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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - The Inferiority Complex | January 30, 2025
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- Taffi: welcome this morning.
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- We're so glad that you have carved out some time to just get
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- In the word of god.
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- And we just believe that as you hear, that word will begin to
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- Make a deposit in your spirit and deposit in your life.
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- So we are going to jump right into what i believe god wants us
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- To look at this morning.
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- We're gonna talk about the inferiority complex, the
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- Inferiority complex.
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- And so there are some things that i believe will be putting
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- You in the position where you can begin to identify things in
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- Your life so that you can walk and see yourself in the way that
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- God wants us to position ourselves.
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- And so we want to define this word "inferiority."
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- I'm gonna ask that you just follow along with the
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- Information that is there on your screen.
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- I believe that it will help you to be clear, and we can follow
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- Line upon line, precept upon precept.
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- And as a result, we can be changed thereby.
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- And so the word "inferiority" is "the condition of being lower
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- In status."
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- It is a condition of being lower in status "or quality than
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- Another or others."
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- The condition of being lower in status or quality than another
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- Or others.
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- And so when we look at this word "inferiority," it dates back to
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- The old testament.
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- There's a lot of historical information that is found in
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- Genesis chapter 3 when we look at adam and eve in the garden of
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- Eden, and it talked about how after they ate of the fruit of
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- The tree, that the bible says that the man would rule over the
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- Woman, and as a result, sin came in and caused them to be in a
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- Place of being ashamed.
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- The bible says that they covered themselves.
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- And when they ate of the fruit of the tree, that god said that
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- Adam would sweat by the--his brow and things would be a
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- Matter of toiling.
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- They would strive after doing things that god had told them
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- To do.
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- And so we know that the spirit of inferiority is what i just
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- Said it is, it is a spirit.
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- And so we want to shine light on it this day and understand that
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- It is a mindset.
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- And so, anything that is a complex is a basic set of ideas,
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- Beliefs, and values that one can live by.
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- Many people in this day and time have a set paradigm of ideas and
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- Beliefs about being inferior, feeling inferior, and have
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- Received that curse, which is a part and the side effects of
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- What happened in the garden of eden.
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- And so it is one's outlook, it's the filter easily through which
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- One can see themselves, how one will begin to see their lives,
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- How they filter situations, how they respond to things happening
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- Around them, the results that they see in one's life is a
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- Result of this word that we're talking about this morning.
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- And so let's begin in the book of colossians chapter 2, verse
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- 8--we don't have a lot of scriptures today, so we're just
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- Going to look at this one and go over to 1 thessalonians, but
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- Really wanna share a lot of information, and hopefully it'll
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- Kind of tie up some things because i realize that there are
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- A lot of voices that are going on in the world today.
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- And so, we have to make sure that we're tuned to the voice of
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- God and that we're hearing from him and seeing ourselves in line
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- With his plan.
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- So i have the amplified, but i'm gonna start with the message
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- Translation here.
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- It says, "watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big
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- Words and intellectual double-talk.
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- They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never
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- Amount to anything.
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- They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human
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- Beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings.
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- But that's not the way of christ.
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- Everything of god gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear
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- Him clearly.
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- You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to
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- Realize the fullness of christ, and the emptiness of the
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- Universe without him.
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- When you come to him, that fullness comes together for
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- You, too.
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- His power extends over everything."
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- And so we have to understand what it's saying here.
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- Now, this word in the king james uses the word "philosophy" in
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- Verse 8, where it says to, "beware lest any man spoil you
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- Through philosophy and vain deceit."
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- And so when we look at that word "philosophy," it is a set of
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- Ideas, beliefs, and values that one can begin to live by.
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- It's also, in the original context, the word "philosophy"
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- Here is 5835, is to elevate human wisdom over the wisdom
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- Of god.
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- It is loving one's own thoughts at the expense of god's word.
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- And so depending on our upbringing, depending on what
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- We've been around, how our environments have been, there's
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- A certain amount of ideology and things that we adopt in our
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- Lives that is, in many instances, could be opposing to
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- The word of god.
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- We looked at several weeks ago how the spirit of superiority
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- Can take place, where one thinks higher and regards their opinion
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- And estimation of themselves higher than what they should.
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- And then on today, we're looking at the spirit of inferiority.
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- And so that is thinking--low thinking, small.
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- And we looked at how and talked about how it started in the
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- Garden of eden.
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- And so this word in colossians chapter 2, verse 8 in the
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- Original text is talking about philosophy.
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- So we have to be mindful of the mindset that we have, the ideas
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- That we have, how we see ourselves.
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- If it's based on the tradition of society, maybe the filters by
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- Which, you know, other people see us, and in turn, we adopt
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- That same mindset and we see ourselves in the same type of
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- Way, but it's vital that we are aligning ourselves with how god
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- Sees us.
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- And so we can begin to see him, and then in turn, we can see one
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- Another in the way that we should.
