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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Man's Acceptance of Grace | April 23, 2025
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- By the 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: the world does not know him.
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- They don't know the jesus that is full of grace and truth.
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- And when you don't know the jesus, that's full of grace and
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- Truth, check it out, it cannot, you cannot, you will not know
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- Grace as long as you find sufficiency and merit
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- In mankind.
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- Creflo: i dare you say that someone's living so bad
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- That god can't love them.
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- Kendra ketter chavis: we have to walk in obedience today.
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- Female announcer: join us at grace life 2025.
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- Flourish peters: jesus christ is same yesterday, today.
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- Announcer: grace isn't just an idea.
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- It's the heartbeat of our faith.
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- David winston: pray that you become stronger, bolder.
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- Announcer: and gospel recording artist ricky dillard & new g
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- Are taking the stage.
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- So reserve your spot today,
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- And let the journey being.
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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 say ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ it's time we live a new life ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ let his love shine bright in you ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ we're saved by his grace, so we embrace your love today ♪
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- ♪ we are changed ♪♪
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- Creflo: it's one thing that jesus has come and grace and
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- Truth has come, but here's the one thing we gotta get.
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- Man must accept it.
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- He's got to accept jesus, him being full of grace and truth.
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- And i wanna read out of, let's start at john chapter 1,
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- Verse 10 through 13.
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- John chapter 1, verse 10 through 13.
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- And let's call this "man's acceptance of grace."
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- Man's acceptance of grace."
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- So that's the teaching for tonight.
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- And in verse 10, he says, "he was in the world," jesus was.
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- We we know him as the light.
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- "he was in the world, and the world was made by him," jesus
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- The light, okay.
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- "and the world," watch this, "they knew him not."
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- So here's the deal.
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- God was in the world and they didn't know he was in the world.
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- God was in the world through jesus christ, the light was in
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- The world and the world didn't know it.
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- They didn't know him.
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- They knew him not.
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- Verse 11.
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- He says, "he came unto his own."
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- Now here it is making reference to jewish people.
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- So he was--jewish people are referred to as his own,
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- His tribe.
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- He came unto his own and watch this, "and his own received
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- Him not."
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- He came to 'em, world didn't know him, he came to his own
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- People, they didn't receive him.
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- And then next verse, "but as many as received him."
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- So the issue is not knowing him and not receiving him,
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- All right.
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- It's one thing for us to know about him, to have
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- All the scriptures about him and everything.
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- Have you received him?
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- And here's what he says, as many as received him, he gives them
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- Power to become the sons of god.
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- You by receiving jesus, have an opportunity to become a specie
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- That no spiritual creation or physical creation has ever
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- Encountered before.
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- Sons of god.
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- So the son of god, the son of god became the son of man so
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- That the sons of men could become the sons of god.
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- And here he says, "even to them that believe on his name."
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- So those who receive god and those who believe on his name,
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- Something outstanding happens, they become this amazing brand
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- New class sons of god.
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- Ain't nobody ever seen that before.
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- Angels men of men, but sons of god.
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- All right, now watch this.
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- I wanna look at three scriptures real quick because everything
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- That god did, he did it for every man but not every man
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- Received what he did.
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- Let's look at this real quick.
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- Let's look at the book of, let's see, chapter 1 here since we're
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- There verse 9, john chapter 1 and verse 9, just back up there.
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- He says, "that was the true light, which lighteth," watch
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- This, "every man that cometh into the world."
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- The true life was ready for every man that cometh into
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- The world.
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- So he did that for every man.
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- Look at hebrews 2 and 9, hebrews chapter 2 and verse 9, i want
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- You to notice he's doing it for every man.
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- He says, "but we see jesus who was made a little lower than the
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- Angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
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- Honor: that he by the grace of god should taste death for,"
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- Watch this, "every man."
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- Look at what he's doing for every man.
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- And then titus chapter 2 verse 11.
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- Titus chapter 2 verse 11.
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- "for the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared
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- To," who?
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- "all men."
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- So notice what god did.
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- He did it for every man.
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- Every man that's come on the earth, god has made it available
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- To every man.
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- But this doesn't mean that every member of the human race became
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- A partaker of grace.
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- You know, he made himself available to everyone, but not
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- Everyone received him.
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- He made himself available to every man but not every man
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- Accepted him.
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- So there's a different reaction on the part of man to god's
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- Offer of grace in the person of jesus christ.
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- The world knew him not knows him not.
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- And those that he called his own received him not, but there are
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- Some who do receive him and some who didn't receive him.
