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Creflo Dollar - Ten Reasons Why Jesus Was Born

December 22, 2024 | S

Creflo Dollar - Ten Reasons Why Jesus Was Born
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Ten Reasons Why Jesus Was Born | December 22, 2024
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  • Creflo dollar: i am telling you because of jesus, there is
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  • Therefore now no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus,
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  • And i am telling you right now that jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's going on in your life, jesus is enough.
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  • Jesus is enough.
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  • All of the things you're trying to do to try to make it enough
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  • Creflo: matthew chapter 1 verse 21.
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  • I just want to share real quickly,
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  • "ten reasons why jesus was born."
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  • Now, this title may change, it might be five reasons why he
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  • Was born, but i want you to understand that this goes so
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  • Much farther than the tradition that the world has created.
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  • It's so much bigger than, you know, the traditions even we've
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  • Set up in our lives, and people have the different beliefs, but
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  • I think about the number of millions of people around the
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  • World who are celebrating this day and they don't even believe
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  • In jesus.
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  • Think of that, it's been reduced down to the traditions that they
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  • Have made.
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  • And the bible says your traditions have made the word of
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  • God of no effect.
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  • So real quickly, i want you to take a list of the reasons
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  • Why jesus was born.
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  • Number one: to save us from our sins.
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  • Matthew 1:21,
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  • He says: "and she shall bring forth the son, thou
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  • Shall call his name jesus: for he shall save his people from
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  • Their sins."
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  • So if jesus was never born again, think of it, we would not
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  • Have the salvation from our sins.
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  • If you look in the book of john chapter 1 and verse 29, it's not
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  • That he just, you know, made salvation available to people
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  • Who are at church today, but he's made salvation available
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  • To the whole world.
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  • Think of this, if a person were to die and go to hell, they will
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  • Only discover that salvation was available to them, all they had
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  • To do is sign for the package.
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  • Look at saint john chapter 1 and verse 29.
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  • And in saint john chapter 1 verse 29, he says: "the next day
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  • John seeth jesus cometh unto him, and saith, behold the lamb
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  • Of god, which taketh away the sin of the whole world."
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  • So jesus has taken away your sins: past, present, and future,
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  • Which simply means if you'll just invite him into your life,
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  • You have accomplished everything necessary in order to get
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  • To heaven.
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  • You don't go to heaven because you're good, you go to heaven
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  • Because you believe in jesus, amen?
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  • Number two, the second reason why jesus was born: to redeem us
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  • That were under the law so that we can be adopted as sons.
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  • To redeem us who were under the law so we can be adopted
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  • As sons.
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  • Galatians chapter 4 and verse 5, take a look at that.
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  • Now notice redeem, that means something was paid, he redeemed
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  • Us from the law.
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  • So the law of moses said you had to do this and if you didn't do
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  • It, you would be judged.
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  • If you had--you had to do this, if you didn't do it, you would
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  • Be cursed.
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  • You had to do this and if you didn't do it, bad things
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  • Would happen.
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  • And nobody could keep the law and so jesus showed up to
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  • Redeem, to pay the price, the ransom, so that we can be free
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  • From the law and be adopted as sons and daughters of god.
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  • Had he not been born, that would not have been possible.
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  • Galatians 4 and 5 says that he came, "to redeem them that were
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  • Under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
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  • If you're a woman, say, i'm a daughter.
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  • If you're a man, say, i'm a son.
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  • Go, say it.
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  • Number three, the third reason jesus was born was: to fulfill
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  • The law of moses that we could not fulfill.
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  • To fulfill the law of moses that we could not fulfill.
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  • You know, the bible says if you break one of those laws, out of
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  • 613, you're guilty of breaking them all.
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  • Who can do that?
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  • Who can keep 613 of all of the laws?
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  • Nobody but jesus could.
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  • So jesus knew we couldn't do it, so he had to be born so he could
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  • Do something that we could not do.
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  • Because people died under this, the curse came over them because
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  • They could not keep the law.
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  • But thank god for jesus's birth and because he was born, he did
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  • What no other man could do and we crown him today as our
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  • Champion, amen?
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  • Number four, the fourth reason that jesus was born: to be
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  • A mediator of a better covenant.
