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Creflo Dollar - Victory Over Sinful Behavior

April 6, 2025 | S25:E85

Creflo Dollar - Victory Over Sinful Behavior
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Victory Over Sinful Behavior | April 6, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: you gotta understand now.
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  • The key is, what are we gonna do about this software, our soul,
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  • Our mind, our will, and our emotions that have gotten so
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  • Used to the dictates of the old nature?
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  • If we don't do nothing with this, even though we are now
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  • Perfect, if we don't do nothing with this in this life, similar
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  • Behaviors and sin continues.
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, we're saved by his grace ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today, ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪♪
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  • Creflo: the real you is your what, spirit, soul, or body?
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  • The real you is your spirit.
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  • Your spirit never desires to sin and will never sin.
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  • This is who we really are, but we treat that like, "oh, well,
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  • That's just a fantasy.
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  • That ain't the truth," and you don't even know how true that is
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  • Until you die.
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  • Because when you die, the only thing--your--you're gonna
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  • Move--here it is.
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  • You're gonna move out of the house, you are now gonna
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  • Be--gonna--you are now gonna become aware of the real you.
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  • Death is gonna be so awesome because you won't even know it
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  • Really happened.
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  • You're going--when you move, you're gonna step out the house
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  • And you--if you--maybe he'll let you look back and see that's my
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  • Body, but you're gonna literally
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • You gonna literally
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Move from one dimension to another dimension and you're
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  • Gonna slip out of your physical dimension house into a spiritual
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  • House with your real you and everything now is more real than
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  • What you thought was real when you were in your physical body.
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  • That's why you are not ever be scared of death.
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  • And that's what the devil will put on you, like, "ah, wait a
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  • Minute, whether here or there."
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  • Paul said it like this, he said, "to tell the truth, i don't
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  • Know, at this point, whether it's gonna be more beneficial
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  • For me to stay here with y'all or go over here where i know
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  • About it," and then they start looking at the world and say,
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  • "oh jesus, i need to stay here."
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  • Alright, now watch this.
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  • Alright, so the real you--this is so amazing.
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  • The real you resembles your earth suit.
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  • It's kind of like the pattern for your earth suit came from
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  • The real you.
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  • I know you can't see it right now but i gotta say it.
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  • The pattern of this came from your real outfit.
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  • When you--when we see one another in heaven, we're gonna
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  • See one another at the best possible state of appearance
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  • That we have ever seen one another, maybe in your twenties.
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  • But you gonna look at one another like, "francine,
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  • That's you?"
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  • You gonna say, "girl, don't i look good?"
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  • And that's the pattern [speaking in tongues]
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  • I have evidence that just popped in my mind.
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  • The physical tabernacle is an exact duplicate of the
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  • Heavenly tabernacle.
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  • The heavenly tabernacle doesn't look like the
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  • Physical tabernacle.
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  • The physical tabernacle took its pattern from the heavenly
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  • Tabernacle, just like your physical body got its pattern
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  • From your spiritual body.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • We gotta be careful, boy, it be--we going to be raptured
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  • Up in here.
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  • You get to listen to this stuff, we go--
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  • [whoosh]
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  • Somebody said, "what happened?"
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  • That'd be so cool, if god gave us two seconds to just--whoa!
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  • Whoa!
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  • Do it again.
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  • Hey!
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  • Tear this church up, everybody be under--hey!
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Now, since we are still in our bodies and in this world we
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  • Might still sin.
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  • There's really no might to it because 1 john 1 and 8--not
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  • That--see, here's the thing about it.
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  • You think you're gonna still sin the same sins.
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  • You got new creation in you, you are transforming.
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  • You're transforming out of certain things in your life into
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  • Certain things you hadn't been in.
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  • So, when i say we still sin, i don't think you're still sinning
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  • Like you used to sin.
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  • All right, how you used to sin was based on the nature that you
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  • Had to sin, but since you've been born again, the sin has
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  • Diminished in how it looks with somebody who perfect.
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  • Because the new creation is working on your desires.
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  • That's his way in.
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  • "i'm working on taking away the old want-to's, giving you some
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  • New want-to's," and some of you can take a little look back and
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  • You can't even figure out, why is it that i don't want the
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  • Thing i used to be addicted to?
