Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence

July 4, 2025 | S25 E162 | 28:51

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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: is there a craving in your life that
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  • Insistently begs for you to satisfy it?
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  • "i got this taste, i got this taste, i got this taste, i got
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  • This taste."
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  • Does it insistently beg for satisfaction?
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  • But now, here's the deal, but after indulging, defeat hangs
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  • Like a heavy yoke around your neck, around the neck of
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  • Your soul.
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  • Creflo: hopefully, you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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  • Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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  • Gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way maker?
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  • Yes, can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Yes.
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  • Creflo: 1 peter chapter 2 and 11, 1 peter 2 and 11, he says
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  • This, "dear friends, i warn you as 'temporary residents
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  • And foreigners.'"
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  • I don't want you to ever forget that, that you are--now that
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  • You're born again, you are viewed by god as a temporary
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  • Resident and a foreigner.
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  • And he says, "i warn you as 'temporary residents and
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  • Foreigners' to keep away from worldly desires," why?
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  • Because they "wage war against your very soul."
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  • He is saying your design that you have now, here's a warning
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  • So you can understand how this design works: keep away from
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  • Worldly desires.
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  • Keep away from worldly desires.
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  • Not because it's a bad thing or you're no good or you're gonna
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  • Go to hell, he says keep away from these worldly desires
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  • Because it's gonna start a war against your soul.
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  • Your mind, your will, and your emotions are going to be warring
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  • Against these worldly desires.
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  • He says now that you're born again, that's not your design,
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  • So what's gonna come after you will be the desire to indulge in
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  • Worldly desires.
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  • To indulge in something, that's what we're talking about.
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  • To indulge in something means to allow yourself to enjoy the
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  • Pleasure of it, you're indulging in that worldly desire,
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  • You're--you allow yourself.
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  • Please hear that, you allow yourself, don't say, "the devil
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  • Made me do it," you allow yourself.
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  • The devil did not make me eat those two apple things
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  • Yesterday, or not--did i do it yesterday, lord?
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  • No, i didn't do it yesterday, it was last week.
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  • I did do it friday, but it wasn't apple, it was peach.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • See, i got delivered from the apple, and now i need to get
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  • Delivered from the peach.
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  • All right, so what happens is, you know, to allow yourself.
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  • Please, the most important thing you can do is accept
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  • Responsibility for what you do, don't try to blame it
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  • On something.
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  • Don't--you know, when you run out of people to blame, then you
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  • Find a devil to blame, all right, and so you have to
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  • Accept responsibility.
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  • To allow yourself to indulge or to enjoy the pleasures, that's
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  • What it means to indulge.
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  • So biblical self-indulgence is literally feeding the sinful
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  • Passions of your flesh, it's--you're feeding it.
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  • Let me go a step further, it's indulging ourselves in any
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  • Pleasure that is harmful to your soul.
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  • Are you indulging yourself in a pleasure that's harmful to
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  • Your soul?
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  • Now, remember he's talking about waging war, he says stay away
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  • From worldly desires because it'll war against your souls,
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  • And so when we're talking about indulging, we're talking about
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  • Indulging ourselves in any pleasure that's harmful to
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  • Your soul.
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  • Think for a moment, can you identify that pleasure that's
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  • Harmful to your soul?
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  • Can you identify that pleasure that you are allowing yourself
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  • To enjoy, but it is harmful to your soul?
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  • Now, this is way past apples and peaches, it's--what's the thing?
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  • It's most likely the thing in the booth in the back, in the
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  • Corner, in the dark, you're not real public about the thing, but
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  • It's harming your soul.
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  • It's impacting and affecting your mind, your will, and your
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  • Emotions, okay?
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  • And so self-indulgence is spiritually dangerous to
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  • Believers, why?
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  • Because it's a form of idolatry.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • So as i indulge in something, what happens is--the reason why
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  • It's a form of idolatry-- remember, idolatry is what you
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  • Choose to value greater than god, and so it's some--it's
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  • Something--it's something we turn to instead of god
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  • For happiness.
