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Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence

July 8, 2025 | S25 E165 | 28:50

Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence | July 8, 2025
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  • Coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: but the question still begs this thing here
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  • About, has the desire changed?
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  • Because if the desire hadn't changed, the action is just
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  • On pause.
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  • But when the desires have changed and you don't want it no
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  • Mo', you ain't got to worry about looking at porn no mo',
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  • Because you ain't got no mo' desire for porn no mo'.
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  • Male announcer: as a christian, what happens after you sin?
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  • Do you lose your righteousness?
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  • God's gift of righteousness gives us peace with him,
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  • Not through our works
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  • ♪ this is your world, so let's vow to make it a better place ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, your love is here ♪
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  • ♪ 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, so we embrace your ♪
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  • ♪ love today ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed ♪♪
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  • Creflo: the real power--listen to this, the real power for
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  • Change is not when your actions change, but when your
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  • Desires change.
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  • You didn't hear what i said.
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  • The real power for change is not when your actions change.
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  • See, you'll go around thinking, "i've changed because i don't do
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  • It no more."
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  • You'll go around saying, "i changed because i don't have
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  • This action anymore."
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  • And the truth of the matter is, that's not authentic change.
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  • The actions have stopped, but the question still begs this
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  • Thing here about, has the desire changed?
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  • Because if the desire hadn't changed, the action is just
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  • On pause.
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  • But when the desires have changed and you don't want it no
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  • Mo', you ain't got to worry about looking at porn no mo',
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  • Because you ain't got no mo' desire for porn no mo'.
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  • I just want you to understand that under grace--under
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  • Grace doesn't mean you can just, "i have grace and no--" and you
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  • Don't want to resist nothing.
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  • You just--you think god finna come down and live your life.
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  • And in a sense, he has, only thing he says is, "trust me.
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  • Let me help you."
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  • But see, we'll be satisfied with discipling ourselves to change
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  • The action.
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  • But the question is, did the desire change?
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  • It ain't real change, the desire hadn't changed.
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  • Aa groups, na groups, they're good, but you gotta go deeper
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  • Than that.
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  • 'cause as soon as your emotions under attack, i don't know an
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  • Addict who when their emotions got on a tremendous attack,
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  • Very, very tremendous attack, they went back and taste because
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  • They were searching for something to make them happy.
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  • "well, i had a hard day.
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  • I had a hard day. i had a hard day.
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  • It was a lot, it was a lot, it was a lot.
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  • I've been going through this for the last six months.
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  • A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot.
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  • I'm looking for happiness, yeah, and i'm trusting god, but i
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  • Ain't seen nothing yet, i ain't felt nothing yet.
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  • I--i--i-- [mimics smoking]
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  • Ahh, whew.
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  • Just for a moment. "ah."
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  • [mimics smoking and drinking]
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  • Whew, whew.
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  • [mimics phone ringing]
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  • Could you send darlene, or diane, or frederick, or can
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  • Y'all--can you send them over?
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  • How much they charging now? [mimics smoking and drinking]
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  • Mm, what time they gonna be here?"
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  • For a moment.
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  • And when that moment's over, you realize the actions changed,
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  • The desire didn't, so your actions were just put on pause.
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  • And jesus wants to take us deeper than just putting things
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  • On pause.
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  • Look at what he said in philippians chapter 3--chapter
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  • 2, verse 13.
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  • Philippians chapter 2, verse 13 in the nlt and the amplified.
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  • Philippians 2:13 in the nlt and amplified.
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  • See, the key is the deliverance from real--deliverance from
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  • Addiction and addictive behavior is--the key is changing the
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  • Desire, not changing the action, just changing
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  • The action.
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  • Thank god you changed the action, but let him finish.
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  • Look what he said in nlt and then we'll go to the amplified.
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  • He says, "for god is working in you."
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  • Who working in you?
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  • And what is he doing?
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  • Giving you what?
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  • The desire and the power.
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  • Real power is the ability to get results.
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  • I'm gonna give you "the desire and the power to do what
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  • Pleases him."
