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Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul

April 26, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul | April 26, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: somebody said, "you better understand that the
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  • Holy spirit doesn't dwell in filthy temples."
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  • Well, ain't no other kind of temple to dwell in.
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  • "oh, what you supposed to do, pastor, stay filthy?"
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  • No, you're supposed to remember that jesus is the shower.
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  • And he knows how to change your desire, and he's working on
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  • Your desire.
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  • And it might not happen one day, and it might happen one day, but
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  • He knows how to change your desire.
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  • He knows that transformation hadn't taken place just because
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  • You stopped the action.
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  • Transformation hadn't taken place until the desire has
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  • Changed, and he is the one that's working on your desire.
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  • Creflo: i'm gonna show you something.
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  • I need you to hold to your seat.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 6, verse 12 to 18, in the mirror, 1
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  • Corinthians chapter 6, verse 12 to 18, in the mirror.
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  • So, let's talk about fornication.
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  • Let's talk about sex outside of marriage because, i mean, you
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  • Know, everybody's doing it.
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  • Everybody's having sex.
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  • I'm not saying everybody, including you, but, you know.
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  • It's like a norm, it's like-- going on a date meant, back in
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  • My day, we were actually gonna go on a date.
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  • But going on a date now means you gotta end up with
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  • Some cookies.
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  • And i'm not talking about oatmeal cookies here.
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  • What does that do to the soul? what does that do to the soul?
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  • Look at this, 12 through 18; he says, "i am free to do what
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  • I want."
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  • So that's a huge scripture in the bible; it so blew my mind.
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  • I read that, as a new christian, "you're free to do whatever
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  • You want."
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  • I'm like, "hey, this ain't, this is a pretty good deal here."
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  • "'cause i loved you before when you did it; i'm gonna love you
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  • Anyway, but you're free to do what you want."
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  • Really, is that real freedom?
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  • Watch this--"i am free to do what i want, but if what i do is
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  • Inappropriate, i refrain from doing it and will not be trapped
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  • Or snared by sudden notions."
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  • Inappropriate desires trying to take advantage of my freedom
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  • In christ.
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  • "your appetite for food and sex does not define you.
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  • Your life is tailor-made for god," oooh, jesus.
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  • Your appetite for food and sex does not define you.
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  • Your appetite for food and sex-- no, your life is tailor-made
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  • For god.
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  • Say that, "my life is tailor-made for god," say that,
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  • "my life is tailor-made for god."
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  • Say that, "my life is--" say it again, "my life is--"
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  • You fit him like a glove.
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  • He fulfills your deepest longings, oooh, jesus.
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  • God reveals, in dramatic fashion, the value he places on
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  • The human body by our joint resurrection with jesus from
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  • The dead.
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  • This means that your bodies are co-members of his, which makes
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  • It absurd to even consider engaging his body in
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  • Sexual promiscuity.
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  • Sex involves so much more than two bodies joining together.
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  • Scripture speaks of a sacred union of two lives becoming one.
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  • So how can we reduce this sacred union to harlotry?
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  • In our union with him, we are one spirit with the lord.
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  • "flee fornication.
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  • Every sexual sin is a violation of the sacredness of the human
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  • Body and scars the conscience of the individual like no other
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  • Sin does."
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  • It scars your conscience like no other sin.
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  • I figure it's just kind of time for me, as your pastor, to kinda
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  • Show you how you're being deceived.
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  • But we're good at deceiving ourselves, so we don't know when
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  • We're deceived because we're deceived.
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  • And you got born again.
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  • And i'm mentioning this because there's a lot of sex going on in
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  • The body of christ?
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  • It's like we're trying to turn jesus into a ho.
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  • Because we're one body with him, and, if we're one with him, and
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  • We go to that, huh, and that's telling us what we believe and
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  • What we don't believe.
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  • Oooh, turn to somebody and say--somebody turn to your
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  • Neighbor and say, "heavy preaching, heavy."
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  • Now, remember now, this is not a beating stick.
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  • This is not a beating stick.
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  • This is a teaching stick.
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  • This is a light open; it's an eye opener kind of thing.
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  • And you're gonna need the holy ghost, especially with this.
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  • But, you remember the warning?
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  • He says, "don't be lured."
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  • So you're gonna need grace, you're gonna need mercy, you're
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  • Gonna need jesus.
