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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception (Part 2) | August 13, 2025
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- Creflo dollar: so i call all of you free.
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- Free from people so you can worship god.
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- Free from people so you can serve god.
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- Free from people so you can do what god's calling you to do.
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- There's a level that god's trying to get you and he's going
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- To unlock you from being in bondage to people.
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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: can you say that he's a way maker?
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- Yes.
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- Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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- Creflo: could it be that as a pastor of this church, that i
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- Can submit this to you.
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- The more i discover about this bible and about this jesus, the
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- More i recognize how much i don't know.
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- And it is difficult to stand and to act like you know.
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- You are--you like you know god, you're telling people exactly
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- What god gonna do.
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- And i'm cool with saying, "i don't know."
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- I'm cool with saying, "when this guy lived this life and he end
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- Up dying unexpectedly," and somebody say,
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- "where he gonna go?
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- Heaven or hell?" i don't know.
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- We--i know we spent so much time dealing with hell that we don't
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- Have no idea who god is.
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- Because i didn't get saved because i was in love
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- With jesus.
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- I got saved because i was scared about--i'm scared to go to hell.
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- And anything that would get me out of this awful place that
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- They're describing, even though all of it wasn't true, i
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- Want out.
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- So you wanna be saved?
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- Yeah, but most of us came to the lord through the door of hell.
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- And i sit and i say, "my god, how deceived am i?
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- How deep did this go?"
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- I got in the gospel of grace and found out that over half the
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- Stuff, almost 30 years of my life wasn't matching that.
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- It was if somebody gave me a new pair of glasses and i could read
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- For the first time.
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- And when i made the switcheroo to preach the gospel of grace, i
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- Got about a handful of preacher friends left.
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- The rest of them, "creflo done lost his mind."
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- I am glad i lost my religious law based mind.
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- Praise god.
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- Because now i can see a god of love.
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- Now i went to god and i said, "alright now, wait a minute, you
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- Allow fire to fall now and burn these people up.
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- Why you do that?"
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- He says, "well, in that contract, i was a judge.
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- There was still man's infirmity and sin, and the wages of sin
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- Was death back then.
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- And it had to be dealt with.
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- And until jesus got on the cross and gave me a way out," think
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- Of that.
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- God had to show up in flesh to give himself a way out of being
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- A judge.
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- And when jesus shed his blood, the judge became a father.
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- And so, he said, "there's no need for me to cause fire to
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- Come down from heaven.
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- Now men can be born again."
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- So i refuse to play the church game, the preaching game, the
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- Church hurt game.
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- I ain't playing none of that.
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- I just constantly want to know every day where else have i
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- Been deceived?
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- I was deceived by giving.
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- "bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse that there might be
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- Meat in your house and prove me here, sayeth the lord of hosts,
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- That if i will not open you the windows of heaven and pour down
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- A blessing you don't have enough room to receive.
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- And if you don't do it, then you curse with a curse even the
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- Whole nation."
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- And so, i was told you're supposed to preach on tithing
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- And then with them new glasses on, i went and read it and i
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- Said, "well first of all, he not even talking to us.
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- He talking to the levitical priesthood."
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- And i said, "and secondly, if i'm supposed to give 10%, then
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- How come most of them jewish folks gave 22.something%?
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- And what is this?
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- If you don't tithe, that's why you lost your child.
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- If you don't tithe, that's why you ain't gonna get that job.
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- If you don't tithe--"
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- And i'm thinking, "lord, where is it?
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- Where is it?"
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- Then when i went to the new testament, the new covenant that
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- I was under, i figured if that was supposed to be that
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- Important, how come the apostle paul didn't say one word
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- About it?
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- I'll tell you why.
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- Because paul preached generous giving out of your heart, not
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- 10% giving out of your fear.
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- Then it got real lonely out there cause now i'm preaching
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- Something and everybody looking at me like i am infamous.
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- And then the lord did the greatest deliverance i've
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- Ever had.
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- He delivered me from people.
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- Ah sookie, sookie now.
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- He delivered me from approval addiction because over in
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- Galatians chapter 1 it says, "if you want to be a servant of god,
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- You can't be a servant of men, for if you are a servant of men,
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- You can't serve god.
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- The propensity to walk in self-deception came from what
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- Happened in that garden.
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- And the religious minds of the day have concluded in their
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- Heads that they ultimately know god 100% through and through.
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- And i'm telling you i'm sorry, i don't.
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- I'm--you remember how when god--moses said, "let let me
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- See you.
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- Let me see you."
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- And he said, "you can't see me now moses, you'll fall dead.
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- But i'm gonna let you see my back part."
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- Most people think that god said, "you gonna see his back
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- Part later."
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- No, no.
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- That hebrew word is translated you see where god was and you
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- Can't hardly stand where he was.
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- His presence so strong you had a chance to peek at where he
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- Came by.
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- You saw where he was.
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- And he said, "nobody can look at me face to face and live," but
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- Now in this new testament, we can look at jesus face to face,
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- Glory to god.
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- So, i have concluded all i know now is to preach the gospel of
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- Grace as i promised you 12,13 years ago that once i start,
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- I ain't never gonna preach nothing else but it.
