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Looking Through The Lens of Grace

Creflo Dollar

September 6, 2019

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Looking Through The Lens of Grace

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Creflo Dollar: You can't stop the blessing on me,
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because I believe Jesus.
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I believe Jesus when I'm up, when I'm down,
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I believe Jesus when I'm doing right
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or even when I do wrong I still believe Jesus,
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and the blessing comes on me and then one day you look at me
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and I'm not doin' what I used to do, but the behavior is
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trying to rob me of my identity.
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I believe Jesus, I am a Christian, I am
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the righteousness of God.
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No matter what I do, I am not how I behave, I am who Jesus
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says I am, and I am blessed because I believe Jesus.
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announcer: Calling all men.
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Creflo: It's time for you to find out your
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place in the body of Christ.
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Gary Taylor: You are not gonna be satisfied until you do
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what he commissioned you to do.
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Michael T. Smith: I wanted to do right but couldn't,
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but now the Spirit of God lives in me,
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and he gives me power to do what I could not do on my own.
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Ken Terry: I expect to get understanding.
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I expect for me to grow in my grace.
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Kenneth Fuller: So when things come our way, when things
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come up against us, we know that we're comin' through.
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announcer: See you there.
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This is your world
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so let's vow to make it a better place
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Let every heart that needs to know
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your love is here to stay
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Oh, it's time to live a new life
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Oh, let his love shine bright in you
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Oh, we're saved by his grace
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so we embrace your love today
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We are changed
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Creflo: Colossians 2 verse 8, I'd like to look at this
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out of the NIV, and then the Amplified,
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Colossians 2 and 8.
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Now, here's what Colossians is gonna warn us of now.
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He's gonna warn us of what's gonna happen besides this.
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Let's start in the NIV first, Colossians 2:8, NIV, and then
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the Amplified.
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Now, he says see to it that no one takes you captive
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through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends
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on human tradition and the elemental spiritual
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forces of this world rather than on Christ.
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A lot of philosophies--
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Have you ever heard people?
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They they come up with these great inspirational quotes
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and philosophies, and it's not even based on Christ.
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It's not based on Christ.
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You know, God's got to take you through suffering before he can
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take you to glory.
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Eh, most of that's caused by us because we won't believe him.
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Philosophies that are not even based on Christ.
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Now, look at the Amplified Bible.
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Look at the Amplified Bible.
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"See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you
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yourself captive by his so-called philosophy
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and intellectualism and vain deceit, (idle fancies, and plain
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nonsense), following human tradition, (men's ideas
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of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude
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notions following the rudimentary
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and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding
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the teachings of Christ (the Messiah)."
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A Christian life that's based on philosophy and not based
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on the teachings of Christ, he said, just plain nonsense.
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It's just plain nonsense, and we got plain nonsense in the church
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today.
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To tell the woman that you gotta wear a dress in order to be
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holy, that's not from the teachings of Christ,
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that's something--that's nonsense to tell her she can't
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wear makeup or she's a jezebel, that's just plain nonsense.
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To tell you that, you know, every time you sin you got to go
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get baptized again, got-dog, you might as well stay by the water.
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That's not teachings based on Christ, it's just plain
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nonsense.
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It's plain nonsense to tell people they're going to go
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to hell, if they sin is nonsense.
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Let me tell ya something, if anybody in this church goes
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to hell for sinning, everybody in here gonna go to hell
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for sinning.
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Some of y'all are like, what?
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Surely, you don't think that you've perfected that.
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"Well, I ain't never committed adultery."
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"Oh! You ain't never committed adultery,
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but last night God saw you, you had a bad attitude
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with that waitress and refused to leave a tip."
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That Ain't Christ's light.
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You shot a bird at the policeman 'cause he wouldn't let you go.
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Come on, man.
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Come on, man.
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We all need a savior.
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I said we all need a savior.
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Alright, now, does everybody understand what I just said?
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Now, what I'm gonna do--and you don't have time to shout,
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because you're gonna have to see if I'm telling you the truth.
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I'm going to take you through the scripture,
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scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture.
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We're gonna look at the truth before the cross versus
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the truth after the cross.
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How is it that Jesus can die on the cross and shed his blood
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and nothing changed?
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And we are living life--when you live life under the law,
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you're living as if Jesus accomplished nothing
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on the cross.
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Mm-hmm.
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If you still think that you're going to hell because you missed
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the mark, then why in the world did he die on the cross?
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If you still think that God made you sick 'cause he tryin'
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to teach you something, then why did he provide healing
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on the cross?
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If you're still carrying your life as if you're living
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under the law, then what he did on the cross was an absolute
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waste of time if you refuse to make the adjustments
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from the law to grace.
