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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Transformed By Delight (Part 1) | May 22, 2025
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- Now what does that look like?
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- Delight yourself in the lord.
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- Delight yourself in the lord looks like this.
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- Creflo: this morning i want to talk about "transformed
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- By delight."
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- The two keys to being changed and transformed was that the one
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- Key was beholding him and just by beholding him, the bible says
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- We're changed by the holy spirit.
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- But this issue of being transformed by delight, we need
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- To figure out what that is.
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- This is all within the series of "living in the rhythms
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- Of grace."
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- What does it mean to be transformed or changed
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- By delight?
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- In fact, what does that word delight mean?
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- Let's begin in psalms 37, verses 1 through 7 in the nlt.
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- Psalms 37, verses 1 through 7 in the nlt.
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- Father, i thank you for this--another opportunity to
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- Minister to these your precious sheep.
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- Thank you, lord, that revelation of knowledge will flow freely,
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- Uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic force.
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- And father, i pray that you'll speak through my vocal cords and
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- Think through my mind.
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- None of me and all of you, it's in jesus's name we pray, and
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- Everybody said amen.
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- Now we are so grateful for the grace and the mercy of god, but
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- One of the things i want you to understand is that we can be
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- Changed by grace.
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- And today is gonna be a focus on your relationship with
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- Jesus christ.
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- You know, it's just not gonna be possible to live this christian
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- Life without a relationship with jesus christ.
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- We can come up with more rules and add those rules to rules to
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- Rules to rules and still ignore the vitalness and the importance
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- Of having a personal relationship with jesus.
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- Because what's gonna transform us is that relationship, what's
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- Gonna change us is the relationship we have with jesus.
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- What's going to be the result of our success is the relationship
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- We have with jesus.
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- What's gonna be our delivering, our healing is that relationship
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- With jesus.
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- They that know their god shall do exploits, and i think
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- Sometimes we don't know what it looks like to have that
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- Relationship with jesus christ.
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- I mean, what does that look like?
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- How do we do that?
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- How do we have that relationship with the spirit of grace?
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- It's not just being religious, okay?
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- It's having a real relationship with him where sometimes your
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- Relationship with him informs you of something that you
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- Haven't even found in the bible yet.
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- And yet your relationship with jesus has told you about the
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- Thing and then later on you read it and say, wait a minute, "god
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- Told me about that."
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- That's what this relationship is about.
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- And i don't see success in the lives of christian people when
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- We don't understand how important it is to have a
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- Everyday relationship with god.
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- Your life as a christian doesn't grow because you come to church.
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- Your life as a christian grows every day through your everyday
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- Getting up, your living.
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- It is as you live that you make disciples of people.
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- It's what you do every day because god can take advantage
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- Of all the things that life brings your way.
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- And then you say you trust him, but now you have the opportunity
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- To see what that looks like.
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- You say you depend on him, now you have the opportunity to see
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- What that looks like.
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- It's what are you doing every day and how are you involving
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- God in your life on a day to day basis.
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- It's when somebody does something to you, and you know
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- Who you are, you know your identity, you know you're
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- A christian.
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- Now is the opportunity to test that out, now it's the
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- Opportunity to bring that forth.
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- You go around and we say we love people, but what happens when
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- Somebody, you know, identifies and makes it plain to you they
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- Don't like you.
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- Now it's the opportunity to exercise that and through that
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- Exercise and through the temptation and through that
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- Pressure, it's that everyday life stuff that you'll find
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- Yourself maturing in what you're learning from the word of god.
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- It's not just memorizing scripture, and now you keep up
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- With the number of scriptures you have memorized that makes
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- You a great christian, it's being able to look at life and
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- How it challenges you and how it tests you.
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- And then the things you've learned, you pull them up out of
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- Your spirit and the holy ghost begins to direct your path.
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- And you see growth because you realized five years ago this
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- Would have been a fight.
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- But now the love of god has been bubbling on the inside of you
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- And you have the opportunity to see what's really in you.
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- It's just like an orange.
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- You just don't know what it's like until the squeeze has been
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- Put on.
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- And i just believe that most of you world changers that will be
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- Squeezed, you're going to demonstrate the amazing
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- Character and flavor of god that abides on the inside of
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- You, amen?
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- I believe that.
