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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Understanding Before and After The Cross Truths (Part 2) | June 2, 2026
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- Creflo dollar: before the cross, it was moral law trying to be
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- Administered by civil law and ceremonial law and all the do's
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- And don'ts to try to achieve morality.
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- But under the new testament, you have the holy spirit that's
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- Gonna give you a desire to do what pleases god.
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- The holy spirit that's going to start working in you and moral
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- Character and christian conduct begins to appear by the work of
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- The holy spirit.
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- Creflo: if you have your bibles with you, go with me again to
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- The book of 2 timothy chapter 2 in the amplified bible, 2
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- Timothy chapter 2 and verse 15 and i wanna again lay this.
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- I think something really happens.
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- There's a level of clarity that happens when we can just
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- Specifically see what was true before the cross and what is
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- True now after the cross.
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- When i was doing some teaching in school, in public schools, we
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- Used to have these tables, and on one side, you would have
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- This, and on the other side you had--and it would make things
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- Clear to the students that they can just see how things
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- Lined up.
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- And i guess that's the thing i'm kind of seeing is that if we can
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- Just see what happened before jesus died on the cross and what
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- Happened as a result of him dying on the cross and never
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- Forget that something happened as a result of him dying on the
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- Cross, i think it'll be a blessing to you.
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- So i'm not going to spend a, well, let me hold on.
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- I don't plan on spending a lot of time on this, but i really
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- Want you to nail this.
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- If for no other reasons, just give you the note so you can go
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- Home and really dig into it yourself.
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- But there's one big thing that happened after the cross that
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- We've never really talked about, and that is obedience changed
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- After the cross.
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- Obedience under the old covenant was based only in your actions.
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- Obedience after jesus died and obedience in the new testament
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- Is a complete different thing.
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- So when you don't know that and you read the new testament,
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- You're reading it in light of what obedience was in the old
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- Covenant and missing the real story of the impact that jesus
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- Made as a result of him, not only the death, the burial, the
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- Resurrection, but he was seated with him, amen, and he's coming
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- Back again.
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- And that is the completeness of that gospel.
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- So let me begin in some areas and then we will go ahead and
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- Get to that ultimate place where i want to be.
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- And the only reason i want to go to titus is 'cause titus shows
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- Us this word "godly," that he'll teach us how to be godly and
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- He'll teach us not to be ungodly.
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- That's a big deal because we think ungodly and godliness is
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- Just based on wickedness, and it's based on whether or not
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- God's involved in your life.
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- And when you do things and feel no need to ask him to bless it,
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- That's ungodly.
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- And we need to begin to look at these things and rightly divide
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- The truth of this.
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- So you ready?
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- All right, now 2 timothy chapter 2:15 says, "study and be eager
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- And 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, correctly
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- Analyzing and accurately dividing and [rightly handling
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- And skillfully teaching]
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- The word of truth."
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- And you've got to always ask yourself which "word of truth,"
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- You know what i'm saying?
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- The word of god.
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- Which word of god?
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- Or is this the word of christos?
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- Is this the word of christ?
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- Is this the gospel word that jesus spoke about?
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- That's very, very important.
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- And there's a correctly analyzing and a skillfully
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- Teaching and if you can correctly analyze something, you
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- Can incorrectly analyze it, and we've got to wake up to that.
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- It's just not taking the bible, somebody says, "i read the bible
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- From genesis to revelations."
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- Well, you are of most people very confused probably, you
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- Know, 'cause it's not written like for you to do it that way.
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- It's rightly dividing this thing.
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- Now, let's look at romans 6:14 and then i can go ahead and
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- Get started.
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- Romans 6:14, and verse 14 says, "for sin shall not have dominion
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- Over you: for you are not under the law."
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- The law it's referring to is the mosaic law.
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- "you are not under the law, but under grace."
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- There's a lot to be talked about even when you talk about the
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- Law, because we're, you know, the argument has been, well,
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- You're not responsible for the ten commandments anymore.
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- The ten commandments are, they're from god.
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- They represent god's character.
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- So that's why paul repeats it in the new testament, but the
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- Change was the holy spirit is not gonna administer these godly
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- Morals that rules and regulations could not administer
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- Under the abrahamic covenant, which is divided up into civil
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- Law, ceremonial law, and moral law.
