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Creflo Dollar - Self-Effort Vs. Redeemed Effort (Part 2)

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Creflo: now, what happens when grace and effort feels like
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They're clashing?
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What happens when grace and effort feels like it's clashing?
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Now, i'm gonna pick out four practical things that will line
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Up with this.
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The first one is prayer.
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Let's look at prayer, and prayer is a big one because people
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Often think that i've got to pray more so god will move.
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Is that anybody in here?
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I did.
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I had to pray more for god.
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I did that all the time.
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I've got to pray more so god can move, all right?
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But under grace, prayer isn't a work.
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To pray--to say i got to pray more, you're trying to earn
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Something now.
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I got to pray more so god can move.
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Prayer is not a work.
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It is a response to a relationship.
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Follow me now, follow me now.
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This is gonna show you how prayer can benefit you big time.
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Prayer is a response to a relationship.
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So prayer under the new covenant, it
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Requires intentionality.
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You might need to shut the door.
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You might need to quiet your mind.
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You need to show up.
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But that effort isn't earning anything.
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Closing the door, quieting your mind, praying in tongues, that's
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Not earning anything.
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It's making space to enjoy what's already true, that you're
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One with him.
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That's the truth.
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So the effort in prayer is more like focus, not striving.
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My prayer is a response to all of the finished works of jesus.
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My prayer is intentional and it is relational.
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My prayer is all about focus.
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And i am laboring in prayer in a relationship to increase my
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Intimacy and to increase my relationship with my heavenly
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Father so as i can stay focused and in alignment with what is
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Already done.
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And sometimes i don't know when i'm out of alignment, so i'm
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Gonna pray in tongues because he already know what you're gonna
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Pray about before you say it.
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And whatever you're gonna ask has already been done.
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Let me show you some scriptures.
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James chapter 5:16 in the king james and the nlt.
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James 5:16 in king james and the nlt.
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Now, because you and i-- you're sitting up here.
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You just like i am.
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I use prayer as a transactional mechanism.
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And all the people i ever met, they were successful because
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They spent a lot of time in prayer.
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So i said, "i'm gonna spend a lot of time in prayer, and i'm
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Gonna be successful like them."
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I am putting forth the effort to pray.
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And it is effort getting up at 4:30, 5 o'clock in the morning,
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Praying an hour or more a day.
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If you don't think that's effort, try it.
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Try getting up at 4:30 in the morning and going at it.
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[speaking in tongues]
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Look at the clock.
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Ain't--a minute ain't even went by.
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It was just a second.
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It requires effort, but i thought the effort was to earn,
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To earn the anointing, to earn the answer.
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I thought it was to earn.
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Now, what does that time do?
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As we respond to god in prayer, our relationship with him gets
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Deeper, our intimacy with him gets deeper, the presence
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Becomes clearer.
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Glory to god.
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What's happening?
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We are participating in every answer, every answer that jesus
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Has already given us.
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And i know you--i could take issue with everything you find
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In matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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That was not a part of the new covenant, even though it says
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New testament in front of it.
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The new testament didn't start until jesus died on the cross
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And was raised from the dead, and the new testament started at
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That particular point.
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Everything you see in matthew, mark, luke--and i question with
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John because john had a revelation on grace that was
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Just like, "oh, my god.
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John, john, you sure you supposed to be--did they put
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John's book in the right place?"
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Let me tell you something.
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You have to understand this redeemed effort or you will
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Continue to operate as an old testament christian.
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And you'll fall from grace every day because you're trying to use
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All of the things that god meant for your labor and rest and
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You'll try to use it to try to earn something that's already
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Been given.
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I know y'all looking at me.
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People like--y'all looking at me like, "now where you get
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That from?"
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Look, bro, we study.
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We just keep going deeper and deeper and deeper.
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I'm not satisfied with where i am.
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I'm never satisfied with where i am.
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I ain't even satisfied with where i am right now.
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I'm gonna keep going.
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I ain't never gonna be satisfied.
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I ask the lord, "make me a student of grace."
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And i'm gonna be a student until i leave.
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I'm not gonna stop.
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I'm not gonna, like--you know, some people come to church to
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Hear what they already know.
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I would go crazy if i had to come to church every week to
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Hear what i already know, and eventually i would resolve,
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"well, why am i going if i'm going--i already know that."