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  • Why is it that i don't wanna even say the stuff i've always
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  • Used to saying?
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  • Because you got the new creation releasing impulses and impacting
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  • Your desire, the bible says, to do what pleases god.
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  • The new creation wants you to do what pleases god.
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  • See, i gotta be careful because i got a generation that's
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  • Looking for an excuse to wanna be saved and fleshy at the
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  • Same time.
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  • Uh-uh, that ain't what they're saying.
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  • You know, they playing lawyer, they're looking down the
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  • Contract to see if they can find a loophole.
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  • And if you understand what i'm preaching to you this morning,
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  • You don't need to find no loophole.
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  • You just need to have faith in the transformation.
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  • Alright, so he says here, "if we say that we have no sin, we
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  • Deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
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  • Okay, so the fact of the matter is, yes, you're born again, and
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  • This may be hard for some people to hear.
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  • Yeah, you're born again and in this world you might still sin.
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  • You're going to have some behavior issues that are still
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  • In the process of transformation.
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  • That's why you don't wanna judge people so quick because they
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  • Might--you might be judging them in transformation.
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  • In other words, you're judging them based on what you knew
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  • About them in the past, but they're no longer there.
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  • As christians, they have made several steps from that by the
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  • Training of the new creation and it ain't even in them no more.
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  • Be careful how you look at people.
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  • All right, look at 1 john 2:1 through 2.
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  • 1 john 2: 1, 2.
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  • He says, "my little children, these things write i unto you,
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  • That you sin not."
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  • All right, so he's writing--he's saying, "here's the best.
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  • I'm writing to you that you sin not."
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  • But then, watch this.
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  • He says, "and if any man sin," okay, "we have an advocate,"
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  • Someone who's going ahead of us and pleading for us, "we have an
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  • Advocate with the father, jesus christ the righteous."
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  • So he says, "okay, so i've made provisions for your sinning
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  • While you're being transformed."
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  • He says, "here's what you do."
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  • "remember that he is the propitiation for our sins."
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  • Remember that he is the ransom that has been paid for our sins.
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  • In other words, remember that jesus has already taken and paid
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  • For your sins, or better better yet, watch this.
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  • Remember that you are no longer--let me say it like this.
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  • Remember that you no longer have the nature to sin.
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  • So it says, "if you're misbehaving, remind yourself,
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  • 'that's not my nature.'"
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  • Wow.
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  • Something happens, "that's not my nature."
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  • What happens if you spend the next five--or five years
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  • Saying--you know, something happens and you're like, "that's
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  • Not my nature."
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  • You are realizing, i am no longer subject to the nature.
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  • The price has been paid for me to be free from the old man.
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  • The price has been paid for me to be free from the sin nature.
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  • The price has been paid for me to receive the new creation.
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  • I no longer have the nature to sin, so when i do sin, i remind
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  • Myself that's not my nature.
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  • Say it out loud, "that's not my nature."
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  • Somebody says, "well, wait a minute, pastor.
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  • You mean, if i cuss her out, what do i do?"
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  • Well, first of all, you apologize and then you remind
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  • Yourself and them, that's not my nature.
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  • "well, if it ain't your nature, why'd you do it?"
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  • "i still need to continue to work on my software."
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  • And you know what you do, you be quick to forgive.
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  • "he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our sins
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  • Only," now, this is so awesome, "but also he's paid the price
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  • For the whole world," and he's paid the price
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  • For the whole world sin.
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  • Now, i don't know if the whole world gonna take advantage
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  • Of it, but i know you and i who are born again,
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  • We have taken advantage of it.
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  • And so, if the whole world wants to take advantage of it, there
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  • Is provision for the whole world to take advantage of it.
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  • So, thank god you and i have taken advantage of it, amen.
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  • But our new creation, even what i just said, even what we just
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  • Read, our new creation will never sin.
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  • So, let the new creation dominate your whole body.
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  • Let the new creation dominate your soul so you can live
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  • According to who you really are.
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  • You will never live in this physical life according to who
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  • You really are, which is your new nature, which is your
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  • Righteous new creation.
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  • See, i like to break this down because i wanna know how.
