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Creflo Dollar - Ten Reasons Why Jesus Was Born

December 22, 2025 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Ten Reasons Why Jesus Was Born
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Ten Reasons Why Jesus Was Born | December 22, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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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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  • No matter what's happening in your marriage, jesus is enough.
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  • No matter what's going on in your pocketbook, jesus
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  • 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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  • ♪ 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: hello, i'm creflo dollar and welcome to
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  • Today's broadcast.
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  • Somebody listening to me right now feels like you're behind.
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  • You feel like life has passed you by.
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  • But i've got good news for you today.
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  • God's grace is never late.
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  • It's always on time.
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  • Galatians chapter 4, verse 4 says this: "but when the
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  • Fullness of the time was come, god sent forth his son, made of
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  • A woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the
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  • Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
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  • Now listen carefully.
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  • Jesus didn't come one minute too early.
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  • He didn't come one second too late.
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  • He came in the fullness of time.
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  • And that's what grace does in your life.
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  • It shows up right on time.
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  • Now let's look at romans chapter 5 and 6, it says: "for when we
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  • Were yet without strength, in due time christ died for
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  • The ungodly."
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  • Do you see the pattern?
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  • In due time, at the right time, at the fullness of time.
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  • Grace has a timing to it.
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  • The law came with demands and deadlines, but grace comes with
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  • Divine timing.
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  • It's heaven saying, "i know exactly when you need this
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  • Breakthrough, and i've already scheduled it."
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  • So don't confuse delay with denial.
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  • God's grace is always right on time.
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  • Galatians 4:4 says something i want you to see.
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  • He came so we could receive the adoption of sons, not servants,
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  • Not slaves: sons.
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  • Grace didn't just show up to help you.
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  • Grace showed up to change your identity.
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  • When jesus was born, he brought with him the power to make your
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  • Family or to make you family with him.
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  • And you're not just a church member.
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  • You're a child of god.
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  • You don't just visit his presence, you live in
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  • His household, praise god.
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  • That's grace and it came right on time.
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  • Let's look at this illustration.
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  • Think about mary.
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  • She didn't control the timing of that birth.
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  • She didn't schedule it on a calendar.
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  • She didn't make it happen sooner or later.
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  • God set the time.
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  • Somebody needs to hear this today.
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  • You don't control the timing of your breakthrough either.
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  • Grace has it already scheduled.
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  • You don't have to manipulate it, force it or stress about it.
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  • When the fullness of time comes, grace will deliver exactly what
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  • God promised.
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  • Now, how do we view this from a practical point?
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  • Here's what this means for you.
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  • Stop saying, "i'm late.
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  • I'm behind.
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  • I missed my chance."
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  • If you belong to jesus, you are right where you need to be.
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  • Grace will redeem the time, grace will restore the years,
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  • Grace will put you in places you never thought you could be.
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  • And it'll do it on schedule.
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  • In fact, ephesians chapter 1 and 10 says: "god has a plan for the
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  • Fullness of time to gather all things in christ," and that
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  • Includes you.
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  • That means nothing in your life is random, nothing is wasted.
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  • God's timing is perfect.
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  • Now let's make this real personal.
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  • I want you to repeat after me and i want you to say it
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  • With faith.
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  • Let's make this confession together.
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  • "grace is never late in my life.
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  • Jesus came at the fullness of time.
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  • And he comes into my situations right on time.
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  • I am not a slave.
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  • I am a son.
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  • I'm not behind.
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  • I'm right on schedule with god's plan.
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  • I trust the timing of grace.
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  • And i declare that i am a child of god, and my father is never
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  • Late, amen, amen, and amen."
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  • Creflo: matthew chapter 1, verse 21.
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  • I just want to share real quickly ten reasons why jesus
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  • Was born.
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  • Now, this title may change.
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  • It might be five reasons why he was born.
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  • But i want you to understand that this goes so much farther
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  • 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 their different beliefs,
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  • But 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.
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  • It's been reduced down to the traditions that they 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 why
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  • Jesus was born.
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  • Number one, to save us from our sins.
