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Taffi Dollar - Overcoming Inequality

January 24, 2025 | S25:E24

Taffi Dollar - Overcoming Inequality
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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - Overcoming Inequality | January 24, 2025
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  • Taffi: we're gonna jump right into what i believe god wants us
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  • To share with you today, and we're gonna talk about
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  • Overcoming inequality, overcoming inequality.
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  • I realize that there's a lot going on in the world today,
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  • The racial wars that are going on, gender wars that are taking
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  • Place, economic wars, things that are taking place all over
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  • This world.
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  • And so thank god for the road map that we have, thank god for
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  • The guide that we can use as a reference to how we are to
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  • Govern ourselves and how we as the body of christ are to
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  • Operate in these last days.
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  • And so we're, as the bible says, living in tumultuous times,
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  • Perilous times.
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  • But we know that through god that we can do all things, and
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  • We look to him today for peace, we look to him for help, we look
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  • To him for solitude, all the things that we need in our
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  • Everyday lives.
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  • And so we just know that wherever you are work, home,
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  • Wherever you are in your car, we just pray that this world will
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  • Encourage you in the things of god.
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  • And so i'm gonna read some from the message translation, wanna
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  • Read some also from, probably, king james.
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  • But we're gonna do our best to tackle this topic
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  • Concerning inequality.
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  • This is something that is very dear to me.
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  • I've spent quite a bit of time studying the subject of equality
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  • Versus inequality and inferiority versus superiority.
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  • This is something that i've dedicated my life work to bring
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  • Clarity and do my part, as i believe that these things must
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  • Be properly reconciled in the word of god, you know.
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  • This is an issue that goes back to jesus's day, but i think
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  • We're getting closer.
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  • We're getting to a place where the body of christ is awakening,
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  • Thank god, to the importance of the discerning of the body,
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  • Seeing each other as god sees us, seeing each other the way
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  • That we should be seen, and that we are one body, and the body
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  • Can no longer operate in division, no longer operate in
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  • Prejudice, racism, division, strife, all these
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  • Different schisms.
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  • But it's time to really benefit from what jesus's blood was
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  • Designed to do, and that was to bring us together, to reconcile
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  • Us together, and to make us one so that we can really live the
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  • New birth that his blood and his plan was designed for us
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  • To experience.
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  • And so we're gonna start in galatians chapter 3 and we're
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  • Gonna look at this scripture here from the message
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  • Translation, from the message translation.
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  • I believe that this will really speak to your heart.
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  • So it says in galatians 3, verse 26 in the message, it says, "in
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  • Christ's family there can be no division," in christ's family
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  • There can be no division, "into jew and non-jew, slave and free,
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  • Male and female."
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  • And so it's important that we recognize what he talks about.
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  • Any family that is divided against itself can only function
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  • At a very limited capacity because the enemy dwells in
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  • Division, he dwells in darkness, he dwells in places of strife.
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  • And so he says in christ's family, in the body of christ,
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  • Which is based on love and founded on love, why is it that
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  • We see the importance of there no division being in existence?
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  • So he says, "there can be no division into jew and gentile,
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  • Slave and free, male and female."
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  • He says, "among us," among the christ's family, among the body
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  • Of christ, the family that has no division between race,
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  • Economic status, division between genders, he says, "among
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  • Us," christ's family, "you are all equal."
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  • "among us you are all equal."
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  • So he says, "that is, we are all in a common relationship with
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • And so there is this word "equal" as he references here in
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  • The message translation because i think that is what the basis
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  • Of gender wars have been about for centuries of time, is the
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  • Issue of equality between men and women, equality between jews
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  • And greeks, blacks and whites, browns and red.
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  • It's the issue of equality, rich and poor.
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  • And so we must begin to look at what the bible says concerning
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  • This very important topic so that we can understand and see
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  • One another in light of the word of god.
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  • So he says, "among us," this is the apostle paul writing here.
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  • He says, "you are all equal.
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  • That is, we are all in a common relationship with jesus christ."
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  • He's referring to the jew and the non-jew, he's talking about
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  • The slave and the free, male and female.
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  • "all in a common relationship," having access to god.
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  • You gotta understand that before jesus came, there was no common
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  • Relationship between believers and between the children of god.
