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Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For Those Who Are In Christ

May 4, 2025 | S25:E109

Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For Those Who Are In Christ
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For Those Who Are In Christ | May 4, 2025
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  • Creflo: so, jesus doesn't excuse people of their errors, but
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  • The bible says that he has compassion on us.
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  • Look at hebrews 4:15.
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  • He has compassion on us.
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  • He knows everything, right?
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  • So he know he can go back 40 years and say, "man, that's what
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  • Caused this, right here."
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  • He knows that.
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  • "ah, and they've been doing pretty good.
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  • They-- they're working their way up.
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  • Ah, yeah, yeah.
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  • Come on, i gotta help them up.
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  • Yeah, because i know what happened back there.
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  • They're gonna be all right.
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  • But i also gotta help them up because that thing could kill
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  • Him one day.
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  • I gotta-- i gotta help him up because that can-- that can make
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  • It worse one day because the consequences of sin in the
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  • Natural is working on killing, stealing, and destroying."
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  • Y'all see what i'm saying?
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  • But it's not god's heart that says, "now you get-- how many
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  • Lashes you get."
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  • That's not-- that's not god.
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  • Here's what he says: "for we have not a high priest which
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  • Cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmity."
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  • The high priest we have can be touched with everything we've
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  • Ever gone through.
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  • The high priest that we have can be touched with that
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  • Broken heart.
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  • It-- he can be touched with that sadness.
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  • He can be touched with you feeling inferior, feeling like
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  • You don't matter, feeling like nobody cares, feeling like--
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  • He can be touched with all of that.
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  • And he's so awesome because if you will give him the attention,
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  • More than giving yourself attention, that's why self-pity
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  • Will rob you.
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  • Self-pity will rob you of what god can do for you right in the
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  • Middle of what you're going through.
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  • And when you're in self-pity, you can't see what nobody else
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  • Is going through because you're so busy looking at yourself.
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  • But we have a high priest who's still touched with your sadness,
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  • Your pain, your fear, your concern.
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  • He's touched with your inferiority, your insecurities.
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  • God, i don't wanna do this.
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  • I don't-- i don't wanna be like this.
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  • You could not imagine the people that in their private time, they
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  • Just break down because they can't figure out how to stop
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  • Being what they despise about themselves.
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  • And he created christians so we can kinda be his hands in
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  • The earth to kinda help show that kind of compassion.
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  • And we done got carried away with rule-keeping, and so all we
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  • Wanna do is beat people down with the rules, when there is
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  • Mercy available.
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  • We have a high priest that's can be touched with the feelings of
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  • Our infirmity--he says, "but was in all points he was
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  • Tempted," with unbelief like we were.
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  • I don't know if you remember the time when things didn't happen,
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  • They didn't go right.
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  • Something went crazy and the temptation was, "god, where
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  • Are you?
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  • Are you real?"
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  • And on the deep down on the inside you knew he was real, but
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  • It was just that little temptation in your head: "where
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  • Are you?
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  • I just lost my baby and we prayed all night and my
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  • Baby died.
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  • Are you real?"
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  • And he gives you a little time before he swoops in and comforts
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  • You with a word or comfort, and you have the assurance that he
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  • Is real.
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  • And yeah, the temptation to leave him and walk away.
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  • The temptation to not have "nothing to do with them church
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  • People no more.
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  • And i ain't coming to church no more.
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  • I'm done."
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  • And you can be done with it and god won't let you go.
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  • He won't let you go.
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  • God is like, "i'm fighting for our relationship and, even
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  • Though you wanna leave me, i'm not gonna let you go.
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  • I'm attached with you.
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  • I will fight every day for you.
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  • I'm not gonna let you go.
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  • I'll talk to you in your dreams.
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  • I'll wake you up in the morning.
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  • I'll overwhelm you with goodness, praise god.
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  • I'm not gonna let you go.
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  • You can quit on me, but i ain't never gonna quit on you."
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  • And when you have come to the end of yourself, when you've
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  • Come to the end of yourself, you realize, "i have a high priest
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  • That understands me, even in my worst pain.
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  • I have a high priest who loves me."
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  • But the bible says he was tempted in all of those areas,
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  • Mostly in the area of unbelief.
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  • Can you imagine in the garden of gethsemane, sweating blood out
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  • Of his pores, that's pressure.
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  • Physical bodies, blood, physical bodies going through his
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  • Emotions going through, fear entering in, depression and--
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  • Was coming in.
