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Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception

August 11, 2025 | S25 E194 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Origin Of Self-Deception | August 11, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: how long do you wanna be around somebody that
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  • Doesn't value you?
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  • They don't value your opinions.
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  • They don't respect you, and you're still wanting to be
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  • Around that idiot?
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  • Why would you want to be around somebody like that?
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  • It's because you don't think much of yourself.
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  • And you keep deceiving yourself into thinking that these people
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  • Really care about you.
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  • And they don't care about you.
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  • The greatest day of your life is going to be when you can walk
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  • Away from a situation knowing, "i know they don't care about
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  • Me, but i care about me and god cares about me, and forget them
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  • Because they're missing out on a great friend."
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  • You ever seen anybody like that, just doing anything just to hang
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  • Around somebody?
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  • Bro, forget you.
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  • Bro, i'd rather be by myself eating a mcdonald's hamburger
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  • With some cold french fries than to be around somebody that only
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  • Sees me as their opportunity.
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  • Creflo: hopefully you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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  • Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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  • Gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Creflo: let's look at some things.
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  • Let's look at about nine things self-deception comes from.
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  • All right, number one, self-deception often comes
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  • From fear.
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  • It comes from fear.
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  • A lot of my self-deception in my life and in my ministry came
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  • From fear.
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  • I was afraid that what the word promised was not true.
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  • That's crazy, isn't it?
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  • That's the biggest fear amongst christian people.
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  • The biggest fear amongst believers is that i'm afraid
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  • That what god promised won't happen, hm?
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  • The three fears that i want you to look at real quick, the fear
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  • Of failure, the fear of rejection, and the fear
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  • Of change.
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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.
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  • And so, i have to get self-deception so i can avoid
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  • This situation because i see a potential for me to not
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  • 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.
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  • I gotta deceive myself so that nobody will see my fear
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  • Of failing.
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  • And so if i see a situation that i might fail in, i'm gonna get
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  • Into self-deception and tell myself some things about this so
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  • I can avoid that opportunity.
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  • Fear of rejection.
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  • A fear of rejection, first thing i think about is a person that
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  • Has a problem or has problems building boundaries.
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  • In other words, somebody who has the fear of rejection, he's
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  • Always putting other people's needs above his own.
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  • I'm afraid of rejection, so i'll put your needs--it's a
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  • Type--it's a form of approval addiction.
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  • I'll put your needs above mine, and i won't draw boundaries if
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  • It offends you.
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  • And so, you're walking around in self-deception.
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  • "everything's fine.
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  • Oh, this is fine, no problem.
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  • Oh, i'm just this great christian 'cause i'm just gonna
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  • Put everybody needs above mine," and we love to use scripture
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  • Sometimes to try to nourish and fortify our self-deception.
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  • But the real issue is i'm afraid of rejection.
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  • And so, i'll deceive myself into thinking whatever i need to
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  • Think to keep this thing intact.
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  • The fear of failure, the fear of rejection, and then the fear
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  • Of change.
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  • I'm afraid to change.
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  • So, what happens here?
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  • I am willing to remain in a toxic relationship or on a toxic
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  • Job and to try to deceive you that everything is okay even to
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  • The point, "well, i love this and i love this situation," and
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  • You know good and well you're in a toxic relationship.
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  • You're in a relationship with a man that blames you
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  • Every time something happens.
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  • You're in a relationship with a man where you're
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  • Giving more than he is.
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  • I mean, you even go out to dinner and you
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  • Find you're paying all the time
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  • And you're like, "oh, there's nothing wrong."
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  • You're deceived, there's something wrong, this dude
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  • Don't want you, but you're just afraid of changing.
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  • You would rather just remain in a toxic situation than to face
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  • The truth and to get out of that.
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  • Oh, i see so many people that are hurt because of that.
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  • So many men that finally got the trophy girlfriend and
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  • Don't even realize she just wants your bank account.
