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Creflo Dollar - What It Means To Fall From Grace (Part 2)

February 6, 2025 | S25:E35

Creflo Dollar - What It Means To Fall From Grace (Part 2)
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  • Creflo: now, let me show you something about the the rich
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  • Young ruler, go there real quick.
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  • Luke chapter 15, verse 27 through 31, luke 15,
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  • 27 through 31.
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  • I think when we start believing god for stuff, we need to know
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  • This so we can properly examine our lives to say, alright now,
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  • Wait a minute.
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  • I don't want christ to not have affected my life because am i
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  • Doing something?
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  • Lord, show me if i'm doing something to try to be justified
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  • Or deserving, you know of your favor, help me to see that
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  • Because i don't wanna do that.
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  • I don't have time to be falling from grace thinking that i'm in
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  • The right place doing the thing i need to do.
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  • How many you know, we ain't got time to be doing stuff and this
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  • Walking in self-deception, it's so easy.
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  • Self-deception creeps up on you and you deceived and you don't
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  • Think you are.
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  • You gotta be careful not to become arrogant, you know what
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  • I'm saying?
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  • Start being nice, nasty when you're talking to scripture to
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  • Folks, you understand?
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  • Y'all ever met them nice, nasty people?
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  • They, "well praise the lord, but if i was you," you know, yeah,
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  • That is just--look at this, luke 15, verse 27 through 31.
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  • Let's read that and then i wanna go and break it down and see
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  • What you can pick out here.
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  • He said, "and he said unto him," and this is the rich young
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  • Ruler, came and asked for his inheritance first so he can go
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  • Out and have some righteous living and life just wasn't what
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  • He thought it was gonna be and lost all his money and he had to
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  • Come back home, he was full of shame.
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  • Pick up here in verse 27, "and he said unto him, 'thy brother
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  • Is come,'" so he's talking to that rich, y'all know what i'm
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  • Saying, not the rich young ruler, i got my stories mixed
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  • Up, the "prodigal son."
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  • So the prodigal son is out there and he's coming home and his
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  • Brother hears about it, "and he said unto him, 'thy brother has
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  • Come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he has
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  • Received him safe and sound.'"
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  • Any parent would rejoice, 28 watch this, "and he was angry."
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  • So he must have fallen from grace because the bible says,
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  • "be careful that you don't fall from grace, less bitterness
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  • Rises up in you."
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  • Now, bitterness is unforgiveness that has fermented, anger that
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  • Was fermented, unforgiveness that's been there for a minute.
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  • And he says that comes as a result of you falling from grace
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  • Being justified by the law.
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  • I'll show that to you in a minute, he was angry.
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  • See that anger didn't just show up, it didn't just show up that
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  • Day, someone was already there working.
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  • So somewhere we gotta see where this boy was performing, "and he
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  • Would not go in: therefore came his father out, and
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  • Entreated him.
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  • And he answered and said to his father," watch this, "lo, these
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  • Many years do i serve thee," there you go right there.
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  • I've been performing the whole time, "many years i have served
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  • Thee, neither transgressed i at any time your commandments: and
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  • Yet you ain't never gave me a goat, a kid, that i might make
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  • Merry with my friends:" and so many words, you giving him a
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  • Party, you ain't never gave me no party.
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  • Watch this, "but as soon as this thy son was come, which has
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  • Devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for
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  • Him a fatted calf.
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  • And he said unto him, 'son, thou art ever with me, and all that i
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  • Have is already thine.'"
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  • So the older brother performed to get love of his father in
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  • Verse 29.
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  • Don't get what you are working for, didn't get what he was
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  • Working for, and then he became bitter.
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  • Now, let's look at hebrews 12:14, 15 and let's get an
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  • Explanation of what happened here.
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  • So this didn't just happen, he says, "follow peace with all
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  • Men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the lord:"
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  • Colon, that's not a period.
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  • So that means we're not finished with this thought, "looking
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  • Carefully or diligently lest any man fall of the grace of god;"
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  • Because when you fall from the grace of god, it's gonna be
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  • Difficult for you to follow after peace, it's gonna be
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  • Difficult for you to follow after holiness.
