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Overcoming Inequality

Creflo Dollar

November 5, 2020

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It's not based on yourcolor that you deserve
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respect and dignityand value and honor.
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Because you are humankind,because you are part of
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mankind, because you'rea part of one race,
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the human race,you have dignity.
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♪ This is your world, so let'svow to make it a better place ♪
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♪ Let every heart that needs toknow your love is here to stay ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, we'resaved by his grace ♪
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♪ So we embraceyour love today ♪
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♪ We are changed ♪♪
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Taffi: It is the bornagain experience that is
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designed to get rid ofthe old, to get rid of the
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past, to get rid ofthe law, to get rid of
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domination, one genderdominating another, men
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dominating women, womendominating men, white
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dominating black, blacksdominating--so, it's the
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law that opens the door toall these things that are
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of the past.
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And so, because Jesuscame, he reconciled.
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And he says that sin nolonger is to have dominion
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over us because we are nolonger to operate under
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the law, but we areto operate under grace
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because we have Christliving on the inside of us.
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And you've got tounderstand that, you know,
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he talks about it, I gotso many Scriptures that we
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can turn to over inMatthew chapter 28, he
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talked about, you know,how they were dominating
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one another.
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And he says, "Itshall not be so.
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You should not dominateone another, but you
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should understand thatit's vital for us to serve
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one another and that weare equal to serve, we're
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equal to lead, we're equalto operate in our gifts,
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we're equal to receivethe love of God.
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And that is a result ofthe new creation, the new
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specie of being, where oldthings are passed away,
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treating people basedon their status, their
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distinction, based onthe external things.
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He says, "That's old."
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As a result of Jesuscoming, we treat people
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with dignity, we treatthem with respect, and we
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see them as God sees them,as a representation, as an
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image of God in the earth.
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And so, we're restoringback to the original
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intent of God in thebeginning, where he had
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placed Adam and Eve in aposition where they were
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given authority not todominate one another or
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have authority over eachother, but it was so that
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they would have authorityin the earth and over
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things, over creepingthings, every creeping thing.
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And so, that dominationthat they were to use was
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not to control andmanipulate one another,
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but it was so they couldsubdue and bring things
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into subjection, and takecare of the garden of Eden
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and the things thatthey were charged to do.
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So, it's vital that weunderstand these things so
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that we can be theambassadors in the earth
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that Christ came anddied for us to be.
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Look over at 1 Corinthianschapter 12, 1 Corinthians
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chapter 12.
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Let's look at verse 12here, I'm going to read
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some of this from theMessage translation.
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I hope you'regetting this.
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Like I said, I got so manyScriptures, we can look at
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so many different things, somany things to reference.
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But first and foremost,we've got to look within
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and make sure that we'renot thinking more highly
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or thinking lessthan what we should.
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And that we're thinking inline with the Word of God.
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And so, the body of Christis to operate as one.
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The body of Christ is toshow the world and lead
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the world of what unityand even integration and
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all these thingsare to look like.
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Let me read this to you.
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Number one, we all matter.
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Absolutely no one hasgreater value than anyone
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else, regardless of theirbackground, their outward
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appearance, theirjob, their strength.
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Whatever the case maybe, we all matter.
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We all have apart to play.
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This is what we'regoing to look at in
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1 Corinthians chapter12 in just a moment.
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We have a rightresponsibility.
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Humankind can onlyfunction properly if we
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all work together.
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No one shouldreject anyone else.
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We are all part of God'sfamily, part of his plan,
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and we'll look at howthe body is designed to
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operate in 1 Corinthianschapter 12.
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We need one another, we cannotafford to act in isolation.
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And so, these are thingsthat I want you to make
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note of thatwe all matter.
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And if we didn't matter,then Jesus wouldn't have died.
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It would've been in vainfor him to give up his blood.
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And so, the message hereis not so much about the
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physical body of the humananatomy, but the spiritual
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body of humankind,humankind.
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Look at what he says here,"You can easily enough see
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how this kind of thingworks by looking no
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further thanyour own body."
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He's talking aboutthe human body.
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"Your body has many parts,limbs, organs, cells, but
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no matter how many partsyou can name, you're still
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one body."
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Still one body.
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Over in Acts, he talksabout how we are one blood
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of all nations, oneethnos, one race.
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Some say, you know,there's a white race,
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there's a black race,there's, you know, the
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Hispanic race,but you know what?
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In all actuality, there'sone race, it's the human race.
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And we are all to be apart and regarded as the
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human race.
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But the enemy comes in andcreates division and all
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these things that aretaking place in our world today.
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But we must understandthat the body has many
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parts, but no matter howmany parts you can name,
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you're still one body.
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You know, my foot is nota different race from my
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arm, and my arm race, myfoot race, my knee race,
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my head race.
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No, it's one body.
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It's exactly thesame with Christ.
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"By the means of hisone Spirit, we all said
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goodbye to our partialand piecemeal lives.
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We each used toindependently call our own
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shots, but then weentered into a large and
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integrated life in which he hasthe final say in everything.