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  • A woman who finally got the man of her dreams and don't realize
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  • He is soft as cotton.
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  • He just has no type of desire to do anything but take care of
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  • Himself and not you.
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  • You're just a meal ticket, a sugar mama.
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  • Somebody say, "oof."
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  • You feel better, don't you?
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  • You're like, "dang.
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  • See, you done hit me about three or four times."
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  • The second thing that i believe produces self-deception, number
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  • Two, it can also arise from pride.
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  • Oh it--self-deception comes from pride.
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  • Pride is an overinflated sense of yourself.
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  • Now, what happens when you have an overinflated sense
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  • Of yourself?
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  • You deceive yourself by telling yourself that you're not wrong
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  • When you are.
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  • So, a prideful man will spend a lot of times telling himself,
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  • "i'm okay.
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  • I'm not wrong," but you're not okay and you are wrong.
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  • Wow, pride.
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  • And whatever you have to do to maintain that ego and that
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  • Pride, even if it means i've got to give birth to some
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  • Self-deception, then pride becomes a catalyst for
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  • Self-deception in your life.
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  • Number three, you see self-deception arising out of
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  • Social conditioning.
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  • You see self-deception coming out of cultural expectations.
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  • This is what the culture expects of you.
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  • You see self-deception coming from even past traumas that can
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  • Amplify the tendency to deceive yourself.
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  • Social conditionings, cultural expectations, past traumas.
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  • Number four, self-deception comes from lacking confidence.
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  • And when you lack confidence, here's the deception you'll
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  • Feed yourself.
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  • You'll start lying to yourself to compensate for
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  • The insecurity.
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  • You'll lie to yourself to compensate for the insecurity.
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  • Number five, fear of judgment from others.
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  • Now again, i want you to notice how many times this issue of
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  • Approval addiction coming up.
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  • And i tell you, god can't use you as long as you're addicted
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  • To other people's approval, okay?
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  • But at number five, it's the fear of judgment from others.
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  • So, i'll get into some self-deception.
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  • And then what happened when you fear the judgment of
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  • Other people?
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  • You'll start deceiving yourself with stories and
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  • Rationalizations that prevent us from feeling that harsh music
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  • That's really playing in our life.
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  • I'll invent this story, but the real truth of it is i'm sad,
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  • I'm unhappy.
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  • I feel unloved.
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  • I still got trauma in my past i hadn't dealt with.
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  • I was homeless.
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  • You're afraid people are gonna judge you.
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  • And you don't realize that once you begin to understand god's
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  • Grace, to become transparent like that and open?
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  • It becomes testimonies to people instead of judgment.
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  • Now, there'll be some that'll judge you, that's just how
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  • They are.
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  • But you don't want to get into self-deception because you're
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  • Afraid of how you're gonna be judged by somebody else.
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  • That's people bondage all day long.
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  • That's approval addiction all day long.
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  • Number six, wanting to please others.
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  • It goes the same--it comes together with the fear
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  • Of judgment.
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  • Wanting to please other people, rationalizing the--down--and
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  • Downplaying of our own needs so we can stay in their
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  • Good graces.
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  • I'm downplaying my needs so i can stay in your good graces.
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  • Who wants to be around somebody like that?
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  • How long do you wanna be around somebody that doesn't value you?
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  • They don't value your opinions.
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  • They don't respect you, and you're still wanting to be
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  • Around that idiot?
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  • Why would you wanna be around somebody like that?
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  • It's because you don't think much of yourself, and you keep
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  • Deceiving yourself into thinking that these people really care
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  • About you, and they don't care about you.
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  • The greatest day of your life is going to be when you can walk
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  • Away from a situation knowing, "i know they don't care about
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  • Me, but i care about me and god cares about me, and forget them
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  • Because they're missing out on a great friend."
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  • You ever seen anybody like that, just doing anything just to hang
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  • Around somebody?
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  • Bro, forget you.
