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Creflo Dollar - Understanding Before and After The Cross Truths

May 29, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Understanding Before and After The Cross Truths
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Understanding Before and After The Cross Truths | May 29, 2026
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  • Religion and self-righteousness are exactly the same.
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  • It's man striving to be right with god on his own.
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  • That's what religion is all about.
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  • When you find bad religion, you're going to
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  • Find self-righteousness.
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  • It's performance-based.
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  • Creflo: it's important to understand that grace
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  • Teaches us.
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  • Not them, but it teaches us, us who have entered into a place
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  • Of believing, okay?
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  • But there are some things that we have to understand in order
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  • To see properly.
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  • You know, some people have sight, and others have vision,
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  • And we need to be able to understand what's going on here.
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  • So verse 14, romans 6:14, read it out loud together with
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  • Me, ready?
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  • Read: "for sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are
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  • Not under the law, but you're under grace."
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  • So sin will not have dominion over you because you're under
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  • Grace, but it will have dominion under you--over you if you are
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  • Operating by the mosaic law.
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  • Now people cringe when they hear about operating by the law,
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  • Because there's still a lot of christians who believe that
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  • There's nothing wrong with operating by the law.
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  • The problem with operating by the mosaic law is that you are
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  • Operating--the mosaic law is not just, you know, moral law,
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  • Ceremonial law, the laws dealing with doing sacrifices, civil
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  • Law, all three of those make up the mosaic law.
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  • But the ten commandments, which is the moral law of god, it's
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  • Eternal, it's who god is, it's his character.
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  • And you will hear it repeated by paul in the new testament,
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  • Except the one about the sabbath, because jesus is
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  • Our sabbath.
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  • Paul said it's still good for you to honor your mother
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  • And father.
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  • So well what's the difference here?
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  • The mosaic law is something that is being administered by
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  • Rule keeping.
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  • So you got ten commandments which represents the moral law
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  • Of god, but it's like, okay, you know, "thou shalt not
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  • Commit adultery.
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  • Now do these 20 things to see if you can make that come to pass."
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  • And so the rules, rule-keeping was the administrator trying to
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  • Accomplish morality in your life, and it failed miserably.
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  • So paul begins to repeat the moral law of god, but now it is
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  • Going to be administered by the holy spirit.
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  • Now why am i bringing this up?
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  • Things changed.
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  • Things changed from before jesus died on the cross and after he
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  • Died on the cross.
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  • Things changed.
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  • And we don't do our lives justice if you just keep reading
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  • The bible like it's like one dispensation.
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  • It's many dispensations that's there.
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  • There was the dispensation, you know, a specific time, and a
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  • Season for a specific revelation and an action, and what we--
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  • What you do is you read the bible from genesis, and you
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  • Think it's just all one dispensation, and it's not.
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  • And to fail to understand that, you could actually say something
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  • That's true in one dispensation that is no longer true in the
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  • Other dispensation.
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  • We are no longer under the dispensation of the law.
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  • We are under grace, and what does that do?
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  • Now we can get born again.
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  • Nobody was born ag--please see this--nobody was born again
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  • Before jesus did his thing.
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  • So everybody you read about, including abraham, one of the
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  • Things about abraham was god sent melchizedek as a priest
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  • Because there needed to be somebody to stand between
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  • Abraham and him.
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  • He believed god, there was something interesting that he
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  • Believed god, so he represent what can happen when you believe
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  • God, and he's pointing towards what would happen in that
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  • Upcoming dispensation.
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  • But you've got to start understanding that if you don't
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  • Rightly divide the word, you could be preaching a truth in
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  • One dispensation which may be not the truth where we
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  • Are today.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • Now, go with me to 2 timothy chapter 2:15, 2 timothy
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  • Chapter 2, in verse 15.
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  • I'm always concerned about us doing a better job with
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  • Understanding the bible.
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  • We gotta do a better job.
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  • 2 timothy chapter 2:15: "study to show thyself approve unto
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  • God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
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  • The word of truth."
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  • Now, how many of you know if you can rightly divide the word, you
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  • Can wrongly divide it, right?
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  • If you can rightly divide it, there's a potential that you can
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  • Wrongly divide it.
