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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence | July 7, 2025
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- Creflo: hebrews 10:1 of the message.
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- He says, "the old plan was only a hint of the good things in the
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- New plan."
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- I love that.
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- The old plan, the old testament, was just a hint of the good
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- Things in the new plan, or the new testament.
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- "since that old 'law plan' wasn't complete in itself."
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- So what you're reading in-- you're trying to live by the law
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- That was incomplete.
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- It was a shadow of something that, you know, you didn't even
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- Know who was casting a shadow.
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- He says, "since that old 'law plan' wasn't complete in itself,
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- It couldn't complete those who followed it," and so religion is
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- Teaching congregations to live by the old plan that's not
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- Complete, and depending on the old plan to complete you.
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- And that's what's happened to the church.
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- "wonder what's wrong with the church."
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- We keep living by a plan that's incomplete, hoping that it will
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- Complete us.
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- Boy, that's worth them two bags of popcorn i got yesterday.
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- I'm gonna tell you that right now, boy.
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- He said, "it couldn't complete those who followed it."
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- You ever had somebody who decided, "well, i'm just gonna
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- Live by the law"?
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- And--and look at them.
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- Look at them living by the law.
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- It will not complete those who follow it.
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- People who live by the law still got addictions, still got the
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- Same thing, because the law is incomplete.
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- It's not going to save you, it's not going to deliver you.
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- Keep all the commandments, keep 613 of them, it's just--you're
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- Just gonna be crazy.
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- You keep all of them, it's not gonna complete you.
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- Nobody--nothing in that law can complete you.
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- You got to find the one who's casting the shadow, praise god.
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- The shadow--listen.
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- The shadow of a dog ain't never bit nobody.
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- 'cause it's a shadow, praise god.
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- But if you let--if you follow that shadow to the dog, then
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- Run, forrest, run.
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- It's the same thing with jesus.
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- You've got to come to jesus.
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- Jesus is the only one that can complete you.
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- He says, "no matter how many sacrifices were offered year
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- After year," like they did, "they never added up to a
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- Complete solution.
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- If they had, the worshipers would have gone blissfully on
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- Their way, no longer dragged down by their sins.
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- But instead of removing awareness of sins," out of
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- Their conscience, "when those animal sacrifices were repeated
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- Over and over they actually heightened the awareness and
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- The guilt."
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- The more and more they went to offer sacrifices, it heightened
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- The awareness of it.
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- They became more and more aware of their sin, and they developed
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- A consciousness of sin, because they kept going and dealing with
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- The sin, and dealing with the sin, and dealing with the sin.
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- And that's what happens in religious church, today.
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- You go to a church and all the things he wants to
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- Do is deal with the sin.
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- "why you ain't come to church?
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- Why you didn't come to the easter program?
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- You ain't no good, your mama ain't no good.
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- You--y'all just ain't no good.
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- God don't like ugly.
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- He gonna get you by noon."
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- All that stuff we never heard, you know, "if you sin willfully,
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- Then there remaineth no more sacrifice for your sin."
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- And i'm thinking--i remember when i saw it, i said, "wait a
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- Minute, don't everybody sin will--"
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- If you're not sinning willfully, how you sinning?
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- What, did we mess up?
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- Did i slap that person by--
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- Did i slip up and slap them?
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- Every sin is willful.
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- That ain't even what it's talking about.
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- We've done things out of context and we spend so much time, "you
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- Need to preach on sin.
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- You need to preach on sin."
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- The more i preach on sin, the more i'm gonna heighten
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- Your sin-consciousness.
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- If i spend--every time you come in here, i'm talking about
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- Your sin, i'm talking about, "you ain't no good
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- 'cause you're doing that.
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- Ah, you're a bunch of adulterers.
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- Ah, you're a bunch of fornicators.
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- Ah, you're going to hell 'cause you don't tithe.
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- That 10% is gonna send you to hell."
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- All that--you just--you leave--you come to church
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- Sin-conscious, you leave sin-conscious, you go to
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- Sleep sin-conscious.
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- The only reason you pray is 'cause of sin-conscious.
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- You're just scared, you scared.
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- You scared 'cause all that sin, and all--
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- You're just conscious.
