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Taffi Dollar - Thinking Smart And Smart Thinking

September 12, 2025 | 28:51

Taffi Dollar - Thinking Smart And Smart Thinking
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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - Thinking Smart And Smart Thinking | September 12, 2025
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  • Taffi: i want to talk this morning about "thinking smart
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  • And smart thinking."
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  • Thinking smart, smart thinking.
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  • We are going to start in the book of 1 corinthians chapter
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  • 15, verse 34.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 15, verse 34,
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  • From the message translation.
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  • And i just trust that this will bless your life.
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  • He says, "think straight," think straight.
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  • "awaken to the holiness of life.
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  • No more playing fast and loose with resurrection
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  • Fast--resurrection facts."
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  • No more playing fast and loose with resurrection facts.
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  • "ignorance of god is a luxury you can't afford in times
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  • Like these."
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  • He says, "aren't you embarrassed that you've let this kind of
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  • Thing go on as long as you have?"
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  • So, i want us to recognize this morning about the importance of
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  • Thinking smart and smart thinking, because ignorance of
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  • God is not a luxury in these day and times in which we live.
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  • It's not something that we can afford to be not knowing, to not
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  • Be knowledgeable and cognizant of god's presence in our life.
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  • He says this is a luxury that is too expensive,
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  • Too expensive for us to not be mindful of him.
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  • Ignorance of god, not playing fast, loose with
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  • Resurrection facts.
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  • And we've got to begin to look at some things and understand as
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  • It relates to resurrection facts.
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  • And so, he says this is something that we cannot afford
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  • In times like these.
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  • Being mindful of him in every area of our life.
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  • When we wake up, when we go through our life, when we show
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  • Up in life, that we are mindful of him, that we have him on our
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  • Mind and we know his presence is with us because he is jehovah
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  • Shammah and the holy spirit lives on the inside of us.
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  • Now, let's look at some things here concerning smart thinking
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  • And smart--thinking smart.
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  • Got a couple of scriptures we wanna look at.
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  • In romans chapter 5, in the mirror translation, i want to
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  • Read that in verses 9 through 11 in the mirror.
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  • And then we're also going to look at it in the
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  • Message translation, in the message translation.
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  • So, somebody say, "smart thinking and thinking smart."
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  • He says ignorance of god is a luxury that we cannot afford.
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  • And that really grabbed me and really got my attention because
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  • Sometimes we're not always thinking about god in business,
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  • Not thinking about him as the first thing in our minds when we
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  • Wake up.
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  • We may be so quick to grab our phone or grab other things or
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  • Hop up and get going as opposed to really thinking smart and
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  • Being mindful of his presence.
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  • In romans chapter 5, verse 9 in the message is--i mean in the
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  • Mirror, it says, "if god could love us that much when we were
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  • Ungodly and guilty, how much more are we free to realize his
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  • Love now that we are declared innocent by his blood?
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  • Our hostility and indifference towards god did not reduce his
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  • Love for us.
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  • He saw equal value in us when he exchanged the life of his son
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  • For ours.
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  • Now the act of reconciliation is complete, his life in us saves
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  • Us from the guttermost to the uttermost."
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  • And then in verse 11, "thus, our joyful boasting in god
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  • Continues; jesus christ has made reconciliation a reality."
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  • Now let's look at what it says in the message, "now that we are
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  • Set right with god," somebody say, "i'm set right."
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  • That means you have right standing, that means you have
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  • The right stance, you have the correct position.
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  • "now that we are set right with god by means of his sacrificial
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  • Death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a
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  • Question of being at odds with god in any way."
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  • It's not a question anymore.
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  • When we receive jesus and receive the sacrifice that was
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  • Made on our behalf, we are no longer at odds with god in
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  • Any way.
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  • "if, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms
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  • With god by the sacrificial death of his son."
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  • At our worst, we were put on friendly terms with him.
