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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For Those Who Are in Christ | April 27, 2025
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- Creflo: if you have your bibles go with me to the book of 1 john
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- Chapter 3 and verse 20.
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- 1 john chapter 3 and verse 20.
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- Today, i'm gonna start a series on condemnation and the danger
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- Of condemnation and how to get free from condemnation and what
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- The word has to say about condemnation, because i
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- Discovered that a lot of times, people, even when they come to
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- Church, they're dealing with self condemnation.
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- And jesus has taken care of that for us.
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- But we've got to recognize how it works.
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- And this is important so that the enemy is not going to
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- Distract us and attack us where our identity is concerned.
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- We know that we are the righteousness of god and we are
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- In christ jesus, amen.
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- So today i wanna talk to you about "no condemnation for those
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- Who are in christ."
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- "no condemnation for those who are in christ."
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- And if you have your bibles, look together with me at 1 john
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- Chapter 3 and verse 20.
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- And he says, "for if our heart condemn us, god is greater than
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- Our heart, and he knoweth all things."
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- Now that scripture used to concern me that part where it
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- Says, "and he knoweth all things."
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- Think about that.
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- God knows all things.
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- He knows all things about you.
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- He knows all things about me and you can't, we can't hide
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- Anything because he knows all things.
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- Well, you don't have to be concerned about that in a
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- Negative way because, because he knows all things, he's the one
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- That can help you with everything.
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- Okay, think about it that way now.
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- Because he knows all things, he can help you with all things.
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- Regardless of the things you're going through, god can help you
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- With all things.
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- Please understand.
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- Not only can he help you with all things, he wants to help you
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- With all things.
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- Let's stop looking at god as the one who's trying to make you
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- Feel bad.
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- He's trying to send you to hell.
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- That's not, that's not the god in heaven.
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- He wants you to make it.
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- He wants to help you with everything.
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- Don't get to the point where you're like, "well, i'm doing
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- This thing but i'm gonna hide it from god."
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- You can't hide nothing from god.
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- He knows all things not to beat you up with it.
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- He knows all things not to condemn you with it.
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- He knows all things so he can help you with everything, amen.
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- God knows why we are struggling in certain areas and therefore
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- He is also able to help us with everything.
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- Now, here's one of the things that i've realized, people have,
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- Maybe, maybe they have a--and this is something where we need
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- To become more empathetic.
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- Maybe people have a habit of sin because of what they experienced
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- As a child.
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- Maybe there's a reason behind why people do what they do.
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- Okay, all you see is, "well, bless god, they're on
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- Those drugs."
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- But maybe there was something that happened that you don't
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- Know about.
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- Or, you know, you know, why are they so hateful all the time and
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- Hurtful and so mean?
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- Maybe you don't know what happened.
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- And i think as christian people, before we want to go after
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- Somebody because they're not keeping all the rules perfectly,
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- Let's ask god for some empathy to stand in their shoes for
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- A moment and say, "well, as children, they went through
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- This, you know, as a teen, they went through that.
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- Okay, maybe they're not a prostitute for no reason at all.
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- Maybe something happened."
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- And god knows about all of those things and he is in the process
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- Of helping them with those things.
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- But church, let's not make it harder for people to
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- Be transformed.
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- Let's make it easy for people to be transformed and encourage
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- Them to say, "god is gonna help you out," amen.
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- And so those people may need healing.
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- They may need healing, not condemnation.
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- And as a church we wanna be, we wanna be for people being
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- Healed, not a part of the condemnation that they have.
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- I'm sure they get enough.
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- Self effort, listen to me carefully.
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- This is so, so, so important.
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- Self effort won't bring the changes that we're looking for
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- In our lives.
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- And i know we think that they will.
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- Self effort won't bring the changes.
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- We're so busy trying to come up with the plan to make the
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- Changes and i'm not saying that's necessarily wrong, but
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- There are two things that we have to do, i believe according
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- To the book of john chapter 8 verse 32 and then verse 36, it
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- Identified something.
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- I never saw this before until i think it was friday.
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- John chapter 8:32.
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- Two things that need to happen if you wanna see this
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- Transformation take place.
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- Number one, christ in them.
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- Christ in them.
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- Number two, the truth of whom they are in christ.
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- The truth of who you are, who you are in christ.
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- Two things that need to take place, christ in you, all right,
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- And then secondly, understand the truth of your identity or
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- The truth of who you are.
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- I'm telling you those two things right there, those two things
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- Right there will see transformation in your life.
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- If you notice in verse 8, john 8:32 he says, "and you shall
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- Know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
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- You need to know the truth about who you are.
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- You need to know the truth about who you are in christ.
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- You need to know the truth of grace.
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- You can't separate grace from truth.