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- "i'm going to hell, oh, jesus," but what happens sometimes is
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- For some people, especially this generation, they get to a point
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- Where they say, "you know what?
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- I ain't gonna be scared, so i guess i just got to go to hell.
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- I guess i'm going to hell, then, cause i'm tired."
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- And then they'll come up with, "all right, forget about the
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- Truth, now i'm just gonna be living by my truth."
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- Ain't but one truth. you ain't got your truth.
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- Your truth is most of the time is your lie, or your deception
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- That you want to call truth so you can feel better about living
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- By the lie.
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- And i--listen, i was--i forgot who i was with one--i listened
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- To something.
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- I was looking on tiktok and this guy was giving this advice, and
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- It sound good, and i said, "that's awful.
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- That advice is devilish."
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- But then you pick--your kids pick it up and want to use it
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- Against you.
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- They want to gaslight you.
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- Should have never let me know what that meant.
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- Are y'all following what i'm saying?
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- So the more and more i continue to set a foundation for sin,
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- It's heightening your consciousness, and you just
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- Think, "sin, sin, sin, sin."
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- And i guarantee you, a church that is exposed to the
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- Consciousness of sin-preaching is a sinful church.
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- They ain't got no choice, that's what they hear all the time, so
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- They're conscious of sin.
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- And now i'm trying to teach you how to be conscious of your
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- Innocence and conscious of the grace of god.
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- And so they're saying what i'm preaching is wrong 'cause you
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- Need to preach sin.
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- "creflo's sending them folks to hell, talking about all that
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- Conscious and preaching.
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- You know, you're delivered and then that you're free, and god
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- Loves you, and you're the righteousness of god.
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- Well, when you gonna deal with this sin?
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- When you're going to-- somebody got to go to hell."
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- Well, i guess you go on, you know.
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- Are y'all following what i'm saying?
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- That's not what's supposed to happen in church.
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- That's not what's supposed to happen in fellowship.
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- Y'all don't get together and start, you know, prophesying or
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- Prophe-lying to one another, and then talking about, you know,
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- The--"god just spoke to me, there's just too much sins."
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- Well, he didn't say that 'cause he knows that the whole world is
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- Just full of sin-consciousness.
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- And that's got to break, and what he's trying to get you to
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- See is, if you can become innocent-conscious and less
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- Sin-conscious, you'll see more change and impact in your life.
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- And the stuff you're struggling to get out of, you get out of it
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- Through this sinless consciousness.
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- But you don't see yourself as a sinner.
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- "well, my bible tells me, well, that we are--" what's that--
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- "we all sinners saved by grace."
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- I don't even know if that's in the bible, but, "we're all
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- Sinners saved by grace."
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- Well, which one are you?
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- Now, you gotta figure that out.
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- Listen to what you said, "we're sinners saved by grace.
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- I'm confused, which one?
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- Is we a sinner, or we saved?
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- And we still a sinner, why we got saved?
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- So if i got saved and i'm still a sinner, i just might as well
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- Just stay like i am, 'cause saved didn't do nothing for
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- Me, i'm still a sinner.
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- Where do we eat at?
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- ♪ i wanna go to the party. ♪
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- ♪ all night-- ♪♪
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- I ain't--i got saved and then--
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- It just doesn't make sense.
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- If you sit and listen to these people long enough, they'll just
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- Fall over their feet.
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- It's just--it's crazy, and you know what?
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- We were so hungry for god, and we love god so much, we just
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- Wanted somebody to tell us what to do, and we subjected
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- Ourselves to a bunch of performers in the pulpit.
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- You know, i put my jeans on this morning, my t-shirt on this
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- Morning, and i said, "i'm all gone go to church," and then i
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- Looked in the mirror and sin consciously hit me and say, "oh,
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- You don't look like you're going to church today.
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- You don't look like it, and you're the pastor, and you
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- Should look like you're going to church."
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- And i was look--trying to look it up in the bible.
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- I said, "siri, is there a scripture about how i'm supposed
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- To look going to church?
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- I can't find one."
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- You see what's happening to us?
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- He said it actually heightened awareness and
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- The guilt.
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- "the plain fact is that bull and goat blood can't get rid of sin.
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- That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of
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- Christ," he says, "you don't want sacrifices and offerings
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- Year after year; you've prepared a body for me for a sacrifice.