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  • You're gonna need to say, "lord, help me, i can't do this
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  • Without you."
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  • Somebody will say, "it ain't nowhere in the bible where god
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  • Says he's gonna help you."
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  • You remember this scripture in jude?
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  • "he is able to keep you from falling and to present you
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  • Faultless before the almighty god."
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  • You're gonna need some grace, you're gonna need some mercy
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  • Because, if you try to get delivered based off your
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  • Performance, you're gonna become deeper and deeper into
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  • Condemnation and shame.
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  • You're gonna need help.
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  • 'cause, if not, you'll go back-- while i'm talking, you'll go
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  • Back to the last time you had fornication, and you'll walk
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  • Around here--you'll walk out of here beating yourself up from
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  • The last time.
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  • And you gotta walk out of here knowing that, "yeah, i did that
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  • Before, but thank god i've been washed.
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  • Thank god i've been cleansed, and the same holy ghost that's
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  • Helping me right now, he's gonna help me through this process."
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  • That's the problem, you tried to get this to happen on your own
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  • Ability and will and your performance, and, i'm telling
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  • You, you're not gonna be able to do it.
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  • You're gonna go from heavy to real heavy because nothing's
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  • Heavier than when you thought you received deliverance, only
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  • To repeat the action again, and it feels heavier and heavier.
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  • You need god, and he know you need him, and he ready to
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  • Help you.
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  • And, so, if anything, all of this stuff that i'm talking
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  • About hopefully will drive you to the throne of grace, not
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  • Drive you to the throne of depending on yourself and the
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  • Throne of performance and-- 'cause you're gonna perform, and
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  • You're just gonna, you keep--'cause you're--
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  • The battle, the soul, that there's a war raging, you know,
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  • "should i do it, should i not?"
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  • And then you say, "one more time," and then one more time
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  • Becomes one more time, and you say, "one more time," and one
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  • More time becomes one more time.
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  • And then you say, "lord, this time i mean it from my heart,"
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  • And it still becomes one more time, and then you feel like,
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  • "i'm trying, lord," and the problem is you won't get out of
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  • His way.
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  • And some people will hear this and say, "i ain't paying no
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  • Attention to creflo.
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  • I ain't got time to be paying no attention to that.
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  • I mean, you know, everybody, everybody doing that, ain't
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  • Nobody paying no attention.
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  • My grandmama's 90, she's doing it.
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  • I ain't paying no attention to that."
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  • All i can do is teach you, and the holy spirit's got to treat
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  • You, and jesus will help you if you want it.
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  • 'cause he said, "there is no other sin that scars the
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  • Conscience of an individual like this indulgence."
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  • And you're not hearing no sermons like this no more, ain't
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  • Nobody talking about this no more, especially in church.
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  • And i just chose to be--not different, but just, i chose to
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  • Be according to my design,
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  • My design.
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  • Ain't nobody perfect; i ain't talking--church is not for
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  • Perfect people.
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  • You understand that, don't you?
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  • Church is not for perfect people.
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  • Church is for people who got issues.
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  • Please understand that; church is not for perfect people.
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  • That's a huge deception.
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  • "well, everybody coming to church, they're perfect."
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  • You got to be out your mind.
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  • Church is not--well, you ain't out of your mind, but--church
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  • Is not for--church is not for perfect people, and god doesn't
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  • Use perfect people.
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  • God uses murderers, prostitutes, adulterers.
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  • Somebody said, "you better understand that the holy spirit
  • 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.575
  • Doesn't dwell in filthy temples."
  • 00:13:16.575 --> 00:13:20.045
  • Well, ain't no other kind of temple to dwell in.
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  • "oh, what are you supposed to do, pastor, stay filthy?"
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  • No, you're supposed to remember that jesus is the shower.
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  • And he knows how to change your desire, and he's working on
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  • Your desire.
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  • And it might not happen one day, and it might happen one day, but
  • 00:13:37.296 --> 00:13:39.365
  • He knows how to change your desire.
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  • He knows that transformation hadn't taken place just because
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  • You stopped the action.
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  • Transformation hadn't taken place until the desire has
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  • Changed, and he is the one that's working on your desire.
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  • And that's why church people ought not be coming to church
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  • Judging other church people like you ain't got no--
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  • Everybody got an issue.
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  • From the pulpit all the way out to the parking lot, everybody
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  • Got an issue.
