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Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation

January 14, 2025 | S25:E15

Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation | January 14, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: god produced the human race, and all the humans
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  • Have the same blood.
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  • Of one blood has he made all nation of men, one blood.
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  • There's equality right there.
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  • How are you going to say that i am a different race when i have
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  • The same blood you--i got the same engine you got.
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  • I got the same blood you got.
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  • I'm not the black race.
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  • I'm the human race that's black.
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  • Creflo: the last element here that we find in this ministry,
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  • This calling of reconciliation, is the sanctity, the sanctity
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  • From reconciliation.
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  • That we might be made the righteousness of god in him.
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  • That we might be made, he has to now make us the righteousness
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  • Of god.
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  • And the only way he can do that is to make us righteous in him.
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  • Listen to me carefully.
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  • This is radical, what i'm about to say.
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  • In order to be reconciled to god, we must be as good as god.
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  • What?
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  • You see this?
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  • The dilemma is, "how can i reconcile with man, and man's on
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  • A level--i can't restore man in this sin state.
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  • I can't restore man unless we deal with the sin nature, unless
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  • We deal with the unrighteous nature.
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  • I've got to restore man.
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  • Man's got to be righteous like i am righteous.
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  • Man's got to be sinless like i am sinless."
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  • And so, there's no way for us in our own ability to accomplish
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  • This, so jesus was the substitute, and so god says, "i
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  • Can do everything i wanna do with man as far as restoring him
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  • Back to friendship, but i'm--now i'm gonna have to do it
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  • Through jesus.
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  • I'm now gonna have to do it through jesus."
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  • The only way that can happen is for the righteousness of god to
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  • Be imputed unto us.
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  • God had to declare us righteous.
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  • You know, the bible says something in isaiah chapter 61
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  • And 10.
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  • The bible says in isaiah 61 and 10 that "he hath covered me with
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  • The robe of righteousness," and i often wondered, why did he
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  • Cover me with the robe of righteousness?
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  • Because he cannot reconcile something that not--that is not
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  • As good as he is.
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  • And so how does he do this?
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  • And i'm gonna say something, this is very, very radical.
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  • I'm gonna say it.
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  • God knew that there could be no reconciliation until there's,
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  • First of all, equality.
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  • He says, "how am i gonna reconcile man back to me and
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  • He's not as good as i am and he's not equal to me?"
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  • And please don't get upset.
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  • I know that in our own self we can never, ever be equal to god.
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  • It can't happen.
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  • I know that a human being without jesus christ can never
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  • Be equal with god.
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  • But see, here's the point.
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  • God said, "the only way i can make a man equal to it--to me,
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  • Is that i've got to do it through christ."
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  • Now, look at what jesus was referred to in the book of
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  • Philippians chapter 2 and 6. turn there.
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  • In philippians chapter 2 and 6, the key is there's no
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  • Reconciliation until there is equality.
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  • And he says of jesus, "who, being in the form of god,
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  • Thought it not robbery to be equal with god."
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  • Whoa.
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  • So god says, "here's what i'm gonna do.
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  • I'm gonna bring jesus in as the great equalizer, and everything
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  • I wanna do with man, i will do it through jesus because jesus
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  • Is righteous and jesus is sinless and jesus is perfect, so
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  • I can reconcile and restore friendship with man.
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  • But i have to do it through the man, christ jesus," and he now
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  • Represents mankind and he now comes on a level where
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  • Reconciliation with man is now possible.
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  • Jesus was the great equalizer for reconciliation.
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  • Now take a deep breath, think about everything i just said,
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  • Think about everything you just saw, and now let's bring it to
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  • Our society and bring it to where we are right now.
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  • The webster's new international dictionary defines "reconcile"
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  • Like this: to cause to be friendly again.
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  • It defines "reconcile" as "to restore to friendship."
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  • You heard me using that phrase throughout this explanation.
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  • It defines "reconcile" as "to bring back harmony," as "to
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  • Reconcile a person who has had a quarrel," and in this case, that
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  • Whole sin thing came in.
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  • Now listen to me very carefully.