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- And that's having the wisdom of god and not thinking too high,
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- Not thinking too low, but the scripture says to think soberly
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- And to think in line with how the bible says.
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- So it says here in the amplified, it says, "see to it
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- That no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves
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- Captive," that's what inferiority does.
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- It causes you to become captive to your own thoughts, to your
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- Own mind, to ideas that are too low, ideas that are devaluing of
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- Yourself, ideas that cause one to be lower in status and lower
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- In the quality than one should think.
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- And so when god made man in genesis chapter 1, he made man
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- At a level where he could commune with god and that he
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- Could fellowship with god out of the class of god.
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- You know, there was a classification of animals, there
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- Was a classification of humans, there was a classification of
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- Different things that god made throughout the seven days that
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- He made things.
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- But it was in that place that god made man, and he says, "man
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- Will be made after my image and after my likeness."
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- So we know that god doesn't think inferior, god doesn't
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- Think low, god doesn't think, you know, unworthiness.
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- God doesn't think these types of things, but we know that those
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- Things come in from society, come out from other people's
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- Exceptions that, in many instances, could be placed
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- Upon us.
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- And so it's so important that we identify and we recognize that
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- We do not allow ourselves to become captive by "so-called
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- Philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit."
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- The amplified says, "(idle fancies and plain nonsense),
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- Following human tradition (men's ideas of the material rather
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- Than the spiritual world)."
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- Now, we looked at, several weeks ago, we looked at a sermon that
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- Was around the time of 1700s and it was perpetuating inferiority
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- And it perpetuated a lowliness, the status of being in bondage
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- And the status of being slaves.
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- And so consequently, during that time, in the mindset of that
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- Sermon, as it was delivering, was ideas that oppose the
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- Mindset of god.
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- And so we also, in comparison, looked at the apostle paul and
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- Showed how even though one may be born into a certain state,
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- But because of jesus we can become born again.
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- And so we're elevated in our status, we are changed.
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- We're taken to a place where we're staying based on god's
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- Idea and god's plan for our lives.
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- And so he says here in the amplified, "following human
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- Tradition (men's ideas of material rather than the
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- Spiritual world), just crude notions following the
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- Rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and
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- Disregarding [the teachings of]
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- Christ (the messiah)."
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- And so this is what we understand concerning
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- Philosophies and how we must think in line with god's plan
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- For our life.
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- So it's a way of thinking, it's a behavior that's handed down
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- From generation to generation.
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- It's the handing down of opinions, doctrines, practices,
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- Customs from one generation to the other.
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- And so, you know, back in the early 1900s, in the '50s and
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- '60s, you had people who were afraid to make eye contact, were
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- Told that they were not good enough, had to look down,
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- Were unworthy.
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- And so there was this inferiority complex that was
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- Placed on races of people throughout time.
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- And even before, you know, it even happened in our country, it
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- Was happening in other parts of the world.
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- And so we have to understand where these things come from,
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- And we must begin to renew our mind so that we can think in
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- Line and not receive wrong beliefs, wrong thinking that has
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- Been handed down from generation to generations opinions, and
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- That, consequently, we think less instead of thinking in line
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- With god's word.
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- And so he says here in verse 9 of the amplified, he says, "for
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- In him the whole fullness of deity (the godhead)
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- Continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression
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- Of the divine nature].
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- And you are in him."
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- And like i said earlier, there's no inferiority in god,
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- None whatsoever.
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- There is the spirit of inferiority that comes from the
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- Enemy, that comes from satan, that comes from the world's way
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- Of thinking that is thinking low, that is thinking beneath
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- Your privileges and your right.
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- We talked last week about privileges.
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- And so we have to understand that because we are privileged
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- To have access and to stand on equal ground, we are blessed.
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- And so the scripture says in verse 10 that we are in him.
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- Say that with me, "i am in him."
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- It is a new creation realities that we are in christ.
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- And because i'm in christ, i give no place to the spirit
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- Of inferiority.
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- I give no place to the opposite spirit of superiority.
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- But i think in line with how christ sees himself.
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- Christ didn't elevate his opinion of himself.
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- He didn't think higher than what he did or what he should, but he
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- Thought in line.
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- He knew who he was, he believed that he had assignment, he
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- Believed that he had a cause, he believed he had a purpose.
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- He knew that it was important, it was vital for him to think in
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- Line with god's plan for his life.
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- And so it says in verse 10 that you are in him.
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- You are in him this morning.
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- It is in him that you live and breathe and have your being.
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- It is in him.
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- Not in the place of inferiority, thinking that you can't do
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- Anything because of the color of my skin, because of my gender,
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- Because of the caste system or the economic status that i'm in,
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- I can't do these things.
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- No, we are in christ.
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- And so he says, "if any man be in christ, he's a new creation;
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- Old things are passed away, and all things have become new."
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- So we are in him this morning.
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- And so we are shining light on the spirit of inferiority that
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- Wants to pull down, to think less than, to think that i don't
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- Have the rights to be the righteousness of god, and i'm
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- Unworthy and i'm filthy and i'm like dirty rags.
