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Taffi Dollar - Who's The Boss? (Part 2)

December 17, 2024 | S

Taffi Dollar - Who's The Boss? (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - Who's The Boss? (Part 2) | December 17, 2024
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  • Taffi dollar: don't tell me you're the boss and all you
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  • Serve anybody.
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  • You can serve without a title?
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  • So jesus says, "if you wanna be great,
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  • Taffi: so the source of man is the creator and thus we say that
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  • The head of every man is christ because he was made through him
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  • And brought forth to birth.
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  • The head of the woman is the man because she came out of adam,
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  • She was taken, where?
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  • From his side.
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  • You're not his rib, you know?
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  • No, that means side.
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  • Yeah, you know, you my rib, you know, you my rib.
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  • No, side by side.
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  • That's because i'm supposed to be by your side.
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  • I'm not supposed to be behind you.
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  • I'm not supposed to be in front of you, but rib means side.
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  • So she was taken from the man, from his flesh, and has him as
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  • Her source.
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  • The head of christ is god because he is from him.
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  • The man is the head of the woman since she has taken her being
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  • From the man and christ is the head of us who believe because
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  • We are, what?
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  • Made from him.
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  • And the church said, "amen."
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  • It's getting tight up in here, but it's all good.
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  • God's not trying to take anything from us, but god wants
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  • To position us in a way so we can fulfill our
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  • Highest potential.
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  • He's not trying to set you up because you, you know, don't
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  • Have enough intelligence to be able to recognize the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • But i believe part of why god created man and created woman
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  • Because he gave them both the articulate speech where they
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  • Could commune with one another and they communicate with god.
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  • Face to face, the scripture says.
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  • When he talks about how i would make the woman help, does not
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  • Mean some slave, some kind of doormat, you know, women in
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  • The old testament, of course, they didn't have any rights,
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  • They were property and were treated like minors.
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  • But under this new covenant, glory be to god, it's
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  • A better covenant.
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  • He talks about what's being help, which is "mecanego,"
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  • That is, face to face.
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  • And he says that he would make woman, and woman would be that
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  • Strong rescue and she would be a strength.
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  • And so it took the woman being in a position where she could
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  • Be-- in a position she would be face to face with the man.
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  • And in some instances, it talks about opposing and corresponding
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  • To him.
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  • Think of that.
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  • And so we, as women in the body of christ, we must begin to
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  • Think in line for how god sees us and not allow the world to
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  • Dictate, not allow the world and society to dominate our thinking
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  • And to cause us to think less than what god's word has said
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  • Concerning us.
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  • You are a powerful being, you have the strength of god on
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  • The inside of you.
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  • And so it is through that strength that god used eve, even
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  • As they were disobedient in the garden of eden.
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  • It was through mary's obedience that he brought the savior into
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  • The world.
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  • Jesus walked about elevating the status of women and causing them
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  • To be a reflection of the image of god.
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  • Because you know, for a long time, it was believed that only
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  • Man was made in the image of god and not the woman.
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  • But the scripture says in genesis 1, verse 26, he says,
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  • "let," what?
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  • "them have dominion."
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  • So you are just as much in the image of god as the man is.
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  • You have dominion, you have authority, you have the ability
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  • To subdue, to bring things into subjection.
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  • So we have to put ourselves in remembrance.
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  • It's not some fight.
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  • You know, i hear oftentimes and i just say it myself, you know,
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  • We just gotta get to the table and we gotta get to the table
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  • Where all the decisions are made.
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  • No, it's about recognizing who you are in christ.
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  • And how many of you know, god will take care of everything
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  • Concerning you?
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  • He will take care of it because he is the head.
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  • And if we stay connected and we stay plugged into our source,
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  • The basis for why we do what we do, you can't help but increase,
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  • You can't help but grow.
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  • You can't help but stay healthy.
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  • You can't help but develop.
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  • But it begins by us understanding and recognizing
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  • Who we are and to stay knitted together and joined together,
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  • That we can supply and receive that nourishment from god.
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  • And as a result, that same supply that comes from the head,
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  • It comes on our life.
