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Creflo Dollar - Only Believe

August 31, 2025 | S E | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - Only Believe
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Only Believe | August 31, 2025
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of mark
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  • Chapter 5, and verse 36.
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  • Pretty big deal, this teaching this morning, kind of started
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  • From bible study this wednesday.
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  • How many of you were at bible study wednesday night?
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  • It was a life check, right?
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  • So i wanted to develop this, this morning, and do a series
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  • On this.
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  • Mark chapter 5, and verse 36, he says, "as soon as jesus heard
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  • The word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of
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  • The synagogue, be not afraid, only believe."
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  • In every situation in our lives, you're gonna either be in fear
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  • Or you gonna believe, and when you're not believing, you're
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  • Being afraid.
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  • And the number one fear for christian people is the fear
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  • That what god promised in his word won't work, "i'm afraid
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  • That this thing that i'm standing on might not work."
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  • And there is an attack especially on christians where
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  • You believing is concerned, and we've got to make sure that we
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  • Are not believers who are no longer believing.
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  • That was mostly understood for people who were not born again,
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  • That obviously they don't believe because they hadn't made
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  • Jesus the lord of their life, and that's true, until i began
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  • To look at just believers and wondering if we are believing.
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  • So i wanna start off with this issue of condemnation, because
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  • It keeps creeping up, we've done a series on condemnation, but it
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  • Seems like it is going to be the result of you not believing.
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  • A person that's not born again is already in condemnation
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  • Because they didn't believe to make jesus the lord of
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  • Their life.
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  • And so, let's look at this carefully, let's define it,
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  • Condemnation, and then i'm gonna show you, you know, some ways to
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  • Figure out if you are walking in condemnation still.
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  • Condemnation means to pronounce unfit, it means
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  • Guilty, unusable.
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  • Ever felt like you were unusable?
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  • It involves judgment, condemnation involves
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  • Punishment, it involves disapproval.
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  • If i had to take a couple of words to define condemnation, it
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  • Would be the feeling that you're not enough, feelings that you're
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  • Not enough.
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  • You know, when you condemn a building, it's no longer usable,
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  • It's been judged, it's not up to par to be able to do what it's
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  • Supposed to do.
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  • And there are lots of people that feel like that, they feel
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  • Like they're just not enough, "i just am not enough to do this
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  • Or to accomplish this or to walk like this."
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  • It's almost like you're stuck in inferiority.
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  • Inferiority and condemnation goes hand in hand, a man who is
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  • Inferior is the same guy who just, they don't feel like they
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  • Measure up.
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  • An inferior person feels like they just can't measure up, and
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  • So they have to become superior to cover up their
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  • Inferiority complex.
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  • To be inferior means to fall short, not enough, it falls
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  • Short, and let me give you an example.
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  • In romans chapter 3, verse 23, in the king james and then
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  • The tpt, let's look at it in the king james first.
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  • He says, "for all have sinned," and then what's the result of,
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  • "all have sinned"?
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  • "and come short," coming short is inferiority.
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  • "all have sinned, and come short," coming short is
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  • That condemnation.
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  • "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of god."
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  • So, when adam did what he did and caused this curse to go
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  • Everywhere, it affected everybody in inferiority, and
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  • The only antidote for inferiority is believing jesus.
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  • Look at this in the passion translation, he says, "for we
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  • All have sinned and are in need of the glory of god."
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  • "we all have sinned and we are in need of the glory of god."
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  • The reason why this issue of condemnation keeps coming up,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, is because it is the root of a lot
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  • Of things.
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  • Condemnation will lead to fear, so we we have to examine this,
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  • Condemnation leads to fear.
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  • The bible says, "god hasn't given us a spirit of fear," but
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  • Please understand something, that fear that is tolerated is
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  • Faith that is contaminated.
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  • What are you afraid of?
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  • Sometimes when you go off and you cut somebody out, you start
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  • Fussing and stuff like that, it may not be, it's not ultimately,
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  • It's not really an anger problem more than it is a fear problem,
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  • Your anger is an expression of what you are afraid of.
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  • I'm afraid of something, so my anger is expressing that fear.
