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Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception (Part 2)

August 12, 2025 | S25 E195 | 28:51

Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception (Part 2)
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  • Creflo: well, this is our third installment of this teaching on
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  • Self-deception, and it's been quite a ride.
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  • I had no idea we would continue to talk about this subject, but
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  • It is a, it is a big subject because one of the things about
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  • Self-deception is, when you're in self-deception you don't
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  • Know it.
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  • You are blind to the self-deception that you may be
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  • Walking in, and i am so excited about the fact to understand
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  • That when you get delivered from self-deception, then the plans
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  • Of god, the prosperity of god, all the things that god has
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  • Planned for your life can take place, but it's hard for it to
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  • Take place when you're in self-deception, and god wants to
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  • Deliver you from that.
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  • I believe this is the time for you to go to the next level in
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  • Your life.
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  • I believe that there's some things that god has planned for
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  • Your life, but if we don't address the issue of
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  • Self-deception, we just keep walking around deceived and not
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  • Know it.
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  • That's the interesting thing about self-deception.
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  • When you're deceived, you don't know it and what you think is
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  • Right is wrong, but it's this thing that we don't want to
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  • Address, and so i wanna give you a definition of it, then i wanna
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  • Give you a quick illustration about how easy it is to be
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  • Deceived, especially when you've sat in a situation for quite
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  • Some time and you can't see anything else for that.
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  • So jot this down.
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  • Let's look at self-deception, what it is.
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  • Self-deception is more than a term that describes someone who
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  • Does not see the truth.
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  • That is, that is what it is with someone who doesn't see the
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  • Truth, but it's more than that.
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  • It is a concept that accounts for how it is possible--how is
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  • It--how it is possible to to be blind to the truth?
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  • How is that?
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  • How can that happen?
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  • How is it possible for a person 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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  • It is to participate in an act that produces a false view of
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  • 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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  • People who walk in self-deception, and let me make
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  • This clear, and that's everybody in this place at one time or
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  • Another, throughout your journey of life, you have been in some
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  • Type of self-deception.
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  • I don't want us looking around like, "that ain't me."
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  • No, that's everybody.
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  • Everybody, and thank god for jesus and the holy spirit that's
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  • Helping us to walk out of.
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  • There are things about you that 20 years ago you couldn't see.
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  • Okay, that's self-deception.
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  • But now, because you've been sitting under the word, you can
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  • See some things, some things have been revealed to you, and
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  • You now can see those things.
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  • So to be self-deceived is to be blind to the truth of
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  • A situation.
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  • To be blind to the truth of a situation.
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  • Now think about it.
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  • What is it that i might be blind to the truth of?
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  • If you're in self-deception you don't know because you don't
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  • Think you're blind, and so self-deception, it has with
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  • It--this blindness includes two features.
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  • Two features to this blindness.
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  • Number one, seeing the truth falsely as untruth.
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  • You see the truth as untruth.
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  • And then secondly, being blind to the fact that your own act,
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  • Being blind to the fact that you're wrong--the wrong that
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  • You're--that you may be doing, the wrong that you may be doing
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  • Has produced the false view.
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  • The thing that you may be doing may be responsible for producing
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  • The self-deception.
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  • The thing that you may be doing is responsible for producing how
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  • You see this kind of thing.
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  • And so, i thought today, we did a little thing this past week.
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  • We put something up on the social media that we, you know,
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  • It was gonna reveal everything we needed to see concerning male
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  • Dominance, and to see how people respond to that.
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  • It's so funny, you know, when they responded crazy, the grace
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  • Gang hopped on 'em real quick and straighten them out with
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  • Scripture, but men started responding to it and saying,
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  • "there's nowhere in the bible where it says that it is a--that
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  • Male dominance is a curse, nowhere."
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  • And somebody politely said, "genesis 3 verse 16."
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • They were so strong to say that, "that's nowhere in the bible."
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  • Genesis 3:16, in the book of genesis, where they were
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  • Deceived by the devil, and as a result of that deception in the
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  • Garden, god start talking about this curse and that curse, and a
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  • Part of that curse is, he says in genesis 3:16, that a woman
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  • Who will desire to control her husband will actually be
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  • Dominated by her husband.
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  • So male dominance is a curse.