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  • Hebrews chapter 8 and 6--so we couldn't keep the covenant of
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  • The law, so another reason jesus was born is to mediate
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  • A brand-new agreement, to be the mediator of a brand new
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  • Covenant, one that we could keep and one that would make us
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  • Extremely successful.
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  • Hebrews 8 and 6 says: "but now hath he obtained a more
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  • Excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of
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  • A better covenant," somebody shout, better, "which was
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  • Established upon better promises."
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  • So you're no longer under the covenant of the law, something
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  • That you can't keep, and if you break just one of them, you're
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  • Guilty of the whole thing.
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  • Jesus says, i'll do that covenant, and i'm gonna give you
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  • A better covenant that you can do, and you got better promises.
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  • I praise god today that i celebrate a jesus who loved me
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  • Enough to be born so that i can live under a better
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  • Covenant, amen?
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  • Number five: jesus was born so that he could bring to us, oh
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  • Thank god, grace and truth.
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  • John, saint john, chapter 1:17.
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  • Jesus came, he was born, so he could bring to us grace
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  • And truth.
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  • Now, most people think, well, he gave us grace and then he turned
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  • Around and gave us truth, no, they're the same.
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  • One side of the and is in connection with the other side
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  • Of the and.
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  • Grace is the truth that makes men free.
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  • It's not grace and truth, grace is the truth that makes
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  • Men free.
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  • What is grace?
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  • It's unmerited, undeserved favor of god.
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  • It's you getting from god even when you didn't deserve it.
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  • It is not god doing something because you've been good, it is
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  • God doing something because he is good.
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  • And today as we celebrate the birth of jesus christ,
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  • We celebrate a jesus who is a good god, and the bible says his
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  • Goodness will cause a man to change his mind.
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  • His goodness will cause a man to repent.
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  • While the world is going through one thing, you're gonna be
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  • Walking in the unmerited, undeserved goodness and favor
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  • Of the lord.
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  • Somebody shout about that right quick, amen.
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  • Number six, number six, the sixth reason why jesus was born:
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  • To pay the peace offering or the payment of our sin.
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  • Some had to pay it.
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  • This was expensive, and nobody could afford to pay the ransom
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  • Where your sin was concerned.
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  • In fact, if you look at 1 john 2 and 2, jesus was
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  • The peace offering.
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  • Had he not been born, there would not have been a payment,
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  • Not even hell was enough to pay off that debt.
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  • There was a sin debt and jesus was born to pay that sin debt.
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  • The bible says in 1 john 2 and 2: "and he is the propitiation
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  • For our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of
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  • The whole world."
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  • So jesus came as the propitiation or
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  • The peace offering.
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  • He was the sacrifice, he was the payment, he was the
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  • Peace offering.
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  • So every time you think about jesus, think about jesus as
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  • The payment and the peace offering for all of your sins.
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  • For you to go around and sweat like a sinner as if nothing has
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  • Been done about it, is for you to deny the payment that has
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  • Already been paid.
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  • And had jesus not been born, your payment would not have
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  • Shown up to pay your bills.
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  • How many of you know they'll turn your lights off if they
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  • Don't get the payment for your electric bill, amen?
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  • But i'm telling you, i'm glad that jesus's payment wasn't
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  • Late, it was right on time, amen?
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  • Praise god.
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  • Number seven, the seventh reason why jesus was born:
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  • So that we can have everlasting life.
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  • Everlasting life.
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  • It's so important because right now those of you who are born
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  • Again, your everlasting life has already started.
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  • Please understand something, now that you're born again, when you
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  • Die, you just go from glory to glory.
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  • When you die, you slip out of the physical body into
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  • A spiritual body.
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  • When you die, you get out of a physical realm into
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  • A spiritual realm.
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  • Here's the good news, you can never defeat
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  • A born again christian.
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  • We've been called to live in faith, and we've been called to
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  • Die in faith.
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  • But please, i want you to understand, just because
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  • Somebody died physically, doesn't mean they lost the
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  • Battle, they just transitioned on into eternal life where there
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  • Is no time.
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  • Right now we have time, but praise god when you got born
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  • Again, you stepped out of time into eternity, and if it were
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  • Not for the birth of jesus, you wouldn't have that opportunity.
