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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst of Discomfort

December 4, 2024 | S24:E1204

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst of Discomfort
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
#Faith #TrustGod #Victory #LoveofGod #Forgiveness #Grace #Religion #Jesus #Trials-HardTimes #Discouragement #Believe #Sin #inActive #CrefloDollar #Mistakes #Mercy

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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Victory In The Midst of Discomfort | December 4, 2024
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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: you know what sin is?
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  • Sin is missing the mark.
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  • So you mean to tell me you don't miss the mark no more?
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  • So you so flawless you don't miss the mark?
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  • Well, you missed the mark the other day when you went past
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  • That person that was naked and hungry, but you were too scared
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  • They were gonna pull a knife out on you.
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  • So, you know, you didn't even ask god.
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  • You didn't even regard god to find out if he wanted you to
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  • Stop or not.
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  • Female announcer: look no further for encouragement to
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  • Walk in the grace of god.
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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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  • ♪ whoa-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-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: god is not a man that you can abuse like other men do.
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  • His grace is literally something out of this world.
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  • And we keep trying to bring his grace on the level
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  • Of doctrine,
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  • And his grace will show you doctrine that your mind can't
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  • Even hardly comprehend.
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  • So that's why i won't be sending people to hell no more.
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  • Well, i know they definitely go--they gonna go to hell
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  • By 11.
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  • Because god--listen, you remember those two thieves on
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  • The cross?
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  • You remember that?
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  • This thing was getting ready to happen with one of them.
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  • Well, with both of them.
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  • He looked over there at that man, he said, "you believe?"
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  • He said, "yeah, i believe."
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  • He said, "well, today," now watch this, "today are you with
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  • Me in paradise."
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  • That man didn't have time to go to church, he didn't have time
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  • To have no prayer life, he didn't have time to do no good
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  • Deeds, he didn't have time to play church.
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  • He believed, and today, that day, he was with jesus.
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  • Now the other one didn't believe,
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  • And that day he was in hell.
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  • And the distinction was, "will you believe jesus or will you
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  • Work to try to have a--dead work, enough dead works to see
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  • If you can get him to let you in?"
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  • All he wants you to do is believe in him, and some of us,
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  • We got a hard time to do that.
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  • "i don't know about that, i don't know about that.
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  • Well, that's--i don't know about that stuff reverend
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  • Dollar talking about."
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  • Everything i done said i can show it to you in a bunch of
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  • Scriptures in the new testament and then show you the shadow of
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  • It in the old testament.
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  • I ain't making up nothing.
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  • You just haven't read it, and i have, and i'm trying to
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  • Tell you.
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  • And now you sitting up there like, "i don't know."
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  • You ought to be so happy, you ought to be so happy i'm talking
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  • Like this, you ought to be doing cartwheels up and down
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  • The stairway.
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  • You sitting up there talking about, "i don't know about jesus
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  • Forgiving me of all my sin.
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  • I don't know if he gonna forgive all of them because, you know, i
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  • Was a hell-raiser."
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  • He know you was a hell-raiser.
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  • That's why you need him, because ain't no way in the world you
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  • Gonna get in, in your own will, with your hell-raiser stuff.
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  • Ain't no way in the world he gonna do it.
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  • We so backwards, we so backwards, we let religion--at
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  • First it was the world, now it's church folks.
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  • And then god sent this beautiful gift of grace and we don't know
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  • If we want it.
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  • "i don't know about that grace."
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  • All right, so let me tell you what you're saying, let me tell
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  • You what you're saying.
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  • Grace is jesus full of grace and truth.
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  • Grace is the truth that makes man free.
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  • So when you say, "i got a problem with that grace stuff,"
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  • You know what you're saying?
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  • "i got a problem with jesus."
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  • Because every principle i share of grace is a principle of the
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  • Lord jesus christ.
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  • Everlasting forgiveness, never leave you nor forsake you,
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  • Friend of sinners, go to a sinner's house and eat
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  • With them.
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  • While the church saying, "we got a problem with jesus going to
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  • The house of a sinner."
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  • For you to be judgmental of sinful behavior you have to
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  • Believe that you don't have none.
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  • "oh lord, you gotta help me, i have sin."
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  • No, you got more than sin, you have sins.
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  • Yeah, you do.
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  • You have sins, but all of your sinful behavior is not what
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  • Separated you from christ.
