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Creflo Dollar - Walking In The Light

April 22, 2025 | S25:E99

Creflo Dollar - Walking In The Light
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Walking In The Light | April 22, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: you are getting better and you are growing and
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  • Your state is catching up with your stance every day of your
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  • Life because of the holy spirit.
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  • He's taken desires away from you that you used to have.
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  • You are on a journey and you are being successful because of the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • But you're never gonna walk in darkness again.
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  • You're in the light.
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  • How can you ever walk in the darkness when you're in
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  • The light?
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  • You're never gonna walk in darkness again.
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  • That old man, you'll never walk with that again.
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  • That's gone, that's gone.
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  • You're not perfect.
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  • And that's the thing i say to people who want to be judgmental
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  • Of other people saying-- i wanna like, okay,
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  • How was your last week?
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  • Creflo dollar: hopefully you're gonna choose to let
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  • Heaven determine your thinking because whatever choice you
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  • Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way-maker, yes!
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low, yes!
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles go with me to the book of saint
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  • John chapter 1, saint john chapter 1.
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  • And when you get to saint john chapter 1, let's
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  • Look at verse 6 through 9.
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  • I dropped a bomb on y'all last week when i told you,
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  • You're not the light of the world.
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  • And i felt like what i need to do is kinda back up a little bit
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  • And teach you into this so that you won't get in trouble with
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  • Your momma'nem talking about, "don't tell me, i ain't the
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  • Light of the world.
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  • I know i'm the light of the world.
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  • You might not be the light of the world."
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  • So that we can see this.
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  • But i found a statement i wanted to really start off with tonight
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  • And it says that the first fundamental message of those who
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  • Witness grace is not a message of condemning sin, but of
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  • Proclaiming that sin is taken away by the lamb of god.
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  • And we have to understand that it is by jesus alone that it's
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  • Taken away.
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  • That man contributes nothing to it.
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  • That this grace is of the fullness of christ.
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  • And upon this grace, there is also grace for daily living on
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  • This earth and there is grace that's going to be revealed at
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  • The appearing of our lord jesus christ.
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  • Now, with that in mind, i wanna talk to you tonight about
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  • Walking in the light.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • I have heard over the years so many misinterpretations and
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  • References concerning the light and we need to find out
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  • Contextually what this means.
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  • You know, when you--again, when you take things out of context
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  • And just kind of go with it, you end up in all kinds of
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  • Weird places.
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  • And the one of the reasons why we're talking about the book of
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  • John in context is 'cause john prophetically saw a lot of
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  • Amazing things about the grace of god out of all those who
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  • Wrote the gospel.
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  • I tell you, john really tapped into something, you know.
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  • You can see why revelations, god could use him for that book
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  • As well: he really tapped into this.
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  • So let's look at saint john chapter 1 and beginning
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  • At verse 6 and 9.
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  • And we're gonna look at this area of the light.
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  • Verse 6 through 9, verse 6 says, "there was a man sent from god,
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  • Whose name was john."
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  • Now this john he's referring to is john the baptist, okay?
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  • Not john the the writer here, but john the baptist.
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  • He says, "the same came," john, "came for a witness and john was
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  • To bear witness of the light."
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  • All right, now we know that the light here is referring to jesus
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  • Christ, okay.
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  • And he was sent to bear witness of the light that all men
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  • Through him, all men through the light believing the light
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  • Might believe.
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  • And john the baptist was sent to bear witness.
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  • He said, "he was not that light."
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  • John the baptist was not that light, okay?
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  • But john the baptist was sent to bear witness of that light.
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  • See that pretty clear, right?
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  • He said, "that was the true light," referring to jesus,
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  • "which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."
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  • Now you automatically know that you're gonna have to rightly
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  • Divide the word when you read this in john.
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  • And it's very clear that john the baptist, that man was not
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  • The light, but here's something that's even more important.
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  • Jesus is referred to as the light.
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  • Now under grace, man is not the light of the world.
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  • And that statement is so important.
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  • Under grace, he is not the light of the world.
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  • Only the word that was with god, that's jesus, and the word that
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  • Was god, that's jesus, is the light of the world during the
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  • Age of grace.