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  • That's what it means when it's an idol.
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  • The thing that we're indulging in, we're indulging in that
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  • Because we believe it'll make us happy, and so it can become
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  • Idolatry because we have given it a greater value than god.
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  • In other words, the thing i'm indulging in, it makes me
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  • Happier than god, and so i'm going to exalt it above god and
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  • I am no longer--i am no longer turning to god first place for
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  • My happiness, i've substituted something else instead of god at
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  • First place because it feels better.
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  • It's--somehow along this path, i am convinced that this
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  • Is better than god.
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  • Now, i want you to think for a moment, what in your life that
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  • You've indulged in that you're convinced this provides more
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  • Happiness and more to me than god?
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  • I mean, it's okay for you to just realize that, what is it
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  • That i feel it's providing more for me than god?
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  • I'm not gonna put a cross up in front of you and say, "hsss",
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  • No, no, no, i want you to recognize just what happens.
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  • This is the world--the war in the--against our soul is that
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  • Worldly desire that has become an idol, or we have assigned a
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  • Greater value to that worldly desire because the devil's been
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  • Working on our soul and he's finally convinced some that this
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  • Is better.
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  • "now, god, you have to go to second place, third place, you
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  • Can't be first place anymore because i done heard you make it
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  • Better, but i see this is better."
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  • When in fact, if you examine it carefully, you spend more time
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  • With that than you do god, so you don't really know that god
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  • Can do better than that 'cause you don't give him a chance,
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  • Amen, praise the lord in this sanctified church.
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  • It'll get better today, but i got to lay the foundation.
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  • Somebody like, "is this what it gonna be all?"
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  • No, it ain't, it's gonna be good, it's gonna be good.
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  • All right, now, so at the moment of indulging--let's walk through
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  • This, at the moment of indulging in whatever that thing is you
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  • Have in your mind--i don't know about it, except the lord show
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  • Me, and nobody else sitting next to you know about it, but at
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  • That moment of indulging into that thing, it doesn't feel like
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  • An enemy when you indulge.
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  • It doesn't feel like an enemy.
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  • When you indulge in it, it doesn't feel like an enemy, in
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  • Fact, it feels like a reward that makes us happy.
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  • And it may be for five minutes, but it doesn't feel like
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  • An enemy.
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  • I mean, you know, "you're telling me that, you know,
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  • That's the enemy and, like, don't feel like an enemy.
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  • It makes me feel good."
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  • "that weed don't feel like no enemy to me, it feels like a
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  • Reward and it makes me happy."
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  • "that mad dog don't feel like no enemy to me, it's--it makes
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  • Me happy."
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  • You know, i'm discovering something, one of the things
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  • About indulgence is if it eventually causes a physical
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  • Problem, it's probably not good spiritually.
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  • You know, drinking alcohol will make you feel good emotionally,
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  • But it's damaging to your physical body, your immunity
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  • System, and a lot of things that can happen, yeah.
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  • And it feels like a relief from a craving that insistently begs
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  • For satisfaction.
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  • Is there a craving in your life that insistently begs for you to
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  • Satisfy it?
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  • "i got this taste, i got this taste, i got this taste, i got
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  • This taste."
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  • Does it insistently beg for satisfaction?
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  • But now here's the deal, but after indulging, defeat hangs
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  • Like a heavy yoke around your neck, around the neck of
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  • Your soul.
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  • After you indulge, then the defeat of it.
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  • It's one thing to indulge in it, but the fact that you resist it
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  • And resist it and you indulge, now it is even more heavier.
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  • How do we deal with this?
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  • Well, let's look at hebrews chapter 12:1, 'cause today
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  • Is all about how to deal with it.
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  • Hebrews 12, chapter 1 and 2 in the mirror translation.
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  • Let's just go right there, hebrews 12:1 and 2, we wanna
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  • Talk about this freedom because, ladies and gentlemen, let me
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  • Tell you this, real freedom is only gonna be in christ, okay?