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  • I'm always like, "all* you telling me to do is how," and
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  • Then i find that out, "okay, how?"
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  • "well, what i meant"--"well, how?"
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  • The new creation is trying to impart and impact you, trying to
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  • Impact your body.
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  • The new creation is working all the time to try to infiltrate
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  • That software.
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  • You gotta understand now.
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  • The key is, what are we gonna do about this software, our soul,
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  • Our mind, our will, and our emotions that have gotten so
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  • Used to the dictates of the old nature?
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  • If we don't do nothing with this, even though we are now
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  • Perfect, if we don't do nothing with this in this life, similar
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  • Behaviors and sin continues.
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  • Oh, y'all got to hear me now.
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  • So you start hearing what's wrong with the church.
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  • Somebody said, "i--ain't no problem with me going to
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  • Whatever this church, this church, because all churches are
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  • The same."
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  • See, that's where you're missing it.
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  • Because churches were supposed to take on this task that i'm
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  • Describing to you right now, this.
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  • You know what the bible calls this?
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  • The flesh.
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  • That wrong way of thinking, that software influenced by the
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  • Old nature.
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  • You know what your issue is, you know what my issue is, you know
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  • What the issue of the whole world is?
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  • When you stop renewing your mind.
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  • Something that needed to be taken care of has never been
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  • Taken care of because you have not done a complete wipe of that
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  • Old software from that old sinful nature.
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  • So, how do i let the new creation dominate me?
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  • By renewing your mind.
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  • How do i get to a place where i'm not being dominated by the
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  • Old nature?
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  • The old nature is gone, but the residue of that old nature
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  • Resides here.
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  • Look at colossians 3:9 and 10.
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  • The residue resides here.
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  • And so, if we're coming to church and we're not learning
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  • And we're getting a bunch of tomfoolery and we like what we
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  • Feel in our body and we like to jump and scream and hop and
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  • Shout*, and you're not renewing your mind to think differently,
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  • Then the struggle continues between the new nature in you
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  • And your behavior outside of you.
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  • Colossians 3:9 and 10.
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  • "lie not," not, lie down not, but quit lying.
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  • "lie not one to another, seeing," now, notice what he
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  • Said, "seeing that you put off the old man."
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  • What is he saying?
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  • The old nature--lying is a result of the old nature.
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  • We have the nature to lie.
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  • "lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old
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  • Man with his deeds."
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  • The old man--he's saying lying, here, is one of the deeds of
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  • Your old nature.
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  • Verse 10, "and have put on the new man," that new creation,
  • 00:16:45.617 --> 00:16:50.289
  • "which is new--which is renewed in the knowledge--is renewed
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  • After the image of that--of him that created him."
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  • We are never going to see what some are convicting you of if we
  • 00:17:01.867 --> 00:17:10.776
  • Don't rightly divide* the word of truth and renew our mind with
  • 00:17:10.776 --> 00:17:16.081
  • This gospel of grace, it won't happen.
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  • And i will preach this.
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  • If everybody leaves, it won't happen.
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  • You--somehow, coming to church has got to be a session of--a
  • 00:17:24.490 --> 00:17:30.696
  • Wipe session, where each time you come, we ought to be wiping
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  • Something else from your soul that was influenced by that old
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  • Nature because you don't have that nature no more, but you
  • 00:17:41.406 --> 00:17:45.277
  • Still have the behavior.
  • 00:17:45.277 --> 00:17:46.745
  • Why?
  • 00:17:46.745 --> 00:17:48.113
  • It's a soul wipe.
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  • It's--like, i use the cell phone.
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  • It's time for a update.
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  • You can't get a--we keep trying to use the same software for a
  • 00:17:54.920 --> 00:18:00.926
  • New laptop and expecting a new output, won't happen.
  • 00:18:00.926 --> 00:18:07.065
  • Even though it's brand new, you still gonna get the same output.
  • 00:18:07.065 --> 00:18:12.938
  • It's not like this is the first time i've talked about this.
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  • It is that every time i talk about it, satan figures out a
  • 00:18:19.411 --> 00:18:22.681
  • Way to belittle and cause us to be subtle, where* we get to
  • 00:18:22.681 --> 00:18:31.156
  • Focus in on all of the religious stuff and we don't stick to
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  • The facts.
