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Creflo Dollar - The War Against Habits and Addictions

July 3, 2025 | S25 E161 | 28:52

Creflo Dollar - The War Against Habits and Addictions
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The War Against Habits and Addictions | July 3, 2025
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  • Coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: he sacrificed his life so you can be free, and
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  • You're still holding on to the religious idea of sin
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  • Consciousness, and you just ain't nothing but sinners
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  • Saved by grace.
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  • Well, which one are you?
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  • Sinner or saved by grace?
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  • ♪ this is your world, so let's vow to make it a better place ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, your love is here ♪
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  • ♪ 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, so we embrace your
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  • ♪ love today ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed ♪♪
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  • Creflo: everybody that's seated right here right now, the grace
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  • Of god is already at work.
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  • He's already at work.
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  • He's already at work changing you.
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  • Philippians says that he's working--he's working--he is
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  • Working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what
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  • Pleases him.
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  • You think you have to earn that, but you gotta rest in this, that
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  • The grace of god is already at work.
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  • He's already at work.
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  • You might not see nothing right now, you--it might not seem like
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  • Nothing's changed with you right now, but he's already at work.
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  • Now, i gotta rest that the grace of god is already at work.
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  • And so, i--what happens?
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  • When i don't see something right away, i have a tendency to work
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  • Harder instead of trusting deeper.
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  • And i gotta get up in the morning and i gotta
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  • Trust deeper.
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  • The grace of god is already at work.
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  • Just cuss somebody out and you gotta say, "the grace of god's
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  • Already at work on me."
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  • You gotta see the plan of the devil.
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  • If he can get you to get in those crazy behaviors, he can
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  • Convince you, "ain't none of that true."
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  • And the greatest fear amongst christian people is that what
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  • God promised is not true.
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  • So, i'm finding rest in that the grace of god is already at work
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  • In me.
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  • "well, why you just do that?"
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  • Yeah, but i'm the righteousness of god,
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  • And i trust he loves me.
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  • And i enter into the rest that his grace is already working
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  • In me.
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  • Well, what are we doing here?
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  • We're developing our innocence consciousness.
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  • We're well developed in sin consciousness.
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  • And we are more conscious of sin than we are of the innocence,
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  • The freedom of--or from sin and the freedom from backsliding
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  • Back into righteousness.
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  • I used to struggle with that.
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  • "well, can a christian backslide?"
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  • Well, first of all, what kind of christian are you?
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  • Are you really a christian?
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  • "can a christian backslide?"
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  • And when i never--when i answered it, boy, the body of
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  • Christ went crazy.
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  • I said, "no, what god did is from everlasting to everlasting.
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  • And it was from scripture to scripture."
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  • Once i'm in christ, he promised me that ain't nothing that's
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  • Gonna change.
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  • I'm in christ.
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  • Now, religious people, it bothers you because
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  • You're religious.
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  • You ain't done no more studying than what you've already heard.
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  • There are numbers of scriptures that tell you that once he
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  • Receives you, he never gonna let you go.
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  • And you're still going around thinking a sip of liquor was
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  • Enough to snatch you out of the hands of god.
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  • He's married to you.
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  • He will not--
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  • Can you backslide?
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  • Yes, but he said, "i married the backslider, and the murderer,
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  • And the adulterer.
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  • I married all that stuff.
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  • I took you with all your mess."
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  • And you still won't hear the teaching of the gospel because
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  • You're listening to performers and not people who have a
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  • Craving to get in that word, and study it, and see what it says.
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  • I mean, read hebrews 10.
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  • Read the whole thing.
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  • Titus chapter 2, verse 11 through 14 in the
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  • Mirror translation.
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  • Okay, titus 2:11 through 14 in the mirror translation.
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  • All right, y'all ready for this?
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  • Okay, "the grace of god shines as bright as day making
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  • Salvation of mankind undeniably visible.
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  • The day and age we live in sets the stage for displaying the
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  • Attraction of an awe-inspired life."
