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

August 14, 2025 | S25 E197 | 28:51

Creflo Dollar - The Origin of Self-Deception (Part 2)
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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. you ain't nothing but a sinner.
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  • You ain't--and god is saying, "no, no, no, no, no.
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  • I declared you innocent.
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  • We had a hearing one day in heaven, and i declared you
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  • Innocent from every sin you've ever committed."
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  • Creflo: 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,
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  • They have been deceived into thinking, is better than
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  • 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, 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 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 deceived, thinking that your understanding is
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  • Greater than god's wisdom.
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  • Ha, 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, pride and rebellion
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  • Against god, 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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  • 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, i say you're 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.
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  • In the king james, i don't know if y'all have the mirror, but i
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  • Got it right here, 2 corinthians chapter 4, in verse 4, put it up
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  • In the king james where you are.
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  • And here's what he said, he said, "in whom the god of this
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  • World," small g, "the god of this world," satan is the god
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  • Of this world, "whom the god of this world hath," past tense,
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  • "blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of
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  • The glorious gospel of christ, who is the image of god, should
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  • 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.
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  • Like a veil, it blinds the minds of the unbelievers."
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  • Now, notice what it says, the survival and the
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  • 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
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  • Redeemed 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 god wants you
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  • 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. you ain't nothing but a sinner.
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  • You ain't--and god is saying, "no, no, no, no, no.
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  • I declared you innocent.
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  • We had a hearing one day in heaven, and i declared you
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  • Innocent from every sin you've ever committed."
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  • But the world's trying to keep you blind to that.
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  • 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.
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  • This is what the gospel of 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 in
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  • 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, and they
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  • 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, my goodness.
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  • And the lie they believe was, "we are grasshoppers, and the
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  • 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, 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.
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  • You don't believe that what jesus did is eternal.
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  • 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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  • And, if jesus is still seated at the right hand of god the father
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  • Almighty, you're still righteous.
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  • But you keep believing a lie they tell you about yourself.
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  • "you're not redeemed."
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  • You still believe in that lie?
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  • "you're going to hell because you made too many mistakes."
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  • Who hasn't?
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  • You still believing a lie about yourself?
  • 00:10:30.976 --> 00:10:34.413
  • Because religion has taught you to sweat like a sinner, to try
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  • To be who jesus told you you are.
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  • And it seems strange because, in your mind, you figure, "well, if
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  • My behavior doesn't change my identity, then i got a free card
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  • To go behave."
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  • You're missing out on one thing, and here's the thing.
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  • If you have jesus in you and you know him and you believe
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  • The truth he told you about you, you're not gonna wanna keep
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  • Doing that.
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  • See, the bible says that he is working in you to give you a
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  • Desire to do what pleases god.
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  • See, god's working in you right now.
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  • You assume that, "oh, if i just believe this stuff, i'm just
  • 00:11:13.586 --> 00:11:17.223
  • Gonna keep sinning and keep sinning and keep sinning."
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  • You've never thought that the holy ghost in you is going to
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  • Snatch the desire out of you, and you ain't gonna want to do
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  • What you've been doing.
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  • There'll come a time you'll pick up some weed, and you used to
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  • Enjoy it, and now you're smoking it, and you ain't enjoying it
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  • No more.
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  • You're choking on it, it ain't getting you high no more, and
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  • Now you realize, "i just don't even like this nasty stuff
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  • No more.
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  • Got my house smelling like a skunk, got my car smelling like
  • 00:11:41.213 --> 00:11:43.415
  • A skunk.
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  • I'm tired of this."
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  • But, when you don't really believe, but you're using it as
  • 00:11:46.118 --> 00:11:47.586
  • An excuse, you still don't believe the truth
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  • About yourself.
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  • You still don't believe it, but you're articulating it in front
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  • Of other people because you're in people bondage, and you want
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  • Them to believe that you believe it.
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  • But, when you really believe it deep down in your heart, when
  • 00:12:02.568 --> 00:12:05.938
  • God has entered deep down in your heart, and the change has
  • 00:12:05.938 --> 00:12:08.941
  • Come from the inside, and you woke up one morning and you're
  • 00:12:08.941 --> 00:12:11.777
  • Like, "i don't wanna do this no more.
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  • I don't wanna--i don't know why i don't wanna do it."
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  • I'll tell you why, because the holy ghost is living on the
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  • Inside of you and making the difference in your life.
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  • Quit lying to yourself.
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  • You do what you do because you want to do it.
