Taffi Dollar - The Grace To Change

July 29, 2025 | 28:54

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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - The Grace To Change | July 29, 2025
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  • Taffi dollar: and jesus came to restore us back to how adam and
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  • Eve were in the garden of eden when they stood before god
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  • Without any guilt and without any shame, knowing who they were
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  • As the righteousness of god, knowing they were the beloved,
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  • Knowing they were the affirm, the welcome, the pleasing
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  • Of god.
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  • And so he says, i'm in the process of getting you back to
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  • That place of confidence of my love for you and the love that
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  • You can have to other people and you'll begin to treat them just
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  • Like i treat you.
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  • But how many of you know that's a process?
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  • Taffi: now, in 2 corinthians chapter 3 verse 18, verse 17
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  • Says, "now the lord is that spirit and where the spirit of
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  • The lord is there is," what?
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  • Bondage, confusion, chaos, animosity, strife, greed,
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  • Covetousness, lying, cheating.
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  • He says now the lord is that spirit.
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  • He's talking about the holy spirit.
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  • The holy spirit will confirm what the lord is the lordship
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  • Over our life and it won't contradict one with the other.
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  • They are god the father, three in one, the triune of god.
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  • The lord will confirm his word through the holy spirit.
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  • "now the lord is that spirit," he is that spirit, "and where
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  • The spirit of the lord is, there is (emancipation from bondage)."
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  • The amplified says.
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  • Maybe there's some bondages in your life that you just like
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  • Lord, when am i gonna be free from this?
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  • He says, "where the spirit of the lord is, there is
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  • (emancipation from bondage)."
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  • That's what jesus came to do, not to free us from captivity so
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  • That we can get back in captivity again.
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  • What kind of sense does that make?
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  • That's why i wrestle with folks who don't understand the
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  • Importance of us all walking in the equality that jesus came for
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  • Us to experience.
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  • Not so that we would live in equality and go back to equality
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  • Again after jesus came, but that we can all be one in
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  • Christ jesus.
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  • So there's this emancipation that comes as a result of the
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  • Spirit of the lord and there is freedom.
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  • And in verse 18, "all of us, as with unveiled face," he says,
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  • All of us.
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  • Not just some to experience liberty, not some to
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  • Experience freedom.
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  • He says, "and all of us, as with an unveiled face."
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  • Because before jesus came, there was a separation because
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  • Of the veil.
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  • The veil kept some out and kept some in.
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  • And now the veil, the scripture says was torn from top to
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  • Bottom, the veil was torn in two.
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  • He says, with an unveiled face, we can behold the glory of god.
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  • We can see god face to face.
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  • Now we can go direct to god.
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  • We can have direct access to him.
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  • We have equal ground that we can stand on, that we can go boldly,
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  • We can pursue god, we can rush god, we can go towards his
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  • Presence, we can receive his grace, we can see his mercy.
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  • So he says, with an unveiled face.
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  • We don't have to go through the priest and we don't have to go
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  • Through moses and do all these other things, but i'm telling
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  • You with an unveiled face, we are the apple of his eye and he
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  • Beholds us face to face.
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  • So he says, with an unveiled face "[because we]
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  • Continued to behold [in the word of god]
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  • As in a mirror the glory of the lord."
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  • And so the word of god is a mirror.
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  • And how many of you know you gotta look in the mirror on
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  • A continuous basis, amen.
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  • Likes, amen.
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  • Wallpaper, amen.
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  • Carpet.
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  • He says, you must continue to behold in the word of god as in
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  • A mirror, continue, continue.
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  • Some of us would not be very presentable if we didn't look in
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  • The mirror on a continuous basis.
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  • I'm just gonna leave it there.
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  • I'm gonna be nice tonight.
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  • Not going.
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  • I, if i didn't look in the mirror, no telling what i would
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  • Look like.
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  • And just as if i don't look into the word of god, no telling what
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  • Type of reflection.
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  • I'd be reflecting all kind of stuff, reflecting the flesh and
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  • Going off and unfruitful and in the flesh.
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  • But he says, continue as in the mirror, the glory of the lord,
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  • Continue to behold, to behold that, to keep it before you.
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  • To keep it before your eyes, your ears, your heart and that
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  • You don't put it down.
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  • Well, you know, i've been walking with the lord for 45
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  • Years and i have come a mighty long way.
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  • Well, you know what?
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  • We got a mighty long way to go.
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  • And obviously, if he still has us here, he has a purpose in
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  • Mind for us to do something.
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  • So continue to behold, continue to behold as a mirror, looking
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  • Into it, seeing what you look like, judging yourself based on
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  • What the word of god says.
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  • See what reflection.
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  • Are you reflecting jesus's image in the earth?
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  • How he wants us to carry ourselves.
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  • How he wants us to walk in grace.
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  • How he wants us to be people of love and people of patience and
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  • The fruit of the spirit.
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  • So he says, "we continue to behold the glory, the word of
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  • God as in a mirror, the glory of the lord are constantly,"
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  • Constantly, as long as you behold as a mirror, you will
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  • Constantly be changed.