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  • The bible says in john 3:16: "for god so loved the world,
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  • That he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in
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  • Him, say out loud, i believe in jesus, should not perish, but
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  • Have everlasting life."
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  • Don't you let somebody convince you that you're gonna perish
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  • Because you missed the mark or you missed that mark.
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  • Jesus has taking care of all of that, and the holy ghost is
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  • Working on the inside of you and the things you used to do, you
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  • Ain't gonna wanna do no more.
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  • Some of you gonna find out the stuff that you just did all the
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  • Time with addictive behavior, jesus is gonna snatch it away.
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  • And he getting ready to give you a new desire to do new things,
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  • Praise god.
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  • And you got to tremble and shake wondering if you're gonna do it
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  • Once again because you have the holy ghost working on the inside
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  • Of you because when jesus showed up--
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  • Number eight.
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  • Number eight, the reason why jesus was born: no more
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  • Condemnation, but salvation is now available through him.
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  • I said no more condemnation.
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  • Turn to two people say, no more condemnation.
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  • Saint john 3:17 and 18, you know what it means?
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  • Condemnation deals with the issue of not enough.
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  • And i am telling you right now, no longer will you have to deal
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  • With not enough.
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  • Listen to me carefully.
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  • Condemnation, like we condemn a building, the building has been
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  • Declared that it's not fit to be used, it's not fit to be
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  • Lived in.
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  • And i am telling you, i don't care what's going on in your
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  • Life, don't you dare hear the words of the devil to tell you
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  • That you're unfit.
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  • I am telling you because of jesus, there is therefore now no
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  • Condemnation to those who are in christ jesus, and i am telling
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  • You right now that jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's going on in your life, jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's happening in your marriage, jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's going on in your pocketbook,
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  • Jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's going on in your emotions, jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's going on in your job, jesus is enough.
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  • I am calling the body of christ in this upcoming year to dismiss
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  • All of the things you're trying to do to try to make it enough
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  • And look at jesus.
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  • Number nine: verse 17 says: "for god sent not his son into
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  • The world to," what?
  • 00:14:06.058 --> 00:14:07.893
  • "condemn the world; but that the world through him might
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  • Be saved."
  • 00:14:10.162 --> 00:14:11.530
  • Stop condemning people.
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  • If god's not condemning you, you start condemning people.
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  • Let me say it like this, if god can give you a second chance,
  • 00:14:16.235 --> 00:14:22.641
  • Quit holding stuff against people that happened a year ago.
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  • Are you understanding--because god's not
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  • Holding it against you.
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  • If you were to go to god and say, god, remember
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  • What i did last week?
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  • He'll say, wait, wait, we don't have this on record, why?
  • 00:14:31.650 --> 00:14:33.152
  • Because he took your sins and he cast them as far as the east
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  • Is in the west.
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  • And then when it finally landed, it landed in the sea of
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  • Forgetfulness, where he remembers it no more.
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  • Who do you think you are this christmas, bringing up what
  • 00:14:40.859 --> 00:14:43.595
  • Somebody did last christmas?
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  • Let that junk go, it ain't worth it.
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  • Your love is gonna be--it's gonna be greater.
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  • Your love is gonna be greater than your condemnation.
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  • Your love is gonna be greater than your hurt.
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  • It's gonna be greater than your pain.
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  • Quit walking around hurt.
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  • Quit walking around depressed.
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  • Quit walking around sad.
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  • Walk around in love, and the love will lift you above
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  • All those other things.
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  • Jesus was born so you can have enough.
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  • Number nine:
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  • He made the holy spirit available to all humankind.
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  • He was born so he can make the holy spirit available.
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  • Acts chapter 2, verse 32 and 33,
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  • He was born to make the holy spirit available.
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  • How many of you know you can't live this life without
  • 00:15:30.175 --> 00:15:32.277
  • The holy ghost?
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  • Oh, you will know it this upcoming year, because
  • 00:15:33.946 --> 00:15:37.282
  • Everything you think you know and everything you think you've
  • 00:15:37.282 --> 00:15:39.385
  • Learned and all the degrees that you have right now, you gonna
  • 00:15:39.385 --> 00:15:42.087
  • Need some supernatural help.
  • 00:15:42.087 --> 00:15:47.026
  • The good news this christmas is you have him.
