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Creflo Dollar - Resting In True Faith (Part 2)

April 8, 2025 | S25:E87

Creflo Dollar - Resting In True Faith (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Resting In True Faith (Part 2) | April 8, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: i believe he's already released every device
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  • Necessary to keep me from falling.
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  • I gotta believe even when on the inside i wanna do something
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  • Crazy, when i go do it, it just ain't gonna work.
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  • When i go call it, the line gonna be busy.
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  • When i go drink it, it's gonna be water.
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  • I gotta believe that he has already looked ahead of my
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  • Foolishness and decided to do something before i get there.
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  • He is able to keep you from falling.
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪
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  • Creflo: look at hebrews chapter 4, verse 9 through 11.
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  • He said, "there remaineth therefore a rest to the people
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  • Of god."
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  • It still remains.
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  • Even after israel didn't enter into the rest, he says the rest
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  • Is still here, still remains.
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  • Verse 10.
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  • "for he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from
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  • His own works, as god did from his."
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  • Now notice what he says.
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  • Those who entered into the rest, we know that he's entered into
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  • The rest because he ceased from his own work.
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  • What is it that you're doing trying to get what god's
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  • Already done?
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  • That's what religion is.
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  • Religion, the most powerful operation of god's faith is when
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  • You're resting in the finished.
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  • It's when you're resting in the finish.
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  • When you are about trying to do something to manipulate the
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  • System to try to get god to do something for you, it's not only
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  • Dead works, but it's your own works.
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  • But the guy who's entered into the rest, you can tell 'cause he
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  • Has ceased from his own works, just like god did from his.
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  • When god was working six days and then he stopped, you could
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  • Tell on the seventh day he wasn't working no more.
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  • That's what we were doing, folks.
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  • You come up and tell somebody, "i'm sick."
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  • They say, "say this 20 times, 20 times.
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  • Say this 20 times, say it 20 times."
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  • You come back and say, "i'm still sick."
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  • They say, "add ten more.
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  • Say it 30 times, 30 times, 30 times."
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  • You come back and say, "i'm still sick."
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  • They say, "how you saying it?
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  • Are you saying it's whispering, are you--do you have
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  • Authority in your confession?
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  • You gotta have authority in your confession."
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  • And so i go home--and i-- [growls]
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  • And i scream it and i'm sweating and i'm saying,
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  • "it's still ain't working.
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  • I must be missing something."
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  • "you must have sin in your life.
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  • It must be, must be sin, sin, sin."
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  • And then watch this and then after all of that, then you come
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  • Back the last time and say, "well, something wrong with
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  • Your faith."
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  • So where does that leave you?
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  • It leaves you in condemnation, it leaves you in shame.
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  • It leaves you saying, "i gotta work something in order to get
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  • This to happen."
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  • Verse 11.
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  • "let us labor therefore to get," rich.
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  • Let us labor therefore to get healed.
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  • Let us labor therefore to get a good marriage.
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  • Let us labor therefore to do one thing, enter into that rest.
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  • Why?
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  • This is so interesting.
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  • "lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief" of not
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  • Entering into that rest.
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  • Wow!
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  • "oh, i believe i'm healed."
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  • "well rest."
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  • "well, it hurt."
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  • You know, that's what belief looks like.
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  • Belief looks like rest.
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  • That's what it looks like.
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  • But religion tells you there, there's six things you gotta do.
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  • There are seven things you gotta do.
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  • And then they confuse you by mixing it.
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  • Well, god will love you unconditionally, but you gotta
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  • Do something conditionally.
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  • And oh, which one is it?
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  • God ain't double-minded.
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  • Which one?
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  • You're a sinner saved by grace.
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  • Which one?
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  • Am i a sinner or am i saved by grace?
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  • I got saved, so i won't be a sinner no more.
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  • But now that i'm saved, you're telling me i ain't nothing but a
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  • Sinner saved by grace.
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  • Well, which one is it?
