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How To Win Over Depression Part 3

December 24, 2020

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Creflo Dollar: "There istherefore now no condemnation to
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anybody that's in Christ Jesus.
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He gives to you the freegift of no condemnation."
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He doesn't wait to see how yougon' live before he decides
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whether or not you can have thefree gift of no condemnation.
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Performance-based, law-basedChristianity says, "There's no
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way you can get somethin' likethis without doin' somethin'."
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But that's where thegrace of God comes in.
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Creflo: In betweenyour spirit and your
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body, is your soul and youremotions and your mind and
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your will.
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In between your spirit andyour body is that, and whatever
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happens here determine what'sgonna happen in your life.
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So your spirit-man's tryin' toget you to go God's way, but
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it's gotta getyour soul on board.
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Your flesh-man, your body, istryin' to get your--to go this
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way, but it's gottaget your soul on board.
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Whoever captures the souldominates the system.
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That's powerful.
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Whoever captures the way of yourthinkin' dominates the system.
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They even put the commain the wrong place.
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You know, we've been reading,you know, "As a man thinketh in
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his heart--"
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no, it's not "thinkin'in your heart."
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"As a man thinketh,"comma, "in his heart--"
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you follow what I'm sayin'?
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"As a man thinketh in his heart,so shall he be," in his heart.
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In his heart.
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"What you are in your heartis gonna be based on
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your thinkin'."
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That's what he's sayin'.
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We're gettin' so religious,we never even broke the
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Scripture down.
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"As a man thinkethin his heart--"
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ain't nobody thinkin'in your heart.
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What're you talkin' about?
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You're thinkin' up here.
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"As a man thinketh," comma,"in his heart, so is he."
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"So is he--" what?
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He is as he thinks.
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That happens throughoutthe Bible.
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What's that other Scripture weshould use about, "When the
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thief comes in like a flood"?
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What's that--yeah, "Godlifts up a standard?"
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How's that Scripture--"When the enemy comes in--"
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okay, "When theenemy comes in--"
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and so what we did, we putthe comma in the wrong place.
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"When the enemy comes inlike a flood," comma--no.
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"When the enemy comes in,"comma, "like a flood, God will
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lift the standardup against him."
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The enemy is not the flood.
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God is the flood.
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And he says, "When the enemycomes in like a flood, God'll
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lift--"
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can you see what religiondoes over the years, just by
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punctuatin' the thing wrong?
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You're goin' around, thinkin',"Oh, Lord, I don't want the
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enemy to come in like a flood."
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The enemy's never been referredto as water and a flood.
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That's the Holy Ghost.
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"Out of your belly shallflow rivers of living water."
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I don't know how we got intothat, but, man, you get yourself
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stirred up, you get yourselfencouraged, ain't nothin' on
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flood proportions comin' fromthe devil, but when he show up,
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God will flood his tail so farout of your life, and you gotta
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be saturated with that, that "Igot a flood on my side," amen.
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Somebody said, "Do you thinkthat's a wise thing to talk
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about right now?"
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Yeah, baby, 'causeGod got you covered."
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Okay, so being depressed overan extended period of time will
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cause your organs to functionimproperly, so you see somethin'
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that can affect you physically,and I am sayin' it is time to
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be happy.
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I said it's time to be happy.
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"Well, how do I become joyful?"
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Well, joy comesfrom what you know.
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And when you know what the Biblehas said to you, the joy of the
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Lord can come.
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Now, number two, westopped here last week.
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Guilt.
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Guilt is an effectof depression.
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It's an effect of depression,the guilt that says, "I wasn't
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good enough to my children," andyour child's 60 years old now,
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and you're still walkin' aroundwith that guilt, you know?
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Or "I committed adultery," or,you know, "I said some terrible
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things, verbally abused mywife," or a husband, "as we were
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comin' up."
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You know, "When I was ateenager in college--"
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The first thing you've got todo is you've got to understand
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that, when you make a choice tonot receive forgiveness which
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God has already forgivenyou--you're already forgiven.
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You are forgiven bythe blood of Jesus.
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He has forgiven you.
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In fact, the Bible says hehas forgiven the whole world.
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He says, "Salvation," in Titus,"Salvation has come to the
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whole world."
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All right, well, the whole worldwon't--haven't received it.
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You have.
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But even sometimes, as aChristian, you don't receive
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this part of your gracesalvation, and this is the fact
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that he has forgiven you of yourpast, present, and future sins.
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I mean, there's an entirechapter of that in Hebrews
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chapter 10, about how he hasforgiven you of your past,
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present, and future sins, and hedid it once and for all times.
