The Finished Work or a Finished Gospel? A Review of Creflo Dollar’s ‘Rhythms of Grace’

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[00:00:09] Well, the doctor said I'm sick.
[00:00:10] Well, God says your healing is done, it's finished, it's completed.
[00:00:14] I don't understand.
[00:00:15] No, it ain't that you don't understand, you don't receive it.
[00:00:19] Because you won't realize that it is done in that realm.
[00:00:24] And as soon as faith reaches out for what's finished, Grace will supply more of what is needed.
[00:00:33] It's a rhythm.

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[00:01:44] Go with me to the book of Matthew chapter 11 and verse 28 and 29 in the message translation.
[00:01:52] and I want to this this this first lesson in this series today is going to be a lot of teaching and foundation because this this is literally going to blow your mind it's like I promise you on the inside when it clicks you'll say yeah but it's just something that we've been
[00:02:13] doing for so long out of based in religion we just nobody ever just you know we just hadn't thought about it all right verse 28 he says are you tired somebody says who are you no he's talking
[00:02:29] about playing church and religion are you tired worn out burned out on religion he said come to me get away with me you'll recover your life i'll show you how to take a real rest how many you're
[00:02:47] to take a real rest he said walk with me and work with me watch how I do it learn the unforced rhythms of grace I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you now remember that he says I'm not gonna lay anything heavy and ill-fitting on
[00:03:16] you if you're going to learn the rhythms of grace i won't be laying anything heavy and ill-fitting on you and all my life as a christian in religion it's all been heavy he said keep company with me
[00:03:31] and you will learn to live freely and lightly so i want to start this next series and i call it living in the rhythms of grace how does that work living in the rhythms of grace now
[00:03:53] uh i feel led to share this scripture before i'm gonna tie what we've been talking about and where we're going go to galatians chapter 2 and verse 20 in the king james galatians 2 and verse 20
[00:04:05] in the king team james now this is all about us staying on the bus this morning and really getting a hold of what i'm saying all right galatians chapter 2 verse 20 i am crucified
[00:04:20] with christ nevertheless i live yet not i but christ liveth where christ lives where and the life which i now live in the flesh so right now we are living life in this physical body the life
[00:04:39] that I now live in the flesh how do I live it I live that life by the faith of the Son of God all right so I'm living my life right now as a born-again
[00:04:50] Christian in the flesh I'm living my life right now by the faith of the Son of God whose faith is it whose faith is it so he says I'm living my life by the faith of the Son of God I'm not living my life by my own constructed faith I'm
[00:05:06] living my life by the faith of the Son of God now you have to understand that you know Jesus said this Jesus said if you've seen me you've seen the Father so Jesus is a reflection of the Father we would know nothing about the Father had
[00:05:22] Jesus not come Jesus is a reflection a perfect reflection of the Father if you've seen Jesus you've seen the Father so you have to understand that the faith of the Son of God is just a reflection of the faith of God Almighty everybody
[00:05:39] follow me now so so the faith of God was wrapped up in flesh called Jesus all right so the faith of Jesus Christ is God's faith wrapped up in flesh mm-hmm and God's faith is is is faith where everything is perfect complete and done
[00:06:03] God called the end at the beginning so everything about our lives as Christians has already been finished it's already been done faith has come faith lived on the earth people saw faith experience faith that's called his name Jesus then
[00:06:22] Jesus got on the cross and here's what Jesus or faith said on the cross it is finished and that's what faith is saying today it is finished and so God's faith is finished faith God's faith is completed faith God faith is done faith
[00:06:36] and can't be undone so Jesus comes to the earth in flesh in an earth suit with God's faith where everything is finished it is done that's why he could do everything he did and when it went through everything it went through
[00:06:49] because it was finished he could go to a hell and not be afraid because his resurrection was already finished glory be to God and then God declares in Romans 12 that I am going to give you the measure the measure means not you get a measure and you
[00:07:05] get another measure and you get another measure or he would have said I give you a measure and then you got degrees of measure he says the faith that I have I now put in Jesus and the faith that
[00:07:16] we have you now have that faith because you live by the faith that's in Jesus which is the faith of God finished completed and done so everything about God concerning you is finished completed and done if you look at Jesus how he talked when he was on the earth he talked in in the tenses of
[00:07:37] finished completed and done he told people that one day I'm gonna die I'm gonna spend three days and you're gonna raise it up again he he talked like that and now we are now forgetting about
[00:07:51] the faith of jesus the reflection of god and we are going around talking about i got my faith and with my faith i'm gonna try to get healed and with my faith i'm gonna try to get delivered why are
[00:08:02] you trying to use your faith to perfect something that's already been perfected you're using your faith and i don't know we get the term if your faith is not his faith where you get that faith
[00:08:14] from your faith should be his faith see i'm going to tell you what your faith is your faith is based on works your faith says I got to add work to my faith in order for my faith to work
[00:08:27] see all of our life we've been living like this I gotta add works to my faith in order for my faith to work and and I said where you get that from well James says that faith without works is dead
[00:08:42] and so now you still adding works to your faith to try to get your faith to work but James was not saying that you have to add works to your faith to get your faith to work
[00:08:52] James was saying if you really got his faith then from your faith works are gonna come from your faith will see fruit from your faith will see evidence he wasn't talking about adding works to face so faith could work God's faith
[00:09:07] already works in fact God's faith has already worked ed it is the invitation to live in the realm of the finished to put all that together he says now that you realize who you are and you've accepted me and you're born again now live in the realm of the finished the
[00:09:38] completed the done and so whatever needs you see in your life call it finished completed and done doctors say you sick what do you say my healing is finished it's done you say well financially
[00:09:56] I don't have the money to meet this particular thing. So you so you don't live in that realm about what you don't have and what?
[00:10:02] You do have you see What you need and you call it finished Because you live in the realm of the finish you need to try this folks See what you're doing is you're still trying to get something to happen
[00:10:17] Because you hadn't realized excuse me English. It doesn't happened. Stop it When you if you have a battle today, the victory is finished The victory that you need for that battle is completed finish done can't be undone
[00:10:38] But you keep trying to come up with a religious five steps Well, first of all, you need to pray for four hours And then secondly you might need to add a little fasting with that and then thirdly you need to say these three pages of confessions