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  • So if you wanna follow after peace and holiness, make sure
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  • You don't fall from the grace of god, because there are a lot of
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  • People that are trying to fall after peace and holiness and
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  • They have fallen from the grace of god or they're trying to
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  • Achieve that through being justified by the law, through
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  • Their works and their performance and all that stuff.
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  • But he also said, "make sure you don't fall from the grace of
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  • God," because not only would that challenge you where peace
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  • And holiness is concerned, but he says, and he warns, "lest any
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  • Root of bitterness springing up and it'll trouble you, and
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  • Thereby many be defiled;" that's what happens when you fall from
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  • The grace of god, bitterness shows up.
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  • You're performing out of love or are you performing for love?
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  • Performing out of love or performing for love?
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  • I'm telling you right now, it takes grace to deal with anger
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  • And bitterness and all of those emotional challenges you have.
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  • And when you completely dismiss grace and completely dismiss god
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  • As your source and you go into self-preservation mode trying to
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  • Handle it all yourself, i mean, come on y'all, how many of you
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  • Know, a lot of things in our lives, we need some supernatural
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  • That really help us to get over that.
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  • I'm not saying that some of these things may help you so
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  • Far, but you can't put your whole self into that being the
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  • Total solution for your issue.
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  • There are some people who thought that the world's way was
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  • The total solution for their issue and then down the road, it
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  • Turned out not to be.
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  • You found out that the unforgiveness you thought you
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  • Dealt with was still hiding somewhere behind a closet in
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  • Your soul.
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  • It's still there and see you're trying to say the christian
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  • Thing because it's the christian thing.
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  • Well, have you forgiven him?
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  • "yes, praise the lord," but you ain't, ain't forgiven nobody.
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  • I ain't forgave you because as soon as somebody bring them up,
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  • They gonna say, oh yeah, i remember them.
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  • You know what they did to me about four years ago.
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  • What's happening?
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  • That bitterness is simmering.
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  • That bitterness is--that unforgiveness and anger
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  • Is fermenting.
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  • You got to let it go, you got to let what happened with your
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  • Ex-husband go, your ex-wife go.
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  • You got to let it go, what your church did, somebody church
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  • Hurt, you gotta let all that go.
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  • I'm the only one that's being hurt by it, you can't see it yet
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  • Because it ain't came to a boiling point.
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  • I gotta get rid of it for my sake, i gotta let that thing go.
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  • I can't let you somehow get your finger nails into my soul and
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  • Start controlling my life.
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  • I can't do that, i got to love you because i got to love you.
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  • And i'm gonna need the grace of god to help me to do that.
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  • I need god's grace.
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  • I don't know how to do that by myself.
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  • I still want to cut the joker, i don't know.
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  • You might have had something happen when you were five years
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  • Old, that stuff has been fermenting man, fermenting just
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  • Like the muscadine juice that your mama used to make and put
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  • It in the jars and keep it in the laundry room for 20 years,
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  • And then you go bust that thing open, it's tip--and you're like,
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  • "whoa, my god!"
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  • It started off juice, it ended up something
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  • Real strong so you can
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  • ♪ go to the party. ♪
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • That's what happens with the anger, that's what happens with
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  • The unforgiveness, that's what happens with the emotions that
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  • We stick in a closet in our soul somewhere.
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  • We gotta bring it all out, we gotta get that stuff all out so
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  • We can see it, so it doesn't boil over, so it
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  • Doesn't ferment.
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  • That very stuff will end up causing disease in your physical
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  • Body and god may call you to help somebody
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  • That you don't even like.
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  • He will call you to help somebody that you decided
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  • To ghost.
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  • You know what i'm talking about?
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  • Don't act like you don't know what i'm--don't sit up there and
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  • Look at me with that sanctimonious.
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  • Look, you know what i'm talking about.
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  • You have made your mind up, "i don't ever want to see, talk,
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  • Hear about you, nothing."
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  • And then the lord say, "i want you to send $1000 to such and
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  • Such, such and so," then you gonna find out, you thought you
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  • Dealt with it, then that stuff start boiling up.
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  • "yeah, lord, i hear what you're saying but you know, i love you
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  • Lord but i'm not doing that.
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  • I'm not gonna, i'm not, i need your mercy right now because i
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  • Ain't doing that.
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  • I know you god, i know you sit on the throne, you sit high and
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  • You look low but that joker will low down at me and i ain't
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  • Doing that."