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  • Matthew 1:21, he says: "and she shall bring forth a 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 to
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  • 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.
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  • All they had 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.
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  • He redeemed 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.
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  • If you didn't do it, you would 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.
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  • And so jesus showed up to redeem, to pay the price, the
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  • Ransom, so that we can be free from the law and be adopted as
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  • 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 4:5 says that he came "to redeem them that were under
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  • The law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
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  • If you're a woman, say "i'm a daughter," if you're a man, say
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  • "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 because people died
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  • Under this.
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  • The curse came over them because 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 a
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  • Mediator of a better covenant.
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  • Hebrews chapter 8:6.
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  • So we couldn't keep the covenant of the law.
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  • So another reason jesus was born is to mediate a brand-new
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  • Agreement, to be the mediator of a brand-new covenant, one that
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  • We could keep and one that would make us extremely successful.
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  • Hebrews 8:6 says: "but now hath he obtained a more excellent
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  • Ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better
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  • Covenant," somebody shout "better," "which was established
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • He was born so he could bring to us grace 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Grace is the truth that makes 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, we
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  • 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 of
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  • 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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  • Somebody 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 2:2, jesus was the
  • 00:13:25.985 --> 00:13:30.456
  • 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.
  • 00:13:35.794 --> 00:13:40.099
  • There was a sin debt and jesus was born to pay that sin debt.
  • 00:13:40.099 --> 00:13:45.437
  • The bible says in 1 john 2:2: "and he is the propitiation for
  • 00:13:45.437 --> 00:13:50.409
  • Our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
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  • Whole world."
  • 00:13:55.414 --> 00:13:57.049
  • So jesus came as the propitiation or the
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  • 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 the
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  • 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
  • 00:14:28.847 --> 00:14:31.183
  • 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
  • 00:14:34.086 --> 00:14:36.555
  • Wasn't late.
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  • 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: so that we
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  • Can have everlasting life.
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  • Everlasting life, it's so important because right now
  • 00:14:48.534 --> 00:14:52.738
  • Those of you who are born again, your everlasting life has
  • 00:14:52.738 --> 00:14:56.375
  • Already started.
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  • Please understand something.
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  • Now that you're born again, when you die, you just go from glory
  • 00:14:59.078 --> 00:15:02.281
  • To glory.
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  • When you die, you slip out of the physical body into a
  • 00:15:03.615 --> 00:15:06.785
  • Spiritual body.
  • 00:15:06.785 --> 00:15:08.153
  • When you die, you get out of a physical realm, into a
  • 00:15:08.153 --> 00:15:11.657
  • Spiritual realm.
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  • Here's the good news: you can never defeat a
  • 00:15:13.025 --> 00:15:16.195
  • Born-again christian.
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  • We've been called to live in faith and we've been called to
  • 00:15:21.333 --> 00:15:24.570
  • Die in faith.
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  • But please, i want you to understand, just because
  • 00:15:25.904 --> 00:15:28.374
  • Somebody died physically doesn't mean they lost the battle.
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  • They just transitioned on into eternal life where there is
  • 00:15:32.411 --> 00:15:36.015
  • No time.
  • 00:15:36.015 --> 00:15:37.383
  • Right now we have time, but, praise god, when you got born
  • 00:15:37.383 --> 00:15:40.352
  • Again, you stepped out of time into eternity, and if it were
  • 00:15:40.352 --> 00:15:44.323
  • Not for the birth of jesus, you wouldn't have that opportunity.
  • 00:15:44.323 --> 00:15:48.761
  • The bible says in john 3:16: "for god so loved the world that
  • 00:15:48.761 --> 00:15:52.164
  • He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in
  • 00:15:52.164 --> 00:15:56.168
  • Him," say out loud, "i believe in jesus."
  • 00:15:56.168 --> 00:16:00.039
  • "should not perish, but have everlasting life."
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  • Don't you let somebody convince you that you're gonna perish
  • 00:16:03.675 --> 00:16:06.779
  • Because you missed the mark or you missed that mark.
