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Creflo Dollar - True Holiness

May 14, 2025 | S25:E118

Creflo Dollar - True Holiness
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - True Holiness | May 14, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: but now what happens is the more you renew
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  • Your mind in god, and the more you renew your mind in the word
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  • Of god, then there's gonna be a conflict now between your soul
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  • And your spirit, glory to god.
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  • And your spirit is going to begin to work on your desires,
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  • Glory to god.
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  • See, understand this, you can't do this, it's the holy ghost on
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  • The inside of you that's now gonna start working on your
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  • Desire to change your desire to do what pleases god.
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  • You're gonna find yourself wanting to do what pleases god,
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  • But religion just attacks all of that and makes it about self,
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  • Self, self.
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  • Reaching your destiny but you.
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  • Creflo: holiness comes from the word that's defined as complete
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  • Or whole.
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  • So, when you talk about holiness, you're talking
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  • About wholeness.
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  • When you talk about holiness, you're talking about wholeness
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  • And wholeness is nothing missing and nothing broken.
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  • And so, you can only be whole in christ jesus.
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  • Someone asked a question one time.
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  • They asked--he said, "what's the opposite of holiness?"
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  • And if you're still following religion, the opposite of
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  • Holiness, the answer would be sin.
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  • But that's the opposite of holiness, you know.
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  • Holiness is holy and the opposite of that is sin.
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  • Well, if that's the case, ain't nobody holy, isn't that right?
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  • It amazes me how i say this.
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  • Some of you sit still like you're flawless and perfect.
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  • You're not, stop it.
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  • You are not flawless and perfect, stop it.
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  • Let me just wake you up right now, you got some flaws,
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  • All right.
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  • I don't know what it is, i--you live--you won't hear this
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  • Because it upsets your religion.
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  • Your religion got you thinking you are perfect.
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  • One but one perfect man that ever walked the earth and that
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  • Was god in flesh.
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  • That was jesus christ.
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  • Everybody else got flaws and issues.
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  • Now that's not an excuse to get more flawed and get more issues,
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  • But what it is saying is, that's some work that he is doing
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  • On us.
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  • He's doing the work on us.
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  • You've been trying to work on you, but you keep making it
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  • Worse because you think you are the source of you
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  • Getting better.
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  • You are not the source of you getting better.
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  • Jesus is the source of you getting better.
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  • "well, i don't kill."
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  • And then you start talking about what you don't use because that
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  • Pride is still there.
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  • "i don't kill. i don't smoke.
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  • I don't drink liquor."
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  • See how you was with everybody else, you've already determined
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  • All that.
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  • "i don't--i ain't never committed no adultery.
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  • I ain't,"--no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's--you have
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  • An issue, okay.
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  • Right now, your issue is self-preservation.
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  • Right now your issue is you're arrogant, right?
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  • Or you have an attitude in the restaurant.
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  • The lady forgot to bring you the salt.
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  • "where's your manager?"
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  • You have an attitude.
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  • You are not putting the interests of others above
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  • Yourself, all right.
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  • So, maybe you're keeping the big ten, but you messing up with
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  • Those 603.
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  • You messing all them--you got some issues.
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  • You're moody sometimes, sometimes you're happy,
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  • Sometimes you're not.
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  • Sometimes you're a little ornery, sometimes you wake up on
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  • The wrong side of the bed.
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  • I don't know where that at, right?
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  • On the wrong side of the bed.
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  • We all do, we are maturing, we are growing, we are
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  • Getting better.
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  • We are not like we used to, but we're still not where we want to
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  • Be right now and we're never gonna come to the place of
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  • Perfection until we see jesus and when we see him we're gonna
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  • Be like him because god promised us that i'm gonna keep working
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  • On you until you're like jesus.
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  • Look what jesus--what he said.
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  • God has said--god says, "i didn't start the work in
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  • You,"--and believe me, he started to work on you.
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  • "i didn't start to work on you and then turn it over to you to
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  • Finish it."
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  • He said, "i started the work in you, i'm going to continue the
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  • Work in you, and i promise that i'm gonna finish the work in you
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  • Before jesus comes," glory to god.