[00:10:50] And then after you say them pages of confession, you need to go love somebody that don't love you. Well, I can't find them I don't know who they are. There are lots of people and it just adds burdens upon burdens upon burdens and it makes it hard
[00:11:02] and it makes it just tough and eventually you get so confused you quit now if you confuse what i'm saying today you're confused from the simplicity you're confused because i won't make this difficult i won't give you a list of things you got to do to make it happen only thing i'm saying
[00:11:19] to you is whatever you need it's done live and you're like i'm confused what you're confused for well the doctor said i'm sick well god says your your healing is is done it's finished it's
[00:11:31] completed i don't understand no it ain't that you don't understand you you don't you don't receive it because you won't realize that it is done in that realm and as soon as faith reaches out for what's finished grace will supply more of what
[00:11:48] is needed it's a rhythm everybody's telling but now if you're if it's your first time here I understand you're looking like what in the world did he just say I am saying the day you realize and believe that Jesus is Lord and you
[00:12:13] accept him into your life he's already completed everything you'll ever need in this life he just needs you to realize it agree with it and live according to what's done and not to live trying to get it done because what i just said is real faith the other stuff
[00:12:35] we've been doing i'm gonna use my faith to try to get this done is against what this whole thing is about it's finished it's done most of the things i'm going to say to you today it's going to have
[00:12:56] to do with your thinking and your thought because i'm getting ready to show you something that's just mind-boggling you just i'm getting ready to absolutely destroy religion in your life wait wait let me define religion or return to bondage in the latin religion is it's performance
[00:13:20] base religion is all about what you got to do to see if you can get god to do something Religion is I got to be good in order to get god to do some good
[00:13:30] That's not according to the new covenant That was according to the law and according to the law. Nobody was ever good enough So this is going to be interesting. I'm I I am teaching this today. It is going to be something that's going to challenge you and I will start off
[00:13:52] With this statement that I told taffy this morning that woke me up and blew my mind heaven is not our goal it's our starting point now i'm that's what that's what i'm going to be
[00:14:10] explaining to you heaven used to be my goal until i found out that i'm already there yeah i sit with him in what did you say rick i am seated with him in heavenly places so what you realize that
[00:14:31] you're seated with him my goal that's been accomplished I am seat oh see now some of y'all like I ain't sitting in heaven I'm sitting in church now you don't understand to you this is
[00:14:43] what faith is all about faith is receiving what God has already done and finished and your goal and the goal of most Christians the goal is to get to heaven and I am telling you I am already
[00:14:55] seated in heavenly places heaven is not my goal heaven is my starting point so what we're getting ready to talk about today we're talking about it from the starting point of where I sit because if you don't talk about it from the starting point of
[00:15:17] where you sit then you can just forget about it ever being done I'm going to show you these things God's asking us to do and I'm gonna become an enemy to it at first because he's telling us to you know just to to give our bodies as a
[00:15:30] living sacrifice holy and acceptable under God which is reason sir which is completely denying everything and giving it to him and I don't see how that's reasonable to me how can you make that appeal how can you ask me to do that
[00:15:48] y'all ready so before we get to that I'm away ahead of myself go to Romans chapter 2 verse 3 through 4 Romans chapter 2 3 through 4 and then I'm gonna read Romans 2 1 through 4 in the mirror this is all foundation I gotta get your
[00:16:06] mind free from religion so you can hear how it is how it really is since i have been living in the realm of the finis so much has changed i mean so much has changed so much is clear including
[00:16:21] the increase of the glory including the increase of manifestations very interesting verse three he says and thinketh thou this oh man that thou judges them which do such things and and thus the same that thou shall escape the judgment of God or despises thou the riches of his goodness
[00:16:47] the riches of his what the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance now the word repent means it is the change of mind to change the mind it literally means
[00:17:14] to change the mind the other scripture says repent for the kingdom of God is at hand in other words change your mind from your way you thought about one thing to where you think about basically
[00:17:29] in that verse of scripture it is literally talking about changing your mind from the law to the gospel of grace because that kingdom it was talking about was the kingdom of this grace but he says something here he says god's going to use his goodness to lead people to change their
[00:17:46] mind and that ain't what i was told i was told if you don't change your mind and act right and do right god gonna get you he gonna put a put something on you he gonna take something from you
[00:18:02] he gonna hurt you he ain't gonna bless you and what we created is a fear-based religion just back up a little bit just back up a little bit you ain't gotta go go back go back 10 20 years
[00:18:16] ago it was all based in fear you know God don't like ugly hmm if you don't give you're gonna be cursed if you get a divorce then the blessings are gonna weaken in your life and it was it was
[00:18:32] and if you don't come to church then don't expect for favor to be in there that's the reason why you can get that job because you don't come to church if you come church a little bit more then
[00:18:41] maybe God be able to do something for you and you're coming to church out of fear you're giving out of fear and don't praying now if you don't pray like this then he ain't gonna hear your
[00:18:52] prayer what dang i'm just trying to talk to him i ain't never met him before you ain't met jesus yet well you know what i'm saying i'm talking to somebody i can't see i can't hear and then you
[00:19:01] telling me i need to talk to him like this how come i just can't talk to him and he can teach me how to it's all fear-based it's fear-based we have been living in a fear-based religion
[00:19:11] and everything about what we do and every religion is fear-based look at all the religions of the world they all come with an attachment of fear yeah and he goes so far i'm saying you know if
[00:19:31] you don't if you don't shout in church then you ain't got no spirit i'd rather you're not i'd rather just sit down shut up and listen to what i got to say but they tell you now if you ain't if
[00:19:41] you ain't shouting you ain't full of the spirit it's all fear and we bought it we bought every bit of it women are not wear pants buddy you get up in a dress and try to do all the things you
[00:19:59] gotta do then women ain't supposed to be on the pulpit and then you and this is so insulting i god forgive us you got to stay on the floor you can't come up to the pulpit you got to stay on
[00:20:14] that pulpit that's for the holy men of god stand up here on the floor women couldn't do nothing they couldn't wear no dress they couldn't put on too much makeup if you put on too much makeup
[00:20:34] you're a jezebel uh you can't get on the pulpit you gotta preach from the flow now it's all right for you to sing in the pulpit but now you know it just contradicted itself because it's tomfoolery
[00:20:47] it's a bunch of clock god's not gonna change somebody's mind with that he says i'm gonna