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- And that's the foundation of where we're gonna deal with it.
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- And i've never dealt with just that little issue, but i think
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- This little issue, i'm gonna show you how it blows up to
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- A big issue.
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- And i told you that in this series, we're dealing with every
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- Little crack and corner of the book of saint john.
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- And tonight we're looking at who's accepting him and who
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- Hadn't accepted him.
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- What happens when you accept him and what happens when you don't.
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- What does it really mean to accept him and to receive him.
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- All of those things, it just can't become something that we
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- Sit around pontificating about.
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- We've got to look at what we're saying and then ask ourselves
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- The question, what does that look like in my everyday life?
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- Okay, so once again, let's go to verse 10 in chapter 1, he says,
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- He was--john chapter 1, he said, "he was in the world, and the
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- World was made by him," and he says, "and the world knew
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- Him not."
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- Because the world does not know him.
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- Because the world does not know jesus.
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- Listen to me carefully.
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- This is huge because the world does not know jesus, grace
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- Cannot rule in it in their life unto eternal life.
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- Tonight, we're gonna find out, we gotta find out what eternal
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- Life is.
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- For this is life eternal.
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- Look at verse 17, let's--in john chapter 17 verse 3--i always
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- Settled, i was always settled with the explanation that
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- Eternal life was just living forever.
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- It is so much more than that.
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- And you're gonna see it right here in the scripture.
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- He says, "and this is life eternal."
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- Look what he says.
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- "this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
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- God, and jesus christ, whom thou hast sent."
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- So watch what he says.
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- He says, those that know him, those that have accepted him,
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- Those who know him know the true god.
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- He says, they have eternal life.
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- So all of a sudden eternal life is not a tying issue, it's
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- A person issue.
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- They that know him have eternal life.
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- I want you to know the day you got born again, that was the day
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- You started eternal life.
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- You have eternal life when you come to know jesus and you need
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- To keep that as you go throughout scripture and go
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- Throughout your study.
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- I know jesus, i've received jesus.
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- I have eternal life.
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- Don't just settle with the fact that i got born again so i can
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- Live forever.
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- No, your eternity is in jesus.
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- Jesus is eternity.
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- Praise god.
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- He was at the beginning, in the middle, on the earth, and
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- He's still here.
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- No, jesus, no eternal life for this is eternal life that you've
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- Come to know and receive the lord jesus christ.
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- And so the world, you know, they don't recognize him, but it's
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- Amazing about all the things they do recognize, but they've
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- Not yet come to the point of recognizing who jesus is.
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- The world does not know him.
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- They don't know the jesus that is full of grace and truth.
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- And when you don't know the jesus that's full of grace and
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- Truth, check it out, it cannot, you cannot, you will not know
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- Grace as long as you find sufficiency and merit
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- In mankind.
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- As long as you see that your answer and your sufficiency is
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- In what you know and in mankind, you won't know grace.
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- As long as the things that you go through in life that you have
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- Been trained and equipped to believe, i got this, i know
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- This, i got an education, i've experienced this, i know how
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- To do that and all that may be true.
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- But you are limiting because of what you know and the merits of
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- Man, your belief that i can bring the solution to everything
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- To the table.
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- You're limiting ever really knowing this grace and truth
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- Because this grace and truth, we're gonna go right back to
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- What we've been talking about, but we're gonna prove
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- It tonight.
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- This is all about setting your life up to be dependent
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- Upon god.
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- So you gotta ask the question, are my own purpose setting my
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- Life up on a day to day basis to depend upon god?
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- 'cause that's gonna--we gotta deal with this issue of, oh,
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- Praise the lord.
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- I'm saved.
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- And you are and all that kind of stuff.
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- I have no doubt about that.
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- But we really need to ask, what does that look like?
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- What does that look like?
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- In verse 11, john chapter 1, "he came unto his own," again,
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- "his own received him not, referring to the jewish people.
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- But i wanna take you somewhere in the book of exodus chapter 19
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- And verse 8--see, they didn't receive jesus at the time, but
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- You know what the jewish people receive right away?
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- The law.
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- When the law was given to israel, they received it.
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- When jesus came, they didn't even know him nor did they
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- Receive him.
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- And now watch this carefully because you're actually going to
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- Begin to see why god allowed the law to come in in the
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- First place.
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- One simple thing blew my mind when i saw it.
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- If you have time, i want you to read chapter 19, 20, 21,22
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- Because you read this and then you keep reading, you're like,
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- What ticked god off?