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And the first thing people wanna do when they hear something new
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Is to try to say, "something wrong with that."
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Ain't nothing--just 'cause you ain't heard of it don't mean
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Something wrong with it.
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I mean, you don't--you ain't never seen your brain between
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Your ears, but you believe you got one.
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Some beg to differ with you, but you believe you got one.
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Are y'all following what i'm saying?
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God's trying to take us from glory to glory.
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There's a destiny that we're trying to get to.
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God's gonna use something.
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He needs to get somebody up here.
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We--we've been here so long, and we--we've been going to
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Seminary to just stay there so long.
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There's something greater than what you already know.
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Some people still praying the lord's prayer.
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"our father who art in heaven hallow--" and hadn't realized
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That ain't even a prayer.
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That's an outline for prayer.
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"what?
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Well, pastor, i heard you say that--pray that at a funeral."
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Because i know that's the only one they know.
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And then when you get to that certain part, then you hear
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Everybody, you know, bungle it up.
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"our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come.
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Thy will be done on earth--give or get that day--daily
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Bread, whatever.
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Lead not in temptation. lead us not in hell."
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Anyway, i just do the same thing with it.
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[mumbling], amen.
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Trying to get something to happen.
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Ladies and gentlemen, settle this.
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Everything that needed to happen has happened.
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Glory to god. you've been healed.
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You've been delivered.
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You have been placed in heavenly places in christ jesus.
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You don't have to wait to die to see if you're gonna go
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To heaven.
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The day you got saved, you are seated with him in
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Heavenly places.
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Wherever jesus sits, you sit.
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Glory to god.
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When he got raised up, you got raised up, hallelujah.
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When he ascended, you ascended. when he sat down, you sat down.
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Hallelujah, glory to god.
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Everything that could be done has already been done.
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Well, why pray?
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So you can respond to what's done.
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You can respond to it.
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"i ain't got no car. i ain't got no car.
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All i do is walk." and then i get you a car.
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The car outside, but you won't go get in it.
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You won't respond.
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You won't--you're still walking.
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You won't respond to the car i just got.
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How do you think heaven feels?
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Heaven has got everything you needed, and you still
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Ain't responding.
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I got you a car, put the car in the gara--in the garage.
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You won't respond to the car, and you're in the house trying
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To get a car.
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And i got you one, and you won't even respond.
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You won't even take yourself outside, get in the car.
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See, that's redeemed effort.
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God ain't gonna make you.
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Somebody say, "yeah, pastor, that's common sense."
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Common sense ain't that common these days.
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You be talking to some people, you--they be looking at
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You like, "ooh.
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Well, that--ooh, they--ooh, they didn't get--ooh."
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I told ken the other day, i said, "if you--if you're in
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Your 20s, i can't talk to you because you don't understand me
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And i don't understand you."
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I was eating breakfast with my daughter the other day.
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She was saying something yesterday.
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She was saying something. i just looked at her.
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She said--i said, "what you just say?"
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And she was like--she was using some words.
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I knew what the words meant, but the words didn't mean the same
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Way that she was using them.
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And i'm just--i just said, "ah, [mumbling].
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You want some eggs? you understand that.
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We can talk eggs."
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Are y'all seeing what i'm saying?
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He's already got the car in the garage.
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It requires the effort of responding and participating
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From the place of knowing i ain't got to walk no more
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Because i got a car in the garage.
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But it requires me being dressed, going outside, opening
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The door to the car, cranking it up.
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I know, y'all wearing me out this morning, boy.
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I mean--and most of y'all get it, but you got maybe two or
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Three in here, like, keep pulling like, "come on, man.
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I ain't on the bus. my feet dragging out the door.
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Come on, my feet hurting. come on, reverend.
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I'm 20, come on, you--"
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He said, "confess your faults one to
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Another, pray one for another, that you may be healed."
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Now, what we think is i'm gonna do this so i can be healed.
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No, so i can respond to healing.
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"the fer--the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man, it
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Makes stuff available."
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It's already done.
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It--but is it available to you?
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Yes, available to you, but your response and your intimacy and
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All of that stuff is making what's finished available
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Because of how you're responding to it.
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Let's go to the mirror right quick.
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You know, the mirror ain't playing, boy.