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But what happens is, even thoughhe's forgiven us, you hadn't
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received it yet, and youkeep carrying the weight.
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You keep carrying the weight.
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You won't let it go.
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And what happens is, when youdon't let the weight go, you try
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to walk in life with the weight,and the weight's gonna affect
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how you walk.
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And I'm not saying that whathappened to you wasn't true.
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It happened, but ain't nothin'you can do to go back and
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fix it.
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Or you can carry the weight allyour life and be one of the most
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miserable people ever, or youcan just let it go, and
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go forward.
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The people who spend all oftheir life--and they're working
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to try to get justice--needto be believing God for mercy.
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And it's a sad thing when yousee somebody in life weighed
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down from somethin' in the past.
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And it's a difficult thing todo, but what you have to do is
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you've gotta say,"You know what?
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God, I need you to help me.
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I'm gettin' ready to movethe weights from my life.
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I'm tired of walkin' like this.I'm tired of walkin' like this.
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I'm tired of bein' mean toevery person that I meet.
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I'm tired of being suspiciousof every time I meet somebody.
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I'm tired of being angry ateverybody because of the anger I
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have towards one or twopeople--I'm havin'
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towards everybody.
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This weight isaffecting my life."
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Okay, and I am saying it's timeto start removin' the weights
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and live.
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It's gonna be easier to live alife without the weights, but if
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you keep justifying why youdon't wanna let the weights go,
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you know, it's gonna be yourlife, and it's gonna be so
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miserable, and, you know, yourlife is just gonna be miserable,
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and God wants you to be happy,but you can't be happy 'cause
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you can't let go of the past,and I know how that feels.
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Let go.
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"Like, I don't wanna let go.
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I want revenge. I wantconfrontation, I wanna hurt you
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like you hurt me, I want allthose kind of things."
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And I'm like, "Dude,Jesus has forgiven me.
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I might as well forgive myself.
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This is not fun.
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It's not fun."
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You haven't seen the person in30 years, and you still got the
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same weight.
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And I see this a lotwith divorced people.
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You divorced that person.
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Y'all been divorced for almost40 years, and you have not let
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the weight go, and you wonderwhy you never got married again
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because every time a dude wantedto approach you, he ran into the
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demon that was--you couldn'tsee it, but it was in your face.
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"Hi, How're ya doin'?"
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[growling]
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You were growlin', and didn'teven know it, like a dog.
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[growling]
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You gotta let it go.
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You could spend your life mostmiserably, or you can take the
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weight off and say, "okay, it'sin the past, and it's governed
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enough of my life.
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I'm done with it.
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I'm done with it."
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Everybody in here could probablyfind some weight that you feel
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like you need to hang on to,but, trust me, all it's gonna do
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is weigh you down, and half yourlife gon' be gone, and you spent
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half your life carrying a weightthat Jesus made a way for you to
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get rid of, and you just can'tfigure out how to do that.
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And living a guilt-free life isjust so awesome, but if you keep
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that guilt long enough and thathurt long enough, somehow, you
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become the very thing thatyou're angry with and that you
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carried around because youcan't carry somethin' around you
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without it eventuallytransforming you into what, you
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know, what you'recarrying around.
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So I don't wanna be insensitive,but somehow you gotta figure out
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how to unpack the luggage andput the suitcase back where
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it belongs.
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You've been walkin' around thelast five, ten years of your
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life with this luggage.
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And you're a beautiful person,but nobody knows it because
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you're so weighed down, andGod's tryin' to talk to ya.
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You can't hear him becauseyou're so weighed down.
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There's so much clutter in yourmind, and you just won't let
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it go.
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They're beautiful thoughtsthat God wants to give you, the
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revelation he wants to give you.
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He wants to give youwitty inventions, ideas.
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He wants to show you how towalk in your wealthy place.
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He wants to do all kindsof wonderful things.
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He can't do it, not becausehe's not speaking, but you're so
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cluttered that you can't enjoythe fellowship in the presence
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of God.
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What does the Scripture say?
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"In his presence thereis fullness of joy.
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At his right hand thereare pleasures forevermore."
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And a guy who is full of guiltand full of weights cannot
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enjoy that.
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That feeling, that emotion, isdesigned to keep you away from
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those things, and you can'twalk in the blessings of God.
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And somehow you just haveto--you know, I remember goin'
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through somethin', and, youknow, it was public and all
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that, and my spiritual fathercalled me, and Brother Copeland
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says, "I got theplane gassed up."
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He said, "I'm on my way.
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You need me?"
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And I said--I was sittin' in thecorner of a room, and I said,
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"Well, nah, I can handle it.
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It's time for me to be a big boyand grow up," and he says, "I
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can come."
