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Creflo Dollar - The Stance of a Christian vs. The Stare of a Christian

June 8, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Stance of a Christian vs. The Stare of a Christian
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Stance of a Christian vs. The Stare of a Christian | June 8, 2026
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: god is not going to take away the trouble, but he
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  • Is the comforter.
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  • So what he will do is get in the trouble with you to make sure
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  • You can come out and provide a way of escape so you can
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  • Bear it.
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  • You keep trying to get god to take it away.
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  • He says, "no, if it showed up, we're not gonna waste it, so
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  • Let me get in the trouble with you."
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  • He got in the lion's den with daniel.
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  • He got in the fiery furnace with the hebrew boys.
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  • He didn't remove the fire, and he didn't take away the lions.
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  • He got in there and became your comforter.
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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 got to praise god like we're getting ready to go
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  • To heaven this week.
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  • We got to praise him for his goodness.
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  • We got to praise him for his greatness.
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  • We got to praise him for his grace.
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  • We got to praise him because we're down.
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  • We got to praise him because we're up.
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  • We got to praise him because of what he's already done, what
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  • He's doing right now, and what he's getting ready to do.
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  • He is worthy to be praised.
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  • You got to praise him.
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  • We got to praise him.
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  • Whew, jesus.
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  • Ooh, jesus.
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  • Glory to god.
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  • Look at romans 5 and 2 in the nlt.
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  • Now, here's what we got.
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  • Romans 5 and 2 in the nlt.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • "because of our faith," so everything that god has done
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  • Before the foundations of the world only requires you to
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  • Believe it, only requires you to have faith in it.
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  • To obtain the inheritance and to obtain all he has done, it
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  • Requires your faith.
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  • That's it.
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  • Sometimes we act like jesus isn't enough.
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  • He's enough.
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  • It's not jesus plus praying for two hours, jesus plus fasting
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  • For three days.
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  • Quit counting all that.
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  • Just stop counting.
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  • Stop counting the minutes you pray.
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  • Stop counting the days you--stop.
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  • Just learn how to have a relationship with god.
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  • Put that alarm clock up and just pray, and if you end up praying
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  • For just 10 minutes, he received it all.
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  • Stop.
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  • "well, could you not pray for one hour?"
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  • And then everybody looking at the clock, "one hour.
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  • We're almost there."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Stop it.
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  • Everything you counting, stop.
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  • God wants a genuine, authentic relationship with you, something
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  • That comes out of your heart.
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  • "lord, i am praying to you because i want to pray with you.
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  • I want to have devotion with you, and i ain't putting no time
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  • Clock on my devotion 'cause after i get up, it continues."
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  • We've learned how to do church, but we don't know how to
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  • Do life.
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  • God's gonna help you in your journey as you live, so live.
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  • ♪ i used to go to the party and stand around. ♪
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  • ♪ and i got myself together and really get down. ♪
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  • ♪ no more standing. ♪♪
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  • Now, that's for everybody who loves condemning people to hell.
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  • I guess you just condemn me to hell for singing that song on
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  • The pulpit.
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  • Stop it.
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  • "well, you just teaching people to go out to sin."
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  • It's not in the equation because if you have this relationship
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  • With god and he's on the inside of you, he is changing you.
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  • He is working on you.
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  • You are on a journey with him.
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  • The things you used to want to do, you ain't gonna want it no
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  • More because--i done got ahead of myself.
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  • "so because of our faith, christ has brought us into a place of,"
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  • I love this, "undeserved privilege where we now stand."
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  • We stand in a place of undeserved privilege, privileges
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  • That has come to you because you're in christ and none of the
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  • Privileges you deserve.
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  • I don't know what it is.
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  • We're still trying to locate what we bring to the table, and
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  • Nothing that comes from god is based on what you bring to
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  • The table.
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  • You brought nothing to the table to be saved.
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  • You brought nothing to the table to be healed and delivered.
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  • It was always already a part of.
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  • You just got to start receiving who you are and receiving the
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  • Undeserved privilege you have as a believer who's now in christ,
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  • Who's now a part of the family of god.
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  • "because of our faith, christ has brought us into a place of
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  • Undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently
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  • And joyfully look forward to sharing god's glory."
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  • Ephesians 2 and 7 now explains this very critical point.
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  • "why did you do this?
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  • Why did you do all of this before the foundations of
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  • The world?
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  • Why did you adopt me?