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  • So, i'm dependent on him to work it out.
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  • "well, you know, the bible says, work out your own salvation."
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  • Girl, would you please read the whole scripture?
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  • Read the whole context.
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  • The bible talks about the fact that god is working in you,
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  • Changing your desires to do what pleases him.
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  • He is the one that's working in you changing your,
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  • "working out--" you couldn't work it out if you tried.
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  • You've been trying to work it out, look where that gets you?
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  • Look at you, you worked it out, now you're divorced, you worked
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  • It out, children can't stand you.
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  • You're working out, you're broke.
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  • You're working out, you're doing all of that.
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  • It is god who worketh in you.
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  • Okay, i gotta get those sweet lips on, sweet lips, sweet lips,
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  • Sweet lips.
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  • Apologies for referring to you as girl.
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  • The opposite of holiness is not sin.
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  • That's a sure-fire way for you to understand somebody who don't
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  • Understand holiness.
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  • Because if the opposite of holiness was sin, we could never
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  • Be holy.
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  • But holiness is not a conduct, it's a person.
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  • The opposite of holiness, is being common with the
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  • World, commonness.
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  • See, holiness literally means to stand apart.
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  • When the world is worried, holy people are at peace.
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  • When the world is broke, holy people trust that god takes care
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  • Of them.
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  • When the world is sick, holy people declare that my healing
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  • Is a finished thing.
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  • God says, "i want you to stand separate from the ills of
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  • This world."
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  • The opposite of holiness is being common.
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  • Common to the world.
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  • When they were, you were just like them.
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  • And that's what's happening to our church.
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  • Our churches in the world right now, are desiring to be so much
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  • Like the world, they're not holy in the fact that they don't
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  • Understand that they stand separate from the world.
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  • Trying to be like them.
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  • He says, 'don't be like them, you're better."
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  • Well, the day you receive jesus, you stand separate from somebody
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  • Who hadn't.
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  • You are holy people, peculiar, called out of darkness into the
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  • Marvelous light.
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  • See, he called you out of darkness, separated you from
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  • Darkness, into the light.
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  • And so, we are in christ and our identity is him.
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  • And that's what holiness is all about.
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  • It's about, "i am not going to be depressed," 'cause i'm gonna
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  • Show you how to stay depressed all your life in a minute if you
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  • Want to, okay.
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  • I'm not gonna be depressed.
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  • And even though depression is on you, what you're saying is--you
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  • Remind yourself of your identity.
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  • I'm holy, what does that mean?
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  • I stand separate from this.
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  • "y'all heard what happened in the world?"
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  • "that's cool, but i'm holy.
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  • I stand separate from this."
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  • And the things of the world will still hit you, but make sure it
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  • Doesn't hit you in the place that really will hurt you.
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  • In your mind.
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  • Right up here.
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  • I'm gonna show you something.
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  • I believe we'll--y'all get anything out of this or do we
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  • Need to--let me show you something here.
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  • Holy literally means separate from the world like we said.
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  • When people don't see the beauty of holiness, they won't
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  • Pursue it.
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  • I never did.
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  • I thought holiness meant no makeup, women can't wear pants.
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  • What is it when they call you a jezebel?
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  • When you waste too much makeup?
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  • And i just wasn't feeling that.
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  • I just feel like, you know, if you need makeup, maybelline
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  • Ought to be your friend.
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  • Max factor ought to be your companion, amen.
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  • So, the number one issue here is that holiness is a person, his
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  • Name is jesus.
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  • Holiness is a person, his name is jesus.
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  • Holiness does not depend on human input.
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  • If holiness depends on us, if holiness depends on our
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  • Feelings, if holiness depends on our experiences, if holiness
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  • Depends on our consciousness, then we will always be depressed
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  • If holiness depends on us.
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  • Whenever you look at you, all you see is corruption
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  • And darkness.
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  • If you're looking at you as the source for you being holy, you
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  • Ain't gonna ever get there.
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  • All right, let me show you something.
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  • Romans 7:18 through 24 in the mirror.