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  • Look at ephesians chapter 5-- i know this is a big one.
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  • Ephesians 5, hallelujah.
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  • Hope you're catching this.
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  • We are going somewhere and it's time for us to take our
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  • Rightful place.
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  • You better look out.
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  • My god, we have taken the seatbelt off and we are going,
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  • We're on a mission, hallelujah.
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  • I'm going hard after god for everything that he wants to do.
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  • He is the god of the surprise.
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  • I was saying that last week to our church and then all of
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  • A sudden i got some surprises.
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  • One of them was good, but one of them was bad.
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  • I say, "o lord, let me be specific."
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  • But you know, sometimes you just need to see stuff.
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  • So he says, and that's what he told mary.
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  • He said, "mary, you don't have anything to fear," in
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  • The message translation.
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  • God has a surprise for you.
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  • And i believe that.
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  • God has a prize for you that's gonna blow your wildest dreams.
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  • It's gonna take the top off, take the limits off.
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  • God's gonna show you stuff that you've been praying for, things
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  • You've been believing and standing for, because he's the
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  • God of the surprise, hallelujah.
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  • And he wants to surprise his people with good gifts and
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  • Blessings being poured out and heaped upon us, hallelujah.
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  • I believe that.
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  • He's a god of signs and wonders and confirmations of his word
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  • And he's faithful to do what he says.
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  • He's faithful to his promises and his provisions, hallelujah.
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  • Now look at what it says here in ephesians chapter 5, as we look
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  • At this word "head."
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  • Who's the boss?
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  • Because as we said early on, that we think this word "head"
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  • Means boss.
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  • Who i get to boss today, who's bossing me?
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  • Chandler used to tell jeremy, "you not the boss of me.
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  • You don't get to tell me what to do."
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  • And so we have to recognize what the scripture says, that that
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  • Word isn't about bossing somebody around, dominating.
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  • Jesus came to get rid of all male domination and
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  • Female subordination.
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  • He did.
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  • He said, "this ends today."
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  • When he died on the cross, he shed his blood.
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  • It was so that they would no longer operate in a spirit of
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  • Nomination over one another.
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  • He talked about in matthew chapter 20, he said, "you know,
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  • You lord over one another."
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  • In fact, let's just look at that for just a second.
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  • I know i told you to go somewhere else.
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  • But matthew 20, verse 28.
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  • He had to change some things around and redirect them because
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  • They had the wrong mindset, the wrong mentality.
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  • In matthew 20, verse 25, this is jesus here, dealing with this
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  • Spirit of domination.
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  • And so, as we understand what biblical equality is all about,
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  • It's not trying to dominate one another or compete with one
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  • Another, but it's us understanding the parts that we
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  • All get to play and that we all matter in the things of god.
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  • Verse 25 says: "but jesus called them and called them unto him,
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  • And said, you know-- you know that the princes of the gentiles
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  • Exercise dominion."
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  • So they were exercising domination, dominion,
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  • Over everyone.
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  • That was patriarchy where men ruled over men, certain men
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  • Ruled over women.
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  • There were all kinds of things where they were operating in
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  • Domination over one another.
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  • It says: "and they that are great, exercise authority
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  • Upon them."
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  • The amplified says, verse 25: "jesus says unto them, you know
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  • That the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them."
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  • How many of you know, it's not about lording over?
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  • "and their great men hold them in subjection, [tyrannizing],"
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  • Competing, lording over one another.
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  • How many of you know, that's not god?
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  • It's not what the spirit of god does.
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  • And so he says in verse 26: "but it shall not be so among you."
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  • He says, "it shall not be so among you."
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  • He rebuked them for that lordship and that tyrannizing
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  • And taking authority over others, unfair, disrespect,
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  • Mistreatment of one another.
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  • He says, "it shall not be so.
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  • You shall not treat one another in that way.
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  • You take the man out of the bed, you don't stone him but you
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  • Stone the woman?
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  • It shall not be so."
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  • He says, "who is he that accuses her?
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  • Neither do i condemn thee."
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  • He says, "woman, drop your stone, go and sin no more."
