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How to Win Over Depression Part 3

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September 8, 2019

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How to Win Over Depression Part 3

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Creflo Dollar: We must be cautious of what we're exposing
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ourselves to on a regular basis.
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Now, the abundance of technology available to us today gives us
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access to almost anything, but we need to expose
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ourselves to the Word of God.
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And when we saturate ourselves with God's Word,
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we keep negative emotions such as depression at bay.
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Now, there's a difference between managing depression
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and getting rid of it, and Jesus has given us
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the antidote to depression.
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Today, we're continuing to talk about how
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to win over depression.
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This is your world,
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so let's vow to make it a better place.
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Let every heart that needs to know
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your love is here to stay.
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Oh, it's time to live a new life.
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Oh, let his love shine bright in you.
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Oh, we're saved by his grace,
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so we embrace your love today.
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We are changed.
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Creflo: The Bible says there is a path that seems right.
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I don't want to go down no path that seem right, why?
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'Cause I went down a path that seemed right,
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but at the end it was destruction.
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So, what do you do?
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When you learn about a path that seems right,
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expose that path to some people you love so they don't have
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to go down that same path.
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And I am telling you, you have to understand that when you are
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emotional and you can't control your emotions,
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then you're going to start trying to control other people,
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and you're going to be miserable and open the door to all type of
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emotional things that we'll be talking about.
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I'm going to talk about stress after this,
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talk about rejection, talk about shame.
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Most men suffer shame and don't even know what to call it.
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The thing they're going through, they don't
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even know what to call it.
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What is this thing that makes them act the way that
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they define as manhood?
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It's shame.
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And I can't wait till we get to that because shame, to me,
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one of the most--you know, I've gone through the depression
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part, but the shame part, somehow depression is mixed in
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with shame because shame works real hard to make sure you hide
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who you think people think you are.
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Shame is all about how you have been convinced that you're
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awful, and you want to make sure that others
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can't see how awful you are.
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And then you start building up this charade and start covering
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things up so that people can't see who you really are.
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And so, you come to church smiling,
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and on the inside you're crying.
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You come to service and say, "How are you doing?
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This is the day the Lord has made."
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Yeah, but you won't tell them that you wish
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he hadn't made today.
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You see what I'm saying?
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And I thought, well, Christian people need to hear this.
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"I ain't come to church so I can hear all
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of that therapeutic stuff."
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That's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking to you
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about something that's more spiritual.
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And the spiritual part of it is between your spirit and your
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body is your soul, and your emotions,
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and your mind, and your will.
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And between your spirit and your body is that.
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And whatever happens here determines what's
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gonna happen in your life.
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So, your spirit man's trying to get you to go God's way,
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but it's got to get your soul on board.
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Your flesh man, your body is trying to get you to go this
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way, but it's got to get your soul on board.
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Whoever captures the soul dominates the system.
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That's powerful.
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Whoever captures the way of your thinking dominates the system.
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They even put the comma in the wrong place, you know.
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We've been reading, you know, "As a man
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thinketh in his heart."
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No, it's not thinking in your heart.
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As a man thinketh, comma, in his heart.
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You following what I'm saying?
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As a man thinking, in his heart he'll--so shall he be.
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In his heart, in his heart.
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What you are in your heart is going to be
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based on your thinking.
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That's what he's saying.
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We became so religious with it,
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we never even broke the Scripture down.
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As man thinketh in his heart, ain't nobody thinking in your
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heart, what you talking about?
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You're thinking 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? He is as he thinks.
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That happens throughout the Bible,
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all you--what's that other Scripture we used to use about
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when the thief comes in like a--like a flood.
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What's that?
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Yeah, God lifts up a standard.
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How's that Scripture?
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When the enemy comes in.
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Okay, when the enemy comes in.
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And so, what we did, we put the comma in the wrong place.
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When the enemy comes in like a flood, comma.
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No, when the enemy comes in, comma,
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like a flood God will lift a standard up against him.
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The enemy is not the flood, God is the flood.
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And he says, "When the enemy comes in,
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like a flood God will lift a standard."
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Can you see what religion does over the years?
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Just by punctuating the thing wrong,
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you're going around thinking, "Oh Lord,
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I don't want the enemy to come in like a flood."
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The enemy's never been referred to as water and a flood.
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That's the Holy Ghost.
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Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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I don't know how we got into that, but man, you get yourself
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stirred up, you get yourself encouraged.
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Ain't nothing on flood proportions
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coming from the devil.
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But when he show up, God will flood his tail
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so far out of your life.
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And you got to be saturated with that that
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I got a flood on my side.
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Amen.
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Somebody said, "Do you think that's a wise thing
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to talk about right now?"
