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Taffi Dollar - The Grace To Change (Part 1)

December 18, 2024 | S

Taffi Dollar - The Grace To Change (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - The Grace To Change (Part 1) | December 18, 2024
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  • Taffi: so let's begin in romans chapter 12 verse 2.
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  • Romans chapter 12 verse 2.
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  • And we're looking at last time i called this
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  • "grace to change" and i'll continue on that.
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  • We can just say it's part two "grace to change"
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  • Because i believe that you can change.
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  • Somebody say, "i can change."
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  • Just like jesus saved you and brought you out of darkness,
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  • Took you out of hell being your destination, took you into
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  • A different path where you now have a heavenly destination
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  • When you receive him as your lord and as your personal savior
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  • So it is that other areas of your life can change.
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  • Other things in your life can be different.
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  • When creflo and i got married, we decided, you know, we weren't
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  • Gonna continue to do the things that we saw in our family and
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  • Different things that have been passed on from generation
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  • To generation.
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  • We wanted things to be different.
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  • We decided we were gonna change.
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  • We weren't gonna live based on hurt and get over different
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  • Things in our life.
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  • And so, the word of god gives us the grace to change.
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  • Somebody say, "i can change."
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  • And so it says, "i beseech you therefore, brethren, and by the
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  • Mercies of god, that you present your body as a living sacrifice,
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  • Holy, acceptable unto god, which is your reasonable service."
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  • Reasonable service.
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  • So when i got saved, i didn't know anything about a body being
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  • A living sacrifice.
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  • I was talking with my daughter about that earlier today about
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  • What that means for your body to be used as an instrument or as a
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  • Vessel to please god and how we can honor our temple and honor
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  • Our body in living a life that glorifies god and the choices
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  • That we make and how we are stewards over this temple.
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  • What we fill it with, who we allow it to engage with.
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  • So he says that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.
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  • The amplified says, "i beg of you in view of [all]
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  • The mercies of god, to make a decisive dedication."
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  • And that's what we're talking about tonight.
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  • A decisive dedication because change does require a decision.
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  • It requires a decision of quality.
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  • Everything begins with a decision.
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  • Every change begins with a decision.
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  • How many of you know things will never be different
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  • Unless you decide?
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  • Once you decide i receive jesus as my lord and as my personal
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  • Savior, how many know heaven is on--hell is on notice and heaven
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  • Is on notice to begin to open up the things that are available
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  • For us by god.
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  • And so it says, "make a decisive," we have to do that.
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  • We have to make that decisive dedication.
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  • "of your bodies [presenting all of your members,
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  • All of your faculties]
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  • As a living sacrifice."
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  • God's not just concerned about our mind or our spirit
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  • Just being saved, but he's also concerned about our body this
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  • Temple being presented to him where maybe there were things
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  • That you did before you became saved, but now that you're
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  • In christ, you make a decisive decision to present
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  • Your faculties and your members as a living sacrifice.
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  • So he says, holy, that means set apart, one with god.
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  • We align ourselves with the word, what god's word has said
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  • Concerning our bodies, how to exist and live in this body,
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  • To live the zoe kind of life in this body, the abundant life.
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  • He says, "to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
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  • Devoted," that means to be set apart as well, "consecrated
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  • And well pleasing to god."
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  • The amplified says.
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  • So he says, "to be a living sacrifice, holy,
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  • (devoted, consecrated)
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  • And well pleasing to god, which is your reasonable,
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  • (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship."
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  • So when we understand how god wants us to see our bodies and
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  • How he wants us to present our bodies to him, we have to change
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  • Our mind.
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  • And so maybe in the world or the world's way of doing things, you
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  • Know, you just did whatever felt right, you just did whatever
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  • The desires were.
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  • But he says now that you're in christ by the mercies of god,
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  • He says, make a decision to do these things that will be holy,
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  • That will be yielding that which will be honorable to god.
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  • The intelligent service that we can give unto god as our
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  • Reasonable service as our honor as our response to him that
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  • We serve god with our bodies.
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  • That is not just our minds, it's not just our spirit that
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  • Is saved, but now we serve him with our worship.