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  • Watch this, "our minds are rescued."
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  • You remember when the word said that god as our shepherd, he is
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  • Patiently shepherding us into a radical mind shift?
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  • 'cause if you don't change your mind, you ain't gonna change
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  • Your life.
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  • And you can't tell me that religious teaching has changed
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  • Your life.
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  • Yeah, there's certain things you stop doing but in some--in
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  • Certain areas you're more miserable than ever.
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  • Why you come to church and greeting everybody?
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  • "praise the lord, brother.
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  • Hey, sister, god bless you, praise the lord."
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  • While you use your christianity as a costume to cover up
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  • Your reality.
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  • Ain't no difference between you and halloween.
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  • You got your halloween costume too.
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  • You dress up every sunday with something you want people to
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  • See, to cover up what you don't want them to see while you go to
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  • Church and lift your hands up like everything is cool under
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  • The law.
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  • Now, you know i gotta be delivered from approval
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  • Addiction to preach like this.
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  • Yeah, people going crazy, especially preachers.
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  • [growling]
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  • All right, watch this, "our minds are rescued," watch this,
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  • Watch this, man.
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  • "it's rescued in the revelation of righteousness."
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  • Stop right there.
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  • If you don't mind, please let me explain that.
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  • My mind is rescued.
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  • If somebody is in need of rescue, that means they're in
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  • Danger, right?
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  • And my mind under traditional religious belief is
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  • Endangering something.
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  • And he said, "the revelation of this righteousness--" what is
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  • This revelation of righteousness?
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  • The revelation of righteousness is, i am righteous not because
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  • Of what i do, i am righteous because of what jesus has done.
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  • Am i righteous because of what i do?
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  • No, i'm righteous because of jesus.
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  • I have his righteousness.
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  • Even when i don't do right, i'm righteous because of him.
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  • And i can't lose my righteousness, why?
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  • Because my righteousness is not based on me, my righteousness is
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  • Based on jesus.
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  • And as long as jesus is right, i'm right.
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  • Jesus is my righteousness.
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  • Take jesus away, i can't be righteousness.
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  • That's why he said before jesus, all of our righteousness in the
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  • Old testament is nothing but filthy rags.
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  • 'cause nothing you do can make you righteous.
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  • I tried it.
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  • I tried it, living under the law.
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  • I tried it.
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  • I tried to join as many departments as i could.
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  • I tried to cut the grass of the church, i cleaned up, i
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  • Did everything.
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  • I did--i did.
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  • I did it all and it ended up being me depressed.
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  • Calling my pastor, saying, "i ain't coming to church
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  • This afternoon."
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  • He said, "why?"
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  • I said, "i am tired."
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  • But what i meant was, "i am depressed."
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  • Ain't nothing working.
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  • I'm broke as the ten commandments that moses dropped
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  • At the bottom of mount sinai.
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  • I'm believing god for some shoes so my feet could stop getting
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  • Wet and i can stop putting plastic when it's raining.
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  • It ain't working.
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  • I'm supposed to be saved.
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  • I'm supposed to be a preacher.
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  • I'm trying to figure out why do i still have this lust.
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  • Why won't it go away?
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  • I'm doing it all.
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  • I have pages of confession.
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  • I pray in tongues an hour and a half a day.
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  • I got baptized twice.
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  • I had everybody i thought was anointed lay hands on me.
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  • It doesn't work.
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  • And when people started dying, that i loved, i did everything
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  • The law said.
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  • I got the little thing you put over your shoulder, and got the
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  • Oil, and i laid hands carefully, and i fasted before
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  • I laid hands.
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  • And i did it all, and they still died.
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  • And one night about midnight, i said, "i can't do this no more.
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  • I'm gonna have to resign from the church.
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  • I can't do this no more.
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  • I am a pastor most miserable because i know i'm preaching
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  • Something that i know don't work."
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  • And i said, "i ain't going to bed until you show me.
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  • Something missing, something ain't right."
