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Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception

August 8, 2025 | S25 E192 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception | August 8, 2025
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  • Each one of those fears can open the door for an opportunity for
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  • Self-deception to come in.
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  • First of all, the fear of failure, it's like avoiding
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  • Situations where they see a potential for failing, and so i
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  • Have to get self-deception so i can avoid this situation because
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  • I see a potential for me to not be successful.
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  • And when i see a potential for me not--to not be successful, i
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  • Gotta come up with something, i gotta deceive myself so that
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  • Nobody will see my fear of failing.
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  • Creflo: there's a lot of deception that's coming from the
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  • Pulpit, a lot of deception coming from the pulpit.
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  • Deceptions about--what do they call those--roles, taffi?
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  • What--help me, what--how-- what--roles or gender roles.
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  • That's a worldly thing, that came from the world.
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  • Jesus was very clear on how we treat one another.
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  • And it's amazing to me how i see people who talk about marriage
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  • And they're saying stuff that's not located nowhere in the
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  • Bible, and we get used to that, we slide stuff in that ain't
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  • Even in the bible, "this is what the man is supposed to do, and
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  • This is what the woman is supposed to do," and we're not
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  • Paying attention to what jesus said.
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  • We have bought on to, you know, let's assign something to the
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  • Marriage that's gonna make me feel better about what i do,
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  • And not biblical equality.
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  • You ain't looking for no biblical equality, you're
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  • Looking for, "this is what the man is supposed to do, this is
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  • What the woman is supposed to do, i ain't talking about no
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  • Biblical equality," and so what happened is inequality in the
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  • Gender roles that you assign and all of a sudden, the man looked
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  • Like he got the best part of everything.
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  • Woman is supposed to cook, she's supposed to clean, and she's
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  • Supposed to work to help you pay the bills.
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  • Boy, please, if you was a woman, would you do that?
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  • I wouldn't, i'm like, "person, please."
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  • And somewhere you know it is right to have equality in a
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  • Marriage, you know it's right that everything shouldn't fall
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  • On one person, you know it's right that that corporation that
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  • You formed at the altar that there will be--there should be
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  • Some equality in that corporation.
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  • While you do respect the anointing areas where you're
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  • Anointing that person, you--there's a--there's an
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  • Equality that's there.
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  • Jesus came so that there can be equality in marriage, but we go
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  • Talking about, "well, you know, the bible say that the man ought
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  • To be the one dominating."
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  • See, this is another problem.
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  • Another problem is is you don't know how to rightly divide
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  • The bible.
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  • The new testament is a new contract, which means you don't
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  • Consider the old testament, which is the old contract.
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  • The old contract was a shadow of the new that was to come.
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  • For example, in the book--in the old covenant, it talks about the
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  • Sabbath being a day, but in the new testament it talks about
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  • Jesus is our sabbath.
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  • So the old testament gives you a glimpse and a shadow of what is
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  • To come, but it hadn't came yet.
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  • And so when he delivered you from the old covenant of the law
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  • And into the new covenant of grace, you steal--when you see
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  • Something in the new covenant you don't like, then you wanna
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  • Go and steal something from the old covenant to make it all
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  • Right and use it as an excuse to form self-deception.
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  • Here's a--here's an example, here's an example.
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  • Male dominating females is a result of the curse.
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  • You remember in genesis when adam and eve did their thing and
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  • He was announcing them, "so here's what happens, since you
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  • Guys got so deceived in the garden, here's what's going on,
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  • Dude, there's gonna be male domination over females."
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  • That was true under that situation, where male dominance
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  • Was a part of the curse.
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  • There's nothing blessed by a marriage that's being dominated
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  • By a man who is now automatically bringing a curse
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  • To that marriage by pure fact that he's trying to dominate
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  • His wife.
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  • Jesus came and he showed up to end the curse of the law, which
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  • Would include male domination.
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  • Baby, am i okay?
