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Creflo Dollar - What It Means To Fall From Grace

February 3, 2025 | S25:E32

Creflo Dollar - What It Means To Fall From Grace
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - What It Means To Fall From Grace | February 3, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: you think your sins were dealt with when you
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  • Just got saved, and they were, but he said he came to take away
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  • The sins.
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  • This was made available to everybody in the world.
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  • Everybody in the world has had their sins taken away.
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  • In the one who took them away.
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  • Creflo: go with me to the book of romans, chapter 11,
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  • And verse 6, i'm gonna read it in the king james, the niv, and
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  • The amplified.
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  • We're gonna talk about what it means to fall from grace, but
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  • There's some things we have to establish first, and the only
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  • Way i know how to do it is through the scripture and
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  • Through the word of god that we believe.
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  • What it, "what it means to fall from grace."
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  • We've talked about this in times past and it just gets bigger
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  • And bigger.
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  • So, i want to start off by saying this, i read, i read this
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  • Statement that, "grace cannot be grace if making christ lord is
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  • Made a condition for receiving eternal life," and that would,
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  • That weirded me out, like "okay wait, there's a whole lot going
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  • On here."
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  • And literally spent days just meditating on it, fighting it,
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  • Disagreeing with it, wondering about it.
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  • I, at one time i even called it heresy.
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  • I said, "this is, this is, no."
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  • And i was getting ready to work out one day last week, i walked
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  • In and i told minister ken, i said, "listen."
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  • I said, "i got something that i've been trying to say, but i
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  • Don't know how to say it."
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  • And then in what a few seconds, i understood how to say it.
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  • You know how jesus walked in and he said to his mother, "my time
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  • Has not come yet," and then it came?
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  • And he turned water into wine?
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  • Here's what it says, here's what i believe is going on here,
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  • "grace cannot be grace if there is a condition for receiving it.
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  • Grace cannot be grace if there is a condition for receiving it.
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  • No human effort or performance empowers grace."
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  • And yet, we've gone to churches where we think that god's power
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  • Is based on our behavior.
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  • We've gone to churches where we think, "well, you know, i'm
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  • Gonna show you the behavior so you can reap the benefits of
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  • His power.
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  • And oh yeah, by the way, and if you don't do this, then it's
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  • Gonna short circuit his power."
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  • And i am saying to you that god's power is not based on
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  • Your behavior.
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  • Good or bad.
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  • God's grace is not based on what you do.
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  • No matter how many times i say that, there are still christians
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  • Trying to figure out what to do.
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  • What we do is we believe jesus and we learn how to let him go
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  • Ahead of us, and we yield to him, and what we do is whatever
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  • He leads us to do as a result of yielding to him.
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  • But we don't do something to try to get him to do something good
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  • To us.
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  • We don't do good in order to get good.
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  • Grace is not based on your salvation, but your salvation is
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  • Based on grace.
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  • Now, this is the big part where church is concerned.
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  • Somehow, now that we're all saved and button up real nice,
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  • We think that the grace of god is available to us because we
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  • Are saved.
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  • But then, that would then be putting a condition on grace.
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  • The grace of god is not based on your salvation.
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  • Your salvation is based on the grace of god.
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  • You were saved, ephesians, chapter 2 and 8, "you were saved
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  • By grace through faith."
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  • Your salvation did not make grace available.
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  • You were saved by grace.
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  • Grace was given and then the the beauty of the gift of grace
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  • Provided all of these things for you who believe.
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  • This my--here because we get in the church and we
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  • Think, "oh, that ain't, that can't happen because you
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  • Ain't saved.
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  • God ain't gonna forgive you because you ain't saved.
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  • There's no way you could possibly because you
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  • Ain't saved."
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  • How many of y'all remember when you were raised in hell that you
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  • Bumped into to some goodness of god?
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  • And you when you was raised in hell, you bumped into
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  • Some goodness?
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  • And they convicted you.
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  • You were like, "i don't even know how that happened."
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  • I want to take you through the scripture and i want to show you
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  • That grace was extended to the whole world, even people who
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  • Hadn't yet received him.
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  • Grace was given to me before i believed, before i got saved.
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  • Grace was given to a fallen world.
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  • Are, are y'all following me here?
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  • All right, go through these real quick.
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  • Romans 11, verse 6, in the king james, niv, and amplified.
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  • I wanna spend a little special time with this.