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  • Now, i said something so amazing here 'cause we're talking about
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  • Now in the grace dispensation that no man, man is not
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  • The light.
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  • And we heard it very clearly as john began to foresee this, that
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  • Jesus is that light.
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  • Now, the reason why i say it is i'm gonna take you to a place in
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  • The scriptures in matthew 5 where it sounds like
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  • The contradiction.
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  • And you remember i told you, we've got to start dealing with
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  • The contradictions.
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  • And right now, i feel like i'm on a roll.
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  • I'm trying to find every contradiction i can find and
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  • Resolve the contradiction, you know, me doing that, you know,
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  • Now i'm controversial because i'm dealing with the
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  • Controversy, all right, the contradiction that's in
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  • The bible.
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  • But go to matthew chapter 5 and verse 14 and 16.
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  • Matthew chapter 5, verse 14 and 16.
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  • I thought about this last wednesday.
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  • I said, my god, i just dropped that on everybody and left,
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  • You know.
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  • Like well, we ain't the light--
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  • What about the, you know, let your light shine.
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  • That's what we're getting ready to read.
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  • Don't shine your light, let it shine.
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  • And we made that song, "let it shine, shine.
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  • This little light, light of mine."
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  • That was my best song, favorite song, you know.
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  • Now watch this, matthew 5:14.
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  • Look carefully.
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  • "you are the light of the world."
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  • That's already a contradiction to what we just read in john.
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  • "you are the light of the world.
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  • A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid."
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  • Verse 16.
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  • "let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
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  • Good works."
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  • Ah, now notice now, "let your light shine before men so they
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  • Can see your good works."
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  • So this light and good works are going together here.
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  • "let your light shine before men so they can see your good works
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  • And glorify your father which is in heaven."
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  • All right, now, if we look at the dispensation of grace, it is
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  • Not our good works that glorifies god, it is our belief
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  • In him that glorifies god.
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  • So let's break this down a little bit.
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  • This was a condition under the law and that the good works were
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  • The works of the law.
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  • It's very clear here, the good works, these are the works of
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  • The law.
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  • Somebody says, "how would you say that?"
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  • Well, in verse 17, just move right on down to verse 17.
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  • Jesus is talking about i have not come, "think not that i am
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  • Come to destroy the law," okay, "or the prophets: i am not come
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  • To destroy the law of the prophets, but to fulfill."
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  • So right there, he's telling us that in context, this good
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  • Works, "let your light shine so that men might see your good
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  • Works and glorify god," that is not true under the dispensation
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  • Of grace while it was true under the law.
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  • And so and under the law, god was glorified by the good works
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  • Of man.
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  • But under grace, all witness must be concerning the light.
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  • Under grace everything is about jesus.
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  • Under grace, everything is about the light.
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  • Under the law, it was the good works of men that glorified god.
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  • Under the grace of god, it was the light, it was the son of god
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  • And it is definitely cautioned to us that man is not the light.
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  • We see that in john chapter 1 and 8, he came to be a witness
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  • To the light, but jesus is the light.
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  • The son of god is the light.
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  • Now, you see why it was necessary for me to talk to you
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  • About that because, you know, your momma'nem gonna go get
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  • The bible and say see the area right there, josephine, right
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  • There in matthew chapter 5, i am the light of the world.
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  • And that's why we--oh my goodness.
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  • You understand why i teach homiletics on sunday morning
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  • Because we have to rightly divide the word of truth.
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  • What was true under this dispensation of the law may not
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  • Be true under the dispensation of grace.
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  • What was true under the old testament, it may not be true
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  • Under the new.
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  • For example, the old testament, the bible talks about in hebrews
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  • 10 and 1, the shadow of those things that are to come,
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  • All right.
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  • Well, most of the old testament is nothing but shadows that
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  • Point to jesus.
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  • Somebody's got to be responsible for casting a shadow.
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  • I'm working on a sermon i call "jesus the shadow caster," amen.
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  • He's the one that cast the shadow.
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  • And the illustration i wanna give you is that in the old
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  • Covenant, you see people talking about the sabbath and the
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  • Sabbath in the old testament represented a day.