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  • Let's look at that for a moment.
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  • Romans 7:18 through 24 in the mirror translation.
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  • All right, now watch this, "the total extent and ugliness of sin
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  • That inhabits me,"--now this is paul going through that issue.
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  • Where he's born again, but the flesh, which i need to let you
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  • Know what it is.
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  • "the total extent of ugliness of sin that inhabits me," paul
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  • Says, "reduced my life to good intentions."
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  • In other words, i had good intentions that could not be
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  • Followed through."
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  • How many of us in our lives, we had good intentions but we
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  • Didn't--we found we couldn't follow them through?
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  • "well, i intended on."
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  • And i don't want you to live your life as a christian with
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  • Good intentions that can't be followed through.
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  • And that's what a lot of christians do.
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  • They live their life with good intentions, never following
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  • Them through.
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  • I had good intentions--i wanted to pray.
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  • I wanted to read the word.
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  • I wanted to do what god was leading me to do with that
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  • Person, i just didn't," good intentions.
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  • Look at the next verse.
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  • "willpower has failed me."
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  • And the internet's full of of people that will charge you
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  • Amounts to show you how to be self-improved, and self this,
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  • And i'm showing--i am saying to you that willpower will
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  • Fail you.
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  • Paul said, "willpower has failed me."
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  • How many people have tried to be holy through their willpower?
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  • He said, "this is how embarrassing it is, the most
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  • Diligent decision that i make to do good, disappoints; the very
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  • Evil i tried to avoid, is what i ended up doing.
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  • If i do the things i do not want to do, then it is clear that i
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  • Am not evil, but that i host sin in my body against my will.
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  • It has become a predictable principle; i desire to do well,
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  • But my mere desire cannot escape the evil presence that dictates
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  • My actions.
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  • The real person that i am on the inside delights in the law
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  • Of god.
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  • There is another law though, [foreign to my design]
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  • The law of sin, activating and enrolling the members of my body
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  • As weapons of war against the law of my mind.
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  • I am held captive like a prisoner of war in my own body.
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  • It doesn't matter how i weigh myself by my own efforts."
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  • Doesn't matter about--what i do with my own efforts, i just do
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  • Not measure up to the expectations.
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  • The situation is absolutely desperate for mankind.
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  • Is there anyone, anyone, is there anyone who can deliver
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  • Them from this death trap?
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  • Now, listen to me carefully, in the king james, if you will
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  • Notice, i'm gonna introduce something in romans 7:18.
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  • I want to look at 7 and 18 in the king james and 18 and
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  • Then 24.
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  • Notice, what it says in romans 18, "for i know that in me (that
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  • Is, in my flesh,)"
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  • We have to define flesh.
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  • We got to find out what this is.
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  • "(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing."
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  • There is no good thing that dwelleth in the flesh.
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  • "for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is
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  • Good i find not."
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  • Now i'm not talking about there's no good thing in your
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  • Body and then you go and beat your body.
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  • Somebody say, "what you doing?"
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  • "i'm beating my flesh."
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  • That ain't what he talking about.
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  • That's not what he's talking about.
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  • Verse 24, he says, "o wretched man that i am!
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  • Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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  • Who shall deliver me?"
  • 00:16:00.072 --> 00:16:01.774
  • Not what shall deliver me, but who shall deliver me?
  • 00:16:01.774 --> 00:16:05.644
  • And it looks like this, "oh, i must be holy.
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  • Oh, i must be faithful.
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  • Oh, i must be right.
  • 00:16:09.848 --> 00:16:12.217
  • All of this comes down to the issue of stop looking
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  • At yourself.
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  • Now let's define flesh before i continue with this.
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  • To walk according to the flesh means, i'm gonna take it from a
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  • Complex thought and simplify it.
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  • It means to live without regard for the things of god.
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  • It is trusting in yourself, and your abilities, and your
  • 00:16:36.975 --> 00:16:40.712
  • Understanding, and living solely from the basis of your earthly
  • 00:16:40.712 --> 00:16:44.950
  • Experiences based on what you see, based on what you hear,
  • 00:16:44.950 --> 00:16:48.720
  • Based on what you touch, based on what you know.
