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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Power To Change Self-Indulgence | July 4, 2025
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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
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- 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
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- What you do.
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- Now, that's what the church has been teaching us, you gotta do
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
- 00:15:33.345 --> 00:15:35.948
- I mean, pastor dollar, that sounds strange."
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- It should, because you spend all your life hearing about the
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- Law-based system, taking on extra baggage, hoping you can be
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- Delivered by carrying on some more baggage, and he says,
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- "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?
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- When you wake up in the morning and say, "god, forgive me for
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- This is all about holding on to what he said about you, it's
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- About your identity.
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- It's about not letting behavior or religion or anything change
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- "oh yes, i am."
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- "how you figure you perfect?"
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- "'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.
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- All i got is what he said.
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- Now, let's move a little deeper here, verse--was that verse 1?
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- Let's look at verse 2 now, verse 2 in hebrews 12.
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- This is also mirror, verse 2 says, "become absolutely
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- Streamlined in faith.
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- Run the race of your spiritual life with total persuasion."
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- Ah, run the race of your spiritual life
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- Totally persuaded.
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- I am totally persuaded that i am righteous, totally.
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- I'm totally persuaded that i have been redeemed, totally.
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- So, now you see the battle.
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- So the devil's job is "i gotta get you to change your mind
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- About all that," and you're saying, "nope, not changing my
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- Mind about it, i'm totally persuaded about my
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- Spiritual life."
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- 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
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- This race with total persuasion?
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- "by looking away from the shadow dispensation of the law and the
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- Prophets and fix your eyes upon jesus."
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- All right, so here's church, church is the shadow
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- Dispensation of the law.
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- What does that mean, the shadow dispensation of the law?
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- So he says, if you're going to run this race with total
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- Persuasion, you gotta look away from the shadow dispensation of
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- The law.
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- Now, let me show you something here.
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- If you go to hebrews 10, hold your place there, we'll come
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- Right back.
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- Hebrews 10 in the king james, and then hebrews 10, verse 1 in
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- The message.
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- Hebrews 10, verse 1 in the king james, and hebrews 10, verse 1
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- In the message.
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- We need to deal with the shadow, what does he mean?
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- 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,
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- And not the very image of the things, can never with those
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- Sacrifices which they offered year by year continually," he
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- Says, "to make the comers thereunto perfect."
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- 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.
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- Even jesus said, "these scriptures in the old testament,
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- They speak of me," they're a shadow.
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- Let me give you an illustration.
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- In the--in--under the law, it mentions sabbath.
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- The sabbath is a shadow of jesus, because in the new
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- Testament it says jesus is our sabbath, okay?
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- So when you read the old testament of the law, you're
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- Reading about the shadow.
- 00:20:11.757 --> 00:20:15.060
- Now, you gotta have somebody to cast a shadow, jesus is the
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- Shadow caster, okay?
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- So most of the stuff you read in the old testament, it all points
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- To jesus.
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- If it's pointing to anything else, it's pointing to--jesus
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- Is the only one that's casting the shadow.
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- Now, look at this in the message, hebrews 10:1 in
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- The message.
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- I may read just a little bit longer.
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- I may read for all ten of them, it's so good.
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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, the old plan, the old testament, was just a hint
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- Of the good things in the new plan, or the new testament.
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- "since that old 'law plan' wasn't complete in itself," so
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- What you're reading in--you're trying to live by the law
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- That was incomplete, it was a shadow of something that, you
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- 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,
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- 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
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- Plan that's not complete and depending on the old plan to
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- 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
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- 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.
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- He said, "it couldn't complete those who followed it."
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- You ever met somebody who decided, "well, i'm just gonna
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- Live by the law"?
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- And look at them, look at them living by the law, it will not
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- Complete those who follow it.
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- 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
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- Save you, it's not gonna deliver you.
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- 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.
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- Nobody--nothing in that law can complete you, you got to find
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- The one who casting the shadow, praise god.
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- The shadow--listen, 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, you've got to come to jesus,
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- Jesus is the only one that can complete you, yeah.
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- He says no and, "no matter how many sacrifices were offered
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- Year 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 worshiper--if they had, the worshipers would
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- Have gone blissfully on their way, no longer dragged down by
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- Their sins.
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- 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
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- And over they actually heightened the awareness and
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- The guilt."
- 00:23:26.751 --> 00:23:28.753
- The more and more they went to offer sacrifices, it heightened
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- The awareness of it, they became more and more aware of
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- Their sin.
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- Announcer: who influences your thought life?
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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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