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- I mean jesus full of grace and truth.
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- It's not two entities.
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- Grace is truth.
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- You will never find grace without truth.
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- And grace and truth, they go together.
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- They are synonymous in a sense.
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- They go together.
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- So jesus full of grace and truth.
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- And you, if you're understanding grace, you'll be empowered
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- To change.
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- And when you understand the grace of god, you understand
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- The truth of god.
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- If you shall know, let me say this, watch this, you'll know
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- What i'm doing.
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- If you shall know grace and this grace shall make you free, yeah.
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- And this grace has changed our lives and we have
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- A new identity.
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- You need to know that you're the righteousness of god.
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- When you know that, when you know that truth, transformation
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- Can take place.
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- When you know that you're in christ jesus, transformation can
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- Take place.
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- But then also in verse 36, look at this.
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- He says in verse 36, john 8:36 he says, "if the son therefore
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- Shall make you free, you shall be free indeed."
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- So my dependence upon the son, jesus christ to make me free, i
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- Will be free indeed.
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- So self effort won't bring the changes in your life.
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- But christ in you will bring the change.
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- Remember, christ in you the hope of glory or the earnest
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- Expectation of a manifestation.
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- It's not just you're going around saying, "i'm saved," but
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- It's also you going around and say, "christ is in me."
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- I have a realization, i have received that, i believe that
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- Christ is in me.
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- Now, when you begin to understand and believe that
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- Christ is in you, freedom is what comes.
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- Freedom is what comes.
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- Christ is in me.
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- And you start reminding yourself, christ is in me.
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- Every time you do something crazy, wait a minute, christ is
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- In me.
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- Christ is in me.
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- I don't have to do this anymore.
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- I have a new creation in me.
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- I have a new nature in me.
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- Christ is in me.
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- I have an earnest expectation of some manifestations.
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- I can be transformed because christ is in me.
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- Number one, i can be transformed because christ is in me.
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- That means i'm not the same.
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- I'm the righteousness of god.
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- I've been redeemed.
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- I am holy.
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- I am perfect.
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- I am--my stance before him is awesome.
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- I'm just like him.
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- I'm heaven ready.
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- Christ in me is my hope of glory.
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- We have been conditioned to think and lord help me to
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- Explain this.
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- We've been conditioned to think that i need to do something in
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- Order to change.
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- Now let me add to that.
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- What i need to do is believe that jesus has already done
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- Everything for my transformation.
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- And as i am believing that he has done everything for my
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- Transformation, now watch this, the rest of it is a matter of
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- Yielding because he's gonna show me he's in me.
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- So he's gonna give me wisdom.
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- He's gonna show me what i need to do and what i don't need
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- To do.
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- He's gonna, he's gonna begin to lead me.
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- He's gonna begin to guide me.
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- That's why it's a personal relationship.
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- We're not talking about you don't do nothing, just make sure
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- You're following him, yielding to him.
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- You know, when you're driving a car, to yield is let that car go
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- First and then you follow.
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- And well, the transformation is well, let christ go first
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- And follow.
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- See, our relationship with him is a following relationship,
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- A yielding relationship.
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- And what happens?
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- He begins to lead and guide us into all the truth and the
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- Transformation takes place.
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- See, he's doing something at the same time.
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- He's not only leading and guiding you to work what you
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- Need to be doing, but he's also showing you what's true and
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- What's not true.
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- He's also convincing you that that's not your nature anymore.
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- You don't do that anymore.
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- God wants you to be free.
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- Let's follow him.
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- He loves you.
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- He's not trying to beat you up, whoop you, and get you back.
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- He wants you to experience the greatest of transformation and
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- Don't forget to give him the glory, okay?
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- Now, let's get into this.
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- 1 john chapter 3 verse 19 through 21.
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- Let's see this now.
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- Verse 19, i'm gonna read through 21.
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- He says, "and hereby we know that we are of the truth, and
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- Shall assure our hearts before him.
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- For if our heart condemn us."
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- That's interesting.
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- "if our heart condemn us, god is greater than our heart, and he
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- Knoweth all things."
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- Verse 21, "beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we
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- Confidence towards god."
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- So we're talking about the heart when we are full of
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- Condemnation, our hearts are not at rest before god.
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- I dare to ask the question, but has anybody ever in your life
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- Experienced condemnation?
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- Of course, yes, amen.
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- You know, you don't have to raise your hand.
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- I already know.
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- When our hearts are full of condemnation, we're not at rest.
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- We're not at rest.
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- I don't know if you can remember and recall how excruciating it
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- Is to walk around feeling condemned, feeling like
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- You're not useful anymore.
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- Feeling like in the eyes of heaven, you don't
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- Matter anymore.