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  • I'm confused.
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  • Inquiry minds wanna know.
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  • I don't know what's happening.
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  • Sinner or saved by grace.
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  • 'cause if i've been saved by grace, i'm no longer a sinner.
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  • And the bible says, "now that you are saved by grace, you are
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  • Not a sinner, you're a saint.
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  • You're the righteousness of god."
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  • But we keep buying all of that religious jargon.
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  • I don't know about you, but i'm tired of being confused
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  • About jesus.
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  • I love jesus, but i don't understand him.
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  • Jesus said, "take my yoke upon you and learn of me.
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  • For my yoke is easy and my burdens are light."
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  • I don't know who y'all been talking to.
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  • Look at matthew chapter 11.
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  • Well, i hadn't finished this.
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  • Well, did i read 11?
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  • Okay, i'm working on 11 right now.
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  • "let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man
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  • Fall after the same example of unbelief for not entering into
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  • That rest."
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  • So if we are willing to receive what jesus has for us, we will
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  • Enter into the rest.
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  • If we will to receive what jesus has for us, we will enter into
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  • The rest.
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  • And the greatest faith a person could have is to rest in what
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  • Jesus has already done.
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  • Let me show you something.
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  • Matthew 11:28-29 in the message bible,
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  • Matthew 11:28-29 in the message bible.
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  • You're gonna hear that illustration over and over and
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  • Over again.
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  • Every time a promise is discovered, then somebody's
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  • Gonna come up with six ways to do it.
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  • Every time a promise is discovered, yeah, but you gotta
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  • Do your part 'cause they don't have confidence that god's
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  • Already done it.
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  • They don't have confidence that god can change you, that he can
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  • Change your heart.
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  • And i tell you the people that i know that's been living this
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  • Grace life, they have amazing testimonies how they're changed
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  • And it wasn't because of what they did.
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  • God been working in them.
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  • God been doing, how many can bear witness to that?
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  • Stuff been happening to you and you can't take no credit for it.
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  • I don't know what that is.
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  • And yet, some of us who who been in church all our lives and
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  • Doing and doing and doing and doing, it seems like it gets
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  • Progressively worse.
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  • It gets worse and then you fall into crazy stuff, instead of
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  • Having confidence that god says, he says, "i am able to keep you
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  • From falling."
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  • That's what he said.
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  • And you ought to stand in that.
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  • But you know what you do?
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  • You try to keep yourself from falling.
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  • "well, praise the lord, you know, i'm single and so this
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  • Man, you know, he a preacher, he invited me to the hotel."
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  • Girl, you can see that?
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  • You couldn't see that?
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  • You couldn't figure that out?
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  • Preacher inviting you to the hotel?
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  • "well, he prophesized and, you know."
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  • What's wrong with us?
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  • No, you're laughing, that stuff is happening.
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  • And instead of standing on the promise, "he is able to keep me
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  • From falling and to present me faultless before the
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  • Almighty god.
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  • Be glory, majesty, dominion and power."
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  • Now i can't step away from that scripture and talking about, "oh
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  • Lord, i gotta do this.
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  • Oh lord, i gotta do that."
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  • No, i gotta stand.
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  • I gotta believe it's finished.
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  • I believe he's already released every device necessary to keep
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  • Me from falling.
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  • I gotta believe even when on the inside i wanna do something
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  • Crazy, when i go do it, it just ain't gonna work.
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  • When i go call it the line gonna be busy.
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  • When i go drink it, it's gonna be water.
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  • I gotta believe that he has already looked ahead of my
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  • Foolishness and decided to do something before i get there.
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  • He is able to keep you from falling.
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  • [speaking in tongues].
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  • Don't play with me this morning, my god.
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  • I am so fed up with this.
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  • Like you're greater than god.
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  • Like you can do it better than he's already done it.
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  • First of all, you're trying to do something.
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  • He has already done what you trying to do.
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  • All right, apologies, apologies, apologies.