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  • Job said, "the thing i fear the most has come upon me."
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  • Fear operates like faith in the negative.
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  • God needs faith in order to bring his word to pass in your
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  • Life, satan needs fear in order to bring his words to pass in
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  • Your life, fear is the faith of the enemy.
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  • But please notice, fear doesn't show up without condemnation
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  • Giving birth to it, condemnation is the root issue here.
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  • When condemnation gives birth to fear, then fear is gonna give
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  • Birth to stress, and ladies and gentlemen, the number one killer
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  • In this world today is stress.
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  • So condemnation gives birth to fear, fear gives birth to
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  • Stress, and if you don't know how to overcome the stress,
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  • The stress now will go ahead and open the door to the
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  • Ministration or the manifestation of the curse.
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  • The manifestation of the cursed in your life, on your body, all
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  • Started with condemnation.
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  • Do you walk around the house feeling like you don't measure
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  • Up, do you walk around the house feeling like you're not enough,
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  • Do you walk around the house feeling inferior?
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  • Do you go to school or college, and you constantly comparing
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  • Yourself with somebody else, like you have to compare
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  • Yourself with somebody else because you have not yet come to
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  • Understand how awesome you are?
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  • And it's time for you to realize that you don't need to be like
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  • Somebody else, you're awesome because you are authentic, and
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  • God made you authentic and threw away the mold, and you keep
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  • Trying to give away your authenticity for a cheap copy.
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  • You're trying to be like somebody else when there's
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  • Something about you, maybe you've not discovered everything
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  • About you, but there's something about you that doesn't exist
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  • With the person you're comparing yourself with, and you gotta
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  • Stop the self-hate.
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  • I know i'm talking to somebody here, today.
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  • You gotta stop the self hate, you are awesome, you are
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  • Beautiful, you are beloved, you are authentic, you are unique,
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  • And condemnation kills.
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  • It's not as simple as people have led us to be,
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  • "oh, condemnation."
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  • No, condemnation kills, it robs, condemnation causes the fear,
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  • The fear shows up and it causes the stress.
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  • And there are kids in high school, today, they stressed
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  • Out, it's too much.
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  • Social media, you see what everybody doing.
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  • Before they had social media you couldn't see, you could see just
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  • A few people at school.
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  • But you stressed out trying to do and be and act, and you've
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  • Left the authentic you behind in your pursuit of trying to be
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  • Like somebody else, as you deny the awesome you.
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  • Okay.
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  • People who don't feel like they can measure up or people who
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  • Feel like they don't measure up at all will start saying and
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  • Thinking about what they need to do to measure up.
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  • When you are in condemnation and you feel like you don't measure
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  • Up, you feel like you're not enough, your focus is you, which
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  • Is not good, your focus is all about you, you can't see nobody
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  • Else but you.
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  • You start saying and thinking things like, "i need to improve,
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  • So i'm gonna pray more," so now your prayer is now being
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  • Motivated by your self-need to, eh.
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  • You start thinking things like, "if i just try harder, then the
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  • Breakthrough will come."
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  • It's hard to believe when you're thinking that if you can try
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  • Harder, the breakthrough will come, because it's all on you.
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  • "if i can just get more faith, my miracle will come."
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  • Again, it's all you, you, you.
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  • "my problem is this, so if i fix it, i'll be all right, if i can
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  • Only do this, then i'll be all right, what i need to do is
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  • This," your focus is entirely on yourself.
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  • You got to see this plan of the enemy, the plan of the enemy
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  • That he has unleashed, like right now, where we are today,
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  • The entire human race came under the condemnation of death by one
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  • Sin, by the one sin of adam.
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  • Now, follow me very carefully here.
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  • Go to romans chapter 5, and verse 18, romans chapter 5:18.
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  • So by one man, condemnation came on all the earth.
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  • Verse 18 says, "therefore as by the offense of one judgment,"
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  • "by the offense of one judgment came upon all men
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  • To condemnation."
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  • So there was like only one law in the garden, i don't know if
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  • You realize that, one thing he asked them to do, "don't eat
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  • From the fruit of this tree," that was it.