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  • But you see how that deception come?
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  • So now, men are deceived and women are deceived because
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  • There's some women who says, "i wanna submit to male
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  • Domination," and they gladly submit to men, "i want a man
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  • That will dominate me."
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  • I ain't even gonna tell you what i was about to say, but i
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  • Thought of whips and leather.
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  • Male domination is a part of the curse, and you can't go around
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  • Talking about, "i'm delivered from the curse of the law," and
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  • Still at the same time allow a part of the curse of
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  • Being dominated.
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  • You're gonna have to--if you're gonna be in the new covenant or
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  • You're gonna stay in the old covenant, or you're in the new
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  • Covenant and then you're gonna go borrow some--that's just like
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  • Me giving you a--i got an old contract between--with you and i
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  • Over some service that i'm giving, and we decide, well,
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  • Let's throw that contract away, let's get a new contract.
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  • Well, i don't want the old stuff from the old contract to be in
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  • The new contract, i want a new one.
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  • But we do that with the word, and that's where our deception
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  • Is coming from, we're borrowing from something that's old, that
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  • Shouldn't be part of this new covenant.
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  • And we keep bringing up old stuff, you know, old stuff,
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  • "touch not my anointed, do my prophets no harm," in the old
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  • Testament, in the old testament, but prophets are being touched
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  • On a daily basis in the new testament and ain't nobody dying
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  • Because we're trusting jesus.
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  • The pure pure truth about that is not just touching the
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  • Anointed ones, because we're all anointed now, it's how we treat
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  • Everybody now.
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  • Not just the preacher, how we treat everybody.
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  • "be careful how you treat the pastor," i'm saying be careful
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  • How you treat that homeless person.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • You see the deception?
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  • And deception changes how we live because we don't wanna
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  • See it.
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  • Look at james chapter 1:22 through 24.
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  • Are y'all all right, can y'all handle this one?
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  • Some of y'all look like y'all about to choke, like...
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  • "see, you done messed up, you're in my business now, and
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  • Now my wife ain't gonna do nothing i tell her to do."
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  • Yes, she--listen, yes, she will if you do what she tells you
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  • To do.
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  • And if both of y'all honoring one another, yeah, she'll be
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  • Glad to, she'll be more happy to do it.
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  • More happy to do--i get up there and i cook for my wife
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  • And she enjoy it.
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  • Then when it come time, then i don't feel like necessarily
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  • Cooking, "baby, could you cook--"
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  • "sure, no problem at all."
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  • I'm happy to do it, because of the previous equality seeds that
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  • Have been sown to want to invest in my life,
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  • I wanna invest in your life, too, because every seed sown
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  • Brings about a harvest.
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  • But you're trying to get a harvest without sowing nothing,
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  • And that's why she ready to leave you, "i don't wanna stay
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  • With you, i ain't got nothing from you since we've
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  • Been married."
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  • "you get on my nerve, frank, i can't stand you."
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  • All right, look at this.
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  • All right, now watch this, so here's from another book.
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  • That was from john, look at another book.
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  • James says, "but be ye doers of the word," do the word and don't
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  • Just hear it, "deceiving your own--yourselves."
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  • Next verse, verse 23: "for if any be a hearer of the word, and
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  • Not a doer, he's gonna be like unto a man beholding his natural
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  • Face in a glass: and then he beholdeth himself, and he go his
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  • Way, and straightway he forgetteth what manner of man
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  • He was."
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  • Nothing's sustained because he's not doing anything.
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  • And you, if you think it's okay to hear the word and say, "i'm
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  • Blessed because i heard the word," i see what you're saying,
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  • But he says it's gonna be more than hearing the word, you're
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  • Gonna have to do the word.
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  • And you don't wanna do the word, and so now you're deceived into
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  • Thinking that the harvest should be showing up in your life and
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  • You have enough nerve to ask, "why are certain things
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  • Not happening?"
