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Creflo Dollar - Life Sustaining Grace (Part 1)

January 1, 2025 | S25:E1

Creflo Dollar - Life Sustaining Grace (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Life Sustaining Grace (Part 1) | January 1, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: see, what you don't understand, you're looking
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  • Something to do.
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  • You're supposed to have a relationship with the holy
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  • Spirit, and the holy spirit is not leading, and guiding you
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  • Down the path of all the things you're supposed to do, where
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  • You're supposed to go, what you're supposed to say, whether
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  • You need to be quiet, who you're supposed to hook up with.
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  • The holy spirit--you can't live a successful christian life
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  • Without a relationship with the holy spirit.
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  • Creflo: you think god needs you to be god?
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  • So what do we do to do the works of god?
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  • "believe in the one that i sent you."
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  • And the highest, highest level of belief is resting.
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  • You keep laboring to try to get rich.
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  • You keep laboring to try to get healed.
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  • You keep laboring to try to get what has already been given to
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  • You, and he is saying, "i don't want you to labor for
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  • What's finished."
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  • Why are you laboring for what is done?
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  • Why are you laboring for what is finished?
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  • And we keep coming up with something to do because you just
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  • Can't rest.
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  • You gotta do something.
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  • No, you're trying to accomplish stuff that comes from you.
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  • So then when you receive the manifestation of it, you can go
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  • Talk about what you did.
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  • Yeah, y'all don't under--let me--go to romans chapter 11 and
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  • Verse 6.
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  • Romans chapter 11 and verse 6.
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  • We take--we even take all of our spiritual stuff and turn it
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  • Into a work.
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  • We take our prayer and turn it into a work.
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  • We take our confessions and turn it into a work.
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  • You don't--your confession is not a work, your confession
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  • Should be your rest.
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  • I say it because i believe it and because i believe it, i
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  • Say it.
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  • But i'm not using that as a work to accomplish something is--we
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  • Are so result-minded.
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  • I don't know if that sounds real, but we're always looking
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  • For, "what can i do to get this?"
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  • Or, "what can i do to get that?"
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  • And you forget about, let's just live.
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  • Let's just live, take god off the time-clock, and let's
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  • Just live.
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  • The greatest two years of my life came when i resigned from
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  • Trying to find a work to do, you know what i'm saying, a work in
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  • The sense of accomplishing something for god.
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  • Verse 6, alright, that's the first heavy but it's gonna get
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  • Heavier than that heavy.
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  • All right, because i am attacking your mixtures.
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  • Said, you believe in grace, but you also still believe in all
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  • Other stuff you believe in.
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  • And you gotta let one of them go, you gotta choose grace, or
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  • Choose working and trying to accomplish something and taking
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  • Credit for yourself.
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  • Where you gonna go with it?
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  • I don't try mixtures.
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  • Mixtures don't work.
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  • It's when i was at rest that god was at his best.
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  • See, god's trying to get you back to something he prophesied
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  • Way back when he says, "i'm gonna give you houses you didn't
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  • Build, i'm gonna give you vineyards you didn't plant.
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  • Do you think i need what you can accomplish to be added to what i
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  • Have already done?
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  • I don't need you to add nothing to jesus.
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  • I gave you jesus, believe in jesus, quit trying to add
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  • Something to him."
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  • Verse 6, "and if by grace--" if this thing is by grace, "then is
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  • It no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
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  • But if it be of works, then is it no more of grace."
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  • So you gotta choose.
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  • Otherwise, work is no more work.
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  • Look at this in nlt, romans 11:6 in the nlt.
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  • "and since it is through god's kindness, then it is not by
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  • Their good works.
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  • For in that case, god's grace would not be what it really
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  • Is--free and undeserved."
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  • "to believe is to depend upon god's work."
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  • And god's working on you, right now.
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  • To believe is to depend upon god's work, which means we have
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  • To cease from work and rest in god's work.
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  • Oh my goodness, we got to cease from work and rest in
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  • God's work.
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  • Oh my goodness, stop working to get god's work, and start
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  • Resting in god's work.
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  • Because god is working on us.
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  • We are his workmanship.
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  • We are his workmanship.
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  • He's working on us, but you gotta know what's going on here
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  • Or you'll keep mixing stuff and you'll keep inventing ways where
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  • You can add something to jesus.
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  • And i realize, "oh my goodness, i have allowed religion to
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  • Belittle my belief.
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  • To belittle my dependence upon god."
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  • And i find myself doing all of these things, trying to get
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  • Something from god.
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  • That's old stuff, man.
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  • I don't need to do good to get good.