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  • We serve him by going and doing what it is that he tells us
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  • To do.
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  • We recognize that we have the holy spirit on the inside of us
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  • And where the holy spirit leads us, we go and we do and we obey,
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  • Because why?
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  • We are carriers, we're holy because of god living
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  • On the inside of us.
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  • And he says, that's your intelligent, that's your
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  • Rational, reasonable service and that is your spiritual worship.
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  • And then he says in verse 2, "do not be conformed to this world,
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  • But be transformed."
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  • Someone say, "transform."
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  • You know, there's this movie out this whole cartoon thing
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  • Called "transformers."
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  • And from what i understand, they change into all kinds of things
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  • And as a result, you know, what it was previously, it becomes
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  • Something all together different.
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  • You might say, "how do you know that?"
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  • Creflo, he watches all this stuff.
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  • So i just in passing can understand the "transformers."
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  • And so the scripture says here "be ye transformed."
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  • The amplified says, "to be (changed)
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  • By the [entire] renewal of your mind."
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  • That word transform is in the greek, it means "metamorphoó,"
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  • Talking about a metamorphosis, a process, a series of events that
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  • Takes place from how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
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  • There are series of events, phases, stages that a
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  • Caterpillar goes through and it goes back into the cocoon
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  • And it does all these different things and then ultimately
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  • It becomes a butterfly.
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  • But how many know, it started off small, it started off slow,
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  • It started off something totally different, but through
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  • The transformation and through the change that took place,
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  • The metamorphosis, it became something different.
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  • So it says be changed, the amplified says.
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  • Somebody say, "i can change."
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  • You can change your life.
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  • Jesus can change your life.
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  • You cooperating with jesus can make a wonderful combination
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  • Of something totally different,
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  • Unrecognizable from what it was before.
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  • And i look back at old tapes and old ways and old things,
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  • It's just amazing how the glory of god can change your life and
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  • How you can change and you're not the same, you're not stuck,
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  • You're not stranded, limited.
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  • I'm telling you in god, there are no limits.
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  • And so he says, "be transformed, be changed
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  • By your new attitudes, your new ideals so that you can prove
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  • [for yourselves]
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  • What is the good and acceptable and perfect will of god,
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  • Even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect
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  • [in his sight for you]."
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  • Somebody say, "i can change."
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  • So i want you to just let that resound in your mind tonight.
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  • Maybe there are things that you want to change.
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  • Maybe you want other folks to change.
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  • You know, they would just change, they would stop getting
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  • On my last nerve.
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  • But how many of you know, sometimes it's us needing
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  • To change.
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  • Sometimes before our circumstances will change,
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  • We have to change.
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  • Sometimes it's how we look at circumstances in our life.
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  • So quickly we can point the finger, we can look
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  • At the other person, we can think that they're the problem.
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  • That's the reason why things are as they are.
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  • But you know what?
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  • God's looking at us and he says, have a new ideal,
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  • Have a new attitude.
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  • And he says, through the entire renewal of your mind so that
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  • You can prove the good, the acceptable,
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  • The perfect will of god.
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  • And so maybe there are things that you're dealing with.
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  • Maybe there are people that you're dealing with.
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  • Maybe there are things at work at home, whatever the case may
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  • Be, but know through the word of god, if you stay with god,
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  • God will give you the grace and give you the opportunity
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  • To experience change.
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  • And so that's what he talks about here even in verse 3.
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  • He goes from the renewal of the mind, the transformation of the
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  • Mind to the grace here in verse 3, "through the grace that's
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  • Given unto me, every man that is among you, not to think more
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  • Highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according
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  • As god had dealt to every man, the measure of faith."
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  • The measure of faith.
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  • Now look with me at 2 corinthians chapter 3 verse 18.
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  • We wanna look at some things, line upon line, some scriptures
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  • So that you can understand.
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  • Number one, the change begins on the inside.
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  • Change begins, doesn't begin, you know, out there somewhere,
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  • But change begins within.
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  • And so when change begins within, how many of you know
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  • It can't help but be manifested on the outside?
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  • Change begins with a decision of quality.
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  • Life is a series of decisions.