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  • There's something about focusing on pleasing him versus pleasing
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  • Yourself that gets you to deliver.
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  • It is gonna be what you're interested in versus what he's
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  • Interested in.
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  • Fulfilling your interest or fulfilling his interests.
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  • And sometimes, when we spend time doing the do's, we ain't
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  • Gonna wanna do the don'ts.
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  • If we just spend time focusing on him, focusing on who we are,
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  • Focusing on what--focusing on having daily contact with god.
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  • Satan wants to get you to the point where you ain't got no
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  • Contact with god at all.
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  • "going to church, i ain't praying, i ain't speaking, i'm
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  • Doing none of that, damn church folks."
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  • Why is the church folks's fault?
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  • It's you, it's what you don't want done.
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  • And you want to justify your new identity.
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  • "this is who i am, and that's it."
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  • "for god is working in you, giving you the desire and the
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  • Power to do what pleases him."
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  • Look at this in the-- what did i say?
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  • The amplified.
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  • "[not in your own strength]," there you go.
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  • "for it is god who is all the while effectually at work in you
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  • [energizing and creating in you the power and the desire]--"
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  • Look at him, he's creating this in you.
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  • "both to will and to work for his good pleasure and
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  • Satisfaction and delight."
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  • I don't see nowhere in there where he's depending on
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  • Your work.
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  • He says, "i'm working in you.
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  • I'm creating new desires in you."
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  • He says, "look at the desires you've created.
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  • Your desires were based on your self-indulgences.
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  • I am going to create new desires, desires to want to
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  • Please him."
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  • Wow, so whenever we have a persistent pattern of
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  • Self-indulgence, you know what i'm talking about?
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  • A persistent pattern of self-indulgence that we just
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  • Can't seem to conquer, what we are dealing with is our own
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  • Unwillingness to let go of a promised happiness.
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  • That's what i'm dealing with.
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  • Lasciviousness comes in.
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  • Lasciviousness is when i have no restraints, i can't find
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  • The brakes.
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  • One more time becomes one more time becomes one more time.
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  • I can't find the brakes.
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  • But what am i dealing with?
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  • My own unwillingness to let go of a promised happiness.
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  • What happens when i'm unwilling to let go of a
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  • Promised happiness?
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  • I know i feel better when i get drunk, maybe for three minutes.
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  • I know i feel better when i'm smoking weed.
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  • I know i feel better when i'm bumping bodies.
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  • I know i'm feeling better with that, but what happens when i'm
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  • Willing--when i'm unwilling to let go of a promised happiness
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  • Because the promised happiness is the real deal behind
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  • The crave?
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  • I'll show you what happens.
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  • Ephesians chapter 4, verse 19. ephesians chapter 4, verse 19.
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  • Let's look at it in the message first, and then the mirror.
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  • Ephesians 4:19 in the message first and then the mirror.
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  • Ephesians 4:19.
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  • He says, "and so i insist--and god backs me up--" i'm starting
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  • In verse 17.
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  • "up on this--that there be no going along with the crowd,
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  • The empty-headed and mindless crowd.
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  • They've refused for so long to deal with god," they've refused
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  • For so long to deal with god, "they've lost touch not only
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  • With god but with reality itself."
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  • Man, "they can't think straight anymore."
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  • Look at verse 19, "they can't think straight anymore."
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  • They've gone so long having no dealing with god, they can't
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  • Think straight anymore.
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  • I know people like that.
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  • They've gone so long.
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  • They don't deal with god, they don't come to church no more.
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  • They don't read no bible.
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  • They ain't listening to nobody's preaching.
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  • They're so tied up in the social media.
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  • They've gone so long dealing with god, they've lost touch
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  • With the only god that can help them, and with reality itself.
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  • Listen to them, they sound like fools.
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  • They can't think straight anymore.
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  • "feeling no pain, they let themselves go," look where they
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  • Let themselves go in.
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  • "into sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of
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  • Perversion," because they have
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  • No more dealing with god.
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  • We got a whole generation coming up that don't want to deal
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  • With god.
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  • They want to find the truth in-- want to find their truth,
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  • Their truth.