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- It's not fragrant smoke from altars that whet your appetite.
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- So i said, 'i'm here to do it your way, o god, the way it's
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- Described in your book.'
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- And when he said, 'you don't want sacrifices and offerings,'
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- He was referring to the practices according to the
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- Old plan.
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- And when he added, 'i'm here to do it your way, god,' he set
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- Aside the first in order to enact the new plan--god's way--
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- By which we are made fit for god by the once-for-all sacrifice
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- Of jesus."
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- Mm, "the once-for-all sacrifice of jesus," ah, man.
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- So, that's what it means with the shadow.
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- Now, let's look at galatians 5:1 through 4, i call this the
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- Freedom that's only in christ.
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- So freedom is available, but not the way that some people
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- Want it.
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- You think, "well, i'm gonna discipline myself, and i'm gonna
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- Do this every day for 30 days.
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- And they say when you do it for 30 days, it's a habit."
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- And you do it for 30 days, and it's a habit, and you're
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- Pretty cool.
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- Until that one day comes, that evil day that destroyed your
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- 30 days.
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- That destroyed your habit, and now you know you need jesus.
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- Now you know that.
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- I look at people who work real hard to discipline themselves
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- Through their self-effort.
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- And you go for a minute, but eventually, eventually--see, if
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- You could do that yourself, you wouldn't need jesus.
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- You're gonna have to--you want deliverance and freedom
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- From self-indulgences?
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- You're going to need jesus.
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- Look what he says in galatians 5, verse 1 through 4
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- In the mirror.
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- Let's just go there, galatians 5:1 through 4 in the mirror.
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- He says, "christ defines your faith."
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- Listen to this, folks.
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- "he is your freedom from anything."
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- He's your freedom from anything.
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- He's my freedom, "he's your freedom from anything from which
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- The law could never free you from."
- 00:13:37.730 --> 00:13:39.832
- So what the law couldn't free you from, what the shadow
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- Couldn't free you from, jesus says, "i'm your freedom
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- From anything."
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- How many of you believe that?
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- I believe that.
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- So what am i gonna do with that?
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- Every time the other comes, i'm just opening my mouth up and
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- Say, "christ is my freedom from this.
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- Christ is my freedom from this."
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- You might be on your way to sin, at least on your way to sin,
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- Say, "god is able to keep me from falling."
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- You know what'll happen?
- 00:14:08.260 --> 00:14:09.628
- "god is able to keep me from falling."
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- You know what'll happen?
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- You'll be going there, he'll change all them
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- Circumstances around.
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- He'll change it all around, 'cause he's able to keep you
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- From falling.
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- Yeah, but you got to believe that, right?
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- "find your firm footing," where?
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- "in his freedom."
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- Put your footing in his freedom.
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- Verse 2, "do not let religion trip you up again and harness
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- You to a system of rules and obligations.
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- Don't let it trip you up again.
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- "well, i'm leaving world changers, i'm finna go back to
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- That--" you getting tripped up again, then.
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- Don't religion--don't let religious trip you up again.
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- Next--next verse, what?
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- He says, "i, paul, am of the opinion, and you can quote me,"
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- He said.
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- "if you would again consider circumcision--" so he's using
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- This illustration about circumcision.
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- You know, back in the day you wasn't saved if you were not
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- Circumcised under the law, but they changed that.
- 00:15:02.481 --> 00:15:06.385
- He says, "and you can quote me: if you would consider
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- Circumcision as necessary to improve your standing before
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- God, then you make christ of no relevance to yourself."
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- If you have something that you can do to make your standing
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- Before god better, then he says, "christ is irrelevant."
- 00:15:25.137 --> 00:15:31.076
- So every christian that think they have something that can
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- Make you better, and then uses circumcision.
- 00:15:34.346 --> 00:15:39.785
- So circumcision is supposed to make you better?
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- If circumcision can make you better, if circumcision can give
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- You a better standing before god than jesus, he says, "you don't
- 00:15:45.290 --> 00:15:49.495
- Need jesus."
- 00:15:49.495 --> 00:15:53.866
- He said, "then you make christ of no relevance
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- To yourselves.
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- Then you might as well delete him from your life altogether."
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- Quit coming to church.