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- Coming up with all the reasons to feel like a building that the
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- Local government condemned and said it is not used for
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- Occupancy anymore.
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- And some christians feel like that.
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- They feel like, you know, y'all just don't understand what i've
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- Done and you keep your own secrets, but between you and
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- God, you just feel like, you know, how can god use me and why
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- Would god wanna use anybody like me?
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- And what taffi and i are trying to do is give you a lot of
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- Reasons to get up.
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- Not to stay down, but to get up.
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- And i want you so encouraged this morning man that you know,
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- When you feel condemned and you're walking around in
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- Condemnation and a lot of it may come from your past or a lot of
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- It comes from things that you regret.
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- I wish i hadn't done that or i can't believe i did that.
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- And then what happens if you don't, if you don't know how to
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- Rest before god in your heart, that condemnation, no matter how
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- Far you get, you get a word, god speaks to you, you understand
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- Something, you sense the anointing and then the
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- Condemnation comes to seem to try to steal it all from you.
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- This is something that is so vital that we learn how to rest
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- In our hearts.
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- And so i want you to notice according to this scripture,
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- Who does the condemning.
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- Notice, he said, this man, who condemns us according to 1 john.
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- Is it god that condemns us?
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- No.
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- Is it jesus that condemns us?
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- No.
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- Is it the holy spirit?
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- I've heard that.
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- Is it the holy spirit that condemns us?
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- No.
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- According to this scripture, it is our heart.
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- It is our heart that condemns us.
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- What we experience is something called self condemnation.
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- And there are lots of people coming to church full of
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- Self condemnation.
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- And i don't want you to continue to wake up every day and have to
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- Deal with self condemnation, allowing your heart to
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- Condemn you.
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- I can't tell you when i found myself in a point in my life
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- Where i was right there with self condemnation, shame, guilt.
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- It's not--it's tormenting.
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- It's tormenting.
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- You walk around, you have the motion of a christian but your
- 00:16:53.926 --> 00:16:58.497
- Heart condemns you.
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- And so any time an attack from the devil comes, you don't even
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- Fight back because your heart condemns you telling you you
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- Deserve it.
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- You earned that buddy.
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- But let me show you something.
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- I wanna, i wanna use this illustration of the woman caught
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- In the act of adultery.
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- Go to john chapter 8--in fact, let's start, let's read
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- The whole thing.
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- John chapter 8 verse 3--let's start at verse 3--and i just
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- Wanna--this is amazing.
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- 'cause what i'm about to tell you is gonna require you to
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- Really believe it.
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- John chapter 8 verse 3--are you ready to be free from
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- Condemnation for the rest of your life?
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- Amen.
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- Now, condemnation is waiting outside as soon as the service
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- Is over with now.
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- You understand that as soon as it's over with now.
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- Verse 3 says, "and the scribes and the pharisees brought unto
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- Him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in
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- The midst," now isn't it amazing that the scripture amplifies the
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- Fact that the woman became the main character to this story?
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- She had to be doing it with somebody.
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- And since they took her in the very act of adultery, i mean,
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- What happened to old dude?
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- Did he run?
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- 'cause he knew the law, the law was--you supposed you go--this
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- Is your last day.
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- But they again amplified the woman.
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- "they say unto him, 'master, this woman was taken in
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- Adultery, in the very act.
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- Now moses in the law commanded us,'" under the law, "that such
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- Should be stoned."
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- Legally, that's what should have happened that day.
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- That's what could have happened that day.
- 00:18:55.047 --> 00:18:57.015
- Legally be stoned.
- 00:18:57.015 --> 00:18:59.318
- And they were trying to catch jesus, you know, and just kind
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- Of make him look kinda bad, you know.
- 00:19:03.322 --> 00:19:06.425
- He says, "but what sayest thou?"
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- The law says she should be stoned.
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- You say you're from god, what sayest thou?
- 00:19:11.563 --> 00:19:15.467
- Now watch this, "this they said, tempting him, that they might
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- Have to accuse him.
- 00:19:20.339 --> 00:19:22.808
- But jesus stooped down, and with his finger he wrote on
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- The ground, as though he heard them not."
- 00:19:26.245 --> 00:19:30.515
- Now, notice this.
- 00:19:30.515 --> 00:19:31.883
- Watch this now.
- 00:19:31.883 --> 00:19:33.218
- This is so awesome.
- 00:19:33.218 --> 00:19:34.586
- What is he gonna do?
- 00:19:34.586 --> 00:19:35.921
- "so when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and
- 00:19:35.921 --> 00:19:38.957
- Said unto them, 'he that is without sin among you, let him
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- First cast a stone at her.'"