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  • You don't see that jesus.
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  • But go and read the-- when he was in the garden of gethsemane
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  • That jesus, in a human flesh, that flesh was like, wow, what i
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  • Gotta go through, i have got to-- i've got to be whipped with
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  • A cat o' nine tails.
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  • He knew all of that but i've got to be nailed to a cross.
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  • He knew all of that.
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  • I gotta die, he know all of that.
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  • And i gotta go to hell for 3 days and 3 nights.
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  • He knew all of that.
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  • But what satan didn't know is that through all of that
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  • Suffering, that's when he was glorified.
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  • Wow, wow.
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  • Go back to john chapter 8 and verse 9, i wanna finish this
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  • With the-- with the woman.
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  • Verse 9, he says: "and they which heard it, being convicted
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  • By their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the
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  • Eldest, even unto the last: and jesus was left alone.
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  • And," watch this, "the woman standing in the midst.
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  • When jesus had lifted up himself, and he saw none but the
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  • Woman," this is so awesome, "he said unto her, woman, where are
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  • Those thine accusers?
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  • Hath no man condemned thee?
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  • And she answered, no man, lord.
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  • And he said unto her," get this.
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  • "neither do i condemn you: go, and sin no more."
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  • Jesus did something that a lot of christians recognize.
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  • He gave her a gift of no condemnation.
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  • We see she sinned, we see the law commanded her to be stoned.
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  • And in the midst of the the law being broken, something greater
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  • Than the law showed up that day: jesus.
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  • And jesus says, "i don't condemn you."
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  • You remember in earlier scriptures, he says, "i did not
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  • Come in the world to condemn the world, but that the world
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  • Through me might be saved."
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  • So jesus says, "i came so those who are condemned can be saved
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  • Through me.
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  • I didn't come to condemn the world."
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  • And church, we are in jesus, we are of jesus.
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  • We should not play the part of condemning the world or people.
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  • Sinners sin because that's their nature.
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  • Let's pray that their nature change and they get the nature
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  • Of christ that we have, praise god.
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  • They had the gift of no condemnation.
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  • Now, what can a person do with the gift of no condemnation?
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  • What can you do when you recognize that heaven doesn't
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  • Condemn you?
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  • He said to her, "go with this gift, and sin no more.
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  • Now you can go and sin no more."
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  • I guarantee you, she didn't have no more problems with adultery.
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  • Why?
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  • Because there's no condemnation.
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  • But when there's condemnation, there is this pressure to
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  • Keep sinning.
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  • When you get knocked down and people continue to beat you and
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  • Keep you down, there's the pressure of, well, i might as
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  • Well just, you know, you know.
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  • I can take the condemnation.
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  • That's all you do anyway.
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  • But i'm just gonna keep doing it because now the enemy is trying
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  • To convince me that's who you are.
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  • So just go ahead and do it anyway.
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  • You can never be successful over sin by allowing condemnation to
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  • Minister to you every day of your life.
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  • Jesus said, "i know what happens since i know everything.
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  • I also know a way out of your situation and i will not condemn
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  • You," because where there is condemnation, there was the
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  • Continuation of sin because you feel condemned.
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  • Even if you go back to verse 9, and you see that those people
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  • Who left sinned more, he gave her the gift of no condemnation,
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  • First, and that gift enabled her to go and sin no more, second.
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  • And this is why we need to get rid of all of the condemnation.
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  • We need to get all the condemnation out of our lives.
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  • How many of you are still coming to church self-condemned?
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  • It gotta go.
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  • You have got to deal-- please deal with the condemnation.
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  • Don't let the condemnation deal with you.
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  • Deal with that condemnation.
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  • Remember who you are.
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  • Remember what jesus has already done for you.
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  • If we are full of condemnation, we might end up going and
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  • Sinning some more if we're full of condemnation.
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  • Now, but you still might be around people who condemn, but
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  • Do not be full of condemnation.
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  • Look at what he said in romans chapter 8, verse 1--what happens
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  • When we get in christ?
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  • What happens when we get born again?
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  • He says: "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which
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  • Are in christ jesus," period.
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  • If you study the scriptures, the rest of that is in italicized.
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  • And if you rightly divide the word, if you read the rest of
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  • That it's saying you have to do that in order to have
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  • No condemnation.
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  • What he says is-- the original text says: "there is therefore
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  • Now no condemnation to them which are in christ jesus,"
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  • Period, okay?