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  • The devil didn't make you sin, like flip wilson used to say--
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  • Some of you don't even know who flip wilson is, but--you,
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  • Listen, you're deceiving yourself if you're thinking,
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  • "i'm sinning because the devil made me do it."
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  • First of all, the devil can't make a free moral reflection of
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  • God do anything 'cause that's who you are.
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  • You are a free moral reflection of god.
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  • He can't make you do nothing.
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  • He can make a suggestion.
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  • But you do what you want to do.
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  • You get high cause you wanna get high.
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  • You drink liquor because you want to drink liquor.
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  • You sleep around because you want to sleep around.
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  • You was praising the lord at church, but, as soon as you got
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  • Outside, you're like, "oh, look at that girl.
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  • Got dog.
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  • Oh, look at that dude.
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  • Oh, boy."
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  • Amazing, go to church, do all the stuff we do, and ain't no
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  • God in you changing you.
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  • It's like, have you ever really known him?
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  • And now we're preaching grace, and you look at it like a
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  • License to sin.
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  • Grace is not a license to sin, it's your way out, if you've
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  • Truly let him in.
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  • So please don't misunderstand me.
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  • Please don't think i'm trying to tell everybody, "go, grace will
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  • Let you just go, go do all of the stuff you want to do."
  • 00:14:02.321 --> 00:14:05.925
  • This is all about you transforming into "god's
  • 00:14:05.925 --> 00:14:10.095
  • Interests are greater than your interest."
  • 00:14:10.095 --> 00:14:14.733
  • But you are deceiving and thinking, "all my interests
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  • Should be greater than god's," why?
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  • "i don't really believe there is a god.
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  • I don't really believe there's a god.
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  • I mean, come on, be real."
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  • Oh, you, i guess you'll never know until you know.
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  • But please let me give you this warning.
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  • If you think that even your pride is bigger than god, then i
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  • Guess he's just gonna have to show you who he is.
  • 00:14:41.894 --> 00:14:44.496
  • And he is able--oh, i felt that little baptist thing right
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  • There--he's able to show you who he is.
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  • It was never my plan to be no christian, and it was never my
  • 00:15:01.046 --> 00:15:07.019
  • Plan to be no preacher, never my plan to be no preacher with a
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  • Last name like dollar.
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  • Are you kidding me? even i could see that.
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  • I knew where that was gonna come from.
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  • Crep-low dollar, cryp-yo dollar, pass-the dollar, mm, no way.
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  • I found a little book in high school where you wrote down all
  • 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.576
  • The things you're gonna do, and preacher and christian were no
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  • Part of not one of them paragraphs.
  • 00:15:33.612 --> 00:15:36.248
  • But god--i dare you to say it-- but god.
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  • And the same thing will happen to you.
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  • You're gonna quit playing church after a while once you realize
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  • You are the church.
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  • I am not deceived into thinking that this building is church.
  • 00:15:57.469 --> 00:16:00.672
  • I am the church.
  • 00:16:00.672 --> 00:16:02.007
  • You are the church.
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  • He dwells in earthen temples, glory to god.
  • 00:16:03.509 --> 00:16:07.079
  • He's not dwelling in this building made of a brick.
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  • He's dwelling in you, praise god.
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  • You brought him here with you this morning.
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  • He come--he going back home with you.
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  • He gonna ride in the car with you, hallelujah.
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  • The day you are no longer deceived about who you are.
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  • I am a part of the body of christ, and i sic the holy ghost
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  • On you.
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  • Sic 'em, holy ghost.
  • 00:16:38.644 --> 00:16:40.779
  • Some of them sitting here looking at me like i got a
  • 00:16:40.779 --> 00:16:42.514
  • Lost mind.
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  • Sic 'em, holy ghost.
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  • Stand up in them, lord.
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  • Hallelujah, show them who you are, god, ha.
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  • Hey, convince them where they thought they were never gonna be
  • 00:16:49.922 --> 00:16:52.558
  • Convinced, ha.
  • 00:16:52.558 --> 00:16:53.892
  • Heal them when they thought you weren't gonna heal them.
  • 00:16:53.892 --> 00:16:56.295
  • Open a door that they thought would never be available
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  • To them.
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  • All i'm telling you is not grace is a license for you to sin, but
  • 00:17:00.232 --> 00:17:04.203
  • Grace is going to override your sin because he's working on you
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  • Not to sin, and your sin will never be greater than him.
  • 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:13.178
  • So god can be good to you, even when you're bad so he can turn
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  • You around to be good.
