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Creflo Dollar - Overcoming Inequality

January 27, 2025 | S25:E26

Creflo Dollar - Overcoming Inequality
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Overcoming Inequality | January 27, 2025
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  • Coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Taffi dollar: onesimus was so vital because paul had a
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  • Revelation of the new birth.
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  • He had a revelation of the dignity that all of creation
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  • Should experience.
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  • It's not based on your color that you deserve respect and
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  • Dignity and value and honor.
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  • Because you are humankind,
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  • Because you are part of mankind, because you're a part of one
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  • Race, the human race, you have dignity.
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  • Creflo dollar: hopefully you're gonna choose to let heaven
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  • Determine your thinking, because whatever choice you make, then
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  • That's gonna be your mentality for today.
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  • Can you say that he's a waymaker?
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  • Yes, can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Yes.
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪♪
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  • Taffi: we understand that as a result of jesus coming, he came
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  • So that we can understand how we are no longer to operate as
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  • Those who are outside others, those who have no rights, have
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  • No privileges, in a place of inequality.
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  • And so, we have to reconcile the word of god and understand here
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  • In verse 13 that all things are to become new as a result of
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  • Jesus coming and we all have this favor on our lives that we
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  • Can go before god, we can stand before god, we are equal
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  • Before god.
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  • We are no longer under the curse.
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  • We're no longer to operate in the spirit of thinking low of
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  • Ourselves, so low that we don't think we are able to access the
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  • Promises that god has made for us, that we are outside of the
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  • Body of christ.
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  • No, because of jesus coming we are one and we are one body and
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  • We are to operate in harmony with him.
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  • So, our minds have to be renewed.
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  • Our minds have to undergo the transition and the
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  • Transformation of the word of god.
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  • Not thinking low in this place of inferiority, inadequacy,
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  • Thinking small, falling short, unimportant, insignificant, but
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  • Understanding that jesus elevated our status.
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  • Jesus came so that we could be a part of his family and we could
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  • Have the opportunity to experience diversity.
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  • We can experience strength, differences, all these things,
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  • Because he says this is the result of the new and the
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  • Harmony that has come, and he says, "all things are from god,"
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  • And he has reconciled us and brought us together.
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  • And so, in verse 19, "to the wit that god was in christ,
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  • Reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their
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  • Trespasses unto them, and have committed unto us the word
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  • Of reconciliation."
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  • That word "reconciliation" in the amplified says of
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  • Restoration to favor.
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  • So, we've been restored to the favor of god.
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  • Now, we are face to face with god that we can have a personal,
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  • Close relationship with him face to face.
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  • We don't have to go through another person, we don't have to
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  • Go through a man to have a personal relationship with god,
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  • We don't have to find male as a female to have a relationship
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  • With god.
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  • Now as women of god, we can go straight to god.
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  • Now as gentiles, we don't have to find a jew to go to god.
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  • No, we can go straight to god.
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  • And so, these are the things that are a result of the favor
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  • That has come on our lives.
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  • And he says in verse 20, "now then we are ambassadors for
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  • Christ, as though god did beseech you by us:
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  • We pray you in christ's stead, be ye reconciled," be reconciled
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  • Unto god.
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  • And so, when we understand that we are all one body and that it
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  • Is through one blood, one man, that we can all begin to live at
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  • A place of oneness, that we will operate and we will implement
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  • This reconciliation and we will begin to express the love that
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  • God wants us to have.
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  • And so, he says in verse 24, "he hath made him to be sin for us,"
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  • Talking about jesus, "who knew no sin, that we might be made
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  • The righteousness of god in him."
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  • The amplified says, "for our sake he made christ [virtually]
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  • To be sin who knew to be no sin, that in and through him we might
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  • Become [endued with and viewed as being in and examples of] the
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  • Righteousness of god [what we ought to be, approved and
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  • Acceptable and in right relationship with him, by
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  • His goodness]."
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  • And so, it is the new birth, it is the born-again experience
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  • That is designed to get rid of the old, to get rid of the past,
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  • To get rid of the law, to get rid of domination, one gender
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  • Dominating another, men dominating women, women
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  • Dominating men, white dominating black, blacks dominating--so,
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  • It's the law that opens the door to all these things that are of
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  • The past.