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  • "well, i hear what this pastor is saying, but i don't agree
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  • With him."
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  • What makes you think you're right?
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  • I've been living longer than you have.
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  • For one reason.
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  • You're 19 years old and wanna tell me what you don't
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  • Agree with.
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  • You're not even qualified to put a vote in of agreement or
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  • Disagreement 'cause you don't know enough.
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  • Better yet, you don't know about living.
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  • You're just--you don't even know enough.
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  • And then when you get 40 and you look back and say, "got dog,
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  • If i only knew."
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  • They tried to tell ya.
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  • But you didn't wanna have no more dealing with god.
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  • Every time as a parent you say something, they say, "oh, there
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  • You go, being dramatic."
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  • Well, god's dramatic.
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  • Have you ever seen the stars?
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  • Now, look at the--i think i said mirror?
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  • I'm almost through.
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  • What a series.
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  • What a series this is.
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  • "having become conditioned to a
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  • Life distant from god," wow.
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  • Think on that a minute.
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  • A life that's distanced from god.
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  • You've come conditioned to it.
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  • You've come to the place where you have--you've come to the
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  • Place where you're used to living distant from god.
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  • Wow, and--[speaking in tongues]
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  • That very thing tormented jesus.
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  • When he was on the cross, separated from god, it was
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  • A torment for jesus, but it doesn't bother some.
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  • Distance from god, and he not dis--[speaking in tongues]
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  • He not trying to condemn you, he not trying to beat you up.
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  • He's not trying to do you what the church is doing.
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  • He's saying, "i'm for you, man.
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  • I ain't never tried to condemn you.
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  • I love you.
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  • I'm willing to work with you.
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  • You ain't did--you can't do no wrong in my eyes.
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  • I'mma help you."
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  • And you turn away from the only one that's gonna always be in
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  • Your corner.
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  • He ain't sending you to hell.
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  • He not turning you over to the devil.
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  • The only thing that got turned over to the devil was that which
  • 00:13:50.509 --> 00:13:53.545
  • Was hardened and distanced from god.
  • 00:13:53.545 --> 00:13:58.317
  • "you become conditioned to a life distanced from god; they
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  • Are calloused in spirit."
  • 00:14:02.388 --> 00:14:05.224
  • You know, when something calloused it's hard.
  • 00:14:05.224 --> 00:14:10.095
  • So distanced from god to even hear it, your spirit
  • 00:14:10.095 --> 00:14:13.732
  • Is hardened.
  • 00:14:13.732 --> 00:14:15.067
  • You can't hear it, you're hardened against it.
  • 00:14:15.067 --> 00:14:21.073
  • "and are lust and greed driven."
  • 00:14:21.073 --> 00:14:24.243
  • You're lust and greed driven.
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  • Driven by how much money you think you can make.
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  • Driven by, you know, you want to start your own business so you
  • 00:14:32.818 --> 00:14:35.287
  • Ain't got to put up with somebody telling you gotta be at
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  • Work at 8 o'clock.
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  • You're driven by that.
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  • Lust, which is a strong intense appetite, and greed driven, but
  • 00:14:43.228 --> 00:14:48.334
  • The appetite is not for god anymore, mm.
  • 00:14:48.334 --> 00:14:54.974
  • "they have completely abandoned themselves to outrageous,
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  • Shameless living."
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  • Some of the stuff that's going on is outrageous and it's
  • 00:15:02.781 --> 00:15:06.218
  • Shameless living.
  • 00:15:06.218 --> 00:15:07.553
  • And the shameless living turns you to a substance abuse because
  • 00:15:07.553 --> 00:15:12.825
  • You have to dull your senses to be able to continue to live in
  • 00:15:12.825 --> 00:15:17.696
  • Shameless living.
  • 00:15:17.696 --> 00:15:19.098
  • You can't live in shameless living with your senses, because
  • 00:15:19.098 --> 00:15:23.202
  • You still got god.
  • 00:15:23.202 --> 00:15:24.536
  • I mean, every part of you echoes that you're still attached
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  • To god.