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  • Apologies, apologies, my lips should have been sweeter.
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  • Sweeter than the day before.
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  • Matthew 11:28 through 30.
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  • This describes what i think i'm going through right now.
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  • "are you tired?
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  • Worn out?
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  • Burned out on religion?
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  • Come to me."
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  • Yeah, come to him.
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  • "get away with me and you'll recover your life."
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  • That's what it felt like.
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  • It felt like i was so drenched in religion when i finally
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  • Understood jesus and this amazing grace, i recovered
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  • My life.
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  • He says here, jesus says, "i'll show you how to take a
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  • Real rest."
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  • And then he goes on to say, "you want to take a real rest?
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  • Walk with me.
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  • Walk with me."
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  • "and work with me.
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  • Watch how i do it."
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  • That's why i came here.
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  • Watch how i do it.
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  • You ain't see jesus somewhere, you know, fretting and all that
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  • Other kind of stuff going on.
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  • Somebody said except that time in garden of gethsemane.
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  • Yeah, but he snapped right back.
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  • He was in the finish the whole time.
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  • He said, "learn the unforced rhythms of grace."
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  • A rhythm that can't be moved by your efforts.
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  • It's unforced rhythm of grace.
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  • He said, "i won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
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  • Keep company," here's the key.
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  • Here's the key to rest.
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  • "keep company with me," relationship.
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  • "keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and
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  • Lightly," amen.
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  • Now look at hebrews 4, just 10 and 11 in the
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  • Mirror translation.
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  • This is, this is something i want to bring out.
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  • Hebrews 4:10 and 11 in the mirror translation.
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  • I believe that you're--that you're gonna get this and i
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  • Believe when you walk out of here, you're gonna say, "i
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  • Got this."
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  • And i believe you're gonna start a life in the finished.
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  • And i just believe all kinds of glorious things are gonna start
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  • Happening and you're gonna say, "whoa, this stuff works,"
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  • You know.
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  • And you're gonna see yourself walking out the finish and then
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  • Hurry up and get back in the finish.
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  • This has been a strong revelation that god's revealed
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  • To us, and i ain't got time to be fussing with folks
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  • Because they want to stick with what's already heard.
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  • I ain't trying to do that.
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  • I got to see jesus for myself.
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  • You understand?
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  • Verse 10 and 11, "god's rest celebrates his finished work."
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  • So when you're in the rest of god, in the rest of god, you're
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  • Celebrating what's already done.
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  • In the rest of god, you're celebrating what's
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  • Already finished.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • You're gonna be moving into a prayerful worship.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • Next verse.
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  • "whoever enters into god's rest immediately abandons his own
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  • Efforts to improve what god has already perfected."
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  • And that's what religion is.
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  • Religion is an effort to try to improve something that god has
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  • Already perfected.
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  • That's what religion does.
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  • Religion is fear-based.
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  • Do this or god gonna get you.
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  • Don't do this, god gonna get you.
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  • If you don't give 10%, i mean, you know, the lord forbid if you
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  • Give a 90%, but if you don't give 10%.
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  • "oh no, you can give 90%, but you gotta get that 10% first,"
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  • It's ludicrous.
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  • You give out of your heart, but you know why that happens?
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  • We're doing that to try to improve on what god has already,
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  • Listen, listen to that.
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  • You're trying to improve what's already perfect.
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  • That's just like you're showing up trying to improve god.
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  • Well, you know jesus, you could have said it a little easier
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  • Than what you said it.
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  • Trying to--religion is the attempt through our efforts to
  • 00:15:17.296 --> 00:15:23.035
  • Try to improve what god has already perfected.
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  • Now i got news for you.
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  • He's perfected you.
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  • The bible says he made you holy and perfect and wisdom.
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  • You can't see that right now in your state, in your life, but
  • 00:15:40.119 --> 00:15:48.761
  • It's finished in the realm of the finish, so get in
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  • The realm of the finish so that which is finished can begin to
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  • Find its glorious place in you.