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- If you got stuff already figured out that make you better, what
- 00:16:03.942 --> 00:16:06.378
- You doing here?
- 00:16:06.378 --> 00:16:07.713
- Don't come to church no more.
- 00:16:07.713 --> 00:16:09.081
- Don't pray, don't fast, don't do nothing.
- 00:16:09.081 --> 00:16:10.983
- Don't do nothing.
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- You got it together, god.
- 00:16:12.317 --> 00:16:14.420
- Go, do your god thing.
- 00:16:14.420 --> 00:16:17.756
- You know what you become?
- 00:16:17.756 --> 00:16:19.124
- A fool.
- 00:16:19.124 --> 00:16:21.994
- The bible says, "a fool in his heart says there is no god," and
- 00:16:21.994 --> 00:16:25.431
- That's what you're saying when you got it, huh.
- 00:16:25.431 --> 00:16:31.970
- "i will state it categorically, that if you endorse
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- Circumcision," or any of your self-performance methods, "as
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- A means to obtain righteousness, you are immediately obliged to
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- Keep the whole law."
- 00:16:47.753 --> 00:16:49.755
- In other words, if you say that circumcision or any
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- Performance-based thing is necessary to obtain your
- 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:57.463
- Righteousness, he said, "go ahead and keep the whole law."
- 00:16:57.463 --> 00:17:00.699
- Ain't no use in you trying to trust jesus.
- 00:17:00.699 --> 00:17:03.102
- Go back into the shadows.
- 00:17:03.102 --> 00:17:06.071
- Dark shadows, barnabas collins.
- 00:17:06.071 --> 00:17:12.177
- Some of y'all too young, you don't even know what
- 00:17:12.177 --> 00:17:13.579
- I'm talking about.
- 00:17:13.579 --> 00:17:14.913
- Angelique, quintin, the werewolf.
- 00:17:14.913 --> 00:17:24.323
- Next verse, "law-righteousness has nothing in common with
- 00:17:24.323 --> 00:17:29.461
- Grace-righteousness," wow, "they are opposites."
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- What you do to be righteous is completely opposite to what
- 00:17:37.669 --> 00:17:41.640
- Jesus has done to make you righteous without what you do to
- 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.944
- Be righteous.
- 00:17:45.944 --> 00:17:47.412
- Because before jesus, all righteousness was equated to
- 00:17:47.412 --> 00:17:51.250
- Filthy rags.
- 00:17:51.250 --> 00:17:54.353
- But in religion, and in church today, you get awards for doing
- 00:17:54.353 --> 00:17:59.024
- Stuff that makes you righteous.
- 00:17:59.024 --> 00:18:00.359
- We want to recognize you for your righteous deeds.
- 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:09.868
- "they are opposites.
- 00:18:09.868 --> 00:18:11.403
- As impossible as it is for anyone to travel in two opposite
- 00:18:11.403 --> 00:18:16.842
- Directions at the same time,
- 00:18:16.842 --> 00:18:19.378
- Equally irrelevant christ becomes to anyone who continues
- 00:18:19.378 --> 00:18:24.316
- To pursue righteousness under the law."
- 00:18:24.316 --> 00:18:28.253
- You're trying to say, "i am righteous because of jesus," and
- 00:18:28.253 --> 00:18:31.623
- At the same time, say you're righteous because of what you
- 00:18:31.623 --> 00:18:34.293
- Do, and you're gonna be tested with this.
- 00:18:34.293 --> 00:18:35.994
- And here's the test.
- 00:18:35.994 --> 00:18:37.362
- The test is gonna come where you're gonna do something crazy
- 00:18:37.362 --> 00:18:40.232
- And satan's gonna be there to tell you, "you ain't righteous
- 00:18:40.232 --> 00:18:42.734
- No more."
- 00:18:42.734 --> 00:18:44.069
- And then you actually are going to try to come up with something
- 00:18:44.069 --> 00:18:46.505
- To make you feel like you are.
- 00:18:46.505 --> 00:18:51.009
- You're traveling in two opposite directions, trying to at the
- 00:18:51.009 --> 00:18:53.712
- Same time.
- 00:18:53.712 --> 00:18:55.814
- You want to know when you really believe this?