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  • You have no condemnation, those of you who are in christ jesus.
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  • In christ jesus is a safe place from condemnation.
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  • And then go to 1 john chapter 3 and 20 one more time.
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  • I wanna-- i wanna answer that question about all the stuff
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  • That he knows.
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  • He says: "for if our hearts condemn us, god is greater than
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  • Our heart, and he knoweth all things."
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  • What is it that he knows?
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  • Well, he knows about the blood of jesus and he knows about
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  • Jesus have paid the ransom and the compensation for our lives.
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  • He knows about all of those things that can be responsible
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  • For keeping us in condemnation.
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  • And so what he is saying is, is i want you to focus on
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  • The things you know.
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  • Focus on the blood.
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  • Focus on the broken body.
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  • Focus on what jesus has done on that cross.
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  • Focus on what happened when he was resurrected.
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  • Focus on the stance that you have with god right now.
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  • Focus on the spirit of god that's in you, that's not
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  • Condemning you.
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  • Focus on the perfection that you have, that you are the
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  • Righteousness of god and that you have been made righteous.
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  • Focus on these things.
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  • Creflo: in fact, i wanna get very specific.
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  • What do i remember right away when condemnation wants to
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  • Rise up in my life?
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  • 1 john chapter 2 and verse 1 through 2--focus on this.
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  • Focus on this.
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  • Start practicing this.
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  • There's a lot of times, you know, i'm preaching and you're
  • 00:14:25.667 --> 00:14:28.569
  • Saying, "well, yeah, that's good.
  • 00:14:28.569 --> 00:14:29.904
  • That's good."
  • 00:14:29.904 --> 00:14:31.272
  • I'm not preaching so it's, yeah, that's good, good-sounding.
  • 00:14:31.272 --> 00:14:32.607
  • I'm preaching so you can begin to rehearse this in your life.
  • 00:14:32.607 --> 00:14:37.078
  • It makes a big difference when you say stuff and remember
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  • Things in your life, you see?
  • 00:14:40.114 --> 00:14:42.016
  • He says, and here's what you do when that condemnation shows up.
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  • We gotta be free from it.
  • 00:14:45.386 --> 00:14:46.721
  • That condemnation shows up, he says, "my little children, these
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  • Things write unto you, that you sin not."
  • 00:14:49.257 --> 00:14:53.027
  • So that's the perfect will of god for us.
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  • He doesn't want us to do it because he does not want us--
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  • His love and his mercy doesn't want us to have to, you know,
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  • Deal with the consequences that are built into this natural
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  • World of what goes around comes around.
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  • It's in the-- it's in the natural cycle here.
  • 00:15:08.142 --> 00:15:10.945
  • He says, "so my will is that you sin not.
  • 00:15:10.945 --> 00:15:13.247
  • And if any man sin," now, i'm gonna put provision in there.
  • 00:15:13.247 --> 00:15:18.019
  • "we have an advocate with the father."
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  • We have somebody that will go and plead for us.
  • 00:15:22.190 --> 00:15:25.960
  • "we have a advocate with the father, jesus christ
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  • The righteous," and look what he says.
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  • Here's what you do: "and he is the propitiation."
  • 00:15:31.299 --> 00:15:35.103
  • Now that is he is the compensation.
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  • He is this peace offering, the sin offering, and he is the
  • 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:43.745
  • Ransom that has been paid for you to be free from the sin man,
  • 00:15:43.745 --> 00:15:48.583
  • Glory to god.
  • 00:15:48.583 --> 00:15:50.151
  • He is-- he says so-- he says so when condemnation comes or even
  • 00:15:50.151 --> 00:15:54.555
  • When sin comes, he said, here's what i want you to do.
  • 00:15:54.555 --> 00:15:56.991
  • I want you to remind yourself of this, that we have a advocate
  • 00:15:56.991 --> 00:16:02.063
  • Who is our compensation who paid for that.
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  • We have a advocate who became the peace offering, glory
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  • To god.
  • 00:16:09.137 --> 00:16:10.505
  • We have an advocate who has given us the gift of no
  • 00:16:10.505 --> 00:16:14.075
  • Condemnation, praise the lord.
  • 00:16:14.075 --> 00:16:16.377
  • And he says: "and not for ours only, but also," this is
  • 00:16:16.377 --> 00:16:19.747
  • Awesome, "also for the sins of the whole world."
