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Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul (Part 2)

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Creflo: what we have seen as being inappropriate is
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Now appropriate.
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I see how people treat older people, just no respect.
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I love it when a 16-year-old come up to me, and say,
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"hey, creflo."
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I'm like, "little girl, i done went through too much, earned
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Too many degrees, prayed too many hours for you to assume
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That you have the right to call me by my first name."
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That's inappropriate.
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Are you understanding what i'm saying?
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But if paul is saying what i do is inappropriate, but i am
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Teaching this to a society that they just don't know
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What's appropriate.
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It's appropriate that [laughs] when you go over to
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Somebody's house, you don't open the refrigerator.
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You remember when we were growing up, and there was a
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Conversation going on between grown folks, and your mama used
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To say, "get on out of here.
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This is--this is grown folk talk"?
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Y'all remember that?
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Or when you call somebody, you know, "yeah."
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"it's 'yes, sir' to you."
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Don't nobody--"well, nobody do that no more."
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But that's inappropriate.
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So if you don't know how--you know, if you don't know that
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Common manners, the difference between what's inappropriate and
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Appropriate, how are you gonna know what's inappropriate and
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Appropriate with things in life?
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Having sex out of marriage used to be inappropriate, it's
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Expected now.
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And if you ain't doing it, something wrong with you.
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So how do we even read the bible to bring it up to where
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It needs?
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This is why--this is my sudden change to say, "i can't just
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Read the scripture anymore.
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I have to dissect it from the language it came from, the
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Languages here, because i gotta be able to explain this."
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"i'm free to do what i want, but if i--but if what i do is
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Inappropriate, i refrain from doing it," so we don't even know
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How to refrain from doing it, because we don't think nothing
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Wrong with what we're doing.
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"i refrain from doing it, and i will not be trapped," notice
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What it says, there's a trap by the sudden notions.
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If you don't know what's appropriate versus what's
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Inappropriate, there's a trap that's there if you don't
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Know it.
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Next verse, "your appetite for food and sex--" isn't
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That something?
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So you know that's gonna be a weapon for the enemy.
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"how do i get you to deny your identity?
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I'm gonna use food."
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He used food twice: one with adam, and one with jesus.
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And sex, he used that with david and solomon, hm.
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"your appetite for food and sex--" now hear what
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He's saying.
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A lot of times we look at the other thing and we forget the
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Object of the sentence.
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He said, "it doesn't define you.
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Your appetite for food doesn't define you.
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Your appetite for sex doesn't define you."
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What is he saying?
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"don't forget my definition of you, i define you.
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Not your appetite, nor your behavior, i define you."
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"your life is tailor-made for god; you fit him like a glove."
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You fit god like a glove, but you don't want--you don't want
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To fit god like a glove, you want to go and and try to--try
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To fit something else that don't fit you.
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"your life is tailor-made for god; you fit him like a glove."
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You fit him like a glove, and we don't wanna--we don't wanna
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Fit god like a glove, we trying to--
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"he fulfills your deepest longings."
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God does, but somehow you're thinking that that craving you
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Have is going to make you happy.
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Somehow the indulgence that you're in, you indulge in the
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Worldly feelings, you indulge in the worldly desires because you
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Believe it'll make you happy.
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You believe it'll make you happy.
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And god says, "i will fulfill your deepest longings."
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"god reveals in dramatic fashion the value he places on the
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Human body."
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So watch this, this is--this is huge.
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This is the value that god places on the human body.
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"by our joint resurrection with jesus" so you remember the bible
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Says, "when he was raised from the dead, we were raised from
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The dead."
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So, "by our joint resurrection with jesus from the dead."
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He now places what he thinks about our body.
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He says, "this means that your bodies are co-members of his,"
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Wow, "which makes it absurd."
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If your body is a co-member with jesus's body, he made my
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Physical body a member of his body.
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And somebody says, "how does that take place?"
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Well, at one time, there weren't too many humans, and then
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Through dna spread, we all became one.
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That's why racism is so stupid.
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He says, "you're a co-member of his body, which makes it absurd
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To even consider engaging--" he's calling your body,
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His body.