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  • I knew it, i knew it wasn't supposed to be this hard.
  • 00:16:01.707 --> 00:16:05.010
  • I knew it wasn't supposed to be this frustrated.
  • 00:16:05.010 --> 00:16:07.846
  • I knew this wasn't supposed to be so complicated.
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  • His yoke is easy.
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  • "well, that ain't, i ain't never heard it like that before."
  • 00:16:20.492 --> 00:16:24.663
  • Well, you're hearing it now.
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  • It's time to get free.
  • 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:29.401
  • Now, a critical aspect of walking in the rest of god, here
  • 00:16:29.401 --> 00:16:34.573
  • It is, is to give him all of your cares.
  • 00:16:34.573 --> 00:16:40.479
  • So what does rest look like?
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  • Lord, help me 'cause i can't do that by myself.
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  • This happens periodically.
  • 00:16:45.684 --> 00:16:48.654
  • It doesn't happen as much as it used to happen, thank god, but
  • 00:16:48.654 --> 00:16:52.357
  • There are times i still find myself carrying something that i
  • 00:16:52.357 --> 00:16:56.395
  • Don't need to be carrying.
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  • Well, that's the journey piece.
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  • That's the place where you know god and you trust him and you
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  • Rely on him and say, continue to help me.
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  • Notice this what he says here in 1 peter chapter 5, verse 6 and 7
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  • In the king james verse.
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  • 1 peter 5:6 and 7 in king james.
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  • Now, humility is a guy who gets under the mission of another.
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  • When you humble yourself under the hand of god, you're saying,
  • 00:17:19.818 --> 00:17:22.654
  • "god, i'm submitting myself to your way of doing things."
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  • Humility, i'm submitting myself to your way of doing things.
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  • Pride, i'm going to submit to my way of doing things.
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  • Okay, see the difference?
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  • Humility, submitting to god's way of doing things.
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  • Pride, submitting to your way of doing things, all right?
  • 00:17:36.635 --> 00:17:40.372
  • He says, "humble yourself, therefore under the mighty hand
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  • Of god."
  • 00:17:42.341 --> 00:17:43.675
  • Check it out--i am submitting myself to god's way
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  • Of doing things.
  • 00:17:45.043 --> 00:17:46.512
  • And then he says, when you submit yourself to god's way of
  • 00:17:46.512 --> 00:17:48.881
  • Doing things, humility, he said, "he will exalt you in due time."
  • 00:17:48.881 --> 00:17:54.019
  • Due time always comes, but we gotta quit trying to do
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  • Something to try to make god do it in our time.
  • 00:17:57.823 --> 00:18:00.592
  • Timing is everything.
  • 00:18:00.592 --> 00:18:03.562
  • This message, 30 years ago would have been out of timing and it
  • 00:18:03.562 --> 00:18:07.766
  • Would have been called heresy.
  • 00:18:07.766 --> 00:18:11.403
  • To some is still called that.
  • 00:18:11.403 --> 00:18:13.038
  • You can prophesy to somebody that's something that's true way
  • 00:18:13.038 --> 00:18:16.241
  • Ahead of time and if it don't happen right away, they thought
  • 00:18:16.241 --> 00:18:19.645
  • You missed god.
  • 00:18:19.645 --> 00:18:20.979
  • I've seen that.
  • 00:18:20.979 --> 00:18:22.314
  • I've seen that in my life and ministry.
  • 00:18:22.314 --> 00:18:23.682
  • I've said things and it didn't happen right away and three
  • 00:18:23.682 --> 00:18:26.084
  • Years later, just what i said, it was just too soon.
  • 00:18:26.084 --> 00:18:32.658
  • Verse 7, "casting all your care."
  • 00:18:32.658 --> 00:18:36.662
  • Now, here's humility.
