48.874
  • They kept dancing, they kept shouting.
  • 00:18:48.874 --> 00:18:50.676
  • I thought i had them and i thought because some tears were
  • 00:18:50.676 --> 00:18:53.545
  • Coming out of the eye and i realized they were crying
  • 00:18:53.545 --> 00:18:55.847
  • Because they were enjoying whooping my tail.
  • 00:18:55.847 --> 00:18:57.983
  • I ain't going to that house no more."
  • 00:18:57.983 --> 00:18:59.952
  • The bible says, "he seeketh whom he may devour."
  • 00:18:59.952 --> 00:19:03.555
  • Which means he can't devour everybody, hallelujah.
  • 00:19:03.555 --> 00:19:07.526
  • And you ought to be the people that he has to talk about
  • 00:19:07.526 --> 00:19:10.629
  • Whether or not they want to mess with you today.
  • 00:19:10.629 --> 00:19:13.098
  • And i'm telling you, world changers, that the devil is
  • 00:19:13.098 --> 00:19:15.601
  • Getting fed up messing with you because he can't defeat you.
  • 00:19:15.601 --> 00:19:19.404
  • He can't knock you down.
  • 00:19:19.404 --> 00:19:21.106
  • He can't get you to say, "i'm broke."
  • 00:19:21.106 --> 00:19:23.108
  • He can't get you to say, "i'm sick."
  • 00:19:23.108 --> 00:19:25.210
  • He can't get, he--
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  • [audience cheering and applauding]
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  • Creflo: we're gonna resist, we're gonna resist.
  • 00:19:37.489 --> 00:19:41.093
  • It ain't over till it's over.
  • 00:19:41.093 --> 00:19:43.228
  • And as long as you got breath in your body, honey, maybe you
  • 00:19:43.228 --> 00:19:46.498
  • Didn't see it last week.
  • 00:19:46.498 --> 00:19:48.200
  • Maybe you didn't see it last month, but you don't have to see
  • 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:51.637
  • It to believe it.
  • 00:19:51.637 --> 00:19:53.005
  • That's what's so special about us.
  • 00:19:53.005 --> 00:19:54.339
  • We don't necessarily have to see the manifestation to know we
  • 00:19:54.339 --> 00:19:57.576
  • Already got the manifestation.
  • 00:19:57.576 --> 00:19:59.578
  • See, we're not confessing something to try to get
  • 00:19:59.578 --> 00:20:02.781
  • Something to come to pass.
  • 00:20:02.781 --> 00:20:04.249
  • We're confessing it because jesus has already gotten it to
  • 00:20:04.249 --> 00:20:07.152
  • Come to pass.
  • 00:20:07.152 --> 00:20:08.520
  • And what we say, we say because we believe it.
  • 00:20:08.520 --> 00:20:11.089
  • We wanna mess the devil up because he can't believe we
  • 00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:13.892
  • Saying this, hallelujah.
  • 00:20:13.892 --> 00:20:15.227
  • All the pain and all the sickness and all the shame and
  • 00:20:15.227 --> 00:20:18.597
  • All the stuff you done went through and you got the
  • 00:20:18.597 --> 00:20:20.832
  • Mitigated gall to stand up in front of somebody and declare
  • 00:20:20.832 --> 00:20:24.970
  • That you are the righteousness of god.
  • 00:20:24.970 --> 00:20:34.980
  • Well, i'm gonna shop today. i'm tearing something up.
  • 00:20:34.980 --> 00:20:40.018
  • I'm tearing something up because god's been too good to
  • 00:20:40.018 --> 00:20:42.954
  • Me, hallelujah.
  • 00:20:42.954 --> 00:20:44.890
  • God's been too good to me for me to sit back and deny what the
  • 00:20:44.890 --> 00:20:50.429
  • Grace of god has made available to me.
  • 00:20:50.429 --> 00:20:53.865
  • I am not gonna disregard it.
  • 00:20:53.865 --> 00:20:55.834
  • I'm not gonna be quiet about it.
  • 00:20:55.834 --> 00:20:57.803
  • I'm not gonna act like it didn't happen.
  • 00:20:57.803 --> 00:21:01.006
  • I'm gonna shout onto god with a voice of triumph.
  • 00:21:01.006 --> 00:21:04.242
  • I'm gonna praise him anyhow.
  • 00:21:04.242 --> 00:21:06.611
  • I'm gonna--
  • 00:21:06.611 --> 00:21:07.946
  • Hey glory to god, hallelujah.
  • 00:21:07.946 --> 00:21:15.620
  • My god.
  • 00:21:15.620 --> 00:21:19.157
  • It ain't over with yet devil.
  • 00:21:19.157 --> 00:21:23.595
  • You hit me with another shot.
  • 00:21:23.595 --> 00:21:25.330
  • But when--
  • 00:21:25.330 --> 00:21:26.698
  • Listen, when sin abounds, y'all didn't hear what i just said.
  • 00:21:26.698 --> 00:21:33.505
  • When sin increases, grace is gonna increase more.
  • 00:21:33.505 --> 00:21:38.777
  • And when sin increases, grace is gonna increase more.
  • 00:21:38.777 --> 00:21:42.514
  • Y'all don't understand what i'm saying.
  • 00:21:42.514 --> 00:21:45.117
  • Sin, no matter how much of it you do will never be greater
  • 00:21:45.117 --> 00:21:51.423
  • Than god's grace.