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  • And so you had the jews and you had those who were privileged,
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  • And as a result, they were in the position to receive
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  • An inheritance.
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  • Males were given inheritance, those who were jewish were in
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  • The position to receive an inheritance.
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  • But as a result of jesus coming and expanding the opportunity
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  • That we all have, he says, as a result, there's a common
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  • Relationship that we can all have with jesus christ.
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  • He says, "also, since you are christ's family, then are you
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  • Abraham's famous 'descendant,' heirs according to the
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  • Covenant promises."
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  • And so i want us to really zero in on this verse here in 26
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  • Where it says, "among us you are all equal."
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  • Somebody say, "i am equal."
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  • And so you've got to understand how the enemy has fought for
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  • There to be the spirit of inferiority and superiority for
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  • Centuries of time.
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  • When jesus came, he came into a world that was filled with
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  • Self-righteousness, a world that was filled with superiority,
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  • Where you had a certain sect or group of people, certain cult of
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  • People, who thought they were better than others.
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  • They thought that they were more righteous than others.
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  • They thought that because of the religion that they were in and
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  • All the things that were taking place that they could look down
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  • On each other.
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  • And so jesus came into the world that was already divided and
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  • That he, in turn, as the scripture said, had to put it
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  • Up--right side up and things that were upside, down.
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  • And so inferiority has always been something that has stemmed
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  • From the book of genesis chapter 2 and 3 where the enemy came
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  • Into the garden of eden.
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  • And as a result of adam and eve eating of the fruit of the tree,
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  • The spirit of division came in.
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  • And so it talked about in chapter 3, verse 16, that eve
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  • And adam's relationship would be affected.
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  • And he said to the woman that "the man would rule over you."
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  • And so there's always been, as a result of the curse that came
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  • Into the garden of eden, there's always been this issue of
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  • Division and strife and inferiority and superiority.
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  • And so thank god for what jesus came to do, and it was because
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  • Of his blood that he redeemed us from the curse of inferiority
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  • And he gave us the rights and the privileges that we can all
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  • Stand together on equal ground and have equal access.
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  • And we could go before god, regardless of the color of our
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  • Skin, regardless of our background, regardless of our
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  • Economic status, but that in christ, the scripture says, that
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  • We can all stand as one body in christ.
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  • And so i want us to look over here in 1 corinthians chapter 12
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  • Because i want us to really understand some things
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  • Concerning overcoming inequality, because that is the
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  • Topic and what we wanna deal with today, this issue
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  • Of inequality.
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  • And so when we look at what jesus came to do, he redeemed us
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  • From inferiority.
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  • And inferiority is a persistent sense of inadequacy.
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  • It is to feel powerless, small, unimportant, to feel as if you
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  • Fall short.
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  • And so when jesus came into the earth, the 33 years that he
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  • Walked the earth, there was a lot of inferiority and there
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  • Were those who were in a place of superiority, but he redeemed
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  • Those who felt a sense of inadequacy.
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  • They felt powerless.
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  • The woman at the well, the woman who ministered to him with the
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  • Alabaster box, the blind man who couldn't see, the man who was at
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  • The well, the pool, who couldn't get into the water.
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  • So these were all, in most instances, overlooked, looked
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  • Down upon, shamed, until jesus came and validated their purpose
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  • And the reason for their existence.
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  • And so that was what happened when adam and eve ate of the
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  • Fruit of the tree.
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  • The spirit of inferiority came into the earth.
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  • And as a result, the--this shifting and this changing of
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  • Attitude came into being.
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  • So it is a persistent sense of inadequacy to feel powerless,
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  • Small, unimportant, to feel as if you fall short.
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  • And so thank god for the blood of jesus that gives us the right
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  • To see ourselves in line with one another and that we are all,
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  • As a result of what jesus did, we're on a level playing field.
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  • So as an african american woman, i have every right now because
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  • Of what jesus did to access his promises and be a part of the
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  • Body of christ.
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  • I can be one--i can stand side by side with my husband.
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  • I don't have to stand behind him.
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  • I don't have to be, you know, ahead of him.
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  • But now as a result of what jesus did, it gives us the right
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  • That we can stand side by side.
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  • The african american can stand side by side to the european,
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  • Or caucasian.