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  • Are you understanding what i'm saying?
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  • You can't fall from grace back into your strategy of how to
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  • Deal with something that nobody was ever successful at dealing
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  • With under the law, even in exodus 19, and 8 when they said,
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  • "we can't do it."
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  • God said, "no, you can't.
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  • You are a fallen man, you can't keep this perfect law, this law
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  • Is too perfect, this law is my character, this law
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  • Represents me.
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  • It's too perfect for you to keep and you dare to show up talking
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  • About, 'we can't do,' okay?
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  • I got to bring you to a end of yourself so i'm gonna give you,
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  • I'm gonna give you laws and i'm gonna write some commandments on
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  • A stone and the rest of them in tablets and i'm gonna tell you
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  • To do all of them, do them all.
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  • And i tell you what, and what you can't do, you're gonna die
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  • For them.
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  • You're gonna be cursed.
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  • I dare you to complain, complain.
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  • Wish you would because if you complain, you gonna die.
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  • If you touch the bottom of the mountain, you gonna die.
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  • If you do this, both of y'all, you gonna die, y'all gonna die,
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  • All y'all gonna die because ain't none of y'all perfect."
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  • Until you come to recognize that i can't live this life without
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  • A savior, i can't live this life without jesus, i got to have him
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  • In every way, in every day.
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  • I got to have him.
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  • You don't hear me.
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  • The very act of performing to get love is causing you to fall
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  • From grace.
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  • The very act that you're performing to god to get
  • 00:14:11.853 --> 00:14:18.593
  • Something, you're falling from grace.
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  • Sinners could touch jesus to receive healing, but the
  • 00:14:25.033 --> 00:14:31.906
  • Pharisees could not receive because they were people trying
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  • To be justified by the law.
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  • Think of that and yet a sinner, a sinner that could have been
  • 00:14:40.048 --> 00:14:46.888
  • Stoned for being in public in front of them, of the people she
  • 00:14:46.888 --> 00:14:51.159
  • Were in front of, she touched the hem of his garment and got
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  • Healed, and you a pharisee and can't hardly get nothing.
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  • Somebody say, update that.
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  • The sinner you're condemning appears to be getting more
  • 00:15:02.870 --> 00:15:08.676
  • Effect from jesus then all the church folks going to church and
  • 00:15:08.676 --> 00:15:14.015
  • Praying in tongues on sunday.
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  • Why?
  • 00:15:18.286 --> 00:15:19.654
  • Because they know they ain't no good.
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  • They know that without jesus, they ain't got a chance of
  • 00:15:21.756 --> 00:15:24.559
  • Entering into those pearly gates.
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  • But you, you adding up all your good deeds based in selfishness,
  • 00:15:27.762 --> 00:15:37.205
  • Justified by the law, and i'm telling you this is happening
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  • All around the church today.
  • 00:15:42.010 --> 00:15:44.379
  • There's somebody in the pulpit teaching now about you got to do
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  • This in order for god to do that.
  • 00:15:47.715 --> 00:15:50.251
  • Pharisees were not outwardly wicked, they had a strong
  • 00:15:50.251 --> 00:15:58.059
  • Devotion, but they just were fallen from grace because they
  • 00:15:58.059 --> 00:16:05.666
  • Kept trying to be justified by their performance, trying to be
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  • Right with god by performance, trying to be like god
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  • Without god.
  • 00:16:14.342 --> 00:16:17.578
  • And then you go to john chapter 8, verse 10 and 11, and we see
  • 00:16:17.578 --> 00:16:25.386
  • This woman who was caught in the act of adultery, "when jesus had
  • 00:16:25.386 --> 00:16:30.625
  • Lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
  • 00:16:30.625 --> 00:16:33.728
  • 'woman, where are those thine accusers?
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  • And hath no man condemned thee?'
  • 00:16:36.330 --> 00:16:39.667
  • She said, 'no man, lord.'
  • 00:16:39.667 --> 00:16:42.370
  • And jesus said unto her, 'neither do i condemn thee: go,
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  • And sin no more.'"
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  • He gave her the gift of no condemnation, the gift of no
  • 00:16:46.507 --> 00:16:50.078
  • Condemnation, the gift of no condemnation.
  • 00:16:50.078 --> 00:16:55.716
  • You see, the church got it, we got it in the wrong order.
