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Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence

January 27, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence | January 27, 2026
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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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  • ♪ 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.
  • 00:13:45.260 --> 00:13:46.694
  • 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
  • 00:13:51.266 --> 00:13:54.302
  • Was hardened and distanced from god.
  • 00:13:54.302 --> 00:13:59.073
  • "you become conditioned to a life distanced from god; they
  • 00:13:59.073 --> 00:14:03.144
  • Are calloused in spirit."
  • 00:14:03.144 --> 00:14:05.980
  • You know, when something calloused it's hard.
  • 00:14:05.980 --> 00:14:10.852
  • So distanced from god to even hear it, your spirit
  • 00:14:10.852 --> 00:14:14.489
  • Is hardened.
  • 00:14:14.489 --> 00:14:15.823
  • You can't hear it, you're hardened against it.
  • 00:14:15.823 --> 00:14:21.829
  • "and are lust and greed driven."
  • 00:14:21.829 --> 00:14:24.999
  • 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
  • 00:14:33.574 --> 00:14:36.044
  • Ain't got to put up with somebody telling you gotta be at
  • 00:14:36.044 --> 00:14:38.046
  • 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
  • 00:14:43.985 --> 00:14:49.090
  • The appetite is not for god anymore, mm.
  • 00:14:49.090 --> 00:14:55.730
  • "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
  • 00:15:03.538 --> 00:15:06.975
  • Shameless living.
  • 00:15:06.975 --> 00:15:08.309
  • And the shameless living turns you to a substance abuse because
  • 00:15:08.309 --> 00:15:13.581
  • You have to dull your senses to be able to continue to live in
  • 00:15:13.581 --> 00:15:18.453
  • Shameless living.
  • 00:15:18.453 --> 00:15:19.854
  • You can't live in shameless living with your senses, because
  • 00:15:19.854 --> 00:15:23.958
  • You still got god.
  • 00:15:23.958 --> 00:15:25.293
  • 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
  • 00:15:30.131 --> 00:15:33.034
  • Created out of dust on the ground, and you think you can
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  • Just live shamelessly.
  • 00:15:35.937 --> 00:15:37.305
  • That's why, in most shameless living situations, there is the
  • 00:15:37.305 --> 00:15:41.109
  • Addition of a substance abuse.
  • 00:15:41.109 --> 00:15:45.513
  • "i gotta get high or drunk or just be crazy in order to
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  • Continue to live this way."
  • 00:15:50.018 --> 00:15:58.893
  • Is that it for that verse of scripture?
  • 00:15:58.893 --> 00:16:00.461
  • 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
  • 00:16:03.531 --> 00:16:07.101
  • Will see this again.
  • 00:16:07.101 --> 00:16:10.538
  • Spirit of god say, "oh, no, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:16:10.538 --> 00:16:13.775
  • I spoke this to you, and you didn't receive it."
  • 00:16:13.775 --> 00:16:17.345
  • 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
  • 00:16:20.148 --> 00:16:22.216
  • Talking about while you alive.
  • 00:16:22.216 --> 00:16:24.452
  • This same issue gonna come up, and it's gonna be amazing how
  • 00:16:24.452 --> 00:16:27.989
  • God can bring something that maybe you heard ten years ago,
  • 00:16:27.989 --> 00:16:30.858
  • Bring it right back to your remembrance, and say, "baby, i
  • 00:16:30.858 --> 00:16:36.230
  • Already gave you the answer, remember this?"
  • 00:16:36.230 --> 00:16:39.333
  • And then you'll be ready.
  • 00:16:39.333 --> 00:16:41.669
  • Maybe life got to teach you some stuff before you can be
  • 00:16:41.669 --> 00:16:43.571
  • Ready, amen?
  • 00:16:43.571 --> 00:16:47.508
  • But as a pastor, i had to get delivered for people so i can
  • 00:16:47.508 --> 00:16:49.710
  • Preach stuff like this, i do.
  • 00:16:49.710 --> 00:16:53.548
  • I preach stuff like this, and people got to decide whether
  • 00:16:53.548 --> 00:16:56.184
  • They wanna come back, or--
  • 00:16:56.184 --> 00:16:58.119
  • I ain't concerned about that.
  • 00:16:58.119 --> 00:16:59.687
  • I'm so free, i'm so free.
  • 00:16:59.687 --> 00:17:01.923
  • I just--i'm free, i'm free.