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Are you ready?
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Alright, first thing we want to look at is the contrast
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between the Old and the New Testament.
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I kinda said a lot of that, so I'm gonna
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do this pretty quickly.
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Contrast between the Old and the New Testament.
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Now, before the cross, the Old Covenant existed,
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before the cross, the covenant of the law, the 10 Commandments
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all existed before the cross, the Old Covenant was
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an agreement between God and Jewish people.
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The Old Covenant was a performance-based covenant.
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If you, if you, if you, the covenant of the law was
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a performance-based covenant, it was based on what you do, if you
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do, then God do.
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That was the covenant before the cross.
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If you do, then God do.
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If you good, then God will be good.
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If you bad, God be bad.
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Whatever you do, God do.
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It's a performance-based covenant.
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Before the cross the Old Covenant was there.
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It was a conditional covenant.
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It was a conditional covenant.
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The condition was God would bless you on the condition that
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you did what was right to earn the blessing.
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It was a covenant based on what you do.
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It was a self-righteous covenant, that's what it was.
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Now, after the cross, the New Covenant existed.
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It was an agreement between God and Jesus.
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Before the cross, the agreement was between God
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and Jewish people.
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After the cross, it was based on faith in the finished works
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of Jesus, not based on your works.
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After the cross, it was an unconditional covenant.
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That unconditional covenant was based on what Jesus has already
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done and your faith in what Jesus has done.
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And after the cross, this was righteousness as a gift, and it
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wasn't self-righteousness, something you earn to do, okay?
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So this is the basis of what we're getting ready to do.
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Now, let's take this first subject here.
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What are the requirements to be blessed?
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What does a Christian have to do to be blessed?
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All right, before the cross, here's what you had to do to be
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blessed.
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Deuteronomy 28 verses 1 through 3 and 15.
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What does a person have to do to be blessed?
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Now, you're gonna find out that some of the things you heard
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came from before the cross.
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Alright, now look at what it says here in Deuteronomy 28
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verses 1 through 3 and 15, "And it shall come to pass, if thou
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shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God
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to observe to do all his commandments which I command
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thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high
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above all nations of the earth:" verse 2, "And all these
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blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee," "condition,
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if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God."
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Question: According to what we just read, what is
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the requirement for you to get the blessing?
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You got to?
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You got to do or obey how many of the commandments?
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All commandments, and if you obey all the commandments,
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that's 613, then you'll be blessed, alright?
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Verse three, "Blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt
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thou be in the field," and he announces the blessing on you,
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and we call this the blessing, but we do not tell people this
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is a conditional blessing.
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You are blessed only if you can obey all 613 commandments.
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That was before Christ.
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And look at verse 15 real quick, verse 15, "But it shall come
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to pass if thou," performance-based, "if thou will
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not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to observe
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to do all all his commandments and his all his statutes which I
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command thee this day; that all these curses shall come
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upon thee and overtake thee."
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Oh!
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So, what do you have to do to be cursed?
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If you, "If thou will not hearken unto the voice
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of the LORD to do all."
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So, remember what James 2 and 10 says?
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He says if you're guilty of breaking one commandment,
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then you're gonna be guilty of breaking all of them.
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So if you eat pork ribs.
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That's what it was.
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That's what it was.
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Are you kidding me?
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Look, the requirements to get blessed before the cross were
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impossible, and the only way you got some blessing was
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through the sacrificial system that he set up, and he said, "Go
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get an animal, shed the blood of the animal.
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I can't get rid of your sin conscious, but I can bless you
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through the sacrifice.
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That's the only way I can get a blessing to you, 'cause you
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ain't gonna be able to do this."
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Look at this.
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Go to Deuteronomy 11:26 through 28.
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Deuteronomy 11:26 through 28.
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You've been taught, you've been taught Deuteronomy, and you
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gotta keep all the commandments, and then God will bless you
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and then, see, if you want to get blessed, you gotta do
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what God tells you to do.
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And the issue wasn't proportional blessing.
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Do two things that God told you to do, he said all.
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All right, look what he says.
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He says same thing here.
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"Behold I set before thee this day a blessing and a curse;" 27.
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"A blessing, if you obey the commandment of the LORD your
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God, which I command you this day," 28.
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"And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments
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of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I
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command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have
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not known."
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So you see, under the law that's how you got blessed.
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You have to obey all the commandments under the law.
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If you don't obey, if you don't choose to obey, now you're gonna
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get cursed.
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Good lord, have mercy.
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That was before the cross, alright.
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But after the cross, Galatians chapter 3 verse 13 and 14, now,
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that was the law that came from Moses, now what
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about after the cross?
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How do you get blessed after the cross?