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  • We say, "go and sin no more, then we will not condemn you.
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  • Go and sin no more, and now you've earned the right from us
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  • Not to condemn you."
  • 00:17:12.767 --> 00:17:15.770
  • But jesus said, "i give you a free gift of no condemnation."
  • 00:17:15.770 --> 00:17:22.810
  • So you don't have to sin no more, but if you do, remember
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  • The gift.
  • 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.048
  • Remember the gift because something happens when you know
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  • That you're no longer condemned.
  • 00:17:35.389 --> 00:17:39.327
  • Something happens when you recognize that i'm still the
  • 00:17:39.327 --> 00:17:44.999
  • Righteousness of god.
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  • I messed up but i'm still righteous.
  • 00:17:47.502 --> 00:17:49.203
  • I messed up, i'm still perfect.
  • 00:17:49.203 --> 00:17:50.638
  • I messed up, i'm still holy.
  • 00:17:50.638 --> 00:17:53.040
  • Something starts happening with your desires.
  • 00:17:53.040 --> 00:17:58.312
  • See the other way is just a lie, "go, sin no more.
  • 00:17:58.312 --> 00:18:05.119
  • Come back to me in five years and if you're still sinless,
  • 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:09.557
  • Then i'll show you that i don't condemn you."
  • 00:18:09.557 --> 00:18:14.195
  • Even the people under the law, they couldn't, they had a year.
  • 00:18:14.195 --> 00:18:19.467
  • That blood of animals over them for a year.
  • 00:18:19.467 --> 00:18:22.703
  • Some of them couldn't make it home from the sacrifice.
  • 00:18:22.703 --> 00:18:29.644
  • It's just fables because somehow we think that by telling that
  • 00:18:29.644 --> 00:18:35.049
  • Lie, it does god justice.
  • 00:18:35.049 --> 00:18:37.518
  • It doesn't do him any justice.
  • 00:18:37.518 --> 00:18:38.853
  • He's greater in the midst of your junk.
  • 00:18:38.853 --> 00:18:42.490
  • See, jesus showed up in all of our lives in the midst of
  • 00:18:42.490 --> 00:18:47.562
  • Our mess.
  • 00:18:47.562 --> 00:18:49.797
  • Now the mess is not as messy as it used to be because jesus
  • 00:18:49.797 --> 00:18:55.236
  • Showed up, but he has never stopped showing up.
  • 00:18:55.236 --> 00:18:59.840
  • In fact, jesus, we don't have the kind of god that leaves and
  • 00:18:59.840 --> 00:19:02.243
  • Comes, and leaves and comes.
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  • He moved in, he ain't never gonna leave you.
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  • He never gonna forsake you.
  • 00:19:10.284 --> 00:19:12.086
  • You don't believe me, you used to get drunk?
  • 00:19:12.086 --> 00:19:13.788
  • Go to a bar now and get drunk and see what come out.
  • 00:19:13.788 --> 00:19:18.793
  • Ain't nobody wanna get drunk with you no more because you
  • 00:19:18.793 --> 00:19:20.828
  • Preaching now.
  • 00:19:20.828 --> 00:19:23.030
  • "yeah, i tell you what, in the name of jesus, you know, i don't
  • 00:19:23.030 --> 00:19:29.503
  • Even know how i did this but you know he good and i'm still the
  • 00:19:29.503 --> 00:19:34.609
  • Righteous of god.
  • 00:19:34.609 --> 00:19:35.977
  • I hate i did this, lord.
  • 00:19:35.977 --> 00:19:39.046
  • No, lord, i won't do this no more."
  • 00:19:39.046 --> 00:19:42.783
  • And then jesus come in and change your desire.
  • 00:19:42.783 --> 00:19:46.153
  • Look at isaiah 11, excuse me, isaiah 55:11.
  • 00:19:46.153 --> 00:19:50.057
  • I got a few more minutes here, isaiah 55, and 11, let's look at
  • 00:19:50.057 --> 00:19:57.265
  • Verse 10 and 11, "for as the rain cometh down, and the snow
  • 00:19:57.265 --> 00:20:04.305
  • From heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
  • 00:20:04.305 --> 00:20:07.241
  • And maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to
  • 00:20:07.241 --> 00:20:13.447
  • The sower, bread to the eater.