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  • And so, because jesus came, he reconciled and he says that sin
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  • No longer is to have dominion over us because we are no longer
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  • To operate under the law, but we are to operate under grace
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  • Because we have christ living on the inside of us.
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  • And you've gotta understand that, you know, he talks
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  • About it.
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  • I got so many scriptures that we can turn to.
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  • Over in matthew chapter 28 he talked about, you know, how they
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  • Were dominating one another and he says it shall not be so, you
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  • Should not dominate one another, but you should understand that
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  • It's vital for us to serve one another and that we are equal to
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  • Serve, we're equal to lead, we're equal to operate in our
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  • Gifts, we're equal to receive the love of god, and that is a
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  • Result of the new creation, the new specie of being, where old
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  • Things are passed away, treating people based on their status,
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  • Their distinction, based on the external things.
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  • He says that's old.
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  • As a result of jesus coming, we treat people with dignity, we
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  • Treat them with respect, and we see them as god sees them, as a
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  • Representation as an image of god in the earth.
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  • And so, we're restoring back to the original intent of god in
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  • The beginning where he had placed adam and eve in a
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  • Position where they were given authority, not to dominate one
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  • Another or have authority over each other, but it was so that
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  • They would have authority in the earth and over things, over
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  • Creeping things, every creeping thing.
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  • And so, that domination that they were to use was not to
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  • Control and manipulate one another, but it was so they
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  • Could subdue and bring things into subjection and take care of
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  • The garden of eden and the things that they were charged
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  • To do.
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  • So, it's vital that we understand these things so that
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  • We can be the ambassadors in the earth that christ came and died
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  • For us to be.
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  • Look over at 1 corinthians chapter 12, 1 corinthians
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  • Chapter 12, let's look at verse 12 here.
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  • I'm gonna read some of this from the message translation.
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  • I hope you're getting this.
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  • Like i said, i got so many scriptures, we can look at so
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  • Many different things, so many things to reference, but first
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  • And foremost, we've got to look within and make sure that we are
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  • Not thinking more highly or thinking less than what we
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  • Should, and that we're thinking in line with the word of god.
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  • And so, the body of christ is to operate as one.
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  • The body of christ is to show the world and lead the world of
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  • What unity and even integration and all these things are to
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  • Look like.
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  • Let me read this to you.
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  • Number one, we all matter.
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  • Absolutely no one has greater value than anyone else,
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  • Regardless of their background, their outward appearance, their
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  • Job, their strength, whatever the case may be.
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  • We all matter.
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  • We all have a part to play.
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  • This is what we're gonna look at in 1 corinthians chapter 12 in
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  • Just a moment.
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  • We have a right responsibility.
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  • Humankind can only function properly if we all
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  • Work together.
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  • No one should reject anyone else.
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  • We are all part of god's family, part of his plan, and we'll look
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  • At how the body is designed to operate in 1 corinthians
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  • Chapter 12.
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  • We need one another.
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  • We cannot afford to act in isolation.
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  • And so, these are things that i want you to make note of, that
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  • We all matter, and if we didn't matter, then jesus wouldn't
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  • Have died.
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  • It would have been in vain for him to give up his blood.
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  • And so, the message here is not so much about the physical body
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  • Of the human anatomy, but the spiritual body of
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  • Humankind, humankind.
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  • Look at what he says here.
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  • "you can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by
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  • Looking no further than your own body."
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  • He's talking about the human body.
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  • "your body has many parts-- limbs, organs, cells--but no
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  • Matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body."
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  • Still one body.
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  • Over in acts he talks about how we are one blood of all nations,
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  • One ethnos, one race.
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  • Some say, you know, there's a white race, there's a black
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  • Race, there's, you know, the hispanic race, but you
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  • Know what?
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  • In all actuality, there's one race, it's the human race, and
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  • We are all to be a part and regarded as the human race, but
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  • The enemy comes in and creates division and all these things
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  • That are taking place in our world today, but we must
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  • Understand that the body has many parts, but no matter how
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  • Many parts you can name, you're still one body.
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  • You know, my foot is not a different race from my arm and
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  • My arm race, my foot race, my knee race, my head race.