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  • It's a mindset on the flesh.
  • 00:16:52.157 --> 00:16:53.992
  • A mindset on the flesh is focused on self-preservation.
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  • It's an obsession with self.
  • 00:16:58.363 --> 00:17:01.033
  • Your old self is wrapped up in your mind, housed in your mind.
  • 00:17:01.033 --> 00:17:06.605
  • Your unrenewed mindset of a man, that's the flesh.
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  • Flesh is life apart from god.
  • 00:17:11.243 --> 00:17:15.981
  • Now let me see if i can paint this picture so you can really
  • 00:17:15.981 --> 00:17:19.017
  • See what the flesh is.
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  • When you were born again--you are a three part being.
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  • Man is a spirit being, he possesses a soul, he lives in a
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  • Physical body.
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  • You are not your body and you are not your soul.
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  • You are a spirit being.
  • 00:17:33.732 --> 00:17:36.301
  • So, the day you got born again, your spirit man was what
  • 00:17:36.301 --> 00:17:40.172
  • Got--what--is what got born again.
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  • You--your spirit man was born again.
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  • The--god almighty recreated that old man into a new creation.
  • 00:17:44.743 --> 00:17:51.016
  • So, your spirit man is born again and heaven ready
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  • Right now.
  • 00:17:54.653 --> 00:17:57.022
  • The issue is, your soul did not get born again.
  • 00:17:57.022 --> 00:18:02.394
  • So, your soul carries the shadows of the old man.
  • 00:18:02.394 --> 00:18:08.033
  • Your soul is like the software in a computer system.
  • 00:18:08.033 --> 00:18:14.306
  • While the old man has been destroyed and out of that old
  • 00:18:14.306 --> 00:18:18.343
  • Man was created the new creation which is perfect, and flawless,
  • 00:18:18.343 --> 00:18:22.281
  • And just like jesus, the mind, will, and the emotions--that's
  • 00:18:22.281 --> 00:18:27.953
  • What the soul is, your mind, your will, your emotions, the
  • 00:18:27.953 --> 00:18:31.056
  • Soul is your thinker, your chooser, your feeler.
  • 00:18:31.056 --> 00:18:35.961
  • Your thinker, your chooser, your feeler.
  • 00:18:35.961 --> 00:18:38.564
  • And all of that comes through your eye gate, your ear gate,
  • 00:18:38.564 --> 00:18:41.633
  • Your mouth gate, all that.
  • 00:18:41.633 --> 00:18:43.902
  • Now, your soul still remembers your self-dependence.
  • 00:18:43.902 --> 00:18:53.979
  • Your soul still remembers living by what you see, living by what
  • 00:18:54.046 --> 00:18:59.117
  • You hear, living by what you feel.
  • 00:18:59.117 --> 00:19:02.988
  • And your soul is gonna fight your new creation when it says,
  • 00:19:02.988 --> 00:19:07.993
  • "no, you're the righteousness of god," and your soul says, "don't
  • 00:19:07.993 --> 00:19:11.129
  • Look like you're righteous, don't feel like you're
  • 00:19:11.129 --> 00:19:14.299
  • Righteous, don't sound like you're righteous."
  • 00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:18.537
  • And you have got to understand that in your unrenewed mind,
  • 00:19:18.537 --> 00:19:26.178
  • There is no good.
  • 00:19:26.178 --> 00:19:29.881
  • Which is why the most important thing you can do as a christian,
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  • Is to renew your mind.
  • 00:19:34.152 --> 00:19:37.155
  • And what happens is christian people, they don't get in the
  • 00:19:37.155 --> 00:19:39.758
  • Word, they don't come hear no word, they wanna come and be
  • 00:19:39.758 --> 00:19:43.028
  • Entertained while that's not the most important thing.
  • 00:19:43.028 --> 00:19:45.998
  • You have to come and get your mind renewed because after the
  • 00:19:45.998 --> 00:19:48.367
  • Entertainment if you are not nourishing, if you're not
  • 00:19:48.367 --> 00:19:52.504
  • Renewing your mind with the word, it becomes your enemy.