- 00:19:42.361 --> 00:19:44.496
- Watch what jesus did.
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- He took their attention off the woman being stoned and put
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- The attention on them.
- 00:19:52.204 --> 00:19:57.476
- That's interesting.
- 00:19:57.476 --> 00:19:58.810
- 'cause a lot of times when i try to talk to people about the
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- Gospel of grace and they wanna get very holier than thou as
- 00:20:01.613 --> 00:20:05.517
- They defend their reasons for living by the law, you know, all
- 00:20:05.517 --> 00:20:10.589
- I have to do is just turn the attention on them.
- 00:20:10.589 --> 00:20:14.293
- Well, are you saying that you're perfect?
- 00:20:14.293 --> 00:20:17.362
- When they go with, you know, big sin, little sin.
- 00:20:17.362 --> 00:20:20.899
- You have to say big sin, little sin to try to justify yourself
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- As being all right.
- 00:20:24.603 --> 00:20:27.906
- Look at what he said, he put the attention on them because when
- 00:20:27.906 --> 00:20:33.845
- The attention is not on you, you're so ready and willing to
- 00:20:33.845 --> 00:20:40.052
- Condemn other people.
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- How you judge and condemn other people is when the attention is
- 00:20:42.821 --> 00:20:47.225
- Not on you.
- 00:20:47.225 --> 00:20:48.560
- But somehow before you start condemning and judging other
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- People, if you'll pay attention to you, you're not so quick to
- 00:20:52.964 --> 00:20:58.270
- Wanna do that to somebody else.
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- And i don't know how we still do that.
- 00:21:01.506 --> 00:21:03.175
- I don't understand how we still do that.
- 00:21:03.175 --> 00:21:06.978
- But in this society, when you're operating by the law, you know,
- 00:21:06.978 --> 00:21:11.183
- Condemnation is a part of the law.
- 00:21:11.183 --> 00:21:13.285
- The law came and it condemned.
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- What an awesome, awesome lord to know exactly what to do.
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- How do i get around this without violating the law?
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- Because i'm supposed to be fulfilling all of the law and
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- Still, you know, see the mercy and grace come.
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- He says, easy.
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- I'm gonna put the attention on them and take their attention
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- Off of stoning this lady.
- 00:21:37.275 --> 00:21:40.479
- And then let's see what happened as a result of this.
- 00:21:40.479 --> 00:21:42.914
- Look at the next verse.
- 00:21:42.914 --> 00:21:45.817
- "and again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground."
- 00:21:45.817 --> 00:21:48.887
- So now they're thinking about themselves now.
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- "and they which heard it being convicted by their own
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- Conscience, went out one by one beginning at the eldest."
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- So somebody said, "well, why did the old people leave first?"
- 00:22:04.503 --> 00:22:10.609
- Why did the old people leave first?
- 00:22:10.609 --> 00:22:12.144
- 'cause they knew they had a whole bunch of sin.
- 00:22:12.144 --> 00:22:17.482
- So when they started looking at themselves, they say,
- 00:22:17.482 --> 00:22:19.618
- "yeah, yeah.
- 00:22:19.618 --> 00:22:20.986
- Yeah, let me go on."
- 00:22:20.986 --> 00:22:24.189
- Now, the younger ones were the last to leave because they were
- 00:22:24.189 --> 00:22:26.658
- Still hanging in there with charisma, you know, and
- 00:22:26.658 --> 00:22:30.028
- Eventually they said, "yeah, we gotta go too."
- 00:22:30.028 --> 00:22:35.367
- This is so important, folks, because jesus turned their focus
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- Away from the woman and over to themselves.
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- And if we think we ourselves are perfect in ourselves, then we
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- Will be harder on other people.
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- Did you hear what i just said?
- 00:22:50.515 --> 00:22:52.184
- You're gonna be hard on other people when you think you're
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- Perfect within yourself.
- 00:22:54.453 --> 00:22:56.354
- So we all need god's grace and this will cause more compassion
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- With other people's weaknesses.
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- And the church needs compassion with other people's weaknesses.
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- And let me say this: you need some compassion with
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- The preacher's weaknesses, too.
- 00:23:11.736 --> 00:23:14.606
- Yes, you do.
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- Why in the world would you ever think the preachers are supposed
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- To be perfect?
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- Why would you do that? why would you do that?
- 00:23:22.948 --> 00:23:29.421
- The preacher ain't nobody but somebody that's been called out
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- From amongst you with an anointing to do the job.
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- It's your fault for thinking that he perfect
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- In the first place-- he ain't never been perfect.
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- He ain't gonna never be perfect.
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- He growing just like you growing.
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- Announcer: we don't need to rely on our performance to earn
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- In this three message series, "the danger of condemnation,"
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