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Creflo Dollar - Spirit-Led Grace Life

October 9, 2025 | 28:54

Creflo Dollar - Spirit-Led Grace Life
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Spirit-Led Grace Life | October 9, 2025
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  • Male announcer: this program is brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Male announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: and he says if you're living a life where the
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  • Holy spirit is leading you, then you're not under the law.
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  • But if you're not living a life, holy spirit-led, you're under
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  • The law and you're looking for even more laws.
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  • And in fact, you trust those written laws more than you trust
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  • The holy spirit.
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  • What am i trying to show you?
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  • You gotta have the holy ghost for this to work.
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  • You have to have a relationship with the holy spirit for the new
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  • Covenant to work.
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  • You have to have a relationship with the holy spirit for
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  • Anything that he promised in his new covenant to come to pass.
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  • Male: man, it has changed our lives tremendously.
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  • He has explained grace in a way that even the infant child could
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  • Understand it.
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  • Female: pastor took the time to talk to me and answer questions
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  • That i've had for a long time.
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  • Female: she hasn't been able to hold her head up and the minute
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  • That you walked out on the stage, my mommy said, "i can
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  • Hold my head up!"
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  • Female: when he's in your town you should go because it's
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  • Definitely a blessing.
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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: we're gonna talk about "spirit-led grace life."
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  • "spirit-led grace life."
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  • Now, one of the things we want to look at here, it's really
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  • Gonna be a series about the holy spirit, because we've heard a
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  • Lot of weird things about the holy spirit.
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  • The holy spirit is more than a jump, a leap, it's more than
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  • Chill bumps, it's more than all of the things we ever heard.
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  • Now, i'm not saying all those things are out.
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  • But i want to introduce you to the holy spirit, the spirit of
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  • Grace, whom without the new covenant will not manifest in
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  • Your life.
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  • It is one thing to have knowledge of all of the
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  • Scriptures and the principles of the new covenant.
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  • But the holy spirit is the one that makes that new
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  • Covenant real.
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  • The holy spirit is the one that is doing the work in this
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  • New covenant.
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  • And so it becomes a big vital piece of our christian life to
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  • Understand the place of the new covenant.
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  • Now in this series, i'm gonna be talking about how to hear
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  • From god.
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  • I'm gonna be talking about how to be led by the spirit.
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  • I'm gonna be talking about all of those things, everything that
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  • I know of that has to do with the spirit of god, since he is
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  • The key to the manifestation of this new covenant.
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  • So you might want to wipe out all of the weird stuff that you
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  • May have heard, all of the--i don't know, but when i was in
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  • The baptist church and i just got saved, it was all about, you
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  • Know, the different things you see at church, somebody we used
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  • To call it get to shouting, you remember that, and tear the
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  • Church up and slap their neighbor and somebody says,
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  • "what was that?"
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  • "that was the holy ghost," and i thought, "ooh, i don't want
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  • That," okay?
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  • Or we limit the holy spirit to just speaking in tongues, and a
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  • Lot of you are gonna be filled with the holy spirit in this
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  • Series, because you're gonna see the necessity of understanding
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  • What it means to have the indwelling of the holy spirit,
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  • But then have the holy spirit to get on everything that you do.
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  • So i want to start this in a very unusual way.
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  • I want to compare the operation of the law
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  • To the operation of this, of the holy spirit.
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  • So let's approach it this way.
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  • Achieving morality, that's the objective here of both
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  • Covenants, both the old covenant and the new covenant.
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  • Now, let's define, let me give you a working definition that
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  • I'm using for morality.
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  • It's a distinction between right and wrong.
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  • It's a distinction between good and bad behavior.
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  • You ever heard somebody say, you know, "boy, you ain't got no
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  • Morals," you know?
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  • And we're finally going to deal with behavior.
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  • I've been, for the last 12 or 13 years, just trying to get you to
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  • Receive your identity.
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  • We're finally gonna deal with behavior.
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  • And how does that work?
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  • So achieving mortality was structured differently or--
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  • Mortality, achieving mortality, was structured differently or
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  • Administered differently under the old covenant of the law
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  • Versus how, excuse me, morality.
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  • I said mortality didn't i? morality.
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  • I don't know how many times i said mortality, but it's
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  • Morality, your morals, all right?