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Yeah, baby, 'cause God got you covered.
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Okay, so being depressed over an extended period of time will
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cause your organs to function improperly.
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So, you see something that can affect you physically.
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And I am saying it is time to 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 comes from what you know.
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And when you know what the Bible has said to you,
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the joy of the Lord can come.
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Now, number two, guilt.
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Guilt is an effect of 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, and your child's 60 years old now
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and you're still--you're still walking around
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with that guilt, you know?
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Or I committed adultery, or you know,
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I said some terrible things, verbally abused my wife or
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husband as we were coming up.
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You know, when I was a teenager in college,
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you--the first thing you've got to do is you've got to
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understand that when you make a choice to not receive
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forgiveness, which God has already forgiven you,
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you're already forgiven, you are forgiven by the blood of Jesus,
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he has forgiven you.
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In fact, the Bible says he has forgiven the whole world.
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He says salvation, in Titus, "Salvation
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has come to the whole world."
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All right, well, the whole world won't--haven't received it.
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You have, but even sometimes as a Christian,
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you don't receive this part of your great salvation.
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And it's the fact that he has forgiven you of your past,
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present, and future sins.
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I mean, there's an entire chapter of that in Hebrews
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chapter 10 about how he has forgiven you of your
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past, present, and future sins.
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And he did it once and for all times.
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But what happens is, even though he's forgiven us,
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you haven't received it yet, and you keep 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 you don't let the weight go,
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you try to walk in life with the weight,
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and the weight's gonna affect how you walk.
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And I'm not saying that what happened to you wasn't true.
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It happened, but ain't nothing you can do
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to go back and fix it.
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Or you can carry the weight all your life and be one of the most
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miserable people ever, or you can just let
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it go and go forward.
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The people who spend all of their life and they're working
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to try to get justice need to be believing God for mercy.
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And it's a sad thing when you see somebody in life weighed
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down from something in the past.
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And it's a difficult thing to do, but what you have to do
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is you've got to say, "You know what, God?
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I need you to help me.
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I'm getting ready to move the weights from my life.
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I'm tired of walking like this. I'm tired of walking like this.
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I'm tired of being mean to every person that I meet.
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I'm tired of being suspicious of every time I meet somebody.
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I'm tired of being angry at everybody because the anger I
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have towards one or two people, I'm having it towards everybody.
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This weight is affecting my life," okay?
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And I am saying it's time to start removing
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the weights and live.
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It's going to be easier to live a life without the weights.
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But if you keep justifying why you don't want to let the
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weights go, you know, it's going to be your life,
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and it's going to be so miserable.
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And you know, your life is just going to 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.
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And I know how that feels.
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Let it go, like I don't want to let go,
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I want revenge, I want confrontation.
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I want to hurt you like you hurt me.
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I want all those 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, it's not fun."
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You haven't seen the person in 30 years and you
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still got the same weight.
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And I see this a lot with divorced people.
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You divorced that person, y'all been divorced for almost 40
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years, and you have not let the weight go.
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And you wonder why you never got married again because every time
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a dude wanted to approach you, he ran into the demon that
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was--you couldn't see it, but it was in your face.
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"Hi, how you doing?"
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"Grrr."
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You were growling and didn't even know it like a dog, "Grrr."
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You got to let it go.
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You can spend your life most miserably,
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or you can take the weight off and say,
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"Okay, it's in the past, and it's governed enough of my life.
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I'm done with it, I'm done with it."
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Everybody in here could probably find some weight that you feel
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like you need to hang on to, but trust me,
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all that's going to do is weigh you down,
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and half of your life is going to be gone.
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And you spent half your life carrying a weight that Jesus
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made a way for you to get rid of and you just can't
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figure out how to do that.
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And living a guilt-free life is just so awesome.
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But if you keep that guilt long enough and that hurt long
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enough, somehow you become the very thing that you're angry
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with and that you carried around because if you can't carry
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something around you--without it eventually transforming you into
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what, you know, what you're carrying around.
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So, I don't want to be insensitive,
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but somehow you got to figure out how to unpack the luggage
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and put the suitcase back where it belongs.
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You've been walking around the last five,
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ten years of your 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.
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And God's trying to talk to you, you can't hear him because
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you're so weighed down.
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There's so much clutter in your mind and
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you just won't let it go.
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There are beautiful thoughts that God wants to give you,
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there's revelation he wants to give you.
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He wants to give you witty inventions,
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ideas, wants to show you how to walk in your wealthy place,
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wants to do all kinds of wonderful things.
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He can't do it not because he's not speaking,
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but you're so cluttered that you can't enjoy the fellowship
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and the presence of God.
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What does Scripture say?
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In his presence there is fullness of joy.
