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Creflo Dollar - Embracing Innocence Consciousness

October 7, 2025 | 28:50

Creflo Dollar - Embracing Innocence Consciousness
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Embracing Innocence Consciousness | October 7, 2025
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  • Male announcer: this program is brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world".
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  • Creflo dollar: you know i'm the righteousness of god.
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  • You know i've been redeemed.
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  • You know that i've been justified.
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  • You know i've been made holy, but yet you continue to work on
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  • My consciousness, trying to get me to think that i am as
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  • I behave.
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  • My behavior doesn't define me, my lord jesus defines me, and in
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  • Him we move, in him we breathe.
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  • In him we have our being.
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  • I have wronged no man, i have defrauded no man.
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  • You have to simply just embrace it.
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  • Male: man, it has changed our lives tremendously.
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  • He is to explain grace in a way that even the infant child could
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  • Understand it.
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  • Female: pastor took the time to talk to me and answer questions
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  • That i've had for a long time.
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  • Female: she hasn't been able to hold her head up, and the minute
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  • That you walk out on the stage, my mom said: "i can hold my
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  • Head up."
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  • Female: when he's in your town,
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  • You should go because it's
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  • Definitely a blessing.
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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-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-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: paul had a revelation of the importance of becoming
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  • Innocence conscience.
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  • Write this down, you can read it on your time.
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  • In acts chapter 8, read verses 1 all the way through, you will
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  • See paul persecuting the church
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  • And being a part of the stoning death of stephen.
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  • So it's not like paul can say, "well, i've never sinned in
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  • My life."
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  • Because acts chapter 8 absolutely shows you what
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  • He did.
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  • But after his encounter with grace, after his encounter with
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  • Jesus on the road of damascus, he received his
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  • Innocence conscience.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians chapter 7, verses 2 through 3.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 7, verses 2 through 3, look at this.
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  • Paul said, "receive us: we have wronged no man."
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  • What?
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  • How do you say that?
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  • Acts chapter 8, look at all the folks you done wrong.
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  • You, "have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have
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  • Defrauded no man."
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  • How can he say this?
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  • And if some christians would read that, they would say,
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  • "paul lying.
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  • I caught paul in a lie."
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  • No, you didn't catch paul in a lie, you caught paul in
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  • His innocence.
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  • Verse 3, "i speak not this to condemn you: for i have said
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  • Before, that ye are in our hearts to die and to live
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  • With you."
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  • Paul in verse 2 was a guy who says, "i'm gonna embrace
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  • My innocence.
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  • I have wronged no man."
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  • Say it.
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  • Congregation: i have wronged no man.
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  • Creflo: i have corrupted no man.
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  • Congregation: i have corrupted no man.
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  • Creflo: i have defrauded no man.
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  • Congregation: i have defrauded no man.
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  • Creflo: and everything in your flesh is screaming out liar,
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  • Liar, pants on fire.
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  • And you need to scream out and say no, on the contrary, you're
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  • The liar, flesh.
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  • The bible says have no confidence in the flesh.
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  • You've been lying to me.
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  • You know i'm the righteousness of god.
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  • You know i've been redeemed.
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  • You know that i've been justified.
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  • You know i've been made holy, but yet you continue to work on
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  • My consciousness, trying to get me to think that i am as
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  • I behave.
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  • My behavior doesn't define me.
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  • My lord jesus defines me, and in him we move, in him we breathe.
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  • In him we have our being.
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  • I have wronged no man, i have defrauded no man.
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  • You have to simply just embrace it.
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  • And as you embrace it, the holy spirit begins to work on
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  • Those desires.
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  • And you change, not because of behavior modification but
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  • Because you yielded by faith to who jesus says.
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  • You are now in him, innocent.
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  • Say out loud, i'm innocent.
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  • Congregation: i'm innocent.
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  • Creflo: turn to your neighbor and say, "i'm innocent."
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  • Congregation: i'm innocent.
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  • Creflo: see, you pause there because you had to look at
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  • Somebody in the eye, and they might have been the person you
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  • Wronged them.