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  • So it's administered differently under the old covenant of law
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  • Than it is under the new covenant of grace.
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  • In other words, how do i teach people to behave right?
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  • How do we finally deal with this issue of behavior?
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  • Well, in the old covenant, morality was administered
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  • Through the law rules given by god to israel through moses.
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  • The law came by moses.
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  • And the whole purpose of the law that came by moses, they were
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  • Trying to achieve good morality.
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  • So the law functioned as an external guide, defining what
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  • Was right and what was wrong.
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  • And through commandments, through ordinances, and through
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  • Sacrifices, you see the law trying to define what's right
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  • And what's wrong.
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  • So we have 613 laws.
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  • If you were to go and ask anybody, how many laws are there
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  • In the law of moses--the covenant of the law of moses,
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  • Is 613.
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  • The interesting thing about it, is ten of those laws came from
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  • God written on stone: the ten commandments.
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  • The ten commandments operated as the moral law of god.
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  • In the jewish community, you had civil law, laws that you live by
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  • In the community; you had ceremonial laws, those were the
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  • Laws that were applied to the sacrificial system.
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  • There were certain laws that were applied to how you bring a
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  • Sacrifice to be sacrificed.
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  • And then moral laws, and the moral laws were the laws that
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  • Came from god, which are perfect, which represents
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  • God's character.
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  • His laws that are eternal.
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  • Now, what they did in israel is they tried to get the ten
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  • Commandments to operate in the lives of the jewish people by
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  • Applying rules and regulation and ordinances in hopes that it
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  • Would produce the morality of the ten commandments.
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  • Everybody follow me so far?
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  • Hoping that how do we get these moral laws, these ten
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  • Commandments, how do we get them to become manifested in the
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  • Lives of these people?
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  • So you had ten commandments written by the finger of god on
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  • Stone tablets, and 603 that were written on tablets.
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  • So the 603 laws were rules about what to eat, what not to eat,
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  • Rules about, you don't work on the sabbath.
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  • In fact, there was a guy that came out gathering sticks and it
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  • Was illegal to do that and he was stoned to death by those
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  • Regulations and the laws, trying to externally get you to
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  • Be moral.
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  • So i'm gonna try to get you to be moral by applying rules to
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  • You to let you know the consequences for not
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  • Being moral.
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  • Now, i gotta tell you right now, they failed miserably.
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  • Somebody said, "how do you know?"
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  • Well, if that first commandment, if that first covenant was okay,
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  • Then there would be no need for the second covenant.
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  • So you come into the second covenant here, the covenant of
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  • Grace, and you hear the apostle paul repeating the ten
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  • Commandments over again, except for the commandment concerning
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  • The sabbath.
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  • Because the sabbath in the new covenant is not a day of rest.
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  • The sabbath in the new covenant is jesus, and we are now to rest
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  • In jesus christ.
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  • But you see paul saying it is still good for children to honor
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  • Their mother and father.
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  • Well, that came from the ten commandments.
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  • So now what's happening now?
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  • Why is paul repeating the moral law of god that came in the ten
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  • Commandments to jewish people?
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  • See, what god gave moses was awesome.
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  • It was perfect.
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  • It represented his character.
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  • The problem was how they chose to try to administer it.
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  • So under the new covenant, it is now administered by the holy
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  • Spirit, and morality was gonna come from the inside out versus
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  • In the old covenant, morality coming from the outside in.
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  • It doesn't work.
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  • You can go and say, well, i'm gonna discipline myself, i'm
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  • Gonna do this for 20 days and i'm gonna do it the same time
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  • And i'm gonna do it over and over and over again and that's
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  • How i'm going to achieve the second commandment.
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  • And then you're gonna get more discipline and you're gonna do
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  • This real good and you're gonna keep doing it and that's how
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  • You're gonna do the third commandment.
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  • And what happens is, is you can do that, but eventually one day
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  • If it don't drive you crazy, you're gonna realize it
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  • Didn't stick.
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  • But in this new covenant, there was a new administrator of
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  • Morality that was assigned in the new covenant, and that
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  • Administrator in the new covenant is the holy spirit, who
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  • Will do the job of changing you on the inside and everybody
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  • Else, if they don't judge you so bad, will see the changes on
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  • The outside.