  • 00:19:52.504 --> 00:19:57.576
  • Your mind will lead you into self-preservation while your
  • 00:19:57.576 --> 00:20:01.179
  • Spirit says, "god is the one that preserves you."
  • 00:20:01.179 --> 00:20:04.049
  • Your unrenewed mind stands in opposition to that new creation
  • 00:20:04.049 --> 00:20:08.754
  • And that born again spirit.
  • 00:20:08.754 --> 00:20:10.355
  • Your unrenewed mind will say to you, "it's what you see
  • 00:20:10.355 --> 00:20:14.126
  • That's real.
  • 00:20:14.126 --> 00:20:15.494
  • It's what you feel that's real.
  • 00:20:15.494 --> 00:20:16.828
  • It's all of the things that come through your sensory mechanism
  • 00:20:16.828 --> 00:20:20.799
  • That's real."
  • 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.134
  • That's what's real."
  • 00:20:22.134 --> 00:20:23.902
  • It fights against the finish.
  • 00:20:23.902 --> 00:20:25.504
  • It fights against the faith.
  • 00:20:25.504 --> 00:20:31.610
  • And your unrenewed mind will tell you, "you are not holy, you
  • 00:20:31.610 --> 00:20:36.815
  • Don't look holy, you don't sound holy, you don't act holy."
  • 00:20:36.815 --> 00:20:44.523
  • And he says, "all this thing about the flesh and we thought
  • 00:20:44.523 --> 00:20:46.825
  • He was talking about the body."
  • 00:20:46.825 --> 00:20:48.160
  • The body is an innocent standby.
  • 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.463
  • The body does what it's told to do.
  • 00:20:51.463 --> 00:20:56.068
  • If your mind hadn't been renewed and your body said, "jump in the
  • 00:20:56.068 --> 00:20:58.870
  • Sack and have sex with her," your body said, "okay."
  • 00:20:58.870 --> 00:21:02.708
  • But now what happens is the more you renew your mind in god and
  • 00:21:02.708 --> 00:21:05.977
  • The more you renew your mind in the word of god, then there's
  • 00:21:05.977 --> 00:21:08.714
  • Gonna be a conflict now between your soul and your spirit, glory
  • 00:21:08.714 --> 00:21:13.485
  • To god.
  • 00:21:13.485 --> 00:21:14.820
  • And your spirit is going to begin to work on your desires,
  • 00:21:14.820 --> 00:21:19.191
  • Glory to god.
  • 00:21:19.191 --> 00:21:20.525
  • See, understand this, you can't do this.
  • 00:21:20.525 --> 00:21:23.028
  • It's the holy ghost on the inside of you that's now gonna
  • 00:21:23.028 --> 00:21:25.664
  • Start working on your desire to change your desire to do what
  • 00:21:25.664 --> 00:21:30.235
  • Pleases god.
  • 00:21:30.235 --> 00:21:31.570
  • You're gonna find yourself wanting to do what pleases god,
  • 00:21:31.570 --> 00:21:34.506
  • But religion just attacks all of that and makes it about self,
  • 00:21:34.506 --> 00:21:38.610
  • Self, self.
  • 00:21:38.610 --> 00:21:42.147
  • It's you, you're gonna have to make it happen.
  • 00:21:42.147 --> 00:21:44.149
  • And then you got these--i don't know what they call these guys,
  • 00:21:44.149 --> 00:21:46.752
  • These inspirational people go around and telling you, "i'm
  • 00:21:46.752 --> 00:21:49.020
  • Gonna give you five ways to do this to yourself," and self
  • 00:21:49.020 --> 00:21:52.657
  • Motivation, and self this, and then self, and you just--you
  • 00:21:52.657 --> 00:21:57.696
  • Don't understand how dangerous this thing is.
  • 00:21:57.696 --> 00:22:00.432
  • All right, i'm gonna show you.
  • 00:22:00.432 --> 00:22:01.767
  • Here is the key to deliverance.