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  • Why we sitting around here trying to act like that
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  • Ain't true?
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  • You know how deceived you are, if you're coming to church and
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  • Think me and taffi ain't got no issues.
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  • Something wrong with you.
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  • Here's the great thing about our issues.
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  • We know where to go.
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  • God, help us with this. god, help us with that.
  • 00:14:30.449 --> 00:14:36.822
  • Somebody tried to dog me out on the little platforms and said,
  • 00:14:36.822 --> 00:14:40.359
  • "the messy life of creflo dollar."
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  • You know what i did?
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  • I said, "sure was."
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  • We forgot about that scripture
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  • That said, "when the enemy come yo do something, quickly agree
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  • With him."
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  • I said, "sure was.
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  • But, praise god, it's better today than it was before."
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  • That's my hope for you, that every week you come and say,
  • 00:15:02.948 --> 00:15:06.018
  • "it's better this week than it was last week.
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  • I praise the lord, i dated old harold, ah, jesus, he had curly
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  • Hair, yeah, he had an 8-pack.
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  • My god, i ain't never seen an 8-pack.
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  • Hey, lord, i was praying in tongues, but it's just, oh,
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  • Lord, i went from talking in tongues to saying, yeah,
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  • Yes, yes."
  • 00:15:29.742 --> 00:15:39.752
  • But you know what you don't take advantage of?
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  • You don't--look at this--at least this time, it bothered
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  • You; that's progress.
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  • "mmm, this time i wasn't feeling comfortable because the god in
  • 00:15:58.604 --> 00:16:04.209
  • Me is conflict with the desire in me."
  • 00:16:04.209 --> 00:16:09.481
  • And every time the desire wants to stand up, the god stands up
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  • And says, "hm hm."
  • 00:16:12.951 --> 00:16:14.286
  • And then, if you proceed to do it as the final vote, you won't
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  • Feel like you used to feel about it.
  • 00:16:17.623 --> 00:16:20.125
  • Before, it was cool, it was good, you went and talked
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  • To somebody.
  • 00:16:22.161 --> 00:16:23.529
  • "what did you do last night, boy, let me tell you what i did
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  • Last night, boy."
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  • This time, now that god living in there, and that conflict
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  • Coming, and you're like, "ah," and you ain't trying to tell
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  • Nobody because something has gone against your design.
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  • I know what this must be like.
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  • Somebody'll say, "what you talking about, pastor?"
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  • I know what it must be like to sit in the church and hear
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  • The truth.
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  • I can't preach no more fables.
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  • It ain't working.
  • 00:17:00.966 --> 00:17:04.236
  • Because that fable has protected that sin, and it's gone from one
  • 00:17:04.236 --> 00:17:08.507
  • Generation to the next generation to the next
  • 00:17:08.507 --> 00:17:10.409
  • Generation because wasn't nobody--
  • 00:17:10.409 --> 00:17:14.580
  • Because the preacher thought he was perfect, and he can't talk
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  • Like that because he felt condemned
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  • Because he know he ain't.
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  • But, when you know you ain't nothing without jesus, it's easy
  • 00:17:25.390 --> 00:17:28.760
  • To get up and tell people, "i ain't nothing.
  • 00:17:28.760 --> 00:17:31.563
  • Without jesus, i ain't nothing."
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  • Oh, my god.
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  • You got about 4 pages--can't end this,
  • 00:17:39.938 --> 00:17:41.306
  • I'm on that line right there.
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  • All right, watch this--did i read 18?
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  • Yeah, look at 2 corinthians 10:30, 2 corinthians 10, 3
  • 00:17:48.981 --> 00:17:55.587
  • Through 5, let's look at the king james in the mirror, "for
  • 00:17:55.587 --> 00:17:58.957
  • Though we walk in the flesh, for though we walk in a life that's
  • 00:17:58.957 --> 00:18:02.294
  • Apart from god--" and even here, this is one of little--or
  • 00:18:02.294 --> 00:18:08.834
  • Places where it does refer to the physical flesh that we
  • 00:18:08.834 --> 00:18:11.670
  • Walk in.
  • 00:18:11.670 --> 00:18:13.071
  • He says, we don't war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our
  • 00:18:13.071 --> 00:18:18.143
  • Warfare are not carnal--)"
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  • Not through the sensory mechanism.