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  • He says, "now all of the trees in the garden, you can have all
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  • Of them, but don't eat from this."
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  • Think about it, the real sin wasn't that they ate from the
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  • Forbidden tree, the real sin is they didn't eat from all of the
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  • Other trees that were available to them.
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  • How many things has god made available to us, and we're
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  • Focused in on that one wrong thing?
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  • Are you listening to me now?
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  • This condemnation that started with adam was intensified when
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  • The law of moses came in.
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  • Look at romans 5:20, it was intensified, it was made
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  • Greater, which made condemnation greater.
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  • He said, "moreover the law entered, that the offense
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  • Might abound."
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  • That word "abound" means to increase.
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  • So the law entered, so, that offense, which was condemnation,
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  • It increased, it increased because the law came in and
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  • Intensified it more.
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  • And then, in james chapter 2:10, check this out, he said, "for
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  • All of you who are going to live by the law," he says, "let me
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  • Tell you," "for whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
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  • Offend in just one point, he's guilty of breaking all of
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  • The law."
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  • In other words, if you try to keep all the law and you eat
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  • Pork ribs, if it's forbidden by the law, on the 4th of july,
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  • You guilty of breaking all 613 laws.
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  • Who does that?
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  • The condemnation, that just says, "i can't do it, it's not
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  • Enough, i'm not enough," wow.
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  • Under the law, condemnation is because man does not do all that
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  • The law demands and does do that which the law forbids, that's
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  • The condemnation.
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  • The condemnation is, "i can't do everything that the law demands,
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  • I'm not enough, i end up doing all the things that the law
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  • Forbids, i can't keep these 613 laws, and every time you break
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  • One, i'm condemned," and most of those people were condemned
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  • To death.
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  • But look what happened, galatians 3:13, galatians 3:13.
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  • The condemnation that showed up because men couldn't keep the
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  • Law, and they broke it, basically, it was based on what
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  • A man could do and what a man didn't do, this condemnation
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  • Came on all men because of their actions, their performance.
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  • But jesus came, galatians 3:13, here's the good news, verse 13
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  • Says, "christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law."
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  • Some of y'all got it, thank you, jesus.
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  • Christ has delivered us from the curse that comes because you
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  • Can't keep the law.
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  • There was a curse that came on man because he couldn't keep
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  • The law.
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  • You remember, in verse 15, deuteronomy 28?
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  • He says, "and if you will not do these things, then cursed will
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  • You be here, cursed will you be there."
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  • And so christ showed up and he delivered us, redeemed us from
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  • The curse of the law by being made a curse for us.
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  • Actually, the only one that could keep all of the law was
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  • Jesus, so jesus took it upon himself to do what we
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  • Couldn't do.
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  • But now, listen, here's what i want you to get, when jesus gave
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  • His life, we were delivered from the curse of the law, and in
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  • Essence, we are delivered from condemnation.
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  • We're delivered from condemnation because of what
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  • Jesus did.
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  • Romans chapter 8:1, we're delivered from condemnation,
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  • Were delivered from condemnation.
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  • The woman who was caught in the act of adultery, jesus gave her
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  • The gift of no condemnation, because he knew he was about to
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  • Die to deliver all from condemnation.
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  • Now, listen to me carefully.
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  • Look at this verse 1, "there is therefore now no condemnation to
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  • Them which are in christ jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
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  • But after the spirit."
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  • That's interesting, because that was added, some of your bibles
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  • Have that in italicize.
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  • What he means is there is, "therefore now no condemnation
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  • To them who are in christ jesus," period.
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  • If you are in christ jesus, there is no
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  • Condemnation, period.
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  • Now, i want you to say this out loud, "i am free
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  • From condemnation."
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  • That's not exactly the whole truth;
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  • You are free from condemnation
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  • That is caused by what you do or don't do.
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  • Under the law, you were condemned because of what you do
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  • Or don't do.
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  • But is it still possible that condemnation can enter in
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  • A person's life even after what jesus did?
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  • So there's the new condition for condemnation, there's a
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  • Condition for condemnation i knew about, i don't know if i've
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  • Ever taught you, in relationship with the condemnation that we've
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  • Been delivered from.