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  • No, it's one body, it's exactly the same with christ.
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  • "by the means of his one spirit, we all said goodbye to our
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  • Partial and piecemeal lives.
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  • We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we
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  • Entered into a large and integrated life in which he has
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  • The final say in everything.
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  • (this is what we proclaimed in word and action when we
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  • Were baptized.)
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  • Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and
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  • Sustained at one fountain--his spirit--where we all come
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  • To drink.
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  • The old labels we once used to identify ourselves--labels like
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  • Jew or greek, slave or free-- are no longer useful.
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  • We need something larger, more comprehensive."
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  • The apostle paul says here, look at what he writes in verse 14,
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  • "i want you to think about how all this makes you more
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  • Significant, not less.
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  • A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge."
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  • So, he talks about here all the parts of the body are
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  • Significant, they're significant.
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  • He says, "it's all the different but similar parts arranged and
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  • Functioning together."
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  • Different but similar, different is good, similar in operation,
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  • One overall goal, arranged and functioning together.
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  • "if a foot said, 'i'm not elegant like the hand,
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  • Embellished with rings; i guess i don't belong to this body,'
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  • Would that make it so?"
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  • Sounds silly, doesn't it?
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  • "if the ear said, 'i'm not beautiful like the eye,
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  • Transparent and expressive; i don't deserve a place on the
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  • Head,' would you want to remove it from the body?
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  • If the body was all eye, how could it hear?
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  • If all ear, how could it smell?
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  • All it is, we see that god has carefully placed each part of
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  • The body right where he wanted it."
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  • And so, we have to understand that though they are different
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  • Functions, different perspectives, you know, the
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  • Perspective of the elbow is going to be different from the
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  • Perspective of the foot.
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  • They're different but similar, because they're connected to the
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  • One body.
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  • Their functioning, their purpose, their assignment, the
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  • Reason why they're there is to overall comprehensively
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  • Accomplish what the body is designed to do.
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  • And so, he says in verse 19, "but i also want you to think
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  • About how this keeps your significance from getting blown
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  • Up into self-importance."
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  • See, that's the thing, that we've gotten over into allowing
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  • Our differences to be blown up into self-importance.
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  • So, now you have some who are considered thinking more highly
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  • Than what they should think, thinking that they're more
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  • Important than the other parts, that they can treat those who
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  • Are different in the body in a lesser way with no regard, and
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  • So he says that is wrong and that opens the door to sin,
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  • Opens the door to prejudice, prejudging, and things
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  • Like that.
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  • So, he says, "for no matter how significant you are, it is only
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  • Because of what you are a part of."
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  • And so, he's elevating the fact that we must understand that our
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  • Significance is based on us being a part and connected to
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  • One another.
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  • Human race, humankind, is not based on the color of our skin,
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  • That we can think that we are more important, or because of a
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  • Certain gender or a certain class, that these are not
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  • Reasons and the basis for how we determine one's significance.
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  • He says, "for no matter how significant you are, it is only
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  • Because of what you are a part of.
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  • An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but
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  • A monster.
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  • What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size
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  • And in its proper place.
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  • No part is important on its own."
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  • You know, the spleen can't just function on its own.
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  • The pancreas can't function on its own, it has to align itself
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  • With all the other parts of the body.
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  • It fits within the body.
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  • It's not important on its own.
  • 00:18:04.563 --> 00:18:09.668
  • "can you imagine the eye telling the hand, 'get lost; i don't
  • 00:18:09.668 --> 00:18:12.871
  • Need you?'
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  • Or the head telling the foot, 'you're fired; your job has been
  • 00:18:14.206 --> 00:18:18.377
  • Phased out?'
  • 00:18:18.377 --> 00:18:19.745
  • As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way--the
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  • "lower" the part, the more basic, and therefore," what does
  • 00:18:23.248 --> 00:18:26.919
  • He say?
  • 00:18:26.919 --> 00:18:28.287
  • Necessary, jesus came and he talked to folks that they
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  • Thought he was crazy because he was willing to have
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  • Conversations with people who they thought did not matter.
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  • Jesus, why are you talking with this samaritan?
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  • Why are you healing this blind man?
