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Creflo Dollar - True Holiness

May 13, 2025 | S25:E117

Creflo Dollar - True Holiness
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - True Holiness | May 13, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: holiness is a person, not conduct.
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  • You hear these people talking about, "we got to learn how to
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  • Be more holy."
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  • You can't be no more holy than you are right now because your
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  • Holy is not based on yourself.
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  • Your holy is based on himself.
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  • Your holy is based on jesus's self.
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  • Your behavior does not determine your holiness.
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  • Your savior determine your holiness.
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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: the series we're dealing with this month is a series that
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  • We call, "living in the rhythms of grace."
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  • "living in the rhythms of grace."
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  • But today, there's gonna be a special focus on holiness.
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  • It's just--i just gotta finally talk about it.
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  • I'm hearing some of the most outrageous things of holiness
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  • And all.
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  • It's not, you know, the bible talks about worship him.
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  • David was saying, "worship him and the beauty of his holiness."
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  • And, boy, the pressure that i see people putting on other
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  • Christians about walking in holiness, it's not beautiful
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  • At all.
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  • What's not beautiful about holiness will be the reason why
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  • People don't pursue it.
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  • And there's a reason why people don't pursue holiness: because
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  • Of our lack of understanding of what it is, okay?
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  • So as we deal with this, i think it'll really bless you today and
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  • Get you so stirred up and exciting you may weep a little
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  • Bit because you see just another aspect of his amazing love and
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  • Grace and mercy that he puts towards us.
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  • Romans chapter 12, verse 1 and 2.
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  • Romans 12, verse 1: "i beseech you therefore,
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  • Brethren, by the mercies of god."
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  • So what god's gonna begin to ask us to do, he says, is gonna be
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  • By his mercy.
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  • What he's getting ready to talk to you about is gonna be by
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  • His mercy.
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  • It's not gonna be by your self-performance, it's gonna be
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  • By his mercy.
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  • He says: "by the mercies of god, that you present your bodies a
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  • Living sacrifice."
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  • Present my body a living sacrifice.
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  • "holy and acceptable unto god."
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  • All right, first of all, my first problem is he says,
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  • "present a blemished body as a living sacrifice and present
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  • What you know is not perfect, holy."
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  • Well, the first thing i'm thinking about is i can't
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  • Do that.
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  • How how do i present something that's blemished, holy?
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  • In the old testament, the sacrifices had to be perfect and
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  • Had to be holy in order for them to be acceptable.
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  • And if they were not perfect, they were not accepted, and then
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  • Your sin wouldn't be covered.
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  • Here he says, "i want you to present your bodies as a
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  • Living sacrifice."
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  • Your bodies, guys, "holy and acceptable unto god, which is
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  • Your reasonable," and then he says it's reasonable.
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  • What makes it reasonable for me to do this thing that is gonna
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  • Be very difficult for me to do on a day-to-day basis?
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  • Verse 2: "and be not conformed to this world: but be
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  • Transformed by the renewing of your mind."
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  • So my mind's got something to do with this.
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  • "that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
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  • Perfect, will of god."
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  • Now let's look at verse 1 and 2 in the mirror translation and
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  • We'll get started here.
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  • He says: "live consistent with who you really are."
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  • So hopefully today we find out who we really are.
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  • And i'm gonna tell you right now, who we really are, our
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  • Identity is in christ.
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  • My identity is in christ.
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  • That's who i really am.
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  • Your identity is in christ.
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  • "live consistent with who you really are, inspired by the
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  • Loving kindness of god.
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  • My brothers, the most practical expression of worship is to make
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  • Your bodies available to him as a living sacrifice."
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  • So here god is saying, i want you to present your bodies to me
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  • So that i can express myself through your life.
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  • God wants expression through your life.
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  • All right, now watch this.
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  • He said, "this pleases him more than any religious routine."
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  • To be able to express his self through your life pleases him
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  • More than any religious routine.
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  • So you gotta ask yourself, am i allowing god to express his self
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  • Through my life?
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  • He says, "he desires to find visible, individual expression
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  • In your person."
