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Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul

January 8, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul | January 8, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: there are things that we engage in that harm or
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  • Wage a war in our souls.
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  • Stuff that was never a battle is now a battle because you engaged
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  • In something.
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of 1
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  • Peter chapter 2, verse 11, 1 peter 2:11.
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  • We're gonna start in the nlt, and then that same scripture in
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  • The mirror.
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  • We're talking about the war against the soul, the war
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  • Against the soul.
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  • These teachings, i believe, are designed to prepare you for what
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  • Is coming up.
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  • This is not a teaching to bring about condemnation, or to make
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  • You feel condemned or feel shameful, or any of
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  • Those things.
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  • It's a message and a teaching to prepare you for what has already
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  • Happened, but what's gonna increase a little bit.
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  • There is a battle against the soul.
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  • There is a war against the soul.
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  • What is that?
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  • What does that mean?
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  • How does that work?
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  • What does that look like?
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  • Well, 1 peter chapter 2 and 11.
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  • He says, "dear friends, i warn you as 'temporary residents
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  • And foreigners."'
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  • He says, "i am talking to you as you really are.
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  • You are a temporary resident and you are a foreigner here," okay?
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  • "you are a sojourner here."
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  • Another translation says, "you're aliens here," okay?
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  • In other words, "this earth is not your home, you're just
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  • Passing through."
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  • He says, "dear friends, i warn you as a 'temporary residents
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  • And foreigners' to keep away from worldly desires that will
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  • Wage war against your very souls."
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  • So, there's the warning there, "keep away from worldly
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  • Desires," why?
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  • Because they're gonna start a war against your very soul.
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  • Now, we said last week, we talked about the anatomy of a
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  • Human being.
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  • You are a spirit, you possess a soul, and you live in a
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  • Physical body.
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  • Now, i know over the years, we have used spirit and soul
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  • Interchangeably as if they're the same.
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  • "oh, their soul has gone home to be with the lord."
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  • Well, that's partly true, but one of the things you got to
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  • Understand is that you are a spirit.
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  • You have a soul.
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  • Your spirit and soul is not the same.
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  • You are a spirit being.
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  • You possess a soul.
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  • You live in a physical body, an earth suit, so you can have
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  • Comprehension of the physical matter that's here on
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  • This earth.
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  • You have a spirit.
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  • You are a spirit.
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  • You have a soul.
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  • Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions.
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  • Your soul is comprised with your thinker, your feeler,
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  • Your chooser.
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  • That's your soul.
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  • So when you go to heaven, when your spirit leaves your body,
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  • Your soul, your mind, your will, and emotions, they go with you.
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  • Why?
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  • So you'll know one another when you get to heaven.
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  • Okay, so you're gonna, we're gonna know one another when we
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  • Get to heaven because your soul's gonna go with you, okay?
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  • So, you are a spirit being.
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  • You possess a soul.
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  • You live in a physical body.
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  • Death is literally a separation of your spirit and soul from
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  • Your physical body.
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  • If i had a hanger to hang my coat up, then the coat would
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  • Just lay on that hanger.
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  • But right now, i'm wearing a coat.
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  • I'm in this coat, so now i'm giving it life and i'm giving
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  • It movement.
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  • So, likewise, you're in a physical body.
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  • You're giving your body life.
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  • You're giving it movement, but there come a time where you will
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  • Separate from your physical body, and your body doesn't move
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  • Anymore because you're not in it.
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  • You know, the bible uses phrases like "home in your body," okay?
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  • But your spirit, your spirit is eternal.
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  • You cannot kill a spirit.
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  • Somebody says, "how would you say that?"
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  • Because your spirit came from god, remember?
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  • You cannot kill a spirit.
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  • So, that spirit's gonna have to exist in another realm.
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  • You cannot kill a spirit, but that spirit will separate from
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  • The physical body, and you're no longer in need of that physical
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  • Body because you're no longer in the earth realm, where there's a
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  • Need of a physical body.