  • 00:16:06.779 --> 00:16:08.514
  • Jesus has taken care of all of that and the holy ghost is
  • 00:16:08.514 --> 00:16:11.483
  • Working on the inside of you and the things you used to do, you
  • 00:16:11.483 --> 00:16:14.953
  • Ain't gonna wanna do no more.
  • 00:16:14.953 --> 00:16:16.522
  • Some of you gonna find out the stuff that you just did all the
  • 00:16:16.522 --> 00:16:20.025
  • Time with addictive behavior, jesus is gonna snatch it away.
  • 00:16:20.025 --> 00:16:25.364
  • And he getting ready to give you a new desire to do new things,
  • 00:16:25.364 --> 00:16:28.200
  • Praise god.
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  • And you ain't got to tremble and shake wondering if he's gonna do
  • 00:16:29.835 --> 00:16:32.371
  • It once again because you have the holy ghost working on the
  • 00:16:32.371 --> 00:16:35.374
  • Inside of you because when jesus showed up--number eight.
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  • Number eight, the reason why jesus was born: no more
  • 00:16:46.185 --> 00:16:51.523
  • Condemnation: but salvation is now available through him.
  • 00:16:51.523 --> 00:16:56.395
  • I said no more condemnation.
  • 00:16:56.395 --> 00:16:58.430
  • Turn to two people, say, "no more condemnation."
  • 00:16:58.430 --> 00:17:02.267
  • Saint john 3:17-18.
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  • You know what it means?
  • 00:17:05.370 --> 00:17:06.738
  • Condemnation deals with the issue of not enough.
  • 00:17:06.738 --> 00:17:10.075
  • And i am telling you right now, no longer will you have to deal
  • 00:17:10.075 --> 00:17:13.445
  • With not enough.
  • 00:17:13.445 --> 00:17:15.414
  • Listen to me carefully.
  • 00:17:15.414 --> 00:17:16.849
  • Condemnation, like we condemn a building, the building has been
  • 00:17:16.849 --> 00:17:20.385
  • Declared that it's not fit to be used.
  • 00:17:20.385 --> 00:17:23.055
  • It's not fit to be lived in.
  • 00:17:23.055 --> 00:17:25.090
  • And i am telling you, i don't care what's going on in your
  • 00:17:25.090 --> 00:17:27.526
  • Life, don't you dare hear the words of the devil to tell you
  • 00:17:27.526 --> 00:17:31.230
  • That you're unfit.
  • 00:17:31.230 --> 00:17:32.731
  • I am telling you because of jesus, there is therefore now no
  • 00:17:32.731 --> 00:17:36.335
  • Condemnation to those who are in christ jesus and i am telling
  • 00:17:36.335 --> 00:17:39.771
  • You right now that jesus is enough.
  • 00:17:39.771 --> 00:17:42.808
  • No matter what's going on in your life, jesus is enough.
  • 00:17:42.808 --> 00:17:46.145
  • No matter what's happening in your marriage, jesus is enough.
  • 00:17:46.145 --> 00:17:49.381
  • No matter what's going on in your pocketbook, jesus
  • 00:17:49.381 --> 00:17:51.783
  • Is enough.
  • 00:17:51.783 --> 00:17:53.118
  • No matter what's going on in your emotions, jesus is enough.
  • 00:17:53.118 --> 00:17:56.455
  • No matter what's going on in your job, jesus is enough.
  • 00:17:56.455 --> 00:17:59.791
  • I am calling the body of christ in this upcoming year to dismiss
  • 00:17:59.791 --> 00:18:04.563
  • All of the things you're trying to do to try to make it enough
  • 00:18:04.563 --> 00:18:08.167
  • And look at jesus--
  • 00:18:08.167 --> 00:18:12.804
  • Number nine, verse 17 says: "for god sent not his son into the
  • 00:18:12.804 --> 00:18:18.076
  • World to," what?
  • 00:18:18.076 --> 00:18:19.745
  • "condemn the world, but that the world through him might
  • 00:18:19.745 --> 00:18:22.047
  • Be saved."
  • 00:18:22.047 --> 00:18:23.382
  • Stop condemning people.