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  • What separated you from christ was the sinful nature, and your
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  • Sinful nature has been dealt with the day you got born again.
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  • And now that you're born again, you have a new creation, no
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  • Longer have a sinful nature.
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  • But you keep misunderstanding the sinful nature versus the
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  • Sinful behavior.
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  • Your sinful behavior did not separate you from christ.
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  • If that was the case, jesus wouldn't have been able to hang
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  • Out with the disciples none.
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  • The sinful nature has been dealt with.
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  • You have a new creation that is now going to escort you from the
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  • Sinful behavior.
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  • But you didn't get free from your sinful behavior the day you
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  • Got born again.
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  • You still have some misbehaving.
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  • So for us to judge another person's sinful behavior when
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  • We're still dealing with some ourselves, we're still dealing
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  • With it ourselves.
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  • And so what we call sin is the big ten.
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  • Adultery.
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  • What, murder?
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  • We don't do them ten.
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  • But them other 603 we be wearing out.
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  • Bad attitude, arrogant, not walking in love, selfish.
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  • Yeah, but that's little sin.
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  • So when did the bible make a distinction between big sin and
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  • Little sin, where that?
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  • You know what sin is?
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  • Sin is missing the mark.
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  • So you mean to tell me you don't miss the mark no more?
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  • So you so flawless, you don't miss the mark?
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  • Well, you missed the mark the other day when you went past
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  • That person that was naked and hungry, but you were too scared
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  • They were gonna go pull a knife out on you so you, you know, you
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  • Didn't even ask god, you didn't even regard god to find out if
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  • He wanted you to stop or not.
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  • We all miss the mark.
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  • But for you to look at somebody and say how awful they are, you
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  • Just missed the mark.
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  • Because you have to see yourself as "i'm perfect."
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  • Well, we perfect in christ, but it's still manifesting.
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  • "for all have sinned and come short."
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  • Falling short is inferiority, falling short is missing
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  • The mark.
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  • Somehow you gotta convince yourself you don't fall short
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  • No more.
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  • For you to act the way you act towards other people, like, you
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  • Know, they did this, but at least i hadn't done that.
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  • Well, now that's self-righteous.
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  • How is it that you ain't got no issues no more all of a sudden
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  • And the rest of us believe it every day?
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  • Lord, help us to have a good day today.
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  • And then at the end of the day-- and you did real good in
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  • Comparison with somebody else, but the bible says, "we must not
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  • Compare ourselves with one another."
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  • He said, "it ain't wise comparing yourself
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  • Amongst yourself."
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  • And you still come up at the end of the day.
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  • A good christian saying, "lord, i think i could have did better
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  • With my mouth.
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  • Keep helping me to choose better words.
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  • I chose pretty good today, but you know, i kind of got off.
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  • I had that one little thing and i just kind of, i got off.
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  • I got off and that cuss word came, i thought the book of cuss
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  • Was buried.
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  • It just, it came out.
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  • The cuss came out and, oh lord jesus [speaking in tongues]."
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  • Well, god loves that.
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  • God said, "okay, we'll work on that."
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  • But another christian say, "look at you, shame on you."
  • 00:10:49.395 --> 00:10:52.631
  • And then what we do is we shame people.
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  • We shame people out of church, we shame people out of
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  • Relationship with god.
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  • We shame people in order to make us feel better about us missing
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  • The mark.
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  • Ooh, the hell i done caught for teaching the truth.
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  • I ain't got nobody else but y'all.
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  • But if y'all leave, i'm gonna still keep teaching.
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  • I'd rather catch hell here than to go to hell.
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  • And i ain't going to hell, but still the thought of it just--
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  • It's the truth.
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  • My life ain't never been the same.
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  • I'm free, i'm delivered, i'm happy.
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  • I know how to go on vacation now.
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  • I try to give so i can get people to say, "wow!"
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  • You know, i go to the restaurant and i know this girl, this is
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  • The only way she's gonna make money.
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  • I ain't sitting up there trying to, you know, give her $2.
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  • Man, i want to make her holler.
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  • And baby, here go the tip, she come back, she said, "did you
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  • Mean to, did you mean to, did you mean to give me this?"
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  • I said, "well, how much was it?"
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  • She said, "$250."
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  • I said, "yeah."
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  • She said, "that's, like, that's more than what i get on
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  • My check."