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I said, "I got it.
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I got it."
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I was just angry with theworld, how they turned on me and
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especially members that werewith me and how they just turned
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on me because they believed anarrative that was reported by
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some reporter and that, thosedays, I didn't believe in
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responding, and it was like,well, I just shut up, and I
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don't agree withthat too much today.
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I mean, you know, you saysomethin' about me right now,
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I'mma be right there on thenews, "You's a lyin' and a
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Lincoln, and your breath stink.
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That did not happen, no."
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I thought I was being the godlything and doin' it right 'cause
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all the preachers, they didn't,they don't understand, and I'm
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just like, you know, so I'm mad.
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I'm walkin' around mad.
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I'm preachin', screamin'mad 'cause I'm just mad.
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He's like, "You know,if you don't--"
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And I remember, he says, "If youdon't get rid of this, I can't
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use you.
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I can't use you because my gracewon't flow through all of this,
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ought and anger.
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And more than anything, youare in pride because you won't
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humble yourself andwalk guilt-free and
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condemnation-free.
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You won't let it go,and you're in pride.
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And my pride--that pride thatyou got is holdin' up--it's like
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electricity tryin' to flowthrough wood or tryin' to flow
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through rubber.
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It won't."
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And the grace of God wasbeing hindered right there.
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That was an emotional thing thatwas stopping something spiritual
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from happening in my life.
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I don't carry no weight.
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Yeah, I ain't goin'to bed with it.
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It's a new day the next day.
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It's gon' be all right.
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I might not figureit out that day.
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Go to bed, believe Godfor somethin' to come up.
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It's all right.
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Made a mistake.
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Said some stupid stuff.
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I'm forgiven.
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It's all right.
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And you just keep growin',and you keep growin', and the
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mistake you'll make is you'lljudge me from somethin' you
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heard 30 years ago and failedto come to know a really, really
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cool guy.
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That's your fault.
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That's not mine.
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It's not myresponsibility to do that.
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My responsibility is to figureout how to live and go on.
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That's what emotions can do,and that's what it's doin' with
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Christians, and I can't standphoniness, so I don't wanna be
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phony, and I'mnot gon' be phony.
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So I'd rather not preach--if Idon't believe this stuff, I'm
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done, I'm not doin' this, but Ibelieve every bit of it because
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I've lived it out in my life,and I'm tellin' you, let the
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guilt go.
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Let the shame go.
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Let the weights go.
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Wake up and see the world awhole different way through the
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lens of the promises of God,and watch how things change.
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You don't have to bemastered by your emotions.
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You can master your emotions.
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Now, watch this: This effect,according to the book of 1 John
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1 and 9, you know, we'reforgiven, but Romans 8 and
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1--turn there for amoment, Romans 8 and 1.
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See, the thief next to Jesuson the cross was forgiven.
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The man Saul, who persecutedChristians, was forgiven, who
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later on becamethe apostle Paul.
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I mean, you gottaunderstand somethin'.
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I can give you three murderersthat God used and forgave:
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Moses, right?
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Give me another one.
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David.
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David's murder was,like, in deep deception.
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And then Paul.
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Are you kidding me?
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Moses, David, and Paul.
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All I got to say:You gon' be okay.
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If God forgave and coulduse them, come on, guys.
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Come on, pick yourself up.
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Do what need to be done.
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Here's what it says verse 1:"There is therefore now no
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condemnation to them whichare in Christ Jesus," period.
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Do you know, if you'll studythis Scripture out, the last
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part of that is not evenin the original Greek.
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It is not-- "who walked notaccording to the flesh, but
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after the Spirit."
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Some of you may have Bibles thathave that part in italicized,
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and then some of 'em tried tochange it to try to make sure it
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was in there.
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It does not--what the originalGreek says, "There is therefore
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now no condemnation to themwhich are in Christ Jesus--"
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What he has said is "Now thatyou're in Christ Jesus, that is
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enough for there tobe no condemnation."
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It is not saying that you got tonow walk in the Spirit and not
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in the flesh in order forthere to be no condemnation.
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What he says is, "If you'll bein Christ Jesus, there'll be no
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condemnation, and if you'llbelieve that, you'll walk in the
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Spirit and not in the flesh."
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But it doesn't require you toperform and walk in the Spirit
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and not in the flesh in orderfor there to be no condemnation.
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"There is therefore now nocondemnation to anybody that's
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in Christ Jesus.
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He gives to you the freegift of no condemnation."
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He doesn't wait to see how yougon' live before he decides
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whether or not you can have thefree gift of no condemnation.