  • 00:18:21.380 --> 00:18:24.183
  • "(the weapons of our warfare are not sensory mechanisms, but
  • 00:18:24.183 --> 00:18:28.153
  • Mighty through god.)--" see, our weapons are mighty through god--
  • 00:18:28.153 --> 00:18:31.523
  • "(to the pulling down of a strong hold.)"
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  • A stronghold is a house constructed of thoughts, that
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  • Those thoughts have built a stronghold in your mind to where
  • 00:18:42.668 --> 00:18:47.139
  • That's all you see and that's all you know it to be.
  • 00:18:47.139 --> 00:18:49.841
  • It's a stronghold in your mind, and, when people talk to you
  • 00:18:49.841 --> 00:18:52.711
  • About it, it's hard to deal with it because that's the strong
  • 00:18:52.711 --> 00:18:55.914
  • Grip that's gripped your thinking.
  • 00:18:55.914 --> 00:19:00.586
  • It's gripped your thinking.
  • 00:19:00.586 --> 00:19:03.155
  • In verse 5, "casting down imaginations, and every high
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  • Thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god."
  • 00:19:10.062 --> 00:19:12.664
  • So there's some high thoughts that we've allowed to exalt
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  • Itself higher than the knowledge of god.
  • 00:19:17.970 --> 00:19:21.873
  • And he says, "we're gonna cast those imaginations down, and
  • 00:19:21.873 --> 00:19:25.043
  • We're gonna cast down every high thing that exalts itself
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  • Against the knowledge of god."
  • 00:19:27.679 --> 00:19:29.047
  • So you gotta be honest and look at the way of thinking that
  • 00:19:29.047 --> 00:19:32.050
  • You've exalted above the knowledge of god.
  • 00:19:32.050 --> 00:19:35.387
  • "and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience
  • 00:19:35.387 --> 00:19:39.625
  • Of christ."
  • 00:19:39.625 --> 00:19:40.959
  • So now he says, "you gotta become a custodian of your
  • 00:19:40.959 --> 00:19:42.527
  • Thought life.
  • 00:19:42.527 --> 00:19:44.029
  • You gotta examine that thought and say, 'wait a minute, that's
  • 00:19:44.029 --> 00:19:46.398
  • Not what the word says.'
  • 00:19:46.398 --> 00:19:48.967
  • You got to examine that thought and say, 'that goes against my
  • 00:19:48.967 --> 00:19:51.670
  • Design, no.'
  • 00:19:51.670 --> 00:19:53.672
  • You got to become a custodian of your thought life."
  • 00:19:53.672 --> 00:19:57.409
  • 'cause, if you don't, then that's one thought waiting on
  • 00:19:57.409 --> 00:20:00.912
  • Another thought waiting on another thought, and you are now
  • 00:20:00.912 --> 00:20:04.016
  • Building a house, a stronghold, in your mind, all right?
  • 00:20:04.016 --> 00:20:11.156
  • But we can cast those down.
  • 00:20:11.156 --> 00:20:13.525
  • So you don't overcome thoughts by using thoughts.
  • 00:20:13.525 --> 00:20:19.831
  • You overcome those thoughts by what comes out of your mouth.
  • 00:20:19.831 --> 00:20:27.139
  • What's that illustration?
  • 00:20:27.139 --> 00:20:28.507
  • Let me see if i can think of the illustration i should give.
  • 00:20:28.507 --> 00:20:31.109
  • I want you to think, i want everybody here to--i want you
  • 00:20:31.109 --> 00:20:33.945
  • To count--keep your mouth closed, just use your thoughts.
  • 00:20:33.945 --> 00:20:38.350
  • I want you to count from 1 to 10, and, when i tell you to say
  • 00:20:38.350 --> 00:20:42.554
  • Your name, open your mouth and say your name.
  • 00:20:42.554 --> 00:20:45.057
  • Instructions clear?
  • 00:20:45.057 --> 00:20:46.658
  • Ready, count, now say your name.
  • 00:20:46.658 --> 00:20:51.596
  • Okay, what happened to the thoughts?
  • 00:20:51.596 --> 00:20:54.499
  • It had to stop once you did what?
  • 00:20:54.499 --> 00:20:56.902
  • Opened your mouth and spoke because those words
  • 00:20:56.902 --> 00:20:59.738
  • Capture thoughts.