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- Those are the three things you see in the mosaic covenant:
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- Civil, ceremonial, and moral law.
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- The ceremony of sacrificing the animals was there.
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- So what happens is you got 613 of them.
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- Ten of them represents the very character of god and is eternal.
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- It is eternal.
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- But you don't see these things come to pass by
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- Performance-based stuff.
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- We're trying to perform to become moral.
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- That's why it failed.
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- And that's why god set it up for you to fail, but the law was
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- Perfect, okay, but we were not.
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- And so, in the new testament, you have the holy spirit as
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- Administrator of those moral things, and paul repeats
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- Everything except a sabbath day, why?
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- Because in the new testament, jesus is our sabbath 'cause the
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- Sabbath is not a day; it is a person and jesus is our sabbath.
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- And so you don't have to deal with that argument.
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- You know that before the cross, it was moral law trying to be
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- Administered by civil law and ceremonial law and all the do's
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- And don'ts to try to achieve morality.
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- But under the new testament, you have the holy spirit that's
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- Gonna give you a desire to do what pleases god.
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- The holy spirit that's going to start working in you and moral
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- Character and christian conduct begins to appear by the work of
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- The holy spirit, so you won't ever be able to boast about
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- Where you are going and where you ended up.
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- You're still trying to figure out, you know, for some of us,
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- How did i get this way?
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- Why am i thinking this way?
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- Why don't i want to do what i want to do?
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- What happened to that desire?
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- He's given you a new desire, a new want to, and has the great
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- Ability to take away the old want to.
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- That is the administration of the holy spirit that we just, we
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- Got to give credit to.
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- And it takes time to peel this onion to look at that.
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- Everything that i've just said to you took me months to teach
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- And to explain to our congregation over and over and
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- Over and over and over and over again.
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- My wife said i was telling her about how important it is
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- For repetition.
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- And she says, "well, you're good at that.
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- You will, you will."
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- And i said, "i am.
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- I'm going to talk it," you know, because sometimes with preachers
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- It's like, "well, i've already preached that before," like the
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- Whole world has heard it.
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- And you know, people come to church every sunday looking for
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- Something new or not.
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- You didn't get what i said last sunday.
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- And so i just played a trick on them one time.
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- I just gave the same sermon i preached the last week a
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- New title.
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- And they came up talking about, "wooh, that was good."
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- I said, "the same thing i preached last week," amen?
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- Okay, so let's get into the before the cross and after
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- The cross.
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- Let's look at a couple of scriptures here in the niv,
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- Matthew 22:29 in the niv and then colossians 2:8 in the niv.
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- Matthew 22:29 in the niv, he says, "jesus replied, 'you are
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- In error because you do not know the scriptures or the power
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- Of god.'"
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- Wow, that you're in error 'cause you don't know the scripture and
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- The power of god, that's powerful.
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- And then look at colossians 2:8 in the niv, colossians 2:8 in
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- The niv.
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- He says, "see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow
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- And deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and
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- The elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than
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- On christ."
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- You see what he says?
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- Make sure that nobody takes you captive through hollow and
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- Deceptive philosophies.
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- That is so powerful.
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- And so now that's why i feel like i need to continue this
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- Because a lot of that's going on.
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- All right,
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- Number one, before the cross, before the cross, we were
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- Blessed only when we obeyed and cursed when we failed to obey.
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- So before the cross, you were blessed when you obeyed; you
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- Were cursed when you did not obey.
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- In fact, look at this very clearly, deuteronomy 11:26-28,
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- And you can just go to king james, deuteronomy 11:26-28.
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- Now, as you can tell, my objective this morning is to get
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- This out to you.
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- I'm not trying to have church.
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- If i want to have church, i can just put this down and just
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- Start screaming, then we can just have a little
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- Cartwheel service.
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- But i'm trying to get this to you, so you can think about it
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- And then, as you attempt to go forward in the gospel of grace,
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- Sometimes when you're ministering to people and you
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- Say, "okay, well let me do this first, and then maybe they can
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- See the contrast, and then i can start talking to them about some
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- Other things that will really bless their lives."
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- Okay, so look at deuteronomy 11:26.
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- He says, "behold, i set before you this day" what?
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- "a blessing," what?
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- "and a curse."
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- All right, that's what it was before jesus died and was raised
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- Up from the dead.
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- Before the cross, there was set before you a blessing and
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- A curse.