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  • So god's interested in you making yourself available for
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  • Him every day.
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  • That's what real worship is.
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  • You're making yourself available to him every day so he can
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  • Express his self through you in hopes of touching
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  • Somebody's life.
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  • So this is about living.
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  • This is not about coming to church.
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  • He wants to do this in your everyday living.
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  • He wants to do you--do this in your waking up where your
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  • Family's concerned, and expressing his self through you
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  • To your family.
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  • He wants to do this in your everyday situation when you're
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  • Driving to work and somebody cuts you off and can he express
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  • His self through you, and instead of you shooting the
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  • Middle finger, you're saying, "it's okay, praise god,"
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  • You know.
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  • And some of y'all, "mhm."
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  • He wants to express his self through you when you're at work.
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  • He wants to express yourself through you.
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  • He wants to be able to know that there's somebody in the earth
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  • That he can send a situation to and they encounter god through
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  • Your life more than any religious routine.
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  • More than any religious routine.
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  • "he desires to find visible, individual expression in
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  • Your person.
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  • Do not allow current religious tradition to mold you into its
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  • Pattern of reasoning."
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  • Religion is working on you, trying to mold you into that
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  • Place of, you got to do good in order for god to do good to you.
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  • Trying to mold you in that place of, well, you gotta, you gotta
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  • Add works to your faith in order for your faith to work.
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  • That's all religion trying to mold you in that.
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  • And for the most part, a lot of us were molded into that.
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  • I was.
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  • I was molded into certain things that everybody else was saying
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  • It, everybody else was teaching it.
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  • That's all i ever heard in my life.
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  • So i became molded in that situation and now god is trying
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  • To change some stuff.
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  • "do not allow current religious traditions to mold you into its
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  • Pattern of reasoning.
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  • Like an inspired artist," listen to this.
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  • "like an inspired artist, give attention to the detail of god's
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  • Desire to find expression in you."
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  • That's what god wants.
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  • His desire is, can i find expression in you?
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  • Now, listen, i know we've made big of a whole lot of different
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  • Things, and this has been a little thing.
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  • But here's the big thing.
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  • Can god find expression through your life, and will you give him
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  • Your bodies as a living sacrifice so that he can do what
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  • He desires to do to find expression in you?
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  • Man, i've been thinking about that all week.
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  • Father, i want you to be able to find expression, love through
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  • Me, lord.
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  • Comfort through me, lord.
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  • Speak through me, lord.
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  • Meet certain provisions through me, lord.
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  • And when you're talking about your whole life, it's like
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  • Everything i have, i'm like, god, use it to express yourself
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  • Through my life.
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  • What if that was the number one thing, instead of us fussing
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  • About who's democrat and republican, what is that--what
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  • If that's the number one thing?
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  • Lord, i want--i want you to express yourself through
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  • Me, wow.
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  • He said, "become acquainted with perfection."
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  • "become acquainted with perfection.
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  • To accommodate yourself to the delight and the good pleasure of
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  • Him will transform your thoughts afresh from within."
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  • Now, this is something today, i ask god, 'cause sometimes i want
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  • To say, "why me," you know?
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  • But this is something that we have to look at and we have to
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  • Talk about.
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  • You know, god is talking about a complete surrender to him.
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  • And this will involve the mind as well as the body.
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  • Now, now listen to this and get this.
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  • The plea that he is making, please understand this.
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  • Grace is not that which is allowing me to do something bad.
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  • Grace is not that which is allowing me to do something bad.
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  • But grace is that which is shaping me
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  • To do something good.
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  • Grace is shaping me, not allowing me.
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  • Grace is shaping me to do something right, not allowing me
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  • To do something wrong.
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  • And you have to say that, because people will take grace
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  • And make it a license for us for doing something stupid.
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  • All right, now, you're not gonna be perfect, but what god is
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  • Saying is if you will submit to this grace, to this love, then
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  • It is going to shape your desire, shape your life, and in
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  • Shaping you to do what's right, all right?