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  • Now look at this in the amplified bible, the same verse
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  • Of scripture in the amplified bible: "study to be eager and to
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  • Do your utmost to present yourself to god approved (tested
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  • By trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed,
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  • Correctly analyzing."
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  • How many of you know, if you can correctly analyze it, there is
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  • A potential you can incorrectly analyze it.
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  • Correctly analyzing, accurately, "accurately dividing [rightly
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  • Handling and skillfully teaching]
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  • The word of truth."
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  • Wow.
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  • That's an awesome responsibility on a dude or dudesses in
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  • The pulpit.
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  • It's huge responsibility in the pulpit, and i think it's been
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  • Taken lightly.
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  • Any old dude that has a little charisma gets up, not prepared,
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  • Has not understood the homiletics that's necessary to
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  • Rightly put principles where they need to be and
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  • Dispensations where they need to be, and you just get up there
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  • Hollering the scripture.
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  • So what we do is we take the "text" out of the "context," and
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  • We give the people the "con."
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  • I know people who take the text out of a context, and they're
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  • Not concerned about whether it's true or not, they're only
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  • Concerned about if it fits their fancy title.
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  • And that's not good, 'cause it sounds good, and it gets people
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  • To rocking and rolling, and they holler and they scream, but it's
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  • Just not rightly dividing and skillfully handling the word
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  • Of truth.
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  • When i see "the word of truth," in my mind, i'm thinking, "which
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  • Word of truth?
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  • Are you talking about a word of truth that was true under the
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  • Dispensation of the law, or are you talking about the word of
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  • Truth that is truth as a result of jesus being raised from
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  • The dead?"
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  • Which one?
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  • And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
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  • You free.
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  • You gotta rightly discern that.
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  • What is he talking about?
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  • What truth makes you free?
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  • Certainly not the truth of the law, because he tells us you're
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  • Not free under the law.
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  • So it has to be the truth of this gospel of grace that makes
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  • You free, and you got to be free from something.
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  • What is it you're being free from?
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  • You're being free from the abundance that came by doing
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  • The law.
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  • What's truth?
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  • Accurately dividing, rightly and skillfully teaching the word
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  • Of truth.
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  • So one of the biggest problems we have right now is christian
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  • People haven't been trained to read the bible correctly, and so
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  • You just listen to what everybody says.
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  • And listen, i'm--as a former therapist and a student of
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  • Psychology, you can say something and then go tell
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  • A person, "there's what the scripture says," and i'm looking
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  • At the scripture in light of what you just told me with
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  • No context.
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  • You don't define a scripture by going to the dictionary.
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  • Context defines the scripture.
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  • What does that mean in context?
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  • And so, i wanna do a "before the cross, after the cross" marathon
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  • This morning.
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  • And let me say to you, anybody you're talking to, you might
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  • Just be quiet and have this in mind.
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  • If they don't understand what happened--the truth that was
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  • Before the cross versus the truth after the cross, they
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  • Won't have on grace lens, so most likely they're not gonna
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  • See nothing you got to say because of the perspective that
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  • They've been viewing it from.
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  • You ready?
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  • Let's deal with the big ones first, the big six first, and
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  • Then i'll deal with several more.
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  • Before the cross, we were blessed because of--we were
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  • Blessed because of perfect obedience.
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  • In other words, you had to perfectly obey in order to
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  • Be blessed.
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  • Deuteronomy 28:2.
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  • I'll try to give you scriptures with each one of them.
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  • There are more, but i just selected one or two so you can
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  • Just look at it.
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  • But in deuteronomy chapter 28:2, he says, "and all these
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  • Blessings shall come on thee, and all these blessings shall
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  • Overtake thee."
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  • Wait a minute, "if thou."
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  • So he says there's a condition that's gotta be met.
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  • The mosaic covenant is basically a performance-based covenant.
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  • It is a covenant based in self-righteousness
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  • And self-performance.
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  • Everything about the old covenant is based in
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  • Self-righteousness and self-performance.
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  • Religion and self-righteousness are exactly the same.
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  • It's man striving to be right with god on his own.
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  • That's what religion is all about.
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  • When you find bad religion, you're going to
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  • Find self-righteousness.
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  • It's performance-based.
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  • It's you doing it without christ.