  • 00:17:01.923 --> 00:17:06.160
  • It feels good.
  • 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:07.862
  • I don't hate you, i'm not mad at you, i'm just finished.
  • 00:17:07.862 --> 00:17:14.001
  • I'm finished, i'm finished feeling guilty.
  • 00:17:14.001 --> 00:17:16.471
  • I'm finished walking around feeling like i'm the--you know,
  • 00:17:16.471 --> 00:17:19.207
  • I'm just not the one that you wanted.
  • 00:17:19.207 --> 00:17:21.075
  • "oh, if you had--" i'm finished with all that.
  • 00:17:21.075 --> 00:17:24.045
  • I'm finished with, "oh, well, you know, they ain't come
  • 00:17:24.045 --> 00:17:26.047
  • To church.
  • 00:17:26.047 --> 00:17:27.381
  • Oh, you know, 22,000 people showed up, ain't but two came."
  • 00:17:27.381 --> 00:17:30.818
  • I'm finished with all that.
  • 00:17:30.818 --> 00:17:32.186
  • I ain't mad, i ain't angry, but i am no longer gonna put myself
  • 00:17:32.186 --> 00:17:35.323
  • In a position for you to devalue me and make me feel stupid and
  • 00:17:35.323 --> 00:17:38.726
  • Gaslight me.
  • 00:17:38.726 --> 00:17:40.061
  • I ain't doing none of that stuff.
  • 00:17:40.061 --> 00:17:43.998
  • I love you, but i'm finished.
  • 00:17:43.998 --> 00:17:48.636
  • "pastor, can you do pastor abuse?"
  • 00:17:48.636 --> 00:17:50.238
  • I'm finished with pastor abuse.
  • 00:17:50.238 --> 00:17:51.839
  • I am not gonna let your drama become my emergency.
  • 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:58.746
  • "oh, we need to vote another pastor in."
  • 00:17:58.746 --> 00:18:01.449
  • Not till i get ready to go 'cause i was here first.
  • 00:18:01.449 --> 00:18:05.219
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:18:05.219 --> 00:18:10.158
  • Got boundaries up, not--i'm not gonna let you disrespect me.
  • 00:18:14.328 --> 00:18:16.797
  • I'm not gonna let you do none of that stuff.
  • 00:18:16.797 --> 00:18:19.100
  • I'm finished 'cause i realized long life comes with peace.
  • 00:18:19.100 --> 00:18:28.809
  • Hm, you should see how some of these people look at me like,
  • 00:18:28.809 --> 00:18:32.079
  • "dang, bro.
  • 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.916
  • What's wrong with him?"
  • 00:18:34.916 --> 00:18:36.284
  • Ain't ain't nothing wrong, it's good.
  • 00:18:36.284 --> 00:18:38.986
  • It's good, bro.
  • 00:18:38.986 --> 00:18:40.521
  • This is freedom, you're hearing freedom.
  • 00:18:40.521 --> 00:18:43.191
  • It's like, you can't--you're hearing freedom.
  • 00:18:43.191 --> 00:18:46.160
  • Dog, slander, i don't care.
  • 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.629
  • I ain't looking at it anyway, i don't care.
  • 00:18:48.629 --> 00:18:51.499
  • They're like, "you don't know me.
  • 00:18:51.499 --> 00:18:54.035
  • You ain't paying my rent.
  • 00:18:54.035 --> 00:18:55.369
  • You ain't paying my gas.
  • 00:18:55.369 --> 00:18:57.905
  • You ain't paying my light bill."
  • 00:18:57.905 --> 00:19:06.948
  • Boy, what?
  • 00:19:06.948 --> 00:19:12.553
  • Okay, let me finish this up.
  • 00:19:12.553 --> 00:19:17.458
  • If we simply try to address our craving, we likely won't see
  • 00:19:17.458 --> 00:19:22.530
  • Long-term change, because it's not our craving that is
  • 00:19:22.530 --> 00:19:27.034
  • So strong.
  • 00:19:27.034 --> 00:19:28.636
  • What's strong is our belief that we will be less happy if we pass
  • 00:19:28.636 --> 00:19:33.507
  • Up the indulgence.
  • 00:19:33.507 --> 00:19:36.577
  • It's belief that governs cravings.
  • 00:19:36.577 --> 00:19:42.383
  • The belief that you can be happy in that, that governs
  • 00:19:42.383 --> 00:19:45.686
  • Your cravings.