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  • Bro, i'd rather be by myself eating a mcdonald's hamburger
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  • With some cold french fries than to be around somebody that only
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  • Sees me as their opportunity.
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  • Number--is it seven?
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  • Wanting to impress others.
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  • Same thing, same--in that same realm of approval addiction,
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  • Wanting to impress others.
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  • Kidding ourselves into believing we're better than we are while
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  • Downplaying our flaws.
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  • I gotta keep telling myself i'm, you know, i'm better and the way
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  • I do that is i just downplay all my flaws.
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  • You're not.
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  • You need to come up and say, "bro, man, i got issues too."
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  • That is so awesome to be able to see somebody who'll just come
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  • Right down on the level and say, "you ain't by yourself, man."
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  • I don't mind doing that in church.
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  • I don't mind saying, "here are my flaws.
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  • Here's what taffi and i have dealt with.
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  • Here are my fears," 'cause i'm not in self-deception anymore.
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  • Back in the day when i was teaching on the law, i
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  • Was self-deception.
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  • I'm like--i'm supposed to be perfect as a pastor.
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  • That's deception.
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  • Ain't no perfect pastors.
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  • Are you kidding me? none.
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  • And so what happens is, since you believe that you're supposed
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  • To be a perfect pastor, when you mess up, and you will, and you
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  • Get just blasted by everybody, you can get blasted whether
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  • You're perfect or not, but it just feels so much better to be
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  • Able to stand in the pulpit dressed like you wanna dress,
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  • And be honest about what you're going through because i figure
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  • If i can do that with you, it can give you hope to say, "whoa,
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  • If he's going through this and he seems like he's making
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  • Progress, i wanna--i can do the same thing.
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  • I'm encouraged to do it."
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  • Or it can just be, "phew, i thought i was the only one.
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  • I thought i was the only one."
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  • You going around here pretending like your marriage is-- "hi
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  • Dear, how are you?"
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  • "oh, honey bun, i'm just fine.
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  • How are you?"
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  • "oh, we're fine and our children are perfect, right, kids?"
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  • "yes, mommy; yes, daddy."
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  • Boy, please.
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  • That ain't even how life works.
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  • That is not even real, but we take that thing 'cause we saw it
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  • Was the christian thing, and you don't understand the bible says,
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  • "they that live godly shall suffer persecution."
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  • And some christians act like they had no
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  • Trouble since they've been saved.
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  • "since i've been born again, i ain't had no trouble."
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  • You are lying and leaking, your breath stink, excuse me.
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  • But it--that ain't--that is not right.
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  • What's more powerful is, "yes, i've had trouble this week, but
  • 00:14:53.594 --> 00:14:58.433
  • God has delivered me out of them all, praise the lord."
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  • Stop all that stuff.
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  • Nobody wants to try to be a christian because you're making
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  • It seem like you're perfect, and they know they're not perfect.
  • 00:15:07.008 --> 00:15:09.444
  • Well, you know what?
  • 00:15:09.444 --> 00:15:10.812
  • We ain't either, but we have a god that's perfecting us day by
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  • Day by day.
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  • And like a little kid, we're learning how to walk.
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  • And falling is a part of walking.
  • 00:15:18.453 --> 00:15:22.957
  • Yeah, falling is a part of learning how to walk.
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  • It is.
  • 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:27.495
  • Why do we love beating up christians so much?
  • 00:15:27.495 --> 00:15:29.464
  • Because they walk into the self-deception
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  • That they're all that.
  • 00:15:31.265 --> 00:15:33.267
  • And we ain't not--ain't nobody all that.
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  • We ain't nothing without jesus.
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  • Do you understand we're one jesus away from hell?
  • 00:15:36.904 --> 00:15:41.743
  • We're one jesus away from hell ourselves.
  • 00:15:41.743 --> 00:15:45.313
  • And yet, we try to make each other feel bad about stuff.
  • 00:15:45.313 --> 00:15:49.384
  • Why do we do that?