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- Now that you're born again christians under grace, you
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- Can't use that.
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- You can't use that.
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- That was before the cross, and before the cross, we were
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- Blessed when we obeyed, and we were cursed when we failed
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- To obey.
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- The issue is, i think the church today, with grace teaching going
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- Out and faith teaching going out and then the normal traditional
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- Things, we've seen the church now teach and demonstrate trying
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- To live in mixtures.
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- You know, work out your own salvation.
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- We say it by grace, okay, mixtures.
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- And anytime you try to mix something, you get nothing.
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- You get nothing and, you know, we'll take a little of the new
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- And put it with a little of the old.
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- We were warned about that.
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- New wine in old wineskins, you lose the benefit of both the
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- Container and the wine.
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- So you gotta look at that carefully.
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- So now, that was what it was like before the cross.
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- What was it like after the cross?
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- What was it like after the cross?
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- You're blessed not necessarily because of our acts.
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- After jesus came, after he was raised from the dead, we're
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- Blessed not necessarily because of our acts.
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- We are blessed in--before the cross, it was all because of
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- Our acts.
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- We're blessed because of what we did and cursed 'cause of what we
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- Couldn't do, all right?
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- But now, after the cross, we're blessed, not necessarily because
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- Of our acts, but because we are his redeemed.
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- We are blessed because we're his redeemed.
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- We are blessed because of jesus.
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- Galatians chapter 3:13-14, let's read that again,
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- Galatians 3:13-14.
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- Before the cross, i'm blessed because of my obedience, okay?
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- After the cross, i am blessed because i am his redeemed.
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- Verse 13 says, "christ has" what?
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- "redeemed us from" what?
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- "the curse of the law."
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- So there is no more curse.
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- After the cross, there is no more curse, and yet you have
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- People who walk in the fear of a curse that has been taken care
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- Of because we have been delivered and redeemed from
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- The curse.
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- I think that's exciting news.
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- I've been delivered and redeemed from the curse.
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- "being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is
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- Everyone that hangeth on the tree."
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- One tree started a curse, but the second tree and the last one
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- Ended it, amen?
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- Praise god.
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- Verse 14, "that the blessing," so why, why?
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- "that the blessing of abraham might come on the gentiles
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- Through," who?
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- "through jesus christ."
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- Say this out loud, "i'm blessed because of jesus not because of
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- What i do, but because of what he did.
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- I'm blessed because of jesus."
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- Okay, and so what we understand here is that i've been redeemed
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- From the curse of the law, and i am blessed because of jesus.
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- That's different from what happened before the cross.
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- All right, look at romans chapter 4 and verse 8, romans
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- Chapter 4 and verse 8.
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- We've got to address the mentality of--
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- But what do you do?
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- What do you do? what do you do?
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- What do you do? what do you do?
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- And it's always what do you do, what do you do, what do you do?
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- And it's never, well, what do you believe, what do you
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- Believe, what do you believe?
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- Because if you believe right, you're gonna do right, but if
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- You're focused on doing, do, do, do, do, you remember the rich
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- Young ruler?
- 00:16:02.941 --> 00:16:04.276
- You know, he had the answer.
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- He said, "good master, what do i need to," watch this, "do in
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- Order to have eternal life?"
- 00:16:10.249 --> 00:16:11.917
- And remember what jesus said?
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- Jesus tried to give him the opportunity to step away from
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- His performance and to step into the one that would take his
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- Whole life to another direction.
- 00:16:19.491 --> 00:16:21.493
- He said, "none is good but god."
- 00:16:21.493 --> 00:16:25.064
- And the man didn't even hear it.
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- It's god.
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- "none is good but god."
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- Depend on god.
- 00:16:29.635 --> 00:16:31.136
- And he ignored him.
- 00:16:31.136 --> 00:16:32.504
- Yeah, but what do i do?
- 00:16:32.504 --> 00:16:33.839
- He says, "all right, if you must know what to do, then keep
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- The commandments."
- 00:16:36.875 --> 00:16:38.777
- Wow, the opportunity that was passed by.
- 00:16:38.777 --> 00:16:41.680
- And to show you how messed up and jacked up this dude was, and
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- Then he turned around and said, "i kept all of these from my
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- Youth up."