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- And so, this is gonna be interesting because again, we're
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- Gonna attack one of those little religious things that we
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- Believed all our time and just really look at it and just see
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- What we have here.
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- So, psalms 37, verses 1 through 7 in the nlt.
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- Verse 1 says, "don't worry about the wicked," that's a good word,
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- Isn't it?
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- "don't worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong."
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- Verse 2, "for like grass, they soon fade away.
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- Like spring flowers, they soon wither."
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- So, while he says don't fret or don't worry, he says here's what
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- You do, "trust in the lord, do good.
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- Then you'll live safely in the land and you will prosper,"
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- Because you trust in the lord and do good.
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- You're not responding to the wicked.
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- You're not responding to all of the stuff that's happening
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- Right now.
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- You're trusting in the lord and you're doing good and you're
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- Gonna live safely, regardless of what's happening.
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- And you're gonna live in the land and you're gonna prosper.
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- Verse 4, he says, "delight yourself in the lord, or take
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- Delight in the lord, and he will give you your heart's desire."
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- Now put a pin there cause we gotta understand that because
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- We've misunderstood that.
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- Verse 5 he says, "commit everything you do to the lord."
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- So delight yourself in the lord, trust in the lord, commit
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- Everything you do to the lord, commit everything you do
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- To the lord.
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- Commit everything you do--
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- Wonder what happens if we'll start committing everything we
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- Do to the lord.
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- Wonder what happens instead of you making the decision or you
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- Allowing your emotions to move you into a place.
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- Wonder what happen if you commit yourself to the lord.
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- He said, "trust him."
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- There it is again.
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- Delight yourself, trust in the lord, commit yourself to
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- The lord.
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- And all of this in the mid of fret and worry.
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- Don't worry about the wicked.
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- You're too busy to worry about the wicked.
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- You're trusting god.
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- You're depending on god.
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- You're committing everything to god.
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- You're trusting god, and you're doing good.
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- But why are you wasting energy concerning the wicked?
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- He says, "put your energy towards these things.
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- Trust him, and he'll help you."
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- Verse 6, "he will make your innocence radiant like the dawn,
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- And the justice of your cause will shine like the
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- Noonday sun."
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- My goodness.
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- "be still," look at there.
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- Another version i think king james says, "take rest."
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- Be still, take rest.
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- Trust in the lord.
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- Commit your way everything to the lord.
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- Take a rest.
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- Rest in god.
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- "be still in the presence of the lord, wait patiently for him
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- To act."
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- Wait patiently for him to act.
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- You know what we do when we're not patient for god to act?
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- We act.
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- And maybe it ain't time for you to act because everything is
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- Seasonal, you know?
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- It's not time for you to act.
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- Wait patiently for him to act.
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- "don't worry about evil people who prosper.
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- Don't fret about their wicked schemes."
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- Wow.
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- So, a big part of this is verse 4, which it says, "delight
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- Yourself in the lord and he'll give you the desires of
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- Your heart."
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- And before we dig into that, go to isaiah 58, verse 13 through
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- 14, because in there, he's talking about the sabbath.
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- And we know that today, this our sabbath is not a day.
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- Our sabbath is a person.
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- Jesus is our sabbath.
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- Say that out loud, "jesus is my sabbath."
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- Okay, he's my rest.
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- Jesus is my rest.
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- Jesus is my sabbath.
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- So, here in the--let's read that with the king james.
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- Here he's talking about the sabbath day, but i saw something
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- In this, even if we recognize that jesus is our rest.
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- He says, "if thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from
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- Doing thy pleasure," from doing your pleasure, "on the holy day;
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- And call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the lord, honorable;
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- And shall honor him."
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- Now here's what i got out of this and i realized sabbath is
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- At rest, not doing thy own way, not finding your own pleasure,
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- Not speaking your own words.
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- What is that gonna be called when you stop doing your own
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- Pleasure, stop doing your own way, stop speaking your
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- Own words?
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- Next verse says, "then shalt thou delight thyself in
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- The lord."
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- Oh, there's gotta be something to that.
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- Not doing your own pleasure, not speaking your own words.
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- He says, "then you find delight in the lord; and i'll cause thee
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- To ride upon the high places of the earth, and i'll feed thee
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- With the heritage of jacob thy father; for the mouth of the
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- Lord has spoken it."