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  • Some people wanna make it sound like you got what--you went up
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  • In the prayer room, got saved, and you came out flawless.
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  • You know that's not true, and yet you act like it's true.
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  • You get saved, go up in the prayer room, and you're shocked
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  • That nobody else is perfect like you because you don't realize
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  • You ain't.
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  • You cussed three times on the way home the day after you
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  • Got saved.
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  • So there's some shaping and some maturing that has to take place
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  • In your life and that's what-- that's what grace is designed to
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  • Do, and that's what grace is going to do.
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  • And so the plea is that the body be made a living sacrifice.
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  • The word "sacrifice" signifies a change of ownership for the
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  • Purpose of being consumed and that for the benefit of the new
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  • Owners; it's for the--can i express--can i have expression
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  • Through your body, is what god is asking.
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  • Can i have expression through your body?
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  • But then he says, "can you give me a body that is holy,
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  • And acceptable?"
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  • And so i'm thinking people got to understand what holiness is
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  • If we're gonna be able to answer this question.
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  • So let's get--let's get rocking and rolling and the first
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  • Statement is radical.
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  • Practical holiness is not possible if you don't understand
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  • That you're righteous in christ.
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  • Practical holiness is not possible if you don't understand
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  • That you are righteous in christ.
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  • Now, what does that mean?
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  • I have to understand that i am righteous only in christ.
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  • I'm not righteous 'cause i do right.
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  • I'm righteous because he is right.
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  • And when i make jesus the lord of my life, i am righteous
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  • Because of jesus, because jesus is my righteousness.
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  • Does everybody see that?
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  • Jesus is my righteousness.
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  • Say that.
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  • Okay, so if, you know, i now make jesus my lord and i am now
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  • In jesus, which now means i am righteous because i'm in jesus,
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  • I'm not righteous because i do right.
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  • But if i continue to hang with jesus, then it's going to impact
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  • My behavior and i'll end up doing right, but i'm not
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  • Righteous even when i start doing right.
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  • You're not righteous even when you start doing right.
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  • Boy, ain't that something?
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  • You're righteous because of jesus, period.
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  • Jesus is my righteousness.
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  • Say that.
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  • Now, if a person struggles with that, he will struggle
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  • With holiness.
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  • Hear what i'm saying now.
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  • You have to understand there is no righteousness without jesus.
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  • Go with me to the 1 corinthians chapter 1 and verse 30.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 1 and verse 30.
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  • All right now, watch this.
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  • Let's see if we can just break this down a little bit.
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  • Now, read out loud with me because i don't want you to
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  • Think, "well, where did you get that from?"
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  • I'm gonna show you where it came from, right here.
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  • "but of him."
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  • "but of him are you in christ jesus."
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  • How many of you are in christ jesus, which means you accepted
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  • Him one day?
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  • And see what god did.
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  • "who of god is made unto us."
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  • Jesus has been made wisdom.
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  • So if you're in jesus, jesus is now your wisdom, right?
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  • Jesus has been made unto you righteousness.
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  • So if you're in him, jesus is your righteousness, which means
  • 00:16:02.630 --> 00:16:07.402
  • You're righteous, right?
  • 00:16:07.402 --> 00:16:09.137
  • You have wisdom because he's been made wisdom for you.
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  • You have righteousness because he is your righteousness.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • "and sanctification."
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  • Jesus has been made sanctification.
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  • Sanctification, you ain't gotta look it up.
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  • I'll tell you what sanctification is:
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  • Jesus.
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  • Jesus is your sanctification.
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  • Oh boy, watch this.
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  • Now somebody said, "where does holiness come from?"
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  • Well, then when, you know, i'm into this little greek
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  • Thing now.
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  • The same greek word for sanctification is the exact same
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  • Word "holy."
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  • Holiness and sanctification come from the same greek word.
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  • So jesus has been made sanctified, and jesus has been
  • 00:16:55.650 --> 00:16:59.787
  • Made holy.
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  • Jesus has been made holy or sanctification.
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  • I want you to see where i got that from.
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  • Jesus has been made holy or sanctification.