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  • He says in verse 16 in nlt, "then he said unto the woman, i
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  • Will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will
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  • Give birth.
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  • And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule
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  • Over you."
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  • There it is.
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  • That's a--that's not a blessing.
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  • That's not a standard.
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  • That's not a rule of operation for marriage.
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  • That is a part of a curse that jesus, if you kept reading, keep
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  • Reading on, he's talking about that i'm going to straighten
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  • This out later.
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  • And then another guy comes on and he says, "well, what you
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  • Don't understand is in the new testament it said the same
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  • Thing, 'cause in the new testament it said that the man
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  • Is the head of his wife."
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  • Well, see, bubba, you don't, you don't know how to read
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  • The bible.
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  • A lot of people pick the bible up, read it, they don't know how
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  • To read it.
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  • They don't understand that there's an old covenant and the
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  • New covenant, and what's true in the old covenant may not be the
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  • Truth in the new covenant, and you gotta rightly divide
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  • Between what was in the old covenant and what in the new
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  • Covenant, and then you gotta understand the bible is not an
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  • American book.
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  • The bible wasn't originally written in english.
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  • The old testament portion, most of that was in hebrew, and then
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  • The new testament, especially where paul was writing the
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  • Gospel of grace, was greek because paul was a very
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  • Intelligent pharisee.
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  • And so as long as you keep that mindset, that you can just pick
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  • The bible up and just read it 'cause you passed reading class,
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  • And not understand how to rightly discern it, then you
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  • Will, you will be deceived in thinking that you're supposed to
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  • Still dominate your wife.
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  • In fact, when it's said in two places in corinthians and in
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  • Ephesians that the man is the head of his wife, the word head
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  • Doesn't mean to rule over.
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  • The word head comes from a greek word, which you have to find
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  • What the greek said before you look at english, but the greek
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  • Word, translated head there, is kephale, which means source.
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  • And what he said was, is that the man is the--well, back
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  • It up.
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  • In corinthians he says that god is the source of every man, and
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  • Every man is the source of every woman, and every woman is the
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  • Source of the children, and the source of what?
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  • The source of love.
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  • The source that love flows from.
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  • That god is the source that love--god is the source that
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  • Love flows from to the man, and man should be the source that
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  • Love flows from to the woman, and woman should be the source
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  • That love flows from.
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  • See, stop doing that.
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  • So you're deceived and don't know it because you are
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  • Convinced that head means rule over, because you see it as an
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  • English, a western american book.
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  • You see how easy it is to be deceived.
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  • And so what happens is just that one deception ruins marriages,
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  • 'cause ain't no woman gonna wanna be dominated by a man, or
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  • No human wants to be dominated by nobody.
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  • Slaves didn't want to be dominated by the master, but you
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  • Know what they used?
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  • Deception to cause slavery to remain and be somewhat peaceful,
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  • Until some of 'em learned how to read, and say, "that ain't what
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  • That said."
  • 00:10:24.036 --> 00:10:27.707
  • Deception is designed to keep people in bondage.
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  • Why should a woman submit to the, to the rude, cruel
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  • Domination of not only a man, but from anybody?
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  • Just do a switcheroo.
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  • Do--you do the wife's part and let her do your part.
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  • Do you want to be dominated?
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  • So first of all, if you know jesus you know that ain't him.
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  • Secondly, don't try to preach the bible to somebody when you
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  • Don't know how to read it yourself and you don't even live
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  • By it.
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  • You just want to articulate and spontificate about how
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  • Intelligent you might be and what you don't know.
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  • Talk about what you know about.
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  • It destroys lives, and most of this deception that has invaded
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  • Households and invaded churches and invaded countries comes from
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  • The puplit of ignorant men and women who don't have
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  • A burden to study.
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  • "god called me to do this."
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  • Yeah, i believe it, but you probably need to take some time
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  • To learn about what you preaching about.
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  • If you can't say amen, say, "oh, me.
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  • Oh, my."
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  • And you know what?
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  • Here's the, here's the deal with self deception.
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  • Even with that explanation some will say, "i don't care what
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  • You say.
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  • The man is the head of his wife, and that's how it's gonna be in
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  • My house."
