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Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception

February 25, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception | February 25, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: the small foxes spoil the vine.
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  • Those excuses, all of the rationalizing that you're doing
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  • Becomes a sign of self deception.
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  • You're having to convince yourself through the story you
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  • Tell yourself that all of these reasons are why i couldn't be
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  • True to what i thought was right.
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  • Creflo: you have your bibles, go with me this morning to the book
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  • Of james chapter 4, and verse 17.
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  • Last week we started a new series dealing
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  • With self deception.
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  • If there's one thing that is abundant in the world today,
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  • It's this issue of self deception because the problem
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  • With self deception is you don't know you're deceived.
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  • And so, i thought it's really time to really dig into
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  • This thing.
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  • And last week we talked about defining self deception so we'll
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  • Know what it's all about.
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  • But this morning, i wanna start teaching on the origin of
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  • Self deception.
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  • Not only the origin of self deception, but what are some of
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  • The areas that self deception comes from.
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  • And i'm telling you, taffi and i had a great talk yesterday and
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  • One of the things we realized is that a lot of self deception was
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  • Coming from the pulpits of america, coming from the pulpits
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  • Of the world.
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  • And, you know, there's some deception that comes from social
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  • Media, comes from everywhere.
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  • Everybody in here, including myself, we've all been in
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  • Situations where we were deceived.
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  • And the prayer is, "lord, help me not to be deceived, or at
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  • Least lord, help me to see when i am being deceived."
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  • You don't realize the progress you make when you realize,
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  • "whoa, i'm deceived."
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  • But what happens when people don't realize the importance of
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  • Getting free from self deception?
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  • I mean, it's a playground for the enemy and he just plays with
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  • You and with confidence you carry your life on in
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  • Self deception and can't nobody tell you nothing because you,
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  • You know, that's what deception means is you think you're right
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  • But you're wrong, but you think you're right and you can't see
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  • That self deception.
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  • Then you get older and then you get old and now you're the new
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  • Old people and you didn't realize you spent 30 years of
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  • Your life in self deception.
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  • So, let's begin in james chapter 4, and verse 17 and pray that a
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  • Strong teaching anointing will come on me.
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  • I wanna sow this on the inside of you.
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  • And those of you who are at home and you didn't make it this
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  • Morning, move all the distractions out of the way so
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  • You can hear this because all of us know when we listen to the
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  • Word at home there are a whole bunch of distractions, the
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  • Phone, you know, the kids.
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  • Get yourself in a place to hear this because this is gonna be a
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  • Blessing to your life.
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  • James chapter 4, and verse 17.
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  • I'm gonna read it in the king james and nlt.
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  • He says, "therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and then he
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  • Doeth it not," he said, "to him it's sin," because he knows to
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  • Do good but he didn't do it.
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  • Look at this in the nlt.
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  • And in the nlt he says, "remember, it is sin to know
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  • What you ought to do," you know what you ought to do, "and then
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  • You don't do it."
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  • I know what's good for me to do, but i don't do it.
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  • Now i want to start off with this illustration and see if i
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  • Can paint this picture.
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  • Think of the last time you felt it was right to do something and
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  • You refused to do it.
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  • The last time you thought it was right to do something, but you
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  • Refused to do it.
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  • And i mean it could be something like read a bedtime story to my
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  • Five year old or visit someone in the hospital or showing up at
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  • A wedding or a funeral.
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  • You felt like that was something right for you to do, but you
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  • Didn't do it.
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  • Now, let me say this, we are free moral agents, which means
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  • We have a right to decide to do whatever we're gonna decide
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  • To do.
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  • And as a free moral agent, you are capable of living true or
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  • False to your sense of what is right.
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  • So, you have a sense of what is right, but you're a free
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  • Moral agent.
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  • And you have the right to choose whether you're gonna be true to
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  • What you believe is right or whether you're gonna be false to
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  • What you believe is right.
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  • So, if you are true to what you believe is right, then you do
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  • These things without a second thought.
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  • There's no explanation, there's no second thought.
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  • I mean, you go in there, you read the baby the story.