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  • He says, "and all these blessings shall come on thee,
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  • And overtake thee," here's a condition, [snaps]
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  • "if thou hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god."
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  • If you do this, then that will happen.
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  • Now you have to trace that, those two words throughout
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  • The bible.
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  • "if thou" is language of the old covenant.
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  • "if thou" is language of performance-based.
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  • "if thou" is language of religion.
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  • "if thou."
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  • And religious--religion teaches congregation, "you got to do
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  • This in order to be blessed, and if you don't do this, you're not
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  • Going to be blessed."
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  • They don't say "curse," but it's the same thing.
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  • "if thou," "if thou," which is an indication you're operating
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  • Under the truths of the mosaic covenant, which is not the
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  • Better covenant.
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  • Now, that was before the cross.
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  • So what is it after the cross?
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  • Well, galatians 3:13-14.
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  • So now you have church people who are working hard to keep the
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  • Commandments and the mosaic law to get blessed.
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  • They're depending on their performance to get blessed.
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  • That's what they were doing, and they're still doing it today.
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  • "you have to perform to get blessed."
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  • "oh, see the reason why you haven't been blessed is because
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  • You missed the grace conference.
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  • That's what it is."
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  • And it's always something why you didn't get something.
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  • Or, even something why you got something.
  • 00:13:50.509 --> 00:13:53.312
  • Because under the covenant of grace, there is no boasting.
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  • And if you boast, you're most likely operating under the
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  • Truths of the mosaic law.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • So what changed then after jesus, after the cross?
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  • Now you're blessed because of jesus's perfect obedience.
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  • After jesus, after the cross, jesus gave us a gift of
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  • Perfect obedience.
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  • We get in on stuff we didn't even qualify for.
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  • You have--you can't be perfectly obedient, and nobody
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  • In here is perfectly obedient.
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  • If he didn't give us the gift of perfect obedience, we would be
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  • Up a creek somewhere, because there were certain things would
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  • Not come on us because i am not perfectly obedient.
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  • But he is, so by faith i receive his perfect obedience, and in
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  • His perfect obedience--and in the new testament, you know,
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  • I didn't have time, i may add it today while i'm going on, but
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  • Obedience on the new covenant-- obedience under the new covenant
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  • Is not based on your actions first, it's based on your
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  • Believing first.
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  • Yeah, but see--you see the problem?
  • 00:15:01.847 --> 00:15:03.716
  • If you go to try to operate in obedience in the new covenant
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  • Like you did in the old covenant, or if you operate in
  • 00:15:07.152 --> 00:15:09.722
  • Obedience after the cross like you did before the cross, you're
  • 00:15:09.722 --> 00:15:13.492
  • Going to be trying to do something, and that's not even
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  • What obedience is defined as in the new covenant.
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  • In the new covenant, it's defined as believing.
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  • In the old covenant, it's defined as your actions
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  • Towards something.
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  • Well, your actions have already been proven by the mosaic law to
  • 00:15:27.973 --> 00:15:31.577
  • Be a horrible failure.
  • 00:15:31.577 --> 00:15:34.113
  • So jesus said, "here i am, take my perfect obedience, believe,
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  • And rest."
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  • That's what happened after the cross.
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  • Before the cross, you had to be perfectly obedient and perform
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  • That way.
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  • After the cross, after the cross, he gave us his
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  • Perfect obedience.
  • 00:15:52.531 --> 00:15:53.866
  • Look at what he says: "christ hath," past tense, already
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  • "redeemed us from the" what?
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  • "curse of the law."
  • 00:15:58.971 --> 00:16:00.539
  • Question: do you believe that christ hath already redeemed you
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  • From the curse of the law?
  • 00:16:04.043 --> 00:16:05.644
  • Well, how are you going to tell somebody you're cursed if you
  • 00:16:05.644 --> 00:16:07.780
  • Don't do this, or you're cursed if you do that?
  • 00:16:07.780 --> 00:16:10.749
  • That's contradicting what christ said.
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  • You know how dumb i would look if i sit up there and tell you,
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  • You know, if you don't tithe, you're cursed.
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  • He just said he redeemed me from the curse of the law.
  • 00:16:19.825 --> 00:16:21.827
  • Either he did it, or he didn't.
