Creflo Dollar - Understanding Before and After The Cross Truths (Part 2)

June 2, 2026 | 27:29

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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?
  • 00:13:36.228 --> 00:13:40.132
  • 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
  • 00:13:43.602 --> 00:13:47.273
  • 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.
  • 00:13:53.646 --> 00:13:54.980
  • We're blessed because of what we did and cursed 'cause of what we
  • 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:56.782
  • Couldn't do, all right?
  • 00:13:56.782 --> 00:13:58.617
  • But now, after the cross, we're blessed, not necessarily because
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  • Of our acts, but because we are his redeemed.
  • 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.424
  • 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?
  • 00:14:16.535 --> 00:14:20.973
  • After the cross, i am blessed because i am his redeemed.
  • 00:14:20.973 --> 00:14:25.744
  • Verse 13 says, "christ has" what?
  • 00:14:25.744 --> 00:14:28.247
  • "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
  • 00:14:35.087 --> 00:14:39.725
  • People who walk in the fear of a curse that has been taken care
  • 00:14:39.725 --> 00:14:43.696
  • 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.
  • 00:14:50.402 --> 00:14:53.772
  • "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?
  • 00:15:04.717 --> 00:15:06.318
  • Praise god.
  • 00:15:06.318 --> 00:15:07.686
  • Verse 14, "that the blessing," so why, why?
  • 00:15:07.686 --> 00:15:10.556
  • "that the blessing of abraham might come on the gentiles
  • 00:15:10.556 --> 00:15:13.625
  • Through," who?
  • 00:15:13.625 --> 00:15:14.994
  • "through jesus christ."
  • 00:15:14.994 --> 00:15:16.328
  • Say this out loud, "i'm blessed because of jesus not because of
  • 00:15:16.328 --> 00:15:19.665
  • What i do, but because of what he did.
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  • I'm blessed because of jesus."
  • 00:15:24.436 --> 00:15:27.706
  • 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.
  • 00:15:32.011 --> 00:15:35.914
  • That's different from what happened before the cross.
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  • All right, look at romans chapter 4 and verse 8, romans
  • 00:15:38.984 --> 00:15:42.921
  • Chapter 4 and verse 8.
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  • We've got to address the mentality of--
  • 00:15:44.923 --> 00:15:47.159
  • But what do you do?
  • 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:48.494
  • What do you do? what do you do?
  • 00:15:48.494 --> 00:15:49.828
  • What do you do? what do you do?
  • 00:15:49.828 --> 00:15:51.163
  • And it's always what do you do, what do you do, what do you do?
  • 00:15:51.163 --> 00:15:53.165
  • And it's never, well, what do you believe, what do you
  • 00:15:53.165 --> 00:15:55.634
  • Believe, what do you believe?
  • 00:15:55.634 --> 00:15:56.969
  • Because if you believe right, you're gonna do right, but if
  • 00:15:56.969 --> 00:15:59.505
  • You're focused on doing, do, do, do, do, you remember the rich
  • 00:15:59.505 --> 00:16:02.941
  • Young ruler?
  • 00:16:02.941 --> 00:16:04.276
  • You know, he had the answer.
  • 00:16:04.276 --> 00:16:05.644
  • He said, "good master, what do i need to," watch this, "do in
  • 00:16:05.644 --> 00:16:10.249
  • Order to have eternal life?"
  • 00:16:10.249 --> 00:16:11.917
  • And remember what jesus said?
  • 00:16:11.917 --> 00:16:13.285
  • Jesus tried to give him the opportunity to step away from
  • 00:16:13.285 --> 00:16:15.721
  • His performance and to step into the one that would take his
  • 00:16:15.721 --> 00:16:19.491
  • 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.
  • 00:16:25.064 --> 00:16:26.432
  • It's god.
  • 00:16:26.432 --> 00:16:27.766
  • "none is good but god."
  • 00:16:27.766 --> 00:16:29.635
  • 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
  • 00:16:33.839 --> 00:16:36.875
  • 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
  • 00:16:41.680 --> 00:16:44.917
  • Then he turned around and said, "i kept all of these from my
  • 00:16:44.917 --> 00:16:47.119
  • Youth up."
  • 00:16:47.119 --> 00:16:48.487
  • Jesus knew, boy, you ain't kept all of these, and so he
  • 00:16:48.487 --> 00:16:51.957
  • Tested him.
  • 00:16:51.957 --> 00:16:53.292
  • He said, "all right, since you kept all of these, sell what you
  • 00:16:53.292 --> 00:16:56.028
  • 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.
  • 00:17:04.570 --> 00:17:05.904
  • 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
  • 00:17:10.876 --> 00:17:13.645
  • 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
  • 00:17:19.518 --> 00:17:23.088
  • 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
  • 00:17:26.425 --> 00:17:30.929
  • 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
  • 00:17:46.545 --> 00:17:50.616
  • 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,
  • 00:17:53.752 --> 00:18:01.193
  • Not ever will he impute--what does it mean to
  • 00:18:01.193 --> 00:18:05.330
  • Impute something?
  • 00:18:05.330 --> 00:18:06.665
  • 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?
  • 00:18:53.412 --> 00:18:58.183
  • I still wanna teach.
  • 00:18:58.183 --> 00:18:59.785
  • Yeah, i'm gonna do it.
  • 00:18:59.785 --> 00:19:01.153
  • Romans 1, back up to verse 1 and look at it in nlt, romans 4:1,
  • 00:19:01.153 --> 00:19:07.326
  • And we'll read up to verse 8 in the nlt.
  • 00:19:07.326 --> 00:19:12.464
  • Hopefully, this is just start ringing and you just get so much
  • 00:19:12.464 --> 00:19:15.601
  • 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
  • 00:19:30.315 --> 00:19:32.784
  • 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
  • 00:19:37.589 --> 00:19:43.295
  • Would have had something to boast about.
  • 00:19:43.295 --> 00:19:46.531
  • 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.
  • 00:20:05.350 --> 00:20:07.986
  • 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
  • 00:20:24.803 --> 00:20:29.241
  • 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.
  • 00:22:05.570 --> 00:22:08.974
  • We're good.
  • 00:22:08.974 --> 00:22:10.342
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  • 00:22:10.342 --> 00:22:16.648
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  • Creflo: everything in god's kingdom works by faith.
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  • Now, i remember when taffi and i started giving.
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  • It was a painful thing to give because we didn't have much at
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  • All financially.
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  • However, we made a decision to be givers.
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  • And one of the most quoted scriptures in the bible is john
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  • 3:16, "god so loved the world that he gave."
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  • Therefore, as christians, we give.
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  • Our giving is an expression of our love.
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  • And when you support creflo dollar ministries financially,
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  • You are giving to our efforts to spread the gospel all over
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  • The world.
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  • And in addition to helping millions who are hurting and
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  • Have vital physical needs, pray about what god would have you to
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  • Sow at this time, and we want to thank you in advance for
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  • Your support.
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  • Male announcer: to support the vision of this ministry to reach
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  • The world with the gospel of grace, you may call in to make
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  • Your financial donations or log on to
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  • Creflodollarministries.org.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Announcer: creflo and taffi dollar love connecting with you
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  • And understand the importance of using technology to do
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  • Just that.
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  • We're constantly working to bring the gospel of christ to
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  • Thousands of viewers and followers all around the world,
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  • And we want you to get involved.
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  • Follow us on facebook, instagram, and x, and subscribe
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  • To creflo dollar ministries on youtube for live services
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  • And more.
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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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