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  • Bible says, choose this day whom you will serve.
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  • He says, choose life not death.
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  • So once we make choices, when we allow our will to be expressed,
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  • God honors our will and he gives us the free will right.
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  • He made us free moral agents and he honors our desire,
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  • Whether we choose life or whether we choose death.
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  • And so we have this opportunity, this intelligent, rational,
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  • Reasonable service that we can extend unto god and experience
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  • The change as we honor his word and we allow his word to become
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  • First place in our life.
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  • So change is a life long daily challenge that will end with
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  • The eternal harvest of holiness.
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  • So it's an ongoing, it's a life long, every day
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  • There are new things.
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  • The word of god is pregnant.
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  • The holy spirit is pregnant full of revelation.
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  • There are so many things that we can learn from the word of god
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  • Because we allow the word of god to speak into our lives
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  • Every day.
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  • There are more things that we can learn this time, this season
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  • That maybe it clicks this time than what it did before.
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  • And so expect the supernatural, expect the manifestation,
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  • Expect revelation as a result of desiring to experience
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  • More of god in your life.
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  • So some of the keys for anyone wanting to help others to change
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  • Are ensuring the what, the why, the how of change.
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  • We have to understand that change is not self effort
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  • Or self oriented, but it is god oriented.
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  • Otherwise, we'll get ourselves in a place of legalism where
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  • We'll try to change ourselves.
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  • We'll try to do things of our own natural ability.
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  • And we put so much pressure on ourselves and we can even put
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  • A lot of pressure on people to try to change, to measure up
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  • To our acceptance of them.
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  • But how many of you know god never did that to us?
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  • And so we have to understand that there's a grace to change.
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  • There's a grace, there's a goodness, there's favor, there's
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  • A holy spirit that god sends to us to enable us to experience
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  • This ability, this grace, this supernatural
  • 00:15:18.130 --> 00:15:21.934
  • That comes from god.
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  • And as a result, we don't have to rely upon our flesh or rely
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  • Upon legalism and our own ability, our human ability.
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  • So we aren't looking merely at human behavior, but we're
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  • Looking at the heart because everything begins on the inside,
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  • It begins in the heart.
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  • Because, you know, we can go through the behaviors and try to
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  • Modify behavior and try to resist certain habits, but if we
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  • Allow the holy spirit to begin to come in, how many of you know
  • 00:15:55.434 --> 00:15:58.804
  • All of a sudden he can get the work and get down to the depths
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  • And the crevices?
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  • The bible says that the word is a discerner and it sifts out the
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  • Thoughts and the intents of the heart and it gets down to below
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  • The level of what therapy is.
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  • I'm not against therapy.
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  • I'm not against any of those natural things, but it's
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  • Something about the spirit, the word that can get to the root.
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  • And then all of a sudden when it gets to the root,
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  • Behavior begins to change.
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  • And so it's not this effort that you're placing on yourself to
  • 00:16:32.471 --> 00:16:36.842
  • Try to modify your behavior, but then god begins to give you the
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  • Desires and then those desires begin to lead you in a totally
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  • Different direction.
  • 00:16:45.517 --> 00:16:47.519
  • When i got saved and understood that this relationship that
  • 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:51.356
  • I was in was heading straight to hell, just full of ungodly
  • 00:16:51.356 --> 00:16:54.960
  • Habits and ungodly desires, all of a sudden the desires on the
  • 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:59.131
  • Inside of me just left.
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  • I said, lord, i don't wanna stay in this relationship anymore.
  • 00:17:01.266 --> 00:17:04.870
  • We were engaged to be married.
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  • I said, no, this is not god, this is not where i'm supposed
  • 00:17:06.705 --> 00:17:10.342
  • To be.
  • 00:17:10.342 --> 00:17:11.710
  • And then all of a sudden, i had a desire for the things of god.
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  • I had the right type of desire that i wanna have right
  • 00:17:13.879 --> 00:17:17.049
  • Relationships in my life.
  • 00:17:17.049 --> 00:17:19.384
  • But that's because the word of god went down to the root in
  • 00:17:19.384 --> 00:17:24.289
  • My life.