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  • For a while, 'cause after a while that woman gonna get sick
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  • And tired of you, and she the only one working and she
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  • Bringing her check home, and you laying your little sorry tail up
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  • On the bed, going and getting your hair curled and all that
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  • Other kind of stuff.
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  • Your hair longer than your wife right now, and you think she
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  • Gonna keep putting up with that?
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  • After a while, you corner a cat in a corner long enough, it's
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  • Gonna come out scratching.
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  • You ain't gonna be deceived no more i bet you.
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  • Everything has a beginning.
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  • If you ask the question, where did that come from?
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  • How did that get started?
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  • Well, the question is pretty cool to be in the place
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  • Of self-deception.
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  • What's the origin of self-deception?
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  • How did it get started?
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  • Where did it come from, all right.
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  • The bible shows that self-deception originates from
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  • The human heart's natural tendency to resist god's truth.
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  • Now this is somebody that doesn't have god, but what
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  • Happened in the garden produced this natural tendency to res--to
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  • Resist god's truth.
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  • It often stems from a few areas.
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  • It stems from pride, it stems from fear, and it stems from sin
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  • Which clouds our perception of reality.
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  • So number one, the origin of self-deception.
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  • Number one, the fall and our sinful nature.
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  • The fall of man that we see in genesis 3, and our
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  • Sinful nature.
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  • Self-deception has its roots in humanity's fall in the garden
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  • Of eden.
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  • That's where it has its roots, in genesis 3.
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  • And adam and eve were deceived by the serpent,
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  • And their disobedience led to a broken relationship with god.
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  • So this event introduced sin into the world.
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  • This deception that took place in the garden introduce sin into
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  • The world, distorting human understanding, and creating
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  • The propensity.
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  • Now, when something is--when you have a propensity, it's a
  • 00:14:56.842 --> 00:14:59.311
  • Tendency to behave in a, in a particular way.
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  • So the propensity for self-deception was created in
  • 00:15:03.949 --> 00:15:08.087
  • The garden of eden.
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  • So sin is the--sin, if you look at what is sin, sin is to live
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  • Out of context with the blueprint of your design.
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  • It is missing the mark, but it's missing the mark where your
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  • Blueprint is concerned.
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  • You got deceived, sin entered into the world, and so sin
  • 00:15:30.509 --> 00:15:36.448
  • Caused man to live out of context with the blueprint of
  • 00:15:36.448 --> 00:15:40.652
  • Your design, and now you're doing things that you're not
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  • Designed to do.
  • 00:15:45.758 --> 00:15:47.092
  • You were designed after god's image.
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  • You were designed after god's likeness.
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  • If you read the new testament correctly, you'll find out the
  • 00:15:52.431 --> 00:15:54.767
  • New testament is all about trying to get you to look in the
  • 00:15:54.767 --> 00:15:57.302
  • Mirror and recognize who you really are, and the mirror is
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  • The word of god, and the new testament word of god, every
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  • Time you hold it up, it's talking about who you really
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  • Are, but there's so much deception in the translations,
  • 00:16:05.978 --> 00:16:09.615
  • You're not getting the fullness of he's just trying to show you,
  • 00:16:09.615 --> 00:16:12.718
  • This is who you are.
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  • You're like christ.
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  • You're like forgiveness.
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  • You're like temperance.
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  • You're like righteousness.
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  • You're like this, and i saw this this morning on the way out.
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  • I, you know, if i look at who i am like and who i'm not like, i
  • 00:16:21.760 --> 00:16:25.664
  • Am not like my dog rocky.
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  • I don't eat dog food.
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  • Why, that's not according to my design.
  • 00:16:28.801 --> 00:16:37.076
  • Sin, living out of context with the blueprint of your design.
  • 00:16:37.076 --> 00:16:40.546
  • It is to behave out of tune with god's original harmony.
  • 00:16:40.546 --> 00:16:46.585
  • God created mankind, an original harmony, and when the deception
  • 00:16:46.585 --> 00:16:52.191
  • Came in, we out of tune, and jesus showed up to try to tune
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  • Us back up.
  • 00:16:57.663 --> 00:17:00.632
  • 'cause we're living a life, we out of tune, and deception wants
  • 00:17:00.632 --> 00:17:04.169
  • To keep us out of tune.