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  • There's nothing behind that.
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  • There's no story.
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  • You do it.
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  • You show up at the wedding, you do what you believe is right
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  • Because you're true to what you believe is right.
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  • Everybody on the bus?
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  • However, if we do not do these good things that we think are
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  • Right, or we do them resentfully, now, there's a
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  • Story to tell.
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  • There wasn't a story to tell when we were true to what was
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  • Right, but now, when we didn't do it, there's a story to tell.
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  • There's a story to tell.
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  • All of a sudden, you know, we decided not to go to the funeral
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  • And we came up with all the reasons why or we decided not to
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  • Read the five year old the story because i mean, after all, you
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  • Know, i got extra work to do, you know, i didn't sleep well
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  • Last night and we come up with all of these things and you're
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  • Not being true to what you believe is right.
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  • Now you're having a lot of rationalizing and a lot
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  • Of excuses.
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  • There's a story you have to tell and an explanation that you have
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  • To say because you decided not to do what you felt was right.
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  • And so now, there's a story.
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  • So, the heart of the story is in our refusal to do as we believe.
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  • Had we been true to our sense of what was right, it would not
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  • Occur to us to have to explain ourselves because we were just
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  • True to what we thought was right to do and we did it.
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  • But when we are false to our beliefs, there's a whole lot of
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  • Things to explain.
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  • When we're false to our belief of what is right, then my
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  • Excuses become an attempt to make the wrong we are doing
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  • Appear to be right, or at least make the wrong that we're doing,
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  • Try to make it seem like it's not wrong.
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  • Everybody follow me?
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  • So, now here's the problem here.
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  • The excuses become the evidence of more than mere ignorance
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  • And more than being blind by the demands or the pressures
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  • Of life.
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  • The excuses become a sign of self deception.
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  • The small foxes spoil the vine.
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  • Those excuses, all of the rationalizing that you're doing,
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  • Becomes a sign of self deception.
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  • You're having to convince yourself through the story you
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  • Tell yourself that all of these reasons are why i couldn't be
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  • True to what i thought was right.
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  • But we don't see that.
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  • And it's okay because it's built in to the norms and values of
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  • The world.
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  • I used to have this saying as a young minister, holding down the
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  • Position of ceo and minister, "why is irrelevant."
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  • You remember that?
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  • And i would challenge all my leaders, "why is irrelevant."
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  • Why you didn't do something is irrelevant.
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  • The fact of the matter is the window of opportunity has passed
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  • And it didn't happen.
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  • And so, you spend time trying to tell yourself it--why it's okay
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  • That it didn't happen because of boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  • Those are signals that self deception is working its
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  • Way into our lives.
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  • Now notice again in james chapter 4, and verse 17.
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  • Remember, he said it is sin to know what you ought to do and
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  • Then not do it.
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  • There's something that happens, there's a disturbance that goes
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  • On when you know what you ought to do, but don't do it.
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  • But we can't take pieces of our lives and say, "well, it's
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  • All right for me to do this here, but not all right for me
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  • To do this there," because all the enemy is looking for is an
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  • Open door opportunity to come in and to increase
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  • That self deception.
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  • Self deception, let's look at it again by definition.
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  • It's more than a term that describes someone who does not
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  • See the truth.
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  • It is a concept that accounts for how it is possible to be
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  • Blind to the truth.
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  • How is it possible to be blind to the truth?
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  • To be self-deceived is to participate in an act that
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  • Produces a false view of your circumstances.
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  • To be self-deceived is to be blind to the truth of
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  • A situation.
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  • I'm self-deceived and i'm blind to the truth of the situation.
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  • Whether it's the truth of the situation in your marriage, or
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  • Truth in the situation in your--on your job.
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  • You know, i honestly used to think and remember praying this
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  • Way, "lord, the reason why we're having problems is because
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  • Of taffi."
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  • And the holy ghost said, "no, i'm all right with her,
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  • It's you."
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  • Let me tell you something, we've got to understand what this
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  • Deception is all about.
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  • The blindness includes two features.
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  • Let me show you the two players that are in this blind act.