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  • Please listen to me.
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  • For all of my ministry, i have believed that the first step
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  • Towards good relationships between blacks and whites, i
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  • Believe that it was reconciliation.
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  • And often in my life in ministry, i would hear people
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  • Say, you know, "let's quit the fighting and just reconcile."
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  • And i understood that, and i'm not belittling reconciliation,
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  • But here i've learned something from god, i've learned something
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  • From jesus, i've learned something from this calling
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  • Of reconciliation.
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  • I have since grown and i have matured and i have experienced
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  • Enough in my life to know that the first step towards a good
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  • Relationship between blacks and whites and other races is not
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  • Going to be reconciliation.
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  • The first step is gonna have to be recognition of equality.
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  • It's the same first step that god had to deal with when it
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  • Came to reconciling between god and humankind and mankind.
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  • The first step has got to be "how do i bring about equality?"
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  • And he said the only way he could do it was through jesus.
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  • But now i've come to understand that the first step to
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  • Reconciliation amongst whites and blacks and hispanics and
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  • Asians, the first step is equality, to recognize equality.
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  • That if i'm gonna do this, if i'm gonna ever see the need for
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  • Reconciliation, i've got to understand that there's no real
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  • Reconciliation without equality.
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  • Oh, listen to what i'm saying.
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  • I said to a group of folks i was having--we were talking, and
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  • They were talking about black lives matters.
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  • And i understand, you know, black lives matter.
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  • Somebody always say, "well, white lives matters too."
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  • We--of course white lives matter.
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  • Asian lives matter, everybody's lives matter.
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  • But it done seemed like, you know, one group mattered because
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  • Of all of the inequality and injustice that was going on.
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  • Okay, so i looked at that and i said, "well, okay, i see what
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  • You're saying.
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  • But i think the real question needs to be, the real issue
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  • Needs to be, not so much as black lives matter, as much as
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  • It should be: are black lives equal?"
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  • Are black lives equal?
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  • Are asian lives equal?
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  • The native american, are their lives equal?
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  • The first step, if you're ever gonna have a need for
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  • Reconciliation, is to--the recognition of equality.
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  • Again, philippians chapter 2 and 6, jesus didn't count it light
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  • To be known as equal to god.
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  • The verse--philippians 2:6, "who, being in the form of god,
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  • Thought it not robbery to be equal with god."
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  • God had to resolve that issue before reconciliation could
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  • Take place.
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  • And then if you go to galatians chapter 3 and 28, you see jesus
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  • Is the great equalizer.
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  • He's the great equalizer regardless of what color
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  • You are.
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  • He is the great equalizer.
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  • And we've got to get this right, we gotta figure this out.
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  • You cannot spend all your life mad and full of hate
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  • And--you can't.
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  • You gotta go forward.
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  • And even going forward, you're always gonna meet somebody
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  • With hate.
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  • You're always gonna meet somebody who's gonna give you
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  • A problem.
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  • You may meet somebody of your same color that's gonna give you
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  • A problem.
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  • But we got to go forward.
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  • We cannot allow our plight in life to cause us to develop a
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  • Crutch where we just kind of sit back.
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  • And there's a will of god for you, there's a plan of god for
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  • You, there's success for you, and you can't get it full of
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  • Hate and full of strife.
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  • We gotta figure out how this work, which is why i'm preaching
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  • This now.
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  • Galatians 3 and 28, jesus is the great equalizer.
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  • He said, "there is neither jew nor greek, there is neither bond
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  • Nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one
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  • In christ."
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  • He's the great equalizer.
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  • Whether you're a jewish man, whether you're a greek man,
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  • Whether you're a white man, whether you're a black man,
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  • Whether you're a native american, he said jesus is the
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  • Great equalizer.
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  • The first thing, the first thing i wanna address, because i'm
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  • Addressing it from the place of the church, the first thing i
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  • Wanna address is that we've got to do a better job of inviting
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  • People in to be reconciled unto god, because if they get in
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  • Jesus, they stand on equal ground.
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  • And it may be the only place in your life where you can stand on
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  • Equal ground, but when you get in jesus, you have equal ground.