- 00:18:55.814 --> 00:18:59.618
- When you fall and stand up with the confidence, "i am still the
- 00:18:59.618 --> 00:19:06.124
- Righteousness of god," the devil ain't gonna be able to work on
- 00:19:06.124 --> 00:19:08.560
- You no more.
- 00:19:08.560 --> 00:19:10.295
- He done bust you up and you done did something so stupid, so
- 00:19:10.295 --> 00:19:13.398
- Crazy, so condemning, so shameful, and you dare to stand
- 00:19:13.398 --> 00:19:17.502
- Up and still declare that i'm righteous.
- 00:19:17.502 --> 00:19:22.874
- That's when you believe it, because now you understand that
- 00:19:22.874 --> 00:19:25.510
- You're not righteous because of what you do or don't do.
- 00:19:25.510 --> 00:19:27.913
- You're righteous because of jesus, and he is your
- 00:19:27.913 --> 00:19:30.515
- Righteous--your righteousness.
- 00:19:30.515 --> 00:19:32.017
- This is not my righteousness, this is his righteousness.
- 00:19:32.017 --> 00:19:34.419
- I am righteous because of him.
- 00:19:34.419 --> 00:19:36.121
- He made me righteous.
- 00:19:36.121 --> 00:19:37.556
- I'm not redeemed 'cause of what i've done.
- 00:19:37.556 --> 00:19:39.124
- It's his redemption, it's his perfection.
- 00:19:39.124 --> 00:19:41.560
- Glory to god, it's his holiness, praise god, and he showed up.
- 00:19:41.560 --> 00:19:46.265
- The--not the shadow showed up, but the real thing showed up and
- 00:19:46.265 --> 00:19:49.268
- He said, "i give you me."
- 00:19:49.268 --> 00:20:03.282
- Wow, so what is the root
- 00:20:06.818 --> 00:20:15.794
- That fuels self-indulgence?
- 00:20:15.794 --> 00:20:21.366
- What is the motivation behind the self-indulgence?
- 00:20:21.366 --> 00:20:29.308
- Here it is, it is the promise of happiness that
- 00:20:29.308 --> 00:20:33.879
- Fuels self-indulgence.
- 00:20:33.879 --> 00:20:37.683
- However brief, it is the promise of happiness that
- 00:20:37.683 --> 00:20:43.188
- Fuels self-indulgence.
- 00:20:43.188 --> 00:20:46.958
- It's the promise, and your belief in the promise, that
- 00:20:46.958 --> 00:20:54.066
- Gives the craving its power.
- 00:20:54.066 --> 00:20:57.536
- See, we spent so much time with the craving, but it is the
- 00:20:57.536 --> 00:21:00.806
- Promise that it's gonna make me happy, and i believe that this
- 00:21:00.806 --> 00:21:03.842
- Is gonna make me happy.
- 00:21:03.842 --> 00:21:05.177
- It might not be long, but it's the promise that's gonna make
- 00:21:05.177 --> 00:21:07.346
- Me happy.
- 00:21:07.346 --> 00:21:08.714
- I believe it's gonna make me happy and that gives your
- 00:21:08.714 --> 00:21:10.882
- Craving its power.
- 00:21:10.882 --> 00:21:17.255
- The real power--listen to this.
- 00:21:20.926 --> 00:21:23.562
- The real power for change is not when your actions change, but
- 00:21:23.562 --> 00:21:30.802
- When your desires change.
- 00:21:30.802 --> 00:21:35.040
- You didn't hear what i said.
- 00:21:35.040 --> 00:21:37.242
- The real power for change is not when your actions change.
- 00:21:37.242 --> 00:21:42.214
- See, you go around thinking, "i've changed because i don't do
- 00:21:42.214 --> 00:21:45.484
- It no more."
- 00:21:45.484 --> 00:21:49.388
- You don't go around saying, "i changed because i don't have
- 00:21:49.388 --> 00:21:52.257
- This action anymore."
- 00:21:52.257 --> 00:21:55.761
- And the truth of the matter is, that's not authentic change.
- 00:21:55.761 --> 00:21:59.431
- The actions have stopped, but the question still begs
- 00:21:59.431 --> 00:22:02.467
- This thing here about, has the desire changed?
- 00:22:02.467 --> 00:22:05.337
- Because if the desire hadn't changed, the action is just
- 00:22:05.337 --> 00:22:08.340
- On pause.