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  • Why are you, you know, going out of your way to samaritans?
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  • Why are you doing all these things?
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  • Because jesus, in god's plan, they matter.
  • 00:18:56.381 --> 00:19:03.222
  • They were a part, and it was necessary for him to carry out
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  • What god called him to do.
  • 00:19:09.461 --> 00:19:11.830
  • And so, he says, "the more basic, therefore necessary.
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  • You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without
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  • A stomach.
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  • When it's part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes
  • 00:19:20.739 --> 00:19:26.945
  • No difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher
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  • Or lower.
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  • You give dignity."
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  • That's the key word, dignity.
  • 00:19:39.358 --> 00:19:42.194
  • Jesus came and gave dignity to everyone, gave dignity to the
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  • Woman, he gave dignity--the apostle paul, we're gonna look
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  • At this.
  • 00:19:50.869 --> 00:19:52.237
  • In fact, there was a gentleman who was called onesimus, and
  • 00:19:52.237 --> 00:19:58.110
  • Onesimus was a slave, and we can look at this in the book of
  • 00:19:58.110 --> 00:20:06.852
  • Philemon, try to find it now.
  • 00:20:06.852 --> 00:20:09.554
  • It's in between titus and hebrews, but onesimus was so
  • 00:20:09.554 --> 00:20:17.796
  • Vital because paul had a revelation of the new birth.
  • 00:20:17.796 --> 00:20:24.469
  • He had a revelation of the dignity that all of creation
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  • Should experience.
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  • It's not based on your color that you deserve respect and
  • 00:20:33.412 --> 00:20:38.250
  • Dignity and value and honor, because you are humankind,
  • 00:20:38.250 --> 00:20:43.655
  • Because you are part of mankind, because you are a part of one
  • 00:20:43.655 --> 00:20:47.125
  • Race, the human race, you have dignity.
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  • Look at philemon, turn over there, right before hebrews.
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  • Chapter 1, now,
  • 00:21:04.076 --> 00:21:10.649
  • Onesimus was a person who was a letter carrier.
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  • You know, those who carried letters on the behalf were those
  • 00:21:14.753 --> 00:21:20.459
  • Who were trusted and given a certain level of status, because
  • 00:21:20.459 --> 00:21:28.100
  • You were in the position to deliver a message and you were
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  • One who could be regarded.
  • 00:21:35.140 --> 00:21:38.610
  • And though onesimus was philemon's slave, his name
  • 00:21:38.610 --> 00:21:48.186
  • Meant useful.
  • 00:21:48.186 --> 00:21:50.856
  • And so, paul tells philemon to receive onesimus here in verse
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  • 1, he says, "paul, a prisoner of jesus christ, and timothy our
  • 00:21:58.163 --> 00:22:02.434
  • Brother, unto philemon our dearly beloved,
  • 00:22:02.434 --> 00:22:05.504
  • And fellowlabourer."
  • 00:22:05.504 --> 00:22:09.574
  • Skip down to verse 8, "wherefore, though it might be
  • 00:22:09.574 --> 00:22:14.212
  • Much bold in christ to enjoin you that which is convenient,
  • 00:22:14.212 --> 00:22:22.154
  • Yet for love's sake, i rather beseech thee, being such a one
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  • As paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of jesus christ."
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  • Look at what he says in verse 10 of philemon, or philemon,
  • 00:22:34.566 --> 00:22:39.438
  • However you wanna pronounce it, philemon, whatever, "i beseech
  • 00:22:39.438 --> 00:22:44.409
  • Thee for my son."
  • 00:22:44.409 --> 00:22:49.481
  • He didn't say for my slave, for
  • 00:22:49.481 --> 00:22:53.518
  • My property, paul dignified
  • 00:22:53.518 --> 00:23:01.259
  • Onesimus by calling him his son, because paul had a revelation of
  • 00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:10.469
  • The family of god, the family that was to be one, that was to
  • 00:23:10.469 --> 00:23:16.741
  • Operate not regarding based on the external things from a human
  • 00:23:16.741 --> 00:23:23.682
  • Point of view, not regarding based on status of the old,
  • 00:23:23.682 --> 00:23:30.322
  • Being a slave.
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  • He says, no, he is my son.
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