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This is what we proclaimedin word and action
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where--when wewere baptized.
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Each of us is now a partof his resurrection body,
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refreshed and sustained atone fountain, his Spirit,
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where we allcome to drink.
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The old labels weonce used to identify
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ourselves, labels like Jewor Greek, slave or free,
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are no longer useful.
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We need something larger,more comprehensive."
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The Apostle Paul says herein--look at what he writes
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in verse 14.
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"I want you to think abouthow all this makes you
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more significant,not less.
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A body isn't just asingle part blown up into
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something huge."
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So, he talks about hereall the parts of the body
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are significant.
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They're significant.
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He says, "It's all thedifferent but similar
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parts arranged andfunctioning together."
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Different but similar.
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Different is good, similarin operation, one overall
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goal, arranged andfunctioning together.
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"If a foot said, 'I'm notelegant like the hand,
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embellished with rings.
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I guess I don't belongto this body,' would that
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make it so?"
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Sounds silly, doesn't it?
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"If the ear said, 'I'm notbeautiful like the eye,
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transparent andexpressive, I don't
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deserve a place on thehead,' would you want to
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remove it from the body?
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If the body was alleye, how could it hear?
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If all ear, howcould it smell?
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All it is, we see that Godhas carefully placed each
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part of the body rightwhere he wanted it."
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And so, we have tounderstand that though
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they're differentfunctions, different
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perspectives, you know,the perspective of the
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elbow is going to bedifferent from the
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perspective of the foot.
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They're different, butsimilar because they're
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connected to the one body.
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Their functioning, theirpurpose, their assignment,
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the reason why they'rethere is to overall
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comprehensively accomplishwhat the body is designed to do.
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So, he says in verse 19,"But I also want you to
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think about how thiskeeps you--keeps your
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significance fromgetting blown up into
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self-importance."
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And see, that's the thingthat we've gotten over
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into allowing ourdifferences to be blown up
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into self-importance.
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And so, now you havesome who are considered
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thinking more highly thanwhat they should think,
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thinking that they're moreimportant than the other
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parts, that they can treatthose who are different in
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the body in a lesserway with no regard.
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And so, he saysthat is wrong.
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And that opens the doorto sin, opens the door to
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prejudice, prejudging,and things like that.
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So he says, "For no matterhow significant you are,
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it is only because ofwhat you are a part of."
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And so, he's elevatingthe fact that we must
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understand that oursignificance is based on
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us being a part andconnected to one another.
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Human race, humankind isnot based on the color of
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our skin that we can thinkthat we're more important,
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or because of a certaingender, a certain class.
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That these are not reasonsand the basis for how we
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determine one'ssignificance.
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He says, "For no matterhow significant you are,
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it is only because ofwhat you are a part of.
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An enormous eye or agigantic hand wouldn't be
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a body, but a monster.
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What we have is one bodywith many parts, each its
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proper size and inits proper place.
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No part is importanton its own."
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You know, the spleen can'tjust function on its own,
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the pancreas can'tfunction on its own.
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It has to align itselfwith all the other parts
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of the body, it fitswithin the body.
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It's not importanton its own.
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"Can you imagine the eyetelling the hand, 'Get
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lost, I don't need you'?
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Or the head telling thefoot, 'You're fired.
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Your job hasbeen phased out'?
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As a matter of fact, inpractice it works the
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other way.
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The lower the part,the more basic, and
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therefore," whatdoes he say?
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Necessary.
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Jesus came and he talkedto folks that they thought
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he was crazy becausehe was willing to have
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conversations with peoplewho they thought did not matter.
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"Jesus, why are youtalking with the Samaritan?
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Why are you healingthis blind man?
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Why are you, you know, going outof your way to Samaria?
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Why are you doingall these things?"
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Because Jesus--in God'splan, they mattered.
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They were a part, and itwas necessary for him to
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carry out what Godcalled him to do.
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And so he says, "The more basic,therefore necessary.
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You cannot--you canlive without an eye, for
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instance, but notwithout a stomach.
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When it's part of yourown body you are concerned
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with, it makes nodifference whether the
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part is visible orclothed, higher or lower.
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You give dignity."
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That's the keyword, "dignity."
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Jesus came and gavedignity to everyone, gave
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dignity to the woman, hegave dignity--the Apostle
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Paul, we're goingto look at this.
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In fact, there was agentleman who was called
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Onesimus, andOnesimus was a slave.
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And we could look at thisin the book of Philemon,
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try to find it now, it'sin between Titus
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and Hebrews.
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But Onesimus was sovital because Paul had a
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revelation ofthe new birth.
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He had a revelation ofthe dignity that all
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of creation should experience.
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It's not based on yourcolor that you deserve
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respect and dignityand value and honor.
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Because you are humankind,because you're part of
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mankind, because you'rea part of one race, the
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human race, youhave dignity.
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Look at Philemon, turn overthere right before Hebrews
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chapter 1.
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Now, Onesimus was a personwho was a letter carrier,
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you know?