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- All of a sudden, all this wonderful stuff he's talking
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- About and all of a sudden he saying, all right, y'all need to
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- Build a boundary and you better not touch not even the bottom of
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- The mountain or you gonna fall dead.
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- I'm gonna tell you that right now.
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- Oh, you wanna hear from me?
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- He come down and they're in torment like please tell him,
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- Don't speak to us no more.
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- Tell him to give the message to you moses and you come tell us.
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- And then he start issuing out of all this law.
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- You do this, you're gonna die, you do that, you're gonna die.
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- If you don't do this, you're gonna die.
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- And if you do this with him, both of y'all gonna die.
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- I'm like, what rubbed him the wrong way.
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- Look at this.
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- "and all the people answered together, and they said," now
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- This is interesting because let's back up to verse 7 so we
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- Can get the context in here.
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- "and moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
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- Laid before them their faces, all these words which the lord
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- Commanded him."
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- So god's delivering a message here, they hear the message,
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- Verse 8, "and all the people answered together, and they
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- Said," now listen to this.
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- "all that the lord has spoken," hear these three words,
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- "we will do.
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- And moses returned the words of the people unto the lord."
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- Go to verse 9--let's just show you what happened.
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- "and the lord said unto moses, 'lo, i come unto thee in a thick
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- Cloud, that the people may hear when i speak with them, and
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- Believe thee forever.'
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- And moses told the words of the people unto the lord's ear."
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- So now he's telling people like he already knew, but he's
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- Saying, you know, they heard your words and they say, yeah,
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- We can do that.
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- All right, now watch this.
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- Next verse.
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- "and the lord said unto moses, 'go unto the people, sanctify
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- Them today and tomorrow and let them wash their clothes," it's
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- Gonna be on, "and be ready against the third day: for the
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- Third day the lord will come down in the sight of all the
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- People upon mount sinai.
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- Mount sinai and thou shalt set bounds unto the people round
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- About, saying, 'take heed to yourselves that ye go not up
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- Into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth
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- The mount shall be surely put to death.'"
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- What happened?
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- You can't see grace if you continue to see and depend on
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- Your ability, you can't see it.
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- That's what happened.
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- And in the next chapter, started right here, he brings the law.
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- Why did he bring the law?
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- He says, you think you're all that?
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- I'm gonna give you something so perfect and so flawless that we
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- Ain't gonna be able to do nothing without me.
- 00:15:54.122 --> 00:15:57.759
- And i'm gonna send you this perfect flawless law that i
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- Already know you can't keep.
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- And what people don't understand is the millions of folks that
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- Died under the law 'cause they couldn't keep it.
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- And this thing went on until one day they made their mind up,
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- We need you.
- 00:16:18.713 --> 00:16:20.515
- So the bible says, we should exalt the law.
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- Why?
- 00:16:23.584 --> 00:16:24.919
- Because without the law, we would have never come to the
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- Place of understanding our need for a savior.
- 00:16:27.388 --> 00:16:33.194
- And because most people miss that little three words, "we
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- Shall do," then they have no idea why the law was put in, but
- 00:16:36.831 --> 00:16:41.302
- It was put in to bring man to the end of his self so that he
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- Will understand you can't do nothing without me, all right?
- 00:16:45.073 --> 00:16:50.778
- I am the god of all grace and mercy.
- 00:16:50.778 --> 00:16:55.016
- So when the word full of grace and truth came, they received
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- Him not because they still desire to establish their own
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- Righteousness by doing the things that were demanded
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- Of the law.
- 00:17:06.294 --> 00:17:07.662
- Look at romans 10 verse 3 through 5, real quick.
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- Still wanting to establish their own righteousness by doing the
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- Things demanded by the law.
- 00:17:14.669 --> 00:17:16.637
- That's what religion is today.
- 00:17:16.637 --> 00:17:18.506
- And religious churches, there are christian people that still
- 00:17:18.506 --> 00:17:22.176
- Want to establish their own righteousness by doing things
- 00:17:22.176 --> 00:17:26.647
- That are demanded in the law.
- 00:17:26.647 --> 00:17:28.382
- Romans chapter 10 and verses 3 through 5 says, "for they being
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- Ignorant of god's righteousness, and going about to establish
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- Their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
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- The righteousness of god.
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- For christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
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- That," watch, "believeth."
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- Verse 5, "for moses describeth the righteousness which is of
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- The law, that the man which doeth those things shall live
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- By them."