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  • Number one, seeing the truth falsely or seeing the truth
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  • As untruth.
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  • And so, in self deception, you see the truth as untruth.
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  • And so, that's why you gotta make up this thing that says,
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  • "well, that--i got my truth."
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  • No, no, no, no, you're seeing the truth as falsely, you're
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  • Seeing it as untruth.
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  • And along with that, number two, being blind to the fact that
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  • Your own actions, your own wrong that you're doing has produced
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  • This false view.
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  • It's what you're doing that's produced this false view.
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  • In other words, if you're doing something and then you come to a
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  • Teaching like this and you hear it, then you're gonna do
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  • Everything you can to protect what you're doing.
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  • And there's a reason why you have this false view because
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  • You're doing opposite of it.
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  • "well, i don't think lying to profit is wrong."
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  • No, lying wrong, period.
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  • But whatever you're doing, maybe it had a lot to produce the
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  • False view that you have.
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  • What are you doing?
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  • And how are you viewing what you're doing?
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  • Because the norms and values of this whole world, they're
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  • Feeding you with the deception of what you're doing is okay,
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  • Forget the truth.
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  • What she's doing is fine, forget the truth.
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  • And now, your view of the truth has been messed up because
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  • You've been trying to support what you're doing.
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  • Might have quieted the church this morning.
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  • So, given this kind of blindness, and this is just
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  • An introduction.
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  • Given this kind of blindness, it seems that if i am
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  • Self-deceived, i cannot access the knowledge that would set me
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  • Free so i can escape because i'm self-deceived.
  • 00:14:14.466 --> 00:14:20.940
  • So, i can't escape it because i'm self-deceived.
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  • And because you can't escape it because you're self-deceived,
  • 00:14:25.277 --> 00:14:28.347
  • Now you decide this is just how it is and it's okay because this
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  • Is what some people have to have.
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  • Also, since i don't know i'm deceived and i don't know that i
  • 00:14:41.527 --> 00:14:51.136
  • Have produced the deception, i don't know, i'm deceived.
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  • I just said something.
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  • I need to say that again.
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  • I don't know i'm deceived and i don't know i produced
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  • The deception.
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  • Wow.
  • 00:15:05.150 --> 00:15:08.754
  • We all have to understand, we produce the deception.
  • 00:15:08.754 --> 00:15:13.759
  • I'm deceived, i produced the deception, i can't escape.
  • 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:19.064
  • And so, what happens is, i'm gonna reject the attempt for
  • 00:15:19.064 --> 00:15:24.136
  • Somebody to come and enlighten me.
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  • I'll reject the attempt for someone who knows the truth.
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  • I'll reject that and i'll just--i'll term it as you just
  • 00:15:31.744 --> 00:15:37.950
  • Been meddling, you're just meddling, you're just messy
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  • Because you can't see.
  • 00:15:42.021 --> 00:15:43.355
  • So, i'm rejecting what's true because i'm deceived and i
  • 00:15:43.355 --> 00:15:49.762
  • Produced the deception.
  • 00:15:49.762 --> 00:15:51.296
  • And the deception is protecting that deception that i'm
  • 00:15:51.296 --> 00:15:56.168
  • Walking in.
  • 00:15:56.168 --> 00:15:58.771
  • So, to take the idea of self deception seriously, it
  • 00:15:58.771 --> 00:16:03.409
  • Might seem impossible to the person that's deceived.
  • 00:16:03.409 --> 00:16:07.513
  • A person that's deceived is not going to take seriously what
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  • I'm teaching.
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  • The person that's deceived is not gonna take anything serious
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  • About them being deceived.
  • 00:16:17.823 --> 00:16:20.225
  • And here's what they'll do, "that might have been the way
  • 00:16:20.225 --> 00:16:24.129
  • Y'all did it in your day, but in our day, this is okay."
  • 00:16:24.129 --> 00:16:33.238
  • And that's one thing about truth, it doesn't change from
  • 00:16:33.238 --> 00:16:36.942
  • Generation to generation.
  • 00:16:36.942 --> 00:16:40.646
  • It doesn't.