  • 00:17:23.589 --> 00:17:27.192
  • But bad ain't strong enough to stop good.
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  • Not to keep doing crazy, but to know that god is greater than
  • 00:17:35.300 --> 00:17:39.605
  • You're crazy, amen.
  • 00:17:39.605 --> 00:17:45.744
  • You know what deception is?
  • 00:17:45.744 --> 00:17:48.614
  • It's rejecting the truth offered to you.
  • 00:17:48.614 --> 00:17:52.885
  • It's more than not knowing the truth.
  • 00:17:56.722 --> 00:18:00.626
  • How many times has it been offered to you?
  • 00:18:00.626 --> 00:18:02.928
  • And, to preserve your action and your life and how you do stuff,
  • 00:18:06.064 --> 00:18:11.603
  • You reject the truth offered to you.
  • 00:18:11.603 --> 00:18:15.140
  • Someone said, "well, well, preacher, what you gonna do?"
  • 00:18:19.311 --> 00:18:21.313
  • Well, my job is to keep offering it.
  • 00:18:21.313 --> 00:18:24.116
  • I ain't gonna never stop offering it.
  • 00:18:24.116 --> 00:18:25.517
  • You come to church 30 years from now, i'll still be here, and
  • 00:18:29.188 --> 00:18:32.291
  • You're like, "dang, he's still here?"
  • 00:18:32.291 --> 00:18:34.226
  • I had a guy come to me one time, they said, "pastor dollar, man,
  • 00:18:37.996 --> 00:18:40.732
  • I thought you were dead."
  • 00:18:40.732 --> 00:18:43.202
  • I said, "no, that's what they say, but i'm still alive.
  • 00:18:43.202 --> 00:18:47.105
  • Can i offer you something?"
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  • I don't want to stand before god and try to gaslight him like we
  • 00:18:54.980 --> 00:19:02.054
  • Gaslight one another.
  • 00:19:02.054 --> 00:19:04.356
  • I don't claim to know what that means, i'm just trying to use it
  • 00:19:04.356 --> 00:19:06.458
  • For--they tried to explain it to me, i still don't quite know'
  • 00:19:06.458 --> 00:19:10.562
  • What it means, not yet.
  • 00:19:10.562 --> 00:19:16.335
  • It's deception, that what it is?
  • 00:19:20.005 --> 00:19:24.743
  • I guess so, you know.
  • 00:19:24.743 --> 00:19:27.779
  • All right, let me use these few minutes i got left to tie
  • 00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:31.149
  • This up.
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  • Number five, ignoring god's word.
  • 00:19:34.987 --> 00:19:41.693
  • James chapter 1, 22 and 24, ignoring god's word.
  • 00:19:41.693 --> 00:19:46.465
  • When people ignore the word of god, they open the door
  • 00:19:46.465 --> 00:19:49.468
  • To self-deception.
  • 00:19:49.468 --> 00:19:52.070
  • When people ignore the word of god, they open the door
  • 00:19:52.070 --> 00:19:55.874
  • To self-deception.
  • 00:19:55.874 --> 00:19:58.510
  • Don't ignore the teaching of the gospel of grace.
  • 00:19:58.510 --> 00:20:01.213
  • Don't ignore the teaching of the gospel of grace.
  • 00:20:02.547 --> 00:20:05.784
  • James 1:22-24 says, "but be doers of the word, not hearers
  • 00:20:05.784 --> 00:20:10.956
  • Only, deceiving your own selves."
  • 00:20:10.956 --> 00:20:15.994
  • Somehow you're deceiving yourself to think, "well, if i
  • 00:20:15.994 --> 00:20:18.864
  • Go to church on easter, you know, hear the word, i'll be
  • 00:20:18.864 --> 00:20:22.601
  • All right."
  • 00:20:22.601 --> 00:20:23.935
  • No, no, no, no, you're deceiving yourself.
  • 00:20:23.935 --> 00:20:25.304
  • "don't be a hearer of the word, be a doer of the word," he says.
  • 00:20:25.304 --> 00:20:27.306
  • "for if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he's like
  • 00:20:27.306 --> 00:20:30.008
  • A man beholding his natural face in a glass."
  • 00:20:30.008 --> 00:20:34.646
  • Well, what happens?
  • 00:20:34.646 --> 00:20:35.981
  • "for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
  • 00:20:35.981 --> 00:20:39.851
  • Forgetteth what manner of man he was."
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  • Wow, don't ignore the word.