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  • I'm innocent. i'm innocent.
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  • You got to tell yourself that because the devil will start
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  • Working on you saying you ain't no good.
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  • You ain't no good, you're just a sinner.
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  • You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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  • See, the devil tempts you to sin, then condemns you after you
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  • Do that, and you've been playing this game with him too long.
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  • Today you're about to break free from all of his tricks and all
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  • Of his games.
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  • I'm innocent.
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  • The law of the spirit is righteousness by faith versus
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  • The law of personal effort, the law of self-effort, which
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  • Produces condemnation.
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  • Now let's get practical just for a moment.
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  • How do i practically apply?
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  • How do i shift from sin consciousness to
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  • Innocence consciousness?
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  • Number one.
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  • Instead of you trying to die to sin, i need you
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  • To recognize what you already have in christ.
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  • You want to leave sin consciousness instead of you
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  • Trying to die to sin?
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  • Now that's not even right.
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  • In 1 corinthians 15:3, paul says: "i die daily."
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  • He wasn't talking about dying to sin daily.
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  • He was literally talking about it, "i'm being persecuted every
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  • Day, and one of these persecutions can kill me."
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  • He says, "every day, i have the opportunity to die from
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  • The persecutions."
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  • Some christian came and took this scripture and said, "well,
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  • You know, paul said, i died daily to sin."
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  • He wasn't dying daily to sin.
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  • Why wouldn't he die daily to sin?
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  • Look at romans chapter 6:11, and he was receiving what jesus
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  • Was already--had already done for him.
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  • And look what he said in romans 6:11, man.
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  • He said, "likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
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  • Indeed unto sin, but alive under god through jesus christ."
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  • So paul ain't talking about dying daily to sin.
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  • Why?
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  • 'cause paul had received this in jesus.
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  • I'm dead to sin.
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  • I ain't dying to it, i'm dead to it.
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  • If you're dead to something, you don't keep on dying.
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  • If you buried a relative and they're dead, you ain't gonna be
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  • Seeing them four or five times this month so they can
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  • Die again.
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  • When you're dead, you're dead.
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  • I said when you're dead, you're dead.
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  • And i'm telling you, you are dead to sin.
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  • In christ you are dead to sin.
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  • You ain't dying today, dying tomorrow, dying next week.
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  • You're dead to sin, you're dead.
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  • And there's always that little cute little old person that
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  • Says, "yeah, but brother dollar, you still got to watch out
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  • For sin."
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  • I ain't watching out for it.
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  • I don't want to have nothing to do with it.
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  • I divorce it.
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  • I run from it.
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  • I don't want to have nothing to do with it.
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  • "yeah, but brother dollar."
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  • So number two, how do we shift from sin consciousness to
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  • Innocence consciousness?
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  • We meditate on scriptures that affirm our righteousness rather
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  • Than our failures.
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  • We meditate on scriptures that affirm our righteousness rather
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  • Than our failures.
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  • 2 corinthians 5:21.
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  • See, we keep meditating on our failures.
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  • And you're meditating on your failures when that's when you
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  • Need to be meditating on your righteousness.
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  • When should i meditate on my righteousness?
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  • Just right when you did something stupid.
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  • I'm meditating on my righteousness.
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  • This failure is an opportunity for me to remind myself who
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  • I am.
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  • But the conviction of that sin is so strong over you and
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  • Because you're still sin conscious, you allow that
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  • Behavior failure,
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  • You meditate on it more than you--i'm the righteousness
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  • Of god.
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  • You just cussed somebody out and i mean, boy, you use the
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  • Big words in chapter 3 of the book of cuss.
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  • You use them words.
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  • And i tell you, that devil on that thing with guilt and
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  • Condemnation, 'posed to be saved, talking about you grace
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  • Person and right on that--and you need to dismiss that right
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  • Away and it bothers the devil, all hell freaks out when you
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  • Have enough mitigated gall to open your mouth up and say, i am
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  • Still the righteousness of god.
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  • Because you know what happens, one day you're gonna
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  • Believe that.