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  • But now, you can exist in your spiritual body because you're
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  • Gonna be in a spiritual world, where there is spiritual matter.
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  • And it's gonna be so similar to this physical world, where there
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  • Was physical matter, and you can feel it, and touch it, and so
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  • Forth and so on.
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  • This tremendous warning about keep away from worldly desires
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  • Because they're gonna start a war with your soul.
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  • Now, the day you got born again, your spirit man was a part of
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  • You that got born again.
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  • The only part of you that got born again and the only part of
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  • You that is perfect is your spirit man.
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  • You are one-third perfect, but your soul is kinda like the
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  • Software that assisted your old man, your old spirit.
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  • Your soul, now you have a new creation, is that part of your
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  • Mind, that part of your emotions, and all of that is in
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  • The software compartment.
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  • And so, that's why the bible says "renew your mind," because
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  • The greatest thing you can do as a christian is renew your mind.
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  • 'cause the day you got born again, you didn't get rid of all
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  • Of the stuff that was in the software.
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  • That's gotta be renewed, and that's gotta be dealt with.
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  • Because if you don't deal with that part, there'll be a battle
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  • Now going on between your soul and your spirit because your
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  • Soul did not keep away from worldly desires and has some
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  • Programs about worldly desires.
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  • And then your physical body is just waiting on instructions,
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  • Impulses, waiting on a thought to tell it what to do.
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  • And so, you have to understand this to understand your design.
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  • And this is what we're gonna look at today.
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  • Who you are, the greatest way you can overcome temptation is
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  • Not to forget about who you are, so satan is attacking your
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  • Identity all of the time, all right?
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  • Now, let's look at this in the in the mirror translation, 1
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  • Peter chapter 2, 11, and i'm gonna get going.
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  • I don't want to get stuck there, but he says, "it does not matter
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  • How appealing the system of the flesh-glory seems."
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  • The flesh-glory, the things that you can get in the world that
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  • Are apart from god.
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  • "no matter how appealing the system of the flesh-glory seems,
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  • It can never define or fulfill you."
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  • So, remember that.
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  • "worldly desires will never define or fulfill you; do not
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  • Allow yourself to be lured into its strategies and be swayed
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  • By it.
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  • Don't allow yourself to be lured by strategies or be swayed
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  • By it.
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  • You are dearly loved."
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  • Wow, he wanted us to know that.
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  • "you are dearly loved.
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  • I urge you from within this place of our joint oneness,"
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  • This place of our joint oneness where your spirit is, where that
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  • New man is, "to remain like a pilgrim and strangers to the
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  • Subtleties of the world-system," the world's way of doing things,
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  • The world's way of thinking, "and to be a stranger, remain a
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  • Stranger to the subtleties of the world-system that is
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  • Foreign, it is foreign to your design."
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  • It is--the world's way of doing things, it's foreign to
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  • Your design.
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  • My god.
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  • So, the design you have now as a follower of christ, the world's
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  • Way of doing things is foreign to the design you now carry.
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  • He said, "avoid any influence that does not resonate with your
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  • Innocence, influences that does not resonate with
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  • Your innocence."
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  • See, something big happened when you got born again.
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  • All of the stuff you used to do, the things you used to think,
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  • All of the fears, all of the threats of hell, all of that
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  • Stuff was changed, and you were made innocent.
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  • And he said, "so now there are gonna be some influences that's
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  • Trying to come against your innocence."
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  • For example, you're the righteousness of god, and then
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  • As soon as you don't act right, there's gonna be an influence to
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  • Say, "you ain't righteous, you have to respect the design you
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  • Have now."
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  • Does everybody follow what i'm saying?
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  • All right, let's move on into this now.
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  • So, we're gonna be looking at indulgence because the war
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  • Against the soul is gonna get us to the place where we indulge.
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  • Now, we all have, in our lifetime, and have
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  • Been self-indulgers.
