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Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception

August 7, 2025 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception | August 7, 2025
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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.
  • 00:14:13.165 --> 00:14:19.638
  • 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,
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  • 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
  • 00:14:40.225 --> 00:14:49.835
  • 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.
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  • We all have to understand, we produce the deception.
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  • I'm deceived, i produced the deception, i can't escape.
  • 00:15:12.458 --> 00:15:17.763
  • And so, what happens is, i'm gonna reject the attempt for
  • 00:15:17.763 --> 00:15:22.835
  • 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
  • 00:15:30.442 --> 00:15:36.648
  • Been meddling, you're just meddling, you're just messy
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  • Because you can't see.
  • 00:15:40.719 --> 00:15:42.054
  • So, i'm rejecting what's true because i'm deceived and i
  • 00:15:42.054 --> 00:15:48.460
  • Produced the deception.
  • 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:49.995
  • And the deception is protecting that deception that i'm
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  • Walking in.
  • 00:15:54.867 --> 00:15:57.469
  • So, to take the idea of self deception seriously, it
  • 00:15:57.469 --> 00:16:02.107
  • Might seem impossible to the person that's deceived.
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  • 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.
  • 00:16:16.522 --> 00:16:18.924
  • And here's what they'll do, "that might have been the way
  • 00:16:18.924 --> 00:16:22.828
  • Y'all did it in your day, but in our day, this is okay."
  • 00:16:22.828 --> 00:16:31.937
  • And that's one thing about truth, it doesn't change from
  • 00:16:31.937 --> 00:16:35.641
  • Generation to generation.
  • 00:16:35.641 --> 00:16:39.344
  • It doesn't.
  • 00:16:39.344 --> 00:16:41.046
  • What was true in our day is still gonna be the truth in your
  • 00:16:41.046 --> 00:16:44.850
  • Day and in your children's day and in your grandchildren's day.
  • 00:16:44.850 --> 00:16:47.586
  • It's still gonna be the same.
  • 00:16:47.586 --> 00:16:49.888
  • 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
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  • You something to meditate on.
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  • I want you to get this series and i want you to listen to it
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  • Over and over and over again until something clicks.
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  • Now there are two guys that really knew
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  • About self deception.
  • 00:17:06.105 --> 00:17:07.473
  • James is one of them and john was the other.
  • 00:17:07.473 --> 00:17:09.942
  • And so, we'll be studying out of their book to see what they had
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  • To say about self deception.
  • 00:17:11.877 --> 00:17:13.378
  • In james chapter 1, verse 8, he says, "a double minded man is
  • 00:17:13.378 --> 00:17:17.583
  • Unstable in two of his ways only."
  • 00:17:17.583 --> 00:17:23.489
  • A double minded man is unstable in what?
  • 00:17:23.489 --> 00:17:27.659
  • Everything he does.
  • 00:17:27.659 --> 00:17:30.329
  • Everything he does is going to be impacted by his
  • 00:17:30.329 --> 00:17:35.701
  • Double-mindedness, by his self deception.
  • 00:17:35.701 --> 00:17:38.704
  • There's gonna be instability in his life.
  • 00:17:38.704 --> 00:17:42.875
  • And that instability, according to james, it comes from the
  • 00:17:42.875 --> 00:17:48.380
  • Double-minded and the willfully--the willful refusal
  • 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:55.120
  • To live that which you know to be true.
  • 00:17:55.120 --> 00:17:59.525
  • Wow.
  • 00:17:59.525 --> 00:18:00.859
  • But we don't wanna live--nobody is doing something crazy without
  • 00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:05.230
  • First of all knowing it's crazy.
  • 00:18:05.230 --> 00:18:06.832
  • You know it was crazy when you started.
  • 00:18:06.832 --> 00:18:08.500
  • What happened is if you just keep doing it long enough, you
  • 00:18:08.500 --> 00:18:11.470
  • Become calloused or hardened to it and you've convinced yourself
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  • This is okay.
  • 00:18:17.509 --> 00:18:21.280
  • That is okay for me to go and see different women and
  • 00:18:21.280 --> 00:18:27.152
  • I'm married.
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  • As long as we ain't in the bed, but jesus knows that whatever is
  • 00:18:29.254 --> 00:18:32.624
  • In your heart eventually is gonna flow out, and you're gonna
  • 00:18:32.624 --> 00:18:36.228
  • Go to bed.