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  • But then you come over to the new covenant and it says the
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  • Sabbath is no longer a day, the sabbath is jesus.
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  • Jesus under the new covenant is our sabbath.
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  • So if we're gonna deal with the contradictions, we gotta make
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  • Sure we understand how to rightly divide between what
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  • Happened and what was true before jesus went to the cross
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  • And what is true after he went to the cross.
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  • We've got to understand what was true when you're dealing with
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  • Shadows versus what the shadow's pointing to in the old covenant.
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  • We've got to understand what is true under the dispensation of
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  • The law versus the dispensation of grace.
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  • And when you can rightly divide those, you can easily rectify
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  • Situations right here that we're looking at and you don't
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  • Get confused.
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  • Now, think about when you didn't understand what i just explained
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  • To you and you understand that.
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  • Now, think about what you would have done with somebody saying,
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  • "you are not the light."
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  • And you said, "yes, i am.
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  • Matthew 5 says i'm the light."
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  • And then somebody says, "no, you're not.
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  • John chapter 1 say, he the light."
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  • You still follow what i'm saying?
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  • And then there's a split because of the light.
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  • Now we got jesus is the light christian center and i'm the
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  • Light christian center.
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  • That's how all of that started because we didn't understand how
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  • To rightly divide the word of truth.
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  • You gotta understand that and i'm looking at this--i finally
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  • Found the scripture.
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  • I got a book that i've been working on for three years.
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  • I didn't release it 'cause i couldn't find this
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  • Particular scripture.
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  • And i found the scripture that plainly said that you do
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  • Understand that everything that was written so far is
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  • Not everything.
  • 00:14:01.153 --> 00:14:03.789
  • That it was just information from right there, but it's
  • 00:14:03.789 --> 00:14:06.692
  • Pointing to what is getting ready to happen.
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  • You don't have the whole story now.
  • 00:14:09.795 --> 00:14:12.798
  • So the revelation of jesus christ is a
  • 00:14:12.798 --> 00:14:15.267
  • Progressive revelation.
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  • You first see the shadow of jesus as all the shadows
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  • Eventually point you to the one who's casting the shadow,
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  • All right.
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  • Melchizedek was a shadow.
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  • He was the high priest of the most high god that was a shadow
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  • Or a sign post pointing to jesus our high priest.
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  • Jesus is our melchizedek.
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  • So when we read the old covenant, all we gotta do is
  • 00:14:40.492 --> 00:14:44.229
  • Follow the shadow pointing to jesus and then back up and you
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  • Begin to see what you need to see here.
  • 00:14:47.900 --> 00:14:49.935
  • Now, i did wanna take this a little further since we're
  • 00:14:49.935 --> 00:14:53.505
  • Talking about the light and we know who the light is.
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  • Look at john chapter 8 and verse 12.
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  • John chapter 8 and verse 12.
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  • Now, this is interesting here because now this is gonna be
  • 00:15:04.016 --> 00:15:07.453
  • Dealing with your performance versus, you know, who jesus is,
  • 00:15:07.453 --> 00:15:13.959
  • Who is the light.
  • 00:15:13.959 --> 00:15:15.728
  • All right, now verse 12 says this.
  • 00:15:15.728 --> 00:15:17.629
  • He says, "then spake jesus again unto them," and look what he
  • 00:15:17.629 --> 00:15:22.101
  • Said, "i am the light of the world."
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  • My gosh!
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  • Did you see that? did you see that?
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  • What did jesus say? what did jesus say?
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  • Jesus said, "i'm the light of the world."
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  • No, you're the light.
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  • No, you're the light of the world.
  • 00:15:33.979 --> 00:15:36.115
  • Well, is you or is you not the light of the world?
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  • You follow what i'm saying?
  • 00:15:39.184 --> 00:15:40.552
  • "he spake jesus again said, 'i am the light of the world: he
  • 00:15:40.552 --> 00:15:44.890
  • That followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
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  • Light of," what?
  • 00:15:52.664 --> 00:15:54.133
  • "life," okay.