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  • I mean, his breath that you're breathing, your bodies, he
  • 00:15:29.375 --> 00:15:32.277
  • Created out of dust on the ground, and you think you can
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  • Just live shamelessly.
  • 00:15:35.180 --> 00:15:36.548
  • That's why, in most shameless living situations, there is the
  • 00:15:36.548 --> 00:15:40.352
  • Addition of a substance abuse.
  • 00:15:40.352 --> 00:15:44.757
  • "i gotta get high or drunk or just be crazy in order to
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  • Continue to live this way."
  • 00:15:49.261 --> 00:15:58.137
  • Is that it for that verse of scripture?
  • 00:15:58.137 --> 00:15:59.705
  • Let me go ahead and finish this up, 'cause this is something
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  • That, whether you believe it or not, or receive it or not, you
  • 00:16:02.775 --> 00:16:06.345
  • Will see this again.
  • 00:16:06.345 --> 00:16:09.782
  • Spirit of god say, "oh, no, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:16:09.782 --> 00:16:13.018
  • I spoke this to you, and you didn't receive it."
  • 00:16:13.018 --> 00:16:16.588
  • And he gonna help you too.
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  • I'm not talking about when you die and you go to hell, i'm
  • 00:16:19.391 --> 00:16:21.460
  • Talking about while you alive.
  • 00:16:21.460 --> 00:16:23.695
  • This same issue gonna come up, and it's gonna be amazing how
  • 00:16:23.695 --> 00:16:27.232
  • God can bring something that maybe you heard ten years ago,
  • 00:16:27.232 --> 00:16:30.102
  • Bring it right back to your remembrance, and say, "baby, i
  • 00:16:30.102 --> 00:16:35.474
  • Already gave you the answer, remember this?"
  • 00:16:35.474 --> 00:16:38.577
  • And then you'll be ready.
  • 00:16:38.577 --> 00:16:40.913
  • Maybe life got to teach you some stuff before you can be
  • 00:16:40.913 --> 00:16:42.815
  • Ready, amen?
  • 00:16:42.815 --> 00:16:46.752
  • But as a pastor, i had to get delivered for people so i can
  • 00:16:46.752 --> 00:16:48.954
  • Preach stuff like this, i do.
  • 00:16:48.954 --> 00:16:52.791
  • I preach stuff like this, and people got to decide whether
  • 00:16:52.791 --> 00:16:55.427
  • They wanna come back, or--
  • 00:16:55.427 --> 00:16:57.362
  • I ain't concerned about that.
  • 00:16:57.362 --> 00:16:58.931
  • I'm so free, i'm so free.
  • 00:16:58.931 --> 00:17:01.166
  • I just--i'm free, i'm free.
  • 00:17:01.166 --> 00:17:05.404
  • It feels good.
  • 00:17:05.404 --> 00:17:07.106
  • I don't hate you, i'm not mad at you, i'm just finished.
  • 00:17:07.106 --> 00:17:13.245
  • I'm finished, i'm finished feeling guilty.
  • 00:17:13.245 --> 00:17:15.714
  • I'm finished walking around feeling like i'm the--you know,
  • 00:17:15.714 --> 00:17:18.450
  • I'm just not the one that you wanted.
  • 00:17:18.450 --> 00:17:20.319
  • "oh, if you had--" i'm finished with all that.
  • 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:23.288
  • I'm finished with, "oh, well, you know, they ain't come
  • 00:17:23.288 --> 00:17:25.290
  • To church.
  • 00:17:25.290 --> 00:17:26.625
  • Oh, you know, 22,000 people showed up, ain't but two came."
  • 00:17:26.625 --> 00:17:30.062
  • I'm finished with all that.
  • 00:17:30.062 --> 00:17:31.430
  • I ain't mad, i ain't angry, but i am no longer gonna put myself
  • 00:17:31.430 --> 00:17:34.566
  • In a position for you to devalue me and make me feel stupid and
  • 00:17:34.566 --> 00:17:37.970
  • Gaslight me.
  • 00:17:37.970 --> 00:17:39.304
  • I ain't doing none of that stuff.