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  • When we weren't thinking about him, when we were in the depths
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  • Of sin trying to plan and plot how to do more sin, he says
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  • That, "we were put on friendly terms with god by the death of
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  • His son, now that we are at our best, just think of how our
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  • Lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!
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  • Now that we have actually received this amazing," somebody
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  • Say amazing, "amazing friendship with god, we are no longer
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  • Content to say it--to simply say it in plodding prose.
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  • We sing and shout our praises to god through jesus, the messiah!"
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  • That's good news.
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  • Now, look over in chapter 6, let's go to the next chapter in
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  • The message.
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  • Same translation, verse 6, concerning these resurrected
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  • Facts--these resurrection facts and us thinking smart, thinking
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  • Like god sees us, thinking in light of how he has set us
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  • Right, of how he's positioned us, his viewpoint, his
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  • Perspective of us.
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  • He says here in verse 6, "could it be any clearer?
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  • Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with christ."
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  • Your old way, the old you, the old ignorant you, the old bound
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  • In addiction, bondage, yokes.
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  • He says, "our old way of life was nailed to the cross with
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  • Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life--no longer at
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  • Sins every beck and call!
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  • What we believe is this: if we get included in christ's
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  • Sin-conquering death, we also get included," glory be to god,
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  • "in his life-saving resurrection.
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  • We know that when jesus was raised from the dead it was a
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  • Signal of the end of death-as-the-end.
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  • Never again will death have the last word."
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  • My god.
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  • Never again will death have the last word.
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  • I'm telling you, sin has been defeated, death has
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  • Been defeated.
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  • The bible talks about how death was swallowed up in victory and
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  • It no longer has the last word.
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  • In christ, death is totally different.
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  • It's not the end, it's the beginning.
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  • It's a new beginning, it's the commencement of something that's
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  • Never existed before.
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  • So, as a result of being in christ, he says, "never again
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  • Will death have the last word.
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  • When jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he
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  • Brings god down to us."
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  • Think of that.
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  • He brought the things of god, the resurrected life, having
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  • Forgiveness, a personal relationship, to be close to
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  • God, to have all the things, he brought it down to us.
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  • "from now on, think of it this way: sin speaks a dead language
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  • That means nothing to you."
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  • So, that's good news.
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  • Now turn over to chapter 8. couple of chapters down.
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  • Romans chapter 8, verses 15 through 17.
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  • Just wanna read and put you in remembrance of some things
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  • Concerning the resurrected life, some resurrection facts so that
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  • We can think smart and experience smart living.
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  • "this resurrection life you received from god is not a
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  • Timid, grave-tending life."
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  • It's not a timid, it's not grave-tending.
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  • "it is adventurously expectant."
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  • My goodness.
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  • Waking up having the opportunity to experience god and to see it
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  • As an adventure in expectation for whatever he wants to do in
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  • Our lives.
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  • "greeting god with a childlike, 'what's next, papa?'
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  • God's spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are.
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  • We know who he is," and he says, "and we know who we are: father
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  • And children."
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  • Father and children.
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  • Now let me read a couple more things to you and i'll make a
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  • Couple of points here.
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  • I'm gonna read from 1 corinthians chapter 15 in the
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  • Mirror translation.
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  • And it says, "if christ is not raised from the dead there is
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  • Nothing left for us."
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  • "if christ is not raised from the dead there is nothing left."
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  • What's the whole purpose?
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  • "to preach and nothing left for you to believe."
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  • So, it's because of christ being raised from the dead that we
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  • Have this ability in him, amen?
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  • And if he were not raised, there would be nothing that we would
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  • Be able to overcome, that we would have victory over.
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  • We would be bound by gender, we would be bound by race, we would
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  • Be bound by our upbringing, by our pedigree.
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  • We would be bound by sin.
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  • But he says, "if there weren't any resurrection from the dead,
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  • There would be nothing."
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  • But because of what jesus did and because he raised himself
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  • From the dead, although the father raised him from the dead,
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  • We're no longer bound by sin.