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- They were trusting in themselves and they were unwilling to
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- Acknowledge their own inability to measure up to
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- God's requirements.
- 00:18:09.323 --> 00:18:11.292
- And we're living the same way today.
- 00:18:11.292 --> 00:18:13.261
- I'm telling you about the grace of god.
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- And i'm telling you how you need to depend on the grace of god.
- 00:18:15.062 --> 00:18:17.431
- And i'm telling you, you're not gonna be able to do this
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- Without god.
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- And i'm telling you, you need to depend on god.
- 00:18:20.601 --> 00:18:22.136
- And we are still going around saying no, i can prove to you
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- That i can do this by myself.
- 00:18:26.874 --> 00:18:29.377
- I can establish my own righteousness and you can't.
- 00:18:29.377 --> 00:18:32.713
- And then you deceive yourself by judging other people without
- 00:18:32.713 --> 00:18:36.551
- Recognizing that you got your own issues because you've
- 00:18:36.551 --> 00:18:40.054
- Convinced yourself, no, i don't.
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- I can't fulfill god's requirement without him.
- 00:18:42.356 --> 00:18:45.860
- So you're committing the greatest sin in the bible.
- 00:18:45.860 --> 00:18:49.163
- What is that?
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- Trying to be like god without god.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- Trying to measure up instead of acknowledging, i don't have the
- 00:19:00.741 --> 00:19:05.947
- Ability to measure up to god's requirements.
- 00:19:05.947 --> 00:19:07.481
- And church has taught you so that yes, you do.
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- You don't.
- 00:19:12.954 --> 00:19:14.689
- Even when i first 12 years ago understood the grace of god, i
- 00:19:14.689 --> 00:19:19.660
- Still kept fighting this thing of trying to measure up to god's
- 00:19:19.660 --> 00:19:25.666
- Requirements on my own.
- 00:19:25.666 --> 00:19:28.703
- Now, today, i can't do it.
- 00:19:28.703 --> 00:19:32.940
- And, you know, it's not like 'cause i didn't give a valiant
- 00:19:32.940 --> 00:19:35.977
- Effort, i did.
- 00:19:35.977 --> 00:19:40.214
- And it went sometimes for months.
- 00:19:40.214 --> 00:19:43.384
- And then i realized i can't do it because as long as you
- 00:19:43.384 --> 00:19:47.255
- Realize you can do it when you mess up, you have this
- 00:19:47.255 --> 00:19:51.692
- Tremendous guilt and condemnation that says you're
- 00:19:51.692 --> 00:19:55.930
- Not enough.
- 00:19:55.930 --> 00:19:57.265
- And the truth is like i said on sunday, you're right.
- 00:19:57.265 --> 00:19:59.100
- You're not enough.
- 00:19:59.100 --> 00:20:01.035
- And watch this, without god, you are never going to be enough.
- 00:20:01.035 --> 00:20:06.474
- That's the message of grace.
- 00:20:06.474 --> 00:20:07.875
- You're never going to be enough.
- 00:20:07.875 --> 00:20:11.379
- And so somehow what we have to do in all of our inferiority and
- 00:20:11.379 --> 00:20:17.585
- All of our lacking this or that, that now really drives us to the
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- Place where i gotta depend on god.
- 00:20:24.458 --> 00:20:28.562
- And you know what i'm learning, i'm learning there's a
- 00:20:28.562 --> 00:20:30.731
- Difference between talking this stuff in church and then
- 00:20:30.731 --> 00:20:33.234
- Actually experiencing it in life.
- 00:20:33.234 --> 00:20:37.038
- You know, god spoke to me, he says, i want to get to know you
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- As you're living.
- 00:20:42.677 --> 00:20:45.379
- Not in a compartmentalized position in your closet every
- 00:20:45.379 --> 00:20:50.918
- Day for 30 minutes.
- 00:20:50.918 --> 00:20:52.953
- He says, don't compartmentalize our relationship.
- 00:20:52.953 --> 00:20:57.058
- I want our relationship to be the good and the bad and the
- 00:20:57.058 --> 00:21:00.094
- Ugly of the day.
- 00:21:00.094 --> 00:21:01.996
- I want it to be the good, the bad and ugly of the day and i
- 00:21:01.996 --> 00:21:05.666
- Want you to look at your life and when you're weak and when
- 00:21:05.666 --> 00:21:09.837
- You're dogged out and when you fall in and when you failed and
- 00:21:09.837 --> 00:21:13.441
- When the devil says, you know, stay home, don't pray, don't
- 00:21:13.441 --> 00:21:16.043
- Have nothing to do with that.