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  • Because you're a hearer only.
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  • And james says you're deceived if you think like this, he says
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  • You're gonna have to do the word, you forgot everything just
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  • Hearing it.
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  • How many times you went to church and somebody said--you
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  • Came home, you said, "oh, it was good today, it was good today,
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  • It was good today."
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  • And somebody asked you, "what was good about it?"
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  • And you don't even remember the subject.
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  • "well, what did he talk about?"
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  • "oh, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see,
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  • He talked about men.
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  • Let's see, he said something about men, male domination, and
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  • Cooking breakfast, and let me see what, uh."
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  • You were there in the mirror and you just--you forgot what
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  • It was.
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  • But there's something about when you put legs to what you heard,
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  • You never forget it.
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  • You're trying to memorize scripture when those scriptures
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  • Will become a part of you just by doing them.
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  • And you get upset when the world calls the church hypocrites.
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  • They're right, 'cause we love preaching and talking, but we
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  • Get caught not doing what we preached and what we taught.
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  • Not to say that you're perfect and not to put condemnation out
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  • Before you, because it's gonna take the grace of god to help
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  • You to be a doer of the word.
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  • 'cause you're not gonna do it perfectly every day, and you are
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  • Gonna forget some stuff, and thank god for his grace, but
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  • He's just saying, please, the last thing i want you to do is
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  • Get into self-deception, at least go to god and say, "lord,
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  • I'm hearing the word, help me be a doer."
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  • "help me be a doer, lord, i'm not doing real good at being
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  • A doer."
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  • "i don't cuss as much as i used to, but i need you to help me.
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  • I'm, you know, i'm 5% away, but i need you to help me.
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  • But sometimes i--some people make me so mad, lord, it--i
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  • Thought i buried the book of cuss and i realized i just put
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  • It away right up under my arm, it's right under my arm, lord."
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  • God knows that, he said, "i'll start the work, i'll complete
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  • The work in you, i'll--" excuse me, he says, "i'll start the
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  • Work, i'll continue to work, and i'll complete the work on the
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  • Inside of you."
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  • All right, so if you go back to 1 john--or excuse me, if you go
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  • To james 4:17, he says, and here's the complete rendition of
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  • James 4:17, he says, "therefore to him that knoweth to do what's
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  • Good, but he doesn't do it," he said to him, "it's missing
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  • The mark."
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  • In other words, he--in fact, what he said was, "to him
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  • It's sin."
  • 00:13:12.471 --> 00:13:15.374
  • Again, "therefore to him that knoweth to do good, but he
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  • Doesn't do it, to him it's sin," to him he's missed the mark, so
  • 00:13:19.612 --> 00:13:24.283
  • Thus sin and self-deception are inextricably linked together.
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  • Know to do good, but you don't do it, he's saying the
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  • Wrongdoing and deception go together.
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  • The wrongdoing and deception goes together.
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  • That wrong action and deception, they go together.
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  • So don't let the devil deceive you from your wrongdoings,
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  • Know--just know it's wrong.
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  • Don't let the devil deceive-- they go together.
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  • Deception and wrongdoings, they're tied in there together.
  • 00:14:02.988 --> 00:14:07.526
  • Now, let's do something, i wanna go to one more scripture and
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  • Give you some real practical stuff.
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  • 1 john chapter 1, verse 5 through 8.
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  • 1 john chapter 1, verse 5 through 8, let's look at john
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  • Had to--what's--what john had to say about deception.
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  • He says, "this then is the message which we have heard of
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  • Him, and declare unto you, that god is light, and in him is
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  • Darkness is no--in him is no darkness at all."
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  • Verse 6: "if we say that we have fellowship with him, and we walk
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  • In darkness," he said, "we lie, and we do not the truth: but if
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  • We walk in light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship
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  • One with another, and the blood of jesus christ his son
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  • Cleanses us from all sin.
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  • If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
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  • Truth is not in us."