  • 00:16:40.646 --> 00:16:42.347
  • What was true in our day is still gonna be the truth in your
  • 00:16:42.347 --> 00:16:46.151
  • Day and in your children's day and in your grandchildren's day.
  • 00:16:46.151 --> 00:16:48.887
  • It's still gonna be the same.
  • 00:16:48.887 --> 00:16:51.190
  • Now, let's look at james chapter 1, and 8.
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  • I'll get real practical with you for a moment, but i wanna give
  • 00:16:54.393 --> 00:16:57.262
  • You something to meditate on.
  • 00:16:57.262 --> 00:16:58.964
  • I want you to get this series and i want you to listen to it
  • 00:16:58.964 --> 00:17:00.999
  • Over and over and over again until something clicks.
  • 00:17:00.999 --> 00:17:04.570
  • Now there are two guys that really knew
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  • About self deception.
  • 00:17:07.406 --> 00:17:08.774
  • James is one of them and john was the other.
  • 00:17:08.774 --> 00:17:11.243
  • And so, we'll be studying out of their book to see what they had
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  • To say about self deception.
  • 00:17:13.178 --> 00:17:14.680
  • In james chapter 1, verse 8, he says, "a double minded man is
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  • Unstable in two of his ways only."
  • 00:17:18.884 --> 00:17:24.790
  • A double minded man is unstable in what?
  • 00:17:24.790 --> 00:17:28.961
  • Everything he does.
  • 00:17:28.961 --> 00:17:31.630
  • Everything he does is going to be impacted by his
  • 00:17:31.630 --> 00:17:37.002
  • Double-mindedness, by his self deception.
  • 00:17:37.002 --> 00:17:40.005
  • There's gonna be instability in his life.
  • 00:17:40.005 --> 00:17:44.176
  • And that instability, according to james, it comes from the
  • 00:17:44.176 --> 00:17:49.681
  • Double-minded and the willfully--the willful refusal
  • 00:17:49.681 --> 00:17:56.421
  • To live that which you know to be true.
  • 00:17:56.421 --> 00:18:00.826
  • Wow.
  • 00:18:00.826 --> 00:18:02.161
  • But we don't wanna live--nobody is doing something crazy without
  • 00:18:02.161 --> 00:18:06.532
  • First of all knowing it's crazy.
  • 00:18:06.532 --> 00:18:08.133
  • You know it was crazy when you started.
  • 00:18:08.133 --> 00:18:09.801
  • What happened is if you just keep doing it long enough, you
  • 00:18:09.801 --> 00:18:12.771
  • Become calloused or hardened to it and you've convinced yourself
  • 00:18:12.771 --> 00:18:18.810
  • This is okay.
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  • That is okay for me to go and see different women and
  • 00:18:22.581 --> 00:18:28.453
  • I'm married.
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  • As long as we ain't in the bed, but jesus knows that whatever is
  • 00:18:30.556 --> 00:18:33.926
  • In your heart eventually is gonna flow out, and you're gonna
  • 00:18:33.926 --> 00:18:37.529
  • Go to bed.
  • 00:18:37.529 --> 00:18:41.767
  • But you gotta go and convince yourself that it's all right for
  • 00:18:41.767 --> 00:18:44.970
  • Me to go see different women so that once you get into bed,
  • 00:18:44.970 --> 00:18:47.773
  • That'll be fine too.
  • 00:18:47.773 --> 00:18:50.509
  • And you'll wake up one day and realize, "i have been
  • 00:18:50.509 --> 00:18:54.980
  • So deceived."
  • 00:18:54.980 --> 00:18:57.849
  • Taffi is working on a series where she's talking about
  • 00:18:57.849 --> 00:19:00.786
  • Showing us the deception in the church.
  • 00:19:00.786 --> 00:19:03.555
  • Lots of different deceptions that are going on in the church.
  • 00:19:03.555 --> 00:19:07.326
  • You know this deception where, you know, if you don't treat me
  • 00:19:07.326 --> 00:19:10.362
  • Right as the man of god, then you can't get my blessing.