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  • I don't think christian people realize it but jesus christ did
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  • What he did for the entire earth and when-- and when they come to
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  • Him, he is ready, the plate is ready, the table is ready.
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  • He didn't ask us to bring anything to the table.
  • 00:16:34.929 --> 00:16:37.565
  • He made everything ready.
  • 00:16:37.565 --> 00:16:39.467
  • So when your friends get born again, when they get tired of
  • 00:16:39.467 --> 00:16:42.503
  • Condemnation, when they get tired of shame, when they get
  • 00:16:42.503 --> 00:16:45.339
  • Fed up with the-- with the judgment and the pain and the
  • 00:16:45.339 --> 00:16:48.409
  • Brokenness of the world, they should be able to look at us and
  • 00:16:48.409 --> 00:16:52.180
  • See some peace, some similitude of this grace that will cause
  • 00:16:52.180 --> 00:16:57.652
  • Them to say, "help me," and please don't get-- don't get so
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  • Deep and just say, "i'll help you.
  • 00:17:02.256 --> 00:17:03.891
  • Can i pray with you?
  • 00:17:03.891 --> 00:17:05.393
  • Will you invite jesus to come in?"
  • 00:17:05.393 --> 00:17:07.328
  • And make it simple.
  • 00:17:07.328 --> 00:17:08.696
  • Don't make it complicated.
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  • Just-- if you have to go to 'em and just say, "repeat after me,
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  • 'jesus, save me.'"
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  • That's enough.
  • 00:17:15.136 --> 00:17:24.745
  • Somebody says, "well, what do i do after i get saved?"
  • 00:17:24.745 --> 00:17:26.814
  • Get to know jesus.
  • 00:17:26.814 --> 00:17:29.283
  • "how do i get to know jesus?"
  • 00:17:29.283 --> 00:17:30.785
  • Talk to him.
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  • Pray, read the scripture.
  • 00:17:32.153 --> 00:17:34.455
  • If you don't understand it right now, listen to these sermons
  • 00:17:34.455 --> 00:17:37.358
  • And teachings.
  • 00:17:37.358 --> 00:17:38.693
  • Get to know him.
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  • And i say today, get to know him right.
  • 00:17:40.061 --> 00:17:42.797
  • Because the jesus i got to know, i didn't-- i didn't get to know
  • 00:17:42.797 --> 00:17:46.134
  • Him right.
  • 00:17:46.134 --> 00:17:47.502
  • I got to know a jesus that would judge me and condemn me to hell,
  • 00:17:47.502 --> 00:17:52.273
  • A jesus that would get on me if i-- if i broke any of the rules.
  • 00:17:52.273 --> 00:17:57.445
  • But i did, i just felt like that wasn't him.
  • 00:17:57.445 --> 00:18:01.682
  • All the time, i just knew that that wasn't him.
  • 00:18:01.682 --> 00:18:04.452
  • And then when the gospel of grace was ministered to me, i
  • 00:18:04.452 --> 00:18:08.890
  • Said to myself, "now that's the jesus i always thought he was."
  • 00:18:08.890 --> 00:18:18.733
  • That's why i'm never-- i'm never, i'm never going back
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  • To the rule-keeping.
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  • I'm never going back to trying to live by a law that doesn't
  • 00:18:22.670 --> 00:18:25.606
  • Give life.
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  • I'm never going back to a law, glory to god, that can't
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  • Save nobody.
  • 00:18:30.111 --> 00:18:31.445
  • I'm never going back to a law-- now remember, the law was
  • 00:18:31.445 --> 00:18:34.382
  • Perfect but i am not perfect.
  • 00:18:34.382 --> 00:18:36.551
  • I need a jesus who can deal with somebody who's not perfect.
  • 00:18:36.551 --> 00:18:40.588
  • I need a jesus who can deal with somebody that's not
  • 00:18:40.588 --> 00:18:43.891
  • Flawless yet.
  • 00:18:43.891 --> 00:18:45.226
  • But the promise is if you let me come in you, glory to god, and i
  • 00:18:45.226 --> 00:18:49.597
  • In you, and you in me, then i'll start working on you and i
  • 00:18:49.597 --> 00:18:52.767
  • Promise you the day when i come back, you're gonna be perfect.
  • 00:18:52.767 --> 00:18:56.637
  • You're gonna be just like me.
  • 00:18:56.637 --> 00:18:58.139
  • I promise you a total transformation and it'll be
  • 00:18:58.139 --> 00:19:02.510
  • Finished when i come back.
