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The Ministry Of Reconciliation Part 3

Creflo Dollar

November 25, 2020

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male announcer: Coming up nexton "Changing Your World."
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Creflo Dollar: There is noreconciliation without equality.
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You said "amen" when I showedyou that with you and Jesus.
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Now I'm telling youthat, where we live at,
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there is not--no reconciliationwithout equality.
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We have to reconcile our societywith what is written on paper.
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I ain't asking for no new laws.
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I'm just asking that you equallyenforce the ones you wrote down.
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Creflo:Philippians chapter 2:6.
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Follow me carefully.
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Verse 6 says--well,let me read verse 5:
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"Let this mind be in you, whichwas also in Christ Jesus:
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Christ Jesus who, beingin the form of God,
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thought it not robbery tobe equal with God."
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Huh, thought it not robberyto be equal with God.
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Jesus, the great equalizer.
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Now, now watchwhat I'm saying here.
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We could not bereconciled to God.
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There could be no harmonybetween man and God.
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There's no compatibilitybetween man and God until,
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first of all, equalitywas established.
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You could neverhave reconciliation
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until you had equality.
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But once equalitywas established,
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reconciliation betweenGod and man was possible.
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Oh, y'all don't hear me.
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As much as God loved you,because of sin, reconciliation
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was not possible withoutJesus, the great equalizer.
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But because of Jesus, we nowall stand on equal ground
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because the greatequalizer has shown up.
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You ready?
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For all of my ministry,I have believed that the--
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I believed and even what BrotherCopeland and I were talking
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about years ago, I went aroundthe country, and I was preaching
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reconciliation amongstblacks and whites.
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I had meetings whereI had blacks to come up
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who were in strife and whitesthat came up who were in strife,
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and they hated one another.
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And I had them to addresstheir inferiority and their
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superiority, and theyhugged and they cried,
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and they forgave one another.
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And I thought,"Man, we hit it."
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And lo and behold, that oldugly devil of racism stuck
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his head up again.
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Listen to me carefully, Ibelieve that the first step--
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I thought the first step towardsgood relationship between
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blacks, whites,American Indians,
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Native Americans--I thought thefirst step was reconciliation.
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I have since grown and maturedand have experienced enough in
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my life to know that the firststep towards a good relationship
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between different ethnic groups,between blacks and whites and
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Hispanics, I now understandthat the first step is not
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reconciliation butit must be equality.
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For the last six months, youheard "Black Lives Matter"
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but the question needs to benow, "Are black lives equal?"
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Matter?Are they equal?
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Native Americans, their livesmatter, but are they equal?
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The issue is not what matters,and then people talking,
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"Well, all lives matter."
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That's just likesaying, you know,
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"All houses in a neighborhoodmatter, except mine is on fire."
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That's not the timeto be talking about
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"All lives matter," whenthe one that's on fire
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is the one thatmatters right now.
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Listen to me carefully.
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I felt some ofy'all scringed up.
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It's gonna be all right.
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I ain't mad at nobody.
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I ain't mad at nobody.
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I'm not a racist.
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I got white grandkids.I got a white son.
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So, I mean, you know,I'm in there with you.
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I mean, if you come talkingthat stuff in my house,
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you know, I mighthave to hurt you 'cause,
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you know, I'm just tryingto show you that equality
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has got to be first beforereconciliation 'cause if you
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go at reconciliation andthen you ignore equality,
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you're just gonna goback in a circle again.
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So we all right.I'm your brother.
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I'll still come to your houseand have a lollipop with you.
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But I'm gonna show you howthe body of Christ can't afford
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to be quiet and ignore it.
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"Well, I just ain't gonna saynothing, and I'm gonna wait till
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it all pass over, and I'm justgonna keep my mouth closed
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and then, you know, andthen I'm just gonna act like
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ain't nothing happening."
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It's equality.
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Philippians chapter 2:6, you sawwhat Jesus did there in order
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for us to bereconciled with God.
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Look at Galatians chapter 3and 28 because we're Christians.
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I say we're Christians.
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Well, you know what you are.
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Galatians 3:28.
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He said, "There isneither Jew nor Greek,
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there is neitherbond nor free,
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there is neithermale nor female."
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He said, "All y'allare one in Christ."
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So Christ, the great equalizer,says that no matter
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what color your skin is,you stand equal.
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We all stand on equalgrounds in Christ.
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The day you got born again,
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you stand on equalgrounds with Christ.
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Go to Acts chapter 17:26.
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Oh yes, we do.
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But we gotta--we gotta confrontthat little demon that wanna
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crop up from bad teachingthat we've heard in times past.
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And please let memake myself clear,
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racism doesn't just exist withwhite folks, 'cause I've heard
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about black people who came andsat in church and you sit 'em
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right next door toa Hispanic and,
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like, "I don't wannasit next to no Hispanic.