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  • Why were you so determined to make me a part of your family?"
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  • Verse 7, "so god can point to us in all future ages as examples
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  • Of his incredible wealth of his grace and kindness towards us,
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  • As shown in all he has done for us who are united with
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • You know what he says here?
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  • He says, "i did all of that so that in the ages to come, you
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  • All are going to be examples that i point to to show the
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  • Riches of my grace and my mercy."
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  • And i don't know who he's gonna be talking to in the future, but
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  • He's gonna use us examples.
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  • Think about it.
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  • You're gonna be the object of god's grace and mercy for
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  • Eternity, and he's gonna look at you, and he's gonna say,
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  • "you don't think i can do it?
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  • Look at them.
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  • I did it for every last one of them.
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  • None of them deserve to be here but through my mercy and through
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  • My grace."
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  • Wow.
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  • Think of that.
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  • Think of jesus pointing to you and saying, "there's an example
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  • Of god's amazing grace.
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  • There's an example.
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  • There's another example."
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  • So be careful about how you send people to hell forever.
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  • You gonna bump into some of these people.
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  • Yeah, 'cause you're sending them there based on their behavior,
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  • But you don't know what they talk with god about and how they
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  • Did what they need to do.
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  • You need to be careful about that.
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  • I'm gonna say something right now.
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  • It could send you back home.
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  • We don't go to hell, people don't go to hell because of
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  • Their behavior.
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  • People go to hell because they reject jesus, mm-hm,
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  • Because they won't accept the blood sacrifice of jesus.
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  • So if anybody in here goes to hell because of your behavior,
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  • Everybody in here going to hell because of their behavior.
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  • God's not a respecter of a person.
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  • So that's why you ought to be praising him.
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  • All right, let me bring this to a close.
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  • That's the believer's stance.
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  • Well, at least somebody got it, at least somebody praising him.
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  • You better praise god with that little baby.
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  • Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
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  • No, but there's somebody, "won't they keep that baby quiet?"
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  • I--it wasn't bothering me yet.
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  • So now let's quickly look at the believer's state.
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  • The believer's state is the condition of his earthly life.
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  • It is the expression or the lack of expression of his spiritual
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  • Life in and through his earthly body, your state.
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  • Hm.
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  • So the state is out of harmony with the standing.
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  • The purpose of the discipline of grace is then to harmonize the
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  • State with the standing.
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  • And the standing is perfect, and the standing is unchangeable.
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  • So how is that gonna happen?
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  • Well, you remember when god says that he accepts the
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  • Responsibility to carry out his plan?
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  • Look at these three scriptures with me right quick in nlt,
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  • Philippians 1 and 6 in the nlt, philippians 1 and 6.
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  • "and i am certain that god, who began the good work
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  • Within you, he, god will continue
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  • His work in you."
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  • Stop right there.
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  • He started the work in you.
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  • He will continue the work in you, and he will finish
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  • The work.
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  • This blew my mind.
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  • I thought, "well, now that i'm saved, i need to do the work."
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  • God never starts the work in you and leaves you by yourself to
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  • Finish it.
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  • Listen to this.
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  • God never starts anything in you and leaves it up to you to
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  • Finish it.
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  • "and i'm certain that god, who began the good work within you,
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  • Will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day
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  • When christ jesus returns."
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  • Now, get this in your spirit.
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  • God started the work in me.
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  • I have to depend on him to continue the work in me.
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  • So there are things that happen in this thing called life.
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  • There's things that come into your life, things that are
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  • Thrown into you, things you meet, trouble, pressure,
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  • Unfortunate stuff.
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  • I don't know why, but god will never waste a trial.
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  • He might not have started it, but if it show up, he ain't
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  • Gonna waste it.
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  • And somehow christian people think, "well, i'm christian.
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  • Why is this happening to me?
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  • Why do i go through this?"
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  • The scripture says, "they that live godly shall suffer," what?
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  • Congregation: persecution.
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  • Creflo: they that live godly shall suffer what?
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  • Congregation: persecution.
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  • Creflo: please understand this.
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  • God is not going to take away the trouble, but he is
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  • The comforter.
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  • So what he will do is get in the trouble with you to make sure
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  • You can come out and provide a way of escape so you can
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  • Bear it.
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  • You keep trying to get god to take it away.
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  • He says, "no, if it showed up, we're not gonna waste it, so
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  • Let me get in the trouble with you."