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  • Does everybody follow what i'm saying here?
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  • All right, now i'm gonna kinda go over that a little bit so you
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  • Can see what i'm saying because under this new covenant of
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  • Grace, it's inward, inward administration.
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  • So all of the stuff that you find in the new covenant, when
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  • You try to do it outwardly like they did under the law,
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  • You fail.
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  • But if you allow the holy spirit to transform you inwardly, then
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  • You begin to see that you're walking in the morality of the
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  • Commandments that god gave, and that's why one of the major
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  • Commandments in the new covenant is the commandment of love.
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  • And 'cause love's gonna change you from the inside out.
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  • All right now, i don't mean to invite you to a hermeneutics
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  • Class this morning, but this is the stuff we need to have
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  • Because what's happening in church right now?
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  • We believe more in external application to try to change us
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  • Rather than internal application to change us, the external--
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  • Listen, you can go on a diet and lose 40 pounds, but eventually
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  • If you don't watch that carefully and be conscious of
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  • That thing, you get 50 pounds back.
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  • But there's something that happens inwardly on the inside
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  • Of you.
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  • So watch this carefully.
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  • You see now how the holy spirit begins to fit in all of this.
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  • Let's look at deuteronomy 30:15 and verse 16.
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  • He says, and i read it just in the king james.
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  • He says, "see, i have set before thee this day life and good.
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  • I have set before you death and evil."
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  • Now, all of this has been set before you.
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  • Now look at how they're trying to achieve it.
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  • "in that," that i've set before you, "i command thee this day to
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  • Love the lord thy god, to walk in his ways, to keep his
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  • Commandments, to keep his statutes and his judgment, that
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  • Thou mayst live and multiply: and the lord thy god shall bless
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  • Thee in the land whether thou goest to possess it."
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  • So he says, "i place this before you and i command you."
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  • So through the commandment, you're supposed to achieve that.
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  • It didn't work, guys.
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  • It didn't work.
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  • The old covenant was based on obedience to written laws.
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  • Now let's look at the new covenant.
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  • The new testament--in the new testament, morality shifts from
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  • Being law-based to being spirit-led.
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  • So instead of external rules governing your behavior, the
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  • Holy spirit now works internally, transforming
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  • Believers, from within he changes you.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • Look at philippians 2:13.
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  • So external rules trying to govern your behavior.
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  • External rules trying to--we have a lot of that.
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  • You--we have a lot of that even in our society.
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  • And it may not be rules from the bible, but we're always using
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  • External change or external things to try to change us.
  • 00:14:50.925 --> 00:14:55.196
  • Look at what he says in philippians 2:13.
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  • Let's look at that in the nlt.
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  • Philippians 2:13 in the nlt.
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  • He says, "for god is working in you," and what is god doing?
  • 00:15:03.071 --> 00:15:08.276
  • "giving you the desire and," what else?
  • 00:15:08.276 --> 00:15:11.245
  • "the power," what?
  • 00:15:11.245 --> 00:15:13.181
  • "to do," what?
  • 00:15:13.181 --> 00:15:14.515
  • "what pleases him."
  • 00:15:14.515 --> 00:15:15.883
  • So it sounds to me that the holy spirit is saying, "i'm working
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  • In you, and because of the work that i'm doing on the inside of
  • 00:15:20.755 --> 00:15:25.293
  • You, you are inwardly developing the desire
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  • And the ability to do what pleases him."
  • 00:15:33.368 --> 00:15:38.172
  • And as christian people, it's so easy to ignore that it's the
  • 00:15:38.172 --> 00:15:42.610
  • Work of the holy spirit inwardly that's going to bring the change
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  • Out of you.
  • 00:15:48.182 --> 00:15:49.517
  • How many of you know everything about a fruit tree is based on
  • 00:15:49.517 --> 00:15:52.787
  • The root tree?
  • 00:15:52.787 --> 00:15:54.122
  • It's based on--you can't see the root, the root is buried.
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  • It is unseen.
  • 00:15:56.657 --> 00:15:58.026
  • And god is using the things you can't see, you can't see the
  • 00:15:58.026 --> 00:16:01.529
  • Deep stuff that's on the inside of you, but by the holy spirit,
  • 00:16:01.529 --> 00:16:05.066
  • He is going to begin to work the desire in you and he's going to
  • 00:16:05.066 --> 00:16:09.504
  • Begin to give you the power for that change, for that behavior.