  • 00:20:44.923 --> 00:20:48.960
  • You don't realize how much room you give the enemy for your
  • 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.364
  • Destruction when you avoid contact with the presence of god
  • 00:20:52.364 --> 00:20:57.803
  • And the presence of his word.
  • 00:20:57.803 --> 00:21:00.572
  • Stuff happens to you when you stay away from the word.
  • 00:21:00.572 --> 00:21:06.178
  • Doors that were shutting, things that were prohibited show up
  • 00:21:06.178 --> 00:21:11.650
  • Because you hadn't had any contact with god.
  • 00:21:11.650 --> 00:21:14.486
  • You start thinking differently.
  • 00:21:14.486 --> 00:21:16.655
  • Self-deception comes in quickly with people who don't have any
  • 00:21:16.655 --> 00:21:21.193
  • Contact with god's word because they think it's just a book.
  • 00:21:21.193 --> 00:21:26.465
  • "that old bible ain't all that."
  • 00:21:26.465 --> 00:21:30.335
  • It's god's presence embodied in his words.
  • 00:21:30.335 --> 00:21:37.142
  • And what happens?
  • 00:21:37.142 --> 00:21:40.512
  • You know the greatest grief that jesus had on the cross?
  • 00:21:40.512 --> 00:21:44.149
  • Was when he was separated temporarily from his father.
  • 00:21:44.149 --> 00:21:46.852
  • You gotta understand how powerful it is.
  • 00:21:49.855 --> 00:21:51.923
  • If the presence of the lord were to leave the earth, it wouldn't
  • 00:21:51.923 --> 00:21:54.826
  • Be like it is right now.
  • 00:21:54.826 --> 00:21:56.595
  • You're talking about hell on earth, it's without god.
  • 00:22:00.699 --> 00:22:06.705
  • Don't ignore god's word.
  • 00:22:06.705 --> 00:22:09.975
  • So, in closing, here's the grace perspective of all that i said
  • 00:22:09.975 --> 00:22:14.179
  • Here today, grace-based perspective on "the origin
  • 00:22:14.179 --> 00:22:19.050
  • Of self-deception."
  • 00:22:19.050 --> 00:22:20.952
  • So, from a grace-based lens, self-deception doesn't surprise
  • 00:22:20.952 --> 00:22:24.923
  • Or disqualify us.
  • 00:22:24.923 --> 00:22:27.859
  • Instead, it highlights our need for jesus who came to restore us
  • 00:22:27.859 --> 00:22:33.031
  • To truth.
  • 00:22:33.031 --> 00:22:34.566
  • So please hear that now.
  • 00:22:34.566 --> 00:22:36.435
  • Self-deception doesn't surprise or disqualify us.
  • 00:22:36.435 --> 00:22:41.706
  • It highlights our need for jesus, who came to restore us
  • 00:22:41.706 --> 00:22:46.645
  • To truth.
  • 00:22:46.645 --> 00:22:48.013
  • Because john 4:6 says, jesus says, "i am the way, i am the
  • 00:22:48.013 --> 00:22:52.784
  • Truth, i am the life."
  • 00:22:52.784 --> 00:22:55.253
  • And through jesus we can confront and overcome the
  • 00:22:55.253 --> 00:22:58.423
  • Origins of self-deception, and we do it with love, and we do it
  • 00:22:58.423 --> 00:23:03.094
  • With hope.
  • 00:23:03.094 --> 00:23:05.464
  • So, regardless of how much self-deception has been in your
  • 00:23:05.464 --> 00:23:09.468
  • Life, it just only says, "i need jesus.
  • 00:23:09.468 --> 00:23:13.705
  • I need jesus. i need jesus."
  • 00:23:13.705 --> 00:23:16.675
  • And, since we all, throughout this journey, bump into
  • 00:23:16.675 --> 00:23:21.713
  • Self-deception, i need jesus.
  • 00:23:21.713 --> 00:23:24.115
  • And the prayer we pray is, "lord, help me not to
  • 00:23:24.115 --> 00:23:27.752
  • Deceive myself."
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  • Self-deception," creflo dollar shows how to overcome the trap
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  • You know, "i am a christian.
  • 00:24:02.854 --> 00:24:04.923
  • I am a son of god, a child of god, belong to god."
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
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  • Now, "heavenly father, come into my heart, save me.
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  • I receive you now by faith, and i declare, in jesus's name, that
  • 00:26:36.941 --> 00:26:45.016
  • I am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen."
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