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- Jesus knew, boy, you ain't kept all of these, and so he
- 00:16:48.487 --> 00:16:51.957
- Tested him.
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- He said, "all right, since you kept all of these, sell what you
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- Have, give to the poor, come and follow me."
- 00:16:56.028 --> 00:16:57.863
- And the bible says he was sad, he was sad at that saying.
- 00:16:57.863 --> 00:17:02.301
- Like most people do in offering time, they are sad at
- 00:17:02.301 --> 00:17:04.570
- That saying.
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- It's offering time, i'm sad.
- 00:17:05.904 --> 00:17:07.873
- Because he had already exalted, he broke what?
- 00:17:07.873 --> 00:17:10.876
- The first commandment: "thou shalt not have no other god
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- Before you."
- 00:17:13.645 --> 00:17:16.248
- Money had already possessed him.
- 00:17:16.248 --> 00:17:19.518
- This guy missed the whole deal, had an opportunity to just break
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- Into this grace that jesus was trying to show him, all right?
- 00:17:23.088 --> 00:17:26.425
- So he says, "blessed," here in verse 4 and verse 8, "blessed is
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- The man to whom the lord," watch this, "will not impute sin."
- 00:17:30.929 --> 00:17:39.571
- You're blessed, the lord is not going to impute sin.
- 00:17:39.571 --> 00:17:46.545
- Under the old testament, all of our sin, we were responsible for
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- All of our sin, and we were charged with it.
- 00:17:50.616 --> 00:17:53.752
- But after the cross, the lord will not, will not, will not,
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- Not ever will he impute--what does it mean to
- 00:18:01.193 --> 00:18:05.330
- Impute something?
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- To hold against you or to charge to your account.
- 00:18:06.665 --> 00:18:10.302
- So this blew my mind when i first saw it.
- 00:18:10.302 --> 00:18:12.304
- I'm thinking like i cannot.
- 00:18:12.304 --> 00:18:14.373
- Blessed is the man, and here's why he's blessed.
- 00:18:14.373 --> 00:18:16.308
- The lord is not going to charge to your account your sin.
- 00:18:16.308 --> 00:18:23.649
- That's mind-boggling to me.
- 00:18:23.649 --> 00:18:26.585
- And then people are like, "oh that can't be true."
- 00:18:26.585 --> 00:18:28.086
- And the reason why they did that, they panicked because they
- 00:18:28.086 --> 00:18:30.422
- Know they're still, watch this, sinning, because they never got
- 00:18:30.422 --> 00:18:34.459
- The deal that god has delivered you from the sin man.
- 00:18:34.459 --> 00:18:39.164
- And now he gave you a new creation, who has now got you
- 00:18:39.164 --> 00:18:42.534
- Into an evolution of grace, but he can't because you keep
- 00:18:42.534 --> 00:18:46.805
- Judging yourself by what you do, that was before the cross,
- 00:18:46.805 --> 00:18:50.242
- Instead of judging yourself by who you are, that's after the
- 00:18:50.242 --> 00:18:53.412
- Cross, amen?
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- I still wanna teach.
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- Yeah, i'm gonna do it.
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- Romans 1, back up to verse 1 and look at it in nlt, romans 4:1,
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- And we'll read up to verse 8 in the nlt.
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- Hopefully, this is just start ringing and you just get so much
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- Revelation from this.
- 00:19:15.601 --> 00:19:17.402
- He says, "abraham was, humanly speaking, was humanly--abraham
- 00:19:17.402 --> 00:19:22.241
- Was, humanly speaking, the founder of our jewish nation."
- 00:19:22.241 --> 00:19:26.044
- What did he discover about being made right with god?
- 00:19:26.044 --> 00:19:28.780
- Genesis 15, what did he discover?
- 00:19:28.780 --> 00:19:30.315
- Because the bible says, "abraham believed god, and it was
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- Accounted unto him for," what?
- 00:19:32.784 --> 00:19:34.119
- "righteousness's sake."
- 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:35.487
- "what did he discover about being made right with god?"
- 00:19:35.487 --> 00:19:37.589
- Verse 2, "if his good deeds had made him acceptable to god, he
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- Would have had something to boast about.
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- But that was not god's way."
- 00:19:46.531 --> 00:19:48.934
- It's not god's way now.
- 00:19:48.934 --> 00:19:51.670
- You're having good deeds and then boasting about it, that's
- 00:19:51.670 --> 00:19:54.573
- Not god's way anymore.