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  • So there is this rearranging and establishing things in
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  • A different type of way that jesus came to do, so that he
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  • Could deal with that spirit.
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  • And it says, "but it shall not be so among you, but whosoever
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  • Will be great among you, let him be your minister."
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  • Let him be your servant, which is how jesus modeled, "and
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  • Whoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant."
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  • The boss is the one who gets to serve.
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  • Don't tell me you're the boss and all you wanna do is command
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  • Folks around and you don't wanna serve anybody.
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  • I don't wanna see your title.
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  • I wanna see your life.
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  • How many of you know you can lead without a title,
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  • You can serve without a title.
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  • So jesus says, "if you wanna be great, if you wanna be chief,
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  • Serve somebody."
  • 00:14:01.687 --> 00:14:05.491
  • Somebody said, "you don't need a college degree to serve."
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  • I'm not gonna get into all of that.
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  • For, verse 28, "even as the son of man came not to be ministered
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  • Unto, but," what?
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  • "to minister, to pour out his life."
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  • And we are beneficiaries of him pouring out his life.
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  • "just as the son of man came not to be walked on," think of that,
  • 00:14:28.514 --> 00:14:32.484
  • "or to be waited on."
  • 00:14:32.484 --> 00:14:34.186
  • He didn't come to, you know, be served.
  • 00:14:34.186 --> 00:14:37.656
  • "disciples, get over here and serve me.
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  • Don't you know who i am.
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  • I'm the great son of god.
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  • I came from heaven thousands of years ago.
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  • Wait on me, get my--" no, he says he "didn't come to be
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  • Waited on but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for
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  • Many [the price paid]," look at there, "[to set them free.]"
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  • Phew, man, that blesses me.
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  • The price to set us free.
  • 00:15:08.420 --> 00:15:12.925
  • Because he knew that you didn't need somebody telling you what
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  • To do.
  • 00:15:18.630 --> 00:15:20.432
  • You needed the holy ghost to come on the inside of you so you
  • 00:15:20.432 --> 00:15:24.970
  • Can hear him for yourself.
  • 00:15:24.970 --> 00:15:26.372
  • So you can be led and you could be directed from the inside out
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  • And you could be changed from-- for the better from within.
  • 00:15:31.210 --> 00:15:36.115
  • Now, look over to ephesians chapter 5--let's look at this as
  • 00:15:36.115 --> 00:15:40.953
  • We want to look at the word "head" in this context of who
  • 00:15:40.953 --> 00:15:47.092
  • Is the boss, hallelujah.
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  • I won't take the time to read all of this.
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  • But verse 14 says, "wherefore he saith, awake thou that sleepest,
  • 00:15:57.936 --> 00:16:01.874
  • Arise from the dead, and christ shall give thee light.
  • 00:16:01.874 --> 00:16:04.343
  • See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools,
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  • But as wise."
  • 00:16:08.447 --> 00:16:10.682
  • He says, "look carefully then how you walk!
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  • Live on purpose, accurately."
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  • That means knowing the word, knowing where your worth comes
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  • From, understanding that you have worth, and because you have
  • 00:16:21.293 --> 00:16:26.732
  • Worth, jesus died for you.
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  • "not as the unwise, witless, but as wise (sensible),"
  • 00:16:29.668 --> 00:16:34.606
  • The scripture says, "(intelligent people)."
  • 00:16:34.606 --> 00:16:38.510
  • Verse 14 says, "arise from the dead, and christ shall shine
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  • And make your day dawn upon you and give you light."
  • 00:16:41.713 --> 00:16:45.984
  • Now let's go down to verse 16.
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  • I know i've jumped around a little bit.
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  • "redeeming the time, because the days are," what?
  • 00:16:49.721 --> 00:16:54.159
  • "evil.
  • 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:55.527
  • Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will
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  • Of the lord is."
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  • God wants us to understand, to piece together.
  • 00:17:03.802 --> 00:17:07.272
  • That word "understanding" means to piece together pieces of
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  • A jigsaw puzzle where it begins to give an image, it gives
  • 00:17:11.543 --> 00:17:15.647
  • A picture of an overall image, and us understanding, seeing
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  • Ourselves saying the word of god in the context of his plan
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  • And of his purpose.