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I wanna sit to somebody--we sitwith somebody that's black."
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No, racism is a spirit.
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Racism, unlike some of us,racism doesn't care
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what color you are.
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If it can operate through youto cause division, it will.
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Acts chapter 26.
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He says, "And hathmade of one blood
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all nations of men
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for to dwell on all theface of the earth," one blood.
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He's made everybodyin here with one blood.
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So God is making it very clearthat like all other people,
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we are equal in every aspect.
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Let me--first of all--youknow what the big lie is?
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You know what thebig lie is in the world?
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I don't think people realize?
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The big lie is race.
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The big lie is that yougot four or five races.
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That's the big lie.
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Somebody decided to do anexperiment one day and say,
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"Hey, let's let everybodyknow that there are four
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or five races based on thepigmentation of your skin color.
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Let's let the brownman know he a race,
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let the black manknow he a race,
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let the real whiteguy know he a race.
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Let the other guy who kindof brown but he got nap hair,
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let him know he a race.
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And we'll just tell 'em--we'lltell them that this race is more
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dominant than that race andthis race should not stand more
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dominant than the other raceand let's just do this great
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experiment andspread this big old lie
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that there are many races."
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The truth is there isnot no four or five races!
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There is one race!
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It is the human race!
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We all have been madefor the same blood!
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We're still going around herehaving a problem because
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of the paint job of the truck.
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We still--we got a problem'cause that truck was painted
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black and that one overthere was painted white
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and that truck over therewas painted purple, and oh,
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that's a--thattruck right there,
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it's black on the topand white at the bottom.
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And you--it's stilla doggone old truck!
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And there's hate that comesup because I grew up closer
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to the equator than you did.
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Are you seriously kidding me?
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I am a whole'nother type of--
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I'm another specie becauseof the color of my paint job?
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Nothing else God madegot a problem with that.
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You get a black horsethat get with a white horse,
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they make a horse.
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You get a black dogwith a brown dog,
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they make a dog.
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A black sheepwith a brown sheep,
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they make a sheep.
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And they know it.
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But you get white folks withsome black folks and then some
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brown ones, andyou're talking about
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you don't know what they are.
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They're human.
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They are still within thespecie of that one blood.
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That my intellect is supposedto be lesser than your intellect
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because of a paint job?
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And we've been buyingthat lie for the longest.
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"Well, Brother Dollar,you don't understand.
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I pastor amultiracial, diverse--"
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Listen...
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you don't have different colorpeople in your church just
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so they can sit there anddecorate your congregation.
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You treat them equally andso they're not the ones
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that just sing in the choir.
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The black guy can also haveinfluence in your leadership.
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"Well, I don't mind 'em beingin the leadership and singing
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in the choir, but not--howabout marry your daughter?
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How about marryyour white daughter?"
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Uh-oh.
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"Well, you ought tostick with your own kind."
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You are, human.
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A horse is a horse?Of course, of course.
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And if one horse getwith another horse,
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regardless of the paint job,they're gonna have a horse.
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If one human gets togetherwith another human,
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regardless of the paint job,
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they're gonna haveanother human.
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But you bought that race lieand thought there was a whole
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'nother specie was createdbecause of the paint job.
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How ignorant is that?
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[congregation applauding]
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There is no reconciliationwithout equality.
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You said "amen" when I showedyou that with you and Jesus.
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Now, I'm telling youthat, where we live at,
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there is not--no reconciliationwithout equality.
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We have to reconcile our societywith what is written on paper.
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I ain't asking for no new laws.
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I'm just asking that you equallyenforce the ones you wrote down.
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There is no reconciliationwithout equality.
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First, we must bereconciled as equals--
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as the equals we are in God'screation along with every other
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racial and ethnic group, andonce we have been recognized
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as equals, if wehave a falling out,
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then we have a validbasis for reconciliation.
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Reconciliation has nomeaning if it's not aimed
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at achieving equality
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in life expectancyif--education,
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employment, and all of theimportant and measurable
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areas of disadvantage.
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Reconciliation is aboutcreating equity, and equity
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is about the quality ofbeing fair and impartial.
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And equality is somethingthat's very important.
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And equity is very important.
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And we gotta close this gap
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and build relationshipsin order to do this.
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It's uncomfortable to talkabout sometimes but--
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"Well, Preacher,you're just preaching"
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No, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no.
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I don't often have times toshare what I'mma share
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with you tonight but, no,not preached it; lived it.
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As a second grader, I wasthe first black to integrate
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an all-white schoolin the South.
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Was that difficult?
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It was scary.It was scary.
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Some of those white kidshad never been that close
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to somebody like me.
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I didn't realize howdisadvantaged I was
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until I saw how far aheadthose students were with me.
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I had some catching up to do.