  • 00:15:49.384 --> 00:15:50.752
  • Why do we do that?
  • 00:15:51.819 --> 00:15:53.187
  • We finally do something that's pretty good and we wanna tell it
  • 00:15:53.187 --> 00:15:55.123
  • The whole world, "look at what i did.
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  • I'm awesome, i'm jesus, i'm christian," why?
  • 00:15:57.625 --> 00:16:01.929
  • 'cause you showed up for the first time when we decided to
  • 00:16:01.929 --> 00:16:04.098
  • Feed people, and now you wanna go brag about that?
  • 00:16:04.098 --> 00:16:07.835
  • You ought to be bragging about jesus.
  • 00:16:07.835 --> 00:16:10.138
  • How you could have been dead, sleeping in
  • 00:16:10.138 --> 00:16:11.773
  • Your grave, but jesus showed up.
  • 00:16:11.773 --> 00:16:13.107
  • How you could have died of this, but jesus showed up.
  • 00:16:13.107 --> 00:16:15.743
  • How you could have been in this station, but jesus showed up.
  • 00:16:15.743 --> 00:16:18.546
  • "yeah, my power went off a day ago, but it didn't stay off
  • 00:16:18.546 --> 00:16:21.716
  • That long, praise the lord.
  • 00:16:21.716 --> 00:16:23.084
  • Besides, i had a sleeping bag.
  • 00:16:23.084 --> 00:16:24.419
  • Glory to god, i had a little beanee weenees in the cabinet.
  • 00:16:24.419 --> 00:16:27.188
  • I'm fine, praise god."
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  • That's why you don't complain, because when you complain, you
  • 00:16:28.823 --> 00:16:31.959
  • Remain the same.
  • 00:16:31.959 --> 00:16:34.729
  • Don't nobody wanna talk this kind of stuff, not in no church.
  • 00:16:34.729 --> 00:16:38.633
  • "we wanna hear about daniel in the lions' den.
  • 00:16:38.633 --> 00:16:40.902
  • No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:16:40.902 --> 00:16:42.236
  • We wanna hear about the hebrew boys in the fiery furnace.
  • 00:16:42.236 --> 00:16:44.872
  • No, no, we don't wanna hear about the fire, we don't wanna
  • 00:16:44.872 --> 00:16:47.542
  • Hear too much about the lions."
  • 00:16:47.542 --> 00:16:53.648
  • God gets the glory by bringing us out of all that.
  • 00:16:53.648 --> 00:16:57.485
  • I'm not giving god the glory for all the stuff
  • 00:16:57.485 --> 00:16:58.820
  • I gotta go through, but i give him the glory
  • 00:16:58.820 --> 00:17:00.755
  • For he brings me out of all of it.
  • 00:17:00.755 --> 00:17:02.090
  • He gets the glory for bringing me out of all of it,
  • 00:17:02.090 --> 00:17:04.859
  • How he delivers me out of all of it.
  • 00:17:04.859 --> 00:17:06.294
  • He gets the glory for bringing me out of all of it.
  • 00:17:06.294 --> 00:17:08.062
  • Every bit of it, he gets me out, the glory.
  • 00:17:08.062 --> 00:17:10.798
  • So i'm like free, i'm cool, i'm good.
  • 00:17:10.798 --> 00:17:15.536
  • My attitude right now is if people want the teaching of the
  • 00:17:15.536 --> 00:17:19.140
  • Gospel of grace, they gotta show up.
  • 00:17:19.140 --> 00:17:21.275
  • I'm tired of trying to want you to come more than you want
  • 00:17:21.275 --> 00:17:23.611
  • To come.
  • 00:17:23.611 --> 00:17:24.946
  • That's up to you, bro.
  • 00:17:24.946 --> 00:17:26.714
  • I'm good.
  • 00:17:26.714 --> 00:17:30.751
  • Man, i ought to make 90 like real easy.