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  • Real freedom is only gonna be in christ.
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  • Real freedom is only gonna be in christ.
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  • All right, look what he says here in verse 1 and 2, he says,
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  • "so now the stage is set for us: all these faith-heroes cheer us
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  • On; they are the cloud of witnesses; as if it were, like a
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  • Great multitude of spectators in the amphitheater.
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  • This is our moment.
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  • As with the athlete who is determined to win," the athlete
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  • That's determined to win, this is our moment, and there are
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  • Certain indulgences you're determined to win over.
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  • "i'm gonna do this, i'm gonna do this, i'm gonna do this."
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  • Then he says something here, "it would be silly to carry any
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  • Baggage of the old law-system."
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  • So you--you're ready to win, but "it would be silly to carry the
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  • Baggage of the old law-system that would weigh one down."
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  • Now, the old law-system, it is a system of
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  • Performance-based works.
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  • The old law-system says you gotta be good if you want god to
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  • Be good to you.
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  • "be good to get good," that's what the law-system says.
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  • It's a performance-based system.
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  • And he says if you're ready to win, it would be silly for you
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  • To take on the baggage of the old law-system, the old system
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  • Of performance-based works.
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  • It would be silly for you to do that because in the old
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  • Law-system, when you didn't perform or you failed to do what
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  • It said, then you walk around with shame and guilt
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  • And condemnation.
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  • It'd be silly to take that on and to carry that baggage
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  • With you.
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  • It's hard to win when you're waking up full of shame
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  • Every day.
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  • It's hard to win when you're waking up full of guilt, full of
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  • Condemnation, and you just have--you're so insecure
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  • About--it's hard to win when your mindset--there's
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  • Something about having the right mindset and confidence
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  • That will give you the power to go forward, but it's hard to do
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  • That when you don't think you're worth nothing.
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  • He says, "make sure you do not get your feet clogged up
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  • With sin-consciousness."
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  • That's what happens when you're still operating by the law-based
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  • System that says you got to do good to get good, you gotta
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  • Actually do right to be righteous.
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  • See, the law demands that you do something in order for god to do
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  • Something, he says that's the law-based system.
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  • And that law-based system produces sin-consciousness, that
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  • You're so conscious of sin.
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  • The system he set up in the old testament where you would bring
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  • An animal and sacrifice that animal so that the blood would
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  • Cover your sins for a year, and then you have to come back every
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  • Year to do it, you walk around sin-conscious.
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  • I mean, right after you do that, you're still sin-conscious.
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  • It could never get rid of sin-conscious, and he says,
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  • "make sure you don't get your feet clogged up
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  • With sin-consciousness."
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  • And so he's laying the foundation for us to be
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  • Victorious over self-indulgences, and one of the
  • 00:13:59.251 --> 00:14:02.354
  • Things he's saying is, dude, you gotta make sure that you're not
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  • Operating by a law-based process, do good, get good.
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  • In other words, anything you get from god is gonna be based on
  • 00:14:10.529 --> 00:14:13.098
  • What you do.
  • 00:14:13.098 --> 00:14:14.466
  • Now, that's what the church has been teaching us, you gotta do
  • 00:14:14.466 --> 00:14:17.036
  • Something in order for god to do something for you, you take one
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  • Step and then god take the rest.
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  • Honey, some of us are so messed up, we don't know how to take no
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  • Step, we can't walk no more.
  • 00:14:24.209 --> 00:14:27.046
  • And god accepts that and says, "i got you," but the religious
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  • Law-based system tells you, you gotta do it in order to earn and
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  • Deserve god doing it for you.
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  • And god has said, "no, that's the old system.
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  • No, i don't need you to do good to make me good.
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  • I'm good.
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  • I'm good, i'm good.
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  • I'm good 'cause i'm good, i'm not good 'cause you good."