  • 00:18:36.795 --> 00:18:40.399
  • Taffi and i were counseling somebody yesterday and we said,
  • 00:18:40.399 --> 00:18:43.869
  • "don't let the emotions get in the way, write it down, stick
  • 00:18:43.869 --> 00:18:46.972
  • With the facts."
  • 00:18:46.972 --> 00:18:49.274
  • Because you know how it is, you start arguing about something,
  • 00:18:49.274 --> 00:18:51.343
  • And then you'll leave the facts and then talking about,
  • 00:18:51.343 --> 00:18:54.012
  • "oh, i always.
  • 00:18:54.012 --> 00:18:55.347
  • Oh, i always.
  • 00:18:55.347 --> 00:18:56.715
  • What about the time i did that," and that ain't even
  • 00:18:56.715 --> 00:18:58.183
  • Got nothing to do with that.
  • 00:18:58.183 --> 00:18:59.518
  • Stick with the facts.
  • 00:18:59.518 --> 00:19:02.020
  • And we don't do that at church.
  • 00:19:02.020 --> 00:19:04.456
  • We come to church and just see how i'm gonna feel today.
  • 00:19:04.456 --> 00:19:08.427
  • "oh, i feel it real good--oh, i really feel good today.
  • 00:19:08.427 --> 00:19:10.929
  • Oh, i know god gonna answer my prayer today because i felt like
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  • Praying this morning."
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  • You--you all--anything the devil can do to keep you out of
  • 00:19:15.901 --> 00:19:21.173
  • Renewing your mind with the word of god, which means you need to
  • 00:19:21.173 --> 00:19:26.111
  • Post yourself up somewhere where your mind is being renewed
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  • Properly with the right information in the software.
  • 00:19:29.948 --> 00:19:33.919
  • You know what happened?
  • 00:19:33.919 --> 00:19:35.254
  • We got born again and start renewing our mind with the
  • 00:19:35.254 --> 00:19:38.156
  • Wrong stuff.
  • 00:19:38.156 --> 00:19:41.026
  • We started renewing our minds with rules and not
  • 00:19:41.026 --> 00:19:45.497
  • Removing--renewing our mind with the savior.
  • 00:19:45.497 --> 00:19:50.569
  • And so, we care more about keeping rules than we do about
  • 00:19:50.569 --> 00:19:54.506
  • Loving people.
  • 00:19:54.506 --> 00:19:59.778
  • And sometimes, "if you didn't keep the rules, i ain't gonna
  • 00:19:59.778 --> 00:20:03.215
  • Love you."
  • 00:20:03.215 --> 00:20:05.951
  • "did you pray this morning?
  • 00:20:05.951 --> 00:20:07.953
  • How much did you sin this week?
  • 00:20:07.953 --> 00:20:09.554
  • Uh-oh, can't feed you, the bible says touch not the unclean, you
  • 00:20:09.554 --> 00:20:13.859
  • Look like you real dirty today."
  • 00:20:13.859 --> 00:20:17.496
  • That ain't right.
  • 00:20:17.496 --> 00:20:20.132
  • Now you have a religious software that is based on your
  • 00:20:20.132 --> 00:20:26.305
  • Self-performance, your self-effort, and jesus
  • 00:20:26.305 --> 00:20:30.575
  • Ain't nowhere.
  • 00:20:30.575 --> 00:20:31.910
  • It's based on your law-keeping and jesus ain't nowhere.
  • 00:20:31.910 --> 00:20:34.446
  • So, you're--you have him in you
  • 00:20:34.446 --> 00:20:40.419
  • [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:20:40.419 --> 00:20:41.853
  • You know something wrong because even when you do that, talking
  • 00:20:41.853 --> 00:20:45.724
  • About "touch not the unclean," the impulses of the new
  • 00:20:45.724 --> 00:20:48.593
  • Creation's, like, saying, "no, that ain't right, that
  • 00:20:48.593 --> 00:20:50.829
  • Ain't right."
  • 00:20:50.829 --> 00:20:52.197
  • And you know what you have to do?
