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Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation (Part 3)

January 21, 2025 | S25:E21

Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation (Part 3)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation (Part 3) | January 21, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: there is no reconciliation without equality.
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  • You said, "amen," when i showed you that with you and jesus, now
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  • I'm telling you that where we live at, there is not--no
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  • Reconciliation without equality.
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  • We have to reconcile our society with what is written on paper.
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  • I ain't asking for no new laws, i'm just asking that you equally
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  • Enforce the ones you wrote down.
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  • Creflo: hopefully, you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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  • Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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  • Gonna be your mentality for today.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way maker?
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  • Yes.
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Yeah.
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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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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪♪
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  • Creflo: philippians chapter 2 and 6, follow me carefully.
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  • Verse 6 says--well, let me read verse 5, "let this mind be in
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  • You, which was also in christ jesus.
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  • Christ jesus: who, being in the form of god, thought it not
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  • Robbery to be equal with god."
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  • Huh, "thought it not robbery to be equal with god."
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  • Jesus, the great equalizer.
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  • Now, now watch what i'm saying here, we could not be reconciled
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  • To god, there could be no harmony between man and god.
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  • There--there's no compatibility between man and god until, first
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  • Of all, equality was established.
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  • You could never have reconciliation until you
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  • Have equality.
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  • But once equality was established, reconciliation
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  • Between god and man was possible.
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  • Oh, y'all don't hear me.
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  • As much as god loved you, because of sin, reconciliation
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  • Was not possible without jesus, the great equalizer.
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  • But because of jesus, we now all stand on equal ground because
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  • The great equalizer has shown up.
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  • You ready?
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  • For all of my ministry, i have believed that the--i
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  • Believed--and even what brother copeland and i were talking
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  • About years ago, i went around the country and i was preaching
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  • Reconciliation amongst blacks and whites.
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  • I had meetings where i had blacks to come up who were in
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  • Strife and whites that came up who were in strikes--strife, and
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  • They hated one another.
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  • And i had them to address their inferiority and their
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  • Superiority, and they hugged and they cried and they forgave one
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  • Another, and i thought, man, we hit it.
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  • And lo and behold, that old ugly devil of racism stuck his head
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  • Up again.
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  • Listen to me carefully, i believed that the first step--i
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  • Thought the first step towards good relationship between
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  • Blacks, whites, american indians, native americans, i
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  • Thought the first step was reconciliation.
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  • I have since grown and matured
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  • And have experienced enough in
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  • My life to know that the first step towards a good relationship
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  • Between different ethnic groups, between blacks and whites and
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  • Hispanics, i now understand that the first step is not
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  • Reconciliation, but it must be equality.
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  • For the last six months, you heard black lives matter.
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  • But the question needs to be now, are black lives equal?
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  • Matter, are they equal?
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  • Native americans, their lives matter, but are they equal?
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  • The issue is not what matters.
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  • And then people talking, "well, all lives matter," that's just
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  • Like saying, you know, all houses in the neighborhood
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  • Matter, except mine is on fire.
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  • It's not the time to be talking about all lives matter when the
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  • One that's on fire is the one that matters right now.
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  • Listen to me carefully, i felt some of y'all scringed up, it's
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  • Gonna be all right, i ain't mad at nobody.
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  • I ain't mad at nobody.
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  • I'm not a racist.
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  • I got white grandkids, i got a white son, so i mean, you know,
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  • I'm in there with you.
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  • I mean, if you come talking that stuff in my house, you know, i'm
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  • Gonna have to hurt you because i, you know, i--i'm just trying
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  • To show you that equality has got to be first before
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  • Reconciliation because if you go at reconciliation and then you
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  • Ignore equality, you just gonna go back in a circle again.
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  • So we all right, i'm your brother.
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  • I'll still come to your house and have a lollipop with you.
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  • But i'm gonna show you why the body of christ can't afford to
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  • Be quiet and ignore it.
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  • "well, i just ain't gonna say nothing and i'm gonna wait till
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  • It all pass over, and i'm just gonna keep my mouth closed and
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  • Then, you know, and then i'm gonna--i'm just gonna act like
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  • Ain't nothing happening."
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  • It's equality.
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  • Philippians chapter 2:6, you saw what jesus did there in order
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  • For us to be reconciled with god.
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  • Look at galatians chapter 3 and 28.
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  • Because we're christians.
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  • I say, i say we christians.
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  • Galatians 3:28, he said, "there is neither jew nor greek, there
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  • Is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female."
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  • He said, "all y'all are one in christ."
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  • So christ, the great equalizer, says that no matter what color
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  • Your skin is, you stand equal.
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  • We all stand on equal grounds in christ.
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  • The day you got born again, you stand on equal grounds
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  • With christ.
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  • Go to acts chapter 17:26.
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  • Oh yes, we do, but we gotta confront that little demon that
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  • Wanna crop up from bad teaching that we've heard in times past.
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  • And please let me make myself clear, racism doesn't just exist
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  • With white folks.