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  • And the day you believe that, you're gonna start
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  • Doing righteous.
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  • Look what he said, "for he hath made him to be sin for us."
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  • He made him to be sin for us, "who knew no sin at all," why?
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  • "that we might be made the righteousness of god in him."
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  • I'm gonna focus more on my righteousness than on
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  • My failures.
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  • You will find that you will make much more progress receiving the
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  • Identity that jesus gave you than spending time on meditating
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  • On your failures.
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  • Number three, stop measuring our worth by our performance.
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  • Instead, measure our worth by our union with christ.
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  • You're measuring your worth by your performance.
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  • You're measuring your worth by your failures, instead of
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  • Measuring it by your union with christ.
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  • Colossians 3:3 says this, and this is how we do.
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  • I measure my worth by who i am in christ.
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  • He says, "for ye are dead," yeah, "and your life is hid with
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  • Christ in god."
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  • That's why i measure my worth. that's why i measure my worth.
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  • I'm in god.
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  • I'm in god, praise god.
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  • I'm dead to sin.
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  • You can't keep doing that.
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  • You can't keep embracing that and not change, okay?
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  • But we thought, well, we're going to come up with our own
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  • Man-made dead works way of getting our behavior better.
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  • So you say, "well, you know what, i'm gonna fast for 40
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  • Days, i'm gonna stay away from people, and i'm gonna get up and
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  • Imma pray for 3 hours every day."
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  • Yeah, how's that working for you?
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  • You got up this morning to pray for three hours.
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  • You didn't make but 15 minutes.
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  • And then the rest of the time you condemn yourself because you
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  • Couldn't do 3 hours because there's a man-made structure of
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  • How to deal with your sins that have already been dealt with
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  • With jesus, but jesus just ain't enough for you.
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  • It's always got to be jesus plus this and jesus plus that, and,
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  • "i know jesus, but you gotta add some more now, brother dollar.
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  • It's jesus, yes, amen, but you gotta add this."
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  • Jesus is enough.
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  • If jesus ain't enough, we're in trouble, amen.
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  • Now, let's back up, let's go and look at this whole original
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  • Thing from innocence conscience to sin conscience.
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  • Let's go to the garden of eden.
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  • Genesis chapter 2:25.
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  • And let's look at humanity's original design.
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  • And our original design was not sin conscious.
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  • What was our original design?
  • 00:12:27.092 --> 00:12:28.561
  • Genesis chapter 2:25.
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  • He says, "and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
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  • Were not ashamed."
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  • This was before the garden happened.
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  • They were naked, but they were not ashamed.
  • 00:12:39.238 --> 00:12:41.440
  • So before sin entered the picture, adam and eve lived in a
  • 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.777
  • State of innocence consciousness.
  • 00:12:44.777 --> 00:12:48.447
  • Now, when they said they were both naked but not ashamed, this
  • 00:12:48.447 --> 00:12:51.183
  • Wasn't just about physical nakedness.
  • 00:12:51.183 --> 00:12:54.353
  • It represented their pure consciousness.
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  • They had no awareness of separation from god.
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  • No awareness of a guilt.
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  • There was no sense of guilt.
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  • There was no concept of sin.
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  • They were fully immersed in love, fully immersed in grace,
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  • And fully immersed in their divine god identity.
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  • But the moment they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good
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  • And evil, genesis 3:7, the moment they ate from the tree of
  • 00:13:26.986 --> 00:13:31.056
  • The knowledge of good and evil, their eyes were opened, not
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  • To truth.
  • 00:13:35.361 --> 00:13:36.695
  • When it says their eyes were opened, their eyes were not open
  • 00:13:36.695 --> 00:13:39.064
  • To truth, their eyes were open, but it was open to
  • 00:13:39.064 --> 00:13:42.334
  • Sin consciousness.
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  • They ate of that tree and their eyes opened to sin
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  • Consciousness, something god never wanted them to see.
  • 00:13:48.073 --> 00:13:54.079
  • Their eyes were open to sin consciousness.