  • 00:19:02.510 --> 00:19:13.254
  • There is no condemnation at the throne of grace.
  • 00:19:13.321 --> 00:19:17.792
  • And when we have made mistakes and when our heart condemns us,
  • 00:19:17.792 --> 00:19:22.530
  • There's one place where we're safe: at the throne of grace.
  • 00:19:22.530 --> 00:19:28.002
  • Watch this in hebrews 4. hebrews 4:14 to 6-- 14 through 16.
  • 00:19:28.002 --> 00:19:34.775
  • This is awesome.
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  • "seeing then that we have a great high priest, that
  • 00:19:36.110 --> 00:19:41.382
  • Is passed into heavens, jesus the son of god."
  • 00:19:41.382 --> 00:19:46.387
  • Now we have a high priest, a perfect high priest.
  • 00:19:46.387 --> 00:19:52.226
  • In the old covenant, they would have to take the animals to the
  • 00:19:52.226 --> 00:19:56.330
  • Priest, and the animals needed to be acceptable because if the
  • 00:19:56.330 --> 00:20:00.868
  • Animals were not all right, then the people that bought the
  • 00:20:00.868 --> 00:20:04.005
  • Animals were not all right, and they would leave without their
  • 00:20:04.005 --> 00:20:07.174
  • Sins being covered.
  • 00:20:07.174 --> 00:20:09.076
  • So under the sacrificial system of animal sacrifices, the blood
  • 00:20:09.076 --> 00:20:14.048
  • Of the animals would cover the sin.
  • 00:20:14.048 --> 00:20:17.084
  • That was called atonement, atoning blood.
  • 00:20:17.084 --> 00:20:21.422
  • Now see, we really mix that up in the new testament.
  • 00:20:21.422 --> 00:20:24.292
  • It should never be atoning.
  • 00:20:24.292 --> 00:20:25.960
  • Atoning blood is the blood of the animals.
  • 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:27.962
  • It covers it up, but it could never completely get rid of it.
  • 00:20:27.962 --> 00:20:32.166
  • We have in heaven a perfect sacrifice, a perfect high priest
  • 00:20:32.166 --> 00:20:36.671
  • And a sacrifice.
  • 00:20:36.671 --> 00:20:38.306
  • Man!
  • 00:20:38.306 --> 00:20:39.640
  • He says, "so let us hold fast our profession."
  • 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:44.278
  • Verse 15: "for we have not a high priest which cannot be
  • 00:20:44.278 --> 00:20:48.249
  • Touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all
  • 00:20:48.249 --> 00:20:51.419
  • Points he was tempted like as we are."
  • 00:20:51.419 --> 00:20:56.590
  • Verse 16, or "without sin.
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  • Let us therefore," here's a part i love, "come boldly to," the
  • 00:20:59.460 --> 00:21:05.066
  • Safest place around, "the throne of grace."
  • 00:21:05.066 --> 00:21:08.669
  • What happens when you come to the throne of grace?
  • 00:21:08.669 --> 00:21:10.671
  • "you obtain," what?
  • 00:21:10.671 --> 00:21:12.673
  • "mercy and you find," what?
  • 00:21:12.673 --> 00:21:15.609
  • "grace to do," what?
  • 00:21:15.609 --> 00:21:17.578
  • "help," when you need help, right?
  • 00:21:17.578 --> 00:21:20.481
  • "in a time of need."
  • 00:21:20.481 --> 00:21:22.049
  • So notice what happens when you go to the throne of grace,
  • 00:21:22.049 --> 00:21:24.585
  • You find mercy.
  • 00:21:24.585 --> 00:21:25.920
  • Mercy is the bad you deserve: the condemnation and
  • 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.791
  • The judgment.
  • 00:21:30.791 --> 00:21:32.126
  • Mercy is the bad you deserve.
  • 00:21:32.126 --> 00:21:33.994
  • Go to the throne of grace and get mercy.
  • 00:21:33.994 --> 00:21:39.667
  • He says, but not only do you get mercy, which is the bad you
  • 00:21:39.667 --> 00:21:43.137
  • Deserve, but you don't get, the judgment you deserve, the
  • 00:21:43.137 --> 00:21:46.474
  • Condemnation you deserve, and this was from heaven's place,
  • 00:21:46.474 --> 00:21:48.909
  • That you don't get, you-- when you go to the throne of grace,
  • 00:21:48.909 --> 00:21:52.446
  • There is-- not gonna-- he's not gonna judge you.