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  • We're no longer limited to our gender and the curse or the law.
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  • We're no longer limited by the color of our skin.
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  • Now, jesus has come on the inside of us and made us equal
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  • Heirs that we can stand on equal ground and we can have
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  • Beneficiaries of all the promises that jesus has
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  • Made available.
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  • And that spirit that was on the inside of him to speak to
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  • Mountains and to lay hands on the sick and to heal the dead
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  • And to raise the dead and cause the blind to see, all those
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  • Things, that miracle working power because of him being
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  • Raised from the dead, that's alive on the inside of us.
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  • So now we have the opportunity to go and represent and be his
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  • Ambassador in the earth.
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  • That it is not based on me showing up in my gender or
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  • Showing up in my color, but it's jesus.
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  • I'm an expression, i'm an ambassador, i'm a represent of
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  • Him on this earth.
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  • And as a result, that burden-removing, yoke-destroying
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  • Power enters the room, it enters the home,
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  • It enters the marketplace.
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  • It turns things that are upside down, right side up, and it
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  • Causes things to shift in the direction that it should be.
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  • Now, 2 corinthians, look at chapter 3, verse 18.
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  • Now, i'm gonna read something to you as well in the mirror, but
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  • We're gonna look at it.
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  • Go ahead and pull it up from the message translation, glory be
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  • To god.
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  • He says, "we're free of it!
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  • All of us!
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  • Nothing between us and god, our faces shining with the
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  • Brightness of his face.
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  • And so we are transfigured much like the messiah."
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  • Somebody say, "i'm transfigured."
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  • That means you have a new identity.
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  • The old you has passed away.
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  • Now you have the glory of god on the inside of you, and it gives
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  • You a glorious illumination.
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  • And the thing that was once your characterization no longer is
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  • Your characterization now because you've
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  • Been transfigured.
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  • He says, "our lives gradually becoming brighter and more
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  • Beautiful as god enters our lives and we become like him."
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  • So, there's this beauty of change that happens on the
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  • Inside internally as a result of what jesus did.
  • 00:18:08.433 --> 00:18:14.673
  • In fact, there's a mentioning of, here in chapter 3, it says,
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  • "the days of window-shopping," in the mirror, "are over.
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  • In him every face is unveiled.
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  • In gazing with wonder at the loveliness of god displayed in
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  • Human form, we suddenly realized we are looking into a mirror,
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  • Where every feature of his image, articulated in christ, is
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  • Reflected in us.
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  • The spirit of the lord engineers this radical transformation."
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  • Engineer.
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  • I mean, he reverse engineered some stuff.
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  • He's like, "oh no, let me yank that fear out of him.
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  • Oh no, let me yank that unforgiveness, that anger."
  • 00:19:08.527 --> 00:19:14.366
  • He says, "as a result of the holy spirit coming on the inside
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  • Of us, the loveliness of god is displayed in us.
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  • And as we look into the mirror every feature of his image is
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  • Articulated in christ, and it is reflected within us.
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  • The spirit of the lord engineers this radical transformation,"
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  • Somebody say radical, "and we are led from an inferior
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  • Mind-set," no longer thinking like you used to think.
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  • Thinking beneath, thinking low, "i'm this color, i'm this
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  • Gender, i'm from this side of the tracks.
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  • I came from this area.
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  • Somebody said i couldn't do that.
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  • Nobody's ever done that.
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  • I guess i can't do it either.
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  • Woe is me.
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  • I guess this is my lot in life."
  • 00:20:12.958 --> 00:20:15.894
  • He says, "no, he has freed us from an inferior mindset to the
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  • Revealed endorsement of our authentic identity."
  • 00:20:25.504 --> 00:20:33.979
  • Isn't that good news?
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  • "our authentic identity."
  • 00:20:37.015 --> 00:20:42.421
  • You know, there was an ugly duckling.
  • 00:20:42.421 --> 00:20:44.356
  • Y'all ever remember the ugly duckling?