  • 00:17:04.169 --> 00:17:06.805
  • And jesus is saying, "if you can just see yourself as my
  • 00:17:06.805 --> 00:17:10.642
  • Reflection, if you could just see yourself as a reflection of
  • 00:17:10.642 --> 00:17:15.547
  • God, then you'll be back in harmony with what i'm doing."
  • 00:17:15.547 --> 00:17:20.452
  • But all of this is an attempt to try to get us back in harmony
  • 00:17:20.452 --> 00:17:26.525
  • With who we really are.
  • 00:17:26.525 --> 00:17:28.060
  • You're facing--you're talking about all of what you do and all
  • 00:17:28.060 --> 00:17:31.130
  • Of your sin, and what he is trying to say is, "no, i'm
  • 00:17:31.130 --> 00:17:33.966
  • Trying to get you to see who you are, because if i can get you to
  • 00:17:33.966 --> 00:17:36.568
  • See who you are, then all of the sin will be taken care of, all
  • 00:17:36.568 --> 00:17:39.671
  • The sinning will be taken care of, all the misbehaving will be
  • 00:17:39.671 --> 00:17:42.541
  • Taken care of because you now know your design."
  • 00:17:42.541 --> 00:17:45.511
  • You got the blueprint back and you know who you are, and
  • 00:17:45.511 --> 00:17:49.047
  • Your--the attack of the devil is attacking your identity.
  • 00:17:49.047 --> 00:17:52.751
  • You've been working so hard as a christian to change your
  • 00:17:52.751 --> 00:17:55.354
  • Behavior through behavioral modification, and jesus came so
  • 00:17:55.354 --> 00:18:00.759
  • You can recognize who you are, and so jesus says, "so here's
  • 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.896
  • What i'm gonna do.
  • 00:18:03.896 --> 00:18:05.264
  • I'm gonna do all the do's, and if you receive all the do's and
  • 00:18:05.264 --> 00:18:10.402
  • Recognize who you are, that's all i'm asking you to do."
  • 00:18:10.402 --> 00:18:14.239
  • You are the righteousness of god, but what the devil says is,
  • 00:18:14.239 --> 00:18:18.477
  • "look at how you behave and you can't be righteous."
  • 00:18:18.477 --> 00:18:22.881
  • Now, he didn't do that so you can continue to misbehave.
  • 00:18:22.881 --> 00:18:26.251
  • He knows, the day you realize who you are you say, "wait
  • 00:18:26.251 --> 00:18:34.159
  • A minute.
  • 00:18:34.159 --> 00:18:35.894
  • I'm out here eating dog food when i can be in there
  • 00:18:35.894 --> 00:18:42.401
  • Eating steak."
  • 00:18:42.401 --> 00:18:45.904
  • The behavior will line up with you realizing who you are.
  • 00:18:45.904 --> 00:18:53.579
  • I am the righteousness of god, and you're righteous even when
  • 00:18:53.579 --> 00:18:56.315
  • You misbehave because your god is--one thing the devil trying
  • 00:18:56.315 --> 00:18:59.551
  • To take from you is your identity.
  • 00:18:59.551 --> 00:19:01.553
  • He attacks in the identity.
  • 00:19:01.553 --> 00:19:03.722
  • He attacked adam and eve in their identity.
  • 00:19:03.722 --> 00:19:06.258
  • He attacked jesus in his, in his identity.
  • 00:19:06.258 --> 00:19:09.695
  • You know, "if thou be the son of god."
  • 00:19:09.695 --> 00:19:12.564
  • Why would you come?
  • 00:19:12.564 --> 00:19:13.899
  • You know that's the son of god.
  • 00:19:13.899 --> 00:19:15.234
  • That's what jesus told him, "you know who i am."
  • 00:19:15.234 --> 00:19:16.735
  • "if thou be the son of god, prove it.
  • 00:19:16.735 --> 00:19:19.438
  • Prove it by something you can do.
  • 00:19:19.438 --> 00:19:22.074
  • Prove it about something you could do."
  • 00:19:22.074 --> 00:19:23.575
  • And "what do you want me to do?"
  • 00:19:23.575 --> 00:19:25.911
  • "turn this stone into bread."