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  • He got in the lion's den with daniel.
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  • He got in the fiery furnace with the hebrew boys.
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  • He didn't remove the fire, and he didn't take away the lions.
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  • He got in there and became your comforter.
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  • "well, what's happening?"
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  • There's a work going on.
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  • Somebody said, "no, but that's the devil."
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  • Well, he would have loved if you would have just did what he told
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  • You to do ten years ago, but you didn't.
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  • He would have loved if you'd have paid attention to the
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  • Billboard that he had specially put up for you, but you didn't.
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  • He's trying to teach you, but there's something that's called
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  • Life that's been employed in the faculty of this change.
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  • Ain't nobody in here that had a life without no tribulation, and
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  • You keep trying to excuse yourself from the stuff
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  • That happens.
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  • It's called life, and nobody is exempt, and you're still trying
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  • To get exempt from it.
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  • Watch this.
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  • "well, maybe i ain't praying enough."
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  • There we go.
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  • "well, maybe god don't really love me.
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  • Maybe i--maybe he's still mad at what i did yesterday."
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  • You know what god said about us?
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  • He said, "nothing you do surprises me.
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  • I know you."
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  • And the scripture says, "you--i know you ain't nothing but dust.
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  • I know you, okay?
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  • Everybody else exalt you and think you all this, but i know
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  • Where you came from.
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  • You ain't nothing but dust."
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  • And so you get all upset and all the things that go on, and
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  • God--instead of just taking it and say, "all right, this
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  • Is life.
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  • I have a comforter.
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  • I don't understand why all this stuff happening, but i still
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  • Depend on you, god."
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  • And make sure you don't leave the wisdom in the fire.
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  • Don't leave the wisdom in the lion's den.
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  • "well, pastor, i don't agree with that."
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  • Okay, whatever, but that's still not gonna exempt you from
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  • Stuff happening.
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  • Stuff gonna to happen to you like it happens to everybody
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  • Else, and i don't understand why.
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  • I don't understand why people we love leave when we don't want
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  • Them to leave.
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  • I don't understand why sickness and disease get on your body.
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  • I don't understand.
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  • I don't understand why god took me through two and a half years
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  • Of just suffering in my physical body.
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  • I don't understand that, but what am i gonna do?
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  • Sit up there and complain about it?
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  • "well, god just don't love me."
  • 00:17:55.053 --> 00:17:56.421
  • And there were times when i thought, "did i do something?
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  • Somebody want to fill me in on what's going on?"
  • 00:17:59.024 --> 00:18:03.395
  • Then i hear from god.
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  • He said, "no, everything good.
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  • You good."
  • 00:18:06.098 --> 00:18:08.033
  • "well, yeah, i'm good, but i could be better if you just go
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  • And move this.
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  • Can you move it now?"
  • 00:18:13.338 --> 00:18:16.375
  • But what i do know is that my thinking's changed as a result
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  • Of all that, my sensitivity.
  • 00:18:26.785 --> 00:18:28.120
  • I'm very sensitive to people who are in pain.
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  • I don't see things like my religion was trying to get me to
  • 00:18:33.292 --> 00:18:36.562
  • See it.
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  • God, i trust you to continue the work and to finish the work, and
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  • I will not get mad, get frustrated or in fear because
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  • I'm thinking jesus is coming today, but it looks like i got a
  • 00:19:06.124 --> 00:19:09.328
  • Little ways to go.
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  • Honey, if jesus shows up today and the work's not finished in
  • 00:19:11.463 --> 00:19:14.766
  • You, that's him.
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  • I'm not gonna stop at the gate like, "what y'all gonna do?"
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  • I'm going on in.
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  • I'm like, "you said you were gonna be finished.
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  • You said you were gonna be finished.
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  • That's not me.
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  • That's you.
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  • You accepted the responsibility to continue the work and finish
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  • The work."
  • 00:19:36.121 --> 00:19:37.489
  • And now jesus has come back, and i see him in the clouds,
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  • I'm doing like this...
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  • Somebody said "yeah, but--" no, but nothing.
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  • He said that he will finally finish the work on the day when
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  • Jesus returns.
  • 00:19:52.571 --> 00:19:53.939
  • I'm not sitting up there nervous, wondering if i'm gonna
  • 00:19:53.939 --> 00:19:56.708
  • Be caught up.
  • 00:19:56.708 --> 00:19:58.043
  • I am in position.