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And some guy added it becauseperformance-based, law-based
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Christianity says, "There's noway you can get somethin' like
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this without doin' somethin'."
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But that's where thegrace of God comes in.
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Without you doin' anything butbelieving Jesus and getting in
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him, he says, "I'll give youthe gift of no condemnation."
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Then I'mma show you howI know this is correct.
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The woman who was pulled out ofthe very act of adultery and was
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gettin' ready to be stoned, andaccording to the law, they had a
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right to stone her, Jesus justsaid, "If there's anybody here
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that doesn't have sin, lethim cast the first stone."
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They all dropped theirstones, and they went away.
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Jesus says, "Is anybodyhere to condemn you?
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She said, "No,they're all gone."
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He says, "Neitherdo I condemn you.
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Now go and sin no more."
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It wasn't Jesus gave her thefree gift of no condemnation
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because now she has proved thatshe not gon' go to bed with
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nobody no more.
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He says, "Here's the deal: I amgiving you the free gift of no
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condemnation, and if you'llreceive this, you're not gonna
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end up in the same situation'cause this is gonna free you
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enough to walk in the Spirit andnot in the flesh that got you
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there in the first place."
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That's the gospel of grace,ladies and gentlemen.
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All right, so let's look atanother effect real quick,
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and then I'll talkabout some causes.
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Jealousy and hostility isa result of depression.
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Think of that,jealousy and hostility.
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A depressed person can bringspirits of jealousy and
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hostility into the home.
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If everybody is not sad likeyou, and they are happy, you get
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angry and become jealous ofeveryone in the family that's
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not sad.
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Isn't that sad?
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Isn't that sad?
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And so, "I got a problem withall y'all 'cause you won't
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suffer like me emotionally."
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And, you know, people will havea problem with your joy
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and happiness.
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"Why are you happy, and I'mgoin' through all the stuff that
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I'm goin' through?"
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You know, that's theissue of self-worth.
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You know, you gotta decidewhether you're gonna do the
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things that are gonna make youacceptable to God or are you
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gonna keep doin' the things totry to be acceptable with man?
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What has the Scripture said?
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"If you do the things to tryto please men, you cannot be a
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servant of God," because you'vealready chosen what you're gonna
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go after.
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But being jealous,coming from depression,
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the number of people that getdepressed because they are one
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way and they see you the waythat they really want to be,
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and then want to behostile to you because
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you're not like them--
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Be careful when you go to getyour hair fixed or get your
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toes and stuff done or somethinglike that and somebody in there
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talking about, "Well, you know,I've been married two times and
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I'm telling you, youneed to leave that man."
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Oh now, wait a minutenow, just 'cause you all lonely
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and sad and stufflike that, I'mma work mine out.
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Work mine out.
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The depression that comes overpeople who couldn't work it out,
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should've worked it out,didn't know how to work it out,
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and their emotions led themall the way down the road to do
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that, their hurt ledthem; hey, divorce
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is all emotionally ruled.
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Not all, there are somecases--I mean, please--there
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are some cases where you needto run away from that joke.
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I mean, if you going homeevery night and he--every time,
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you know, you say, "Hey,honey, how you doin'?"
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he's saying, "Bam!"
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You--what youtrying to work out?
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You need to work yourway out of that house.
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So in those extremesituations where it is abusive,
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we don't advocateabuse in our church.
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You will never ever,listen to me on the stream,
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I will never ever say to youwhen you're being beat up and
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abused in amarriage relationship,
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"Well, you just need totrust God and stay there."
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I ain't sayin' that.God got to tell you that.
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You ain't never gonna hearthat from me unless God tell me,
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and I don't believe he will.
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God'll know how to tellyou--that is not abundant life
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for you to go home and get beatup and get an elbow and walk out
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with a bloody eyeand talkin' about,
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"Well, I just got to learnhow to be a submitted wife."
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No, no, he got to learn howto treat you like a partner.
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Marriage is partnership.
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It's submission both ways.
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Marriage is a partnership.Marriage is not a domination.
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That's old covenant.
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You have no right--see, adominating marriage--don't talk
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to me about culture.
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The Word is gonnasupersede all cultural beliefs.
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Don't tell meabout your culture.
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Your cultural belief, if itdoesn't line up with the Word,
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is the wrong believing.
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And that wrong belief is gonnaproduce a wrong way of living.
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When you believe wrong,you're gonna live wrong.
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If you want toconquer depression,
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you've got to allow the Word ofGod to be the final authority in
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your life, and you've got tosaturate your consciousness with
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the Word of God, and it'sgonna change how you feel.
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You won't be jealous andhostile, you won't be full
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of guilt, and physicalillness won't come.
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will not touch your life.
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