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Philippians 4:6, philippians 4:6 in the mirror translation.
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All right, now watch this.
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He said, "let no anxiety about anything distract you."
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Okay.
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So how do i deal with the anxiety that's trying to get me
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Out of alignment, get me out of rest?
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"rather translate moments into prayerful worship, and soak your
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Requests in gratitude before god."
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You see how he using prayer here?
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It's a labor to stay in alignment.
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It's a labor to stay at rest.
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All of the stuff that's coming after you, he says, "here's what
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I want you to do.
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I want you to turn your prayer into prayerful worship to deal
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With the destruction that's trying to knock you off your
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Alignment, that's trying to separate you from
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What's finished."
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Oh, my gosh.
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"and soak your requests in gratitude and thanksgiving."
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You know how to beat the devil when he come trying to tell you
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You don't have what's already finished?
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"lord, i give you praise.
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Lord, i thank you.
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[speaking in tongues]
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Oh lord--" now you understand that.
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You're staying in alignment.
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You're staying at rest in what's already finished.
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[speaking in tongues]
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That's why you see a lot of us, we--you think we're trying to
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Be deep, but you don't understand that some trying to
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Separate us from what's finished.
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So you think, "well, they just pray all the time."
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Well, you don't understand the devil keep messing with me all
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The time, and he--and i gotta get [speaking in tongues].
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Thank you, jesus.
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Oh, you mighty [speaking in tongues].
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And you think, "oh, they're trying to be deep."
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I ain't trying to be deep.
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I'm trying not to fall from grace.
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I'm trying to stay where jesus has already put me up.
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I'm trying to keep my car.
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Look at the 1 thessalonians 5:17.
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1 thessalonians 5:17.
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Uh-huh.
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Well, there you go.
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In the mirror, in the mirror.
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All right.
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"constantly engage your thoughts in worshipful prayer."
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Why?
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Because the number one place of attack to try to separate you
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From the finished works is in your mind.
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And you don't fight thoughts with thoughts.
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You fight thoughts with words.
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"constantly engage your thoughts in worshipful prayer."
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What--what's going on in your head?
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The bible says, "healing's finished, but the pain
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Is there."
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And in your mind, you say, "something wrong.
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I still ain't healed."
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See, he getting you out of alignment, and you
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Won't respond.
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Prayer's a weapon of response.
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It is an effort that you use to respond, and you're
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Not responding.
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You're not responding.
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So much of the time we're defeated because we
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Don't respond.
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Resist the devil--that's the response--and he'll flee
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From you.
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But it said, "submit yourself to god first.
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Resist the devil, and he'll flee from you."
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We don't look at stuff like that.
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We keep thinking the bible is a poetry book.
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It's an instruction book.
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It's a manual of operation.
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It's trying to show you how to maintain the victory that jesus
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Died to obtain.
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And you trying to obtain something when jesus
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Already obtained.
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Your job is not to obtain nothing.
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He has obtained everything you need.
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Your job is to maintain what he's obtained, and the devil's
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Job is to get you out of alignment so you don't think
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He's obtained it, so you'll start trying to obtain it and it
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Ain't been maintained.
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And he playing this little chess game in your thought life, and
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You have a way to respond in prayer.
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And you have--you are responding in relationship.
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You're not responding in prayer to try to get god to go to work.
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You're responding in prayer in a relationship with god and what
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He's already done.
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I have a relationship with god.
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The devil is trying to come and separate me from what has
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Been finished.
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So all of a sudden, now you see why people pray all the time.
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Ain't nobody praying to be religious.
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Ain't nobody praying to be deep.
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I'm praying to stay with what jesus has already done.
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I'm thanking him and i'm praising him.
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I'm saying all kinds of prayer.
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I'm praying when i'm singing.
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Praise the lord.
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I'm singing in my prayer.
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I'm thanking him in my prayer.
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I done ran out of english words to say, so i
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[speaking in tongues].
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"what they doing talking that language?"
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I'm praying.
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You don't know what i'm saying, but the holy ghost know what
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I'm saying, hallelujah.
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And the bible talks about how the holy ghost will help me
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In prayer.
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There's that partnership again.
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He'll help me in prayer.
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All right, now let's go to another one that seems to
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Clash: obedience.
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How that work?
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Obedience is another tricky one.