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  • Because i've heard about black people who came and sat in
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  • Church and you sit them right next door to a hispanic and
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  • Like, i don't wanna sit next to no hispanic, i wanna sit to
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  • Somebody--with--sit with somebody that's black, black.
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  • Now, racism is a spirit.
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  • Racism, unlike some of us, racism doesn't care what color
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  • You are, if it can operate through you to cause division,
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  • It will.
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  • Acts chapter 26, he says, "and hath made of one blood
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  • All nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."
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  • One blood.
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  • He has made--he's made everybody in here with one blood.
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  • So god is making it very clear that like all other people, we
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  • Are equal in every aspect.
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  • Let me--first of all, you know what the big lie is, you know
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  • What the big lie is in the world, and i don't think people
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  • Realize, the big lie is race.
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  • The big lie is that you got four or five races, that's the
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  • Big lie.
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  • Somebody decided to do an experiment one day and said,
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  • Hey, let's let everybody know that there are four or five
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  • Races, based on the pigmentation of your skin color.
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  • Let's let the brown man know he a race, let the black man know
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  • He a race, let the real white guy know he a race.
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  • Let the other guy, who kind of brown but he got nappy hair, let
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  • Him know he a race.
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  • And we'll just tell them--we'll tell them that this race is more
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  • Dominant than that race and this race should--you should not
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  • Stand, more dominant than the other race.
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  • And let's just do this great experiment and spread this big
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  • Old lie that there are many races.
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  • The truth is there is not no four or five races, there is one
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  • Race, it is the human race, we all have been made from the
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  • Same blood!
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  • And we're still going around here having a problem because of
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  • The paint job of the truck.
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  • We still--we got a problem because that truck was painted
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  • Black and that one over there was painted white and that truck
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  • Over there was painted purple and, oh, that's a--that truck
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  • Right there, it's black on the top and white at the bottom and
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  • You--it's still a got dog old truck!
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  • And there's hate that comes up because i grew up closer to the
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  • Equator than you did.
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  • Are you seriously kidding me, i am a whole another type of--i'm
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  • Another species because of the color of my paint job?
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  • Nothing else god made got a problem with that.
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  • You get a black horse that get with a white horse, they make
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  • A horse.
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  • You get a black dog with a brown dog, they make a dog.
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  • A black sheep with a brown sheep, they make a sheep, and
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  • They know it!
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  • But you get white folks with some black folks and then some
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  • Brown ones and you're talking about you don't know what
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  • They are?
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  • They are human, they are the--they are still within the
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  • Species of that one blood.
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  • That my intellect is supposed to be lesser than your intellect
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  • Because of my paint job!
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  • And we've been buying that lie for the longest.
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  • "well, brother dollar, you don't understand, i pastor a
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  • Multi-racial, diverse--" listen,
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  • You don't have different color
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  • People in your church just so they can sit there and decorate
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  • Your congregation.
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  • You tweet--you treat them equally, and so they're not the
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  • Ones that just sing in the choir, the black guy can also
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  • Have influence in your leadership.
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  • "well, i don't mind them being in the leadership and singing in
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  • The choir."
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  • But now, how about marry your daughter, how about marry your
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  • White daughter?
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  • Uh-oh!
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  • "well, you ought to stick with your own kind."
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  • You are, human.
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  • A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
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  • And if one horse get with another horse, regardless of the
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  • Paint job, they're gonna have a horse.
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  • If one human gets together with another human, regardless of the
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  • Paint job, they're gonna have another human.
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  • But you bought that l--that race lie and thought there was--a
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  • Whole another species was created because of the
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  • Paint job.
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  • How ignorant is that?
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  • There is no reconciliation without equality.
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  • You said, "amen," when i showed you that with you and jesus, now
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  • I'm telling you that where we live at, there is not--no
  • 00:15:29.008 --> 00:15:32.678
  • Reconciliation without equality.
  • 00:15:32.678 --> 00:15:36.215
  • We have to reconcile our society with what is written on paper.
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  • I ain't asking for no new laws, i'm just asking that you equally
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  • Enforce the ones you wrote down.
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  • There is no reconciliation without equality.
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  • First, we must be reconciled as equals, as the equals we are in
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  • God's creation, along with every other racial and ethnic group.
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  • And once we have been recognized as equals, if we have a falling
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  • Out, then we have a valid basis for reconciliation.
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  • Reconciliation has no meaning if it's not aimed at achieving
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  • Equality in life expectancies,
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  • Education, employment, and all
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  • Of the important and measurable areas of disadvantage.
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  • Reconciliation is about creating equity, and equity is about the
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  • Quality of being fair and impartial.
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  • And equality is something that's very important, and equity is
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  • Very important, and we gotta close this gap and build
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  • Relationships in order to do this.
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  • It's uncomfortable to talk about sometimes, but--
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  • "well, preacher, you're just preaching," no, no, no, no, no,
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  • No, no, no, no, i don't often have time to share what i'm
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  • Gonna share with you tonight, but no, not preached it,
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  • Lived it.
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  • As a second grader, i was the first black to integrate an
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  • All-white school in the south.
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  • Was that difficult?
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  • It was scary. it was scary.