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  • So it says: "piecing together," as you would pieces of
  • 00:17:28.927 --> 00:17:31.597
  • A jigsaw puzzle.
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  • You put this piece with that piece and, you know, you got
  • 00:17:32.931 --> 00:17:36.335
  • A ways to go to connect it all.
  • 00:17:36.335 --> 00:17:38.070
  • But eventually you'll begin to see it come together and
  • 00:17:38.070 --> 00:17:40.572
  • The picture will reveal and speak for itself.
  • 00:17:40.572 --> 00:17:42.774
  • So it says: "piece together what the will of the lord is.
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  • Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
  • 00:17:45.777 --> 00:17:49.615
  • But be filled with the spirit."
  • 00:17:49.615 --> 00:17:54.186
  • So there's this feeling of the holy ghost that god wants us
  • 00:17:54.186 --> 00:17:59.224
  • To be stimulated by.
  • 00:17:59.224 --> 00:18:01.360
  • He says, "ever be filled and stimulated with the holy ghost.
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  • Speaking to ourselves in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, making
  • 00:18:07.332 --> 00:18:10.903
  • Melody in our heart to the lord; giving thanks always for all
  • 00:18:10.903 --> 00:18:15.507
  • Things unto god and the father in the name of our lord
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  • Jesus christ."
  • 00:18:20.145 --> 00:18:21.713
  • So in verse 21 he says, "submitting yourselves one
  • 00:18:21.713 --> 00:18:27.419
  • To another in the fear of god.
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  • Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
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  • As unto the lord."
  • 00:18:33.692 --> 00:18:35.027
  • And he says in verse 23: "for the husband is," where?
  • 00:18:35.027 --> 00:18:38.897
  • There is that word again.
  • 00:18:38.897 --> 00:18:40.399
  • "head," someone say "head."
  • 00:18:40.399 --> 00:18:43.202
  • "the husband is the head of the wife, even as christ is," what?
  • 00:18:43.202 --> 00:18:46.872
  • "the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body."
  • 00:18:46.872 --> 00:18:53.078
  • So to follow here, as mentioned, in verse 23,
  • 00:18:53.078 --> 00:18:56.248
  • He compares the husband with christ.
  • 00:18:56.248 --> 00:19:02.354
  • He says, just as christ is the head of the church, he provides
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  • Increase to the church, he nourishes the church, he helps
  • 00:19:06.858 --> 00:19:13.765
  • The church reach its fullest potential, the husband-- well,
  • 00:19:13.765 --> 00:19:18.470
  • Christ helps the church to grow, that the christ helps us to
  • 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:25.310
  • Develop, to be built up.
  • 00:19:25.310 --> 00:19:28.347
  • He says, even as christ does all these things, he says,
  • 00:19:28.347 --> 00:19:33.185
  • The husband is to be unto the wife.
  • 00:19:33.185 --> 00:19:37.522
  • So it's not that matthew 20 spirit of tyrannizing
  • 00:19:37.522 --> 00:19:44.296
  • Or dominion or dominating.
  • 00:19:44.296 --> 00:19:46.131
  • But it's the leadership of the holy spirit, being led by the
  • 00:19:46.131 --> 00:19:52.304
  • Spirit in the relationship that we have with the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:52.304 --> 00:19:57.309
  • And that just as christ is a sacrificial servant, he says,
  • 00:19:57.309 --> 00:20:03.815
  • For the husband is to be the same, in the way that he is
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  • The savior of the body.
  • 00:20:08.654 --> 00:20:10.756
  • And then he skips over to verse 25.
  • 00:20:10.756 --> 00:20:13.025
  • It says: "husbands, love your wives, even as christ
  • 00:20:13.025 --> 00:20:16.595
  • Also," what?
  • 00:20:16.595 --> 00:20:17.929
  • "loved the church, and he gave himself for it."
  • 00:20:17.929 --> 00:20:22.167
  • So we see that parallel again between christ to the church,
  • 00:20:22.167 --> 00:20:28.006
  • And the husband to the wife.
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  • The husband loving the wife, just as christ loved the church.