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  • To indulge means to allow yourself to enjoy the pleasures
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  • Of sin, to allow yourself to enjoy the pleasures of the
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  • World, to indulge, allowing yourself to enjoy the pleasures
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  • Of it.
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  • Biblical self-indulgence is feeding the sinful passions of
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  • The flesh.
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  • And remember, the flesh is just simply living life apart from
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  • God, okay?
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  • So when you live life apart from god, then, you know, we pretty
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  • Much can assume that you're living life apart from god, and
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  • You're feeding the sinful passions of that life that's
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  • Lived apart from god.
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  • Feeding the passions of a life apart from god or feeding the
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  • Passions of a life that you have no regard for the things of god.
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  • None at all.
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  • That's what it was like before you got born again.
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  • You didn't regard god in anything.
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  • If it was--if it felt good, if there was an
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  • Appetite for it, you went for
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  • It, and then somehow gave yourself a story that you can
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  • Believe, and you kept believing the story you were
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  • Telling yourself.
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  • But now, i want to uncover what's really going on, guys.
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  • That we're not just saying, "avoid worldly lust because, you
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  • Know, you're christians, and you need to know better than that."
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  • There's some real consequences that come out of this, and i
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  • Want you to know about it because the holy spirit is
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  • Accelerating his progress with you and the work that he's doing
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  • In you.
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  • That's accelerating.
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  • You're gonna look at certain weeks that go by and stuff you
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  • Don't even want no more, you're trying to figure out what
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  • Happened to it.
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  • You gonna look at your attitude and the attitude is better than
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  • It was.
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  • Your mouth is cleaner than it's been in a long time.
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  • Still got a--two or three more pieces of cussing word in there,
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  • But it's a lot better than what it used to be.
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  • You don't use the compound cussing words no more, praise
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  • The lord.
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  • He's accelerating, he's accelerating construction of
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  • You, glory to god, hallelujah.
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  • He's accelerating that.
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  • I want you to begin to notice that there's an acceleration
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  • Going on on the inside of--somebody say, "speed it up,
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  • Speed it up, speed it up," amen.
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  • I'm telling you, you're absolutely--what is god
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  • Working on?
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  • The bible says that he is working in you to give you
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  • Desire and power to do what pleases him.
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  • You're gonna have the desire and the power to do what
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  • Pleases him.
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  • And it's not gonna be of yourself, it's the spirit of god
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  • Working in you, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • It's not just you think, you've thought all your life, "well,
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  • It's me.
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  • I gotta do this.
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  • I got to do that."
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  • And then when you fail, you feel even worse because the weight of
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  • The failure is compounded with what you've been trying not
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  • To do.
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  • And you don't understand, god is like, "no, i don't need, nor am
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  • I depending on you for these things to happen.
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  • I am working in you.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • I'm working in you.
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  • I am the construction hands that are taking away your old want to
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  • And giving you some new want to."
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  • Boy, that get--i'm excited about that, amen.
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  • All right, now let's go over a few scriptures from last week
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  • And we'll pick up.
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  • So, let's look at 1 corinthians chapter 6, verse 12 through 18
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  • In the mirror, and it's indulging ourselves--when we
  • 00:13:48.696 --> 00:13:54.035
  • Talk about self-indulgence, it's indulging ourselves in any
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  • Pleasure that is harmful to our souls.
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  • Indulging yourself in any pleasure that is harmful to your
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  • Soul, your mind, your will, your emotions.
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  • There are things that we engage in that harm or wage a war in
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  • Our souls.
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  • Stuff that was never a battle is now a battle because you engaged
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  • In something.
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  • It was never a struggle before, but now it's a struggle because
  • 00:14:23.965 --> 00:14:27.568
  • You engaged it, and you started a war in your soul.
  • 00:14:27.568 --> 00:14:31.973
  • And that war became an addictive behavior, an addiction.