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Now, remember, the covenant of grace is not about your
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performance, the covenant of grace is about Jesus and your
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faith in him and his finished works.
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Now, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.
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Check that out.
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Say, "I've been redeemed from the curse of the law."
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Now, so the preacher can no longer say if you don't tithe,
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you're cursed with a curse.
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How many have heard that?
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If you don't bring your tithe, you're cursed with a curse.
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Got-doggit, and we've been buying that.
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If you're redeemed from the curse of the law,
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and tithing in Malachi was a part of the law, then you're
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not going to be cursed for not tithing.
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You still get the blessing for tithing, but you won't get
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cursed for not tithing.
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Y'all remember my story?
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I'll tell it again.
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I don't tell stories one time, I tell them 100 times.
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My dad was alive.
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He said, "Boy, if you cross that street without looking both
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ways, I'm going to whip you."
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My dad's dead and gone, I look both ways because I was
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under threat of punishment, but now that he's dead and gone,
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mmm.
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I don't have to live under the threat of punishment,
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but it is still to my benefit when I'm crossing the street
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to look both ways.
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Likewise, don't you ever let somebody put the fear in you,
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talkin' about you're gonna be cursed if you don't tithe.
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You say, "No, I've been redeemed from the curse of not tithing,
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but I'm still blessed 'cause I am.
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So, now I tithe, not because you've put fear in me, but I
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tithe 'cause I love him, and I'm grateful to him and I want to,
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not 'cause I got to."
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'Cause that ain't no good if you got to.
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I don't want you talkin' about, you know, here's a gift.
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I had to give it to you.
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You take that thing back.
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I don't want your little nasty T-shirt.
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You keep it.
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All right, now watch this, "Christ has redeemed us
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from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is
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written Cursed is everyone that hangeth on the tree."
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Watch this, Verse 14.
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"That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles--"
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Somebody say that's me.
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Might come on the Gentiles, how?
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Through Jesus Christ.
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So you are blessed not because you obey the law that came
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from Moses, but you are blessed because you have faith in Jesus
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Christ and through Jesus's perfect obedience to fulfill all
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of the law, you don't have to fulfill the law.
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Jesus fulfilled the law.
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I have faith in Jesus and my faith in Jesus is how I get
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the blessing on me.
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I'm blessed 'cause I believe Jesus.
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"Well, you can believe Jesus, but you still got to do."
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No, that's where you're tryin' to minimize the blood.
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My faith in Jesus, period, is why I'm blessed.
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You can't stop the blessing on me, because I believe Jesus.
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I believe Jesus when I'm up, when I'm down, I believe Jesus
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when I'm doin' right, or even when I do wrong I still believe
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Jesus, and the blessing comes on me.
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And then one day you look at me, and I'm not doin' what I used
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to do, but the behavior is trying to rob me of my identity.
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I believe Jesus, I am a Christian, I am
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the righteousness of God, no matter what I do, I am not how I
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behave.
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I am who Jesus says I am, and I am blessed
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because I believe Jesus.
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Somebody shout, "I believe!"
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You're blessed.
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That's what Abraham did before the law, before the law
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in Genesis, I believe it's 15, before the law, the Bible says
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Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him
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for righteousness' sake.
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So what did Abraham do in order to be made righteous?
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What did he do?
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Did he go to church?
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Did he do--what goody-goody thing?
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Give me a list of goody-goody things Abraham did.
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If you'll give me list of goody-goody thing Abraham
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did, I'll do a whole hour teaching on all that terrible
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stuff Abraham did.
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In fact, when God decides to treat you as righteous, he
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will not allow your behavior to cause him to treat you other
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than righteous.
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He did that with Abraham, and Abraham went and acted
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like a little punk.
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And excuse me, let me calm down.
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And don't take that out of my message.
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Broadcast what I just said like a little punk.
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And they took his wife, and he said, "Lie for me.
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Just tell 'em you my sister."
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And she was, she was his half sister, but that doesn't mean
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you tell a half lie.
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And they took her and was planning on doing some stuff,
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and he up there allowing it to happen, wouldn't stand
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up for his wife.
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What kind of man is that?
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And check out what he gets for acting like a weak punk.
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Look at the increase this guy gets.
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He gets silver and gold and cattle and servants.
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It's like where did all that blessing come from?
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How he gonna act like that and still get blessed?
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God says, "Because I declared him righteous, and I refuse
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to not treat him as a righteous man.
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Even though his behavior is unrighteous, I'm gonna treat him
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righteous, because this is not about Abraham,
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it is about my word."
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I'm blessed because of Jesus.
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I said I'm blessed because of Jesus.
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So when you get that promotion sometime next week, don't you go
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boasting about what you did.