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  • And so that's what happens as a result of us understanding this
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  • Spirit of reconciliation that god wants us to all walk in.
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  • And so it's that mindset that has to be renewed, the changing
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  • Of the thinking, so that we can see ourselves, see one another,
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  • As christ sees us.
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  • And so this is a paradigm shift that must become operable in our
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  • Everyday lives, that will not allow the external things to
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  • Dictate and to determine how one is treated.
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  • So you gotta understand, in jesus's day they looked down on
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  • Those who were sick, those who were broken, they, you know,
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  • Were despised, they were rejected.
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  • In many instances, worthless, just, were not considered
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  • Human beings.
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  • But jesus came and he empowered the woman at the well, the woman
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  • With five husbands, working on the fifth one.
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  • But he says he had conversation with her and he talked to her at
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  • The well.
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  • And you gotta understand that that was unheard of, that was
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  • Unorthodox, that was not anything that jews would do.
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  • In fact, most women were ignored.
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  • And the fact that jesus had a conversation with her, and in
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  • Fact, it was considered to be the longest private conversation
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  • That jesus had.
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  • It's believed to be about 45 minutes.
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  • And so, it was to validate and to empower her and to elevate
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  • Her status.
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  • You gotta understand her status was, i'm sure, very low, number
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  • One, because she was female, and secondly, because she had been
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  • Married so many times.
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  • And so, we have this example that jesus modeled for us
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  • Because he went out of his way to empower, to elevate the
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  • Status of everyone who he came in contact with.
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  • He didn't leave them in the same state that they were in, but as
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  • A result of his life, his example, and him shedding his
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  • Blood, we are beneficiaries of that.
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  • And so as we read in galatians chapter 3, that now we can stand
  • 00:15:49.361 --> 00:15:54.333
  • As equals, now we can see one another as equals, he says to
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  • The husband and to the wife that--husband, to dwell in
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  • Knowledge with your wife and see that your prayers be hindered.
  • 00:16:02.941 --> 00:16:07.246
  • He talked about how you're heirs of the grace of life, you're
  • 00:16:07.246 --> 00:16:10.582
  • Heirs, together, of the grace of life.
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  • And so now both husband and wife can go before god in prayer and,
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  • As a result, have answers to their prayers.
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  • And so it's not under the old testament, where the male had
  • 00:16:21.760 --> 00:16:25.964
  • The rights and the privileges to access god, but now as a result
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  • Of jesus coming and elevating the status of women, elevating
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  • The status of those who are gentiles, and we are all able to
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  • Have an intimate and personal relationship with him.
  • 00:16:38.844 --> 00:16:43.849
  • So that's what we wanna look at this morning, so we can renew
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  • Our minds and understand that this war has already been won,
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  • The fight is fixed, we win.
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  • We look at the end, jesus has already obtained the victory
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  • For us.
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  • And so it's important that we always stay in a position and in
  • 00:16:59.631 --> 00:17:04.603
  • A stance of victory because the war has already been won.
  • 00:17:04.603 --> 00:17:08.140
  • And so, we are to carry it out and to demonstrate what jesus
  • 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:12.511
  • Came for us to experience.
  • 00:17:12.511 --> 00:17:16.682
  • And so, i know i said to go to 1 corinthians, but go to
  • 00:17:16.682 --> 00:17:20.018
  • 2 corinthians.
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  • I wanna look at that for a few minutes here.
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  • I think this may help to connect the next dot.
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  • So follow along with me, and i'm just believing that it'll all
  • 00:17:27.826 --> 00:17:31.897
  • Come together and you'll see yourself in light of the plan of
  • 00:17:31.897 --> 00:17:36.568
  • God, see yourself in light of what he wants to do.
  • 00:17:36.568 --> 00:17:41.573
  • So in 2 corinthians chapter 5, look at what he says here in
  • 00:17:41.573 --> 00:17:51.617
  • Verse 14.
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  • And we will--i think i probably should read this from the king
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  • James or the amplified.
  • 00:18:05.964 --> 00:18:07.566
  • So, you guys can pull that one up on the screen.
  • 00:18:07.566 --> 00:18:13.105
  • So chapter 5, verse 14, "for the love of christ constrains us;
  • 00:18:13.105 --> 00:18:21.613
  • Because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then we're all
  • 00:18:21.613 --> 00:18:25.784
  • Dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not
  • 00:18:25.784 --> 00:18:31.723
  • Henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for
  • 00:18:31.723 --> 00:18:37.563
  • Them, and rose again.