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  • "christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
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  • Curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth
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  • On a tree:" verse 14, "that the blessing of abraham might come
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  • On the gentiles."
  • 00:16:40.946 --> 00:16:42.481
  • How does the blessing come on you?
  • 00:16:42.481 --> 00:16:44.349
  • Because you operate in perfect obedience?
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  • No!
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  • The blessing comes on you "through jesus christ."
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  • I am blessed because of jesus.
  • 00:16:51.190 --> 00:16:53.025
  • I'm not blessed because of my perfect obedience.
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  • I don't have no perfect obedience.
  • 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.229
  • And then somebody said to me, "well, the holy ghost only
  • 00:16:57.229 --> 00:16:59.164
  • Inhabits perfect--the holy ghost will not inhabit
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  • Imperfect vessels."
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  • Ain't no other kind!
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  • There's no other kind!
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  • If you could be--listen.
  • 00:17:15.681 --> 00:17:17.783
  • If you could be perfect without him, he wasted his blood.
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  • His death was a waste of time.
  • 00:17:22.588 --> 00:17:27.259
  • So now--and here's what i get.
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  • Today i stand blessed because of jesus.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Isn't that simple?
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  • No sweat at all.
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  • I'm blessed because of jesus.
  • 00:17:41.006 --> 00:17:42.341
  • And as long as jesus is blessed, i'm blessed.
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  • As long as jesus is righteous, i'm righteous.
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  • As long as jesus is all the things he is, i am.
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  • If jesus--if it's--if jesus is still the all right accepted
  • 00:17:49.848 --> 00:17:53.819
  • Sacrifice, if the sacrifice good, i'm good.
  • 00:17:53.819 --> 00:17:59.057
  • But you still have people in church who say, "no, i am going
  • 00:17:59.057 --> 00:18:02.094
  • To work really really hard and sweat to try to earn and deserve
  • 00:18:02.094 --> 00:18:06.865
  • The right to be blessed."
  • 00:18:06.865 --> 00:18:08.400
  • And then we think we've got something going on, and we write
  • 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:10.536
  • Books about, "do these five things and you'll be blessed."
  • 00:18:10.536 --> 00:18:13.372
  • That is law-based.
  • 00:18:13.372 --> 00:18:16.608
  • You reject jesus for law-based protocols.
  • 00:18:16.608 --> 00:18:24.917
  • And i don't know when you're going to wake up, and you wasn't
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  • Blessed from doing it.
  • 00:18:26.952 --> 00:18:28.287
  • You did a lot of sweating.
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  • If anything happened near a blessing, it was the mercy
  • 00:18:29.655 --> 00:18:32.391
  • Of god.
  • 00:18:32.391 --> 00:18:34.626
  • God would just say, "look at this poor little dumb thing,
  • 00:18:34.626 --> 00:18:36.361
  • Ain't listening in church.
  • 00:18:36.361 --> 00:18:37.796
  • Let me go on and bless them."
  • 00:18:37.796 --> 00:18:42.334
  • And i figured this out about the body of christ too.
  • 00:18:42.334 --> 00:18:44.970
  • My mother-in-law said this before she went home to the
  • 00:18:44.970 --> 00:18:46.572
  • Lord, she said, "taffi, cref, y'all listen to me," she said,
  • 00:18:46.572 --> 00:18:49.641
  • "baby, you know, y'all--i know i understand when y'all talking
  • 00:18:49.641 --> 00:18:53.412
  • About, you know, people need wisdom," she said, "but some of
  • 00:18:53.412 --> 00:18:55.681
  • Them people need an education.
  • 00:18:55.681 --> 00:18:57.049
  • They can't read."
  • 00:18:57.049 --> 00:18:59.651
  • And it has turned out to be true.
  • 00:18:59.651 --> 00:19:02.221
  • Some people just don't get it.
  • 00:19:02.221 --> 00:19:05.424
  • There's a demon of religion that comes over people, and it clouds
  • 00:19:06.725 --> 00:19:10.696
  • Their thinking, and they--what i'm showing to you, and
  • 00:19:10.696 --> 00:19:13.332
  • Hopefully you're getting it, there are some people who'll sit
  • 00:19:13.332 --> 00:19:15.767
  • On this and say, "mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
  • 00:19:15.767 --> 00:19:18.971
  • My bible tells me i need to be obedient in order for me to
  • 00:19:18.971 --> 00:19:22.040
  • Be blessed.