  • 00:18:23.382 --> 00:18:25.083
  • If god's not condemning you, you stop condemning people.
  • 00:18:25.083 --> 00:18:28.086
  • Let me say it like this.
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  • If god can give you a second chance--
  • 00:18:29.454 --> 00:18:34.426
  • Quit holding stuff against people that happened a year ago.
  • 00:18:34.426 --> 00:18:38.130
  • Are you understanding--'cause god's not holding
  • 00:18:38.130 --> 00:18:39.464
  • It against you.
  • 00:18:39.464 --> 00:18:40.799
  • If you were to go to god and say, "god, remember what i did
  • 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:42.668
  • Last week?"
  • 00:18:42.668 --> 00:18:44.002
  • He'll say, "wait, wait, we don't have this on record," why?
  • 00:18:44.002 --> 00:18:45.470
  • Because he took your sins and he cast them as far as the east is
  • 00:18:45.470 --> 00:18:47.739
  • In the west.
  • 00:18:47.739 --> 00:18:49.074
  • And then when it finally landed, it landed in the sea of
  • 00:18:49.074 --> 00:18:50.676
  • Forgetfulness where he remembers it no more.
  • 00:18:50.676 --> 00:18:52.711
  • Who do you think you are this christmas, bringing up what
  • 00:18:52.711 --> 00:18:55.447
  • Somebody did last christmas?
  • 00:18:55.447 --> 00:18:57.115
  • Let that junk go.
  • 00:18:57.115 --> 00:18:58.483
  • It ain't worth it.
  • 00:18:58.483 --> 00:18:59.818
  • Your love is gonna be--it's gonna be greater.
  • 00:18:59.818 --> 00:19:01.954
  • Your love is gonna be greater than your condemnation.
  • 00:19:01.954 --> 00:19:04.656
  • Your love is gonna be greater than your hurt.
  • 00:19:04.656 --> 00:19:06.692
  • It's gonna be greater than your pain.
  • 00:19:06.692 --> 00:19:08.360
  • Quit walking around hurt.
  • 00:19:08.360 --> 00:19:09.761
  • Quit walking around depressed.
  • 00:19:09.761 --> 00:19:11.296
  • Quit walking around sad.
  • 00:19:11.296 --> 00:19:12.831
  • Walk around in love, and the love will lift you above all
  • 00:19:12.831 --> 00:19:16.401
  • Those other things.
  • 00:19:16.401 --> 00:19:17.769
  • Jesus was born so you can have enough.
  • 00:19:17.769 --> 00:19:21.640
  • Number nine, he made the holy spirit available to
  • 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:30.482
  • All humankind.
  • 00:19:30.482 --> 00:19:32.884
  • He was born so he can make the holy spirit available.
  • 00:19:32.884 --> 00:19:36.321
  • Acts chapter 2, verse 32 and 33.
  • 00:19:36.321 --> 00:19:39.324
  • He was born to make the holy spirit available.
  • 00:19:39.324 --> 00:19:42.327
  • How many of you know you can't live this life without the
  • 00:19:42.327 --> 00:19:43.962
  • Holy ghost?
  • 00:19:43.962 --> 00:19:45.330
  • Oh-oh, you will know it this upcoming year.
  • 00:19:45.330 --> 00:19:48.667
  • Because everything you think you know and everything you think
  • 00:19:48.667 --> 00:19:51.003
  • You've learned and all the degrees that you have right now,
  • 00:19:51.003 --> 00:19:53.472
  • You gonna need some supernatural help.
  • 00:19:53.472 --> 00:19:58.844
  • The good news this christmas is you have him.
  • 00:19:58.844 --> 00:20:02.581
  • I didn't say "it," i said you have him.
  • 00:20:02.581 --> 00:20:05.250
  • While the rest of the world's trying to figure it out,
  • 00:20:05.250 --> 00:20:06.952
  • Freaking out and in panic, you're gonna be in peace, you're
  • 00:20:06.952 --> 00:20:10.088
  • Gonna be in faith, and you're gonna be walking with your
  • 00:20:10.088 --> 00:20:12.424
  • Unseen invisible partner as he begins to lead and guide you as
  • 00:20:12.424 --> 00:20:16.728
  • A barefooted priest.