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  • I wonder what was the gateway desire that opened you up to
  • 00:14:38.012 --> 00:14:43.484
  • Some of the stuff you have to deal with right now.
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  • I want you to know that all of that is satan's strategy to get
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  • You to finally deny the design of what god gave you.
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  • He wants you to deny who jesus says you are.
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  • And the awesome thing about this is, if you're strong enough to
  • 00:15:02.804 --> 00:15:05.373
  • Stand up in the midst of all of this stuff that's going on in
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  • Your soul, and still say, "i'm the righteousness of god," woo.
  • 00:15:08.609 --> 00:15:15.416
  • See, you keep looking at your behavior, he says, "now hold on
  • 00:15:15.416 --> 00:15:18.486
  • To your identity.
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  • No matter how you behave, i'm working on your behavior.
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  • Don't let go of your identity.
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  • I need you to keep the identity that i said.
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  • I said this about you, i need you to keep it no matter
  • 00:15:29.163 --> 00:15:31.766
  • What happens."
  • 00:15:31.766 --> 00:15:35.503
  • So, there are many wars that we've created.
  • 00:15:35.503 --> 00:15:42.043
  • I really wanna talk to you today.
  • 00:15:42.043 --> 00:15:43.845
  • I really wanna talk to you today.
  • 00:15:43.845 --> 00:15:46.381
  • May i please be excused to talk to you today?
  • 00:15:46.381 --> 00:15:52.954
  • I can't do this preacher thing, trying to use all the right
  • 00:15:52.954 --> 00:15:55.189
  • Vocabulary words and the real word, the one you really
  • 00:15:55.189 --> 00:15:58.159
  • Understand, i can't say it because, you know, you might
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  • Cancel me like i care about that.
  • 00:16:01.229 --> 00:16:02.897
  • But you know, may i please talk to you today?
  • 00:16:02.897 --> 00:16:06.901
  • Because, you know, we got all kinds of wars in this
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  • Room today.
  • 00:16:11.172 --> 00:16:12.907
  • We got closet wars, and secret wars, and food wars, and sex
  • 00:16:12.907 --> 00:16:18.646
  • Wars, and all kinds of addictive behavior and drug wars, and woo,
  • 00:16:18.646 --> 00:16:26.454
  • And attitude wars.
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  • But in all those wars, don't deny who you are.
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  • Do you get that?
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  • I just went to the end of the sermon.
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  • Don't deny who you are.
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  • No matter what happens, no matter what you feel, no matter
  • 00:16:40.902 --> 00:16:43.204
  • What you behave, no matter what preacher tells you you're gonna
  • 00:16:43.204 --> 00:16:45.373
  • Go to hell, as i study the scriptures over again, i'm
  • 00:16:45.373 --> 00:16:48.910
  • Finding stuff.
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  • I found the scripture this morning, i stumbled across--i
  • 00:16:50.445 --> 00:16:52.980
  • Didn't stumble across, i was reading what i was getting ready
  • 00:16:52.980 --> 00:16:54.549
  • To read to you--and i'm like, wait a minute, "lord, but
  • 00:16:54.549 --> 00:16:57.652
  • Doesn't that mean that?"
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  • He said, "it never meant that until 1946, somebody injected
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  • That in there."
  • 00:17:01.556 --> 00:17:02.924
  • I'm like, i got my bible out.
  • 00:17:02.924 --> 00:17:05.426
  • See, i still got books, sitting here reading.
  • 00:17:05.426 --> 00:17:07.095
  • I said, "sure did, that changed in 1940.
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  • The greek word is clear.
  • 00:17:11.899 --> 00:17:13.434
  • It never changed, but somebody came and injected it in the
  • 00:17:13.434 --> 00:17:16.704
  • New translation."
  • 00:17:16.704 --> 00:17:18.372
  • And i noticed a lot of those changes is in the nlt.
  • 00:17:18.372 --> 00:17:20.775
  • I watch it when i read that, some of the stuff is just wrong.