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At his right hand, there are pleasures forevermore.
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And a guy who is full of guilt and full
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of weights cannot enjoy that.
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That feeling, that emotion is designed to keep you away from
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those things, and you can't walk in the blessings of God.
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And somehow you just have to--you know,
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I remember going through something and,
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you know, it was public and all that,
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and my spiritual Father called me.
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And Brother Copeland said, "I got the plane 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 sitting in a corner of the room and I said,
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"Well, nah, I can handle this.
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It's time for me to be a big boy and grow up."
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He says, "I can come."
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I said, "I got it."
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So, I'm mad, I'm walking around mad,
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I'm preaching, screaming 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 you don't get rid
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of this, I can't use you.
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I can't use you because my grace won't flow through
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all of this aught and anger.
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And more than anything, you are in pride because you
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won't humble yourself and walk
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guilt-free and 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 that you got is holding up,
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it's like electricity trying to flow through wood or trying to
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flow through rubber, it won't.
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And the grace of God was being hindered right there.
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That was an emotional thing that was 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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I ain't going to bed with it, it's a new day the next day.
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It's going to be all right.
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I might not figure it out that day, go to bed, believe
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God for something come up, it's all right.
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Made a mistake, said some stupid stuff.
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I'm forgiven, it's all right.
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And you just keep growing and you keep growing.
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And the mistake you'll make is you'll judge me from something
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you heard 30 years ago and fail to come to know
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a really, really cool guy.
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That's your fault, that's not my--it's not
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my responsibility to do that.
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My responsibility is to figure out how to live and go on.
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That's what emotions can do, and that's what
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it's doing with Christians.
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And I can't stand phoniness, so I don't know--I don't want to be
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phony and I'm not going to be phony.
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So, I'd rather not preach.
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If I don't believe this stuff, I'm done.
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I'm not doing this.
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But I believe every bit of it because I've
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lived it out in my life.
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And I'm telling you let the 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 a whole 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 be mastered by your emotions.
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You can master your emotions.
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Now, watch this, this effect, according to
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the book of 1 John 1:9, you know, we're forgiven.
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But Romans 8:1, turn there for a moment, Romans 8:1.
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See, the thief next to Jesus on the cross was forgiven.
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The man Saul, who persecuted Christians,
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was forgiven, who later on became the Apostle Paul.
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I mean, you got to understand something.
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I can give you three murderers that God used and forgave.
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Moses, right?
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Give me another one, 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're going to be okay.
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If God forgave and could use them, come on guys,
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come on, pick yourself up and do what need to be done.
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Here's what he says in verse 1, "There is therefore now no
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condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus," period.
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Do you know if you'll study this Scripture out,
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the last part of that is not even in the original Greek?
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It is not, "Who walk not according
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to the flesh but after the Spirit."
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Some of you may have Bibles that have that part in italicized.
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And then some of them tried to change it to
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try to make sure it was in there.
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It does not--what the original Greek says, "There is therefore
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now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus."
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What he has said is now that you're in Christ Jesus,
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that is enough for there to be no condemnation.
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It is not saying that you got to now walk in the spirit and not
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in the flesh in order for there to be no condemnation.
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What he says is if you'll be in Christ Jesus,
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there'll be no condemnation.
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And if you'll believe 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 to perform and walk in the spirit
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and not in the flesh in order for there to be no condemnation.
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There is therefore now no condemnation.
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To anybody that's in Christ Jesus,
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he gives to you the free gift of no condemnation.
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He doesn't wait to see how you're going to live before he
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decides that whether or not you can have the
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free gift of no condemnation.
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And some guy added it because performance-based,
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law-based Christianity says there's no way you can get
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something like this without doing something.
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But that's where the grace of God comes in.
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Without you doing anything but believing Jesus and getting in
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him, he says, "I'll give you the gift of no condemnation."
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And I'm going to show you how I know this is correct.
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The woman who was pulled out of the very act of adultery and was
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getting ready to be stoned, and according to the law they had a
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right to stone her, Jesus just said,
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"If there's anybody here that doesn't have sin,
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let him cast the first stone."
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They all dropped their stones and they went away.
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Jesus says, "Anybody here to condemn you?"
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He says--she said, "No, they're all gone."
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He says, "Neither do I condemn you.
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Now go and sin no more."
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It wasn't Jesus gave her the free gift of no condemnation
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because now she has proved that she's not going to go to bed
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with nobody no more.
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He says, "Here's the deal, I am giving you the free
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gift of no condemnation.
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And if you'll receive this, you don't--you're not going to
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end up in the same situation 'cause this is going to free you
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enough to walk in the spirit and not 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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Jealousy and hostility is a result of depression.
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Think of that, jealousy and hostility.