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And walking aroundthe corner one day,
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I heard two white femaleteachers talking about me,
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saying, "You can't expecttoo much from him because
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he's a black kid, and he's onlygonna make a certain level.
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So we have to start him offin the slow reading class
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because he won't qualifyfor the advanced."
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And I went home and didwhat most black kids did.
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I told my mama.
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I said, "Mom," and Itold her what I heard.
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And my mama lookedat me in my face,
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she said, in these short words,"The best revenge is success.
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It's on you toprove them wrong."
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I never studied so hard becausewhen all the kids got invited
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over to another kid's house,I couldn't come because, back
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in those days, parents hada problem with blacks.
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When we made our tripto Washington, D.C.,
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it was always a problemtrying to figure out
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who was gonna stay with theblack guy, 'cause the parents
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did not want that to happen.
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And I studied and Istudied and I got it.
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I said, "I'mma show her."
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I made all A's all quarters.
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I made straight A's.I made straight A's.
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I wanted her to know thatsomebody like me didn't
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need somebody like herto tell her I was equal.
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I could receive my own equality
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without you ever givingme confirmation of it.
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I was the first blackquarterback in high school.
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I didn't know what theywere rejoicing over.
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The day they put me inat the end of the game,
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the score was 77 to nothing.
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All the black guyscame, rejoicing
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like, "Man, you did it."
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I'm like, "What happened,what happened?"
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They said, "Don't you realizeyou're the first black
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quarterback?" and I'm thinking,"No, all I know is there's this
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girl over herewaiting for me, and I got to go.
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Creflo got to go."
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My father experienceda lot of that.
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Just last week, wesaw him on "20/20."
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He's been dead for 20-somethingyears, but he was a part of one
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of the policemen--he wasthree--the first of three black
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policemen inCollege Park, Georgia.
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And they dedicated a precinct tohim in his name, and we looked
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on "20/20" and there he was withhis riot gear on in a place
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called Griffin, Georgia,because they just--
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they hung a black man to death,and they were afraid rioting
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was gonna go on there.
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The fear of, in South Georgiawhen our car broke down
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and my family was in it, and myfather put us all in one room
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because of the fear ofwe're gonna be attacked
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and maybe killed andmaybe not even get out.
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And a little boy, trying to bea little strong man for my dad
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'cause it was just meand him and my sisters.
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"Son, keep your eyes open.
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Keep your ears up."
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That was traumatizing.
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And yet, we rise.
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[congregation applauding]
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I grew up in the ghettoin a two-bedroom duplex,
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five kids and parents.
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I was told I would neverget out of the ghetto,
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that I was gonnabe just like them.
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That's what they said:"You're gonna be just like us."
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So it's not enough that you'vegot the racism coming from
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white people, butnow your own people
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are trying tokeep you down.
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And yet, we rise.
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I want you to listen to me.
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I got a point I wanna make here.
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I could have spent allmy life angry and mad
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and it was thewhite man's fault.
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And if I have to work twice ashard or three times as hard,
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because it happened tome, I'm out of college,
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my dream is to be an NFL coach.
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I go to apply for myfirst coaching job,
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the head coachtells me I got the job.
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The guy hadn't seen me yet.
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He said, "I didn't tellhim you were black,
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but that shouldn'tbe a problem."
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I'm walking in, just thinking
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I'm gonna meet himand go to work.
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When I walked in,he was like, "Whoa."
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And that was it.
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I didn't get it becauseI was the wrong color.
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I'm trying to tellyou it exists.
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I'm trying to tell you itshouldn't have taken
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a George Floyd video beforepeople said, "I hear you now."
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But I wanna show you something,because this is a plan
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of the devil to try todivide and conquer,
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and it will not work.
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It didn't work 20 years ago.
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It won't work today.
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But he's even got a betterreason for doing it now.
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He's trying to stop the unitythat this revival is gonna see
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in these last days andyou already see it.
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You don't see justblacks moving in this.
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You see blacks and whites andHispanics and--the passion,
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like never before.
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There's a resetthat has taken place.
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There's a retoolingthat has taken place.
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And God is about to finallystoke the head that's involved
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in this racism and we the churchhave got to be in leadership
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and show the worldhow they ought
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to be treating one another.
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We gotta do it.
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Everybody got issues.
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Every race has a issue.
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You know what I learnedabout superiority?
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Superiority is something thatwas given to man by God
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so he could show his superiorityover all that God made
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but he was neversupposed to show his--
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and use his superiorityover one another.
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female announcer: Creflo Dollarin this candid new series
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Testimonies come in from allover about the impact we have.
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And I wish you couldsee the kids we feed.
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Their lives are changedand impacted for the better
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because of you, our givers.
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The seeds you sow into thisministry make a mark that can
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never be erased, and Iwanna thank you so much
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for your financial contributionsinto the Kingdom of God
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and into this ministry.
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