  • 00:19:10.362 --> 00:19:12.965
  • Well, under the new testament, it ain't about my blessing, it's
  • 00:19:12.965 --> 00:19:15.367
  • Jesus's blessing.
  • 00:19:15.367 --> 00:19:18.870
  • You're blessed because of jesus.
  • 00:19:18.870 --> 00:19:21.139
  • "i'll tell you what, if you don't do this for me, then
  • 00:19:21.139 --> 00:19:22.774
  • You're not gonna get my blessing."
  • 00:19:22.774 --> 00:19:24.109
  • I don't want your blessing.
  • 00:19:24.109 --> 00:19:25.477
  • I want jesus's blessing.
  • 00:19:25.477 --> 00:19:29.181
  • There's a lot of deception that's coming from the pulpit.
  • 00:19:29.181 --> 00:19:33.552
  • A lot of deception is coming from the pulpit.
  • 00:19:33.552 --> 00:19:36.355
  • Deception is about--what do they call those roles?
  • 00:19:36.355 --> 00:19:41.393
  • Taffi, what--help me with that.
  • 00:19:41.393 --> 00:19:42.728
  • What--roles or gender roles.
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  • That's a worldly thing.
  • 00:19:46.331 --> 00:19:47.699
  • That came from the world.
  • 00:19:47.699 --> 00:19:49.034
  • Jesus was very clear on how we treat one another and it's
  • 00:19:49.034 --> 00:19:51.370
  • Amazing to me how i see people who talk about marriage and
  • 00:19:51.370 --> 00:19:53.772
  • They're saying stuff that's not located nowhere in the bible.
  • 00:19:53.772 --> 00:19:57.442
  • And we get used to that.
  • 00:19:57.442 --> 00:19:58.810
  • We slide stuff in that ain't even in the bible.
  • 00:19:58.810 --> 00:20:01.413
  • This is what the man is supposed to do and this is what the woman
  • 00:20:01.413 --> 00:20:03.749
  • Is supposed to do and we're not paying attention to what
  • 00:20:03.749 --> 00:20:05.851
  • Jesus said.
  • 00:20:05.851 --> 00:20:07.185
  • We have bought on to, you know, let's assign something to the
  • 00:20:07.185 --> 00:20:10.255
  • Marriage that's gonna make me feel better about what i do.
  • 00:20:10.255 --> 00:20:14.059
  • And not biblical equality.
  • 00:20:14.059 --> 00:20:15.827
  • You ain't looking for no biblical equality.
  • 00:20:15.827 --> 00:20:17.562
  • You're looking for this is what the man is supposed to do, this
  • 00:20:17.562 --> 00:20:20.032
  • Is what the woman is supposed to do.
  • 00:20:20.032 --> 00:20:21.466
  • I ain't talking about no biblical equality.
  • 00:20:21.466 --> 00:20:23.101
  • And so, what happened is inequality in the gender roles
  • 00:20:23.101 --> 00:20:26.338
  • That you assign.
  • 00:20:26.338 --> 00:20:28.407
  • And all of a sudden, the man looked like he got the best part
  • 00:20:28.407 --> 00:20:30.575
  • Of everything.
  • 00:20:30.575 --> 00:20:32.778
  • Woman is supposed to cook, she's supposed to clean, and she's
  • 00:20:32.778 --> 00:20:35.514
  • Supposed to work to help you pay the bills.
  • 00:20:35.514 --> 00:20:37.416
  • Boy, please.
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  • If you was a woman, would you do that?
  • 00:20:39.051 --> 00:20:40.819
  • I wouldn't.
  • 00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:42.187
  • I'm like, person, please.
  • 00:20:42.187 --> 00:20:49.227
  • And somewhere you know it is right to have equality in
  • 00:20:49.227 --> 00:20:53.932
  • A marriage.
  • 00:20:53.932 --> 00:20:55.267
  • You know it's right that everything shouldn't fall on
  • 00:20:55.267 --> 00:20:57.336
  • One person.
  • 00:20:57.336 --> 00:20:58.670
  • You know it's right that that corporation that you formed at
  • 00:20:58.670 --> 00:21:01.139
  • The altar that there will be--there should be some
  • 00:21:01.139 --> 00:21:03.508
  • Equality in that corporation.