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  • I didn't say it, i said you have him.
  • 00:15:50.729 --> 00:15:53.365
  • While the rest of the world's trying to figure it out,
  • 00:15:53.365 --> 00:15:55.100
  • Freaking out and in panic, you're gonna be in peace, you're
  • 00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:58.203
  • Gonna be in faith, and you're gonna be walking with your
  • 00:15:58.203 --> 00:16:00.572
  • Unseen invisible partner as he begins to lead and guide you
  • 00:16:00.572 --> 00:16:04.843
  • As a barefooted priest.
  • 00:16:04.843 --> 00:16:06.378
  • And as you walk, your steps are gonna be ordered by the lord.
  • 00:16:06.378 --> 00:16:09.782
  • And when it's all over with, they're gonna ask you, how did
  • 00:16:09.782 --> 00:16:12.017
  • You get here and i'm still struggling?
  • 00:16:12.017 --> 00:16:13.852
  • And you'll tell them, i got an unseen partner.
  • 00:16:13.852 --> 00:16:16.355
  • I don't know what you're looking at, but when systems start
  • 00:16:16.355 --> 00:16:19.458
  • Failing, when finances start failing, when things start
  • 00:16:19.458 --> 00:16:23.462
  • Falling, it shall not come near you.
  • 00:16:23.462 --> 00:16:26.498
  • They didn't have enough straw to make brick in egypt, but they
  • 00:16:26.498 --> 00:16:30.602
  • Had more than enough in goshen.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to goshen.
  • 00:16:33.072 --> 00:16:42.714
  • Verse 32 says: "this jesus has god raised up," why?
  • 00:16:42.714 --> 00:16:46.685
  • "whereof we all are witnesses."
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  • 33, he says: "therefore being by the right hand of god exalted,
  • 00:16:49.054 --> 00:16:54.159
  • And having received of the father the promise of the holy
  • 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.362
  • Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear."
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  • You're getting ready to see some stuff.
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  • Number ten, number ten, number ten, last one: he provided
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  • The promised seed of abraham.
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  • You remember in the book of genesis chapter 22 and 18, he
  • 00:17:14.046 --> 00:17:17.716
  • Promised that a seed would come.
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  • But then in galatians chapter 3 verses 14 through 16, he says,
  • 00:17:19.952 --> 00:17:24.223
  • I'm not talking about seeds as in many, i'm talking about seed
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  • As in one, christ jesus.
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  • Look at these last three scriptures with me.
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  • Galatians 3:14 and 16 says: "that the blessing of abraham
  • 00:17:31.964 --> 00:17:35.934
  • Might come on the gentiles through jesus christ; that we
  • 00:17:35.934 --> 00:17:38.704
  • Might receive the promise of the spirit through faith."
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  • 15, he says: "brethren, i speak after the manner of men; though
  • 00:17:41.373 --> 00:17:47.312
  • It be a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man
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  • Disannulleth, or addeth thereto."
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  • 16, he says: "now to abraham and his seed were the promises made.
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  • He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one,
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  • And to thy seed," come on, "which is christ."
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  • Jesus was born to be the promised seed.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, you better be glad that we celebrate
  • 00:18:12.538 --> 00:18:19.411
  • The birth of a savior.
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  • The government won't be able to save you like jesus.
  • 00:18:27.719 --> 00:18:30.889
  • Welfare won't be able to save you like jesus.
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  • You understand what i'm saying?
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  • Your momma and them won't be able to save you like jesus, but
  • 00:18:35.494 --> 00:18:38.664
  • Today we celebrate the birth of a savior who has made the
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  • Difference in our lives.
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  • And as we depart from this place today, you depart in love, you
  • 00:18:44.636 --> 00:18:48.674
  • Rise above the circumstances and the situations in life.
  • 00:18:48.674 --> 00:18:52.844
  • You rise above the things that have happened.
  • 00:18:52.844 --> 00:18:56.215
  • You encourage people, you build people up today.
  • 00:18:56.215 --> 00:19:00.786
  • You might be mean as, you know, but focus on being a blessing to
  • 00:19:00.786 --> 00:19:09.394
  • Somebody today.