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A depressed person can bring spirits of jealousy and
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hostility into the home.
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If everybody's not sad like you and they are
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happy, you get angry and become jealous of everyone
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in the family that's not sad.
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Isn't that sad? Isn't that sad?
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And so, I got a problem with all y'all 'cause you won't
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suffer like me emotionally.
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And you know people will have a problem
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with your joy and happiness?
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"Why are you happy and I'm going through all this
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stuff that I'm going through?"
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You know that's the issue of self-worth?
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You know, you got to decide whether you're going to do the
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things that are going to make you acceptable to God,
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or are you going to keep doing the things that try
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to be acceptable with man?
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What does the Scripture say?
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If you do the things to try to please men,
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you cannot be a servant of God because you've already chosen
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what you're going to go after.
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But being jealous, coming from depression, the number of
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people that get depressed because they are one way and
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they see you the way that they really want to be, and then
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want to be hostile to you because you're not like them.
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Be careful when you go to get your hair fixed or get your toes
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and stuff done and something like that,
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and somebody ending up talking about,
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"Well, you know, I got--I've been married two times,
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and I'm telling you you need to leave that man."
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Now, wait a minute now, just 'cause you all lonely and sad
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and stuff like that, I'mma work mine out.
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Work mine out.
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The depression that comes over people 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 them all the way down the road to do
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that, their hurt led them, a divorce is all emotionally rude.
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Not all, there are some cases, let me--there are some cases
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where you need to run away from that joker.
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I mean, if you going--if you're going home every night and he
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every time, you know, you say, "Hey honey, how you doing?"
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he's saying bam, what you trying to work out?
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You need to work your way out of that house.
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So, in those extreme situations where it's abusive,
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we don't advocate abuse 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 you that when you're being beat up
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and abused in a marriage relationship,
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well, you just need to trust God and stay there.
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I ain't saying that. God got to tell you that.
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You ain't never going to hear that from me.
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I never thought I would be in a place where I'd so passionately
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hate seeing men like they have a right to
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dominate any other person.
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You do not.
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Don't let a man think higher of himself than he ought to think,
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but to think soberly as God has given unto
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him the measure of faith.
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So, a marriage is already doomed if a dude goes in there thinking
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he's the one that calls all the shots 'cause
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he ain't that smart.
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Joker can't--don't know what two plus two is and talking about
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he's going to pay the bills.
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"I thought I paid the bill."
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"It was $2.000, Frank, not $2.
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You put the decimal in the wrong place."
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And then you get mad, "With your dumb self."
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"Don't call me dumb,
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don't call me dumb, I'm the man of the house."
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Well, you is dumb, dumb enough not to know that you got a
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partner there that's got a degree in mathematics and you
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won't let her pay the bills, all for the sake
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so you can be the man.
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You should hear how people are going to court to get--
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"Well, what happened?"
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"Well, I'm tired of feeling like this,
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and I'm tired of feeling like that.
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And you never made this and you don't do that.
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You know, you never--"
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"I never, I never?"
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Then they get to arguing for a whole month on never.
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Never and always becomes this huge argument.
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"You never."
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"What you mean never? I did it last week."
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"You never, you always."
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"Always, always? You're the one to say always?"
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Never and always 'cause you don't know how
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to control your emotions.
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And jealousy has destroyed a lot of relationships.
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I'm talking about jealousy within a marriage.
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And I was real--to the fact my wife was like,
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"Well, you know, so all right, I want to be this first lady.
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I'm submitting, I'm going to do everything
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that we're being taught.
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And so, I'm going to be submitted, I'm going to take
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care of the kids, I'mma do that, and I will not
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dream or have any type of vision of my life.
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It's just I'm your slave."
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I thought, "Man, that sucks."
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I know God had her put here for a purpose other than me.
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"My only purpose in this life is to serve my husband."
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Your purpose is more than serving your husband.
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Now, that's all of our purpose, not just the woman, it's every
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human being, every Christian purpose is servanthood.
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Servanthood hadn't just been put just for the woman to serve.
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Servanthood is as much for the man as it is for the woman.
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But you want to say, "Well, I just been put
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here to serve my husband."
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Now, it's all right if he turn back around and say,
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"And yeah, I've been put here just to serve my wife."
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If you all both understand that in equality,
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I ain't got no problem with it.
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But I got a problem with you shutting down a vision that God
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has for you, an anointing that God has for you, a call of God
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that God has for you, you shutting it down completely so
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you can serve the will of God for his life and not even seek
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whether there's a will of God for your life.
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And so, the church has been hindered, the body of Christ
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has been hindered, the world has been hindered because
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the wonderful, amazing ideas and anointing of women sit in
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limbo because they don't understand biblical equality.
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