  • 00:15:54.133 --> 00:15:56.702
  • So today we don't need to be afraid of his light because when
  • 00:15:56.702 --> 00:16:00.305
  • We enter that light in the new birth, the new birth is how we
  • 00:16:00.305 --> 00:16:04.009
  • Enter that light.
  • 00:16:04.009 --> 00:16:05.744
  • We enter christ himself.
  • 00:16:05.744 --> 00:16:07.880
  • So basically, when we enter that light or we enter christ or the
  • 00:16:07.880 --> 00:16:11.850
  • Day we get born again, we enter that light.
  • 00:16:11.850 --> 00:16:15.287
  • Now that light does not expose our sin.
  • 00:16:15.287 --> 00:16:19.758
  • It reveals the perfection of the blood of jesus in taking our
  • 00:16:19.758 --> 00:16:25.597
  • Sins away.
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  • The light doesn't expose the sin.
  • 00:16:27.633 --> 00:16:31.437
  • The light reveals how the blood of jesus has taken your
  • 00:16:31.437 --> 00:16:36.975
  • Sins away.
  • 00:16:36.975 --> 00:16:38.310
  • So you have to be careful 'cause we love to use human
  • 00:16:38.310 --> 00:16:41.713
  • Illustrations to try to figure out god and they're not
  • 00:16:41.713 --> 00:16:45.684
  • Working here.
  • 00:16:45.684 --> 00:16:47.152
  • Well, we gonna shine the light.
  • 00:16:47.152 --> 00:16:48.787
  • You better watch out the light gonna shine on your sin and then
  • 00:16:48.787 --> 00:16:52.524
  • We gonna--no, he don't need to shine no light on your sin.
  • 00:16:52.524 --> 00:16:55.961
  • He already know your sin, right?
  • 00:16:55.961 --> 00:16:58.464
  • But when you enter in--when you get born again, you become a
  • 00:16:58.464 --> 00:17:02.334
  • Christian, you've entered into the light because jesus is the
  • 00:17:02.334 --> 00:17:06.605
  • Light, okay?
  • 00:17:06.605 --> 00:17:07.973
  • And then when you enter into jesus who is the light, you
  • 00:17:07.973 --> 00:17:11.510
  • Don't have to be afraid of the light exposing your sins because
  • 00:17:11.510 --> 00:17:15.314
  • What the light is going to do is reveal, glory to god, the power
  • 00:17:15.314 --> 00:17:20.619
  • Of the blood of jesus and how he has removed your sins.
  • 00:17:20.619 --> 00:17:24.256
  • And what happens is you become enlightened to the grace and
  • 00:17:24.256 --> 00:17:28.227
  • Truth that happened to you when you got born again.
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  • Hallelujah, praise god.
  • 00:17:32.664 --> 00:17:35.200
  • All right now, so in john chapter 8, verse 12, you see
  • 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:41.740
  • This phrase "shall not walk in darkness."
  • 00:17:41.740 --> 00:17:46.111
  • You see that?
  • 00:17:46.111 --> 00:17:47.479
  • "shall not walk in darkness."
  • 00:17:47.479 --> 00:17:50.182
  • I was so blown away.
  • 00:17:50.182 --> 00:17:51.850
  • For the believer who is in christ.
  • 00:17:51.850 --> 00:17:55.754
  • Now, those of you who are born again say, "i'm in christ."
  • 00:17:55.754 --> 00:18:00.058
  • And to be in christ also means you're in what?
  • 00:18:00.058 --> 00:18:03.896
  • You're in the light, right?
  • 00:18:03.896 --> 00:18:05.230
  • Say, "i'm in the light because i'm in christ."
  • 00:18:05.230 --> 00:18:08.700
  • All right now, for the believer who is in christ or in the
  • 00:18:08.700 --> 00:18:12.404
  • Light, i'm gonna say something that's really, really strong
  • 00:18:12.404 --> 00:18:16.175
  • And controversial.
  • 00:18:16.175 --> 00:18:17.543
  • It's cool.
  • 00:18:17.543 --> 00:18:18.877
  • Truth is controversy.
  • 00:18:18.877 --> 00:18:20.245
  • You understand?