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  • I said, "oh, that's--really?
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  • Let me add a little bit more to it.
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  • That's almost poverty."
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  • Because god blessed you and you got to not want to be a blessing
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  • To somebody else?
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  • Then you get mad at me because you see me operating in
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  • My harvest.
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  • I ain't 'stand you, i ain't 'stand you.
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  • "y'all better watch out for creflo and taffi there, you
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  • Know, creflo and them talking that grace stuff, and taffi up
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  • There talking about that biblical equality stuff.
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  • That biblical equality--that ain't god--ain't no woman
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  • Supposed to be at no pulpit."
  • 00:13:09.735 --> 00:13:11.103
  • Well, you just saw her in the pulpit, what you talking about?
  • 00:13:11.103 --> 00:13:13.205
  • "ain't no woman supposed to be no pulpit.
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  • They didn't call for a woman to be in the pulpit."
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  • It's so, some--like, and you went to school, you telling
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  • Somebody you went to school.
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  • You went to seminary, you probably went to a cemetery, you
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  • Didn't go to no seminary, because if you went to the real
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  • Seminary, you will find out that the majority of the churches in
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  • The book of acts were pastored by women.
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  • You mean to tell me a woman can raise your big-headed self, but
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  • The woman can't do--can't raise no people in the church?
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  • What is the matter with us?
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  • Of course god has called women into the ministry.
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  • Of course god has called women to preach on the pulpit.
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  • Of course god has called women to lay hands on the sick and see
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  • Them recover.
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  • Of course god has called women to do mighty, mighty
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  • Works.
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  • Amen.
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  • "well, you gotta understand everybody's culture not there."
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  • I'm not preaching culture.
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  • Don't nobody care about your culture.
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  • Your culture is wrong, your culture needs to be adjusted,
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  • Your culture needs some word infusion.
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  • I don't care about no culture.
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  • I said this when i was in africa the other week ago, i'm like, i
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  • Don't--and then gims sitting there like...
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  • I'm like, you better straighten up.
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  • Either you believe the word or you don't.
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  • Don't be talking about you believe the word and then we get
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  • To this part.
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  • "well, i don't know, our culture."
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  • I don't care about your culture.
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  • Your culture didn't call you to beat up a woman, no culture
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  • Didn't call you to beat your wife down, your culture didn't
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  • Call--that ain't god.
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  • Your culture can--and i'm-- there's enough grace for your
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  • Culture, whatever culture it may be.
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  • Well, now here's the deal, here's where we are.
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  • "well, i hear you preaching.
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  • I just don't believe it."
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  • So that's where we are.
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  • That's where we are.
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  • You believe your tradition that doesn't line up with the word
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  • More than you believe the word.
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  • So don't ever tell nobody you want the word.
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  • Don't tell nobody you want the word.
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  • "i want the word."
  • 00:15:28.607 --> 00:15:29.975
  • No, you don't, no, you don't.
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  • These scriptures--i literally can go to the bible and
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  • Show you.
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  • Some man tells you--and this is the problem with men.
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  • Most men are victims of condemnation.
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  • They don't feel like they're enough, they don't feel like--
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  • That they got enough.
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  • And they got that from their dad who didn't feel like he enough.
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  • And in each case, he had to cover his insecurity up with a
  • 00:15:52.931 --> 00:15:58.137
  • False sense of superiority.
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  • And so black women trying to figure out why men don't wanna
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  • Get married.
  • 00:16:03.509 --> 00:16:04.877
  • Because they're scared, they don't know what to do.
  • 00:16:04.877 --> 00:16:06.211
  • They're still victims of toxic masculinity.
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  • They're still victims of "a man supposed to do this" and "a man
  • 00:16:09.615 --> 00:16:14.186
  • Supposed to do that" and they just ain't even built like that.
  • 00:16:14.186 --> 00:16:18.457
  • But since a man supposed to act this way, the toxicity puts
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  • Pressure on them to try to keep the man law.
  • 00:16:23.429 --> 00:16:27.633
  • And man is supposed to like sports, but you like arts.
  • 00:16:27.633 --> 00:16:32.171
  • "but you ain't no man, that's a woman dna."
  • 00:16:32.171 --> 00:16:36.475
  • Well, see, just in case you don't know, males have estrogen
  • 00:16:36.475 --> 00:16:41.046
  • And testosterone.