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You remember when jesus came to paul, and he said, "paul, paul,
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Why persecuteth thou me?"
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And paul says, "i ain't persecuting you."
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He says, "you--when you persecute them, you
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Persecute me."
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He's talking about that oneness there.
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He says, "how absurd to even consider engaging his body in
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Sexual promiscuity."
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So when you have sex with somebody--because the mystery
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Is, how in marriage, how two can be--when they have sex
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In marriage, become one?
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And he says, "how do you take that mystery, and use it for
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Sexual promiscuity, and think nothing happened, there's
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No consequences?"
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There's huge consequences for having sex with that body, and
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That body, and that body, and that body, and you got jesus
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Having sex with hisself, with hisself, with hisself.
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Promiscuity, sexual promiscuity, it's absurd.
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He said, "it's absurd."
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Watch this, "sex involves so much more than two bodies
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Joining together."
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Now, to me that's big, it's like, okay so, it's so much
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More than two bodies coming together, oof, and--but we don't
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Know what's in--some don't know what's inappropriate, so
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They don't want--ain't nobody trying to hear that.
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"all i know is it feels good."
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Yeah, that's the worldly desire that's taking you away from your
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Design, and causin' a war within your soul.
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"scripture speaks of a sacred union of two lives
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Becoming one."
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I just told you that.
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"how can we reduce this sacred union--how do we reduce it
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To harlotry?"
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See, most of these scriptures that are talking about sex and
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Effeminates, and all that stuff, they're talking about more sex
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Slave--excuse me, sex sales through through sex slaves, sex
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Sales, all that kind of stuff.
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It's like--one of the greek words is actually a word where
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You get porno from.
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I was shocked, "like, whoa."
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And he causes it using--how you wrongly use another member.
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Just like paul, when jesus said, "how is it that you
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Persecuteth them?"
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He says, "how is it--how is it that you can get another
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Person's body involved in this sex industry?"
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He says, "in union with him we are one spirit."
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Then he says, "flea fornication.
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Every sexual sin," and it's only a sexual sin when it's done
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Out of marriage.
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Please understand something, it's only a sexual sin when it's
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Done out of marriage.
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According to this, it's only a sexual sin when it's done out
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Of marriage.
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So that's when he says, "flea fornication.
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Every sexual sin is a violation of the sacredness of the human
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Body," and look what he says what happens, here's the
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Consequence, "it scars the conscience of the individual
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Like no other sin."
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It scars, so it leaves a scar on the conscience of an individual
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Like no other.
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The scars of your conscious, of your soul.
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We don't think that sin is inappropriate, so what happens?
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Boy, look at--look at the battles that's go on.
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Look at the battles that happen.
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The woman in high school, you just misused, you and
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Three other guys at the same time, scars your soul, and hers.
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Everybody's scarred, and you come up into life now, and you
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Look at this insecure person, you look at this inferior
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Person, you look at this dominating person, you look at
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This depressed person, you look at this suicidal person, you
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Look at this dominating person, you look at this murderer, you
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Look at this alcoholic, you look at this drug, what are they
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Trying to deal with?
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The scars, they're trying to deal with the scars.
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Oh, that makes me sad, it makes--it makes--it makes you
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Sad, even if you sit there looking at it right now, not
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That i'm trying to make you sad, but it's like everybody in the
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Room can say, "well, i can relate with that."
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But what?
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"i just doesn't know. i didn't know."
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But god's not holding that against you.
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See, the end of this story is gonna make you shout, but i got
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To kind of diagnose where we are so you can appreciate what you
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Get out of the end.
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It's almost like, "thank god for the law because without it i
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Would have never known my need for jesus."
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"well, thank god for me understanding, you know, the
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Battle of the soul because without that i would have never
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Appreciated the grace of god that was made available for me
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To come out of all of that.
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The grace of god that was a salve that could heal all
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My scars."
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Let's go to 1 corinthians 10, verse 3 through 5, let's look at
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The king james and then the mirror, and then we'll
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Just kinda, let's go with this.