  • 00:13:54.079 --> 00:13:55.981
  • They saw themselves now as naked, exposed, and lacking, to
  • 00:13:55.981 --> 00:14:01.420
  • The point where they hid themselves.
  • 00:14:01.420 --> 00:14:04.323
  • They felt shame, and they hid from god.
  • 00:14:04.323 --> 00:14:07.359
  • They had no idea what that was within their
  • 00:14:07.359 --> 00:14:09.528
  • Innocence conscience.
  • 00:14:09.528 --> 00:14:11.463
  • Now here's the key.
  • 00:14:11.463 --> 00:14:12.998
  • Here's what i want you to get.
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  • Sin did not change how god saw them.
  • 00:14:15.367 --> 00:14:21.040
  • It changed how they saw themselves.
  • 00:14:21.040 --> 00:14:27.079
  • Sin does not change how god sees you.
  • 00:14:27.079 --> 00:14:33.018
  • Sin changes how you see yourself.
  • 00:14:33.018 --> 00:14:38.190
  • And the sinful behavior with sin consciousness causes you to see
  • 00:14:38.190 --> 00:14:44.330
  • Yourself as a bad person.
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  • You do a bad thing, sin consciousness causes you to see
  • 00:14:46.932 --> 00:14:50.402
  • Yourself as a bad person.
  • 00:14:50.402 --> 00:14:53.105
  • But we think that what we did changes how god sees us, and i
  • 00:14:53.105 --> 00:14:57.710
  • Got news for you.
  • 00:14:57.710 --> 00:14:59.311
  • God has not changed how he sees you.
  • 00:14:59.311 --> 00:15:02.681
  • You still the apple of his eye.
  • 00:15:02.681 --> 00:15:06.785
  • And now because of jesus, he sees you just like he
  • 00:15:06.785 --> 00:15:11.256
  • Sees jesus.
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  • Oh, when he looks at you, it's just like looking at the
  • 00:15:12.691 --> 00:15:16.895
  • Reflection of his son.
  • 00:15:16.895 --> 00:15:18.263
  • But your same consciousness
  • 00:15:21.867 --> 00:15:26.238
  • Does to you the same thing it did to adam and eve.
  • 00:15:26.238 --> 00:15:29.908
  • It affected how you see yourself.
  • 00:15:29.908 --> 00:15:35.014
  • Look at how we see ourselves.
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  • To the point where we've got large, large congregations
  • 00:15:37.416 --> 00:15:41.220
  • Reminding us of how we see, how we see ourselves.
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  • You ain't nothing but sinners to justify what you're doing.
  • 00:15:45.190 --> 00:15:48.193
  • You ain't nothing but sinners.
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  • We all sinners saved by grace.
  • 00:15:49.528 --> 00:15:53.699
  • I don't agree with that no more.
  • 00:15:53.699 --> 00:15:55.868
  • You might still be a sinner.
  • 00:15:55.868 --> 00:15:57.936
  • I made jesus lord of my life.
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  • I'm a saint.
  • 00:15:59.304 --> 00:16:00.672
  • I don't see myself like that no more.
  • 00:16:04.343 --> 00:16:06.812
  • No, not now that i recognize that god, the way god sees me,
  • 00:16:06.812 --> 00:16:10.616
  • And i see how god sees me.
  • 00:16:10.616 --> 00:16:12.151
  • Dude, i'm gonna see myself like god sees me.
  • 00:16:12.151 --> 00:16:15.154
  • I'm seeing myself like god see me.
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  • This, i realize what i'm doing, i realize what i'm preaching.
  • 00:16:16.922 --> 00:16:20.859
  • I realize people around the world think i'm crazy, but
  • 00:16:20.859 --> 00:16:22.995
  • Not everybody.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, all you have to do is listen to your
  • 00:16:26.598 --> 00:16:30.769
  • Spirit on the inside, and he's saying this is right.
  • 00:16:30.769 --> 00:16:35.541
  • You know what's saying it's wrong?
  • 00:16:35.541 --> 00:16:37.342
  • That sin consciousness up here that's been trained.
  • 00:16:37.342 --> 00:16:40.012
  • That's saying: don't, don't you listen to creflo, don't listen
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  • To creflo.