- 00:19:54.573 --> 00:19:56.008
- Verse 3, "for the scripture tells us, abraham," did what?
- 00:19:56.008 --> 00:19:59.978
- "believed god, and god counted him as," what?
- 00:19:59.978 --> 00:20:03.515
- "righteous because of his," what?
- 00:20:03.515 --> 00:20:05.350
- Faith in god.
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- Verse 4, "when people work, their wages are not a gift, but
- 00:20:07.986 --> 00:20:13.125
- Something they have earned."
- 00:20:13.125 --> 00:20:15.894
- 5, "but people are counted as righteous, not because of their
- 00:20:15.894 --> 00:20:19.831
- Work, but because of their faith in god who forgives sinners."
- 00:20:19.831 --> 00:20:24.803
- 6, "david also spoke of this when he described the happiness
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- Of those who are declared righteous without working for
- 00:20:29.241 --> 00:20:31.977
- It, declared righteous without working for it, declared
- 00:20:31.977 --> 00:20:35.213
- Righteous without working for it."
- 00:20:35.213 --> 00:20:36.715
- Religion wants you to work for it, deserve to be
- 00:20:36.715 --> 00:20:40.752
- Declared righteous.
- 00:20:40.752 --> 00:20:42.954
- That's not it.
- 00:20:42.954 --> 00:20:44.289
- This thing is so awesome.
- 00:20:44.289 --> 00:20:46.391
- Jesus is like saying, "dude, rest, i got it."
- 00:20:46.391 --> 00:20:51.330
- And we're still trying to work so we can deserve it.
- 00:20:51.330 --> 00:20:55.600
- Seven, "oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven,
- 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:59.638
- Whose sins are put out of sight."
- 00:20:59.638 --> 00:21:01.573
- So the sin meter has been turned off.
- 00:21:01.573 --> 00:21:04.976
- "whose sins have been put out of sight," for the sin meter has
- 00:21:04.976 --> 00:21:08.113
- Been turned off.
- 00:21:08.113 --> 00:21:09.448
- So here's when you're gonna be tested on whether or not you
- 00:21:09.448 --> 00:21:11.049
- Believe this.
- 00:21:11.049 --> 00:21:12.384
- When you miss the mark and then go back to the old way of not
- 00:21:12.384 --> 00:21:16.088
- Believing that what jesus said is true, then you know you have
- 00:21:16.088 --> 00:21:20.392
- No confidence in this grace of what jesus has done for you, and
- 00:21:20.392 --> 00:21:24.563
- That's gonna be the big test.
- 00:21:24.563 --> 00:21:25.931
- It's like, you know, you did something and now you're saying,
- 00:21:25.931 --> 00:21:29.334
- Well, i gotta do something else to reclaim my righteousness.
- 00:21:29.334 --> 00:21:32.904
- You're not gonna lose your righteousness.
- 00:21:32.904 --> 00:21:34.773
- The only way you're gonna lose your righteousness is jesus has
- 00:21:34.773 --> 00:21:36.908
- To lose his because, in fact, your righteousness is not
- 00:21:36.908 --> 00:21:40.212
- Your righteousness.
- 00:21:40.212 --> 00:21:41.947
- Your righteousness is his righteousness, and you receive
- 00:21:41.947 --> 00:21:44.883
- That by faith.
- 00:21:44.883 --> 00:21:46.518
- No man will ever be right with god by keeping the law.
- 00:21:46.518 --> 00:21:49.554
- That's the book of galatians.
- 00:21:49.554 --> 00:21:50.889
- You're right with god because of your faith in jesus christ.
- 00:21:50.889 --> 00:21:54.393
- If you understand that, say amen.
- 00:21:54.393 --> 00:21:56.261
- And then he goes on down to verse 8 and you know, "yes,
- 00:21:56.261 --> 00:22:01.400
- What joy for those who record the lord has cleared of sin."
- 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:05.570
- Go to verse 8--oh, okay, yeah, we just did it.
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- We're good.
- 00:22:08.974 --> 00:22:10.342
- All right, now, so that was all stuff that happened as a result
- 00:22:10.342 --> 00:22:16.648
- After the cross, that's what we have.
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- Together with you, we are making the word of grace available
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- Throughout every voice of social media.
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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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