  • 00:18:20.245 --> 00:18:21.580
  • Just 'cause something is controversial don't mean that
  • 00:18:21.580 --> 00:18:23.348
  • It's wrong or it's bad, but truth by itself
  • 00:18:23.348 --> 00:18:26.118
  • Is controversial.
  • 00:18:26.118 --> 00:18:27.486
  • And here it is, once you're in christ, once you're in the
  • 00:18:27.486 --> 00:18:30.722
  • Light, it is impossible to walk in darkness ever again.
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  • I mean, y'all easing today, amen.
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  • Praise the lord.
  • 00:18:43.135 --> 00:18:44.503
  • If you say so, reverend praise jesus.
  • 00:18:44.503 --> 00:18:47.306
  • Hop hop, hallelujah.
  • 00:18:47.306 --> 00:18:51.076
  • I tell you, i had the same reaction and i couldn't stop
  • 00:18:51.076 --> 00:18:53.779
  • Right there.
  • 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:55.113
  • I'm like, okay, hold on.
  • 00:18:55.113 --> 00:18:57.282
  • "i am the light of the world," jesus said, "he that followeth
  • 00:18:57.282 --> 00:19:00.419
  • Me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light
  • 00:19:00.419 --> 00:19:03.388
  • Of life."
  • 00:19:03.388 --> 00:19:05.224
  • And so i'm saying to you that you who are in christ, it is not
  • 00:19:05.224 --> 00:19:10.829
  • Possible for you to ever again walk in darkness.
  • 00:19:10.829 --> 00:19:15.534
  • Now, we still sin
  • 00:19:15.534 --> 00:19:18.904
  • But we will never be in darkness again.
  • 00:19:18.904 --> 00:19:25.877
  • Think on that a little bit now.
  • 00:19:25.877 --> 00:19:29.514
  • Now again, let let me turn it back on you.
  • 00:19:29.514 --> 00:19:32.985
  • I dare you to act like you shot when i say we still sin.
  • 00:19:32.985 --> 00:19:41.793
  • You are getting better and you are growing and your state is
  • 00:19:41.793 --> 00:19:47.199
  • Catching up with your stance every day of your life because
  • 00:19:47.199 --> 00:19:49.935
  • Of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:49.935 --> 00:19:51.470
  • He's taken desires away from you that you used to have.
  • 00:19:51.470 --> 00:19:54.740
  • You are on a journey and you are being successful because of the
  • 00:19:54.740 --> 00:19:58.610
  • Holy spirit.
  • 00:19:58.610 --> 00:20:00.145
  • But you're never gonna walk in darkness again.
  • 00:20:00.145 --> 00:20:04.049
  • You're in the light.
  • 00:20:04.049 --> 00:20:05.384
  • How can you ever walk in the darkness when you're in
  • 00:20:05.384 --> 00:20:07.252
  • The light?
  • 00:20:07.252 --> 00:20:09.288
  • You're never gonna walk in darkness again.
  • 00:20:09.288 --> 00:20:11.923
  • That old man, you'll never walk with that again.
  • 00:20:11.923 --> 00:20:14.126
  • That's gone, that's gone.
  • 00:20:14.126 --> 00:20:16.995
  • You're not perfect.
  • 00:20:16.995 --> 00:20:18.563
  • And that's the thing i say to people who want to be judgmental
  • 00:20:18.563 --> 00:20:22.301
  • Of other people saying i wanna like okay, how was your
  • 00:20:22.301 --> 00:20:25.370
  • Last week?
  • 00:20:25.370 --> 00:20:27.339
  • Well, i ain't did the big ten.
  • 00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:28.840
  • Yeah, but you did the teeny weeny 20.
  • 00:20:28.840 --> 00:20:33.045
  • Bad attitude, a white lie.
  • 00:20:33.045 --> 00:20:36.648
  • Come on, sin is sin.
  • 00:20:36.648 --> 00:20:37.983
  • Stop it.
  • 00:20:37.983 --> 00:20:39.351
  • You're getting better because of jesus.
  • 00:20:39.351 --> 00:20:40.686
  • You're living life better because of jesus, amen.