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  • King james says, "but if by grace, then it is no more of
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  • Works; otherwise grace is no more grace.
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  • But if it be of works, then is it no more grace; otherwise work
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  • Is no more work."
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  • So, if you did something to get it, grace ain't involved.
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  • You earned that.
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  • That's yours.
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  • Look at it in the next translation, niv, "and by and if
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  • By grace, then it cannot be based on works; if by grace, it
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  • Cannot be based on works.
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  • If it were, grace would no longer be grace."
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  • Wow.
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  • And then they amplified, "but if it is by grace (his unmerited
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  • Favor and graciousness), it is no longer conditioned on works
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  • Or anything men have done.
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  • Otherwise, grace would no more or no longer be grace [it would
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  • Be meaningless]."
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  • Wow.
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  • Come on, while we're in the scriptures, let's move
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  • Through it.
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  • 1 john, chapter 2, verse 1-2.
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  • I want you to see what jesus did for people that were not saved.
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  • I want you to see what people did for the world, for the
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  • Whole world.
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  • 1 john, chapter 2, and verse 1, "my little children, these
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  • Things right i unto you, that you sin not.
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  • And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father,
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  • Jesus christ the righteous; and he is the propitiation."
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  • He is the ransom that was paid for you.
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  • He is the peace offering that was paid for you.
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  • He is the compensation, that's what propitiation means.
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  • He's the compensation for all of your sins.
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  • He's the sin offering for all of your sins.
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  • So, we thinking, "well, this is just talking about
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  • Church people."
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  • He says, "and not for ours only but also for the sins of the
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  • Whole world that ain't even saved."
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  • Are you following me?
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  • Everybody on the bus?
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  • Saint john chapter 1:29.
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  • Stay on the bus.
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  • We we got a ways to travel now.
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  • Saint john 1:29, "the next day, john seeth jesus coming unto
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  • Him, and he sayeth," here's what john, john, the baptist says, he
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  • Says, "behold the lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of the
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  • Whole world."
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  • Here is the torment of going to hell: going to hell when all of
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  • Your sins have been taken away from you, and the only reason
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  • You went is because you wouldn't receive the gift.
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  • You know how tormenting that is for you to get to hell when
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  • Jesus has taken away the sins of the whole world, not the sins of
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  • Those of you who got saved?
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  • You think your sins were dealt with when you just got saved,
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  • And they were, but he said he came to take away the sins, this
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  • Was made available to everybody in the world; everybody in the
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  • World has had their sins taken away, but the only reason you go
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  • To hell because you won't believe in the one who took
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  • Him away.
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  • I know this sounds strange.
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  • Come on, stay with me.
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  • Romans 5 and 8, romans 5 and 8. a seminarian in here is gonna
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  • Freak out today.
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  • You may try to pull your hair out by the time i finish.
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  • "no, no, no."
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  • It's like, "yes, yes, yes."
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  • "but god commended his love toward us in that while we were
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  • Yet sinners."
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  • What happened?
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  • When did, when did he die for you?
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  • When you was a sinner.
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  • He did what he did when you and i were sinners.
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  • He didn't do what he did when y'all got born again, start
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  • Talking in tongues, and start treating folks right.
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  • He died for you while you were a no-good-for-nothing,
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  • Hell-raising, holy sinner.
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  • He didn't need nothing from you for him to make that available.
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  • He said, i'm gonna make it available, then i'm gonna work
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  • On you to see if i can get you to receive it.
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  • Come on.
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  • Titus, chapter 2 and 11.
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  • This is interesting here, "for the grace of god," look at what
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  • Grace brought, "that bringeth salvation."
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  • Salvation didn't bring grace.
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  • The grace of god that brings salvation hath appeared to world
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  • Changes folks only.
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  • For talking in tongues people only.
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  • "the grace of god has appeared unto all men."
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  • So, everybody on the planet has access to this gift of grace.
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  • It's appeared to every man.
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  • Unfortunately, not every man has received it or accepted it yet,
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  • But every man there is no man that will ever come on
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  • This planet.
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  • That grace has not been made available to him.
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  • Saint john chapter one and nine, saint john chapter one and
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  • Nine dog.
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  • I feel like we in class.
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  • What is this?
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  • That was the true light.
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  • Now, the context here is john the baptist was baptizing, and
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  • He was talking that jesus is the true light, and that he's just
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  • The witness of the light.
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  • And he said in verse 9, "that was the true light, which
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  • Ligheth every man that cometh into the world."