  • 00:20:32.277 --> 00:20:37.683
  • The scripture says: "for god so," what?
  • 00:20:37.683 --> 00:20:39.451
  • "loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that
  • 00:20:39.451 --> 00:20:45.991
  • Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
  • 00:20:45.991 --> 00:20:50.128
  • Everlasting life."
  • 00:20:50.128 --> 00:20:51.730
  • So he says, "husband, love your wife."
  • 00:20:51.730 --> 00:20:55.567
  • The scripture says, "go out of your way and as christ does in
  • 00:20:55.567 --> 00:21:00.439
  • Loving the church and giving up himself for the church, and
  • 00:21:00.439 --> 00:21:04.976
  • Giving up himself for the wife in a sacrificial way, so that,"
  • 00:21:04.976 --> 00:21:09.648
  • Verse 26, "he might sanctify, cleanse it, that he might
  • 00:21:09.648 --> 00:21:15.454
  • Cleanse her and sanctify her by the washing of the water with
  • 00:21:15.454 --> 00:21:20.025
  • The word."
  • 00:21:20.025 --> 00:21:21.360
  • And so it is jesus's word gets on the inside of us and it gets
  • 00:21:21.360 --> 00:21:24.429
  • Rid of all the fear and cleanses us and it makes us whole
  • 00:21:24.429 --> 00:21:28.834
  • And sound in our thinking.
  • 00:21:28.834 --> 00:21:30.736
  • And so he says: "that he might present it to himself a glorious
  • 00:21:30.736 --> 00:21:33.972
  • Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;
  • 00:21:33.972 --> 00:21:39.111
  • But that it should be holy and without blemish."
  • 00:21:39.111 --> 00:21:43.115
  • And he says, "so ought men to love their wives as their
  • 00:21:43.115 --> 00:21:48.186
  • Own bodies.
  • 00:21:48.186 --> 00:21:49.688
  • And he that loveth himself-- he that loveth his wife
  • 00:21:49.688 --> 00:21:53.859
  • Loveth himself."
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  • Father, we thank you for your word.
  • 00:21:55.894 --> 00:22:00.298
  • I pray that every person who's here, lord, will begin to see
  • 00:22:00.298 --> 00:22:06.772
  • What it is that you desire, what it is that you desire to do
  • 00:22:06.772 --> 00:22:13.879
  • In their lives.
  • 00:22:13.879 --> 00:22:15.247
  • May we get a revelation of our place and our part in the body
  • 00:22:15.247 --> 00:22:21.019
  • Of christ, that we receive you, that you stand first pre-eminent
  • 00:22:21.019 --> 00:22:27.359
  • Over our lives.
  • 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.795
  • And that we recognize that we could become developed in you,
  • 00:22:29.795 --> 00:22:33.932
  • Developed out of insecurities, any inadequacies,
  • 00:22:33.932 --> 00:22:36.935
  • And any inferiority.
  • 00:22:36.935 --> 00:22:38.270
  • But that we can become what you've called us to be, from
  • 00:22:38.270 --> 00:22:44.276
  • The foundations of the world.
  • 00:22:44.276 --> 00:22:48.447
  • It gives us great privilege to be able to take our rightful
  • 00:22:48.447 --> 00:22:51.416
  • Place and to exercise the dominion that you've given over
  • 00:22:51.416 --> 00:22:56.855
  • To us to bring things into subjection to your word and that
  • 00:22:56.855 --> 00:23:03.528
  • No weapon that is formed against us will prosper because we are
  • 00:23:03.528 --> 00:23:08.600
  • Connected unto you and we are knitted together in you.
  • 00:23:08.600 --> 00:23:15.373
  • We need one another.
  • 00:23:15.373 --> 00:23:17.375
  • We depend on one another so that we can be all that's been
  • 00:23:17.375 --> 00:23:22.581
  • Destined from the foundations of the world.
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  • If you believe that, somebody say, "amen."
  • 00:23:25.016 --> 00:23:28.553
  • Let's give god some praise.
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  • Male announcer: who submits on your job?
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  • This question often burns in the minds of people
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  • Concerning you?
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