  • 00:19:22.040 --> 00:19:23.408
  • Mm-mm. i don't receive that.
  • 00:19:23.408 --> 00:19:24.776
  • Ooh, get behind me satan."
  • 00:19:24.776 --> 00:19:26.111
  • I'm like, "i'm not talking to you anymore.
  • 00:19:26.111 --> 00:19:27.479
  • Go away, get away from me."
  • 00:19:27.479 --> 00:19:30.215
  • Before the cross, there was one thing, but after the cross,
  • 00:19:30.215 --> 00:19:33.752
  • There's another one.
  • 00:19:33.752 --> 00:19:35.120
  • All right, ready?
  • 00:19:35.120 --> 00:19:36.455
  • Let's go to the second one.
  • 00:19:36.455 --> 00:19:37.823
  • What about being saved?
  • 00:19:37.823 --> 00:19:39.157
  • What was the requirements for eternal life or salvation before
  • 00:19:39.157 --> 00:19:42.861
  • The cross?
  • 00:19:42.861 --> 00:19:44.296
  • Now i'm going to show you something that's going to be
  • 00:19:44.296 --> 00:19:45.764
  • Very interesting because the answer is found in matthew.
  • 00:19:45.764 --> 00:19:50.836
  • Matthew, in the lives of most people, is the beginning of the
  • 00:19:50.836 --> 00:19:54.873
  • New testament.
  • 00:19:54.873 --> 00:19:56.875
  • Matthew, mark, luke, and john, that is not a part of the
  • 00:19:56.875 --> 00:20:00.579
  • New testament.
  • 00:20:00.579 --> 00:20:01.947
  • It should have been on the other side of the new testament title
  • 00:20:01.947 --> 00:20:04.883
  • Because matthew, mark, luke, and john was an illustration of
  • 00:20:04.883 --> 00:20:10.188
  • Jesus operating in two ministries.
  • 00:20:10.188 --> 00:20:13.158
  • Two-fold ministry of jesus.
  • 00:20:13.158 --> 00:20:15.027
  • Number one, to fulfill matthew 5:17.
  • 00:20:15.027 --> 00:20:18.764
  • He came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law.
  • 00:20:18.764 --> 00:20:21.266
  • So you see jesus operating as a prophet under the law.
  • 00:20:21.266 --> 00:20:25.370
  • Galatians 4:4 says he was born under the law to deliver us who
  • 00:20:25.370 --> 00:20:31.109
  • Were under the law.
  • 00:20:31.109 --> 00:20:32.911
  • So the whole intention was to do that.
  • 00:20:32.911 --> 00:20:35.614
  • And so he's born under the law, he's operating under the law, he
  • 00:20:35.614 --> 00:20:39.918
  • Is speaking to people under the law, he's giving advice under
  • 00:20:39.918 --> 00:20:42.854
  • The law, he's doing the law where fasting was concerned,
  • 00:20:42.854 --> 00:20:45.724
  • Where everything was concerned, he was doing it.
  • 00:20:45.724 --> 00:20:47.793
  • He had to.
  • 00:20:47.793 --> 00:20:49.127
  • How do you know he did that?
  • 00:20:49.127 --> 00:20:50.495
  • Because he perfectly, perfectly kept all the law, and he said it
  • 00:20:50.495 --> 00:20:54.232
  • Like this: "every jot and tittle will be fulfilled."
  • 00:20:54.232 --> 00:20:59.071
  • And as long as he was alive, the law of moses was still in force.
  • 00:20:59.071 --> 00:21:05.243
  • But when he died, the death of a testator now allows you to walk
  • 00:21:05.243 --> 00:21:13.518
  • In this new and living way.
  • 00:21:13.518 --> 00:21:17.789
  • The new testament didn't start until he died.
  • 00:21:17.789 --> 00:21:20.392
  • Now why do i mention that?
  • 00:21:20.392 --> 00:21:22.828
  • Because people think they're in new testament when they say,
  • 00:21:22.828 --> 00:21:26.031
  • "well, it's in the red."