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  • But if you're searching around and waiting for somebody else to
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  • Give you equal ground when jesus has died and shed his blood so
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  • You can stand on equal ground, and now you see why there are
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  • Those who are trying to talk people out of jesus and trying
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  • To use the color of a man's skin to try to talk you away from the
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  • Only equal ground that you may have.
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  • Jesus is the great equalizer.
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  • Now, let's address, on a natural level now, racism, which is
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  • Something that's, you know, it's a very interesting word.
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  • But look at acts chapter 17 and verse 26.
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  • I said it once and i'll say it again: having four or five
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  • Different races, it's the biggest lie ever.
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  • There are people with different pigmentations and different
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  • Colors, but talking about that a color is a race, that's
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  • Incorrect, that's ignorance.
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  • A color is not a race.
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  • You're not a different race because you have a
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  • Different color.
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  • That's been a very carefully--a very careful experiment that's
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  • Put out before human beings and we bought it.
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  • You're not a different race because you're a
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  • Different color.
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  • You're one race that has a variety of colors.
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  • A ford truck is not a different truck because it's a
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  • Different color.
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  • It's still a ford truck.
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  • A horse is not a different race because it is a different color.
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  • You still have a horse.
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  • Got dog it, can't we figure that out?
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  • Can't you figure out that if a horse is a horse regardless of
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  • The color and a truck is a truck regardless of a color, got dog
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  • It, can't you--listen, listen.
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  • Ford truck didn't become chevrolet because it was a
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  • Different color.
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  • You are humans, you are made of the same blood, and you keep
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  • Referring to different races because they're
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  • Different colors.
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  • Look at acts chapter 17, verse 26.
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  • "and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on
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  • All the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before
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  • Appointed, and the bounds of their habitation," and according
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  • To the word of god, we are one race.
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  • There is one race.
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  • It's the human race with the same blood.
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  • God produced the human race and all the humans have the
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  • Same blood.
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  • Of one blood has he made all nation of men, one blood.
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  • There's equality right there.
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  • How are you going to say that i am a different race when i have
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  • The same blood you--i got the same engine you got.
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  • I got the same blood you got.
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  • I'm not the black race.
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  • I'm the human race that's black.
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  • You're not the right--white race.
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  • You're the human race that's white.
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  • You're not the brown race.
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  • You're the human race that's brown.
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  • Get that in your head.
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  • Can't you see the division that has come because we bought the
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  • Experiment to see what would happen if we could divide the
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  • Human race by colors and then categorize them as one or
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  • Different races?
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  • That's the biggest lie that's ever been purchased by mankind.
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  • So in acts 17:26, god is making it very clear that like all
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  • Other people, we as black people are equal with white people, we
  • 00:16:14.409 --> 00:16:20.348
  • Are equal with brown people, we are equal with everybody else.
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  • I thought it was pretty cool and all right for you to, at
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  • Least, define yourself by the nation you come from.
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  • I mean, if you're in--if you're from france, you're a frenchman.
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  • If you're from great britain, you're british.
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  • If you're from america, born in america, you're an american,
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  • All right?
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  • French people come in different colors.
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  • Italians come in different colors.
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  • British people come in different colors.
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  • And americans come in different colors, and americans are made
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  • Up of the italians, the french, the british, the africans, and
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  • Everybody else that came.
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  • While they were in their land, they were referred to as
  • 00:17:12.633 --> 00:17:16.137
  • Africans and referred to as british and referred to
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  • As italians.
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  • But when they got here in these united states of america, then
  • 00:17:21.576 --> 00:17:25.313
  • No matter where they came from, they are now americans of
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  • Different colors.
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  • I am an american.
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  • I was born in america.
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  • I dare you take that away from me and say that i'm not an
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  • American because my pigmentation is a different color.
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  • If you wanna be honest, the original americans were not
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  • White pigmentation, they were red.
  • 00:17:58.746 --> 00:18:04.418
  • But european white folks came from europe, settled and were
  • 00:18:04.418 --> 00:18:10.224
  • Born here and they were called americans.