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  • Every man has access to this light.
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  • Every man.
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  • Hebrews, chapter 2 and 9. hebrews chapter, 2 and 9.
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  • Are you getting, are you getting where i'm taking you right now?
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  • You understand this?
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  • Verse 9 says, "but we see jesus," who was made a little
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  • Lower than elohim, that's god.
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  • The greek word there is "elohim," "a little lower than
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  • Elohim for the sufferings of death, crowned with glory and
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  • Honour; that he by the grace of god should taste death," only
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  • For church people, "for every man."
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  • And then finally, john 17 and 3.
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  • John 17 and 3, "and this is life eternal,
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  • That they might know thee the only true god, and that
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  • They might know jesus christ, whom thou hast sent.
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  • This is eternal life, to know jesus."
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  • That's eternal life.
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  • To know jesus, the day you get born again, you have stepped
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  • Into eternal life.
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  • We relate to eternal life is how, the unlimited time
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  • Or something.
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  • No, no, with jesus is-- yeah, jesus is life
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  • Eternal for those who have received him, and eternal life
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  • Has been extended to every man.
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  • The world cannot know grace as long as they find sufficiency
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  • And merit in man's efforts, in man's works, in
  • 00:15:14.927 --> 00:15:18.897
  • Man's performance.
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  • You cannot know grace if you keep trying to earn what cannot
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  • Be earned, and grace cannot be earned.
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  • There is no seven steps to earn grace.
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  • If you have seven steps to earn grace, it's not grace that
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  • You're earning.
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  • You're earning maybe a paycheck, you're earning maybe something,
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  • But you're not earning grace because it cannot be earned; it
  • 00:15:45.491 --> 00:15:49.828
  • Is a gift that could only be presented by the eternal
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  • Perfection of the lord jesus christ.
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  • Grace could only be given by someone who has that.
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  • It was god, the word, "in the beginning was the word, the word
  • 00:16:04.977 --> 00:16:09.515
  • Was with god, and the word was god, and the word became flesh,"
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  • And the word that became flesh, delivered grace and truth to a
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  • Bunch of people who didn't deserve it.
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  • And you've received a gift, if you've received it.
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  • A gift is available to you who don't deserve it, and the one of
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  • The reasons why people are not saved right now is because
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  • Religion has put so many qualifications and conditions on
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  • Jesus, and i'm telling you, it's a lie.
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  • If you put conditions on grace, and i say jesus now, because
  • 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:59.298
  • Grace is not a principle, it is a person: jesus, full of grace
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  • And truth.
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  • So, when i talk, grace, i'm not talking about a subject matter.
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  • I'm not talking about a curriculum matter.
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  • I'm talking about a person.
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  • So, every time you see jesus doing anything, that's grace.
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  • Grace showed up, wrapped up in flesh, to present to fallen man,
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  • Something he can't earn or deserve.
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  • Grace showed up to say, "i am going to do for you what you
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  • Cannot do, i'm going to give to you what you cannot earn, and
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  • I'm gonna take you to a place you cannot go without me, and
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  • All i want you to do is believe it."
  • 00:17:54.153 --> 00:18:00.292
  • And you keep saying, "i believe, but then, you know, god helps
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  • Those who help themselves."
  • 00:18:04.563 --> 00:18:05.931
  • All grace has ceased.
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  • You won't know grace now because you keep going back to something
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  • You have to do to deserve it.
  • 00:18:13.305 --> 00:18:16.875
  • And that freaks church minds out because you got to do something,
  • 00:18:16.875 --> 00:18:19.811
  • You got to do something, and then, you go to the
  • 00:18:19.811 --> 00:18:22.414
  • Obvious thing.
  • 00:18:22.414 --> 00:18:23.782
  • "well, well, what about this?
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  • Do you just sit around?"
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  • No, you don't sit around.
  • 00:18:26.485 --> 00:18:27.819
  • You trust god, and then, you trust god to show you what
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  • To do.
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  • You trust god, and you trust god to lead and guide you.
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  • You trust god.
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  • Our life is a life of trusting god.
  • 00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:36.562
  • It's not a life of, "let me come up.
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  • I got five things i know i can do to get myself, get god to do
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  • Something good for me."
  • 00:18:41.600 --> 00:18:42.935
  • And then, if the good should happen because of grace, and at
  • 00:18:42.935 --> 00:18:45.637
  • The same time, you did three or four things, you're gonna give
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  • Credit to the three or four things that you gave.