  • 00:17:30.751 --> 00:17:36.390
  • And i pray at 90 that i look about like this with no dye.
  • 00:17:36.390 --> 00:17:42.330
  • No cosmetic surgery, just chilling, preaching the same
  • 00:17:42.330 --> 00:17:48.669
  • Thing, the grace of god.
  • 00:17:48.669 --> 00:17:53.875
  • I have a hard time listening to some expert about how to live
  • 00:17:53.875 --> 00:17:56.644
  • Long and he ain't but 40.
  • 00:17:56.644 --> 00:18:02.783
  • Or listening to some preacher that just started his church
  • 00:18:02.783 --> 00:18:07.388
  • Last week telling everybody what they ought to do.
  • 00:18:07.388 --> 00:18:10.491
  • Talk to me when you're 50 years in the ministry.
  • 00:18:10.491 --> 00:18:13.561
  • Then holler at me.
  • 00:18:13.561 --> 00:18:15.463
  • Cause you gotta have some staying power.
  • 00:18:15.463 --> 00:18:19.066
  • All right, what is this?
  • 00:18:19.066 --> 00:18:22.537
  • Number eight, wanting to avoid painful faults or experiences
  • 00:18:22.537 --> 00:18:26.874
  • After we've endured hardship of trauma.
  • 00:18:26.874 --> 00:18:30.578
  • Those things minister to people.
  • 00:18:30.578 --> 00:18:33.915
  • Don't keep that away.
  • 00:18:33.915 --> 00:18:35.283
  • You don't need stuff--those things minister to people.
  • 00:18:35.283 --> 00:18:36.651
  • The things you've gone through, the trauma you experienced,
  • 00:18:36.651 --> 00:18:40.955
  • Those things minister to people.
  • 00:18:40.955 --> 00:18:42.523
  • Use it, praise the lord.
  • 00:18:42.523 --> 00:18:44.425
  • Number nine, preferring the convenience of an easy delusion
  • 00:18:44.425 --> 00:18:51.566
  • Over a hard truth.
  • 00:18:51.566 --> 00:18:54.702
  • It's convenient to be delusional.
  • 00:18:54.702 --> 00:18:59.574
  • It's more convenient to be delusional than it is to face
  • 00:18:59.574 --> 00:19:02.843
  • The hard truth.
  • 00:19:02.843 --> 00:19:04.812
  • You know, the hard truth is looking yourself in the mirror
  • 00:19:04.812 --> 00:19:07.715
  • And say, "i got issues."
  • 00:19:07.715 --> 00:19:11.419
  • Phew.
  • 00:19:11.419 --> 00:19:13.187
  • Looking yourself in the mirror and say, "i'm concerned
  • 00:19:13.187 --> 00:19:15.623
  • About my self-interest and not nobody else's."
  • 00:19:15.623 --> 00:19:19.994
  • Looking yourself in the mirror and say, "mammon has
  • 00:19:19.994 --> 00:19:23.197
  • Captured me.
  • 00:19:23.197 --> 00:19:25.600
  • I work my best when money is at the end of the thing,
  • 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:30.605
  • That money is my motivation,
  • 00:19:30.605 --> 00:19:32.540
  • That money is motivating me more than god."
  • 00:19:32.540 --> 00:19:36.410
  • Ain't nobody gonna be there but you and god, but look yourself
  • 00:19:36.410 --> 00:19:39.013
  • In the mirror so you can see yourself.
  • 00:19:39.013 --> 00:19:41.782
  • And as a married man, you say, "i can be a better husband."
  • 00:19:41.782 --> 00:19:48.022
  • A woman, "i can be a better wife."
  • 00:19:48.022 --> 00:19:52.560
  • Tell yourself the truth and quit lying to yourself.
  • 00:19:52.560 --> 00:19:57.231
  • Get out of that delusion and let the grace of god show up and do
  • 00:19:57.231 --> 00:20:03.904
  • Amazing things in your life.