  • 00:18:36.662 --> 00:18:39.031
  • "casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
  • 00:18:39.031 --> 00:18:43.936
  • So what happens when you don't cast your care upon him?
  • 00:18:43.936 --> 00:18:46.805
  • You're now submitting to your way of doing it.
  • 00:18:46.805 --> 00:18:49.942
  • I don't wanna cast my care on him.
  • 00:18:49.942 --> 00:18:52.211
  • I don't wanna stop worrying.
  • 00:18:52.211 --> 00:18:53.979
  • Okay, so all right so there it is, there it is.
  • 00:18:53.979 --> 00:18:57.683
  • At least you'll know. at least you'll know.
  • 00:18:57.683 --> 00:19:00.519
  • At least you won't be going around to see.
  • 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:02.221
  • At least you know.
  • 00:19:02.221 --> 00:19:03.889
  • I am not interested in submitting my life to his plan.
  • 00:19:03.889 --> 00:19:10.629
  • His plan is to abide in the finish.
  • 00:19:10.629 --> 00:19:14.266
  • "i think it's all right to worry every now and then."
  • 00:19:14.266 --> 00:19:18.971
  • That's just like saying i think it's alright to have adultery
  • 00:19:18.971 --> 00:19:20.939
  • Every now and then.
  • 00:19:20.939 --> 00:19:26.245
  • "casting all your care upon him," why?
  • 00:19:26.245 --> 00:19:28.280
  • "he careth for you."
  • 00:19:28.280 --> 00:19:30.515
  • And i thought, man, surely there's got to be some more
  • 00:19:30.515 --> 00:19:32.551
  • To that.
  • 00:19:32.551 --> 00:19:33.885
  • So i went to the mirror translation.
  • 00:19:33.885 --> 00:19:35.821
  • Verse 7 and 8, of course we understand this part of
  • 00:19:35.821 --> 00:19:38.924
  • Humility, but i saw something in the mirror translation that was
  • 00:19:38.924 --> 00:19:43.495
  • Pretty amazing verse 7 and 8, he says, "take immediate action
  • 00:19:43.495 --> 00:19:48.233
  • When it comes to distractions and cares."
  • 00:19:48.233 --> 00:19:52.004
  • I saw the urgency of dealing with care and distraction.
  • 00:19:52.004 --> 00:19:58.744
  • It's not taking your time to deal with it, but it's like,
  • 00:19:58.744 --> 00:20:02.347
  • Don't let this settle in.
  • 00:20:02.347 --> 00:20:05.317
  • Don't let it settle in.
  • 00:20:05.317 --> 00:20:07.219
  • "take immediate action when it comes to distractions
  • 00:20:07.219 --> 00:20:12.024
  • And cares."
  • 00:20:12.024 --> 00:20:14.526
  • So if there's care and distractions, and a distraction
  • 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:18.163
  • Is an intrusion of the mind to try to cause confusion, he says,
  • 00:20:18.163 --> 00:20:20.966
  • "take immediate action."
  • 00:20:20.966 --> 00:20:22.367
  • Are you taking immediate action or have you been carrying this
  • 00:20:22.367 --> 00:20:25.504
  • Thing for like a month?
  • 00:20:25.504 --> 00:20:27.606
  • Take immediate action.
  • 00:20:27.606 --> 00:20:29.341
  • Now look at what it says in verse 8, he says, "fling them
  • 00:20:29.341 --> 00:20:33.712
  • Upon the lord."
  • 00:20:33.712 --> 00:20:35.714
  • I got the picture of like, you know, when you got something
  • 00:20:35.714 --> 00:20:38.583
  • You're flinging it with your finger, fling it upon the lord.
  • 00:20:38.583 --> 00:20:43.021
  • That's how it needs to be treated.
  • 00:20:43.021 --> 00:20:44.389
  • The distraction and the care, fling it upon the lord.
  • 00:20:44.389 --> 00:20:48.160
  • Why?
  • 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:49.494
  • He's got your best interest at heart.