  • 00:17:07.195 --> 00:17:11.065
  • So if jesus has been made holy, if jesus has been made
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  • Righteous, if jesus has been made wisdom, and you are now in
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  • Jesus, then you are righteous because of jesus, you are--have
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  • Wisdom because of jesus, and you are holy because of jesus.
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  • Now, i dare you to say, "i'm holy."
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  • Say, "i'm holy now."
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  • So here's a big statement.
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  • Notice that sanctification or holiness is not a conduct.
  • 00:17:50.505 --> 00:17:59.580
  • Sanctification or holiness is not a conduct, but religion's
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  • Taught us that it's conduct.
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  • Sanctification and holiness is not a conduct.
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  • Sanctification and holiness is a person.
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  • Holiness is a person.
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  • Righteousness is a person, wisdom is a person.
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  • Holiness is a person, not conduct.
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  • Holiness is a person, not conduct.
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  • You hear these people talking about, "we got to learn how to
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  • Be more holy."
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  • You can't be no more holy than you are right now, because your
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  • Holy is not based on yourself.
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  • Your holy is based on himself.
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  • Your holy is based on jesus's self.
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  • Jesus--you can't be no more holy than you are right now from
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  • The day you accepted jesus, and no matter how people look at you
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  • And no matter how, oh god, help me to say this.
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  • Your behavior does not determine your holiness, your savior
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  • Determine your holiness.
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  • So, say out loud, "i am holy."
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  • You see, once you have the person, you have all
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  • These things.
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  • Once you have the person, you have all of this.
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  • Once you have jesus, you have righteousness.
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  • Once you have jesus, you have redemption.
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  • Once you have jesus, you have sanctification, you have
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  • Holiness, you have wisdom.
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  • You have jesus--perfect scripture, romans 8:32.
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  • I knew i--see, when you confront religion like this,
  • 00:19:49.257 --> 00:19:53.527
  • Religion has a certain stare:
  • 00:19:53.527 --> 00:19:56.130
  • "what you talking about?"
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  • ...
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  • Because we say we want to live by the bible, but we won't pay
  • 00:20:08.042 --> 00:20:10.344
  • No attention to the bible.
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  • We pay attention to the traditional things we've heard
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  • Other people say and we don't even know where they got
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  • That from.
  • 00:20:15.916 --> 00:20:17.251
  • It just sound good.
  • 00:20:17.251 --> 00:20:18.619
  • It had a rhyme to it, sound like a little poem, but it's
  • 00:20:18.619 --> 00:20:20.354
  • Absolutely not true.
  • 00:20:20.354 --> 00:20:22.623
  • Holiness is not conduct.
  • 00:20:22.623 --> 00:20:25.526
  • All of us grew up in churches with the condemnation that i'm
  • 00:20:25.526 --> 00:20:30.998
  • Not--i wasn't real holy today, because you thought your
  • 00:20:30.998 --> 00:20:33.634
  • Holiness--you thought your holiness was conduct, and your
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  • Holiness is jesus and your jesus is what's gonna change your
  • 00:20:36.404 --> 00:20:39.273
  • Conduct, but you thought you had to change your conduct and the
  • 00:20:39.273 --> 00:20:42.410
  • Problem is, is--reason why you never got delivered from nothing
  • 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:44.945
  • Because you kept looking at you instead of jesus.
  • 00:20:44.945 --> 00:20:51.686
  • The key to deliverance is getting your eyes off yourself
  • 00:20:51.686 --> 00:20:54.155
  • And getting your eyes on jesus.
  • 00:20:54.155 --> 00:20:56.223
  • The key to your holiness is getting your eyes off your self
  • 00:20:56.223 --> 00:20:59.293
  • And your conduct and getting your eyes on jesus.
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  • You just--y'all, i didn't say revelations 1 again, did i?
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  • Let's look at this, guys.
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  • Look at this. look at this.
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  • "he that spared not his own son."
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  • Ha, oh my god.
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  • Oh my god.
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  • Keep this in your mind throughout the sermon.
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  • God is not going to give up on mankind.