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  • We gotta get this thing right.
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  • We bought into an experiment that's caused the spirit of
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  • Division that's trying to distract and stop you from the
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  • Destiny that god has called you to.
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  • And you can fight and you can hate and you can do everything
  • 00:18:27.942 --> 00:18:31.445
  • You can do, and then when it's all over you're no better than
  • 00:18:31.445 --> 00:18:34.849
  • You were before until you can get a hold of equality.
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  • I am equal with every man on the planet where blood is concerned.
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  • When i get born again in the church, i am equal with every
  • 00:18:45.526 --> 00:18:49.063
  • Person that's born again in christ jesus.
  • 00:18:49.063 --> 00:18:53.534
  • Look at this.
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  • We already have--we already share equality.
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  • Whether you wanna admit it or not, i got the same blood.
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  • I guarantee you, if you were dying and i had your blood type,
  • 00:19:00.007 --> 00:19:02.977
  • You'd take my blood.
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  • You'd take it then.
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  • You wouldn't care the color of the carrier because the blood's
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  • The same, glory be to god, of one blood, of one blood.
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  • Now, webster defines "friend" as one who entertains for another
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  • Such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection.
  • 00:19:23.698 --> 00:19:29.270
  • A real friend has esteem, respect, and affection that he
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  • Seeks in his society and welfare.
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  • So to reconcile means to restore friendship.
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  • Reconciliation cannot work for black and white people until
  • 00:19:42.917 --> 00:19:47.822
  • They, first of all, deal with the issue of equality because in
  • 00:19:47.822 --> 00:19:53.227
  • This nation and in the church we've never truly been friends
  • 00:19:53.227 --> 00:19:59.033
  • Because we didn't settle the equality issue.
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  • And once the equality issue is settled, friendship can come.
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  • And then if you have a problem with one another, reconciliation
  • 00:20:08.609 --> 00:20:11.612
  • Will work.
  • 00:20:11.612 --> 00:20:13.147
  • There is no reconciliation without equality.
  • 00:20:13.147 --> 00:20:17.685
  • We saw that with what jesus became the equalizer for god to
  • 00:20:17.685 --> 00:20:25.192
  • Reconcile with man.
  • 00:20:25.192 --> 00:20:26.527
  • Take jesus out of the equation, there is no reconciliation
  • 00:20:26.527 --> 00:20:29.864
  • Between god and man.
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  • There is none.
  • 00:20:31.232 --> 00:20:33.301
  • There is no reconciliation without equality.
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  • First, we must be recognized as the equals we are in god's
  • 00:20:35.536 --> 00:20:40.274
  • Creation along with every other racial and ethnic group.
  • 00:20:40.274 --> 00:20:44.378
  • And once we have been recognized as equals, if we have a falling
  • 00:20:44.378 --> 00:20:48.916
  • Out, then the reconciliation will become valid and the basics
  • 00:20:48.916 --> 00:20:53.454
  • For reconciliation can be there.
  • 00:20:53.454 --> 00:20:56.824
  • You know how important that is, even for this nation to come to
  • 00:20:56.824 --> 00:21:00.428
  • The point of say, "okay, we're gonna address equality amongst
  • 00:21:00.428 --> 00:21:03.931
  • All races in this nation"?
  • 00:21:03.931 --> 00:21:06.701
  • That would require you to amend all kinds of things.
  • 00:21:06.701 --> 00:21:10.338
  • You're gonna have to amend the constitution in some areas.
  • 00:21:10.338 --> 00:21:14.475
  • You're gonna have to change some laws.
  • 00:21:14.475 --> 00:21:17.111
  • You're gonna have to--you're gonna have to do all kinds of
  • 00:21:17.111 --> 00:21:19.146
  • Stuff in order for every race in this place called america to
  • 00:21:19.146 --> 00:21:24.785
  • Be equal.
  • 00:21:24.785 --> 00:21:26.287
  • It's not.
  • 00:21:26.287 --> 00:21:28.022
  • It didn't start off that way.
  • 00:21:28.022 --> 00:21:30.424
  • Slavery was legal at one time.