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  • And as i stepped from my office, he said, "would you become a
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  • Student of grace?"
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  • I heard that as clear as you hear me right now.
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  • And that's all he said.
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  • I said, "wha--?"
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  • Because here's what i thought.
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  • I thought i was already a student of grace.
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  • It was too clear for me to let it go.
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  • Came in the office the next day and i said, "y'all, look up
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  • Every scripture with grace in it.
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  • I'm missing something."
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  • I went to the bookstore, "let me get everything everybody else
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  • Said about grace, i'm missing something.
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  • I'm blind to something."
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  • Then i got to start reading it and translating it properly.
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  • And i'm thinking, "how in the world did i miss this?
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  • How did i miss this?"
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  • And--mm. excuse me.
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  • I missed this.
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  • And i said, "lord,
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  • Something--something left me."
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  • Somebody said, "what was it?"
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  • The spirit of religion.
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  • The demon of religion.
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  • I went outside and lift my hands up.
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  • And i said, "i ain't never been perfect and i probably ain't
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  • Gonna be in this lifetime.
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  • However, if you'll give me the strength and teach me, i'll
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  • Preach this grace message until i leave this planet.
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  • And i will not stop.
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  • If you'll show me what to do, i'll preach it."
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  • And god must have knew.
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  • Well, we got some work to do because you are addicted to
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  • Approval of people.
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  • You indulge in to what they think about you and what they
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  • Say about you.
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  • And until we can get rid of that, you gotta go
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  • Into training.
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  • Because the bible says if you do this for people's approval,
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  • You can't be a servant to god.
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  • Some--you ever had somebody ask you a question, "why is death so
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  • Fearful to people?
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  • Why so many people afraid to die?"
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  • You know why?
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  • Because of sin and their belief that they hadn't been granted
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  • Dismissal from it.
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  • You don't think you've been free.
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  • You don't think you've been forgiven.
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  • You think that everything is gonna--god's gonna hold you
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  • Accountable to it because you still have a sin conscience.
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  • And so, the closer you get to death, the more fearful death is
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  • Because of sin, because of your sin consciousness.
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  • The revelation of the righteousness of god clearly
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  • Shows us how completely god has redeemed or delivered us.
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  • When you get a revelation of the righteousness of god, it clearly
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  • Shows you you have been redeemed.
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  • When you get a revelation of the righteousness of god, it clearly
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  • Shows you you have been delivered from sin.
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  • Hey, i'll go ahead and answer that.
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  • "well, if i've been delivered from sin,
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  • How comes i'm still sinning?"
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  • No, the thing that separated you from god was that
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  • Sin nature.
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  • And when you got born again, you got delivered from the
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  • Sin nature.
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  • You're still sinning because your mind is still being renewed
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  • And god is still working on you, but he delivered you from the
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  • Sin nature.
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  • You are no longer separated from god.
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  • That's why the new creation could come on the inside of you
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  • And begin to do the work of continuously transforming you.
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  • The revelation of this righteousness completely shows
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  • Me how complete my redemption is.
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  • I am redeemed because i have the--the--the--
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  • Oh, what's the word?
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  • Enough guts to walk away from a crazy behavior day and say, "i'm
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  • Still the righteousness of god."
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  • The revelation of righteousness continues to say to me, "look
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  • How complete your redemption is."
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  • I am delivered, i am delivered not based on what i did to get
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  • Delivered, i am delivered because he delivered me, and no
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  • Matter what i do, i ain't gonna back up into that thing.
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  • I am really delivered.
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  • I am the righteousness of god.
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  • I am the righteousness of god and the revelation that shows me
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  • How redeemed i am.
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  • Somebody shout, "i am redeemed."
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  • All right, watch this now.
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  • Now--now--
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  • But a revelation of that righteousness also empowered us
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  • To cultivate and develop an innocence consciousness rather
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  • Than a sin consciousness.