  • 00:16:43.782 --> 00:16:45.117
  • But your spirit, like this is who god--this is the god i knew
  • 00:16:45.117 --> 00:16:50.622
  • He was.
  • 00:16:50.622 --> 00:16:51.990
  • It's leaping with peace and it's leaping with i know this is
  • 00:16:51.990 --> 00:16:56.395
  • True, but it's fighting with that religious mindset where you
  • 00:16:56.395 --> 00:17:01.333
  • Have a seared conscience that's trying to say to you, you can't
  • 00:17:01.333 --> 00:17:04.937
  • Even accept what jesus has made available for you because your
  • 00:17:04.937 --> 00:17:09.575
  • Conscience has been so seared and so hardened practicing that
  • 00:17:09.575 --> 00:17:15.814
  • Sin consciousness that you can't even receive the innocence that
  • 00:17:15.814 --> 00:17:20.719
  • Jesus died and rose from the dead and gave you the holy ghost
  • 00:17:20.719 --> 00:17:26.258
  • To try to help you do that.
  • 00:17:26.258 --> 00:17:28.627
  • And this is my assignment, and i ain't scared.
  • 00:17:28.627 --> 00:17:33.932
  • And here's the reason why. and here's the reason why.
  • 00:17:33.932 --> 00:17:37.569
  • Because i've been delivered from approval addiction.
  • 00:17:41.673 --> 00:17:46.678
  • And i look at my life, and i see what god has done.
  • 00:17:46.678 --> 00:17:50.816
  • I have more results in my life than i've ever had in my life,
  • 00:17:50.816 --> 00:17:56.822
  • Because i have aligned my consciousness with innocence
  • 00:17:56.822 --> 00:18:01.593
  • Rather than sin.
  • 00:18:01.593 --> 00:18:03.929
  • And i tell you, here's what's gonna happen.
  • 00:18:03.929 --> 00:18:05.998
  • The things that you tried to get free from and never could, once
  • 00:18:05.998 --> 00:18:11.170
  • You align your consciousness, you're going to look up one day
  • 00:18:11.170 --> 00:18:14.072
  • And realize, man, i ain't even thought about doing that in
  • 00:18:14.072 --> 00:18:16.975
  • A year.
  • 00:18:16.975 --> 00:18:20.078
  • And the glory gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and you'll
  • 00:18:20.078 --> 00:18:25.184
  • Realize, i can't take no credit for nothing because i didn't do
  • 00:18:25.184 --> 00:18:30.122
  • Nothing but embrace what he did.
  • 00:18:30.122 --> 00:18:33.725
  • All i did was believe it, receive it, rest in it.
  • 00:18:33.725 --> 00:18:38.730
  • I just keep resting in it.
  • 00:18:38.730 --> 00:18:40.098
  • I lined my mouth up with my thinking.
  • 00:18:40.098 --> 00:18:42.034
  • I lined my mouth up with my thinking.
  • 00:18:42.034 --> 00:18:43.936
  • I lined my mouth up with my thinking.
  • 00:18:43.936 --> 00:18:45.971
  • And then i found this scripture that says your tongue is the pen
  • 00:18:45.971 --> 00:18:48.941
  • Of a ready writer.
  • 00:18:48.941 --> 00:18:50.275
  • So i just wasn't saying it and thinking it, but i was writing
  • 00:18:50.275 --> 00:18:52.644
  • It on my heart, praise god.
  • 00:18:52.644 --> 00:18:54.580
  • And it was being written on my heart, and i wake up one day and
  • 00:18:54.580 --> 00:18:57.583
  • I realize that i look just like jesus and i now understand when
  • 00:18:57.583 --> 00:19:01.620
  • God said, "jesus is who i think about you.
  • 00:19:01.620 --> 00:19:05.457
  • Every time i think about you, i think about jesus."
  • 00:19:05.457 --> 00:19:08.527
  • And i'm telling you it's the truth.