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  • Now, you know the grace-based perspective of all this stuff,
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  • I'm not trying to take you back to condemnation, i'm trying to
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  • Show you how deception works.
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  • So a contrast is established immediately between walking in
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  • Light and walking in darkness.
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  • Walking in darkness is characterized by our doing not
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  • The truth, by the truth not being in us.
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  • So this suggests that those who are self-deceived no longer see,
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  • No longer experience, or no longer understand the truth.
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  • People who are self-deceived, they don't see the truth, they
  • 00:15:40.052 --> 00:15:43.288
  • Don't experience the truth, they don't understand the truth, they
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  • Don't want the truth.
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  • Being blind to the truth is the condition of those who refuse to
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  • Live by the truth they have been offered.
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  • So if you're blind to the truth, it's because you rejected the
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  • Truth, you don't want to receive the truth.
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  • The truth was offered, but you don't want it.
  • 00:16:03.742 --> 00:16:07.813
  • And he's trying to show us, how did this person get to this
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  • Place of deception?
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  • It's because of what he wouldn't--he didn't wanna see
  • 00:16:12.251 --> 00:16:14.953
  • It, he didn't wanna experience, he didn't wanna understand, he
  • 00:16:14.953 --> 00:16:17.256
  • Did not want the truth.
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  • He didn't want the truth.
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  • In everything that we do in life, the grace of god is
  • 00:16:22.327 --> 00:16:25.164
  • Available to help us through all of this, but it's necessary for
  • 00:16:25.164 --> 00:16:28.901
  • Me to break this down so you see how it occurs in your life, i
  • 00:16:28.901 --> 00:16:33.172
  • Don't want the truth.
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  • And somehow, sometimes even the pastors who--they're so afraid
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  • Of failure that when the truth is being spoken, they would
  • 00:16:42.581 --> 00:16:47.753
  • Rather continue in a lie in front of their congregations
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  • Than to tell the truth becau--and
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  • That's self-deception.
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  • You keep wanna tell people, you keep wanna say to them
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  • That you're cursed with a curse if you don't give 10% of your
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  • Offerings, and you know that's not true.
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  • And by the way, let's look at your giving record and see how
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  • Well you're doing.
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  • It's not the truth, but i'd rather continue on a lie because
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  • I believe i can control you and i believe that's the avenue for
  • 00:17:15.714 --> 00:17:20.752
  • Me to get my money, than to tell you the truth and trust that god
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  • Will supply all of our needs according to his riches in
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  • Glory, and we can do everything that needs to be done.
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  • But i'd rather stay in a deception.
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  • I don't wanna hear the truth about this.
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  • I thought if i could just show people the scripture, that they
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  • Would say, "oh wow, there it is, i'm gonna make the adjustment,"
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  • And do it.
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  • You know, that doesn't do--that don't--that doesn't happen
  • 00:17:45.410 --> 00:17:46.778
  • Anymore, nobody--"yeah, i see it in the scripture."
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  • I went somewhere and shows-- showed this place of like
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  • 35 scriptures, and after i finished, "i still don't
  • 00:17:52.117 --> 00:17:54.520
  • Believe it."
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  • I'm like, "don't invite me here ever again because this was a
  • 00:17:56.321 --> 00:17:59.925
  • Complete waste of my time, because i believe the word and i
  • 00:17:59.925 --> 00:18:03.695
  • Thought by just showing you the word, you would believe it," but
  • 00:18:03.695 --> 00:18:06.131
  • Not everybody does that.
  • 00:18:06.131 --> 00:18:07.799
  • Taffi was trying to show me that years ago, she says, "well, what
  • 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.202
  • If there's some people who don't believe the scripture
  • 00:18:10.202 --> 00:18:12.938
  • That you showing?"