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  • I don't need to do bad and then back him, i realized that i'm
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  • Gonna get good because of what jesus did.
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  • Alright, now watch this.
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  • Let's talk about the law, just a moment.
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  • The law that came by moses.
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  • "under the mosaic law man was made responsible to do that
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  • Which god commanded."
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  • Absolutely, but then you go before the law, genesis chapter
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  • 1:1, god began to go to work and he started making stuff.
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  • Genesis 1:1 started god's work, "in the beginning."
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  • And then later, we see light, in genesis.
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  • And then we see him separating the sea from the land, then
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  • We're seeing him dress the earth with plant life.
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  • Then he created the animal life.
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  • And then, finally, he created man.
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  • Watch this.
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  • "then god ended his work and he rested," right?
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  • Now because adam was a created being, his relationship to god
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  • Should have been one of complete dependence upon god, since
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  • Everything god created depended on god for care.
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  • And man was created by god, but instead of man completely
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  • Depending on god, like he was doing before that deal went down
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  • In the garden of eden and satan showed up--
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  • See, everything that god creates, depends on him.
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  • The flowers depend on him.
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  • They depend on the sun, they just depend on the rain.
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  • The grass depends on him.
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  • The animals depend on him.
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  • And man was created by god, like all of the rest of the creation,
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  • But all of a sudden, man, who should have been in complete
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  • Dependence upon god, rebelled, thinking that he had that within
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  • Him, in which he could trust himself.
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  • And so when god, through moses, gave the law, he recognized in
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  • Man this spirit of confidence and self that was independent
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  • From god.
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  • Because in the garden of eden, man declared his independence
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  • From god.
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  • "i don't need god, i can do it myself."
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  • The fulfillment of the law was required of this fallen man,
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  • Independence upon himself.
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  • So, okay, you depend upon yourself, you're gonna have to
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  • Depend upon yourself to keep this perfect law.
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  • In other words, the law was given to man in his sinful state
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  • And did nothing.
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  • The law did nothing to change that state.
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  • Oh my god.
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  • So when israel, in accepting the mosaic law, when they said, "all
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  • That the lord has spoken, we will do," they did so in full
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  • Confidence in themselves and were true to their sinful nature
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  • Of independence from god.
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  • I don't think you heard what i said.
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  • I called independence from god, "sinful nature."
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  • Sinful nature to be created by god and declare independence
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  • From god.
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  • That's your sinful nature.
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  • More than anything you ever heard about your sinful nature,
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  • To try to do something independent of god, that's
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  • Sinful nature.
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  • And in their sinful nature, they try to keep something that
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  • Was perfect.
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  • Now, with the acceptance of the law by israel, god's work, in a
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  • Special sense, simply became, "so you are confident in
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  • Yourself that you can keep something so perfect, so i'm
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  • Gonna play the role of judging your deeds in light of this
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  • Holy law."
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  • And a lot of people died because according to this law, the wages
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  • Of sin is death.
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  • And when you complained, you died.
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  • And when you went outside on the sabbath and picked sticks up,
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  • You had to be stoned to death.
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  • And when your children rebelled against you, you had to take
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  • Them out in the village and everybody would have to stone
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  • Them to death.
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  • And god says, "all right, here's what we're gonna do.
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  • You're confident that you're gonna keep it, well, i'm gonna
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  • Be the judge of it, alright?
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  • And when you find you can't keep it, you gonna have to execute
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  • Everything and this is gonna bring you to an end of yourself.
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  • I know how to get you in a place where you will fall down on your
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  • Bended knees and say, 'god, i can't do this by myself.'"
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  • Is everybody with me, still on the bus?
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  • Okay now, watch this.
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  • The mosaic law did not draw man back into a state of dependence
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  • Upon god.
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  • The mosaic law did not restore man, it didn't draw him back to
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  • The place where he needed to depend upon god.
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  • It rather demonstrated man's sinful nature of depending
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  • Upon self.
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  • Let's talk about legalism because that's where this
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  • Is going.
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  • Legalism does not draw men towards god, but rather brings
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  • Man to trust himself and not trust god.
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  • Legalism focuses on god's law more than the relationship
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  • With god.
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  • You can know all the rules and try to keep all the rules,
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  • That's not gonna get it.
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  • This relationship--this christianity requires a
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  • Relationship with god.
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  • You have to have a relationship with god, because god can talk
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  • To you right where you are.
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  • You have to have a relationship with god, because god is the one
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  • Gonna begin to lead and guide you and work with you, and god's
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  • Gonna be the one to tell you what to do.
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  • See, what you don't understand, you're looking for something to
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  • Do and you're not supposed to be looking for something to do.