  • 00:22:01.767 --> 00:22:04.736
  • If you ever get in a place where you're not delivered, and you've
  • 00:22:04.736 --> 00:22:07.739
  • Been struggling to be delivered from something, i'm gonna tell
  • 00:22:07.739 --> 00:22:10.509
  • You what the problem is.
  • 00:22:10.509 --> 00:22:12.177
  • You remember, i think it was in numbers 21, where the children
  • 00:22:12.177 --> 00:22:17.949
  • Of israel, they were snake-bitten.
  • 00:22:17.949 --> 00:22:22.487
  • And the pain of the snake bite was on 'em.
  • 00:22:22.487 --> 00:22:26.625
  • And i think it was moses he's told, "take a stick, and put a
  • 00:22:26.625 --> 00:22:32.197
  • Golden serpent on that stick."
  • 00:22:32.197 --> 00:22:36.468
  • And and you have to know what that represented.
  • 00:22:36.468 --> 00:22:39.337
  • That represented jesus on the cross.
  • 00:22:39.337 --> 00:22:41.807
  • "a serpent?"
  • 00:22:41.807 --> 00:22:43.175
  • Yes, see, it wasn't--the pure jesus on the cross, it was the
  • 00:22:43.175 --> 00:22:46.378
  • Jesus that took all of our sin on the cross, okay.
  • 00:22:46.378 --> 00:22:53.852
  • And he said, "now, if you can get them to stop looking at
  • 00:22:53.852 --> 00:22:57.989
  • Themselves, and shift their sights to what's on that pole."
  • 00:22:57.989 --> 00:23:06.031
  • He said, "i'll heal them."
  • 00:23:06.031 --> 00:23:09.134
  • And when they stop looking at themselves, they stop giving
  • 00:23:09.134 --> 00:23:13.038
  • Attention to the pain, they stop giving attention to the snake
  • 00:23:13.038 --> 00:23:15.807
  • Bite, and they directed their focus to that serpent on the
  • 00:23:15.807 --> 00:23:19.544
  • Pole, they were all healed.
  • 00:23:19.544 --> 00:23:22.347
  • You see, the problem with deliverance today in the church
  • 00:23:22.347 --> 00:23:25.283
  • Is you keep looking at yourself.
  • 00:23:25.283 --> 00:23:27.953
  • You keep looking at yourself where your finances
  • 00:23:27.953 --> 00:23:29.888
  • Are concerned.
  • 00:23:29.888 --> 00:23:31.223
  • You keep looking at yourself where your healing is concerned.
  • 00:23:31.223 --> 00:23:32.891
  • You keep looking at yourself where your marriage
  • 00:23:32.891 --> 00:23:34.993
  • Is concerned.
  • 00:23:34.993 --> 00:23:36.361
  • You keep looking at yourself where your holiness
  • 00:23:36.361 --> 00:23:37.729
  • Is concerned.
  • 00:23:37.729 --> 00:23:39.064
  • You keep looking at yourself where your righteousness--and
  • 00:23:39.064 --> 00:23:40.432
  • You become self-preserved, and self-dominated, and you can't
  • 00:23:40.432 --> 00:23:47.239
  • Get delivered continuing to look at yourself.
  • 00:23:47.239 --> 00:23:51.943
  • The key to deliverance is stop looking at yourself and start
  • 00:23:51.943 --> 00:23:56.748
  • Looking at the only one who can help you.
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  • Creflo: as we wrap up today's broadcast, i'd like to take a
  • 00:26:23.762 --> 00:26:26.364
  • Moment to pray for you.
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
  • 00:26:28.066 --> 00:26:31.236
  • Jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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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 christ.
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  • So, if you want to become born again and begin an exciting,
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, pray this prayer with
  • 00:26:45.517 --> 00:26:49.521
  • Me now.
  • 00:26:49.521 --> 00:26:50.889
  • "heavenly father, come into my heart, save me.
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  • I receive you now, by faith, and i declare in jesus's name, that
  • 00:26:56.327 --> 00:27:04.335
  • I am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen."
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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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  • Announcer: the preceding program was brought to you in part
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  • By the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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