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  • Now, once you put the word of god, you have no right, no
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  • Audacity to expect for god to change you.
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  • Because once we begin to rely on our own efforts or think that
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  • The word of god doesn't work, we cancel, we nullify the power of
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  • God to be able to provide the transformation in our life.
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  • So he says, "constantly being transfigured into the very own
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  • Image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of
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  • Glory to another; [for this comes]
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  • As the scripture says from the lord who is the spirit."
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  • And so there's this open face.
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  • Someone say, "i can change."
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  • You can change as you continue and constantly allow the word of
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  • God to be held in your life.
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  • So change takes place in the life of a believer by grace
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  • Through faith.
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  • Someone say, "by grace through faith."
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  • But how many of you know you can't change if you're always
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  • Trying to compare yourself with somebody else?
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  • You don't think you're good enough and you're trying to be
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  • Like them because, you know, it seem like they got it going on
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  • And so you think that you wanna be like them because that's what
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  • The world says you're supposed to look like and what you're
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  • Supposed to be as a christian.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians chapter 10 verse 12.
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  • You can't behold what god wants to do in your life if you're
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  • Continuously looking at other people instead of looking at the
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  • Word of god because we fail to understand what it is that god
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  • Wants to do in our life.
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  • And we're belittling what god has assigned for us because we
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  • Think that what they're doing is what we're supposed to be doing.
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  • So he says here in 2 corinthians chapter 10 verse 12, he says,
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  • "for we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
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  • Ourselves with some that commend themselves; but they measuring
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  • Themselves by themselves."
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  • There's a lot of themselves.
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  • "and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."
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  • How many of you know you gotta get outside of themselves, amen.
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  • And know what it is that god is calling you to do.
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  • Your individual assignment for your life, how he's wanting to
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  • Work his word through your life, how he wants to manifest himself
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  • Through you.
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  • The amplified says, "not that we [have the audacity]," we have
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  • The audacity and that's what the world system does.
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  • It makes us think that that's perfection, that's success,
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  • That's accomplishments.
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  • And he says, "not that we [have the audacity to]
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  • Venture to class or [even to]
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  • Compare ourselves with some who exalt and furnish testimonials
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  • For themselves!"
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  • He says, "however, when they measure themselves with
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  • Themselves and compare themselves with one another,"
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  • I can't compare myself with anybody here because
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  • I'm different.
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  • So for me to compare myself and my assignment with what you're
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  • Doing is to discredit what god wants to do in both of
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  • Our lives.
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  • And so when we can understand that we all have a unique
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  • Calling, we have a unique assignment, there's a grace over
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  • Our life, there's an ability that god wants us to do and then
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  • We can celebrate each other's uniqueness and each
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  • Other's differences.
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  • And we don't have to compete, we don't have to strive.
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  • You know, equality is not about women competing with men.
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  • Nobody's trying to compete with men.
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  • We're not trying to, you know, take authority and usurp all
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  • This kind of stuff, but we're understanding that in christ we
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  • Are one, amen.
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  • And so he says, don't compare yourself amongst yourself and
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  • With yourselves.
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  • He says they are as a result "without understanding and
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  • Behave unwisely."
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  • So remember, we're not to compare ourselves with one
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  • Another or compete with one another.
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  • We are all made in the image and in the likeness of god to
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  • Reflect his glory to the world.
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  • We all are made, black, white, jew, greek, bond, free, whatever
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  • Class, middle, high, low, we are all made in the likeness, in the
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  • Image of god and we don't have to compare ourselves.
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  • God loves us all the same.
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  • He affirms us all the same.
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  • We're the beloved, we're the cherished of him and he believes
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  • In us.
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  • And so he says, when we compare him, we get into a place of
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  • Competition and we are without understanding and we don't begin
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  • To see the fullness of the body.
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  • And that's what in essence has happened when we stifle off or
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  • We limit the potential maybe of the gender of women or we limit
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  • The potential of the african american man or whatever the
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  • Case may be, we limit that potential from becoming at its
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  • Fullest in society and society will never get to the highest
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  • Point because we're at a place of disadvantage.
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  • And so he says, we are without understanding and as a result,
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  • We behave unwisely.
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  • But we are all reflectors, the true image of god and we are to
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  • Reflect his glory, going from one glory to another level
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  • Of glory.
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  • Look at colossians 3 verse 10.
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  • Colossians 3 verse 10.
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  • Everybody's path is different.
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  • Of course, the destination may be the same, but what god wants
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  • To do through you may be different from what he wants to
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  • Do through me.
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  • That's why we can't copy other people's lives and duplicate
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  • What they're doing.
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  • We have to know what god is speaking to us by spending time
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  • With him and allowing his spirit to lead us and direct us on
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  • A day to day basis.
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  • Now, verse 7 says, "in the which ye also walk some time, when ye
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  • Lived in them, but now," he's talking about when we were
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  • Outside of the things of god.