  • 00:17:24.289 --> 00:17:26.024
  • And i knew that i was different.
  • 00:17:26.024 --> 00:17:27.626
  • I knew that there was something changing in my life where things
  • 00:17:27.626 --> 00:17:30.796
  • That i would be accustomed to doing that all of a sudden
  • 00:17:30.796 --> 00:17:34.533
  • I didn't have those same desires to wanna do anymore.
  • 00:17:34.533 --> 00:17:39.104
  • And so let's look at this.
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  • I quoted it, but i want you to see this in hebrews chapter 4
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  • Verse 12.
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  • I'm telling you, you stick with the word of god
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  • And the word of god is alive.
  • 00:17:53.452 --> 00:17:56.855
  • When jesus raised, was raised from the dead, raised out of sin
  • 00:17:56.855 --> 00:18:02.461
  • That means that bless god, we can be raised out of sin.
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  • Sin is no longer to be an issue in our life.
  • 00:18:06.165 --> 00:18:10.302
  • He dealt with the grave.
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  • He dealt with death.
  • 00:18:11.904 --> 00:18:13.438
  • He dealt with separation.
  • 00:18:13.438 --> 00:18:15.607
  • He dealt with death and sickness and in poverty and mourning
  • 00:18:15.607 --> 00:18:21.847
  • And all the things that would enslave and keep us in a place
  • 00:18:21.847 --> 00:18:27.085
  • Of bondage, but it is the word of god.
  • 00:18:27.085 --> 00:18:30.756
  • It is god's word that equips us to be able to experience
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  • The life that is supernatural, that comes from god.
  • 00:18:36.828 --> 00:18:40.332
  • So it says in verse 12, "for the word of god is quick,"
  • 00:18:40.332 --> 00:18:44.369
  • That means it is alive.
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  • You know, i used to think when it said quick that it just,
  • 00:18:46.905 --> 00:18:50.108
  • You know, it was moving real fast and, you know, there are
  • 00:18:50.108 --> 00:18:52.644
  • Spiritual things in the material realm and things that are in the
  • 00:18:52.644 --> 00:18:58.550
  • Supernatural realm.
  • 00:18:58.550 --> 00:18:59.952
  • So he's not talking about in the sense of, you know, just i guess
  • 00:18:59.952 --> 00:19:06.024
  • Earthly motion, but he's talking about the fact that the word
  • 00:19:06.024 --> 00:19:09.761
  • Of god is alive.
  • 00:19:09.761 --> 00:19:11.964
  • The word of god is alive and the scripture said it is full
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  • Of power.
  • 00:19:15.434 --> 00:19:17.102
  • It has the power to change your life just like it changed you.
  • 00:19:17.102 --> 00:19:21.873
  • It made you alive in christ by making you the righteousness of
  • 00:19:21.873 --> 00:19:27.746
  • God through the power of god.
  • 00:19:27.746 --> 00:19:30.282
  • It has the power to cause you to understand that you have
  • 00:19:30.282 --> 00:19:35.454
  • Equality in christ and you have been made accepted
  • 00:19:35.454 --> 00:19:41.293
  • In the beloved.
  • 00:19:41.293 --> 00:19:42.628
  • So it says, "the word of god that god speaks is alive, is
  • 00:19:42.628 --> 00:19:45.264
  • Full of power, [making it active, operative, energizing
  • 00:19:45.264 --> 00:19:53.472
  • And effective]."
  • 00:19:53.472 --> 00:19:55.474
  • I'm all about effectiveness and thank god for the word that
  • 00:19:55.474 --> 00:20:00.012
  • It's not a hit or miss thing.
  • 00:20:00.012 --> 00:20:01.346
  • But how many of you know god knows the--he knows how to find
  • 00:20:01.346 --> 00:20:04.116
  • You just where you are.
  • 00:20:04.116 --> 00:20:06.752
  • You can go to the ends of the earth, you can go to timbuktu,
  • 00:20:06.752 --> 00:20:10.088
  • Run from god, but how many of you know as far as we run,
  • 00:20:10.088 --> 00:20:13.125
  • The holy spirit will pursue us and say i'm here.