  • 00:21:51.423 --> 00:21:56.862
  • Now, you religious folks, you got a problem with that because
  • 00:21:56.862 --> 00:22:02.434
  • You have more faith in sin's ability to send you to hell than
  • 00:22:02.434 --> 00:22:07.305
  • You have faith in grace's ability to send you to heaven.
  • 00:22:07.305 --> 00:22:12.010
  • Sin ain't never gonna outdo god's grace.
  • 00:22:12.010 --> 00:22:16.014
  • I just--
  • 00:22:16.014 --> 00:22:19.751
  • [audience cheering and applauding]
  • 00:22:19.751 --> 00:22:38.603
  • Creflo: do you actually think that your crazy is more
  • 00:22:28.760 --> 00:22:43.842
  • Powerful than grace?
  • 00:22:43.842 --> 00:22:49.347
  • Taffi and i were having a conversation yesterday.
  • 00:22:49.347 --> 00:22:51.016
  • It was profound.
  • 00:22:51.016 --> 00:22:54.853
  • She said, "people concerned about--
  • 00:22:54.853 --> 00:23:00.725
  • "oh--about people--" taffi, where she at?
  • 00:23:00.725 --> 00:23:07.399
  • What were you talking about?
  • 00:23:07.399 --> 00:23:09.668
  • People was learning about don't take advantage.
  • 00:23:09.668 --> 00:23:12.437
  • What was taking advantage of?
  • 00:23:12.437 --> 00:23:15.474
  • Come on, help me, baby, help me.
  • 00:23:15.474 --> 00:23:18.743
  • Taffi dollar: real quick.
  • 00:23:18.743 --> 00:23:20.312
  • So there's this belief or theory that you can abuse grace.
  • 00:23:20.312 --> 00:23:25.817
  • And so the thinking is because you are under grace and if you
  • 00:23:25.817 --> 00:23:32.424
  • Keep sinning, you are being abusive.
  • 00:23:32.424 --> 00:23:35.694
  • And so the more you sin, the more you are being abusive
  • 00:23:35.694 --> 00:23:39.931
  • To god.
  • 00:23:39.931 --> 00:23:41.333
  • And so there's this concept that in relationships, we see god as
  • 00:23:41.333 --> 00:23:47.372
  • A human, in terms of being abusive.
  • 00:23:47.372 --> 00:23:49.841
  • We don't see his nature of being spiritual and his character is
  • 00:23:49.841 --> 00:23:55.881
  • That of you can't compare human relationships with our
  • 00:23:55.881 --> 00:24:00.318
  • Heavenly relationship.
  • 00:24:00.318 --> 00:24:02.921
  • Announcer: did you know that jesus endured suffering for us
  • 00:24:07.125 --> 00:24:10.462
  • So that he could be with us in our struggles?
  • 00:24:10.462 --> 00:24:13.031
  • Grasping this truth is essential to not only receiving god's
  • 00:24:13.031 --> 00:24:17.469
  • Blessings, but holding on to them in maintaining your victory
  • 00:24:17.469 --> 00:24:21.072
  • In the midst of discomfort.
  • 00:24:21.072 --> 00:24:22.507
  • Creflo dollar reveals the defining traits of
  • 00:24:22.507 --> 00:24:25.677
  • Successful christians.
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  • Creflo: he suffered to obtain the victories that we
  • 00:24:27.212 --> 00:24:31.550
  • Didn't have.
  • 00:24:31.550 --> 00:24:32.884
  • He suffered so we can now have healing.
  • 00:24:32.884 --> 00:24:34.452
  • He suffered so we can now be made righteous.
  • 00:24:34.452 --> 00:24:36.988
  • He suffered because now we can be made whole.
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  • When stuff happens in your life, that's an opportunity for you
  • 00:24:39.724 --> 00:24:42.594
  • To grow.
  • 00:24:42.594 --> 00:24:43.929
  • That's an opportunity for you to get stronger and stronger
  • 00:24:43.929 --> 00:24:46.264
  • And stronger.
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  • God wants to mature you.
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  • Ignite real change in the world.
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  • This isn't just another conference.
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  • It's a gathering of powerful women who are unapologetically
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  • Themselves, ready to revolutionize lives.
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  • We'll share stories, strategies because when we know our worth,
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  • We are unstoppable.
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  • Don't miss this opportunity to connect, grow and step into your
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  • Power together taffi dollar's women's conference, march 20th
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  • Through the 21st, 2025.
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  • Be real, be radical, be ready to make history.
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  • Register today and join the revolution.
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  • Creflo: everything in god's kingdom works by faith.
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  • Now, i remember when taffi and i started giving, it was a painful
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  • Thing to give because we didn't have much at all financially.
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  • However, we made a decision to be givers and one of the most
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  • Quoted scriptures in the bible is john 3:16, "god so loved the
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  • World that he gave."
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  • Therefore, as christians, we give; our giving is an
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  • Expression of our love.
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  • And when you support creflo dollar ministries financially,
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  • You are giving to our efforts to spread the gospel all over
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  • The world.
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  • And in addition to helping millions who are hurting and
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  • Have vital physical needs, pray about what god would have you to
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  • Sow at this time.
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  • We wanna thank you in advance for your support.
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  • Announcer: to support the vision of this ministry to reach the
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  • World with the gospel of grace
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  • You may call in to make your financial donations
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  • Or log on to creflodollarministries.org.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Male announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you, in part, by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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