  • 00:17:20.775 --> 00:17:24.312
  • "but why do you read it?"
  • 00:17:24.312 --> 00:17:25.680
  • Because that's the only way i'm gonna find out what that
  • 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.181
  • Stuff is.
  • 00:17:27.181 --> 00:17:29.016
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:17:29.016 --> 00:17:30.952
  • Now, let's look at this in 12, i'm gonna read 12 through 18.
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  • Okay, he says, "i'm free to do what i want, but if what i do is
  • 00:17:37.625 --> 00:17:42.897
  • Inappropriate," so i paused then and i thought, "oh, lord.
  • 00:17:42.897 --> 00:17:48.603
  • We're living in a society right now."
  • 00:17:48.603 --> 00:17:51.272
  • Right here, paul is saying, "i am free to do what i want, but
  • 00:17:51.272 --> 00:17:55.543
  • If what i do is inappropriate," he says, paul said, "i'll
  • 00:17:55.543 --> 00:17:58.913
  • Refrain from doing it and i will not be trapped or snared by the
  • 00:17:58.913 --> 00:18:03.584
  • Sudden notions," he says, "if what i do is inappropriate."
  • 00:18:03.584 --> 00:18:07.155
  • But the thing, the problem today is we don't even know
  • 00:18:07.155 --> 00:18:10.024
  • What's inappropriate.
  • 00:18:10.024 --> 00:18:13.394
  • Because, today, what we have seen as being inappropriate is
  • 00:18:13.394 --> 00:18:19.967
  • Now appropriate.
  • 00:18:19.967 --> 00:18:25.072
  • I see how people treat older people, just no respect.
  • 00:18:25.072 --> 00:18:31.546
  • I love it when a 16-year-old come up to me and say,
  • 00:18:31.546 --> 00:18:33.981
  • "hey, creflo."
  • 00:18:33.981 --> 00:18:35.349
  • I'm like, "little girl, i done went through too much, earned
  • 00:18:35.349 --> 00:18:42.823
  • Too many degrees, prayed too many hours for you to assume
  • 00:18:42.823 --> 00:18:49.163
  • That you have the right to call me by my first name."
  • 00:18:49.163 --> 00:18:55.203
  • That's inappropriate.
  • 00:18:55.203 --> 00:19:00.007
  • Oh, you understand what i'm saying?
  • 00:19:00.007 --> 00:19:04.445
  • But if paul is saying what i do is inappropriate, but i am
  • 00:19:04.445 --> 00:19:09.050
  • Teaching this to a society that they just don't know
  • 00:19:09.050 --> 00:19:17.325
  • What's appropriate.
  • 00:19:17.325 --> 00:19:20.695
  • It's appropriate that when you go over to somebody's house, you
  • 00:19:20.695 --> 00:19:25.733
  • Don't open the refrigerator.
  • 00:19:25.733 --> 00:19:32.039
  • You remember when we were growing up and there was a
  • 00:19:36.143 --> 00:19:39.046
  • Conversation going on between grown folks, and your mama used
  • 00:19:39.046 --> 00:19:41.849
  • To say, "get on out of here.
  • 00:19:41.849 --> 00:19:43.217
  • This is grown folk talk."
  • 00:19:43.217 --> 00:19:45.886
  • Y'all remember that?
  • 00:19:45.886 --> 00:19:49.690
  • Or when you call somebody, you know, "yeah?"
  • 00:19:49.690 --> 00:19:52.693
  • "it's yes sir to you."
  • 00:19:52.693 --> 00:19:55.263
  • Don't nobody, "don't nobody do that no more,"
  • 00:19:55.263 --> 00:19:58.232
  • But that's inappropriate.