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  • Let me say it again, so the revelation of that
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  • Righteousness, and you understanding that you are the
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  • Righteousness of god because jesus is your righteousness, you
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  • Get to hanging around that revelation of righteousness, and
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  • You start developing innocence.
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  • I am innocent from all of the charges that the old testament
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  • Put on me.
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  • Every charge of sin, every guilt, every shame, all the
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  • Condemnation, it has been announced that i am innocent
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  • From it.
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  • And so, rather than walking around with this sin
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  • Consciousness, i walk around thinking, "i'm innocent,"
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  • You know what'll deliver you from your crazy behavior?
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  • "i'm innocent.
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  • Wait a minute, i'm innocent.
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  • Yeah, that was dumb, what i did, but i'm innocent, i've
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  • Been washed."
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  • One translation says, "i'm being continuously cleansed."
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  • I cultivate it and become more conscious of my innocence
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  • While i become less conscious of my sin, why?
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  • Because jesus is taking care of me.
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  • Here's what he says, "if you would develop innocence
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  • Consciousness, i can develop you.
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  • But what's slowing up the development of you is your
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  • Consciousness of your sin that i have--keep telling you i have
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  • Dealt with.
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  • I keep telling you i'm not coming back for your sins."
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  • Hebrews 9:28--but yeah, pull that up in the nlt.
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  • Hebrews 9:28, and then go back to where we just left off of and
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  • Then i'm gonna close it.
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  • I got 45 seconds to do all of it, let's go.
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  • Hebrews 9:28 says, "so also christ was offered once for all
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  • Time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people.
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  • He will come again, but not to deal with our sins, but to bring
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  • Salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him."
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  • Now, that's interesting because we're already saved.
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  • But sin consciousness say, "oh, jesus is coming back.
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  • All of my sin, all of my sin, oh."
  • 00:20:56.657 --> 00:21:01.595
  • It ought to be, "jesus coming back, i'm innocent.
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  • I'm ready, bring it on.
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  • Come quickly, lord jesus."
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  • But you ain't doing that because it's all sin.
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  • "oh, sin, sin."
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  • Nobody ain't going around here telling you, "you are absolutely
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  • Flawlessly perfect."
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  • You know that, ain't nobody got to tell you that.
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  • But what you need to hear is that i'm innocent.
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  • Say it, try it, say it, "i'm innocent."
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  • Say it again, "i'm innocent."
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  • So, when the shame comes, say it.
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  • When the guilt comes, say it.
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  • When the condemnation comes, say it.
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  • That's what's got to be developed.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Now, go back to mirror.
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  • He said, "our minds," verse 12, "are rescued in the revelation
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  • Of righteousness," you see that now?
  • 00:22:05.626 --> 00:22:09.296
  • "we are in the school of grace, instructed how to thoroughly
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  • Reverse the apathy and indifference that erupts in a
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  • Wave of lust that would seek to dictate the day."
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  • You ever had stuff to rise up on the inside of you that cease to
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  • Dictate your day?
  • 00:22:32.186 --> 00:22:36.957
  • "everyone must welcome with open arms the outrageously blessed
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  • Expectation; jesus is what the world was waiting for.
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  • He radiates the brilliant intent of god engineered by his
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  • Greatness to rescue the world,"
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  • There it is again, kid, "in him.
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  • He gave himself a sacrifice in exchange for our freedom."
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  • Somebody say, "i'm free."
  • 00:23:11.125 --> 00:23:13.093
  • Free from what?
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  • Free from sin, free from shame, free from guilt, free from--he
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  • Says he gave himself as a sacrifice.
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  • He sacrificed his life so you can be free and you're still
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  • Holding on to the religious idea of sin consciousness, and you
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  • Just ain't nothing but sinners saved by grace.
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  • Well, which one are you?
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  • I believe that jesus was the payment for my sins.
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  • That he was the sin offering.
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  • And i receive him as my peace offering.
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  • Jesus, come into my heart, save me, and today by faith, i
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  • Receive you and declare that i am saved in jesus's name, amen."
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