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- Something happens, something changes, something is
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- Transformed when we find delight in the lord.
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- So, to me it's imperative that we understand what it means to
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- Delight in the lord.
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- Because here's the way we've taught it in church, "delight
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- Thyself in the lord," and most--sometimes you'll see
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- People translated in joy, okay?
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- Delight thyself in the lord.
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- Enjoy the lord.
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- I just believe it's a whole lot more than enjoying.
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- I believe it means a whole lot more.
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- I had to go to the hebrew and study that because i'm thinking,
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- You know, not speaking my thing or doing my way is not gonna be
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- Very enjoyable to me, you know.
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- But you've got to understand here when he talks about this
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- Enjoyment, you know, "enjoy the lord, delight yourself in the
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- Lord and he'll give you the desire of your heart."
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- So, if you, in your heart, you desire a car, all you gotta do
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- Is delight yourself in the lord and he'll give you the car.
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- You know, in your heart, if you desire a husband or a wife, all
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- You gotta do is delight yourself in the lord.
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- He's gonna give you the husband or the wife.
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- That's not what that means.
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- That is so not what that means.
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- And so, you know, you're gonna find out that it's not god not
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- Gonna be giving you what's in your heart, god's gonna be
- 00:13:08.834 --> 00:13:10.970
- Giving you what's in his heart, okay?
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- But i want you to understand that so you can use delight as a
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- Weapon to overcome crazy times in your life, all right?
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- So, let's dig into this.
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- Let's look at the original word here.
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- The hebrew word for delight, it means to be soft and tender
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- And pliable.
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- The hebrew word for delight, soft, tender, and pliable.
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- You see lovers of god are those who are soft and tender
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- Towards god.
- 00:13:45.804 --> 00:13:47.606
- And what do i mean?
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- Lovers of god, and when you delight in god--you're always
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- Teachable when you delight yourself in god.
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- You're always pliable in his hands when you delight yourself
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- In the lord.
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- In this context, in psalms 37, and verse 4, it means to be
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- Dependent upon god and to revive--and to derive your
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- Pleasure from him.
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- I'm dependent upon god, and i have pleasure in depending
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- Upon god.
- 00:14:18.671 --> 00:14:20.406
- Now what does that look like?
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- Delight yourself in the lord.
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- Delight yourself in the lord looks like this.
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- It's when you are willing to accept every experience as
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- Though god is trying to teach you something.
- 00:14:28.814 --> 00:14:33.752
- It's when you look at every experience that happens in your
- 00:14:33.752 --> 00:14:36.722
- Life, you look at it as god's trying to teach me something and
- 00:14:36.722 --> 00:14:40.793
- You find peace and fulfillment in the lord because to be
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- Pliable and to delight yourself in the lord, "i just went
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- Through this.
- 00:14:48.634 --> 00:14:50.736
- I just believe god's trying to teach me something."
- 00:14:50.736 --> 00:14:54.406
- "this just happened to me.
- 00:14:54.406 --> 00:14:56.208
- What can i learn from this?"
- 00:14:56.208 --> 00:14:58.911
- See, we keep asking the wrong question.
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- When things happen to us, we keep asking, "why did you let
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- This happen to me?"
- 00:15:05.684 --> 00:15:08.253
- But to have delight in the lord, it says, "lord, i am teachable,
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- I am pliable, i am soft, and i trust that there's a reason why
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- This happened, and i just depend on you, and i accept every
- 00:15:18.230 --> 00:15:22.668
- Experience as though you're trying to teach me something."
- 00:15:22.668 --> 00:15:27.339
- Think about how you can carry on after something crazy happens
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- When that's your response.
- 00:15:31.377 --> 00:15:33.278
- "father, this thing just happened to me and it hurts, but
- 00:15:33.278 --> 00:15:35.881
- I believe that you're trying to teach me something.
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- I believe that i'm supposed to grow.
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- I believe i'm being equipped.
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- I believe that as someone who is pliable and soft
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- And teachable--"
- 00:15:48.994 --> 00:15:52.798
- Who do we think we are?
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- How do we think that just because we've been saved, i
- 00:15:54.133 --> 00:15:56.635
- Don't care how many years, that you think you're there.
- 00:15:56.635 --> 00:16:01.407
- The more i learn, the more i realize what i don't know.