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[00:20:56] change your mind with my goodness he said he says i'm gonna be so good so good so overwhelmingly loving so overwhelmingly good i'm gonna bless you when you don't even deserve it when you think
[00:21:13] you're least deserving that's when my mercy gonna show up and blow your mind because you know you don't you know you deserve hell you know you deserve to die you know you deserve to get caught
[00:21:23] you know you deserve to have the disease you know you deserve it all but i ain't gonna let that happen and when that goodness shows up you're gonna say my god i got to change my mind about god

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[00:21:34] You know, Bishop Payne, that's all we know, man.
[00:21:50] That's all we knew.
[00:21:51] But we promised to never stop growing.
[00:21:54] Just keep going.
[00:21:57] Just keep.
[00:21:57] And we were never afraid to get up to say, hmm, about what I said last week.
[00:22:02] We might need to look at that a little harder.
[00:22:05] And to the day, to right now, I need you to know all your pastors in this church, we're all digging, digging, and digging, and digging, and digging, and digging, and just continue to do it.
[00:22:21] I mean what I'm talking to you about nine Romans can bought it up in the middle of a set when it was lifting weights And he bought it up not like oh god. That's it
[00:22:29] God ain't trying to change your mind about him by being bad to you mean to you Pressuring you he wants you to want him cause you won't him And he says Here's what I'm gonna use to change mankind
[00:22:52] goodness. And you know what the church has done? The church has become God's opponent and said, no, he's not going to use goodness. He's going to use bad here, wicked there, curse here.
[00:23:08] You know, God will still curse you.

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[00:23:31] of grace if you neglect the teachings of grace you will not be successful in godly living we have to understand the mercies of god our empowerment comes from what he has already done and as soon
[00:23:47] as faith reaches out for what's finished grace will supply more of what is needed it's a rhythm

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[00:27:19] As we wrap up today's broadcast, I'd like to take a moment to pray for you.
[00:27:26] I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received Jesus Christ As your personal Lord and Savior There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life Than to enter into a personal relationship with Christ
[00:27:39] So if you want to become born again And begin an exciting, intimate relationship with Jesus Pray this prayer with me now Heavenly Father, come into my heart Save me I receive you now by faith
[00:27:57] And I declare in Jesus' name that I saved. Thank you, Lord, for saving me. Amen. Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, I want to welcome you to the kingdom of God. The preceding program was brought to you in

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