  • 00:20:13.447 --> 00:20:16.350
  • So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall
  • 00:20:16.350 --> 00:20:19.720
  • Not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which i
  • 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:24.392
  • Please, and it shall prosper in the thing where i i sent it."
  • 00:20:24.392 --> 00:20:30.231
  • For or because my thoughts, i believe here, my thoughts are
  • 00:20:30.231 --> 00:20:36.704
  • Grace, your thoughts are sin.
  • 00:20:36.704 --> 00:20:41.142
  • My thoughts are mercy; your thoughts of judgment.
  • 00:20:41.142 --> 00:20:46.480
  • We gotta change, we got to get our thoughts to line up with
  • 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:49.183
  • His thoughts.
  • 00:20:49.183 --> 00:20:51.218
  • When you try to keep the law, you fall down from grace because
  • 00:20:51.218 --> 00:20:55.189
  • Grace is higher than the law.
  • 00:20:55.189 --> 00:21:00.127
  • Look at genesis chapter 25 and 28 real quick.
  • 00:21:00.127 --> 00:21:04.699
  • I don't know how many times i've taught on this, but i've always
  • 00:21:04.699 --> 00:21:08.436
  • Wanted to put these pieces in.
  • 00:21:08.436 --> 00:21:13.708
  • "and isaac loved esau, because he did eat of his venison: but
  • 00:21:13.708 --> 00:21:23.150
  • Rebekah loved jacob."
  • 00:21:23.150 --> 00:21:26.787
  • We're not doing nothing, we're not doing nothing to earn it.
  • 00:21:26.787 --> 00:21:35.429
  • Israel was complaining and complaining, and while they were
  • 00:21:35.429 --> 00:21:42.336
  • Complaining, god was blessing and blessing and then they said
  • 00:21:42.336 --> 00:21:49.076
  • This, "whatever you command, we can do it," exodus 19 and 8.
  • 00:21:49.076 --> 00:21:56.217
  • They went to performance based, performance that was based
  • 00:21:56.217 --> 00:22:01.856
  • On self.
  • 00:22:01.856 --> 00:22:04.658
  • They fell from grace and when they fell from grace, watch what
  • 00:22:04.658 --> 00:22:08.295
  • Happens, then they built a golden calf.
  • 00:22:08.295 --> 00:22:14.702
  • Wow, the moment you fall from grace, sin becomes attractive.
  • 00:22:14.702 --> 00:22:22.843
  • The moment you are in grace, holiness becomes attractive.
  • 00:22:22.843 --> 00:22:29.417
  • Peter said, "i will never leave you nor forsake you."
  • 00:22:29.417 --> 00:22:35.022
  • Somebody says, "oh, but that's wonderful."
  • 00:22:35.022 --> 00:22:36.524
  • No, that's self-confidence.
  • 00:22:36.524 --> 00:22:40.795
  • He fell from grace and then he denied jesus and start cussing
  • 00:22:40.795 --> 00:22:45.065
  • People out.
  • 00:22:45.065 --> 00:22:50.504
  • That's a part you have to deal with too, confidence in jesus.
  • 00:22:50.504 --> 00:22:56.477
  • But sometimes we get more confident in ourselves.
  • 00:22:56.477 --> 00:23:01.215
  • I don't ever wanna get confident in me.
  • 00:23:01.215 --> 00:23:03.451
  • Here's my attitude, i can't do nothing.
  • 00:23:03.451 --> 00:23:07.054
  • What about you?
  • 00:23:07.054 --> 00:23:09.056
  • I depend on you for everything.
  • 00:23:09.056 --> 00:23:11.759
  • I depend on you to help me to go to sleep and wake me up because
  • 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:14.595
  • I know some people that went to sleep and didn't wake up.
  • 00:23:14.595 --> 00:23:16.664
  • I depend on you to wake me up when i need to wake up.
  • 00:23:16.664 --> 00:23:21.936
  • You go get an operation, i don't care how good that doctor is,
  • 00:23:21.936 --> 00:23:25.139
  • You better depend on jesus.
  • 00:23:25.139 --> 00:23:33.347
  • You got to trust god, i don't care what people say,
  • 00:23:33.347 --> 00:23:36.584
  • You gotta trust god.
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