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All right now, notice this, 1 corinthians 10, "for though we
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Walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh," verse 4, "(for
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The weapons of our warfare are carnal," carnal, of the senses,
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Of the five senses, "but mighty through god to the pulling down
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Of strongholds."
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You can capture those thoughts, you can
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Capture those thoughts, "casting down imaginations, and every
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High thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of god,
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Bringing in captivity every thought to the obedience
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Of christ."
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Something happened when christ obeyed.
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I always thought it was our obedience, no, it was the
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Obedience of christ.
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Something happened when christ obeyed.
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Now, look at this in the mirror translation real quick, verse 3.
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"the fact that we live--we're living in a physical body--or
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In a physical world--the fact that we are living in a physical
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World in human bodies of flesh does not mean that we engage
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Ourselves in a combat--" all right, we're in a physical
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Body in this world, it doesn't mean we engage ourselves in a
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Combat, "dictated to by the typical tit-for-taht--tat
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Strategies of religion and the politics of the day."
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Can you see what the politics of the day has done to our souls?
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Wow, the battle with our souls because of the religion of the
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Day and the politics of the day.
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You got christians that used to be close brothers and sisters,
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Can't stand each other now, and can justify.
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4, "the dynamic of our strategy is revealed in god's ability to
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Disengage mindsets and perceptions that have held
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People captive in the pseudo fortresses for centuries."
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So he's saying here, "there's a way we can disengage
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That mindset."
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Hmm.
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"every lofty idea and argument positioned against god's
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Knowledge of us, is cast down."
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This is how he's talking about disengaging it, you cast it down
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And it is "exposed to be a mere invention of our
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Own imagination."
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So these images that show up in our mind, these thoughts that we
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Have, these thoughts that have been created by some of the
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Stuff we got involved in, he said, "here's what's awesome,
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You can cast those thoughts down, but you're gonna have to
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Make your mind up that you wanna cast them down."
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You don't fight thoughts with thoughts, you fight thoughts
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With words.
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Let's do that illustration again, i want you to count from
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One to ten to yourself.
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Don't open your mouth up.
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Ready? go.
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Now, say your name real loud.
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What happened to your thought?
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It stopped, once you open your mouth, it stopped.
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Why?
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'cause it had to be quiet in order to be able to comprehend
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And hear what was coming out of your mouth, and that's how you
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Deal with the things of the devil.
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The devil say, "you gonna die," you don't sit there and just
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Fight thoughts with thoughts.
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You open your mouth up and say, "i will live and not die because
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My healing is finished, done, and completed."
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That's how you take care of that thought.
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See, we have the equipment to deal with that kind of stuff.
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Wow.
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And then he goes on, he says, he says, "it's cast down, exposed
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To be a mere invention of our own imaginations.
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We arrest every thought at spear point--anything that could
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Possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed
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Identity--" are you casting down?
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I'm not telling--i'm not just saying cast down what's nasty.
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Can you cast down everything that goes against who you are?
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When you hear a thought that because you misbehaved, or did
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Something, or missed the mark, you hear thoughts that you ain't
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Saved no more.
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Don't you dare sit there and let that float up in there, because
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If you let that thought stay up there, then another thought stay
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Up there.
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You're gonna find yourself building a stronghold, or a
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House, constructed of thoughts.
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So you got to disassemble, you gotta cast it down.
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"you're not righteous, you're not redeemed."
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Don't sit up there and say, "mm."
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Say, "i am the righteousness of god because jesus was made
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Righteous, and because he's righteous, i'm righteous.
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I am redeemed because jesus was made redeemed."
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You cast that down, and that's what he says, "i want you to
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Cast down every thought, every opposing threat to your redeemed
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Identity and innocence is taken captive."
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Take that captive.
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"you're just trying to cast down thoughts that you--just nasty
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Thoughts, you know."
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"no, i'm gonna tell you a thought that's more nasty than
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The nasty thought.
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It's a thought that you are not who jesus says you are."
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Now, that's nasty.
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It's a thought that you're gonna go to hell because you didn't
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Pray an hour a day.
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It's a thought--oh, i know i ruffled up some things.