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In the old covenant, obedience was transactional.
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Obey and you'll be blessed.
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You see that all in deuteronomy 28.
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Do this and you'll be blessed. do that.
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If you don't do it, you won't be blessed.
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It's transactional. obedience was transactional.
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So under grace, obedience flowed from the new nature.
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Look at romans 6:17.
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Romans 6:17, obedience flow from the new nature.
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"but god be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but
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You have obeyed," watch this, "from the heart that form of
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Doctrine which was delivered you."
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All right, so we hanging it carefully because this obedience
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Was not from the heart in the old testament.
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It was you gotta do this in order to get that to happen.
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And if you don't obey, you'll be cursed.
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If you do obey, you'll be blessed.
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But now he's making a distinction between obedience in
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The new covenant.
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He's talking about an obedience that flows from the heart.
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Hang in here now. this is gonna bless you.
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It flows from the heart.
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So while you still choose to follow the spirit, the effort
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Isn't fear based or rule based.
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It's love based.
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It's not, "i better obey or else," but it's, "why would i
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Not follow the one who already fulfilled everything for me?
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Why would i not obey the one who's already done it all?"
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It flows from that point.
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So now under the old covenant, obedience was a demand.
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Do this or else.
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And a whole bunch of people died in the old--under the old
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Covenant because they could not successfully do it.
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I mean, there were, like, thousands that died
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For complaining.
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Whew, jesus.
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Well, not many people would be in church this morning if we--
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You might not even have a preacher up here preaching
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This morning.
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Dying for complaining.
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All right, but in the new covenant, obedience
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Shifts completely.
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It's no longer about rules.
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It's about relationship and response.
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Now i'm gonna ease into this.
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Hebrews 8 and 10, god writes his laws on their heart.
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Oh, boy.
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"for this is the covenant that i will make with the house of
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Israel after those days, saith the lord; i will put my laws
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Into their minds.
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I'm gonna write them on their heart."
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So it's gonna--it's flowing out of their heart.
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All right, in the new testament, there is
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Something called obedience to faith or of faith.
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Obedience to faith or obedience of faith.
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In the new testament, it was obedience under the law.
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In the--excuse me.
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In the old testament, it was obedience under the law.
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In the new testament, it's obedient--it's the obedience of
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The faith.
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Okay, now watch this carefully.
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Let's read that scripture.
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Romans 1 and 5.
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Romans 1 and 5, he says, "by whom we have
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Received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith
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Amongst all nations for his namesake."
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What is obedience to the faith?
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We see it again in romans chapter 16, verse 26.
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Romans 16, verse 26, "but now is made manifest, and by the
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Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of
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The everlasting god, made known to all nations for the obedience
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Of faith."
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What is that?
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Because they made a distinction, obedience of faith.
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All right, listen very carefully.
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Here's what he's saying.
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Under the old testament, obedience was simple.
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You had to do this in order to get that.
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So we brought that from the old testament over here.
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Today in church, we says, "but you need to obey.
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You need to obey.
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God ain't gonna bless you unless you obey.
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God ain't gonna hear you. you got to obey.
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God is--" that's not the ca--we not under that same kind
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Of obedience.
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Ooh, that's just driving someone--
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Obedience to the faith is just simply this: right believing.
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It's right believing.
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Obedience to the faith is trusting and believing what
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Jesus has finished.
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And so he is saying, "i need you to be obedient to the faith, and
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I need you to believe that you're righteous."
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Right believing is i'm righteous.
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Wrong believing is i'm gonna be righteous.
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Right believing is i'm redeemed.
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Wrong believing is if i do this, i'll be redeemed.
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Right believing is i'm sound.
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Wrong believing is if i do this, i'll be sound.
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He said, "under the new testament, here is the obedience
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That is required: obedience of the faith or obedience to
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The faith," obedience to the fact that jesus has made you
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Righteous, jesus has redeemed you, jesus has healed you,
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Jesus has sanctified you, jesus has made you holy, you are
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Perfect in jesus christ, you're seated with jesus christ, and he
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Says-- you say, "i believe it," he says
00:24:05.156 --> 00:24:08.460
That's obedience to the faith.
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Creflo Dollar - Self-Effort Vs. Redeemed Effort (Part 2)

June 25, 2026 | 27:29

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