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  • No matter how crazy you are, no matter what you did, what you
  • 00:21:33.361 --> 00:21:35.963
  • Done, what you thinking about doing, god ain't gonna give up
  • 00:21:35.963 --> 00:21:39.066
  • On you.
  • 00:21:39.066 --> 00:21:40.434
  • Remember that scripture we shared last week?
  • 00:21:40.434 --> 00:21:41.769
  • He said, "don't take the kindness of god for granted,"
  • 00:21:41.769 --> 00:21:46.507
  • Because he will never give up on you because he continues to hear
  • 00:21:46.507 --> 00:21:51.746
  • The echo of his likeness on the inside of you.
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  • Yeah, he can't give up on you because he know the breath you
  • 00:21:58.085 --> 00:22:01.255
  • Breathe and he gave it to you.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • He can't give up on you because he knows he took the dust of the
  • 00:22:03.924 --> 00:22:06.794
  • Ground and created the body that you're in.
  • 00:22:06.794 --> 00:22:09.163
  • He's not about to give up on you because he continues to hear the
  • 00:22:09.163 --> 00:22:13.768
  • Echo of his likeness on the inside of you.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Let me calm down, hallelujah.
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  • You--it's impossible to live a christian life without a
  • 00:22:31.085 --> 00:22:33.687
  • Relationship with jesus.
  • 00:22:33.687 --> 00:22:36.824
  • But you know what we've done with christianity?
  • 00:22:36.824 --> 00:22:38.726
  • We've turned it into our disguise to cover up all of the
  • 00:22:38.726 --> 00:22:42.630
  • Stuff that ain't right because we thought all of the stuff that
  • 00:22:42.630 --> 00:22:46.033
  • Wasn't right would, somehow or another, be a disgrace to
  • 00:22:46.033 --> 00:22:51.071
  • Our christianity.
  • 00:22:51.071 --> 00:22:52.540
  • So we're not real christians as in the sense of how the religion
  • 00:22:52.540 --> 00:22:56.644
  • Defines it.
  • 00:22:56.644 --> 00:22:58.012
  • And so we wear christianity like a halloween costume to hide all
  • 00:22:58.012 --> 00:23:04.084
  • Of the flaws that you somehow think god don't know about.
  • 00:23:04.084 --> 00:23:09.323
  • But god knows everything about you, honey.
  • 00:23:09.323 --> 00:23:12.593
  • God knows your in's and out, and he knows your good and your bad,
  • 00:23:12.593 --> 00:23:17.198
  • Hallelujah, but he still accepts full responsibility for this man
  • 00:23:17.198 --> 00:23:23.003
  • That he loves, that he can't get rid of.
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  • He's fighting for you every time you wanna leave him, he's
  • 00:23:26.373 --> 00:23:29.343
  • Fighting for you.
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  • You wanna quit on god and go get drunk, he gonna go to the bar
  • 00:23:30.711 --> 00:23:33.280
  • With you, praise the lord.
  • 00:23:33.280 --> 00:23:34.648
  • You think the presence of the lord is only in this
  • 00:23:34.648 --> 00:23:36.684
  • Church, honey?
  • 00:23:36.684 --> 00:23:38.018
  • Try to leave god.
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  • He'll show up wherever you go. glory to god.
  • 00:23:39.620 --> 00:23:41.121
  • He's not gonna leave you, glory to god.
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  • You might try to leave him, but he's not gonna give up on you.
  • 00:23:43.691 --> 00:23:47.194
  • He's not gonna give you the divorce.
  • 00:23:47.194 --> 00:23:49.797
  • Honey, he's with you and he gonna stay with you.
  • 00:23:49.797 --> 00:23:52.333
  • He not gonna leave you.
  • 00:23:52.333 --> 00:23:53.901
  • Didn't he promise, "i'll never leave you nor forsake you"?
  • 00:23:53.901 --> 00:23:58.472
  • And every time we miss it, we think god done left us.
  • 00:23:58.472 --> 00:24:01.141
  • As if your sin is greater than his love.
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