  • 00:20:03.904 --> 00:20:05.740
  • So, our self-deception can serve as a coping mechanism.
  • 00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:09.176
  • People--some people use it as a coping mechanism.
  • 00:20:09.176 --> 00:20:11.545
  • I understand that.
  • 00:20:11.545 --> 00:20:12.880
  • I wouldn't recommend that, but they use it as a
  • 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.983
  • Coping mechanism.
  • 00:20:15.983 --> 00:20:17.318
  • I mean, you lying to yourself as a coping mechanism?
  • 00:20:17.318 --> 00:20:19.587
  • I wouldn't recommend that.
  • 00:20:19.587 --> 00:20:21.289
  • I wouldn't recommend that.
  • 00:20:22.323 --> 00:20:23.958
  • So, what's gonna happen is that--and my time's up, but
  • 00:20:23.958 --> 00:20:32.133
  • We're gonna talk about the origin of it.
  • 00:20:32.133 --> 00:20:34.068
  • We're gonna go back to the beginning of mankind to find out
  • 00:20:34.068 --> 00:20:37.371
  • Where this propensity for
  • 00:20:37.371 --> 00:20:44.578
  • Self-deception came from.
  • 00:20:44.578 --> 00:20:49.350
  • A tendency to deceive ourself, propensity.
  • 00:20:49.350 --> 00:20:53.821
  • Why is this like it is?
  • 00:20:53.821 --> 00:20:57.191
  • And hopefully by seeing that, you can kind of get a hold of
  • 00:20:57.191 --> 00:21:01.562
  • Some of the areas where you're walking in self-deception.
  • 00:21:01.562 --> 00:21:05.966
  • Don't be deceived.
  • 00:21:05.966 --> 00:21:08.002
  • Don't be deceived.
  • 00:21:08.869 --> 00:21:10.871
  • Now please, let me make sure you understand something.
  • 00:21:10.871 --> 00:21:13.441
  • Creflo and taffi dollar, we don't know everything.
  • 00:21:13.441 --> 00:21:15.176
  • We're teaching what we know, but we don't know everything.
  • 00:21:15.176 --> 00:21:21.582
  • Here's the deal, you don't either.
  • 00:21:21.582 --> 00:21:25.486
  • Nobody does.
  • 00:21:25.486 --> 00:21:27.388
  • We're just teaching what we know.
  • 00:21:27.388 --> 00:21:30.257
  • We're teaching what we know.
  • 00:21:30.257 --> 00:21:31.625
  • We're teaching it based on what we have experienced with it.
  • 00:21:31.625 --> 00:21:36.263
  • We're teaching it based on our self deception.
  • 00:21:36.263 --> 00:21:40.901
  • We're not teaching no self-deception, like we--we
  • 00:21:40.901 --> 00:21:43.904
  • Don't know nothing about self-deception, but y'all.
  • 00:21:43.904 --> 00:21:45.973
  • Uh-uh, no, no, no.
  • 00:21:45.973 --> 00:21:47.308
  • Where do you think this is coming from?
  • 00:21:47.308 --> 00:21:50.544
  • It's coming from all the times that i walked in self-deception.
  • 00:21:50.544 --> 00:21:55.082
  • It's coming from the stuff that i thought i had right in the
  • 00:21:55.082 --> 00:22:00.121
  • Pulpit and discovered, "oh wow, i missed that."
  • 00:22:00.121 --> 00:22:05.793
  • But you know what i celebrate?
  • 00:22:05.793 --> 00:22:08.162
  • I celebrate the day that i could see.
  • 00:22:08.162 --> 00:22:13.868
  • The day that i could see.
  • 00:22:13.868 --> 00:22:18.239
  • Not that--not--i'm not celebrating that it
  • 00:22:18.239 --> 00:22:20.574
  • Never happened.
  • 00:22:20.574 --> 00:22:21.909
  • I'm saying it all happened.