  • 00:16:09.504 --> 00:16:15.610
  • See, if you try to change your behavior through modifying the
  • 00:16:15.610 --> 00:16:19.380
  • Behavior, behavioral modification, you think, well,
  • 00:16:19.380 --> 00:16:22.784
  • If i'll modify my behavior by doing these five disciplined
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  • Things, then, you know, i've achieved change."
  • 00:16:26.154 --> 00:16:29.924
  • And it doesn't happen like that.
  • 00:16:29.924 --> 00:16:32.960
  • It's the holy spirit working in you to bring about a change of
  • 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:39.233
  • Your behavior, praise god, amen.
  • 00:16:39.233 --> 00:16:42.403
  • And then i was thinking about this.
  • 00:16:42.403 --> 00:16:45.373
  • I said, "well, wait a minute god, if you're saying we ought
  • 00:16:45.373 --> 00:16:47.875
  • To have the holy spirit to receive what grace has made
  • 00:16:47.875 --> 00:16:50.945
  • Available--" he says, i didn't say you had to have the holy
  • 00:16:50.945 --> 00:16:52.647
  • Spirit to see what grace made available.
  • 00:16:52.647 --> 00:16:54.215
  • I said you had the holy spirit to see what grace has made
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  • Available become real in your life.
  • 00:16:56.651 --> 00:17:00.721
  • And one of the things we got to understand is we get this idea
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  • Of, well, jesus don't have nothing to do with people
  • 00:17:03.925 --> 00:17:07.962
  • Who misbehaving.
  • 00:17:07.962 --> 00:17:09.964
  • And yet that woman who had five husbands and was shacking up at
  • 00:17:09.964 --> 00:17:13.568
  • That time, he went to see her in her misbehaving.
  • 00:17:13.568 --> 00:17:17.705
  • And yet that woman who was snatched out--the bible says
  • 00:17:17.705 --> 00:17:21.075
  • She was snatched out of the bed in the very act of adultery, and
  • 00:17:21.075 --> 00:17:26.047
  • He came to give her a gift of no condemnation.
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  • I'm--that's what i'm trying to tell y'all, is that your
  • 00:17:28.082 --> 00:17:30.852
  • Behavior is not big and bad enough to keep god away
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  • From you.
  • 00:17:34.722 --> 00:17:39.527
  • But the church has decided that your behavior can not only send
  • 00:17:39.527 --> 00:17:43.731
  • You to hell, but your behavior can separate you from god.
  • 00:17:43.731 --> 00:17:48.870
  • What can separate you from god was dealt with the day you got
  • 00:17:48.870 --> 00:17:51.806
  • Born again.
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  • And what separates us from god was the old man.
  • 00:17:53.174 --> 00:17:55.943
  • What separates us from god was the sin man.
  • 00:17:55.943 --> 00:17:58.713
  • But the day you got born again, the sin man was dealt with and
  • 00:17:58.713 --> 00:18:02.950
  • You were given a new creation on the inside.
  • 00:18:02.950 --> 00:18:06.053
  • As you continue your journey of life, what happens in that
  • 00:18:06.053 --> 00:18:09.957
  • Journey of life?
  • 00:18:09.957 --> 00:18:11.325
  • You start seeing a metamorphic change that starts from the
  • 00:18:11.325 --> 00:18:14.729
  • Inside, working itself on the outside.
  • 00:18:14.729 --> 00:18:17.398
  • You remember that song, "god on the inside, working on
  • 00:18:17.398 --> 00:18:19.901
  • The outside.
  • 00:18:19.901 --> 00:18:21.269
  • Oh, what a change in my life."
  • 00:18:21.269 --> 00:18:22.603
  • But if you keep beating yourself up and beating other people up
  • 00:18:22.603 --> 00:18:26.440
  • Because they are not applying the right outward stuff to
  • 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.511
  • Change, and the real truth of it is people can show you what
  • 00:18:30.511 --> 00:18:33.714
  • They're doing on the outside, but they never seem to show you
  • 00:18:33.714 --> 00:18:36.384
  • What's really going on on the inside.