  • 00:21:26.031 --> 00:21:29.801
  • "if your hands ever offend you, cut it off" is in the red, too.
  • 00:21:29.801 --> 00:21:36.508
  • You gotta be careful how you look at what's in the red,
  • 00:21:36.508 --> 00:21:40.712
  • Because you could be looking at the truth of jesus fulfilling
  • 00:21:40.712 --> 00:21:44.516
  • The law as an old testament prophet, and not jesus who is
  • 00:21:44.516 --> 00:21:49.321
  • Also making a way for the grace of god to come.
  • 00:21:49.321 --> 00:21:53.225
  • Big--that's not matthew, mark, luke, and john.
  • 00:21:53.225 --> 00:21:55.460
  • It's almost like--what's that place that catholic people say
  • 00:21:55.460 --> 00:22:00.665
  • You go in between?
  • 00:22:00.665 --> 00:22:02.033
  • It's almost like a purgatory five books.
  • 00:22:02.033 --> 00:22:04.469
  • Here's what's happening right here, hold on, see what's going
  • 00:22:04.469 --> 00:22:06.705
  • On, check him out.
  • 00:22:06.705 --> 00:22:08.039
  • Jesus is going to tell you some stuff about the law,
  • 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:09.508
  • You're going to understand better.
  • 00:22:09.508 --> 00:22:10.842
  • But he's going to also tell you--he'll say stuff like, you
  • 00:22:10.842 --> 00:22:12.677
  • Know, "right now, you do this," he says, "but there's coming
  • 00:22:12.677 --> 00:22:15.046
  • A time where this is going to happen."
  • 00:22:15.046 --> 00:22:16.782
  • So he does those two ministries right there.
  • 00:22:16.782 --> 00:22:19.384
  • And it's like, you gotta understand jesus.
  • 00:22:19.384 --> 00:22:20.719
  • But to say to some people, they're like, "no, no, no, no,
  • 00:22:20.719 --> 00:22:23.221
  • My bible tells me--" you don't even know how to read it.
  • 00:22:23.221 --> 00:22:26.191
  • It's like the guy that just got saved like this morning, and we
  • 00:22:26.191 --> 00:22:30.796
  • Just baptized him 15 minutes ago, and he is still dripping
  • 00:22:30.796 --> 00:22:33.799
  • Water trying to tell you what the lord told him.
  • 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:36.301
  • Sit yourself down and dry off.
  • 00:22:36.301 --> 00:22:40.939
  • And i got this yesterday, i just can't forget
  • 00:22:41.006 --> 00:22:43.141
  • This, but we've got to be careful not to create a religion
  • 00:22:43.141 --> 00:22:50.382
  • That wears fig leaves.
  • 00:22:50.382 --> 00:22:54.319
  • Fig leaves represent self-righteousness and your
  • 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:58.423
  • Own performance.
  • 00:22:58.423 --> 00:23:00.258
  • But when god dresses you, you don't have to have nothing on
  • 00:23:00.258 --> 00:23:03.495
  • Physical, and your nakedness will still be hidden.
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  • E-book and the foundational three-messages series "how to
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  • Depend on god."
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  • These resources will help you grow stronger in faith, become
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  • Steadier in your walk, and live with greater confidence in god's
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  • Grace every day.
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  • As an added bonus, you will receive a grace gang t-shirt
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  • Creflo: do you have a burning desire to see lives
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  • Changed by the gospel of grace?
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  • If so, prayerfully consider supporting creflo dollar
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  • Ministries financially.
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  • You may not be called to preach on a pulpit or perform missions
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  • Work in another country, but you assist those who are called to
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  • Do these things each time you give financial gifts to
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  • This ministry.
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  • God bless you, and i'll see you next time right here on
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  • "changing your world."
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  • Male announcer: to support our kingdom mission of winning souls
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  • For jesus, you may call us or give online at
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  • Creflodollarministries.org.
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  • Thank you for giving and enabling us to share this gospel
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  • Of grace all over the world.
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  • Announcer: because of you, creflo dollar ministries is
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  • Providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change in
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  • The lives of millions of people every day.
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  • Thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • ♪♪♪
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