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- And i've been faithful to this day of preaching things that
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- Line up with the gospel of grace, but it has not been easy,
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- Ladies and gentlemen.
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- It is all right because i ain't addicted to no person.
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- 'cause whom the son sets free--
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- And so, i call all of you free, free from people so you can
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- Worship god, free from people so you can serve god, free from
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- People so you can do what god's calling you to do.
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- There's a level that god's trying to get you and he's going
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- To unlock you from being in bondage to people.
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- I don't even know how we got nowhere near here.
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- But i'm amazed sometimes when i talk to some preacher who went
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- To two years of seminary school wants to perceive to think that
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- He knows the mind of god when the scripture clearly says, "who
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- Has known the mind of god?"
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- Now what does that look like?
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- He too high, too wide, too deep, and the little you got.
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- And so, he cut a covenant with us.
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- And now people, church folks especially, i don't hear
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- No teaching.
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- If you ain't entertaining me and bringing something more than
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- Just talking, i don't hear no teaching.
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- And you can't grow without teaching.
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- "now i want you to prophesy.
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- I want you to do that one."
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- No, no.
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- God called me to teach and preach, but all of that is
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- Subject to him.
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- But i'm not gonna stop preaching the gospel of grace because it's
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- Jesus, jesus full of grace and truth.
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- But you see what happens?
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- Some of us have lost 20, 30, 40 years of our lives because we
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- Were deceived by the pulpit.
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- We wanted god and we trusted that god would have a burden to
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- Study to be able to give us the right thing, but it turned out
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- That we kept coming to church only hearing what we
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- Already knew.
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- And here we are today and i'm alive and well and trying to
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- Hang around here till jesus come back so i don't have to take
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- A dirt nap.
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- 'cause there's so much to talk about.
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- And i'm so proud of this church.
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- There's not--every minister of this church knows how to preach
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- The gospel of grace, every one of them.
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- With no compromise at all.
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- Because we can see.
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- We were blind.
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- We were blind and afraid to go against the norm.
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- Well, such and so ain't nobody saying that now, so don't you
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- Say that now or it's gonna cause a problem.
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- Tell you one thing, they're gonna cancel you then turn
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- You back.
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- I done had all that happen to me.
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- I mean these folks over here crying because they getting
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- Slandered on youtube.
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- My slander back in the day was worldwide media
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- In several languages.
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- [speaking in foreign language] [laughing]
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- But when you're delivering from people, you have no need to give
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- An excuse or an explanation for why you do this.
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- Folk don't think what they wanna think.
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- Y'all better get free from people.
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- They're getting in your head.
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- You are renting space in your head to these people you don't
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- Even know.
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- All right, here's the second origin of deception.
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- The deceitfulness of the heart.
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- Now look at this in jeremiah 17:9.
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- Jeremiah 17:9.
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- Very interesting here because i wanna make sure you get it
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- In context.
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- "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
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- Wicked: who can know it?"
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- Now what is he talking about?
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- He's talking about the human heart that's apart from god.
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- The human heart that's apart from god.
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- The human heart that's in darkness.
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- It'll lead people astray by convincing them to prioritize
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- Their desires over god's truth.
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- So, that human heart that doesn't know god will trick you
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- And convince you to prioritize your desire over god's truth.
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- Here's god's truth which should be priority, but because of what
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- Happened in the garden of eden, it's no longer priority.
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- So now your desire has now risen above god's truth, and your
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- Desires are now your priority.
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- God's truth is no longer the priority of humanity.
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- Man's desires, humanity's desires have now risen above
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- God's truth, and your desires have now become your idol.
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- So the deceitfulness of a heart that's no longer ruled by god.
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- Number three, pride and rebellion against god.
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- Listen to me carefully.
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- Pride plays a significant role in self-deception.
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- Wherever you see self-deception, it is nourished by pride.
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- In proverbs 16:18.
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- Proverbs 16:18.
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- He says, "pride goeth before destruction.
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- Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before
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- A fall."
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- So, when people elevate their understanding above god's
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- Wisdom, when people elevate their understanding above the
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- Wisdom of god, they deceive themselves into thinking that
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- They don't need god's guidance because their understanding they
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- Have been deceived into thinking is better than god's guidance.
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- So, you've elevated your understanding above
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- God's wisdom.
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- You're the creation of the creator have now elevated your
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- Understanding above god's wisdom.
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- "this is what i understand because i have a degree.
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- This is what i understand because of what i did or went
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- Through and so forth."
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- God has a million ways of delivering you out of debt in
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- One day.
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- You don't need a million, you just need one.
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- But you submitted yourself to what you understand about it.
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- Talking about the seed, thinking what--thinking that your
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- Understanding is greater than god's wisdom?
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- Wow, don't let the crowds fool you.
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- Don't let the money fool you.
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- Your understanding is never gonna be greater than
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- God's wisdom.
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- And yet pride is the foundation of that.
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- Pride and rebellion against god.
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- And it plays that role in self-deception.
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- And you've elevated, you've literally elevated what you have
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- Come to understand above god's wisdom.