  • 00:20:40.686 --> 00:20:43.622
  • But you will never be in darkness again.
  • 00:20:43.622 --> 00:20:46.058
  • Now, i realize i've got to explain that and i'm prepared to
  • 00:20:46.058 --> 00:20:48.727
  • Do that tonight.
  • 00:20:48.727 --> 00:20:50.095
  • Go back to 1 john 1 and 7. 1 john 1 and 7.
  • 00:20:50.095 --> 00:20:58.303
  • Yeah, we're still not perfect but we will never
  • 00:20:58.303 --> 00:21:01.006
  • Be in darkness again.
  • 00:21:01.006 --> 00:21:03.108
  • Y'all like to hear it like that, right?
  • 00:21:03.108 --> 00:21:05.043
  • Because somehow the church has convinced you, you know, when i
  • 00:21:05.043 --> 00:21:08.113
  • Say you still sin.
  • 00:21:08.113 --> 00:21:10.182
  • We're not supposed to sin.
  • 00:21:10.182 --> 00:21:11.650
  • You know, every imperfection in your life is the imperfection of
  • 00:21:11.650 --> 00:21:16.421
  • Sin that by the holy ghost and by you being in christ, he is
  • 00:21:16.421 --> 00:21:20.992
  • Walking you out of.
  • 00:21:20.992 --> 00:21:22.461
  • You no longer have a nature that wants to sin.
  • 00:21:22.461 --> 00:21:25.263
  • You have a nature that wants to do right.
  • 00:21:25.263 --> 00:21:27.666
  • You have a nature that wants to live holy.
  • 00:21:27.666 --> 00:21:30.035
  • You have a nature of god glory to god, a new creation on it.
  • 00:21:30.035 --> 00:21:34.139
  • Whereas before your nature was to sin, you don't have that
  • 00:21:34.139 --> 00:21:38.210
  • Nature anymore.
  • 00:21:38.210 --> 00:21:39.578
  • You're not serving that sinful man anymore.
  • 00:21:39.578 --> 00:21:41.713
  • You'll never have to serve that sinful man anymore.
  • 00:21:41.713 --> 00:21:44.549
  • Your nature is a nature of christ.
  • 00:21:44.549 --> 00:21:46.818
  • Praise god.
  • 00:21:46.818 --> 00:21:48.186
  • Now, 1 john 1 and 7, he says, "but if we walk in the light, as
  • 00:21:48.186 --> 00:21:53.024
  • He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and
  • 00:21:53.024 --> 00:21:58.997
  • The blood of jesus christ his son cleanses us from all sin."
  • 00:21:58.997 --> 00:22:06.571
  • But you gotta know how to put this stuff together 'cause now
  • 00:22:06.571 --> 00:22:09.207
  • You get confused just reading what he talking about.
  • 00:22:09.207 --> 00:22:11.209
  • Look what he said.
  • 00:22:11.209 --> 00:22:12.577
  • If we walk in the light, if we walk in the light.
  • 00:22:12.577 --> 00:22:15.514
  • Now, first of all, when i got born again, i'm in the
  • 00:22:15.514 --> 00:22:17.783
  • Light, right?
  • 00:22:17.783 --> 00:22:19.117
  • So "if you walk in the light, as he's in the light, we have
  • 00:22:19.117 --> 00:22:21.820
  • Fellowship one with another and the blood of jesus christ his
  • 00:22:21.820 --> 00:22:25.857
  • Son cleanses us from all sin."
  • 00:22:25.857 --> 00:22:29.327
  • Excuse me.
  • 00:22:29.327 --> 00:22:30.695
  • Now, if we have a performance work mindset
  • 00:22:30.695 --> 00:22:39.471
  • And we see a phrase like this, we'll automatically assume it's
  • 00:22:39.471 --> 00:22:45.777
  • Talking about behavior.
  • 00:22:45.777 --> 00:22:48.547
  • Again, it's rightly dividing the truth, you automatically assume
  • 00:22:48.547 --> 00:22:52.050
  • 'cause under the law, it was all about performance.
  • 00:22:52.050 --> 00:22:54.986
  • It was a self-performance.