  • 00:19:45.686 --> 00:19:48.589
  • So if you will allow grace to change your belief and move you
  • 00:19:48.589 --> 00:19:52.093
  • From believing one promise of happiness to believing another,
  • 00:19:52.093 --> 00:19:56.530
  • Then that new belief will take you from self-indulgence
  • 00:19:56.530 --> 00:20:01.636
  • To self-denial, but a denial for the sake of a better happiness,
  • 00:20:01.636 --> 00:20:08.075
  • A desire to resist the old cravings.
  • 00:20:08.075 --> 00:20:11.512
  • A denial that says, "i deny this old belief that this will make
  • 00:20:11.512 --> 00:20:16.317
  • Me happy so that i can accept this new belief that this will
  • 00:20:16.317 --> 00:20:21.055
  • Make me happy."
  • 00:20:21.055 --> 00:20:22.523
  • So the power to change self-indulgence behavior is in
  • 00:20:22.523 --> 00:20:25.993
  • Believing a different promise for happiness.
  • 00:20:25.993 --> 00:20:30.131
  • Let's look at this, luke 9:23.
  • 00:20:30.131 --> 00:20:31.899
  • I got one more scripture after this.
  • 00:20:31.899 --> 00:20:33.234
  • Luke 9:23, let's go straight to the mirror.
  • 00:20:33.234 --> 00:20:36.404
  • Luke 9:23 verse 25--through 25, 9:23 through 25.
  • 00:20:36.404 --> 00:20:42.276
  • He says, "he then looked everyone in the eye and said to
  • 00:20:42.276 --> 00:20:47.114
  • Them, joining me in close companion in your daily walk,
  • 00:20:47.114 --> 00:20:50.151
  • Involves perceiving--joining me in close companion in your
  • 00:20:50.151 --> 00:20:53.487
  • Daily walk, involves perceiving my mission
  • 00:20:53.487 --> 00:20:56.090
  • As fully representing you.
  • 00:20:56.090 --> 00:20:59.560
  • Get over and done with any idea of self that contradicts your
  • 00:20:59.560 --> 00:21:03.764
  • True i-am-ness!
  • 00:21:03.764 --> 00:21:06.701
  • Here is how you do it: lift up your cross once and for all, by
  • 00:21:06.701 --> 00:21:13.074
  • Seeing it mirrored in my cross!
  • 00:21:13.074 --> 00:21:16.977
  • My cross is your cross!"
  • 00:21:16.977 --> 00:21:20.715
  • Boy, "trying to keep the self of your own making intact,"
  • 00:21:20.715 --> 00:21:27.021
  • Trying to keep the self of your making intact, "is a lost cause
  • 00:21:27.021 --> 00:21:30.825
  • To begin with.
  • 00:21:30.825 --> 00:21:32.393
  • Losing yourself in me, is realizing that i am the source
  • 00:21:32.393 --> 00:21:36.030
  • Of who you are by design!
  • 00:21:36.030 --> 00:21:40.501
  • This is your saving grace!"
  • 00:21:40.501 --> 00:21:44.538
  • Realizing that he is the source of your design.
  • 00:21:44.538 --> 00:21:49.510
  • Ooh, jesus.
  • 00:21:49.510 --> 00:21:51.112
  • "here's the bottom line, how does prostituting who you really
  • 00:21:51.112 --> 00:21:56.450
  • Are, how does that translate into any profit, when all you've
  • 00:21:56.450 --> 00:22:01.255
  • Gained is something that's momentary--momentary sham?
  • 00:22:01.255 --> 00:22:09.830
  • It's a sham applause of the entire religious world."
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  • Good lord.
  • 00:22:16.737 --> 00:22:21.675
  • Jesus never requires you to deny yourself happiness.
  • 00:22:21.675 --> 00:22:26.046
  • That's not what i said.
  • 00:22:26.046 --> 00:22:28.115
  • He does never require you to to deny yourself happiness.
  • 00:22:28.115 --> 00:22:32.219
  • God wants you to be happy.
  • 00:22:32.219 --> 00:22:34.121
  • But to allow him the opportunity to change your desires and to do
  • 00:22:34.121 --> 00:22:37.825
  • What pleases him, and that will bring you a better happiness.
  • 00:22:37.825 --> 00:22:42.863
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  • Creflo: i don't ever want to take for granted that you've
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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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