  • 00:18:36.384 --> 00:18:42.089
  • Are you listening to me?
  • 00:18:42.089 --> 00:18:44.959
  • So let's go to romans 8:2.
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  • All right, now notice what he says: "for the law of the spirit
  • 00:18:49.330 --> 00:18:53.834
  • Of life in christ jesus hath made me," what?
  • 00:18:53.834 --> 00:19:01.909
  • "free from the law of," what?
  • 00:19:01.909 --> 00:19:06.080
  • So this shows that believers are no longer under the
  • 00:19:06.080 --> 00:19:09.417
  • External law.
  • 00:19:09.417 --> 00:19:12.420
  • But you are led by the spirit who produces righteousness
  • 00:19:12.420 --> 00:19:16.224
  • In us.
  • 00:19:16.224 --> 00:19:17.558
  • The law of the spirit of life of jesus christ, it's made us free
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  • From the law of sin and death.
  • 00:19:21.963 --> 00:19:23.764
  • We are free from the law of sin and death.
  • 00:19:23.764 --> 00:19:26.567
  • We are free from external law.
  • 00:19:26.567 --> 00:19:29.403
  • We are no longer being dealt with by external things.
  • 00:19:29.403 --> 00:19:34.141
  • We are free from that.
  • 00:19:34.141 --> 00:19:35.476
  • Now look at this in the mirror, romans 8:2, in the mirror.
  • 00:19:35.476 --> 00:19:39.213
  • He says: "the law of the spirit is the liberating force of life
  • 00:19:39.213 --> 00:19:45.019
  • In christ.
  • 00:19:45.019 --> 00:19:46.654
  • So this leaves me with no further obligation to the law of
  • 00:19:46.654 --> 00:19:50.925
  • Sin and death."
  • 00:19:50.925 --> 00:19:52.293
  • There is no further obligation on our part to the law of sin
  • 00:19:52.293 --> 00:19:57.431
  • And death.
  • 00:19:57.431 --> 00:19:58.799
  • Why?
  • 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.134
  • Because the spirit of god has come in and liberated me
  • 00:20:00.134 --> 00:20:01.702
  • From that.
  • 00:20:01.702 --> 00:20:03.070
  • And then he says: "the spirit has superseded the sin-enslaved
  • 00:20:03.070 --> 00:20:08.109
  • Senses as the principal law of our lives."
  • 00:20:08.109 --> 00:20:11.112
  • So the principal law of our life is the law of the spirit of life
  • 00:20:11.112 --> 00:20:14.382
  • In christ jesus.
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  • The spirit of god has superseded sin enslavement.
  • 00:20:15.750 --> 00:20:20.588
  • The spirit of god.
  • 00:20:20.588 --> 00:20:22.189
  • And so whatever they were trying to accomplish through the law
  • 00:20:22.189 --> 00:20:26.260
  • Externally, the spirit of god supersedes it.
  • 00:20:26.260 --> 00:20:30.965
  • So don't think you're gonna get less impact now that you're
  • 00:20:30.965 --> 00:20:34.802
  • Trusting the holy spirit to change you from the inside out
  • 00:20:34.802 --> 00:20:38.105
  • Versus people who, i mean, you can see what they were doing,
  • 00:20:38.105 --> 00:20:41.275
  • You can see them sweating, sweating like a sinner trying to
  • 00:20:41.275 --> 00:20:44.445
  • Get things changed.
  • 00:20:44.445 --> 00:20:45.780
  • And people today are still sweating like sinners to try to
  • 00:20:45.780 --> 00:20:48.516
  • See changes in their behavior.
  • 00:20:48.516 --> 00:20:51.585
  • But the spirit of god supersedes all of that.
  • 00:20:51.585 --> 00:20:55.890
  • Now let's go to galatians chapter 5 and verse 18.
  • 00:20:55.890 --> 00:20:58.993
  • Let's look at it in the king james first.
  • 00:20:58.993 --> 00:21:01.562
  • King james first.
  • 00:21:01.562 --> 00:21:03.397
  • He says: "but if you be led of the spirit."
  • 00:21:03.397 --> 00:21:08.969
  • All right, so here's a great way to determine if you're still
  • 00:21:08.969 --> 00:21:12.106
  • Under the law.