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  • You're supposed to have a relationship with the holy
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  • Spirit and the holy spirit is not leading and guiding you down
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  • The path of all the things you're supposed to do, where
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  • You're supposed to go, what you're supposed to say, whether
  • 00:14:07.015 --> 00:14:09.517
  • You need to be quiet, who you're supposed to hook up with.
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  • The holy spirit--you can't live a successful christian life
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  • Without a relationship with the holy spirit.
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  • And we're not getting that.
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  • We're not getting that.
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  • We keep coming to church for more rules.
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  • Now, listen, i'm not saying having rules are bad, but i'm
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  • Talking about, you're having rules over a relationship
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  • Because the relationship is gonna do better.
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  • We've already tried life-- trying to live life by the
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  • Rules, and they failed miserably.
  • 00:14:40.782 --> 00:14:43.151
  • You need a new administrator and the administrator of morality,
  • 00:14:43.151 --> 00:14:47.689
  • And the administrator of holy living is the holy spirit.
  • 00:14:47.689 --> 00:14:54.562
  • But you think the holy spirit is just jumping and
  • 00:14:54.562 --> 00:14:56.531
  • Doing cartwheels.
  • 00:14:56.531 --> 00:14:57.899
  • He said, "i wanna lead you.
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  • I wanna guide you.
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  • I wanna show you things to come before they come.
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  • I wanna show you who your husband is.
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  • I wanna show you who your wife is.
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  • I wanna show you how to walk in prosperity.
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  • I wanna show you how to have peace.
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  • I wanna show you how not to be stressed out."
  • 00:15:11.112 --> 00:15:13.147
  • But you say, "that's all right, god, i can do this myself."
  • 00:15:13.147 --> 00:15:16.985
  • And look at you.
  • 00:15:16.985 --> 00:15:18.319
  • Heart attacks, high blood pressure, stroke, all kinds of
  • 00:15:18.319 --> 00:15:21.022
  • Stuff going on because you're trying to do it by yourself,
  • 00:15:21.022 --> 00:15:25.059
  • Independent of god, okay, okay, okay, okay.
  • 00:15:25.059 --> 00:15:35.103
  • It is the self-effort.
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  • "legalism is the self-effort of trying to keep external laws
  • 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:44.345
  • Without a submitted heart that depends on god, but rather it
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  • Depends on self.
  • 00:15:49.283 --> 00:15:53.321
  • Acceptance of the law brings men farther and farther away
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  • From god."
  • 00:15:57.658 --> 00:16:00.328
  • Farther and farther away from god.
  • 00:16:00.328 --> 00:16:03.364
  • "i'm accept the law and i'm accepting that i have the
  • 00:16:03.364 --> 00:16:06.100
  • Confidence in myself to keep it," and you get farther, and
  • 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:09.937
  • Farther, and farther away from god.
  • 00:16:09.937 --> 00:16:14.142
  • It makes men even more sinful because it emphasizes man's
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  • Dependence upon self.
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  • We talked about that last night, man's dependence on self.
  • 00:16:22.984 --> 00:16:27.622
  • And look at romans chapter 5:20, real quick, in the king
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  • James and nlt i just want you to know what i'm saying is in
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  • The bible.
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  • Okay?
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  • Whoo, i love these classrooms when you're quiet.
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  • I know you're listening because you're listening and you're
  • 00:16:39.167 --> 00:16:42.670
  • Having a battle with your relationship with the law and
  • 00:16:42.670 --> 00:16:46.274
  • The battle is, "i don't want to let it go, but that's all
  • 00:16:46.274 --> 00:16:50.044
  • I know.
  • 00:16:50.044 --> 00:16:51.379
  • That's all i've ever learned.
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  • But what else am i gonna do?"
  • 00:16:52.747 --> 00:16:54.082
  • You got all this stuff going on in your head, and jesus's answer
  • 00:16:54.082 --> 00:16:56.751
  • Was very, very, very, very simple, "believe in the one i
  • 00:16:56.751 --> 00:17:00.555
  • Sent you," and you're trying to complicate it.
  • 00:17:00.555 --> 00:17:05.560
  • Look what he said.
  • 00:17:05.560 --> 00:17:06.928
  • He said, "moreover, the law entered--" when the law came in,
  • 00:17:06.928 --> 00:17:08.729
  • "that the offence might abound--" the word "abound"
  • 00:17:08.729 --> 00:17:10.731
  • Means "to increase."
  • 00:17:10.731 --> 00:17:12.633
  • "but where sin abounded--" or increased, "grace did much more
  • 00:17:12.633 --> 00:17:15.770
  • Abound" and increase.