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  • He says, "among you whom you also walked, when you were
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  • Living in and you were addicted to [such practices]."
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  • Those practices were described here in verse 5--when we were
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  • Addicted to "fornication and uncleanness, inordinate
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  • Affections, evil concupiscence, covetousness, idolatry."
  • 00:15:37.683 --> 00:15:44.123
  • And then he says, "in the which ye also walked some time, when
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  • Ye lived in and were addicted to [such practices]."
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  • Now look at what he says in verse 8.
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  • "but now," someone say, "but now."
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  • How many of you know the direction and the context is
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  • About to change?
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  • So he says, you live that way and you walk that way for
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  • Some time.
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  • He says, "but now ye also put off all these."
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  • He says, you also you put them off.
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  • So sanctification, holiness is a two part process.
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  • It is a putting off and it also is a putting on just like
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  • Redemption is the putting off and the putting on.
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  • So he says, "but now ye also put off all these."
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  • You put off "anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
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  • Communication out of your mouth."
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  • The amplified says, "rid yourselves [completely]
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  • Of these things: rage, bad feeling toward others, curses
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  • And slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances
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  • From your lips!"
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  • How many of you know when we began to see each other in the
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  • Image that god has made one another and how many of you know
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  • Our language will begin to change?
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  • But until we can see ourselves like god sees us, it'll always
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  • Be where we see other people inappropriately and incorrectly
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  • As well.
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  • The reason why the children of israel, when they were supposed
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  • To go into the land that flowed with milk and honey, they
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  • Couldn't see what god was trying to do in their life because they
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  • Saw themselves as grasshoppers and saw themselves as little in
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  • Their own eyes.
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  • And so until we understand who we are that it'll change our
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  • Minds and it'll change the way that we began to treat and value
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  • And respect one another.
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  • So it says here he says, "and put on the new man" in verse 9,
  • 00:17:56.088 --> 00:18:05.597
  • It says, "do not lie to one another, for you have stripped
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  • Off the old (unregenerate)
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  • Self with its evil practices."
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  • He says in verse 10, "and have clothed yourselves with the new
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  • [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process]."
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  • Someone say, "i'm in the process."
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  • So he says, "ever in the process."
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  • I know how we think highly and oh, i have arrived, but no, god
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  • Says, you are in the process.
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  • We are in the process.
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  • Part of us has been changed permanently.
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  • Our spirit when we receive jesus as our lord and as our personal
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  • Savior, a third of us when we become saved is perfect.
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  • But how many of you know that mind has to be renewed, it has
  • 00:18:55.948 --> 00:18:59.218
  • To become perfected, and the body has to be made perfect and
  • 00:18:59.218 --> 00:19:03.789
  • It will once we go to heaven.
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  • But we're in the ever process now.
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  • "[ever in the process of being]
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  • Renewed and remodeled into [fuller and more perfect
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  • Knowledge upon]
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  • Knowledge after the image (the likeness)
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  • Of him who created it."
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  • So in essence, we're going back and jesus came to restore us
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  • Back to how adam and eve were in the garden of eden when they
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  • Stood before god without any guilt and without any shame,
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  • Knowing who they were as the righteousness of god, knowing
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  • They were the beloved, knowing they were the affirm, the
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  • Welcome, the pleasing of god.
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  • And so he says, i'm in the process of getting you back to
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  • That place of confidence of my love for you and the love that
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  • You can have to other people and you'll begin to treat them just
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  • Like i treat you.
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  • But how many of you you know that's a process?
  • 00:20:03.382 --> 00:20:06.852
  • It takes time.
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  • A lot of times that there's hurt and abuse and all kinds of
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  • Negative emotions and negative experiences from the past.
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  • Thank god for the holy spirit that he can get us to a place
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  • Where we can be healed and we can be whole 'cause ultimately,
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  • He wants us to have the confidence of who we are being
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  • The image being made in his likeness and after him who
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  • Created him.
  • 00:20:29.608 --> 00:20:31.076
  • And so he says, this is what we are when we put on the new man
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  • After we have taken off the old anger and wrath and malice and
  • 00:20:37.616 --> 00:20:43.689
  • Blasphemy and allow the word of god to get down into
  • 00:20:43.689 --> 00:20:48.026
  • Your spirit.
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  • The word of god can heal you from all of that stuff.
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  • It can change you where you're no longer hurt person that's
  • 00:20:52.464 --> 00:20:55.801
  • Going around hurting people.
  • 00:20:55.801 --> 00:20:57.736
  • But how many of you know jesus can heal you wherever you hurt?
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  • If we can own it.
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  • Lord, i am hurt, i am hurting, heal me so that i can be what
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  • You want me to be and i can express your love and i can be a
  • 00:21:12.484 --> 00:21:16.822
  • Demonstration of your love and your healing power.
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  • So he says, put off all that old stuff that wrath and malice and
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  • Contention and competition and jealousy and envy and strife and
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  • Put on the new man that's created after me and after
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  • Godliness and holiness so that people can see
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  • The transformation in our lives, amen.
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