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  • See, for us saying that--you know, if you gotta do something
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  • In order for god to do something, it makes us powerful.
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  • Do you actually think that what you do is greater
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  • Than god's power?
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  • What are you doing?
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  • You--you've been trained that way, you think you can really
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  • Control god?
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  • No, you can't, god gonna be good to you even when you ain't good.
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  • And god gonna show so much goodness to you, it's gonna
  • 00:15:14.994 --> 00:15:17.329
  • Change your mind about what you used to think about god.
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  • And all of us have experienced, in the middle of indulgence, the
  • 00:15:20.332 --> 00:15:23.335
  • Goodness of the lord shows up to change your mind, not 'cause
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  • You deserved it, but he just wanted to be good 'cause he's
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  • Just good.
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  • Some of y'all are not sure, that's why you--"i don't know
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  • Whether to clap or pity pat 'cause i just don't know.
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  • I mean, pastor dollar, that sounds strange."
  • 00:15:35.948 --> 00:15:37.750
  • It should, because you spend all your life hearing about the
  • 00:15:37.750 --> 00:15:41.286
  • Law-based system, taking on extra baggage, hoping you can be
  • 00:15:41.286 --> 00:15:45.691
  • Delivered by carrying on some more baggage, and he says,
  • 00:15:45.691 --> 00:15:48.127
  • "that's silly, let the baggage go, and don't get yourself tied
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  • Into sin-consciousness."
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  • You want--you wanna know when you have sin-consciousness?
  • 00:15:54.166 --> 00:15:56.602
  • When you wake up in the morning and say, "god, forgive me for
  • 00:15:56.602 --> 00:15:59.271
  • The sin i haven't committed yet," that's sin-consciousness.
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  • You're more conscious of sinning than you are conscious of living
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  • Righteous according to the way god told you.
  • 00:16:07.046 --> 00:16:09.214
  • And he says, "i need you to become innocent-conscious, you
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  • Need to accept that you are innocent."
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  • Jesus died and he made you innocent from everything the law
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  • Charged you with, you have been pronounced innocent, case
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  • Dismissed, praise god.
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  • You are innocent, praise the lord.
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  • And he says, "i need you to wake up every morning with that.
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  • I need you to wake up every morning and say,
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  • 'i am innocent.'"
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  • Even while your mind talking to you and say, "you know you
  • 00:16:32.771 --> 00:16:35.407
  • Ain't no good, look at what you did last week.
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  • Look at how you said what you said last week."
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  • You need to say, "i'm innocent."
  • 00:16:40.012 --> 00:16:42.548
  • And as long as you can maintain the right mindset, god can cause
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  • The behaviors to begin to adjust and begin to change.
  • 00:16:47.486 --> 00:16:51.757
  • This is all about holding on to what he said about you, it's
  • 00:16:51.757 --> 00:16:55.894
  • About your identity.
  • 00:16:55.894 --> 00:16:57.229
  • It's about not letting behavior or religion or anything change
  • 00:16:57.229 --> 00:17:01.467
  • Who he said you are.
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  • I am the righteousness of god, i am innocent, i am redeemed.
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  • I am holy right now, i am perfect.
  • 00:17:07.873 --> 00:17:12.244
  • Ooh, that gets with religious people.
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  • I am perfect.
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  • Ooh, jesus. yes, i am.
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  • You say, "oh no, you're not."
  • 00:17:18.684 --> 00:17:20.152
  • "oh yes, i am."
  • 00:17:20.152 --> 00:17:21.920
  • "how you figure you perfect?"
  • 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.255
  • "'cause he said so, and i've got to hold on to what he said."
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  • That's all i got, is what he said.
  • 00:17:28.794 --> 00:17:32.598
  • All i got is what he said.
  • 00:17:32.598 --> 00:17:35.534
  • Now, let's move a little deeper here, verse--was that verse 1?
  • 00:17:35.534 --> 00:17:40.205
  • Let's look at verse 2 now, verse 2 in hebrews 12.