  • 00:20:59.738 --> 00:21:01.740
  • And so, when a negative thought's going through your
  • 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:03.642
  • Mind--"you are gonna die of this sickness--" don't sit there
  • 00:21:03.642 --> 00:21:06.578
  • And say, "mm mm mm mm mm."
  • 00:21:06.578 --> 00:21:08.647
  • Open your mouth up and say, "i will live and not die," and that
  • 00:21:08.647 --> 00:21:11.450
  • Casts that thought down.
  • 00:21:11.450 --> 00:21:15.487
  • I'm showing you how to battle this thing every day.
  • 00:21:15.487 --> 00:21:19.191
  • Every day, cast it down, open your mouth up.
  • 00:21:19.191 --> 00:21:21.560
  • You cast down those negative thoughts with words, and you
  • 00:21:21.560 --> 00:21:27.366
  • Speak the word of grace, and you speak the word of mercy, you
  • 00:21:27.366 --> 00:21:30.836
  • Speak the word of love.
  • 00:21:30.836 --> 00:21:32.604
  • You speak the word that, again, verifies your identity and who
  • 00:21:32.604 --> 00:21:36.108
  • You are in christ.
  • 00:21:36.108 --> 00:21:37.476
  • You open your mouth up and say, "i'm the righteousness of god."
  • 00:21:37.476 --> 00:21:39.544
  • You open your mouth up and say, "satan, you think you won in
  • 00:21:39.544 --> 00:21:42.080
  • This war; this war has already been done.
  • 00:21:42.080 --> 00:21:44.282
  • I abide in the finish.
  • 00:21:44.282 --> 00:21:45.851
  • I abide in the thing that's already done."
  • 00:21:45.851 --> 00:21:48.086
  • You open your mouth, you open your mouth, you open your mouth.
  • 00:21:48.086 --> 00:21:50.055
  • You don't owe anybody any explanation for what you said.
  • 00:21:50.055 --> 00:21:52.023
  • In fact, you might not want to say it around them.
  • 00:21:52.023 --> 00:21:53.692
  • You open your mouth; you tear those thoughts down with the
  • 00:21:53.692 --> 00:21:56.728
  • Words that come out of your mouth.
  • 00:21:56.728 --> 00:22:00.599
  • Let me read 1 corinthians 6, 12 through 18 again in the mirror,
  • 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:06.271
  • And 2 corinthians 10, 3 through 5 in the mirror, and we'll close
  • 00:22:06.271 --> 00:22:09.408
  • Right there.
  • 00:22:09.408 --> 00:22:10.742
  • 2 corinthians 10, 3 through 5, yeah, and in the mirror, "the
  • 00:22:10.742 --> 00:22:18.417
  • Fact that we are living in a physical world in human bodies
  • 00:22:18.417 --> 00:22:21.553
  • Of flesh does not mean that we engage ourselves in a combat
  • 00:22:21.553 --> 00:22:25.924
  • Dictated to by a typical tit-for-tat strategies of
  • 00:22:25.924 --> 00:22:31.863
  • Religion and the politics of the day.
  • 00:22:31.863 --> 00:22:36.468
  • The dynamic of our strategy is revealed in god's ability to
  • 00:22:36.468 --> 00:22:40.906
  • Disengage mindsets and perceptions--" see, what you
  • 00:22:40.906 --> 00:22:46.311
  • Just did, you disengaged that negative mindset--"and
  • 00:22:46.311 --> 00:22:50.549
  • Perceptions that have held people captive in pseudo
  • 00:22:50.549 --> 00:22:54.986
  • Fortresses for centuries.
  • 00:22:54.986 --> 00:22:58.690
  • Every lofty idea and argument positioned against god's
  • 00:22:58.690 --> 00:23:04.429
  • Knowledge of us, is cast down and exposed to be a mere
  • 00:23:04.429 --> 00:23:10.402
  • Invention of our own imagination.
  • 00:23:10.402 --> 00:23:14.473
  • We arrest every thought at spear point--anything that could
  • 00:23:14.473 --> 00:23:20.946
  • Possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed identity
  • 00:23:20.946 --> 00:23:27.285
  • And innocence is taken captive.
  • 00:23:27.285 --> 00:23:30.388
  • And the caliber of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of
  • 00:23:30.388 --> 00:23:35.293
  • The ultimate consequence of the obedience of christ."
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  • And by his grace i will accomplish and be all that god
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