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  • But the new condition for condemnation is in no way
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  • Related to what man does.
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  • What jesus has delivered us from was related to what men do or
  • 00:20:17.362 --> 00:20:22.334
  • What man does, but the new condition of condemnation is
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  • Because of the failure of man to believe and to depend upon
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  • The son of god.
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  • Let me show you something, john chapter 3, verse 17 through 19.
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  • I'm headed somewhere.
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  • John chapter 3:17-19, "for god sent not his son into the world
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  • To condemn the world; but that the world through him might
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  • Be," what?
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  • "saved."
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  • Watch carefully, "he that believeth on him is
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  • Not condemned."
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  • Now, how many of you say, "yes, pastor, i believe and depend
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  • On him"?
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  • Listen, i didn't ask you to say you're perfect, just say,
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  • "i believe and i depend on him," you believe that?
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  • I believe and i depend on him.
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  • So, according to this scripture, you are not condemned, but
  • 00:21:19.858 --> 00:21:25.330
  • Uh-oh, "he that believeth not is condemned already."
  • 00:21:25.330 --> 00:21:31.703
  • Mainly referring to people who haven't believed enough to get
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  • Born again, he says they're already condemned.
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  • People who are not born again, people who don't believe in
  • 00:21:38.243 --> 00:21:41.446
  • Jesus christ, they are already in condemnation, they already
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  • Feel like they're not enough, they already feel guilty.
  • 00:21:45.016 --> 00:21:48.053
  • Let me tell you something, when people are not born again,
  • 00:21:48.053 --> 00:21:50.889
  • They feel guilty, they feel guilty, they feel, you know,
  • 00:21:50.889 --> 00:21:57.963
  • Like condemned, they feel like they're not enough, they got
  • 00:21:57.963 --> 00:22:00.732
  • Issues, they go see a therapist, he tries to talk them out of it,
  • 00:22:00.732 --> 00:22:04.436
  • It does pretty good for a minute.
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  • But then, the only way you're gonna be able to get out of this
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  • Condemnation is jesus is the only way to deal with it,
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  • And you feel inferior.
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  • And you go and you take some medication to try to help you
  • 00:22:13.311 --> 00:22:16.114
  • Not feel inferior, but you do.
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  • There is only one, there's only one antidote for inferiority and
  • 00:22:18.083 --> 00:22:25.657
  • Condemnation, and that's jesus.
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  • So, he's talking about those who believe not, they're condemned
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  • Already, but could it also mean the believer, who for some
  • 00:22:35.233 --> 00:22:41.039
  • Reason no longer believes?
  • 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.710
  • Because i'm telling you, when you say, "i'm a christian," you
  • 00:22:45.710 --> 00:22:50.081
  • Say, "i believe," and then something comes up, something
  • 00:22:50.081 --> 00:22:53.351
  • Happens, and for some reason you don't believe, you know what's
  • 00:22:53.351 --> 00:22:56.488
  • Gonna come your way?
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  • Condemnation, i'm not enough, i'm not enough for god to bless,
  • 00:22:57.823 --> 00:23:01.126
  • I don't have enough faith, i'm not praying enough, because
  • 00:23:01.126 --> 00:23:04.196
  • You're not believing, just simply believing in jesus.
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  • Are you focused on you, focused on what you got to do, focused
  • 00:23:07.999 --> 00:23:12.337
  • On your performance?
  • 00:23:12.337 --> 00:23:14.239
  • Is all the attention, all the attention given to you?
  • 00:23:14.239 --> 00:23:19.744
  • And in fact, in a moment, we're gonna find out, if you have been
  • 00:23:19.744 --> 00:23:24.015
  • Walking in condemnation, even as a christian, jesus has delivered
  • 00:23:24.015 --> 00:23:30.856
  • You from being condemned because of what you do.
  • 00:23:30.856 --> 00:23:34.092
  • So, even when you do something crazy, because you believe
  • 00:23:34.092 --> 00:23:37.295
  • Jesus, you say "father, i believe that you have set me
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  • Free from my sins, and i believe that i have the free gift
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  • Of no condemnation," and you keep walking.
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