  • 00:19:09.394 --> 00:19:11.029
  • Lift your hands up and thank god, thank god for jesus, thank
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  • God for jesus, thank you lord.
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  • Give him praise, thank you, lord, thank him for jesus, thank
  • 00:19:18.503 --> 00:19:22.107
  • Him that all is well in your life.
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  • Thank god that more--that god is more than enough.
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  • All is well with you and your house.
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  • Thank god for the anointing.
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  • Thank god for the leadership of the holy spirit.
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  • Thank god that you have the seed of jesus christ.
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  • Thank god that your focus is on jesus.
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  • When you can't figure it out, it's on jesus.
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  • When you don't know where it's gonna come from, it's on jesus.
  • 00:19:44.529 --> 00:19:47.366
  • When the pain is there, the doctor report is there,
  • 00:19:47.366 --> 00:19:49.668
  • It is all about jesus.
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  • He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • No man goes to the father except by him, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Would you put your hands together
  • 00:20:02.714 --> 00:20:04.516
  • And give him a big shout?
  • 00:20:04.516 --> 00:20:10.088
  • Come on, i believe you can shout better than that,
  • 00:20:10.088 --> 00:20:12.858
  • Praise god, hallelujah!
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  • Announcer: it's christmas time again, and though it seems like
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  • The world's conflicts try to dampen our holiday spirit,
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  • The wonder of jesus's birth
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  • Cannot be diminished.
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  • "the magnificent gift of righteousness," guide
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  • You on a journey of discovery.
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  • Creflo: today on your journey, you're not what you used to be,
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  • You're not what you want to be,
  • 00:20:41.286 --> 00:20:43.188
  • But the journey continues
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  • And you did not lose
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  • The gift of righteousness.
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  • You are who jesus says you are,
  • 00:20:49.561 --> 00:20:51.797
  • And jesus says you are the righteousness of god.
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  • And the day you believe that, you're
  • 00:20:54.666 --> 00:20:56.268
  • Going to start doing right.
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  • You are righteous in him.
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  • And so when people say you are crazy,
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  • You say i'm not crazy. i'm just first.
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  • Me today, i'm ready.
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  • Nona jones: some of you have such powerful testimonies of
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  • Things god has brought you out of that you refuse to share
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  • Because you're afraid of what people will think of you.
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  • Announcer: real transformation.
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  • The real women's conference is calling you.
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  • Yes, you.
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  • And the expectations society places on us.
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  • Taffi: first to not be in bondage to what you think about
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  • Me because what you think about me ain't gonna stop nothing.
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  • Announcer: this is your moment to embrace your authentic self
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  • And we understand that giving and receiving
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  • Is a spiritual law, it's a reflex of god's love.
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  • And i'm so glad that taffi and i began to understand how to walk
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  • In this principle, but we give, not out of necessity,
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  • We give out of a cheerful heart, we give because we're grateful
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  • Creflo: i don't ever wanna take for granted that you've
  • 00:23:17.075 --> 00:23:19.578
  • Received jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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  • And there's no better way to embark upon a new stage
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  • In your life than to enter into a personal relationship
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  • With jesus.
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  • So, if you wanna become born again
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  • And begin an exciting intimate relationship
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  • With jesus, i want you to pray this prayer with me,
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  • And i'll say it so you can repeat after me.
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  • Repeat after me, heavenly father, i believe that jesus is
  • 00:23:39.731 --> 00:23:45.170
  • The son of god and that he died and was raised from the dead
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  • And has forgiven all of my sins, and i receive him into my life
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  • Right now as my lord and personal savior.
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  • So by faith, i declare that i am saved.
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  • Praise god.
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  • Now, that simple prayer changed your entire eternal destination,
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  • And we wanna welcome you to the family of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ come, they told me, pa rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ a newborn king to see, pa rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ to lay before the king, pa rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ shall i play for him, pa rum pum pum pum? ♪
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  • ♪ mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum, ♪
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  • ♪ i played my drum for him, pa rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ i played my best for him, pa rum pum pum pum, ♪
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  • ♪ rum pum pum pum, ♪
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  • ♪ rum pum pum pum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum... ♪
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  • ♪ oh, can you hear him play the drum? ♪
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  • ♪ rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum. ♪
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  • ♪ yes, to the glory of god, pum pum pum, ♪
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