  • 00:17:40.205 --> 00:17:42.508
  • This is also mirror, verse 2 says, "become absolutely
  • 00:17:42.508 --> 00:17:47.012
  • Streamlined in faith.
  • 00:17:47.012 --> 00:17:50.616
  • Run the race of your spiritual life with total persuasion."
  • 00:17:50.616 --> 00:17:56.555
  • Ah, run the race of your spiritual life
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  • Totally persuaded.
  • 00:18:03.695 --> 00:18:05.030
  • I am totally persuaded that i am righteous, totally.
  • 00:18:05.030 --> 00:18:09.034
  • I'm totally persuaded that i have been redeemed, totally.
  • 00:18:09.034 --> 00:18:13.071
  • So, now you see the battle.
  • 00:18:13.071 --> 00:18:14.439
  • So the devil's job is "i gotta get you to change your mind
  • 00:18:14.439 --> 00:18:16.675
  • About all that," and you're saying, "nope, not changing my
  • 00:18:16.675 --> 00:18:19.478
  • Mind about it, i'm totally persuaded about my
  • 00:18:19.478 --> 00:18:22.848
  • Spiritual life."
  • 00:18:22.848 --> 00:18:24.183
  • He says, "run the race of your spiritual life--" go back quick,
  • 00:18:24.183 --> 00:18:25.884
  • "run the race of your spiritual life with total persuasion."
  • 00:18:25.884 --> 00:18:29.121
  • Now, look at this, "look away," so how do i run--how do i run
  • 00:18:29.121 --> 00:18:33.926
  • This race with total persuasion?
  • 00:18:33.926 --> 00:18:37.596
  • "by looking away from the shadow dispensation of the law and the
  • 00:18:37.596 --> 00:18:42.734
  • Prophets and fix your eyes upon jesus."
  • 00:18:42.734 --> 00:18:45.437
  • All right, so here's church, church is the shadow
  • 00:18:45.437 --> 00:18:49.341
  • Dispensation of the law.
  • 00:18:49.341 --> 00:18:51.677
  • What does that mean, the shadow dispensation of the law?
  • 00:18:51.677 --> 00:18:55.514
  • So he says, if you're going to run this race with total
  • 00:18:55.514 --> 00:18:58.016
  • Persuasion, you gotta look away from the shadow dispensation of
  • 00:18:58.016 --> 00:19:02.588
  • The law.
  • 00:19:02.588 --> 00:19:03.922
  • Now, let me show you something here.
  • 00:19:03.922 --> 00:19:05.290
  • If you go to hebrews 10, hold your place there, we'll come
  • 00:19:05.290 --> 00:19:07.693
  • Right back.
  • 00:19:07.693 --> 00:19:09.061
  • Hebrews 10 in the king james, and then hebrews 10, verse 1 in
  • 00:19:09.061 --> 00:19:14.633
  • The message.
  • 00:19:14.633 --> 00:19:15.968
  • Hebrews 10, verse 1 in the king james, and hebrews 10, verse 1
  • 00:19:15.968 --> 00:19:19.538
  • In the message.
  • 00:19:19.538 --> 00:19:21.073
  • We need to deal with the shadow, what does he mean?
  • 00:19:21.073 --> 00:19:22.708
  • What did he mean we gotta turn away from the shadow?
  • 00:19:22.708 --> 00:19:25.544
  • He says, "for the law having a shadow of good things to come,
  • 00:19:25.544 --> 00:19:30.449
  • And not the very image of the things, can never with those
  • 00:19:30.449 --> 00:19:35.020
  • Sacrifices which they offered year by year continually," he
  • 00:19:35.020 --> 00:19:39.524
  • Says, "to make the comers thereunto perfect."
  • 00:19:39.524 --> 00:19:42.227
  • So the shadow of the law, he is saying that all of the things
  • 00:19:42.227 --> 00:19:46.398
  • Before christ was a shadow of jesus.