  • 00:18:36.228 --> 00:18:40.465
  • But you gotta go and convince yourself that it's all right for
  • 00:18:40.465 --> 00:18:43.669
  • Me to go see different women so that once you get into bed,
  • 00:18:43.669 --> 00:18:46.471
  • That'll be fine too.
  • 00:18:46.471 --> 00:18:49.208
  • And you'll wake up one day and realize, "i have been
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  • So deceived."
  • 00:18:53.679 --> 00:18:56.548
  • Taffi is working on a series where she's talking about
  • 00:18:56.548 --> 00:18:59.484
  • Showing us the deception in the church.
  • 00:18:59.484 --> 00:19:02.254
  • Lots of different deceptions that are going on in the church.
  • 00:19:02.254 --> 00:19:06.024
  • You know this deception where, you know, if you don't treat me
  • 00:19:06.024 --> 00:19:09.061
  • Right as the man of god, then you can't get my blessing.
  • 00:19:09.061 --> 00:19:11.663
  • Well, under the new testament, it ain't about my blessing, it's
  • 00:19:11.663 --> 00:19:14.066
  • Jesus's blessing.
  • 00:19:14.066 --> 00:19:17.569
  • You're blessed because of jesus.
  • 00:19:17.569 --> 00:19:19.838
  • "i'll tell you what, if you don't do this for me, then
  • 00:19:19.838 --> 00:19:21.473
  • You're not gonna get my blessing."
  • 00:19:21.473 --> 00:19:22.808
  • I don't want your blessing.
  • 00:19:22.808 --> 00:19:24.176
  • I want jesus's blessing.
  • 00:19:24.176 --> 00:19:27.879
  • There's a lot of deception that's coming from the pulpit.
  • 00:19:27.879 --> 00:19:32.251
  • A lot of deception is coming from the pulpit.
  • 00:19:32.251 --> 00:19:35.053
  • Deception is about--what do they call those roles?
  • 00:19:35.053 --> 00:19:40.092
  • Taffi, what--help me with that.
  • 00:19:40.092 --> 00:19:41.426
  • What--roles or gender roles.
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  • That's a worldly thing.
  • 00:19:45.030 --> 00:19:46.398
  • That came from the world.
  • 00:19:46.398 --> 00:19:47.733
  • Jesus was very clear on how we treat one another and it's
  • 00:19:47.733 --> 00:19:50.068
  • Amazing to me how i see people who talk about marriage and
  • 00:19:50.068 --> 00:19:52.471
  • They're saying stuff that's not located nowhere in the bible.
  • 00:19:52.471 --> 00:19:56.141
  • And we get used to that.
  • 00:19:56.141 --> 00:19:57.509
  • We slide stuff in that ain't even in the bible.
  • 00:19:57.509 --> 00:20:00.112
  • This is what the man is supposed to do and this is what the woman
  • 00:20:00.112 --> 00:20:02.447
  • Is supposed to do and we're not paying attention to what
  • 00:20:02.447 --> 00:20:04.549
  • Jesus said.
  • 00:20:04.549 --> 00:20:05.884
  • We have bought on to, you know, let's assign something to the
  • 00:20:05.884 --> 00:20:08.954
  • Marriage that's gonna make me feel better about what i do.
  • 00:20:08.954 --> 00:20:12.758
  • And not biblical equality.
  • 00:20:12.758 --> 00:20:14.526
  • You ain't looking for no biblical equality.
  • 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:16.261
  • You're looking for this is what the man is supposed to do, this
  • 00:20:16.261 --> 00:20:18.730
  • Is what the woman is supposed to do.
  • 00:20:18.730 --> 00:20:20.165
  • I ain't talking about no biblical equality.
  • 00:20:20.165 --> 00:20:21.800
  • And so, what happened is inequality in the gender roles
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  • That you assign.
  • 00:20:25.037 --> 00:20:27.105
  • And all of a sudden, the man looked like he got the best part
  • 00:20:27.105 --> 00:20:29.274
  • Of everything.
  • 00:20:29.274 --> 00:20:31.476
  • Woman is supposed to cook, she's supposed to clean, and she's
  • 00:20:31.476 --> 00:20:34.212
  • Supposed to work to help you pay the bills.