- 00:16:01.407 --> 00:16:09.114
- And i learned something new, and i realized, oh god, i didn't
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- Know that.
- 00:16:11.917 --> 00:16:13.285
- At one time i just said, "god, i don't know nothing but you."
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- And you know what he said?
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- "that'll be good."
- 00:16:18.190 --> 00:16:21.393
- Because what's happening?
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- We're in this theological contest with one another and we
- 00:16:22.761 --> 00:16:27.366
- Think that, you know, god approves us because of the
- 00:16:27.366 --> 00:16:30.936
- Knowledge we have obtained.
- 00:16:30.936 --> 00:16:32.805
- And knowledge is not bad, but i am saying, ladies and gentlemen,
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- Intimacy with jesus is better than all the knowledge you can
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- Learn from every concordance that you could read.
- 00:16:40.579 --> 00:16:45.384
- Look at these scriptures.
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- Let's just--let's go into this a little bit more.
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- Psalms 22 and 8. psalms 22 and 8, there's something that
- 00:16:52.124 --> 00:16:58.063
- Happens when we remain teachable, pliable, when we look
- 00:16:58.063 --> 00:17:05.003
- At the experiences of our lives as though god is trying to show
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- Us something.
- 00:17:10.142 --> 00:17:12.044
- And that's why i taught on self-deception.
- 00:17:12.044 --> 00:17:14.079
- God's trying to show us something where we can't even
- 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.215
- See what god's trying to show us because we don't think we need
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- To see nothing.
- 00:17:18.517 --> 00:17:22.488
- Let me tell you something, self-deception, we're good
- 00:17:22.488 --> 00:17:25.491
- At it.
- 00:17:25.491 --> 00:17:26.825
- We try to deceive other people and don't even realize we
- 00:17:26.825 --> 00:17:29.428
- Already deceived.
- 00:17:29.428 --> 00:17:34.233
- Because people who deceive, they love blaming other people still.
- 00:17:34.233 --> 00:17:39.037
- People who are deceived have a hard pro--hard time listening to
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- Somebody confronting them about somebody that they said.
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- We're gonna talk about that.
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- And you can't go far in god if you're stuck in deception, amen.
- 00:17:47.646 --> 00:17:54.620
- And let me tell you this to make you feel good.
- 00:17:54.620 --> 00:17:57.122
- Everybody goes through self-deception.
- 00:17:57.122 --> 00:18:00.058
- Ain't nobody in here that's, "well i'm not
- 00:18:00.058 --> 00:18:02.528
- Deceived," somewhere.
- 00:18:02.528 --> 00:18:06.932
- And god wants you to delight yourself in him.
- 00:18:06.932 --> 00:18:11.670
- He's got something he will do through delight.
- 00:18:11.670 --> 00:18:14.940
- Look at this in psalms 22:8.
- 00:18:14.940 --> 00:18:17.442
- He said, "he trusted on the lord that he would deliver him," i
- 00:18:17.442 --> 00:18:22.881
- Trust god that he'll deliver me.
- 00:18:22.881 --> 00:18:25.117
- Somebody says, "well i don't need to be delivered
- 00:18:25.117 --> 00:18:26.485
- From something."
- 00:18:26.485 --> 00:18:27.819
- You need to be delivered from something.
- 00:18:27.819 --> 00:18:29.354
- Okay, maybe you need to be delivered from a mean spirit, or
- 00:18:29.354 --> 00:18:32.024
- Moodiness, or huntiness, or pride might have--might be
- 00:18:32.024 --> 00:18:36.461
- Sitting at the table.
- 00:18:36.461 --> 00:18:38.297
- "oh, i don't have pride, pastor."
- 00:18:38.297 --> 00:18:39.731
- You do.
- 00:18:39.731 --> 00:18:41.099
- Pride is somewhere at your table.
- 00:18:41.099 --> 00:18:42.568
- It's not sitting at the head of the table.
- 00:18:42.568 --> 00:18:45.470
- And that's your job, to make sure you know where pride and
- 00:18:45.470 --> 00:18:48.106
- Ego is sitting every day.
- 00:18:48.106 --> 00:18:50.108
- Because pride and ego wants to sit at the head of the table so
- 00:18:50.108 --> 00:18:52.644
- It can start directing things that happen in your life.