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- No, let's understand that we have been made--that you have
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- Been made in the likeness and in the image of god.
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- And so he says, "and having come to the fullness of life [in
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- Christ you too are filled with the godhead--father, son and the
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- Holy spirit--and reach full spiritual stature].
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- And he is the head of all rule and authority [of every
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- Angelic principality]."
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- And so we get the source of our status, the source of how we
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- Think from christ.
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- That word "christ" there represents the fact that he is
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- The source.
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- When it refers to "head," it's talking about he's the source of
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- How we see ourselves.
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- And it is out of how we see ourselves in him that we began
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- To govern our thinking and govern how we see one another.
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- And so he says here in verse 11, "in him," referring to christ,
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- Who is the source, the authority.
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- He says, "in him also you were circumcised with a circumcision,
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- Not made with hands, but in a [spiritual]
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- Circumcision [performed by]
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- Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh, (the whole
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- Corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lust)."
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- And so for me to look after someone after their gender, look
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- At someone based on the color of their skin, to look at someone
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- Based on the status, whether they're rich or whether they're
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- Poor, to treat them based on those things, he says
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- That's carnal.
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- He says that's secular.
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- And so he says, here, we are to put off the circumcision that's
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- Not made with hands and begin to recognize that we're "stripping
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- Off the body of the flesh, (the whole corrupt, carnal nature
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- With its passions and its lust).
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- [thus, you were circumcised when]
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- You were buried with him in [your]
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- Baptism, in which you were also raised with him [to a new
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- Life]," to a new life.
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- Not the old life when i was a slave, not the old life when i
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- Was a woman under the law, no rights, no privileges, had my
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- Head down, just, you know, hoping that i could just be in
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- The position that--no, but now i am in christ.
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- And because i am in christ, i understand that i am in him and
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- That he has raised me to a new life.
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- I'm a new specie of being that has never existed before.
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- He says, "through [your]
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- Faith in the working of god [as displayed]
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- When he raised him from the dead."
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- And so when jesus was raised from the dead, you know what?
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- Our mindset, our status was raised from the dead.
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- We were no longer, you know, small, beneath, bound in sin.
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- Bless god, as a result of jesus being raised, so we were raised
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- In how we are part of the kingdom of god and that we are a
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- New creation, a new specie.
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- And he says, "and you were dead in trespasses and uncircumcision
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- Of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal
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- Nature), [god]
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- Brought life together with [christ], having [freely]
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- Forgiven us all our transgressions.
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- Having cancelled and blotted out," he blotted out that
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- Old mindset.
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- You know, he wants you to get the new mindset, knowing that in
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- Christ now i stand on equal ground, glory be to god.
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- Not on the law, not where sin has dominion over me and, you
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- Know, i'm barely--i'm struggling.
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- I'm striving after the flesh.
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- No, no, i'm in christ and i've canceled out the sin, the
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- Weight, the heaviness, all the bad thinking, the
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- Heavy thinking.
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- And so he says, "having cancelled, blotted out, and
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- Wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond)
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- With its legal decrees and demands which was in force,"
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- This was under the law, where people were identified based on
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- Their distinctions and their classifications.
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- That was enforced.
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- And in many instances, in certain societies it's still
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- Enforced, until people begin to receive the equality that jesus
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- Came to give.
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- Because i want you to understand this morning, you have to
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- Receive your equality.
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- It's not, you know, once they start treating me better, then
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- I'm gonna start acting like--no, receive your equality right now.
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- You have been made equal in christ jesus.
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- Receive that, lay hold of it, own it, possess it.
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- Know that it belongs to you, know that it is a part of your
- 00:23:13.638 --> 00:23:16.908
- Covenant, know that it is why jesus bled and died, why he
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- Redeemed you.
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- So you can receive the privilege that you have in christ jesus, a
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- New creation, your new creation realities.
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- And then as a result, you can begin to hold your head up high
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- And know that god answers your prayers, that god longs to
- 00:23:38.096 --> 00:23:42.701
- Answer your prayers, to have a personal relationship with you
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- And to be close with you and to be intimate with you.
- 00:23:46.104 --> 00:23:49.274
- And then you can know who you are, you know who you are
- 00:23:49.274 --> 00:23:54.346
- Because of what the word says you are, not because of what
- 00:23:54.346 --> 00:23:58.383
- Somebody said, not because of some name that somebody called
- 00:23:58.383 --> 00:24:01.653
- You, or what, you know, was pronounced over you and things
- 00:24:01.653 --> 00:24:05.023
- That were spoken ignorantly or under the law or carnal things
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- Or bad environment, bad upbringing.
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- No, i change my mind.
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- I think like god thinks, and i see myself and i see my brothers
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- And i see my sisters according to how god wants me to see.
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- I believe that he died and that he rose again and that he
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- Lives today.
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- Come into my life, save me.
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- I receive you as my savior.
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- In jesus' name, amen."
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