  • 00:18:37.563 --> 00:18:42.968
  • Wherefore henceforth know we know man after the flesh."
  • 00:18:42.968 --> 00:18:49.875
  • So when we know someone out of the flesh, we know them by the
  • 00:18:49.875 --> 00:18:52.578
  • Color of their skin, we know them by their gender, we know
  • 00:18:52.578 --> 00:18:56.715
  • Them by their economic status.
  • 00:18:56.715 --> 00:18:59.651
  • We know them to either be jewish, the privileged, we know
  • 00:18:59.651 --> 00:19:05.123
  • Them to be gentile.
  • 00:19:05.123 --> 00:19:08.060
  • He says, "henceforth know we no man after the flesh."
  • 00:19:08.060 --> 00:19:15.834
  • So this is the apostle paul talking here in terms of how we
  • 00:19:15.834 --> 00:19:19.571
  • Should acquaint ourselves one with another.
  • 00:19:19.571 --> 00:19:22.874
  • It shouldn't be based on the external things such as race,
  • 00:19:22.874 --> 00:19:29.481
  • Gender, should not be based on whether you're rich or poor.
  • 00:19:29.481 --> 00:19:35.053
  • He says, "know one--don't know one, or acquaint yourself based
  • 00:19:35.053 --> 00:19:39.591
  • On these things."
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  • "yet not henceforth know we no more."
  • 00:19:43.328 --> 00:19:48.300
  • It's like, okay, what does all that mean, the
  • 00:19:48.300 --> 00:19:50.435
  • Elizabethan language?
  • 00:19:50.435 --> 00:19:52.604
  • Let me read it to you from the amplified.
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  • "consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one
  • 00:19:55.307 --> 00:19:59.278
  • From a [purely] human
  • 00:19:59.278 --> 00:20:00.946
  • Point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]."
  • 00:20:00.946 --> 00:20:08.120
  • So to know someone after the flesh is to estimate and regard
  • 00:20:08.120 --> 00:20:14.159
  • Them from a human point of view.
  • 00:20:14.159 --> 00:20:17.796
  • So what god was saying here and what the word of god is saying
  • 00:20:17.796 --> 00:20:21.433
  • Through paul is to not look upon and determine or regard someone
  • 00:20:21.433 --> 00:20:28.407
  • Based on the "natural standards of value."
  • 00:20:28.407 --> 00:20:33.045
  • And so he goes on to say, "[no]
  • 00:20:33.045 --> 00:20:35.814
  • Even though we once did estimate christ from a human viewpoint,"
  • 00:20:35.814 --> 00:20:41.920
  • Just as a man, a carpenter's son, someone who, you know, was
  • 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:47.526
  • Mary and joseph's boy.
  • 00:20:47.526 --> 00:20:49.261
  • He said there was a time when people knew him from a human
  • 00:20:49.261 --> 00:20:52.264
  • Point of view and as a human, as a man.
  • 00:20:52.264 --> 00:20:54.966
  • He says, "yet now [we have such knowledge of him that]
  • 00:20:54.966 --> 00:20:57.936
  • We know him no longer [in terms of the flesh]."
  • 00:20:57.936 --> 00:21:00.572
  • Now he's the first begotten of the father.
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  • He's the risen one.
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  • He is the captain of 10,000.
  • 00:21:05.243 --> 00:21:07.746
  • He's the captain of our souls.
  • 00:21:07.746 --> 00:21:09.514
  • He's our redeemer.
  • 00:21:09.514 --> 00:21:10.882
  • He's our sanctifier.
  • 00:21:10.882 --> 00:21:12.217
  • He's no longer just, you know, a guy who went around operating as
  • 00:21:12.217 --> 00:21:18.256
  • A carpenter.
  • 00:21:18.256 --> 00:21:19.591
  • But now, because of what jesus did, we don't see him in
  • 00:21:19.591 --> 00:21:22.694
  • That way.
  • 00:21:22.694 --> 00:21:24.029
  • We don't regard and estimate him upon his human abilities.