  • 00:17:15.770 --> 00:17:17.138
  • Now, look at this in the nlt.
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  • Look at what it says, this is what happens when the law
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  • Came in.
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  • It said, "god's law was given so that all people could see how
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  • Sinful they were."
  • 00:17:25.813 --> 00:17:27.148
  • Whoa, this holy mosaic law was given
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  • Not to change your heart,
  • 00:17:33.721 --> 00:17:39.360
  • The law can't change your heart, not so you can get saved, the
  • 00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:42.697
  • Law can't--the law has no life to give you, make you say, "you
  • 00:17:42.697 --> 00:17:45.733
  • Are too independent."
  • 00:17:45.733 --> 00:17:52.273
  • The law was given to you.
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  • All the law, the law of moses, it was given to you to show you
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  • How sinful you are.
  • 00:17:58.679 --> 00:18:00.148
  • You know, the number of preachers argue with me
  • 00:18:00.148 --> 00:18:01.516
  • About that?
  • 00:18:01.516 --> 00:18:02.850
  • "no, no, no," there it is right there!
  • 00:18:02.850 --> 00:18:04.185
  • The law was given to show you how sinful you are.
  • 00:18:04.185 --> 00:18:06.754
  • Here's another scripture.
  • 00:18:06.754 --> 00:18:08.122
  • 1 corinthians 15 says that "the law is the strength of sin."
  • 00:18:08.122 --> 00:18:12.026
  • The law has an association with sin and you can't figure out how
  • 00:18:12.026 --> 00:18:15.830
  • To let it go because you don't know no other rules, but
  • 00:18:15.830 --> 00:18:18.833
  • The law.
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  • It's good, it's perfect, it's god, you ain't.
  • 00:18:21.502 --> 00:18:26.040
  • The law is not the issue, you are.
  • 00:18:26.040 --> 00:18:31.946
  • Go back to where we were.
  • 00:18:31.946 --> 00:18:37.285
  • "god's law was given so that all people could see how sinful
  • 00:18:37.285 --> 00:18:41.455
  • They were.
  • 00:18:41.455 --> 00:18:42.924
  • But as people sinned--" yeah, i remember that, lord.
  • 00:18:42.924 --> 00:18:49.564
  • The law was like medical dye.
  • 00:18:49.564 --> 00:18:53.935
  • It doesn't cure anything, it just shows you what you got.
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  • That's what the law is.
  • 00:19:01.742 --> 00:19:03.110
  • It just shows you what you got.
  • 00:19:03.110 --> 00:19:06.747
  • But as people sinned more and more, god's wonderful grace
  • 00:19:06.747 --> 00:19:13.788
  • Became more abundant.
  • 00:19:13.788 --> 00:19:18.125
  • Oh, i love this right here.
  • 00:19:18.125 --> 00:19:20.461
  • "your sin will never outrace or outdo god's grace."
  • 00:19:20.461 --> 00:19:27.735
  • The crazier you get,
  • 00:19:27.735 --> 00:19:31.038
  • The stronger grace gets,
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  • Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
  • 00:19:32.540 --> 00:19:42.450
  • Now it is with this legalistic background--i'm almost where i
  • 00:19:44.585 --> 00:19:50.124
  • Wanna be.
  • 00:19:50.124 --> 00:19:51.459
  • I only have one point to make, but it take a minute to get
  • 00:19:51.459 --> 00:19:53.494
  • There because if i just make the point and i go through all of
  • 00:19:53.494 --> 00:19:57.765
  • This, you'd be like, "i don't believe that."
  • 00:19:57.765 --> 00:20:01.402
  • But you're understanding some stuff.
  • 00:20:01.402 --> 00:20:04.138
  • Now it is with this legalistic background that the people ask
  • 00:20:04.138 --> 00:20:08.376
  • Jesus in john 6:28, "what shall we do?
  • 00:20:08.376 --> 00:20:13.147
  • What shall we do?
  • 00:20:13.147 --> 00:20:15.316
  • What shall we do that we might work the works of god?"
  • 00:20:15.316 --> 00:20:21.188
  • And then in verse 29, the answer was, "believe in the one
  • 00:20:21.188 --> 00:20:26.360
  • I sent."
  • 00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:27.795
  • And in this answer, jesus announced--oh, this is
  • 00:20:27.795 --> 00:20:31.132
  • So awesome.
  • 00:20:31.132 --> 00:20:33.301
  • "believe in the one that i sent," and in this jesus
  • 00:20:33.301 --> 00:20:38.673
  • Announces the work of god.