  • 00:21:30.424 --> 00:21:34.328
  • Things have got to change.
  • 00:21:34.328 --> 00:21:35.663
  • Laws have got to change.
  • 00:21:35.663 --> 00:21:38.265
  • I mean, a voter's right acts?
  • 00:21:38.265 --> 00:21:41.001
  • Everybody gotta have the right to vote without having to be
  • 00:21:41.001 --> 00:21:44.638
  • Voted on something to give it another several years to vote.
  • 00:21:44.638 --> 00:21:49.810
  • It's gotta be some changes.
  • 00:21:49.810 --> 00:21:51.712
  • To bring equality, that's work.
  • 00:21:51.712 --> 00:21:55.683
  • But when that happens, you're talking about a powerful nation,
  • 00:21:55.683 --> 00:22:00.654
  • You're talking about a powerful people, you're talking about a
  • 00:22:00.654 --> 00:22:03.023
  • Powerful church.
  • 00:22:03.023 --> 00:22:05.593
  • Now, let me get back to the church because it's important
  • 00:22:05.593 --> 00:22:08.028
  • For you to understand that the reason why we are where we are
  • 00:22:08.028 --> 00:22:12.566
  • Is because of what the world saw in the church.
  • 00:22:12.566 --> 00:22:17.338
  • And we got to do something about that.
  • 00:22:17.338 --> 00:22:20.107
  • And the church has got a lot of teaching to do, a lot of things
  • 00:22:20.107 --> 00:22:22.843
  • To talk about.
  • 00:22:22.843 --> 00:22:24.178
  • Reconciliation has no meaning if it is not aimed at achieving
  • 00:22:24.178 --> 00:22:28.949
  • Equality in life expectancy, if it's not aimed at achieving
  • 00:22:28.949 --> 00:22:33.754
  • Education equality, employment equality, housing equality, and
  • 00:22:33.754 --> 00:22:38.592
  • All of the important measurables of the areas of disadvantage.
  • 00:22:38.592 --> 00:22:43.597
  • Reconciliation is about creating equity.
  • 00:22:43.597 --> 00:22:48.135
  • And what do i mean by "equity"?
  • 00:22:48.135 --> 00:22:49.470
  • It's the quality of being fair and impartial.
  • 00:22:49.470 --> 00:22:53.941
  • Reconciliation is about creating equality.
  • 00:22:53.941 --> 00:22:57.178
  • It's about closing the gap and building relationships to
  • 00:22:57.178 --> 00:23:00.981
  • Do this.
  • 00:23:00.981 --> 00:23:04.552
  • So what, then, is racism?
  • 00:23:04.552 --> 00:23:10.357
  • Well, you hear it, we use--everybody use it.
  • 00:23:10.357 --> 00:23:13.594
  • How do you determine if racism exists somewhere?
  • 00:23:13.594 --> 00:23:17.031
  • What is racism?
  • 00:23:17.031 --> 00:23:18.599
  • Think about it.
  • 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:19.934
  • Here's what racism is.
  • 00:23:19.934 --> 00:23:21.302
  • First of all, let me break it down.
  • 00:23:21.302 --> 00:23:22.636
  • It is a quick--it's all about making a quick judgment on the
  • 00:23:22.636 --> 00:23:29.710
  • Character of a race, making a quick judgment on the character
  • 00:23:29.710 --> 00:23:35.449
  • Of a race, to rate them as inferior or superior.
  • 00:23:35.449 --> 00:23:42.256
  • A quick judgment on the character of a race to rate them
  • 00:23:42.256 --> 00:23:46.894
  • As inferior or superior.
  • 00:23:46.894 --> 00:23:51.165
  • And then once you do that, you begin to demonstrate through
  • 00:23:51.165 --> 00:23:56.737
  • Partiality and bias.
  • 00:23:56.737 --> 00:23:58.672
  • That's when the prejudice comes in.
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  • People will disappoint you, people will wreck your emotions,
  • 00:24:24.798 --> 00:24:29.003
  • People will be hateful, people will let you down.
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