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It's no different, no different, than when the devil came to
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Jesus in the wilderness and he says, "if you are the son of
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God, take this bread--this stone, and turn it into bread."
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And jesus just cast that down like, "bruh, you know i can turn
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It into bread, and i know i can turn it into bread, but i'm not
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Gonna turn it into bread, because it will be a violation
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Against my faith, and who god says i am.
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He says i am his son.
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You heard it, and i heard it.
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And so i'm casting that down, and i'm casting you away."
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Don't you let the devil slip in something that causes you to
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Question your identity in jesus christ.
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"the caliber of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of
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The ultimate consequence of the obedience of christ."
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And because of the obedience in christ, i've been
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Made righteous.
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I have been made righteous.
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Now that you're born again, don't you ever let that go.
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You might have just came out of the craziest behavior that
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You've had all year, but you're gonna come out saying, "i'm
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Still righteous, lord."
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Now, the soul gonna be battling like you ain't righteous, "after
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What you just did, bruh?
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Look here, do you actually-- do you see jesus doing all
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Of that?"
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No, and you got to be smart enough to say, "i am the
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Righteousness of god because i'm not righteous because of what i
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Do, i'm righteous because of what jesus did.
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And jesus is still righteous.
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Hey, jesus, everything okay?
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Everything okay with me?
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Well, if it's okay with him, it's still okay with me.
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I am the righteousness of god."
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Okay, now what i did today was nasty, but you know what, he's
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Working on me, hallelujah.
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I won't always be that nasty, glory to god.
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God is going to--he's changing my desire.
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I ain't gonna always want to do that.
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"i just need to let you know, devil, what's going on with the
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Construction plan.
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He's working on me, glory to god.
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He's taking away this old nasty desire, and he's allowing me to
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Be who he's called me to be, hallelujah."
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You gotta stand up and you got to defend the design.
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"yeah, but what about--" see, some people are
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Listening to this, they're talking about, "ah, that's just
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Heresy, you're sitting up there telling those people they can
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Just do anything."
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We just read the scripture, we started off with the scripture.
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The scripture says, "you can do anything you want to do, but
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When you find that you're doing something inappropriate--" ain't
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Nobody saying that.
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You're just upset because you've been able to use fear all your
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Ministry to scare people, try to scare people into morality.
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It hadn't worked.
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You're not scaring people into morality, you're scaring them
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Away from the church.
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They don't want to hear no more of that tomfoolery no more
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Because you're trying to get them to do what can't be done by
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Themselves, and so they walk away saying, "this church stuff
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Ain't working."
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Because it wasn't designed to work without jesus.
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You can't do none of this without jesus.
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You can't do it without him.
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You can't change without him, i can't change you, but i can
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Teach you, and pray for you, and hope with you, and comfort you,
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And try to give you enlightenment when darkness
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Shows up, but only god can change you.
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I can water, and i can plant, but only god can give
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The increase.
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So people are walking away from the church by the--by the
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Millions because it's not being taught right, and people are
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Trying to do it based on their performance, and when they fail,
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They wear the weight of trying to do it, but it didn't work.
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And then they tried to do it again, and they failed, and now
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The weight gets heavier, and it didn't work.
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And so after a while they're just so weighted down, and they
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Realize it's the church thing, and actually, when they left
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Church, they still carry the weight with them, but at least
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They didn't have to get some weight on every week.
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And jesus came and removed the burden, and destroyed the yoke,
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And now you can walk straight like you used to walk, and he
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The answer to this question is more important than you
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The enemy constantly wages war against the soul of believers,
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But our father has guaranteed us a way to win this battle.
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In this four-message series, creflo dollar digs deep to
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Creflo: if you don't learn how to distance yourself from
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Worldly desires, he says, "the results will be a war in
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Your soul."
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Creflo: and today we don't know what to listen to.
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You got thousands of influencers, thousands of
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Podcasts, thousands of preachers.
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What do you listen to?
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The holy ghost.
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Creflo: god designed you, he knows none of this has been
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Built for your design.
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The better.
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Creflo Dollar - The War Against The Soul (Part 2)

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

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