  • 00:21:03.508 --> 00:21:05.811
  • While you do respect the anointing areas where you're
  • 00:21:05.811 --> 00:21:09.281
  • Anointed and that person, you--there's an equality
  • 00:21:09.281 --> 00:21:12.050
  • That's there.
  • 00:21:12.050 --> 00:21:13.385
  • Jesus came so that there can be equality in marriage.
  • 00:21:13.385 --> 00:21:18.156
  • But we go talking about, "well, you know, the bible say that the
  • 00:21:18.156 --> 00:21:24.162
  • Man ought to be the one dominating."
  • 00:21:24.162 --> 00:21:26.098
  • See, this is another problem.
  • 00:21:26.098 --> 00:21:27.699
  • Another problem is you don't know how to rightly divide
  • 00:21:27.699 --> 00:21:30.168
  • The bible.
  • 00:21:30.168 --> 00:21:31.536
  • The new testament is a new contract, which means you don't
  • 00:21:31.536 --> 00:21:34.239
  • Consider the old testament, which is the old contract.
  • 00:21:34.239 --> 00:21:38.310
  • The old contract was a shadow of the new that was to come.
  • 00:21:38.310 --> 00:21:41.613
  • For example, in the book--in the old covenant, it talks about the
  • 00:21:41.613 --> 00:21:44.883
  • Sabbath being a day, but in the new testament, it talks about
  • 00:21:44.883 --> 00:21:48.520
  • Jesus is our sabbath.
  • 00:21:48.520 --> 00:21:50.355
  • So, the old testament gives you a glimpse and a shadow of what
  • 00:21:50.355 --> 00:21:54.493
  • Is to come, but it hadn't came yet.
  • 00:21:54.493 --> 00:21:56.995
  • And so, when he delivered you from the old covenant of the law
  • 00:21:56.995 --> 00:22:01.333
  • And into the new covenant of grace, you still, when you see
  • 00:22:01.333 --> 00:22:05.370
  • Something in the new covenant you don't like, then you wanna
  • 00:22:05.370 --> 00:22:07.939
  • Go and steal something from the old covenant to make it all
  • 00:22:07.939 --> 00:22:11.510
  • Right and use it as an excuse to form self deception.
  • 00:22:11.510 --> 00:22:15.947
  • Here's an example. here's an example.
  • 00:22:15.947 --> 00:22:19.751
  • Male dominating females is a result of the curse.
  • 00:22:19.751 --> 00:22:27.125
  • You remember in genesis when adam and eve did their thing and
  • 00:22:27.125 --> 00:22:30.762
  • He was announcing, "so here's what happens.
  • 00:22:30.762 --> 00:22:33.331
  • Since you guys got so deceived in the garden, here's what's
  • 00:22:33.331 --> 00:22:36.334
  • Going on, dude.
  • 00:22:36.334 --> 00:22:37.669
  • There's gonna be male domination over females."
  • 00:22:37.669 --> 00:22:42.073
  • That was true under that situation where male dominance
  • 00:22:42.073 --> 00:22:46.845
  • Was a part of the curse.
  • 00:22:46.845 --> 00:22:49.214
  • There's nothing blessed by a marriage that's being dominated
  • 00:22:49.214 --> 00:22:53.185
  • By a man who is now automatically bringing a curse
  • 00:22:53.185 --> 00:22:56.221
  • Of that marriage by pure fact that he's trying to dominate
  • 00:22:56.221 --> 00:22:59.291
  • His wife.
  • 00:22:59.291 --> 00:23:00.692
  • Jesus came and he showed up to end the curse of the law, which
  • 00:23:00.692 --> 00:23:06.465
  • Would include male domination.
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  • Male announcer: we cannot live in self deception if we want to
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  • Self deception leads us to believe lies, hardens our heart,
  • 00:23:18.443 --> 00:23:22.447
  • And keeps us from the truth.
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  • 00:23:45.770 --> 00:23:49.107
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  • To god and communion to pay it any attention.
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