  • 00:20:16.728 --> 00:20:18.230
  • And as you walk, your steps are gonna be ordered by the lord.
  • 00:20:18.230 --> 00:20:21.600
  • And when it's all over with, they're gonna ask you, "how did
  • 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:23.869
  • You get here and i'm still struggling?"
  • 00:20:23.869 --> 00:20:25.704
  • And you'll tell 'em, "i got an unseen partner.
  • 00:20:25.704 --> 00:20:28.173
  • I don't know what you're looking at, but when systems start
  • 00:20:28.173 --> 00:20:31.310
  • Failing, when finances start failing, when things start
  • 00:20:31.310 --> 00:20:35.314
  • Falling, it shall not come near you."
  • 00:20:35.314 --> 00:20:38.350
  • They didn't have enough straw to make brick in egypt, but they
  • 00:20:38.350 --> 00:20:42.454
  • Had more than enough in goshen.
  • 00:20:42.454 --> 00:20:44.923
  • Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to goshen.
  • 00:20:44.923 --> 00:20:50.495
  • Verse 32 says: "this jesus has god raised up," why?
  • 00:20:54.566 --> 00:20:58.570
  • "whereof we all are witnesses."
  • 00:20:58.570 --> 00:21:01.073
  • 33, he says: "therefore being by the right hand of god exalted,
  • 00:21:01.073 --> 00:21:06.044
  • And having received of the father the promise of the holy
  • 00:21:06.044 --> 00:21:09.214
  • Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear."
  • 00:21:09.214 --> 00:21:14.286
  • You're getting ready to see some stuff.
  • 00:21:14.286 --> 00:21:17.456
  • Number ten, number ten, number ten.
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  • Last one: he provided the promised seed of abraham.
  • 00:21:21.126 --> 00:21:25.864
  • You remember in the book of genesis chapter 22:18, he
  • 00:21:25.864 --> 00:21:29.534
  • Promised that a seed would come.
  • 00:21:29.534 --> 00:21:31.837
  • But then in galatians chapter 3, verses 14-16, he says, "i'm not
  • 00:21:31.837 --> 00:21:36.441
  • Talking about seeds as in many, i'm talking about seed as in
  • 00:21:36.441 --> 00:21:40.512
  • One: christ jesus."
  • 00:21:40.512 --> 00:21:41.947
  • Look at these last three scriptures with me.
  • 00:21:41.947 --> 00:21:43.749
  • Galatians 3:14-16 says: "that the blessing of abraham might
  • 00:21:43.749 --> 00:21:48.053
  • Come on the gentiles through jesus christ; that we might
  • 00:21:48.053 --> 00:21:50.922
  • Receive the promise of the spirit through faith."
  • 00:21:50.922 --> 00:21:53.225
  • 15, he says, "brethren, i speak after the manner of men; though
  • 00:21:53.225 --> 00:21:59.164
  • It be a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man
  • 00:21:59.164 --> 00:22:03.802
  • Disannulleth, or added thereto."
  • 00:22:03.802 --> 00:22:05.904
  • 16, he says, "now to abraham and his seed were the promises made.
  • 00:22:05.904 --> 00:22:11.543
  • He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy
  • 00:22:11.543 --> 00:22:17.115
  • Seed," come on, "which is christ."
  • 00:22:17.115 --> 00:22:20.419
  • Jesus was born to be the promised seed.
  • 00:22:20.419 --> 00:22:24.389
  • Ladies and gentlemen, you better be glad that we celebrate the
  • 00:22:24.389 --> 00:22:31.296
  • Birth of a savior.
  • 00:22:31.296 --> 00:22:39.571
  • The government won't be able to save you like jesus.
  • 00:22:39.571 --> 00:22:42.707
  • Welfare won't be able to save you like jesus.
  • 00:22:42.707 --> 00:22:45.644
  • You understand what i'm saying?