  • 00:18:12.938 --> 00:18:14.306
  • I'm thinking that's crazy, and now we're at that time, you
  • 00:18:14.306 --> 00:18:16.675
  • Could take the scripture and in all kinds of translations, in
  • 00:18:16.675 --> 00:18:19.845
  • Every language, they're like, "mhm," and don't even do
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  • Anything with it.
  • 00:18:23.448 --> 00:18:24.816
  • That just blows my mind 'cause the only truth we have that is
  • 00:18:24.816 --> 00:18:28.387
  • Ultimate absolute truth is this word.
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  • I mean, if you knew this word was the truth, you wouldn't be
  • 00:18:32.291 --> 00:18:34.159
  • Talking about your truth.
  • 00:18:34.159 --> 00:18:35.894
  • I don't want your truth, your truth is a sum total of the
  • 00:18:35.894 --> 00:18:40.566
  • Norms and values of the world, and here--here's how the norms
  • 00:18:40.566 --> 00:18:43.468
  • And values of the world operate, whatever a whole bunch of people
  • 00:18:43.468 --> 00:18:47.339
  • Say is okay, then that becomes the value.
  • 00:18:47.339 --> 00:18:51.643
  • If they say this way of living is okay, then it's okay 'cause a
  • 00:18:51.643 --> 00:18:54.713
  • Whole bunch of folks said okay.
  • 00:18:54.713 --> 00:18:56.081
  • It's not based on nothing except the population said it's okay.
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  • That's not truth.
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  • Let me calm down before i say something.
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  • I don't say it enough plenty, amen?
  • 00:19:10.796 --> 00:19:13.932
  • Now, where's--where does self-deception come from?
  • 00:19:13.932 --> 00:19:16.735
  • Some of the things that happen in our everyday lives, where
  • 00:19:16.735 --> 00:19:19.137
  • Does it come from?
  • 00:19:19.137 --> 00:19:20.505
  • How--are we doing some things that--that's opening the door
  • 00:19:20.505 --> 00:19:24.109
  • For self-deception to kind of walk into our lives?
  • 00:19:24.109 --> 00:19:26.778
  • Well, let's look at some things, let's look at about nine things
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  • Self-deception comes from.
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  • All right, number one, self-deception often comes from
  • 00:19:33.685 --> 00:19:37.556
  • Fear, it comes from fear.
  • 00:19:37.556 --> 00:19:43.428
  • A lot of my self-deception in my life and in my ministry came
  • 00:19:43.428 --> 00:19:46.431
  • From fear.
  • 00:19:46.431 --> 00:19:48.634
  • I was afraid that what the word promised was not true.
  • 00:19:48.634 --> 00:19:55.274
  • That's crazy, isn't it?
  • 00:19:55.274 --> 00:19:56.608
  • That's the biggest fear amongst christian people.
  • 00:19:56.608 --> 00:19:59.077
  • The biggest fear amongst believers is that i'm afraid
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  • That what god promised won't happen, hm.
  • 00:20:02.347 --> 00:20:08.487
  • The three fears that i want you to look at real quick, the fear
  • 00:20:08.487 --> 00:20:12.524
  • Of failure, the fear of rejection, and the fear
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  • Of change.
  • 00:20:17.162 --> 00:20:20.065
  • Each one of those fears can open the door for an opportunity for
  • 00:20:20.065 --> 00:20:23.402
  • Self-deception to come in.
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  • First of all, the fear of failure, it's like avoiding
  • 00:20:25.504 --> 00:20:29.408
  • Situations where they see a potential for failing, and so i
  • 00:20:29.408 --> 00:20:35.280
  • Have to get self-deception so i can avoid this situation because
  • 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:40.185
  • I see a potential for me to not be successful.
  • 00:20:40.185 --> 00:20:43.855
  • And when i see a potential for me not--to not be successful, i
  • 00:20:43.855 --> 00:20:49.394
  • Gotta come up with something, i gotta deceive myself so that
  • 00:20:49.394 --> 00:20:54.299
  • Nobody will see my fear of failing.