  • 00:19:08.527 --> 00:19:12.431
  • The quickest way to find that something true, go in the
  • 00:19:12.431 --> 00:19:14.299
  • Kitchen and cook it.
  • 00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:16.134
  • If this is the recipe for chocolate chip cookies, go
  • 00:19:16.134 --> 00:19:19.137
  • Cook it.
  • 00:19:19.137 --> 00:19:20.505
  • You'll find out.
  • 00:19:20.505 --> 00:19:21.840
  • If they come out smelling like sugar cookies, that's the
  • 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:23.508
  • Wrong recipe.
  • 00:19:23.508 --> 00:19:25.244
  • But i ain't st--nobody trying to tell me whether it is right or
  • 00:19:25.244 --> 00:19:27.546
  • Wrong, because i ain't stupid enough to preach something i
  • 00:19:27.546 --> 00:19:30.916
  • Haven't applied.
  • 00:19:30.916 --> 00:19:32.251
  • I've gone in my kitchen. i've gone in my kitchen.
  • 00:19:32.251 --> 00:19:37.889
  • I know that i'm not obligated by duty to give 10%.
  • 00:19:37.889 --> 00:19:42.394
  • I know that my devotion and love for god moves me to give
  • 00:19:42.394 --> 00:19:46.531
  • Generously that i can't stop at no 10% because he ain't stop at
  • 00:19:46.531 --> 00:19:50.936
  • No 10% with me.
  • 00:19:50.936 --> 00:19:52.271
  • I got to keep giving like you tell me to give.
  • 00:19:52.271 --> 00:19:54.539
  • I want to give.
  • 00:19:54.539 --> 00:19:55.907
  • I want to do that.
  • 00:19:55.907 --> 00:19:57.242
  • I know this because i have done it.
  • 00:19:57.242 --> 00:19:59.411
  • I'm not just preaching it.
  • 00:19:59.411 --> 00:20:01.280
  • I am doing it, and i am looking, and i realize that this is the
  • 00:20:01.280 --> 00:20:05.884
  • True recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
  • 00:20:05.884 --> 00:20:08.654
  • So don't tell me that it ain't the right recipe because i've
  • 00:20:08.654 --> 00:20:11.857
  • Been in my kitchen cooking.
  • 00:20:11.857 --> 00:20:23.268
  • So easy for you to pick up a book and say, "well, i don't
  • 00:20:27.439 --> 00:20:29.808
  • Agree with that because of the hermeneutical presentation."
  • 00:20:29.808 --> 00:20:33.145
  • I don't care about no hermeneutical or care what kind
  • 00:20:33.145 --> 00:20:36.682
  • Of noodles it is.
  • 00:20:36.682 --> 00:20:38.050
  • I don't care nothing about none of that.
  • 00:20:38.050 --> 00:20:39.751
  • Does it work?
  • 00:20:43.155 --> 00:20:46.124
  • Am i changed? yes.
  • 00:20:46.124 --> 00:20:48.827
  • Am i changing? yes.
  • 00:20:48.827 --> 00:20:52.164
  • Am i prospering? yes.
  • 00:20:52.164 --> 00:20:54.499
  • Am i whole? yes.
  • 00:20:54.499 --> 00:20:56.835
  • Now does that mean i don't--does that mean i don't have no
  • 00:20:56.835 --> 00:20:59.938
  • More trouble?
  • 00:20:59.938 --> 00:21:01.306
  • Does that mean i don't have no more discomfort?
  • 00:21:01.306 --> 00:21:02.641
  • No, no, no.
  • 00:21:02.641 --> 00:21:04.009
  • The trouble come, but my mind is set.
  • 00:21:04.009 --> 00:21:05.911
  • Bring it on.
  • 00:21:05.911 --> 00:21:07.245
  • The discomforts come, but my mind ain't like it used to.
  • 00:21:07.245 --> 00:21:10.949
  • Bring it on, hallelujah.
  • 00:21:10.949 --> 00:21:12.751
  • I still get hurt, but it don't sting like it used to.
  • 00:21:12.751 --> 00:21:16.121
  • Bring it on. hey, glory to god.