  • 00:17:39.304 --> 00:17:43.242
  • I love you, but i'm finished.
  • 00:17:43.242 --> 00:17:47.880
  • "pastor, can you do pastor abuse?"
  • 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:49.481
  • I'm finished with pastor abuse.
  • 00:17:49.481 --> 00:17:51.083
  • I am not gonna let your drama become my emergency.
  • 00:17:51.083 --> 00:17:57.990
  • "oh, we need to vote another pastor in."
  • 00:17:57.990 --> 00:18:00.692
  • Not till i get ready to go 'cause i was here first.
  • 00:18:00.692 --> 00:18:04.463
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:18:04.463 --> 00:18:09.401
  • Got boundaries up, not--i'm not gonna let you disrespect me.
  • 00:18:13.572 --> 00:18:16.041
  • I'm not gonna let you do none of that stuff.
  • 00:18:16.041 --> 00:18:18.343
  • I'm finished 'cause i realized long life comes with peace.
  • 00:18:18.343 --> 00:18:28.053
  • Hm, you should see how some of these people look at me like,
  • 00:18:28.053 --> 00:18:31.323
  • "dang, bro.
  • 00:18:31.323 --> 00:18:34.159
  • What's wrong with him?"
  • 00:18:34.159 --> 00:18:35.527
  • Ain't ain't nothing wrong, it's good.
  • 00:18:35.527 --> 00:18:38.230
  • It's good, bro.
  • 00:18:38.230 --> 00:18:39.765
  • This is freedom, you're hearing freedom.
  • 00:18:39.765 --> 00:18:42.434
  • It's like, you can't--you're hearing freedom.
  • 00:18:42.434 --> 00:18:45.404
  • Dog, slander, i don't care.
  • 00:18:45.404 --> 00:18:47.873
  • I ain't looking at it anyway, i don't care.
  • 00:18:47.873 --> 00:18:50.742
  • They're like, "you don't know me.
  • 00:18:50.742 --> 00:18:53.278
  • You ain't paying my rent.
  • 00:18:53.278 --> 00:18:54.613
  • You ain't paying my gas.
  • 00:18:54.613 --> 00:18:57.149
  • You ain't paying my light bill."
  • 00:18:57.149 --> 00:19:06.191
  • Boy, what?
  • 00:19:06.191 --> 00:19:11.797
  • Okay, let me finish this up.
  • 00:19:11.797 --> 00:19:16.702
  • If we simply try to address our craving, we likely won't see
  • 00:19:16.702 --> 00:19:21.773
  • Long-term change, because it's not our craving that is
  • 00:19:21.773 --> 00:19:26.278
  • So strong.
  • 00:19:26.278 --> 00:19:27.879
  • What's strong is our belief that we will be less happy if we pass
  • 00:19:27.879 --> 00:19:32.751
  • Up the indulgence.
  • 00:19:32.751 --> 00:19:35.821
  • It's belief that governs cravings.
  • 00:19:35.821 --> 00:19:41.627
  • The belief that you can be happy in that, that governs
  • 00:19:41.627 --> 00:19:44.930
  • Your cravings.
  • 00:19:44.930 --> 00:19:47.833
  • So if you will allow grace to change your belief and move you
  • 00:19:47.833 --> 00:19:51.336
  • From believing one promise of happiness to believing another,
  • 00:19:51.336 --> 00:19:55.774
  • Then that new belief will take you from self-indulgence
  • 00:19:55.774 --> 00:20:00.879
  • To self-denial, but a denial for the sake of a better happiness,
  • 00:20:00.879 --> 00:20:07.319
  • A desire to resist the old cravings.
  • 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:10.756
  • A denial that says, "i deny this old belief that this will make
  • 00:20:10.756 --> 00:20:15.560
  • Me happy so that i can accept this new belief that this will
  • 00:20:15.560 --> 00:20:20.299
  • Make me happy."
  • 00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:21.767
  • So the power to change self-indulgence behavior is in
  • 00:20:21.767 --> 00:20:25.237
  • Believing a different promise for happiness.