- 00:21:16.043 --> 00:21:17.378
- Don't go to church.
- 00:21:17.378 --> 00:21:18.746
- You know, you've been enough, you need to...
- 00:21:18.746 --> 00:21:20.081
- I've always told you, you know, when you go through something,
- 00:21:20.081 --> 00:21:21.549
- You need to stay away from church.
- 00:21:21.549 --> 00:21:22.883
- You need to go somewhere and get restored.
- 00:21:22.883 --> 00:21:24.719
- No, no, no.
- 00:21:24.719 --> 00:21:26.053
- I have been restored and in my living, i'm saying, god help me.
- 00:21:26.053 --> 00:21:30.491
- I failed. it hurt.
- 00:21:30.491 --> 00:21:33.060
- I didn't want to get up, but i'm gonna get my butt up
- 00:21:33.060 --> 00:21:34.795
- Because i depend on you.
- 00:21:34.795 --> 00:21:36.130
- And when i am weak, that's when i am strong.
- 00:21:36.130 --> 00:21:39.700
- Are you listening to what i'm saying?
- 00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:41.035
- Quit compartmentalizing your relationship with god.
- 00:21:41.035 --> 00:21:44.672
- Thirty minutes in the morning in prayer.
- 00:21:44.672 --> 00:21:46.874
- An hour in the morning in prayer and then you leave that 30
- 00:21:46.874 --> 00:21:49.944
- Minutes or an hour and you ain't got nothing to do with god no
- 00:21:49.944 --> 00:21:52.747
- More until the next morning where you enter into that closet
- 00:21:52.747 --> 00:21:56.283
- To compartmentalize your relationship with god.
- 00:21:56.283 --> 00:21:58.652
- Imagine if you did that with real people.
- 00:21:58.652 --> 00:22:01.589
- The relationships would stink.
- 00:22:01.589 --> 00:22:03.290
- Why?
- 00:22:03.290 --> 00:22:04.658
- Because you're only compartmentalizing that, but
- 00:22:04.658 --> 00:22:07.895
- Throughout the day, you have no communion in that relationship.
- 00:22:07.895 --> 00:22:13.501
- I don't want a relationship like that with god.
- 00:22:13.501 --> 00:22:15.603
- I don't mind--i was looking for a broadcast one day and then i
- 00:22:15.603 --> 00:22:19.774
- Saw some clickbait, "the messy life of creflo dollar."
- 00:22:19.774 --> 00:22:22.676
- I'm like, "you got that right, it was messy."
- 00:22:22.676 --> 00:22:25.513
- I had no problem with it.
- 00:22:25.513 --> 00:22:26.881
- Didn't bother me at all.
- 00:22:26.881 --> 00:22:28.215
- I agree quickly.
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- It was messy and you know what?
- 00:22:29.550 --> 00:22:31.318
- The mess still not gonna be gone until jesus comes back.
- 00:22:31.318 --> 00:22:34.755
- There's gonna be something else in your life that you're gonna
- 00:22:34.755 --> 00:22:38.893
- Confront, whether it's your attitude, whether it's your
- 00:22:38.893 --> 00:22:41.462
- Mouth, whether it's your emotions or your feelings,
- 00:22:41.462 --> 00:22:44.498
- Something you're gonna confront where you're gonna say, "ha ha,
- 00:22:44.498 --> 00:22:47.802
- I still need you."
- 00:22:47.802 --> 00:22:50.404
- But don't ever get to the place where you say we can do this.
- 00:22:50.404 --> 00:22:57.978
- I can do this.
- 00:22:57.978 --> 00:23:01.816
- I always want to get to the place where i'm saying, "i hear
- 00:23:01.816 --> 00:23:04.518
- What you told me to do.
- 00:23:04.518 --> 00:23:06.821
- I can't do this without you."
- 00:23:06.821 --> 00:23:09.990
- I wanna get to the place where you can say, "lord, i'm not
- 00:23:09.990 --> 00:23:12.259
- Enough by myself, but with you, i can do all things."
- 00:23:12.259 --> 00:23:18.899
- That's what in a lack of better terms, it turns him on.
- 00:23:18.899 --> 00:23:23.137
- I mean, he's turned on all the time.
- 00:23:23.137 --> 00:23:25.105
- But when his creation comes back to the place where they are in
- 00:23:25.105 --> 00:23:30.845
- Total reliance upon him, then you go to bed at night, you go
- 00:23:30.845 --> 00:23:35.850
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