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  • Boy, please.
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  • If you was a woman, would you do that?
  • 00:20:37.749 --> 00:20:39.518
  • I wouldn't.
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  • I'm like, person, please.
  • 00:20:40.886 --> 00:20:47.926
  • And somewhere you know it is right to have equality in
  • 00:20:47.926 --> 00:20:52.631
  • A marriage.
  • 00:20:52.631 --> 00:20:53.965
  • You know it's right that everything shouldn't fall on
  • 00:20:53.965 --> 00:20:56.034
  • One person.
  • 00:20:56.034 --> 00:20:57.369
  • You know it's right that that corporation that you formed at
  • 00:20:57.369 --> 00:20:59.838
  • The altar that there will be--there should be some
  • 00:20:59.838 --> 00:21:02.207
  • Equality in that corporation.
  • 00:21:02.207 --> 00:21:04.509
  • While you do respect the anointing areas where you're
  • 00:21:04.509 --> 00:21:07.979
  • Anointed and that person, you--there's an equality
  • 00:21:07.979 --> 00:21:10.749
  • That's there.
  • 00:21:10.749 --> 00:21:12.084
  • Jesus came so that there can be equality in marriage.
  • 00:21:12.084 --> 00:21:16.855
  • But we go talking about, "well, you know, the bible say that the
  • 00:21:16.855 --> 00:21:22.861
  • Man ought to be the one dominating."
  • 00:21:22.861 --> 00:21:24.796
  • See, this is another problem.
  • 00:21:24.796 --> 00:21:26.398
  • Another problem is you don't know how to rightly divide
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  • The bible.
  • 00:21:28.867 --> 00:21:30.235
  • The new testament is a new contract, which means you don't
  • 00:21:30.235 --> 00:21:32.938
  • Consider the old testament, which is the old contract.
  • 00:21:32.938 --> 00:21:37.008
  • The old contract was a shadow of the new that was to come.
  • 00:21:37.008 --> 00:21:40.312
  • For example, in the book--in the old covenant, it talks about the
  • 00:21:40.312 --> 00:21:43.582
  • Sabbath being a day, but in the new testament, it talks about
  • 00:21:43.582 --> 00:21:47.219
  • Jesus is our sabbath.
  • 00:21:47.219 --> 00:21:49.054
  • So, the old testament gives you a glimpse and a shadow of what
  • 00:21:49.054 --> 00:21:53.191
  • Is to come, but it hadn't came yet.
  • 00:21:53.191 --> 00:21:55.694
  • And so, when he delivered you from the old covenant of the law
  • 00:21:55.694 --> 00:22:00.031
  • And into the new covenant of grace, you still, when you see
  • 00:22:00.031 --> 00:22:04.069
  • Something in the new covenant you don't like, then you wanna
  • 00:22:04.069 --> 00:22:06.638
  • Go and steal something from the old covenant to make it all
  • 00:22:06.638 --> 00:22:10.208
  • Right and use it as an excuse to form self deception.
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  • Here's an example. here's an example.
  • 00:22:14.646 --> 00:22:18.450
  • 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
  • 00:22:25.824 --> 00:22:29.461
  • He was announcing, "so here's what happens.
  • 00:22:29.461 --> 00:22:32.030
  • Since you guys got so deceived in the garden, here's what's
  • 00:22:32.030 --> 00:22:35.033
  • Going on, dude.
  • 00:22:35.033 --> 00:22:36.368
  • There's gonna be male domination over females."
  • 00:22:36.368 --> 00:22:40.772
  • That was true under that situation where male dominance
  • 00:22:40.772 --> 00:22:45.544
  • Was a part of the curse.
  • 00:22:45.544 --> 00:22:47.913
  • There's nothing blessed by a marriage that's being dominated
  • 00:22:47.913 --> 00:22:51.883
  • By a man who is now automatically bringing a curse
  • 00:22:51.883 --> 00:22:54.920
  • Of that marriage by pure fact that he's trying to dominate
  • 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:57.989
  • His wife.
  • 00:22:57.989 --> 00:22:59.391
  • Jesus came and he showed up to end the curse of the law, which
  • 00:22:59.391 --> 00:23:05.163
  • 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,
  • 00:23:17.142 --> 00:23:21.146
  • And keeps us from the truth.
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