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  • And so, you know, it's kind of like that ugly duckling that was
  • 00:20:48.226 --> 00:20:52.731
  • Actually a beautiful swan.
  • 00:20:52.731 --> 00:20:57.736
  • And so, one of the side notes here in the mirror translation,
  • 00:20:57.736 --> 00:21:00.906
  • It says, "how long does it take the beautiful swan to awaken to
  • 00:21:00.906 --> 00:21:05.344
  • The truth of its design?"
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  • But as long as that beautiful swan thought that they were an
  • 00:21:09.614 --> 00:21:14.353
  • Ugly duckling, it continued to live in defeat and live
  • 00:21:14.353 --> 00:21:21.626
  • Beneath, live in inferiority, not knowing that they really
  • 00:21:21.626 --> 00:21:27.199
  • Were designed to be a beautiful swan.
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  • Whatever it was that endorsed the ugly duckling mindset
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  • Co-died together with christ.
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  • That ugly duckling that says, "you're not smart enough," that
  • 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:44.483
  • Says, "you're not bright enough," that, "you can never do
  • 00:21:44.483 --> 00:21:47.185
  • That," that died in christ.
  • 00:21:47.185 --> 00:21:51.857
  • Now that you're in christ, you can do all things.
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  • In the death and resurrection of jesus, god did not redeem a
  • 00:21:54.726 --> 00:21:59.831
  • Compromised replica of you, he rescued the original you.
  • 00:21:59.831 --> 00:22:06.638
  • He rescued the original you.
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  • Look over at james chapter 1, 2--verse 23 through 25 in the
  • 00:22:10.842 --> 00:22:19.284
  • Message translation.
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  • Thinking smart, smart living, resurrected facts.
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  • Thinking smart.
  • 00:22:26.658 --> 00:22:28.326
  • Ignorance of god is not a luxury.
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  • You can't afford to be ignorant in these last days.
  • 00:22:31.630 --> 00:22:34.966
  • I got to be mindful and knowledgeable and awake to him.
  • 00:22:34.966 --> 00:22:41.039
  • So, he says here, "don't fool yourself into thinking that you
  • 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.209
  • Are a listener when you are anything but, letting the word
  • 00:22:44.209 --> 00:22:47.212
  • Go in one ear and out the other.
  • 00:22:47.212 --> 00:22:50.582
  • Act on what you hear!
  • 00:22:50.582 --> 00:22:54.119
  • Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the
  • 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:57.189
  • Mirror, walk away, two minutes later have no idea who
  • 00:22:57.189 --> 00:23:04.963
  • They are."
  • 00:23:04.963 --> 00:23:07.799
  • Now the bible just said, i just told you you a beautiful swan.
  • 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:12.137
  • Why are you still thinking you're ugly duckling?
  • 00:23:12.137 --> 00:23:15.841
  • That's why you got to stay in the mirror.
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  • It's why we can't be ignorant of the word.
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  • That's why we gotta stay tuned to his mindset, tuned to how he
  • 00:23:23.982 --> 00:23:29.421
  • Thinks about us.
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  • God is not mad at you.
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  • He is not tallying up your sins, holding your sins against you.
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  • Jesus paid the price, he paid the debt, and he has made
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  • Available to you grace and salvation through the precious
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  • Blood that was shed on the cross.
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  • That's how much god wants to have a personal, intimate
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  • Relationship with you.
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  • He wants you to be set free from anything that has you bound,
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  • And then eternally you can be with him.
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  • So, if you've not received jesus as your lord and as your
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  • Personal savior and you'd like to have a relationship with him,
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  • Repeat this prayer after me right now, "heavenly father,
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  • I believe jesus died and shed his blood for my sin.
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  • Come into my heart right now.
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  • I believe i receive salvation and i'm seated at the right hand
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  • Of god the father in jesus's name, amen."
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  • All right, just that simple.
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  • God bless you.
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