  • 00:21:24.029 --> 00:21:27.232
  • We regard him according to how god sees him and what jesus was
  • 00:21:27.232 --> 00:21:33.004
  • Assigned to do in redeeming us and being the propitiation, the
  • 00:21:33.004 --> 00:21:36.908
  • Scripture says, of our sins, and standing in the gap for us and
  • 00:21:36.908 --> 00:21:44.182
  • Allowing us to be in the position where we can have a
  • 00:21:44.182 --> 00:21:48.720
  • Personal relationship.
  • 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:50.055
  • So he took on our sins, he took on our unrighteousness, he took
  • 00:21:50.055 --> 00:21:54.559
  • On our inequality, he took on our sickness, he took on our
  • 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:59.998
  • Addictions, our habits, our bondages.
  • 00:21:59.998 --> 00:22:02.934
  • He took on all those things so that we can be free to have
  • 00:22:02.934 --> 00:22:07.472
  • A personal relationship with god and so that we can experience
  • 00:22:07.472 --> 00:22:10.942
  • The new creation, the new specie, the new level of living.
  • 00:22:10.942 --> 00:22:16.448
  • And so, these are things that the apostle paul encourages us
  • 00:22:16.448 --> 00:22:20.218
  • Here in chapter 5, verse 16 so that we no longer know christ in
  • 00:22:20.218 --> 00:22:27.692
  • Terms of the flesh.
  • 00:22:27.692 --> 00:22:29.795
  • Then in verse 17 it says, "therefore if any man," or any
  • 00:22:29.795 --> 00:22:34.933
  • Woman, that word "man" includes men and women.
  • 00:22:34.933 --> 00:22:39.471
  • "if any person be in christ, he or she is a new creature," a new
  • 00:22:39.471 --> 00:22:47.546
  • Specie, a new person who's never existed before.
  • 00:22:47.546 --> 00:22:53.919
  • "old things are passed away; and behold, all things are
  • 00:22:53.919 --> 00:22:58.790
  • Become new."
  • 00:22:58.790 --> 00:23:00.325
  • The amplified says, "therefore if any person is [ingrafted]
  • 00:23:00.325 --> 00:23:04.563
  • In christ (the messiah)
  • 00:23:04.563 --> 00:23:07.399
  • He is a new creation (a new creature all together); the
  • 00:23:07.399 --> 00:23:12.537
  • Previous--the old [previous moral and spiritual condition]
  • 00:23:12.537 --> 00:23:17.442
  • Has passed away.
  • 00:23:17.442 --> 00:23:19.945
  • Behold, the fresh and the new has come!"
  • 00:23:19.945 --> 00:23:26.585
  • So once we come in christ, once we are in the position that we
  • 00:23:26.585 --> 00:23:31.556
  • Have a personal relationship with him, we understand the
  • 00:23:31.556 --> 00:23:35.594
  • Previous condition where inferiority existed, where
  • 00:23:35.594 --> 00:23:41.766
  • Superiority and all these things, racism, divisions, all
  • 00:23:41.766 --> 00:23:46.872
  • These things concerning strife and separation, he says those
  • 00:23:46.872 --> 00:23:50.442
  • Things, the previous, the moral and spiritual condition, those
  • 00:23:50.442 --> 00:23:53.545
  • Things are to pass away.
  • 00:23:53.545 --> 00:23:55.847
  • They were supposed to go away as a result of the new birth.
  • 00:23:55.847 --> 00:24:00.619
  • And he says, "behold, the fresh and the new has come!"
  • 00:24:00.619 --> 00:24:05.357
  • Female announcer: in the divided world we live in, should
  • 00:24:08.627 --> 00:24:10.962
  • A christian choose sides or stand in the middle?
  • 00:24:10.962 --> 00:24:13.665
  • How should we handle it when some people try to withhold the
  • 00:24:13.665 --> 00:24:16.701
  • Benefits, privileges, and freedoms jesus died for us
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  • To have?
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  • In "the color of racism," taffi dollar lays out the answer from
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  • Beginning to end in six timely messages.
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  • Gender wars, classism wars.
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  • It's time for the body of christ to show what real freedom is,
  • 00:24:31.149 --> 00:24:35.921
  • And that freedom is found in the covenant with god.
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  • Wisdom of god, and that wisdom is a covenant promise and that
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