  • 00:20:54.299 --> 00:20:58.403
  • And so if i see a situation that i might fail in, i'm gonna get
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  • In to self-deception and tell myself some things about this so
  • 00:21:04.876 --> 00:21:08.380
  • I can avoid that opportunity.
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  • Fear of rejection, a fear of rejection, first thing i think
  • 00:21:11.817 --> 00:21:16.655
  • About is a person that has a problem or has problems
  • 00:21:16.655 --> 00:21:20.058
  • Building boundaries.
  • 00:21:20.058 --> 00:21:22.928
  • In other words, somebody who has the fear of rejection, he's
  • 00:21:22.928 --> 00:21:27.933
  • Always putting other people's needs above his own.
  • 00:21:27.933 --> 00:21:33.004
  • "i'm afraid of rejection, so i'll put your needs--" it's a
  • 00:21:33.004 --> 00:21:36.508
  • Type--it's a form of approval addiction, i'll put your needs
  • 00:21:36.508 --> 00:21:40.412
  • Above mine, and i won't draw boundaries if it offends you.
  • 00:21:40.412 --> 00:21:46.885
  • And so you're walking around in self-deception, "everything's
  • 00:21:46.885 --> 00:21:49.421
  • Fine, oh, this is fine, no problem.
  • 00:21:49.421 --> 00:21:52.023
  • Oh, i'm just this great christian 'cause i'm just gonna
  • 00:21:52.023 --> 00:21:54.593
  • Put everybody needs above mine."
  • 00:21:54.593 --> 00:21:56.628
  • And we love to use scripture sometimes to try to nourish and
  • 00:21:56.628 --> 00:22:00.866
  • Fortify our self-deception, but the real issue is i'm afraid of
  • 00:22:00.866 --> 00:22:07.439
  • Rejection, and so i'll deceive myself into thinking whatever i
  • 00:22:07.439 --> 00:22:12.778
  • Need to think to keep this thing intact.
  • 00:22:12.778 --> 00:22:16.615
  • The fear of failure, the fear of rejection, and then the fear
  • 00:22:16.615 --> 00:22:21.186
  • Of change.
  • 00:22:21.186 --> 00:22:23.422
  • I'm afraid to change, so what happens here?
  • 00:22:23.422 --> 00:22:26.691
  • I am willing to remain in a toxic relationship or on a toxic
  • 00:22:26.691 --> 00:22:31.163
  • Job, and to try to deceive you that everything is okay, even to
  • 00:22:31.163 --> 00:22:38.136
  • The point, "well, i love this, and i love this situation," and
  • 00:22:38.136 --> 00:22:41.139
  • You know good and well you're in a toxic relationship.
  • 00:22:41.139 --> 00:22:43.208
  • You're in a relationship with a man that blames you every time
  • 00:22:43.208 --> 00:22:45.977
  • Something happens.
  • 00:22:45.977 --> 00:22:47.312
  • You're in a relationship with a man where you're giving more
  • 00:22:47.312 --> 00:22:49.448
  • Than he is.
  • 00:22:49.448 --> 00:22:50.782
  • I mean, you even go out to dinner and you find you--you're
  • 00:22:50.782 --> 00:22:52.517
  • Paying all the time and you're like, "oh, there's nothing
  • 00:22:52.517 --> 00:22:53.985
  • Wrong," you're deceived, there's something wrong.
  • 00:22:53.985 --> 00:22:55.620
  • This dude don't want you, but you're just afraid of change and
  • 00:22:55.620 --> 00:23:03.562
  • You would rather just remain in a toxic situation than to face
  • 00:23:03.562 --> 00:23:09.868
  • The truth and to get out of that.
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  • Announcer: we cannot live in self-deception if we want to
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  • Jesus, come into my heart, save me.
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  • And today by faith i receive you and declare that i am saved, in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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  • The kingdom of god.
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