  • 00:19:58.232 --> 00:20:02.403
  • So if you don't know how, you know, if you don't know that
  • 00:20:02.403 --> 00:20:06.907
  • Common manners, the difference between what's inappropriate and
  • 00:20:06.907 --> 00:20:10.911
  • Appropriate, how are you gonna know what's inappropriate and
  • 00:20:10.911 --> 00:20:14.482
  • Appropriate with things in life?
  • 00:20:14.482 --> 00:20:20.254
  • Having sex out of marriage used to be inappropriate.
  • 00:20:20.254 --> 00:20:25.526
  • It's expected now.
  • 00:20:25.526 --> 00:20:28.763
  • And if you ain't doing it, something wrong with you.
  • 00:20:28.763 --> 00:20:32.667
  • So, how do we even read the bible to bring it up to where
  • 00:20:32.667 --> 00:20:35.369
  • It needs?
  • 00:20:35.369 --> 00:20:36.737
  • This is my sudden change to say i can't just read the scripture
  • 00:20:36.737 --> 00:20:39.473
  • Anymore, i have to dissect it from the language it came, from
  • 00:20:39.473 --> 00:20:43.144
  • The languages here, because i gotta be able to explain this.
  • 00:20:43.144 --> 00:20:48.883
  • "i'm free to do what i want, but if what i do is inappropriate, i
  • 00:20:48.883 --> 00:20:54.789
  • Refrain from doing it."
  • 00:20:54.789 --> 00:20:56.390
  • So, we don't even know how to refrain from doing it because we
  • 00:20:56.390 --> 00:20:58.826
  • Don't think nothing wrong with what we're doing.
  • 00:20:58.826 --> 00:21:02.296
  • "i refrain from doing it and i will not be trapped," notice
  • 00:21:02.296 --> 00:21:05.433
  • What it says, there's a "trapped by the sudden notions."
  • 00:21:05.433 --> 00:21:08.736
  • If you don't know what's appropriate versus what's
  • 00:21:08.736 --> 00:21:11.238
  • Inappropriate, there's a trap that's there if you don't
  • 00:21:11.238 --> 00:21:13.841
  • Know it.
  • 00:21:13.841 --> 00:21:17.111
  • Next verse, "your appetite for food and sex," isn't
  • 00:21:17.111 --> 00:21:21.649
  • That something?
  • 00:21:21.649 --> 00:21:23.517
  • So, you know that's gonna be a weapon for the enemy.
  • 00:21:23.517 --> 00:21:26.087
  • "how do i get you to deny your identity?
  • 00:21:26.087 --> 00:21:29.490
  • I'm gonna use food."
  • 00:21:29.490 --> 00:21:31.359
  • He used food twice, one with adam and one with jesus.
  • 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:37.765
  • And sex, he used that with david and solomon.
  • 00:21:37.765 --> 00:21:42.570
  • "your appetite for food and sex," now, hear what
  • 00:21:45.639 --> 00:21:48.609
  • He's saying.
  • 00:21:48.609 --> 00:21:49.944
  • A lot of times, we look at the other thing, we forget the
  • 00:21:49.944 --> 00:21:53.013
  • Object of the sentence.
  • 00:21:53.013 --> 00:21:54.348
  • He said, "it doesn't define you.
  • 00:21:54.348 --> 00:21:58.285
  • Your appetite for food doesn't define you.
  • 00:21:58.285 --> 00:22:01.455
  • Your appetite for sex doesn't define you."
  • 00:22:01.455 --> 00:22:04.792
  • What is he saying?
  • 00:22:04.792 --> 00:22:06.127
  • "don't forget my definition of you.
  • 00:22:06.127 --> 00:22:10.131
  • I define you, not your appetite, nor your behavior.
  • 00:22:10.131 --> 00:22:17.405
  • I define you."
  • 00:22:17.405 --> 00:22:22.710
  • "your life is tailor-made for god; you fit him like a glove."
  • 00:22:22.710 --> 00:22:30.684
  • You fit god like a glove, but you don't want to fit god like
  • 00:22:30.684 --> 00:22:34.622
  • A glove.