  • 00:16:41.046 --> 00:16:45.184
  • And the beauty of a gift is suppressed because of
  • 00:16:45.184 --> 00:16:48.320
  • Toxic masculinity.
  • 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:53.158
  • And the boy can't grow up to be who he need to be because of the
  • 00:16:53.158 --> 00:16:56.595
  • Father's false sense of superiority.
  • 00:16:56.595 --> 00:17:03.335
  • So don't come tell nobody you want the word, you don't want
  • 00:17:07.573 --> 00:17:09.842
  • No word.
  • 00:17:09.842 --> 00:17:12.644
  • You wanna dominate a woman because everybody told you you
  • 00:17:12.644 --> 00:17:15.981
  • Need to dominate that woman.
  • 00:17:15.981 --> 00:17:18.917
  • A man supposed to tell the woman--i tell you what.
  • 00:17:18.917 --> 00:17:20.953
  • I was so scared when i got married, i wish i could have
  • 00:17:20.953 --> 00:17:22.821
  • Told somebody.
  • 00:17:22.821 --> 00:17:25.257
  • Taffi walked down the aisle, i couldn't hardly see the
  • 00:17:25.257 --> 00:17:27.493
  • Beautiful woman for seeing this big responsibility, like, "got
  • 00:17:27.493 --> 00:17:30.863
  • Dog, what am i supposed to do?
  • 00:17:30.863 --> 00:17:33.365
  • I gotta feed her, i gotta do all this stuff.
  • 00:17:33.365 --> 00:17:36.768
  • I wonder if she greedy.
  • 00:17:36.768 --> 00:17:38.137
  • I need to find out.
  • 00:17:38.137 --> 00:17:39.471
  • What in the world?"
  • 00:17:39.471 --> 00:17:42.474
  • I was scared and she was too.
  • 00:17:42.474 --> 00:17:45.911
  • We weren't supposed to be getting married that day.
  • 00:17:45.911 --> 00:17:50.149
  • I didn't know what to do.
  • 00:17:50.149 --> 00:17:53.285
  • And then you get around a dude who think he know what to do.
  • 00:17:53.285 --> 00:17:55.454
  • "now, here's what a man is supposed to do.
  • 00:17:55.454 --> 00:17:56.922
  • A man's supposed to, he's supposed to be--he's supposed
  • 00:17:56.922 --> 00:17:59.324
  • To lead like this."
  • 00:17:59.324 --> 00:18:00.659
  • Well, that not part of my culture to lead like that.
  • 00:18:00.659 --> 00:18:02.561
  • In fact, she lead better like that than i do.
  • 00:18:02.561 --> 00:18:07.566
  • "well, a man's supposed to pay the bills."
  • 00:18:07.566 --> 00:18:09.134
  • I can't count.
  • 00:18:09.134 --> 00:18:17.476
  • But the pressure is on that guy to keep man law, which brings
  • 00:18:17.476 --> 00:18:23.015
  • Toxicity, and then you get married.
  • 00:18:23.015 --> 00:18:29.521
  • So sad, and ain't nobody there to tell you.
  • 00:18:33.392 --> 00:18:38.530
  • That we don't wanna tell you what the man is supposed to do,
  • 00:18:38.530 --> 00:18:42.467
  • We want to tell you what jesus does.
  • 00:18:42.467 --> 00:18:46.805
  • Whether you're the man or the woman, here's how to carry
  • 00:18:46.805 --> 00:18:50.475
  • Yourself in this situation and in that situation.
  • 00:18:50.475 --> 00:18:55.647
  • Yeah, but the wife said, "i can't cook."
  • 00:18:55.647 --> 00:19:00.352
  • The man said, "i've always wanted to be a chef, but i can't
  • 00:19:00.352 --> 00:19:04.990
  • Do it because all my friends say, 'man, you're a weak dude,
  • 00:19:04.990 --> 00:19:10.462
  • Your wife don't cook for you?
  • 00:19:10.462 --> 00:19:11.930
  • Man, i make my wife get in there and cook for you.'"
  • 00:19:11.930 --> 00:19:14.499
  • He wants you to believe that story he telling himself.
  • 00:19:14.499 --> 00:19:21.340
  • Because if she around, she like, "make?
  • 00:19:21.340 --> 00:19:22.708
  • Make who?"