  • 00:18:48.040 --> 00:18:50.175
  • That's why he said, "don't boast."
  • 00:18:50.175 --> 00:18:53.879
  • You were saved by grace, not of yourself.
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  • It's a gift of god.
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  • So, you can't boast about the gift of god because you didn't
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  • Do nothing to get the gift of god.
  • 00:19:01.420 --> 00:19:03.255
  • But we got, listen carefully in church, there's a lot
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  • Of boasting.
  • 00:19:06.325 --> 00:19:08.560
  • Lot of boasting.
  • 00:19:08.560 --> 00:19:09.895
  • Boasting about what you did in the prayer closet, boasting
  • 00:19:09.895 --> 00:19:12.698
  • About, you know, what you gave, and how, "you ought to do like
  • 00:19:12.698 --> 00:19:16.001
  • I do."
  • 00:19:16.001 --> 00:19:17.369
  • That's what we're getting to, "do like i do.
  • 00:19:17.369 --> 00:19:18.704
  • If you would give like i give, then you have the business like
  • 00:19:18.704 --> 00:19:21.340
  • I have."
  • 00:19:21.340 --> 00:19:22.708
  • And i know people giving better than you giving and they still
  • 00:19:22.708 --> 00:19:24.810
  • Ain't got what you got because it is not predicated on
  • 00:19:24.810 --> 00:19:28.213
  • Your effort.
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  • If you understand, if you understand that, say amen.
  • 00:19:36.288 --> 00:19:45.163
  • Man's resources ends.
  • 00:19:45.163 --> 00:19:51.937
  • When that happens, provision to satisfy man's need begins.
  • 00:19:51.937 --> 00:20:00.879
  • Let's look at the first miracle in john, chapter 2.
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  • First miracle in john, chapter 2, verse 3, and then 7 to 9.
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  • Verse 3, and then 7 through 9. alright, now watch this.
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  • Here's the miracle: you remember that, water to wine.
  • 00:20:16.161 --> 00:20:18.764
  • "and when they wanted wine, the mother of jesus said unto him,
  • 00:20:18.764 --> 00:20:21.600
  • 'they have no wine.'"
  • 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:25.103
  • Something happens when you have no more performance.
  • 00:20:25.103 --> 00:20:32.844
  • Look what happened.
  • 00:20:32.844 --> 00:20:34.179
  • Verse 7 through 9. of course, jesus responded to the closest
  • 00:20:34.179 --> 00:20:38.016
  • Person to him and said, he said to his mother, "woman that ain't
  • 00:20:38.016 --> 00:20:44.289
  • None of our business."
  • 00:20:44.289 --> 00:20:48.126
  • "jesus said unto them, 'fill the water pots.'"
  • 00:20:48.126 --> 00:20:50.962
  • Now, at least mary was wise enough to say, "alright, it
  • 00:20:50.962 --> 00:20:54.499
  • Might not be none of my business, but whatever he tell
  • 00:20:54.499 --> 00:20:56.535
  • You to do," and that's the way of grace.
  • 00:20:56.535 --> 00:21:01.006
  • That's what we should be doing now as christians.
  • 00:21:01.006 --> 00:21:03.075
  • "well, what do you do?"
  • 00:21:03.075 --> 00:21:04.409
  • Whatever he tells you to do?
  • 00:21:04.409 --> 00:21:05.844
  • "well, i can't hear him."
  • 00:21:05.844 --> 00:21:07.212
  • Well, spend more time with him.
  • 00:21:07.212 --> 00:21:11.049
  • You not hearing him is not an excuse for you to go on and try
  • 00:21:11.049 --> 00:21:13.885
  • To perform, so you've created your own method of how to walk
  • 00:21:13.885 --> 00:21:18.724
  • With christ.
  • 00:21:18.724 --> 00:21:20.826
  • "jesus said, unto them, fill the water pots with water and they
  • 00:21:20.826 --> 00:21:24.696
  • Filled them up to the brim, and he said, unto them, 'draw out
  • 00:21:24.696 --> 00:21:29.134
  • Now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.'
  • 00:21:29.134 --> 00:21:32.704
  • And then they bear it out," did everything he said, "when the
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  • Ruler of the feast," i tell you what, it's important to do what
  • 00:21:36.508 --> 00:21:39.911
  • God says.