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  • Hey, hallelujah.
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  • Hey, amen.
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  • Hey.
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  • [laughs]
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  • Hey, i'm in position.
  • 00:20:07.819 --> 00:20:13.492
  • And you got to learn how to trust god for what he said he
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  • Will do with you.
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  • Philippians 2:13 in the nlt.
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  • Ooh, glory, "for god is," here
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  • We go again, "working in you."
  • 00:20:41.353 --> 00:20:44.556
  • Say out loud, "god is working in me."
  • 00:20:44.556 --> 00:20:47.826
  • Say it again: "god is working in me."
  • 00:20:47.826 --> 00:20:50.996
  • Now you got to believe that god is working in you.
  • 00:20:50.996 --> 00:20:56.702
  • What is he doing?
  • 00:21:00.172 --> 00:21:04.276
  • What does his work look like?
  • 00:21:04.276 --> 00:21:08.814
  • He's giving you the desire, so god is working on your desires.
  • 00:21:08.814 --> 00:21:19.458
  • There's some stuff that you desire that seem to get you in
  • 00:21:19.524 --> 00:21:22.828
  • Trouble, so he's working on that desire.
  • 00:21:22.828 --> 00:21:29.534
  • And he's gonna take away the desire that gets you in trouble,
  • 00:21:29.534 --> 00:21:33.538
  • And he's gonna give you a new desire.
  • 00:21:33.538 --> 00:21:37.008
  • But not only is he working on you, on your desire, he's gonna
  • 00:21:37.008 --> 00:21:40.178
  • Give you the desire and the power or the ability to follow
  • 00:21:40.178 --> 00:21:45.384
  • That desire, to do what pleases god.
  • 00:21:45.384 --> 00:21:48.186
  • I wanna do what pleases god.
  • 00:21:48.186 --> 00:21:50.122
  • I need god to do the work in me.
  • 00:21:50.122 --> 00:21:52.224
  • I need him to take away this desire and give me a new desire,
  • 00:21:52.224 --> 00:21:56.828
  • Take away this want to and give me a new want to, and i have to
  • 00:21:56.828 --> 00:22:00.565
  • Trust and depend that he can do that.
  • 00:22:00.565 --> 00:22:05.470
  • And i declare he's working on everybody in this meeting, man.
  • 00:22:05.470 --> 00:22:09.775
  • He's changing your desire.
  • 00:22:09.775 --> 00:22:11.309
  • He's working on that thing right now.
  • 00:22:11.309 --> 00:22:12.778
  • He'll work on it tonight.
  • 00:22:12.778 --> 00:22:14.146
  • He'll work on it tomorrow.
  • 00:22:14.146 --> 00:22:15.480
  • He'll work on it on your way back.
  • 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:16.815
  • God is working on that desire, but here's the promise.
  • 00:22:16.815 --> 00:22:20.385
  • You are going to want to do what pleases him.
  • 00:22:20.385 --> 00:22:25.524
  • All of a sudden, the addiction is not gonna be able to control
  • 00:22:25.524 --> 00:22:28.960
  • You no more because there's something happens when you wake
  • 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.997
  • Up one morning and you just don't want it.
  • 00:22:31.997 --> 00:22:34.433
  • "i just don't want it."
  • 00:22:37.469 --> 00:22:40.338
  • You've been smoking weed after work 7:00 every night for the
  • 00:22:40.338 --> 00:22:43.175
  • Last five years.
  • 00:22:43.175 --> 00:22:45.076
  • And then you went to grace life conference and went home, and
  • 00:22:45.076 --> 00:22:48.747
  • You were getting ready to get back into it.
  • 00:22:48.747 --> 00:22:50.315
  • And you looked over there, and you're like, "i don't know.
  • 00:22:50.315 --> 00:22:54.386
  • I just don't want it."
  • 00:22:54.386 --> 00:22:57.322
  • You pick it up.
  • 00:22:57.322 --> 00:22:58.690
  • You looked at it.
  • 00:22:58.690 --> 00:23:00.025
  • You're like, "no, i don't want it.
  • 00:23:00.025 --> 00:23:03.195
  • I just feel like talking to jesus for a moment."
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  • I can't explain how that happened.
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  • I just trust that god knows how to do it.
  • 00:23:09.701 --> 00:23:14.139
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  • 00:23:14.139 --> 00:23:18.076
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  • 00:23:33.325 --> 00:23:37.262
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