  • 00:20:49.494 --> 00:20:52.798
  • He's got your back.
  • 00:20:52.798 --> 00:20:56.401
  • It's like why are you carrying this when god's got your back.
  • 00:20:56.401 --> 00:21:02.541
  • So what he says is, don't let it settle in you, immediately,
  • 00:21:02.541 --> 00:21:06.878
  • Fling it.
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  • Get rid of it.
  • 00:21:08.380 --> 00:21:11.583
  • Come on, let's try this.
  • 00:21:11.583 --> 00:21:12.918
  • Some of y'all, some of that.
  • 00:21:12.918 --> 00:21:14.252
  • Well, how you do that?
  • 00:21:14.252 --> 00:21:15.620
  • I'm telling you right now.
  • 00:21:15.620 --> 00:21:16.955
  • So let me give you an illustration.
  • 00:21:16.955 --> 00:21:18.323
  • Just take, just, you know, just in your mind's eye, take the
  • 00:21:18.323 --> 00:21:23.595
  • Care of the distraction.
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  • Go ahead and put it in the right hand.
  • 00:21:24.963 --> 00:21:26.732
  • Just take your left hand. just humor me.
  • 00:21:26.732 --> 00:21:28.567
  • Put it in your right hand. yeah, yeah.
  • 00:21:28.567 --> 00:21:30.402
  • And then ball it up, right?
  • 00:21:30.402 --> 00:21:32.003
  • Okay, all right, now, go get it back, all right.
  • 00:21:32.003 --> 00:21:34.906
  • Now fling it, get it away. whoa.
  • 00:21:34.906 --> 00:21:41.813
  • I ain't gonna give me all your care.
  • 00:21:41.813 --> 00:21:45.484
  • And that's the problem we keep taking everybody's care upon
  • 00:21:45.484 --> 00:21:48.453
  • Ourselves and you need to build some boundaries up so that you
  • 00:21:48.453 --> 00:21:51.857
  • Don't be walking around with somebody else's care and
  • 00:21:51.857 --> 00:21:53.892
  • Somebody else's distraction.
  • 00:21:53.892 --> 00:21:55.260
  • And most of the time the care you got, you got it from
  • 00:21:55.260 --> 00:21:57.462
  • Somebody else.
  • 00:21:57.462 --> 00:22:06.104
  • How you feel?
  • 00:22:09.508 --> 00:22:15.914
  • I mean, i want you out here just like walking.
  • 00:22:15.914 --> 00:22:18.984
  • Praise god.
  • 00:22:18.984 --> 00:22:20.318
  • And somebody, somebody somewhere, somebody somewhere.
  • 00:22:20.318 --> 00:22:24.055
  • "can i talk to you for a minute?"
  • 00:22:24.055 --> 00:22:27.225
  • And you just ask them, "is you gonna put some care on me?
  • 00:22:27.225 --> 00:22:31.797
  • Cause i'd like to at least have a nice ride home."
  • 00:22:31.797 --> 00:22:40.839
  • Can't do it no more.
  • 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:42.808
  • I've come to realize that my body can't handle it no more.
  • 00:22:42.808 --> 00:22:46.344
  • It won't take it no more.
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  • Creflo: we never want to assume that all of you are born
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  • Again christians.
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  • Being born again is the key to experiencing god's promises in
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  • Your life.
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  • It's the most important decision you can make.
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  • I wanna say a prayer of salvation with any of you who
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  • Would like to receive it right now, receive the gift
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  • Of salvation.
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  • Pray with me and just repeat after me, "heavenly father, i
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  • Believe that jesus died for my sins.
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  • I believe that jesus was the payment for my sins.
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  • That he was the sin offering.
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  • And i receive him as my peace offering.
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  • Jesus, come into my heart.
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  • Save me and today by faith i receive you and declare that i
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  • Am saved.
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  • In jesus's name, 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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  • Male 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 all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • ♪♪♪
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