  • 00:20:38.673 --> 00:20:41.776
  • I've always wanted to know, specifically, and down to the
  • 00:20:41.776 --> 00:20:46.981
  • Tee, "what is your work?
  • 00:20:46.981 --> 00:20:49.483
  • What are you working on, god?"
  • 00:20:49.483 --> 00:20:52.086
  • Not in a religious way, "well, praise the lord, you know, the
  • 00:20:52.086 --> 00:20:54.322
  • Lord is working."
  • 00:20:54.322 --> 00:20:55.690
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:20:55.690 --> 00:20:57.024
  • What is his work?
  • 00:20:57.024 --> 00:20:58.392
  • Now, i know who his work is.
  • 00:20:58.392 --> 00:20:59.894
  • We are his workmanship.
  • 00:20:59.894 --> 00:21:02.630
  • But here he announces his work.
  • 00:21:02.630 --> 00:21:06.767
  • The work of god.
  • 00:21:06.767 --> 00:21:08.135
  • And that work is to bring man into a state of dependence
  • 00:21:08.135 --> 00:21:13.708
  • Upon god.
  • 00:21:13.708 --> 00:21:16.344
  • That's where the whole problem was: a declaration
  • 00:21:16.344 --> 00:21:18.913
  • Of independence.
  • 00:21:18.913 --> 00:21:20.247
  • God's work.
  • 00:21:20.247 --> 00:21:21.615
  • God's gonna work on you.
  • 00:21:21.615 --> 00:21:23.050
  • He's gonna work on me to bring us into a place of dependence
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  • Upon god.
  • 00:21:28.522 --> 00:21:29.857
  • God's work, during the age of grace, is the creation of one
  • 00:21:29.857 --> 00:21:36.030
  • New man that lives in a state of perfect and constant dependence
  • 00:21:36.030 --> 00:21:42.870
  • Upon him who has brought him into being.
  • 00:21:42.870 --> 00:21:46.707
  • God is saying, "the same man that i created that's supposed
  • 00:21:46.707 --> 00:21:50.478
  • To depend on me like everything else i decre--i created.
  • 00:21:50.478 --> 00:21:53.881
  • My work is to work on you until you are absolutely and
  • 00:21:53.948 --> 00:21:59.587
  • Completely dependent upon me."
  • 00:21:59.587 --> 00:22:03.724
  • Now, watch this, philippians chapter 2 and verse 13, in the
  • 00:22:03.724 --> 00:22:11.766
  • Nlt, philippians 2:13, ooh boy, watch this.
  • 00:22:11.766 --> 00:22:19.540
  • For "god is working in you."
  • 00:22:19.540 --> 00:22:28.015
  • Say out loud, "god's working in me."
  • 00:22:28.015 --> 00:22:31.585
  • I don't care what nobody say about you, i don't care about
  • 00:22:31.585 --> 00:22:34.054
  • Your crazy crazy, god is working in you.
  • 00:22:34.054 --> 00:22:38.426
  • God is working in you, say it again, "god's working in me."
  • 00:22:38.426 --> 00:22:43.564
  • And every time you do something crazy, just remind yourself,
  • 00:22:43.564 --> 00:22:45.833
  • "god's working in me" and remind yourself of this: no matter what
  • 00:22:45.833 --> 00:22:50.271
  • You do, it is never gonna outdo god's work.
  • 00:22:50.271 --> 00:22:55.342
  • "yeah, but you got to do something."
  • 00:22:55.342 --> 00:22:56.710
  • No, god is bigger than anything you can do!
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  • Male announcer: you can't do what you don't understand, this
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  • Is common knowledge.
  • 00:23:07.855 --> 00:23:09.190
  • Yet, people continuously try to walk in the grace of god without
  • 00:23:09.190 --> 00:23:12.993
  • Understanding it.
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  • Creflo dollar takes a deep-dive into the life-sustaining grace
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  • Of god in his three-message series, "the transparency
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  • Of grace."
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  • Creflo: grace is the operation of god's love.
  • 00:23:22.436 --> 00:23:25.306
  • What god created, he is committed to taking care of.
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  • Jesus is that provision for every need of mankind.
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  • Jesus is my provision, he's my provider, he's my righteousness,
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  • He's everything i'll ever need.
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  • He started the work, he'll continue the work, he's gonna
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  • Finish the work.
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  • Prayer with me and i'll say it so you can repeat after me.
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  • Repeat after me, "heavenly father, i believe that jesus is
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  • The son of god and that he died, and was raised from the dead,
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  • And has forgiven all of my sins.
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  • And i receive him into my life, right now, as my lord and
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  • Personal savior.
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  • So by faith, i declare that i am saved.
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