- 00:22:08.340 --> 00:22:12.778
- But when the desires have changed and you don't want it no
- 00:22:12.778 --> 00:22:16.515
- More, you ain't got to worry about looking at porn no more
- 00:22:16.515 --> 00:22:21.086
- Because you ain't got no more desire for porn no more.
- 00:22:21.086 --> 00:22:27.426
- I just want you to understand that under grace--under
- 00:22:27.426 --> 00:22:29.594
- Grace doesn't mean you can just, "i have grace," and no--and you
- 00:22:29.594 --> 00:22:33.131
- Don't want to resist nothing.
- 00:22:33.131 --> 00:22:35.567
- You just, you think god finna come down and live your life.
- 00:22:35.567 --> 00:22:40.138
- And in a sense, he has, only thing he says is, "trust me.
- 00:22:40.138 --> 00:22:45.377
- Let me help you."
- 00:22:45.377 --> 00:22:46.812
- But see, we'll be satisfied with discipling ourselves to change
- 00:22:46.812 --> 00:22:50.582
- The action, but the question is, did the desire change?
- 00:22:50.582 --> 00:22:57.255
- It ain't real change.
- 00:22:57.255 --> 00:22:58.623
- The desire ain't changed.
- 00:22:58.623 --> 00:23:02.961
- Aa groups, na groups, they're good, but you gotta go deeper
- 00:23:02.961 --> 00:23:06.898
- Than that.
- 00:23:06.898 --> 00:23:08.266
- 'cause as soon as your emotions under attack, i don't know an
- 00:23:08.266 --> 00:23:11.837
- Addict who, when their emotions got on a tremendous attack,
- 00:23:11.837 --> 00:23:14.706
- Very, very tremendous attack, they went back and taste,
- 00:23:14.706 --> 00:23:18.210
- Because they were searching for something to make them happy.
- 00:23:18.210 --> 00:23:21.346
- "well, i had a hard day.
- 00:23:21.346 --> 00:23:22.714
- I had a hard day. i had a hard day.
- 00:23:22.714 --> 00:23:24.049
- It was a lot, it was a lot, it was a lot.
- 00:23:24.049 --> 00:23:25.650
- I've been going through this for the last six months, a lot, a
- 00:23:25.650 --> 00:23:27.385
- Lot, a lot, a lot.
- 00:23:27.385 --> 00:23:28.720
- I'm looking for happiness, yeah, i'm trusting god, but i ain't
- 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:30.956
- Seen nothing yet.
- 00:23:30.956 --> 00:23:32.324
- I ain't felt nothing yet. i--i--i--ah--[mimics smoking]
- 00:23:32.324 --> 00:23:36.061
- Ah, [inhales] whoo.
- 00:23:36.061 --> 00:23:40.098
- Just for a moment. [exhales]
- 00:23:40.098 --> 00:23:43.502
- [mimics smoking] ah.
- 00:23:43.502 --> 00:23:46.004
- [mimics taking a drink] whoo, whoo.
- 00:23:46.004 --> 00:23:52.410
- [mimics phone ringing]
- 00:23:52.410 --> 00:23:53.745
- Could you send darlene, or diane, or frederick, or can
- 00:23:53.745 --> 00:24:00.285
- Y'all--can you send them over?
- 00:24:00.285 --> 00:24:01.620
- How much they charging now? [mimics smoking and drinking]
- 00:24:01.620 --> 00:24:05.657
- What time they gonna be here?"
- 00:24:05.657 --> 00:24:10.929
- For a moment, and when that moment's over, you realize the
- 00:24:10.929 --> 00:24:18.036
- Actions changed, the desire didn't.
- 00:24:18.036 --> 00:24:20.805
- So your actions were just put on pause.
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- The seeds you sow into this ministry make a mark that can
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- Never be erased, and i wanna thank you so much for your
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- Financial contributions into the kingdom of god and into
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- This ministry.
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- Male announcer: if god has placed it on your heart to
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- Support the vision of this ministry to reach the world with
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- The gospel of grace, you may call in to make your financial
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- Donations or log on to creflodollarministries.org.
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- God bless you.
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- Male announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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- Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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- Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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- Announcer: the preceding program was brought to you in part by
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- The partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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