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Oh, y'all don't hear me.
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When you got some debt that's supernaturally cancelled, don't
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come talkin' about your your financial strategies.
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No, I don't want to hear all that, 'cause it wasn't nobody
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but God, hallelujah.
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The goodness of the Lord will change a man's mind, and I
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prophesy goodness raining down like the rain we're hearing
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this morning.
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I prophesy goodness, not because of what you did, not because
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of your performance, but because of him, hallelujah.
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Goodness, goodness, goodness, goodness.
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You be careful how you try to take advantage
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of the goodness of God.
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"Well, what do you say when people ask ya?"
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Here's what you say, "Oh, this is the Lord's doing."
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It's just marvelous in my eyes, but look, don't get it twisted,
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he gets the glory.
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He gets the honor.
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I can't take no glory.
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See, when you're operating by the law and you had
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to perform to get it to happen, then you can boast, but when
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you're operating under grace, there is no boasting, because
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you know that it was done before you ever existed,
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praise God.
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He was already--he'd already made his mind up, "I'm going
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to do you good and make you happy."
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Turn to your neighbor and say, "God's going to do you good
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and make you happy."
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That's what happened after the cross.
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Now, I promise you, you will go turn on some Christian
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television, and you're going to hear somebody talk to you
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about, "If you want God to do this, you're gonna
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have to do that.
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If you want God to bless you, now if you want him to bless
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you, you gotta do these 10 things."
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And that is the pattern of the law that came from Moses.
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"Well, what did you do to get blessed?"
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I believe Jesus.
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I believe I'm already healed, I believe I'm already prosperous,
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I believe I'm already sound, I believe I already operate
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in favor.
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That's why you don't sweat the small stuff.
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Quit sweating the small stuff, because Jesus has already
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handled it, praise God.
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Quit sweating it, quit complaining.
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He's already done it, praise God.
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Every time something happens, that's when you just loose your
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faith and say, "Oh, that crazy thing happened, but thank God
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Jesus has already handled it."
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"Oh, God, I need some money there, but thank God he's my
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provider.
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Oh, this is happening in my marriage, but thank God he's
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the restorer of my marriage."
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That's when you start releasing your faith.
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The greatest faith you can have is learning how to rest
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in the finished works of Jesus, learning how to rest in what
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he's already done.
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That's what we do under the covenant of grace.
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That's what we do under the covenant of grace.
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That's what we do, and we have been a part of churches that's
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made it--that's literally created what I call
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performance-based Christianity.
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Christianity that's based completely on what you do
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instead of a Christianity that's based on faith in what Jesus has
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already done.
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Y'all gettin' this?
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How many you know the whole world needs to hear this?
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You know where you were, you know where you are, and you
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know, you've gotta train yourself.
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You gotta renew your mind, 'cause it's easy to just slip
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back and, I gotta do somethin.'
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I gotta do somethin.'
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Bad thing happened, immediately, I gotta do something instead
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of resting and saying Jesus has already done it.
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I have faith in you.
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And you spend your days praising God and thanking him and looking
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at his word and looking at Jesus, Oh, God, I trust you.
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I trust it's already been done.
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See, you think that's the weak part.
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You have convinced--your thinkin' says I gotta do
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somethin,' I gotta do somethin', Okay, so maybe if I fast for 40
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days, it'll rectify this.
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No, no, ain't nothin' wrong with fasting, but there's
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somethin' wrong with fasting trying to get God to do what he
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has already done.
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Fasting should be done to reposition you, not
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to reposition God.
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Fasting should be done to deal with your unbelief, not God's
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lack of work.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen?
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If you got that, say amen.
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All right, let's go to the next one.
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What are the requirements for forgiveness?
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What are the requirements for forgiveness?
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We have been taught that if you want God to forgive you, you
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better forgive first, and if you don't forgive first, then God
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can't forgive you.
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That is true under the Old Covenant.
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"Oh, but Brother Dollar, that's in the book of Matthew."
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Oh, now here's another deal.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, that was Jesus operating as
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a prophet under the Old Covenant, fulfilling the law
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and preparing the way of grace.
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So you better be careful about reading the red, 'cause
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you ain't gonna like all that red, especially where it says,
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If your hands offend you, cut it off.
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If your eyes offend you, pluck it out.
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That's in the red.
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No, you gotta recognize that Jesus is--the reason why Jesus
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fasted like he fasted and didn't eat what he ate, he was the one
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fulfilling the requirements of the law, and if you read
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and don't rightly divide it, you'll now say, "Jesus did it,
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so I'm gonna do it, 'cause you don't recognize that what Jesus
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was doing was fulfilling the law that you couldn't fulfill."
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