  • 00:19:46.398 --> 00:19:50.936
  • Even jesus said, "these scriptures in the old testament,
  • 00:19:50.936 --> 00:19:53.272
  • They speak of me," they're a shadow.
  • 00:19:53.272 --> 00:19:55.374
  • Let me give you an illustration.
  • 00:19:55.374 --> 00:19:56.775
  • In the--in--under the law, it mentions sabbath.
  • 00:19:56.775 --> 00:20:00.846
  • The sabbath is a shadow of jesus, because in the new
  • 00:20:00.846 --> 00:20:05.083
  • Testament it says jesus is our sabbath, okay?
  • 00:20:05.083 --> 00:20:08.754
  • So when you read the old testament of the law, you're
  • 00:20:08.754 --> 00:20:11.757
  • Reading about the shadow.
  • 00:20:11.757 --> 00:20:15.060
  • Now, you gotta have somebody to cast a shadow, jesus is the
  • 00:20:15.060 --> 00:20:21.099
  • Shadow caster, okay?
  • 00:20:21.099 --> 00:20:24.369
  • So most of the stuff you read in the old testament, it all points
  • 00:20:24.369 --> 00:20:27.472
  • To jesus.
  • 00:20:27.472 --> 00:20:28.807
  • If it's pointing to anything else, it's pointing to--jesus
  • 00:20:28.807 --> 00:20:31.543
  • Is the only one that's casting the shadow.
  • 00:20:31.543 --> 00:20:34.179
  • Now, look at this in the message, hebrews 10:1 in
  • 00:20:34.179 --> 00:20:38.483
  • The message.
  • 00:20:38.483 --> 00:20:39.851
  • I may read just a little bit longer.
  • 00:20:39.851 --> 00:20:41.186
  • I may read for all ten of them, it's so good.
  • 00:20:41.186 --> 00:20:42.688
  • He says, "the old plan was only a hint of the good things in the
  • 00:20:42.688 --> 00:20:47.993
  • New plan."
  • 00:20:47.993 --> 00:20:49.461
  • I love that, the old plan, the old testament, was just a hint
  • 00:20:49.461 --> 00:20:55.200
  • Of the good things in the new plan, or the new testament.
  • 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.003
  • "since that old 'law plan' wasn't complete in itself," so
  • 00:20:58.003 --> 00:21:02.274
  • What you're reading in--you're trying to live by the law
  • 00:21:02.274 --> 00:21:04.876
  • That was incomplete, it was a shadow of something that, you
  • 00:21:04.876 --> 00:21:09.715
  • Know, you didn't even know who was casting the shadow.
  • 00:21:09.715 --> 00:21:11.850
  • He says, "since that old 'law plan' wasn't complete in itself,
  • 00:21:11.850 --> 00:21:16.288
  • It couldn't complete those who followed it."
  • 00:21:16.288 --> 00:21:19.591
  • And so religion is teaching congregations to live by the old
  • 00:21:19.591 --> 00:21:25.130
  • Plan that's not complete and depending on the old plan to
  • 00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:30.068
  • Complete you, and that's what's happened to the church.
  • 00:21:30.068 --> 00:21:33.972
  • Wonder what's wrong with the church.
  • 00:21:33.972 --> 00:21:35.307
  • We keep living by a plan that's incomplete, hoping that it'll
  • 00:21:35.307 --> 00:21:39.478
  • Complete us.
  • 00:21:39.478 --> 00:21:44.816
  • Boy, that's worth them two bags of popcorn i got yesterday,
  • 00:21:44.816 --> 00:21:47.185
  • I'mma tell you that right now, boy.
  • 00:21:47.185 --> 00:21:50.255
  • He said, "it couldn't complete those who followed it."
  • 00:21:50.255 --> 00:21:54.626
  • You ever met somebody who decided, "well, i'm just gonna
  • 00:21:54.626 --> 00:21:56.395
  • Live by the law"?