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- You're deceiving yourself into thinking that you don't need
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- God's guidance.
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- And you know what happens when you walk in the deception of
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- Thinking you don't need god's guidance?
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- You're gonna need god's guidance.
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- You better believe it.
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- You're gonna need god's guidance.
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- And i can tell you over these next four to six years, you're
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- Gonna need god's guidance.
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- I say you gonna need god's guidance.
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- You may have never called on jesus in your life, but you're
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- Gonna be calling on jesus.
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- You're gonna thank your grandmama for at least you know
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- His name, praise the lord.
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- Number four, now this is interesting,
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- Spiritual blindness.
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- The origin of self-deception, spiritual blindness.
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- Look at 2 corinthians 4:4 in the king james.
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- I don't know if y'all have the mirror, but i got it right here.
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- 2 corinthians chapter 4, and verse 4.
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- Put it up in the king james where you are.
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- And here's what he said.
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- He said, "in whom the god of this world," small g, "the god
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- Of this world," satan is the god of this world, "whom the god of
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- This world hath," past tense, "blinded the minds of them which
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- Believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ,
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- Who is the image of god, should shine unto them."
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- So, he says--satan says, "people who don't believe, i'm gonna
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- Blind their mind, so they won't believe.
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- People who don't believe already, i'm gonna blind their
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- Minds so they don't hear the gospel, so the light won't
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- Come in."
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- Glory be to god.
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- Spiritual blindness caused by sin and the influence of
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- The enemy.
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- It keeps people from recognizing the truth about themselves
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- And god.
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- Spiritual blindness is what causes people from recognizing
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- The truth about yourself.
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- You don't know the truth about you.
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- And even some who are saved have yet to know the truth about
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- Yourself and the truth about your god.
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- Let's examine this in the mirror translation just for a moment.
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- He says in verse 4, "the survival and the
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- Self-improvement program of the religious systems of this world,
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- They veil the minds of the unbelievers," like a veil,
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- It blinds the minds of the unbelievers.
- 00:20:05.617 --> 00:20:08.353
- Now, notice what it says, "the survival and the
- 00:20:08.353 --> 00:20:10.422
- Self-improvement programs of religious systems of this world,
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- They veil your minds of the unbeliever; exploiting their
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- Ignorance about their true origin and their redeemed
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- Innocence."
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- See, the church has been taught so much sin that you're so sin
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- Conscious, and you're ignorant of the fact that you--god wants
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- You to be innocent conscious.
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- God has declared you innocent of every sin you ever committed.
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- But sin consciousness, you keep hearing it, you keep hearing it.
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- You ain't nothing but a sinner.
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- You ain't--
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- And god is saying, "no, no, no, no, no.
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- I declared you innocent.
- 00:20:54.433 --> 00:20:55.801
- We had a hearing one day in heaven and i declared you
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- Innocent from every sin you've ever committed," but the world's
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- Trying to keep you blind to that.
- 00:21:02.274 --> 00:21:05.210
- "the veil of unbelief obstructs a person's view and keeps them
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- From seeing what the light of the gospel so clearly reveals."
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- So, there is a veil that have been put over the minds so you
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- Can't see the light of the gospel.
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- Then he says, "the glory of god is the image and the likeness of
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- Our maker redeemed in human form; this is what the gospel of
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- Christ is all about."
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- Oh my goodness.
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- The blueprint of the glory of god is what adam lost on
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- Mankind's behalf.
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- The lie you believe about yourself will neutralize you.
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- The lie you believe about yourself will neutralize you
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- Just like in the book of numbers when israel was
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- In the wilderness.
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- And they were clearly told that there's giants in the land and
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- They're bigger than we are and better than we are.
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- And they believed it.
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- And as a result of them believing that lie over who they
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- Were made to be, it said that the unbelief neutralized israel
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- In the wilderness.
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- It was a lie that they believed about themselves.
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- It was a lie that they believed about themselves.
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- It is the lie that they believed about themselves.
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- It is the lie that they believed about themselves.
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- It is the lie that we believe about ourselves.
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- It is the lie that we believe about ourselves.
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- It is the lie that we believe about ourselves.
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- My goodness.
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- And the lie they believe was, "we are grasshoppers and the
- 00:23:06.431 --> 00:23:09.634
- Enemy is a giant beyond any proportion."
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- They failed to possess the promise due to their unbelief.
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- The blueprint, the glory of god.
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- That's what adam lost.
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- It's the lie we keep believing about you.
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- You keep believing the lie that you got to work hard to
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- Stay saved.
- 00:23:31.690 --> 00:23:36.061
- You don't believe that what jesus did is eternal.
- 00:23:36.061 --> 00:23:44.402
- And so, they lied to you and said, "if you misbehaved
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- Yesterday, you ain't saved no more."
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- You're the righteousness of god.
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- You're not righteous because of your behavior.
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- You're righteous because of jesus.
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- Male announcer: self-deception leads us to believe lies,
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- Jesus, come into my heart, save me.
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- And today by faith, i receive you and declare that i am saved
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- In jesus's name, amen."
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- Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you
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