  • 00:22:45.644 --> 00:22:47.345
  • Your momma'nem won't be able to save you like jesus, but today
  • 00:22:47.345 --> 00:22:51.082
  • We celebrate the birth of a savior who has made the
  • 00:22:51.082 --> 00:22:55.020
  • Difference in our lives.
  • 00:22:55.020 --> 00:22:56.488
  • And as we depart from this place today, you depart in love, you
  • 00:22:56.488 --> 00:23:00.525
  • Rise above the circumstances and the situations in life.
  • 00:23:00.525 --> 00:23:04.696
  • You rise above the things that have happened.
  • 00:23:04.696 --> 00:23:08.066
  • You encourage people.
  • 00:23:08.066 --> 00:23:10.268
  • You build people up today.
  • 00:23:10.268 --> 00:23:12.637
  • You might be mean as, you know, but focus on being a blessing to
  • 00:23:12.637 --> 00:23:21.246
  • Somebody today.
  • 00:23:21.246 --> 00:23:22.881
  • Lift your hands up and thank god.
  • 00:23:22.881 --> 00:23:24.983
  • Thank god for jesus.
  • 00:23:24.983 --> 00:23:28.753
  • Thank you, lord.
  • 00:23:26.718 --> 00:23:30.355
  • Give him praise.
  • 00:23:30.355 --> 00:23:31.690
  • Thank you, lord.
  • 00:23:31.690 --> 00:23:33.058
  • Thank him for jesus.
  • 00:23:33.058 --> 00:23:34.392
  • Thank him that all is well in your life.
  • 00:23:34.392 --> 00:23:36.394
  • Thank god that more--that god is more than enough.
  • 00:23:36.394 --> 00:23:39.865
  • All is well with you and your house.
  • 00:23:39.865 --> 00:23:43.268
  • Thank god for the anointing.
  • 00:23:43.268 --> 00:23:44.970
  • Thank god for the leadership of the holy spirit.
  • 00:23:44.970 --> 00:23:47.405
  • Thank god that you have the seed of jesus christ.
  • 00:23:47.405 --> 00:23:50.942
  • Thank god that your focus is on jesus.
  • 00:23:50.942 --> 00:23:53.945
  • When you can't figure it out, it's on jesus.
  • 00:23:53.945 --> 00:23:56.381
  • When you don't know where it's gonna come from, it's on jesus.
  • 00:23:56.381 --> 00:23:59.217
  • When the pain is there, the doctor report is there, it is
  • 00:23:59.217 --> 00:24:01.953
  • All about jesus.
  • 00:24:01.953 --> 00:24:04.589
  • He is the way, the truth, and the life.
  • 00:24:04.589 --> 00:24:08.360
  • No man goes to the father except by him.
  • 00:24:08.360 --> 00:24:12.130
  • In jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:24:12.130 --> 00:24:14.566
  • Would you put your hands together and give him a
  • 00:24:14.566 --> 00:24:16.368
  • Big shout?
  • 00:24:16.368 --> 00:24:17.702
  • [congregation, applauding, cheering]
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  • Come on, i believe you can shout better than that, praise
  • 00:24:21.907 --> 00:24:24.676
  • God, hallelujah.
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  • Female announcer: you've been tested, but the test didn't
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  • Creflo dollar: hopefully, you're gonna choose to let
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  • Heaven determine your thinking because whatever choice you
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  • Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way-maker?
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  • Yes!
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Yes!
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  • Creflo: i don't ever want to take for granted that you've
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  • Received jesus christ as your personal lord and savior, and
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  • There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life
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  • Than to enter into a personal relationship with jesus.
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  • So if you want to become born again and begin an exciting
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, i want you to pray this
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  • Prayer with me and i'll say it so you can repeat after me.
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  • Repeat after me: "heavenly father.
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  • I believe that jesus is the son of god, and that he died and was
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  • Raised from the dead, and has forgiven all of my sins.
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  • And i receive him into my life right now as my lord and
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  • Personal savior.
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  • So by faith i declare that i am saved," praise god.
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  • Now that simple prayer changed your entire eternal destination
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  • And we want to welcome you to the family of god.
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