  • 00:20:25.237 --> 00:20:29.374
  • Let's look at this, luke 9:23.
  • 00:20:29.374 --> 00:20:31.143
  • I got one more scripture after this.
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  • Luke 9:23, let's go straight to the mirror.
  • 00:20:32.477 --> 00:20:35.647
  • Luke 9:23 verse 25--through 25, 9:23 through 25.
  • 00:20:35.647 --> 00:20:41.520
  • He says, "he then looked everyone in the eye and said to
  • 00:20:41.520 --> 00:20:46.358
  • Them, joining me in close companion in your daily walk,
  • 00:20:46.358 --> 00:20:49.394
  • Involves perceiving--joining me in close companion in your
  • 00:20:49.394 --> 00:20:52.731
  • Daily walk, involves perceiving my mission
  • 00:20:52.731 --> 00:20:55.334
  • As fully representing you.
  • 00:20:55.334 --> 00:20:58.804
  • Get over and done with any idea of self that contradicts your
  • 00:20:58.804 --> 00:21:03.008
  • True i-am-ness!
  • 00:21:03.008 --> 00:21:05.944
  • Here is how you do it: lift up your cross once and for all, by
  • 00:21:05.944 --> 00:21:12.317
  • Seeing it mirrored in my cross!
  • 00:21:12.317 --> 00:21:16.221
  • My cross is your cross!"
  • 00:21:16.221 --> 00:21:19.958
  • Boy, "trying to keep the self of your own making intact,"
  • 00:21:19.958 --> 00:21:26.264
  • Trying to keep the self of your making intact, "is a lost cause
  • 00:21:26.264 --> 00:21:30.068
  • To begin with.
  • 00:21:30.068 --> 00:21:31.636
  • Losing yourself in me, is realizing that i am the source
  • 00:21:31.636 --> 00:21:35.273
  • Of who you are by design!
  • 00:21:35.273 --> 00:21:39.745
  • This is your saving grace!"
  • 00:21:39.745 --> 00:21:43.782
  • Realizing that he is the source of your design.
  • 00:21:43.782 --> 00:21:48.754
  • Ooh, jesus.
  • 00:21:48.754 --> 00:21:50.355
  • "here's the bottom line, how does prostituting who you really
  • 00:21:50.355 --> 00:21:55.694
  • Are, how does that translate into any profit, when all you've
  • 00:21:55.694 --> 00:22:00.499
  • Gained is something that's momentary--momentary sham?
  • 00:22:00.499 --> 00:22:09.074
  • It's a sham applause of the entire religious world."
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  • Good lord.
  • 00:22:15.981 --> 00:22:20.919
  • Jesus never requires you to deny yourself happiness.
  • 00:22:20.919 --> 00:22:25.290
  • That's not what i said.
  • 00:22:25.290 --> 00:22:27.359
  • He does never require you to to deny yourself happiness.
  • 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:31.463
  • God wants you to be happy.
  • 00:22:31.463 --> 00:22:33.365
  • But to allow him the opportunity to change your desires and to do
  • 00:22:33.365 --> 00:22:37.068
  • What pleases him, and that will bring you a better happiness.
  • 00:22:37.068 --> 00:22:42.107
  • Male announcer: who influences your thought life?
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  • The answer to this question is more important than you
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  • May realize.
  • 00:22:50.148 --> 00:22:51.483
  • The enemy constantly wages war against the soul of believers,
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  • But our father has guaranteed us a way to win this battle.
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  • The war against the soul.
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  • Creflo: if you don't learn how to distance yourself from
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  • Worldly desires, he says the results will be a war in
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  • Your soul.
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  • Prayer with me, and i'll say it so you can repeat after me.
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  • Repeat after me, "heavenly father, i believe that jesus is
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  • The son of god.
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  • And that he died and was raised from the dead and has forgiven
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  • All of my sins.
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  • And i receive him into my life, right now, as my lord and
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  • Personal savior.
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  • So by faith, i declare that i am saved," praise god.
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  • Now, that simple prayer changed your entire eternal
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  • Destination, and we want to welcome you to the family
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