  • 00:22:54.986 --> 00:22:56.755
  • The law was a performance based agreement, all right.
  • 00:22:56.755 --> 00:23:02.227
  • So if you read this right here and you automatically think,
  • 00:23:02.227 --> 00:23:06.097
  • Well, this is performance or work.
  • 00:23:06.097 --> 00:23:08.633
  • If you walk in the light as he's in the light, then you have
  • 00:23:08.633 --> 00:23:11.770
  • Fellowship with him.
  • 00:23:11.770 --> 00:23:13.138
  • So you're thinking walking in the light is gonna be based on
  • 00:23:13.138 --> 00:23:14.773
  • Your performance, okay, and on your works.
  • 00:23:14.773 --> 00:23:18.343
  • If you have a works mindset, you see this phrase as, you know,
  • 00:23:18.343 --> 00:23:23.381
  • And automatically assume this is about your behavior, your
  • 00:23:23.381 --> 00:23:26.151
  • Behavior, behavior, but this phrase is not referring to how
  • 00:23:26.151 --> 00:23:29.788
  • We walk.
  • 00:23:29.788 --> 00:23:31.189
  • He says, if you walk in the light, he's not referring how
  • 00:23:31.189 --> 00:23:34.559
  • We walk.
  • 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:35.927
  • He's not talking about how we walk, is referring to where
  • 00:23:35.927 --> 00:23:39.364
  • We walk.
  • 00:23:39.364 --> 00:23:41.166
  • Let me say that again.
  • 00:23:41.166 --> 00:23:42.534
  • It's not talking about how we walk.
  • 00:23:42.534 --> 00:23:44.002
  • If you walk in the light as he is in the light, we have a--he's
  • 00:23:44.002 --> 00:23:46.605
  • Not talking about how we walk.
  • 00:23:46.605 --> 00:23:49.007
  • He's talking about where we walk.
  • 00:23:49.007 --> 00:23:50.675
  • If you walk where?
  • 00:23:50.675 --> 00:23:54.279
  • As he is where?
  • 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:56.481
  • He's talking about where you walk, hallelujah.
  • 00:23:56.481 --> 00:23:59.217
  • Not how you walk.
  • 00:23:59.217 --> 00:24:00.952
  • To say, now look at this and see how i touch.
  • 00:24:00.952 --> 00:24:03.855
  • I'll show you why this doesn't work.
  • 00:24:03.855 --> 00:24:06.057
  • To say that it's talking about our behavior would not
  • 00:24:06.057 --> 00:24:09.294
  • Make sense.
  • 00:24:09.294 --> 00:24:11.563
  • Why?
  • 00:24:11.563 --> 00:24:13.231
  • It would mean if we behave ourselves like jesus behaves
  • 00:24:13.231 --> 00:24:16.635
  • Himself, the blood of jesus cleanses us from all of
  • 00:24:16.635 --> 00:24:20.739
  • Our sins.
  • 00:24:20.739 --> 00:24:23.041
  • Now, why would we need the blood of jesus to cleanse us if we
  • 00:24:23.041 --> 00:24:26.545
  • Behaving like jesus and jesus is perfect?
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  • Bolder.
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  • Stop praying for it to be easier.
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  • Pray to be stronger.
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  • Female announcer: and get ready.
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  • Gospel recording artist ricky dillard and new g are taking the
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  • Stage, so reserve your spot
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  • Today and let the journey begin.
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  • Creflo: know that your contributions do not
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  • Go unnoticed.
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  • Understand also that when you sow financial seeds into creflo
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  • Dollar ministries, you actually assist us in ministering to the
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  • Physical and spiritual needs of millions around the world.
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  • You help us build schools, drip irrigation systems and homes
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  • For pastors.
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  • You also help us provide supplies for children and
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  • The elderly.
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  • We thank you and we continue to pray for you daily.
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  • Announcer: log on to our website
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  • At missions. creflodollarministries.org
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  • To see all the work we do at creflo dollar global missions.
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  • Thank you for your support.
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  • Announcer: the preceding program was brought to you, in part, by
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  • The partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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