  • 00:22:34.622 --> 00:22:35.990
  • You want to go and try to fit something else that don't
  • 00:22:35.990 --> 00:22:38.692
  • Fit you.
  • 00:22:38.692 --> 00:22:40.494
  • You remember, "if it doesn't fit, you must seek."
  • 00:22:40.494 --> 00:22:45.166
  • "your life is tailor-made for god; you fit him like a glove."
  • 00:22:49.370 --> 00:22:54.575
  • You fit him like a glove, and we don't wanna fit god like
  • 00:22:54.575 --> 00:22:59.213
  • A glove.
  • 00:22:59.213 --> 00:23:00.548
  • We trying to, "he fulfills your deepest longings,"
  • 00:23:00.548 --> 00:23:09.957
  • God does.
  • 00:23:09.957 --> 00:23:11.292
  • But somehow, you're thinking that that craving you have is
  • 00:23:11.292 --> 00:23:16.997
  • Going to make you happy.
  • 00:23:16.997 --> 00:23:20.334
  • Somehow, the indulgence that you're in, you indulge in the
  • 00:23:20.334 --> 00:23:24.839
  • Worldly feelings, you indulge in the worldly desires because you
  • 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:29.977
  • Believe it'll make you happy.
  • 00:23:29.977 --> 00:23:32.813
  • You believe it'll make you happy.
  • 00:23:32.813 --> 00:23:35.249
  • And god says, "i will fulfill your deepest longings.
  • 00:23:35.249 --> 00:23:42.523
  • God reveals in dramatic fashion the value he places on the
  • 00:23:42.523 --> 00:23:47.294
  • Human body."
  • 00:23:47.294 --> 00:23:48.662
  • So, watch this.
  • 00:23:48.662 --> 00:23:49.997
  • This is huge.
  • 00:23:49.997 --> 00:23:51.365
  • This is the value that god places on the human body, "by
  • 00:23:51.365 --> 00:23:54.768
  • Our joint resurrection with jesus."
  • 00:23:54.768 --> 00:23:57.071
  • You remember the bible says, "when he was raised from the
  • 00:23:57.071 --> 00:23:58.873
  • Dead, we were raised from the dead?"
  • 00:23:58.873 --> 00:24:00.975
  • So, "by our joint resurrection with jesus from the dead," he
  • 00:24:00.975 --> 00:24:04.144
  • Now places what he thinks about our body.
  • 00:24:04.144 --> 00:24:06.514
  • He says, "this means that your bodies are co-members of his,"
  • 00:24:06.514 --> 00:24:11.352
  • Wow, "which makes it absurd."
  • 00:24:11.352 --> 00:24:15.089
  • If your body is a co-member with jesus's body, he made my
  • 00:24:15.089 --> 00:24:21.829
  • Physical body a member of his body, and somebody says, "how
  • 00:24:21.829 --> 00:24:27.067
  • Does that take place?"
  • 00:24:27.067 --> 00:24:28.402
  • Well, at one time there weren't too many humans, and then
  • 00:24:28.402 --> 00:24:31.572
  • Through dna spread, we all became one.
  • 00:24:31.572 --> 00:24:34.775
  • That's why racism is so stupid.
  • 00:24:34.775 --> 00:24:38.445
  • Male announcer: who influences your thought life?
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  • Creflo: salvation is the beginning of a new life for
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  • A believer.
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  • It is from this point that we can move into the fullness of
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  • Who god has called us to be and see the manifestation of the
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  • Finished works of jesus.
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  • It is one of my greatest pleasures to help people to
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  • Understand who christ is and to lead people to christ.
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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's name, amen."
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  • Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, that's how
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  • Simple it is.
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  • Welcome to the family of god.
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  • Male announcer: because of you, creflo dollar ministries is
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  • Providing a new understanding of grace and empowering change in
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  • The lives of millions of people every day.
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  • Thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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