  • 00:19:25.911 --> 00:19:28.046
  • And jesus said, "i'm not gonna turn the stone into bread,
  • 00:19:28.046 --> 00:19:31.250
  • Because if i turn the stone into bread to prove to you that by my
  • 00:19:31.250 --> 00:19:34.686
  • Actions i am who i am, then my actions are greater than my
  • 00:19:34.686 --> 00:19:38.090
  • Identity, so i refuse to turn the stone into bread.
  • 00:19:38.090 --> 00:19:41.660
  • The father said i'm his son, and i received that i am his son
  • 00:19:41.660 --> 00:19:46.431
  • Without any demonstration to you."
  • 00:19:46.431 --> 00:19:54.072
  • Are y'all seeing what--are you?
  • 00:19:54.072 --> 00:19:57.609
  • Look at romans 5 and 12 in the nlt.
  • 00:19:57.609 --> 00:20:01.446
  • So this self-deception started in the garden.
  • 00:20:01.446 --> 00:20:05.817
  • It started with that sinful nature that happened.
  • 00:20:05.817 --> 00:20:10.022
  • When we believed the deceitful voice of the devil.
  • 00:20:10.022 --> 00:20:18.730
  • The bible says in romans 5:12, "when adam sinned, sin entered
  • 00:20:18.730 --> 00:20:25.037
  • The world.
  • 00:20:25.037 --> 00:20:27.906
  • Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone,
  • 00:20:27.906 --> 00:20:37.916
  • For everyone sinned."
  • 00:20:37.916 --> 00:20:40.619
  • Let me show you who you, who you are, okay, based on who
  • 00:20:40.619 --> 00:20:46.825
  • You were.
  • 00:20:46.825 --> 00:20:49.027
  • Do you know, when god created us, he created us to be
  • 00:20:49.027 --> 00:20:53.432
  • Immortal beings.
  • 00:20:53.432 --> 00:20:57.903
  • Immortal, man was created never to die, wow.
  • 00:20:57.903 --> 00:21:07.412
  • Now, if you read the bible, you look at these guys who live 800
  • 00:21:07.412 --> 00:21:11.116
  • Years, 700 years, 500 years, 400.
  • 00:21:11.116 --> 00:21:15.620
  • Weren't a teenager till you were 243.
  • 00:21:15.620 --> 00:21:23.595
  • Think about what had happened.
  • 00:21:23.595 --> 00:21:26.164
  • It took all that time for
  • 00:21:26.164 --> 00:21:34.706
  • [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:21:34.706 --> 00:21:36.608
  • For eternal man to become mortal.
  • 00:21:36.608 --> 00:21:45.050
  • It took all that time for an immortal being to submit
  • 00:21:45.050 --> 00:21:49.254
  • To mortality.
  • 00:21:49.254 --> 00:21:54.526
  • And we shout when we see somebody 80.
  • 00:21:54.526 --> 00:22:03.568
  • God, who am i?
  • 00:22:03.568 --> 00:22:06.705
  • Could it be?
  • 00:22:06.705 --> 00:22:08.039
  • Could it be you just don't know everything?
  • 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:12.477
  • Could it be that as a pastor of this church, that i can, i can,
  • 00:22:12.477 --> 00:22:16.982
  • I can submit this to you, the more i discover about this bible
  • 00:22:16.982 --> 00:22:21.386
  • And about this jesus, the more i recognize how much i don't know.
  • 00:22:21.386 --> 00:22:30.095
  • And it is difficult to stand and to, and to act like you
  • 00:22:30.095 --> 00:22:33.965
  • Know--you are--you like you know god, you telling people exactly
  • 00:22:33.965 --> 00:22:37.636
  • What god gonna do.
  • 00:22:37.636 --> 00:22:42.240
  • And i'm cool with saying, "i don't know."
  • 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.444
  • I'm cool with saying, when this guy lived this life and he end
  • 00:22:45.444 --> 00:22:48.580
  • Up dying unexpectedly, and somebody say, "where he gonna
  • 00:22:48.580 --> 00:22:52.617
  • Go, heaven, hell?"
  • 00:22:52.617 --> 00:22:53.952
  • "i don't know."
  • 00:22:53.952 --> 00:22:55.320
  • We--i know we spend so much time dealing with hell that we don't
  • 00:22:55.320 --> 00:22:59.157
  • Have no idea who god is.
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  • Personal savior.
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