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Those who carried letterson the behalf were those
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who were trusted and givena certain level of status
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because you were in theposition to deliver a
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message and you were onewho could be regarded.
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And though Onesimus wasPhilemon's slave, his name
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meant useful.
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And so, Paul tellsPhilemon to receive
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Onesimus here in verse 1.
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He says, "Paul, a prisonerof Jesus Christ, and
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Timothy our brother,unto Philemon our dearly
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beloved andfellow labourer."
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Skip down to verse 8,"Wherefore, though it
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might be much bold inChrist to enjoin you that
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which is convenient, yetfor love's sake I rather
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beseech thee, being sucha one as Paul the aged and
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now also a prisonerof Jesus Christ."
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Look at what he says inverse 10 of Philemon or
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Philemon, however youwant to pronounce it.
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Philemon, whatever.
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"I beseech theefor my son."
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He didn't say, "For myslave, for my property."
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Paul dignified Onesimusby calling him his son
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because Paul had arevelation of the family
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of God, the family thatwas to be one, that was to
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operate not regardingbased on the external
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things from a human pointof view, not regarding
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based on status of theold, being a slave.
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He says, "No,he is my son."
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When Jesus came, hedignified our lives.
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And so it is we see herehow Paul references, he
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says, "I beseechthee, Philemon."
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In the Amplified, he says,"I appeal to you for my
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own spiritual child,Onesimus, meaning profitable."
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No telling what his namewas before, his slave
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name, but Paul changedhis name, you know why?
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'Cause Paul had arevelation of the
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creation, the new speciethat had never existed before.
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No telling how Onesimuswas treated before under
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the law, under the curse,and based on the curse and
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the mistakes that he hadmade based on the external
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things and theoutward things.
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But when Paul got arevelation of this one
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creation, the onenessof the body of Christ,
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different parts, similarbut overall comprehensive
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and functional, he says,"I beseech you, I appeal
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to you for my ownspiritual child."
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This is powerful, "Meaningprofitable, whom I have
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begotten in the faith."
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Now, obviously he wasn'ttalking about a natural
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son or a natural child,but he's talking about his
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spiritual child, hisspiritual son as a result
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of faith coming that opensthe door and changes the
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way in which Paul saw him.
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And he saw him as a partof the family of God and
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saw him a part of God'splan, and no longer as
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the, quote, unquote, "other."
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But now he is my brother.
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He is my son.
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He is a part of my family.
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And he says, "Receive himwhom I've gotten in the
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faith while captivein these chains."
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He says here in verse 11,"Once he was unprofitable
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to you, but now," my God,"he is indeed profitable
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to you as well to me."
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Paul had a revelation ofthe difference between the
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old covenant and the new.
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Of those who wereGentiles, but now as a
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result of Jesus coming,they're all able to be
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profitable and to bea part of the body
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of Christ.
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He says, "I'm sending himback to you in his own
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person, and it is likesending my very heart,"
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talking about Onesimus.
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"I would've chosen to keephim with me in order that
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he might minister to myneeds to your--in your
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stead during myimprisonment for the
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gospel's sake, but it hasbeen my wish to do nothing
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about it without firstconsulting you and getting
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your consent in order thatyour benevolence might not
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seem to be the result ofcompulsion or pressure,
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but might be voluntaryon your part."
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He says, "Perhaps it wasfor this reason that he
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was separated from youfor a while, that he might
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have him back as yoursforever, not as a slave,
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not as a slaveany longer."
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You know why?
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Because hisstatus changed.
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He was no longer of that,outside of the rights and
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privileges of God.
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Now, he was family.
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Not as a slave any longer,but as something more than
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a slave, as a brother.
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Ooh, that makes me weep.
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"Especially dear to me buthow much more to you, both
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in the flesh as a servantand in the Lord as a
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fellow believer."
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And then, "If youconsider--if then you
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consider me a partner anda comrade in fellowship,
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welcome, receive him asyou would welcome and
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receive me."
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It's powerful.
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Receive him in my stead.
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Receive him a slave, nolonger as a slave, used to
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be a slave, but you gotto change how you look at him.
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Receive him, Onesimus,like you would receive me
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as your brother, as a partof the family of God, not
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as one to look down uponbecause of his economic
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status, based on the colorof his skin, based on his
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pedigree, wherehe came from.
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He says, "Receive him likeyou receive me, as a part
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of the family of God."
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Because we are one.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Father, we just pray rightnow, Lord, I pray for
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every person watching.
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Lord, I know that theHoly Spirit is the one who
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causes change in hearts,and changes minds, and
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renews, and brings thingsin right perspective.
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So Lord, I just pray forevery person watching,
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those who are hearingyour Word today, Father.
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We come against, werenounce, we resist the
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spirit of superiority andracism and inequality, Father.
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I pray that the eyes willbe enlightened, our eyes
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will be opened, Father.
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Help us to see oneanother as you see.
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Help us to feellike you feel.
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Help us to touchlike you touch.
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Help us to lovelike you love.
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Help us to speaklike you speak.
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an expression ofyou in the earth.
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