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  • I'm just thinking about the time when we had a friday night
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  • Service over in the school, where we had our church started,
  • 00:21:42.848 --> 00:21:45.183
  • And in the middle of the service, god said, "go to
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  • Atlanta baptist," which was that chapel over there, "and say this
  • 00:21:48.653 --> 00:21:52.324
  • To them."
  • 00:21:52.324 --> 00:21:53.859
  • And i went over there and i said what god told me to say.
  • 00:21:53.859 --> 00:21:57.262
  • And they came out of their meeting and they said, "how
  • 00:21:57.262 --> 00:21:59.464
  • Would you like to move in on thanksgiving?"
  • 00:21:59.464 --> 00:22:02.901
  • What if i wouldn't have did that?
  • 00:22:02.901 --> 00:22:05.003
  • What if i thought, "well, no, i'm gonna get my lawyers
  • 00:22:05.003 --> 00:22:06.772
  • Together, and i'm gonna get them," i already had them.
  • 00:22:06.772 --> 00:22:09.241
  • I had this lady for two years.
  • 00:22:09.241 --> 00:22:10.809
  • She couldn't get no money nowhere, selling bonds, and that
  • 00:22:10.809 --> 00:22:12.744
  • It wasn't working.
  • 00:22:12.744 --> 00:22:14.079
  • Well, we didn't qualify for nothing.
  • 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:15.447
  • We were too young and too broke to qualify for anything.
  • 00:22:15.447 --> 00:22:17.816
  • It was gonna take a miracle.
  • 00:22:17.816 --> 00:22:19.151
  • I went to cns bank.
  • 00:22:19.151 --> 00:22:20.519
  • Anybody remember the cns bank?
  • 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:21.853
  • I went to cns bank, down the street.
  • 00:22:21.853 --> 00:22:23.955
  • I told the lady, i said, "i need a loan," after god told me,
  • 00:22:23.955 --> 00:22:26.925
  • "don't borrow no money," and i went in there, i'm gonna help
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  • Him out.
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  • He don't know i'm in the physical world and we need,
  • 00:22:30.595 --> 00:22:32.097
  • We need a loan.
  • 00:22:32.097 --> 00:22:33.465
  • We, we can't be shaka zulu in here, and these people ain't be
  • 00:22:33.465 --> 00:22:36.468
  • Black but no shaka zulu here.
  • 00:22:36.468 --> 00:22:38.336
  • You gotta give some money.
  • 00:22:38.336 --> 00:22:39.671
  • And i went on in and i said, "ma'am, you know, i need money."
  • 00:22:39.671 --> 00:22:42.541
  • She said, she said, looked at the record, she said, "ooh, you
  • 00:22:42.541 --> 00:22:46.111
  • Don't qualify for nothing."
  • 00:22:46.111 --> 00:22:48.980
  • And i said, "i mean, not even, not even $5?
  • 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:53.351
  • I ain't qualified for nothing?"
  • 00:22:53.351 --> 00:22:54.820
  • And she, and she said, you ain't never gonna get this money
  • 00:22:54.820 --> 00:22:57.789
  • For this.
  • 00:22:57.789 --> 00:22:59.157
  • And she did something to me and i stood up over a desk and i
  • 00:22:59.157 --> 00:23:02.294
  • Said, you watch and see.
  • 00:23:02.294 --> 00:23:05.197
  • Now.
  • 00:23:05.197 --> 00:23:06.565
  • Wait, wait, wait, wait.
  • 00:23:06.565 --> 00:23:07.899
  • I had to go through all of that.
  • 00:23:07.899 --> 00:23:09.234
  • And then i said, "alright lord, we'll do it your way."
  • 00:23:09.234 --> 00:23:10.702
  • Don't, don't have to be turned down by the world before you
  • 00:23:10.702 --> 00:23:15.607
  • Back up and finally submit to god.
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  • Male announcer: do you understand the nature of grace?
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  • Creflo: i don't ever wanna take for granted that you've
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  • Received jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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  • And there's no better way to embark upon a new stage
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  • In your life than to enter into a personal relationship
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  • With jesus.
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  • So, if you wanna become born again
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  • And begin an exciting intimate relationship
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  • And i'll say it so you can repeat after me.
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  • Repeat after me, heavenly father, i believe that jesus is
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  • The son of god and that he died and was raised from the dead
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  • And has forgiven all of my sins, and i receive him into my life
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  • Right now as my lord and personal savior.
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  • So by faith, i declare that i am saved.
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  • Praise god.
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