  • 00:20:13.125 --> 00:20:17.262
  • I love you.
  • 00:20:17.262 --> 00:20:19.264
  • I want a relationship with you.
  • 00:20:19.264 --> 00:20:22.000
  • And so he says the word of god is effective.
  • 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.438
  • And so that's why we don't have to worry about trying to
  • 00:20:26.438 --> 00:20:28.740
  • Change people.
  • 00:20:28.740 --> 00:20:30.175
  • I'm telling you just stay in your rest, stay in your peace
  • 00:20:30.175 --> 00:20:34.513
  • And release the holy spirit, release god, release his word.
  • 00:20:34.513 --> 00:20:39.017
  • The bible says that his word won't return to us void, but it
  • 00:20:39.017 --> 00:20:43.555
  • Will accomplish that which you sent it forth to accomplish.
  • 00:20:43.555 --> 00:20:48.593
  • So it says the word is alive, child of god, it is active,
  • 00:20:48.593 --> 00:20:54.733
  • It is operative even as you're sitting here right now and
  • 00:20:54.733 --> 00:20:59.071
  • You're hearing the word of god, those seeds are being deposited
  • 00:20:59.071 --> 00:21:03.442
  • In your spirit.
  • 00:21:03.442 --> 00:21:04.776
  • The holy spirit is being stirred up on the inside of you.
  • 00:21:04.776 --> 00:21:08.213
  • So there's an operation, there's activity in the realm
  • 00:21:08.213 --> 00:21:12.984
  • Of the spirit, "energizing and effective.
  • 00:21:12.984 --> 00:21:18.623
  • It is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating
  • 00:21:18.623 --> 00:21:24.229
  • To the dividing line of the breath of life."
  • 00:21:24.229 --> 00:21:28.333
  • So it gets down to the soul area, the soulish realm
  • 00:21:28.333 --> 00:21:34.539
  • "and [the immortal] spirit,
  • 00:21:34.539 --> 00:21:37.542
  • And of the joints and the marrow [of the deepest parts
  • 00:21:37.542 --> 00:21:42.514
  • Of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and
  • 00:21:42.514 --> 00:21:47.953
  • Judging the very thoughts and the very purposes of our heart."
  • 00:21:47.953 --> 00:21:55.994
  • So this is powerful that the word of god can go
  • 00:21:55.994 --> 00:22:02.501
  • Into our very marrow, our dna.
  • 00:22:02.501 --> 00:22:05.804
  • It can go into our joints, the deepest part of who we are.
  • 00:22:05.804 --> 00:22:10.342
  • That's because of the holy spirit that abides
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  • On the inside of us.
  • 00:22:13.712 --> 00:22:15.414
  • That's why human will can only go so far.
  • 00:22:15.414 --> 00:22:17.516
  • Human effort can only do so much.
  • 00:22:17.516 --> 00:22:20.786
  • You can say i'm not gonna eat that cake.
  • 00:22:20.786 --> 00:22:22.521
  • I'm not gonna eat that donut.
  • 00:22:22.521 --> 00:22:24.156
  • Then you wake up and all of a sudden you didn't eat the cake,
  • 00:22:24.156 --> 00:22:27.058
  • You didn't ate the donut, but it's something
  • 00:22:27.058 --> 00:22:30.195
  • About the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:30.195 --> 00:22:33.098
  • Man, you get before god and you just continue to stay with god
  • 00:22:33.098 --> 00:22:36.902
  • And you trust god to change your desires, you trust god to put
  • 00:22:36.902 --> 00:22:41.173
  • The right desires on the inside of you and help him to give you
  • 00:22:41.173 --> 00:22:45.210
  • The right want to.
  • 00:22:45.210 --> 00:22:47.012
  • Then all of a sudden you recognize, hey, i got authority.
  • 00:22:47.012 --> 00:22:49.981
  • I got dominion.
  • 00:22:49.981 --> 00:22:51.316
  • I got power.
  • 00:22:51.316 --> 00:22:52.684
  • I got the ability to tread over serpents and scorpions
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  • Over all the power of the enemy, amen.
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