  • 00:21:56.395 --> 00:21:57.729
  • And look at them, look at them living by the law, it will not
  • 00:21:57.729 --> 00:22:01.967
  • Complete those who follow it.
  • 00:22:01.967 --> 00:22:03.435
  • People who live by the law still got addictions, still got the
  • 00:22:03.435 --> 00:22:06.371
  • Same thing, 'cause the law is incomplete, it's not going to
  • 00:22:06.371 --> 00:22:09.541
  • Save you, it's not gonna deliver you.
  • 00:22:09.541 --> 00:22:12.411
  • Keep all the commandments, keep 613 of them, it's just--you're
  • 00:22:12.411 --> 00:22:15.414
  • Just gonna be crazy.
  • 00:22:15.414 --> 00:22:16.782
  • You keep all of them, it's not gonna complete you.
  • 00:22:16.782 --> 00:22:19.985
  • Nobody--nothing in that law can complete you, you got to find
  • 00:22:19.985 --> 00:22:23.789
  • The one who casting the shadow, praise god.
  • 00:22:23.789 --> 00:22:26.391
  • The shadow--listen, the shadow of a dog ain't never bit nobody,
  • 00:22:26.391 --> 00:22:35.500
  • 'cause it's a shadow, praise god.
  • 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:38.503
  • But if you let--if you follow that shadow to the dog, then
  • 00:22:38.503 --> 00:22:43.074
  • Run, forrest, run.
  • 00:22:43.074 --> 00:22:46.211
  • It's the same thing with jesus, you've got to come to jesus,
  • 00:22:46.211 --> 00:22:49.147
  • Jesus is the only one that can complete you, yeah.
  • 00:22:49.147 --> 00:22:57.656
  • He says no and, "no matter how many sacrifices were offered
  • 00:22:57.656 --> 00:23:01.526
  • Year after year," like they did, "they never added up to a
  • 00:23:01.526 --> 00:23:04.930
  • Complete solution.
  • 00:23:04.930 --> 00:23:06.465
  • If they had the worshiper--if they had, the worshipers would
  • 00:23:06.465 --> 00:23:09.568
  • Have gone blissfully on their way, no longer dragged down by
  • 00:23:09.568 --> 00:23:14.673
  • Their sins.
  • 00:23:14.673 --> 00:23:16.107
  • But instead of removing awareness of sins," out of their
  • 00:23:16.107 --> 00:23:18.944
  • Conscience, "when those animal sacrifices were repeated over
  • 00:23:18.944 --> 00:23:22.514
  • And over they actually heightened the awareness and
  • 00:23:22.514 --> 00:23:26.751
  • The guilt."
  • 00:23:26.751 --> 00:23:28.753
  • The more and more they went to offer sacrifices, it heightened
  • 00:23:28.753 --> 00:23:33.758
  • The awareness of it, they became more and more aware of
  • 00:23:33.758 --> 00:23:36.528
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  • You understand our vision.
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  • You know that when people understand grace, they're
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  • Empowered to change their lives for the better.
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  • Thank you for supporting us with
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  • Your financial donations, and
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  • Every time you give, you're being used by
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  • God to stop misfortune in someone else's life.
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  • And for that, we say thank you.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Announcer: if you want to honor the lord by sowing financial
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  • Seeds into creflo dollar ministries, call the number on
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  • Creflo: as we wrap up today's broadcast, i'd like to take a
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  • Moment to pray for you.
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
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  • Jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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  • There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life
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  • Than to enter into a personal relationship with christ.
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  • So if you want to become born again and begin an exciting,
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, pray this prayer with
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  • Me now.
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  • Heavenly father, come into my heart, save me.
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  • I receive you now by faith, and i declare in jesus's name that i
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  • Am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen.
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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  • The kingdom of god.
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  • Announcer: because of you, creflo dollar ministries is
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  • Providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change in
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  • The lives of millions of people every day.
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  • 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
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  • All across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was
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  • Brought to you, in part, by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo
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  • Dollar ministries.
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