- 00:18:52.644 --> 00:18:55.514
- And a lot of issues we go through as a christian is the
- 00:18:55.514 --> 00:18:58.183
- Ego and a pride issue.
- 00:18:58.183 --> 00:19:00.652
- But we don't want to confront ego and pride because ego and
- 00:19:00.652 --> 00:19:02.955
- Pride won't show you what you wanna see.
- 00:19:02.955 --> 00:19:04.990
- Ego and pride will show you who you really are.
- 00:19:04.990 --> 00:19:13.198
- But there's a great deliverance there, and it comes when you
- 00:19:13.198 --> 00:19:15.334
- Delight in god.
- 00:19:15.334 --> 00:19:17.336
- That great deliverance is there to take you to the next level of
- 00:19:17.336 --> 00:19:20.505
- Your growth and it comes.
- 00:19:20.505 --> 00:19:21.840
- He said, "he trusted on the lord."
- 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:23.342
- I feel like trust is a big part of delighting in god.
- 00:19:23.342 --> 00:19:27.212
- He trusted on the lord, he depended on the lord and i trust
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- And i depend on god and i prayed the prayer, "lord, help me not
- 00:19:30.849 --> 00:19:33.852
- To deceive myself."
- 00:19:33.852 --> 00:19:35.754
- Why do i need god to help me to deceive myself?
- 00:19:35.754 --> 00:19:37.856
- Because if i deceive myself, i probably don't know
- 00:19:37.856 --> 00:19:39.658
- I'm deceived.
- 00:19:39.658 --> 00:19:42.094
- Help me, lord, not to deceive myself.
- 00:19:42.094 --> 00:19:44.096
- Let me--show me, help me.
- 00:19:44.096 --> 00:19:46.465
- I delight myself in you.
- 00:19:46.465 --> 00:19:47.799
- I don't want to walk around here deceived.
- 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:51.670
- I don't wanna walk around here like i did before.
- 00:19:51.670 --> 00:19:54.006
- I was almost 200 and something--50 pounds and i
- 00:19:54.006 --> 00:19:58.043
- Couldn't see it.
- 00:19:58.043 --> 00:20:00.012
- Until this guy wrote me a nasty letter and said, "i can't stand
- 00:20:00.012 --> 00:20:04.516
- Your big old fat blank," and i said--i forgot about the insult
- 00:20:04.516 --> 00:20:08.287
- And i'm like, "fat?
- 00:20:08.287 --> 00:20:09.655
- Fat? fat?
- 00:20:09.655 --> 00:20:17.229
- Forget it--forget everything else, fat, fat?"
- 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:23.135
- We are better at deceiving ourselves than anybody else.
- 00:20:23.135 --> 00:20:28.940
- So, i have to trust god.
- 00:20:28.940 --> 00:20:30.275
- I have to depend on him, and i gotta let him--when i trust god
- 00:20:30.275 --> 00:20:34.079
- And when i delight in god, i depend on him to deliver me.
- 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:38.950
- And the scripture says, "let him deliver him seeing he delighted
- 00:20:38.950 --> 00:20:43.488
- In him."
- 00:20:43.488 --> 00:20:44.856
- So there's something about delighting in god that brings
- 00:20:44.856 --> 00:20:47.225
- About deliverance.
- 00:20:47.225 --> 00:20:49.161
- There's something that when we learn how to delight in the lord
- 00:20:49.161 --> 00:20:51.830
- That'll bring about deliverance.
- 00:20:51.830 --> 00:20:55.500
- Look at psalms 19--psalms 119, verse 16.
- 00:20:55.500 --> 00:20:59.071
- Psalms 119, verse 16.
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- Is everybody still on the bus?
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- All right, stay on the bus.
- 00:21:06.011 --> 00:21:09.147
- He says, "i will delight myself in thy statutes: i will not
- 00:21:09.147 --> 00:21:15.120
- Forget your word."
- 00:21:15.120 --> 00:21:16.455
- I see that, i see that getting in god's word
- 00:21:16.455 --> 00:21:18.857
- Can be a part of delight.
- 00:21:18.857 --> 00:21:21.927
- And yet as christian people, we have forgotten about how
- 00:21:21.927 --> 00:21:25.664
- Important it is to have daily contact with god's word.