  • 00:20:52.197 --> 00:20:53.532
  • You start going and try to find more scriptures and rules to
  • 00:20:53.532 --> 00:20:57.569
  • Make you feel better about what you did while you completely
  • 00:20:57.569 --> 00:21:00.972
  • Ignore and harden your hearing to the impulses of the new
  • 00:21:00.972 --> 00:21:04.843
  • Creation on the inside of you that says, "something ain't
  • 00:21:04.843 --> 00:21:07.312
  • Right about what i just did."
  • 00:21:07.312 --> 00:21:17.222
  • So, who wants to come to church and learn stuff?
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  • I ain't talking about y'all, stop.
  • 00:21:25.297 --> 00:21:29.901
  • Romans 12, verse 1 and 2 in the nlt.
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  • Romans 12:1 and 2 in the nlt.
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  • "and so, dear brothers and sisters, i plead with you to
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  • Give your bodies to god."
  • 00:21:39.444 --> 00:21:43.682
  • Now i get it.
  • 00:21:43.682 --> 00:21:45.050
  • You know what he's talking about?
  • 00:21:45.050 --> 00:21:46.718
  • This god that's on the inside of you.
  • 00:21:46.718 --> 00:21:50.055
  • "give your bodies to god because of all he has done for you,"
  • 00:21:50.055 --> 00:21:56.595
  • He's paid the price, was the propitiation for your sins,
  • 00:21:56.595 --> 00:22:00.098
  • Moved into you, gave you a new creation, a new nature, a nature
  • 00:22:00.098 --> 00:22:05.504
  • To live righteously.
  • 00:22:05.504 --> 00:22:09.174
  • "let them be a living and a holy sacrifice--the kind he will
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  • Find acceptable.
  • 00:22:14.045 --> 00:22:15.614
  • This is truly the way to worship him."
  • 00:22:15.614 --> 00:22:18.083
  • Verse 2, "don't copy the behavior and the customs of the
  • 00:22:18.083 --> 00:22:22.220
  • World, but let god," let god, "transform you into a new person
  • 00:22:22.220 --> 00:22:31.062
  • By changing the way you think."
  • 00:22:31.062 --> 00:22:36.601
  • Then, as you allow him to change the way you think, software
  • 00:22:36.601 --> 00:22:40.071
  • Issue, "then you will learn to know god's will for you, which
  • 00:22:40.071 --> 00:22:46.611
  • Is gonna be good and pleasing and perfect."
  • 00:22:46.611 --> 00:22:52.617
  • I can't tell you the number of people who are still asking,
  • 00:22:52.617 --> 00:22:54.853
  • "god, show me your will.
  • 00:22:54.853 --> 00:22:56.188
  • God, show you my will--your will."
  • 00:22:56.188 --> 00:22:57.556
  • And you know what he's saying?
  • 00:22:57.556 --> 00:22:58.890
  • "i want to, but you won't swipe and update the software.
  • 00:22:58.890 --> 00:23:05.464
  • You can't hear me, you can't know me, because you're trying
  • 00:23:05.464 --> 00:23:08.500
  • To hear and know me with the thinking
  • 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:11.770
  • That has come from your old nature."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: believers, are you equipped for battle?
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  • In these last days our minds are the battlefield
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  • And arena of our faith.
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  • In the five part series "how to maintain your righteous stance"
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  • This fight.
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  • Creflo: start focusing in on your identity.
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  • I am the righteousness of god,
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  • I am righteous because of jesus,
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  • And as long as jesus is all right, i am all right.
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  • He's the acceptable sacrifice.
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  • He died once and for all, praise god.
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  • I am the righteousness of god today, tomorrow,
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  • When i'm up, when i'm down,
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  • I'm the righteousness of god.
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  • As long as i am focused
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  • And still tied into jesus,
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  • I believe in him, praise god,
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  • He has made me righteous.
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  • In the bible is john 3:16.
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  • If you would like salvation today, pray this prayer with me,
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  • Very simple prayer.
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  • Heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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  • I believe that he died, that he rose again, and that he
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  • Lives today.
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  • Come into my life, save me.
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  • I receive you as my savior.
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  • In jesus' name, amen.
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  • Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me,
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  • That's how simple it is.
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