  • 00:22:21.909 --> 00:22:23.277
  • I'm celebrating that i can see.
  • 00:22:23.277 --> 00:22:26.013
  • And that's my prayer for you.
  • 00:22:26.013 --> 00:22:27.515
  • My my prayer for you is that god open your eyes so you can see.
  • 00:22:27.515 --> 00:22:33.154
  • Because when you can see, you can make some adjustments, you
  • 00:22:33.154 --> 00:22:37.491
  • Can change some things.
  • 00:22:37.491 --> 00:22:39.827
  • You follow what i'm saying?
  • 00:22:39.827 --> 00:22:41.996
  • Hey man, you get anything out of this this morning?
  • 00:22:41.996 --> 00:22:45.866
  • Yeah, so real quick and get you on out of here.
  • 00:22:45.866 --> 00:22:52.373
  • Father, we thank you for what we've heard.
  • 00:22:52.373 --> 00:22:54.742
  • We ask that, holy spirit, you put it in the right place in our
  • 00:22:54.742 --> 00:22:59.713
  • Thinking and help us to understand how to process this
  • 00:22:59.713 --> 00:23:04.285
  • In our lives.
  • 00:23:04.285 --> 00:23:07.054
  • Help us, lord, not to deceive ourselves.
  • 00:23:07.054 --> 00:23:11.025
  • Help us not to walk in self-deception.
  • 00:23:11.025 --> 00:23:15.963
  • I pray the blessings of god over these world changers.
  • 00:23:15.963 --> 00:23:20.768
  • I pray, god, you continue to help taffi and i see and
  • 00:23:20.768 --> 00:23:23.571
  • Understand what we couldn't see and what we didn't understand so
  • 00:23:23.571 --> 00:23:27.942
  • That we can continue to watch over the souls of these precious
  • 00:23:27.942 --> 00:23:31.846
  • People that you have put into our care.
  • 00:23:31.846 --> 00:23:33.881
  • Announcer: we cannot live in self-deception if we want to
  • 00:23:37.685 --> 00:23:40.788
  • Experience god's best.
  • 00:23:40.788 --> 00:23:42.389
  • Self-deception leads us to believe lies, hardens our heart,
  • 00:23:42.389 --> 00:23:46.360
  • And keeps us from the truth.
  • 00:23:46.360 --> 00:23:48.095
  • In his insightful five-message series, "defining
  • 00:23:48.095 --> 00:23:50.998
  • Self-deception," creflo dollar
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  • Shows how to overcome the trap
  • 00:23:53.067 --> 00:23:54.935
  • Of fooling ourselves and see
  • 00:23:54.935 --> 00:23:56.570
  • Things from god's perspective.
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  • Learn how to identify deception, embrace truth, and experience
  • 00:23:58.606 --> 00:24:02.710
  • Real transformation.
  • 00:24:02.710 --> 00:24:04.044
  • Creflo: have some daily contact with the presence of god to let
  • 00:24:04.044 --> 00:24:07.615
  • You know i am a christian.
  • 00:24:07.615 --> 00:24:09.683
  • I am a son of god, a child of god, belong to god.
  • 00:24:09.683 --> 00:24:13.020
  • So, when sin comes in to try to separate you,
  • 00:24:13.020 --> 00:24:15.322
  • You're too close to god in communion to
  • 00:24:15.322 --> 00:24:17.925
  • Pay it any attention.
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  • Creflo: salvation is the beginning of a new life for
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  • It is from this point that we can move into the fullness of
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  • Who god has called us to be and see the manifestation of the
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  • Finished works of jesus.
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  • It is one of my greatest pleasures to help people to
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  • Understand who christ is and to lead people to christ.
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  • If you would like salvation today, pray this prayer with me.
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  • Very simple prayer.
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  • "heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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  • I believe that he died, that he rose again, and that he
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  • Lives today.
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  • Come into my life, save me.
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  • I receive you as my savior.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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