  • 00:21:52.446 --> 00:21:54.882
  • He's not, yeah, i'll say this for real.
  • 00:21:54.882 --> 00:21:57.852
  • He's not gonna judge you, hurt you, or take blessings from you.
  • 00:21:57.852 --> 00:22:05.092
  • Y'all don't get that.
  • 00:22:05.092 --> 00:22:08.863
  • No, he's not gonna judge you, condemn you, hurt you, or take
  • 00:22:08.863 --> 00:22:11.832
  • Blessings from you.
  • 00:22:11.832 --> 00:22:13.200
  • I used to think, "well, i done missed it, so i guess he gonna
  • 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:18.038
  • Take this from me."
  • 00:22:18.038 --> 00:22:19.507
  • Somebody said one time, "i used to sing.
  • 00:22:19.507 --> 00:22:21.041
  • I used to sing, but god took my voice away."
  • 00:22:21.041 --> 00:22:23.511
  • Uh-uh, first of all, he says, the gifts and callings of god
  • 00:22:23.511 --> 00:22:27.448
  • Are given, watch this, without repentance.
  • 00:22:27.448 --> 00:22:31.018
  • That means he gives it without changing his mind about giving
  • 00:22:31.018 --> 00:22:34.188
  • It, okay?
  • 00:22:34.188 --> 00:22:37.858
  • You will obtain mercy and then you'll find grace.
  • 00:22:37.858 --> 00:22:40.361
  • Grace is the good that you get that you didn't deserve.
  • 00:22:40.361 --> 00:22:48.469
  • And i prophesy a lot of good is getting ready to come your way
  • 00:22:48.469 --> 00:22:54.475
  • That you won't be able to take credit for.
  • 00:22:54.475 --> 00:22:56.744
  • All you gotta do is be ready to receive it.
  • 00:22:56.744 --> 00:22:58.779
  • I receive the-- say this out loud with me.
  • 00:22:58.779 --> 00:23:00.881
  • I receive the good that i don't deserve.
  • 00:23:00.881 --> 00:23:06.420
  • Yes, amen.
  • 00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:07.888
  • Yes, amen.
  • 00:23:07.955 --> 00:23:09.290
  • I receive the good that i don't deserve.
  • 00:23:09.290 --> 00:23:12.726
  • Oh amen, i receive the good that i don't deserve.
  • 00:23:12.726 --> 00:23:18.466
  • My goodness.
  • 00:23:18.466 --> 00:23:20.801
  • And then in romans 2 and 4 i believe he says, "why would
  • 00:23:20.801 --> 00:23:25.773
  • God give good to people that don't deserve it?"
  • 00:23:25.773 --> 00:23:30.811
  • Why?
  • 00:23:30.811 --> 00:23:32.646
  • He says, "or despise thou in his goodness and forbearance
  • 00:23:32.646 --> 00:23:35.349
  • And longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of god
  • 00:23:35.349 --> 00:23:41.088
  • Leadeth thee to repentance?"
  • 00:23:41.088 --> 00:23:44.959
  • You know what god says?
  • 00:23:44.959 --> 00:23:46.861
  • He says, "i'm gonna use the thing that you don't think will
  • 00:23:46.861 --> 00:23:49.263
  • Change people, goodness when they don't deserve it."
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  • Demonstrated by jesus.
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  • Thank you for supporting us as we strive to reach a lost and
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  • Dying world for the lord jesus christ.
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  • Announcer: if god has placed it on your heart to support
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  • The vision of this ministry to reach the world with the gospel
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  • Of grace, you may call in to make your financial donations
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  • Or log on to creflodollarministries.org.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Creflo dollar: as we wrap up today's broadcast,
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  • I'd like to take a moment to pray for you.
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted
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  • That you've received jesus christ as your personal
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  • Lord and savior.
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  • And there's no better way to embark upon a new stage
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  • In your life than to enter into a personal relationship
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  • With christ.
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  • So if you want to become born again
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  • And begin an exciting, intimate relationship with jesus,
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  • Pray this prayer with me now.
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  • Heavenly father, come into my heart,
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  • Save me, i receive you now, by faith,
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  • And i declare in jesus's name that i am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen.
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me,
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  • I wanna welcome you to the kingdom of god.
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  • Announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring
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  • This message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you in part
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  • By the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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