- 00:21:25.664 --> 00:21:30.268
- I mean, whether you get the word by reading the bible, whether
- 00:21:30.268 --> 00:21:32.237
- You get the word by listening to the sermon over again
- 00:21:32.237 --> 00:21:35.273
- And teaching.
- 00:21:35.273 --> 00:21:36.641
- I'm like that guy who says, "how am i gonna read and understand
- 00:21:36.641 --> 00:21:38.844
- The word if i don't have a teacher?"
- 00:21:38.844 --> 00:21:41.146
- However you need to get it, get it, get it.
- 00:21:41.146 --> 00:21:45.016
- Even if you make your mind up that i'm gonna get to work 15
- 00:21:45.016 --> 00:21:47.519
- Minutes a day, get it.
- 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:48.887
- How do you think you're gonna change and you're not exposed to
- 00:21:48.887 --> 00:21:52.124
- The agent of change?
- 00:21:52.124 --> 00:21:57.996
- Oh man.
- 00:21:57.996 --> 00:21:59.498
- Oh, i'm a christian and know nothing, have no contact with
- 00:21:59.498 --> 00:22:04.002
- The spirit.
- 00:22:04.002 --> 00:22:06.037
- Hallelujah.
- 00:22:06.037 --> 00:22:07.672
- And it's the spirit of grace that's gonna change us.
- 00:22:07.672 --> 00:22:10.675
- And sometimes, well not all the time.
- 00:22:10.675 --> 00:22:13.345
- When you make daily contact with god's word and you don't forget
- 00:22:13.345 --> 00:22:16.481
- God's word, that's a delight.
- 00:22:16.481 --> 00:22:19.217
- And i tell you, he can deliver you when you do that, but i
- 00:22:19.217 --> 00:22:23.555
- Don't know what it is.
- 00:22:23.555 --> 00:22:24.923
- I don't know what it is.
- 00:22:24.923 --> 00:22:26.258
- We've been saved for 30 years.
- 00:22:26.258 --> 00:22:27.626
- We--now we don't see any need to get in the word.
- 00:22:27.626 --> 00:22:29.528
- I don't ever want to become a christian that has stopped
- 00:22:29.528 --> 00:22:33.265
- Growing and maturing and learning because god is deep.
- 00:22:33.265 --> 00:22:37.669
- You mean to tell me you done figured all god out?
- 00:22:37.669 --> 00:22:39.404
- No, you ain't figured god out.
- 00:22:39.404 --> 00:22:41.573
- He did something one way with you this time, he'll do
- 00:22:41.573 --> 00:22:43.675
- Something completely different the next time and seeing,
- 00:22:43.675 --> 00:22:45.544
- And getting better results.
- 00:22:45.544 --> 00:22:46.878
- You--god is wide and deep and high and there's so much
- 00:22:46.878 --> 00:22:49.648
- To know.
- 00:22:49.648 --> 00:22:51.016
- There's--one lifetime ain't enough to figure him out.
- 00:22:51.016 --> 00:22:55.921
- And we got to--we took the place where we think we know all
- 00:22:55.921 --> 00:22:58.089
- About god.
- 00:22:58.089 --> 00:22:59.424
- We done learned five scriptures, got baptized last
- 00:22:59.424 --> 00:23:01.726
- Night, and now we don't need god no more.
- 00:23:01.726 --> 00:23:06.932
- Are you listening to me now?
- 00:23:06.932 --> 00:23:09.601
- All right, so now let's dig in this thing here now.
- 00:23:09.601 --> 00:23:12.871
- True delight in him causes us to take our sights off of what we
- 00:23:12.871 --> 00:23:18.777
- Want in order to long for what he wants.
- 00:23:18.777 --> 00:23:25.183
- When you're operating in true delight, delight yourself in the
- 00:23:25.183 --> 00:23:27.953
- Lord, this is what it looks like.
- 00:23:27.953 --> 00:23:30.021
- You take your sights off what you want and you put your sights
- 00:23:30.021 --> 00:23:36.461
- On what he wants.
- 00:23:36.461 --> 00:23:38.463
- And you take your sights off what you want in order to long
- 00:23:38.463 --> 00:23:43.535
- For what he wants.
- 00:23:43.535 --> 00:23:45.170
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- 00:24:07.692 --> 00:24:11.429
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- Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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- The kingdom of god.
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- Providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change in
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