  • 00:19:22.708 --> 00:19:26.245
  • Our society is so ignorant because we have placed values on
  • 00:19:26.245 --> 00:19:31.984
  • All of these laws that were culturally given to us.
  • 00:19:31.984 --> 00:19:40.959
  • And you got a man walking around trying to be hard, trying to be
  • 00:19:40.959 --> 00:19:43.395
  • Cool, to cover up his inferiority.
  • 00:19:43.395 --> 00:19:50.002
  • To cover up the fact that he's a known as an architect, to
  • 00:19:50.002 --> 00:19:53.405
  • Decorate something like ain't nobody ever decorated.
  • 00:19:53.405 --> 00:19:56.975
  • But that's supposed to be the woman.
  • 00:19:56.975 --> 00:20:03.448
  • And we are victims of the secret trauma that was passed down from
  • 00:20:03.448 --> 00:20:11.390
  • Our fathers to their sons, and now you're trying to pass it
  • 00:20:11.390 --> 00:20:17.763
  • Down to your son about what a man's supposed to do instead of,
  • 00:20:17.763 --> 00:20:22.634
  • "let's discover how god wired you."
  • 00:20:22.634 --> 00:20:37.149
  • Men don't do that, men do that.
  • 00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:43.522
  • And then we pat you on the back if you done been with six women
  • 00:20:43.522 --> 00:20:47.025
  • And you got kids by six women.
  • 00:20:47.025 --> 00:20:48.460
  • "well, that's how a man do.
  • 00:20:48.460 --> 00:20:49.795
  • You know, maybe that's the only way you can love is you gotta
  • 00:20:49.795 --> 00:20:53.065
  • Love with six women."
  • 00:20:53.065 --> 00:20:55.167
  • That's just plain ignorant.
  • 00:20:55.167 --> 00:21:01.473
  • And you're still defining your masculinity by what's in between
  • 00:21:05.677 --> 00:21:11.783
  • Your legs.
  • 00:21:11.783 --> 00:21:21.059
  • Man, time.
  • 00:21:21.059 --> 00:21:22.394
  • Let me go and get my--i think i'm gonna be delivered from
  • 00:21:22.394 --> 00:21:26.431
  • Plant-based eating today.
  • 00:21:26.431 --> 00:21:32.170
  • There's a graceful meat.
  • 00:21:32.170 --> 00:21:38.410
  • I was just trying to finish a series and we got involved in
  • 00:21:38.410 --> 00:21:42.047
  • All this stuff and i don't know, take whatever you can take from
  • 00:21:42.047 --> 00:21:47.686
  • Of it and pray for me--for the rest of it, you know?
  • 00:21:47.686 --> 00:21:52.924
  • Bow your heads.
  • 00:21:52.924 --> 00:21:54.292
  • Father, we thank you.
  • 00:21:54.292 --> 00:21:56.795
  • We need you, we need you every day, every hour, every minute,
  • 00:21:56.795 --> 00:22:03.001
  • Every second, we need you.
  • 00:22:03.001 --> 00:22:06.671
  • Oh, be our lord and our savior.
  • 00:22:06.671 --> 00:22:10.208
  • Help us to depend on your grace and not to disregard all that
  • 00:22:10.208 --> 00:22:17.249
  • You have made available for us and to us.
  • 00:22:17.249 --> 00:22:22.587
  • Show us how to have a relationship with you, and from
  • 00:22:22.587 --> 00:22:26.858
  • That relationship with you, and then show us how to have a
  • 00:22:26.858 --> 00:22:29.694
  • Relationship with other people.
  • 00:22:29.694 --> 00:22:33.198
  • Help us, oh, you know we need it.
  • 00:22:33.198 --> 00:22:38.904
  • Help us to be what you have called us to be, to do what you
  • 00:22:38.904 --> 00:22:45.911
  • Called us to do.
  • 00:22:45.911 --> 00:22:52.451
  • Lord jesus, there are some precious gifts in this place.
  • 00:22:52.451 --> 00:22:59.291
  • Men who have struggled to find out who they are, and today i
  • 00:22:59.291 --> 00:23:08.166
  • Just pray freedom, freedom in their lives to go on a journey
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  • With you to become that great individual that you've called
  • 00:23:15.207 --> 00:23:23.748
  • Them to be.
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  • I thank you for it now, in jesus's name.
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