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  • Some of those white kids had never been that close to
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  • Somebody like me.
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  • I didn't realize how disadvantaged i was until i saw
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  • How far ahead those students were with me, i had some
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  • Catching up to do.
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  • And walking around the corner one day, i heard two white
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  • Female teachers talking about me, saying, "you can't expect
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  • Too much from him because he's a black kid and he's only gonna
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  • Make a certain level, so we have to start him off in the slow
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  • Reading class because he won't qualify for the advanced."
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  • And i went home and did what most black kids did, i told
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  • My mama.
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  • I said, "mum," and i told her what i heard.
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  • And my mama looked at me in my face, she said, in these short
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  • Words, "the best revenge is success.
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  • It's on you to prove them wrong."
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  • I never studied so hard, because when all the kids got invited
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  • Over to another kid's house, i couldn't come because back in
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  • Those days parents had a problem with blacks.
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  • When we made our trip to washington dc, there was always
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  • A problem trying to figure out who was gonna stay with the
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  • Black guy because the parents did not want that to happen.
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  • And i studied and i studied, and i got it.
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  • I said, "i'm gonna show her," i made all a's all quarters.
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  • I made straight a's, i made straight a's.
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  • I wanted her to know that somebody like me didn't need
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  • Somebody like her to tell her i was equal, i could receive my
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  • Own equality without you ever giving me confirmation of it.
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  • I was the first black quarterback in high school, i
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  • Didn't know what they were rejoicing over.
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  • The day they put me in, at the end of the game, the score was
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  • 77 to nothing.
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  • All the black guys came and rejoiced and they're like, "man,
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  • You did it," and i'm like, "what happened?
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  • What happened?"
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  • They said, "don't you realize you were the first
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  • Black quarterback?"
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  • And i'm thinking, "no, all i know is there's this girl over
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  • Here waiting for me and i got to go, creflo got to go."
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  • My father experienced a lot of that.
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  • Just last week, we saw him on "20/20."
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  • He's been dead for 20 something years, but he was a part of one
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  • Of the policemen--he was--he's three--the first of three black
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  • Policemen in college park, georgia, and they dedicated a
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  • Precinct to him, in his name.
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  • And we looked on "20/20," there he was with his riot gear on in
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  • A place called griffin, georgia, because they just--they hung a
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  • Black man to death and they were afraid rioting was gonna go
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  • On there.
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  • The fear of--in south georgia, when our car broke down and my
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  • Family was in it, and my father put us all in one room because
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  • Of the fear of we're gonna be attacked and maybe killed and
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  • Maybe not even get out.
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  • And a little boy trying to be a little strong man for my dad
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  • Because it was just me and him and my sisters, "son, keep your
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  • Eyes open, keep your ears up."
  • 00:21:35.340 --> 00:21:38.643
  • That was traumatizing, and yet we rise.
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  • I grew up in the ghetto, in a two-bedroom duplex, five kids
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  • And parents.
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  • I was told i would never get out of the ghetto, that i was gonna
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  • Be just like them.
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  • That's what they said, "you gonna be just like us."
  • 00:22:15.847 --> 00:22:17.215
  • So it's not enough that you've got the racism coming from white
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  • People, but now your own people trying to keep you down, and yet
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  • We rise.
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  • I want you to listen to me, i got a point i wanna make here.
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  • I could have spent all my life angry and mad, and it was a
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  • White man's fault.
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  • And if i have to work twice as hard or three times as
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  • Hard--because it happened to me, i'm out of college, my dream is
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  • To be an nfl coach.
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  • I go to apply for my first coaching job, the head coach
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  • Tells me i got--he-- i got the job.
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  • The guy hadn't seen me yet, he said, "i didn't tell them you
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  • Were black, but that shouldn't be a problem."
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  • I'm walking in just thinking, i'm gonna meet him and go
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  • To work.
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  • When i walked in, he was like, "whoa," and that was it, i
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  • Didn't get it because i was the wrong color.
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  • Announcer: strife and discord are all too common in today's
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  • World, do you avoid it or face it head on?
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  • In his series, "the ministry of reconciliation," creflo dollar
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  • Shares powerful insights and practical tools to help us
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  • Bridge divides and find harmony.
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  • Creflo: reconciliation must begin with a heavenly
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  • Conviction by god.
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  • People will disappoint you, people will wreck your emotions,
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  • People will be hateful, people will let you down.
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  • But god is a relational god, god endorses relationships.
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  • He says, "when you come together,
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  • I'm gonna use your differences to strengthen one another."
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  • Announcer: get all three messages, as well as a special
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  • Male: if you come to this conference, you will get what
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  • You need.
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  • Creflo: okay, god, i need you.
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  • You know, if this doesn't set you on fire, your matches
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  • Are wet.
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  • The world receive healing and wholeness in every area of life.
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  • For example, we help those in need in our communities, those
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  • When we meet the physical needs of those hurting people, it
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  • With them.
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  • So i wanna thank you for helping us reach millions with
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  • The gospel.
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  • Announcer: as a christian, what happens after you sin?
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  • Announcer: because of you, creflo dollar ministries is
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