  • 00:21:12.106 --> 00:21:13.808
  • If you be led of the spirit, you are not under the law.
  • 00:21:13.808 --> 00:21:19.113
  • You are not under the law if you're being led by the spirit.
  • 00:21:19.113 --> 00:21:24.051
  • Hm, we're talking about living a life where the holy spirit leads
  • 00:21:24.051 --> 00:21:31.692
  • You, okay, versus living a life where you're trying to line up
  • 00:21:31.692 --> 00:21:39.166
  • With written laws.
  • 00:21:39.166 --> 00:21:41.936
  • And he says if you're living a life where the holy spirit is
  • 00:21:41.936 --> 00:21:45.506
  • Leading you, then you're not under the law.
  • 00:21:45.506 --> 00:21:49.210
  • But if you're not living a life, holy spirit-led, you're under
  • 00:21:49.210 --> 00:21:54.248
  • The law and you're looking for even more laws.
  • 00:21:54.248 --> 00:21:57.017
  • And in fact, you trust those written laws more than you trust
  • 00:21:57.017 --> 00:22:00.020
  • The holy spirit.
  • 00:22:00.020 --> 00:22:01.355
  • What am i trying to show you?
  • 00:22:01.355 --> 00:22:02.857
  • You gotta have the holy ghost for this work.
  • 00:22:02.857 --> 00:22:04.392
  • You have to have a relationship with the holy spirit for the new
  • 00:22:04.392 --> 00:22:06.694
  • Covenant to work.
  • 00:22:06.694 --> 00:22:08.062
  • You have to have a relationship with the holy spirit for
  • 00:22:08.062 --> 00:22:09.530
  • Anything that he promised in his new covenant to come to pass.
  • 00:22:09.530 --> 00:22:12.333
  • Now look at this in the mirror translation: "to be acquainted
  • 00:22:12.333 --> 00:22:17.505
  • With the promptings of your spirit," that's faith, "is to be
  • 00:22:17.505 --> 00:22:23.010
  • Free from the law [of personal performance.]"
  • 00:22:23.010 --> 00:22:29.016
  • So now he's saying we've got to become acquainted with the
  • 00:22:29.016 --> 00:22:33.988
  • Promptings of your spirit.
  • 00:22:33.988 --> 00:22:37.625
  • Promptings, you're prompted in your spirit.
  • 00:22:37.625 --> 00:22:41.996
  • There's something on the inside of you, you don't know where it
  • 00:22:41.996 --> 00:22:44.765
  • Came from, but you're, well, you know, it came from the holy
  • 00:22:44.765 --> 00:22:47.635
  • Spirit, sometimes.
  • 00:22:47.635 --> 00:22:50.504
  • You're being prompted or moved.
  • 00:22:50.504 --> 00:22:53.541
  • You're being prompted or moved in your spirit.
  • 00:22:53.541 --> 00:22:58.012
  • Hm, wonder what happens if you're prompted or moved in your
  • 00:22:58.012 --> 00:23:02.683
  • Spirit to fill out an application and to go and see
  • 00:23:02.683 --> 00:23:07.955
  • About this job.
  • 00:23:07.955 --> 00:23:09.457
  • I hadn't thought about it till then, but the spirit of god is
  • 00:23:09.457 --> 00:23:11.926
  • Prompting you to do it.
  • 00:23:11.926 --> 00:23:13.727
  • Hadn't been in any conversations.
  • 00:23:13.727 --> 00:23:15.896
  • You hadn't prayed about it.
  • 00:23:15.896 --> 00:23:17.698
  • The spirit of god is prompting you to go here.
  • 00:23:17.698 --> 00:23:20.734
  • The spirit of god is prompting you to do that.
  • 00:23:20.734 --> 00:23:23.737
  • The spirit of god is--it's nothing that's in your plan.
  • 00:23:23.737 --> 00:23:26.874
  • It doesn't appear on your agenda.
  • 00:23:26.874 --> 00:23:29.877
  • You're prompted by the holy spirit.
  • 00:23:29.877 --> 00:23:31.879
  • He says it is time for us to become acquainted with
  • 00:23:31.879 --> 00:23:34.682
  • Those promptings.
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  • Spirit, and the holy spirit's going to show you how to
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  • Do this.
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