  • 00:21:16.121 --> 00:21:17.856
  • You can still slander me and dog me out.
  • 00:21:17.856 --> 00:21:20.158
  • You can talk about me as much as you please.
  • 00:21:20.158 --> 00:21:22.461
  • More you talk, i'm gonna stay on my knees.
  • 00:21:22.461 --> 00:21:24.296
  • I'm on my way up.
  • 00:21:24.296 --> 00:21:25.630
  • I'm just not the same.
  • 00:21:25.630 --> 00:21:26.965
  • I wish i could explain to you what happened, but it was god
  • 00:21:26.965 --> 00:21:30.969
  • Moving on the inside of me.
  • 00:21:30.969 --> 00:21:32.671
  • I can't explain it right, but i know something's going on.
  • 00:21:32.671 --> 00:21:39.878
  • Because i refuse to think that way.
  • 00:21:39.878 --> 00:21:47.786
  • You are not a sinner 'cause you sin.
  • 00:21:51.623 --> 00:21:57.262
  • You are a sinner because you reject the antidote, the person
  • 00:22:01.433 --> 00:22:11.410
  • That'll make you innocent, pardon you, say you're free.
  • 00:22:11.410 --> 00:22:20.285
  • Who does that?
  • 00:22:20.285 --> 00:22:21.686
  • It's just till recently, really just till this past week.
  • 00:22:25.023 --> 00:22:28.827
  • I've been searching for my joy.
  • 00:22:28.827 --> 00:22:30.395
  • And just by listening to one song, i had it the whole time.
  • 00:22:33.765 --> 00:22:39.271
  • I found my joy.
  • 00:22:39.271 --> 00:22:42.040
  • It's jesus.
  • 00:22:42.040 --> 00:22:45.944
  • I found my joy.
  • 00:22:45.944 --> 00:22:48.647
  • I have no striving to find my joy.
  • 00:22:48.647 --> 00:22:55.654
  • And when i'm old and gray--i'm just gray now, not old.
  • 00:22:55.654 --> 00:22:59.391
  • I'm gray.
  • 00:22:59.391 --> 00:23:06.031
  • I have realized i did it.
  • 00:23:09.634 --> 00:23:14.372
  • I did it.
  • 00:23:14.372 --> 00:23:15.740
  • I found my joy.
  • 00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:18.043
  • Announcer: are you trapped in guilt and shame, trying to earn
  • 00:23:22.247 --> 00:23:25.116
  • God's approval?
  • 00:23:25.116 --> 00:23:26.485
  • In his powerful six message series, "sin consciousness
  • 00:23:26.485 --> 00:23:29.721
  • Versus innocence consciousness," creflo dollar exposes the enemy
  • 00:23:29.721 --> 00:23:34.192
  • Strategy to keep believers focused on their failures.
  • 00:23:34.192 --> 00:23:37.762
  • Discover how god truly sees you in christ.
  • 00:23:37.762 --> 00:23:40.765
  • You are innocent, forgiven, and righteous.
  • 00:23:40.765 --> 00:23:43.668
  • Creflo: it's not because of our performance that i'm holy.
  • 00:23:43.668 --> 00:23:45.704
  • It's not because of my performance that i'm righteous.
  • 00:23:45.704 --> 00:23:48.039
  • It is because of what christ has done for me.
  • 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.344
  • God sees you as holy.
  • 00:23:52.344 --> 00:23:53.912
  • This is god saying, "my mind is made up where you're concerned,
  • 00:23:53.912 --> 00:23:56.515
  • You're in jesus, you're righteous, you're holy, you're
  • 00:23:56.515 --> 00:23:59.417
  • Everything he is.
  • 00:23:59.417 --> 00:24:00.785
  • And i already made my mind up about you.
  • 00:24:00.785 --> 00:24:02.687
  • You are his reflection."
  • 00:24:02.687 --> 00:24:04.155
  • You live by the faith of the son of god.
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  • Announcer: embrace your true identity and walk boldly in
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  • Try, it's still not enough?
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  • Like you're chasing peace, approval, maybe even god's love,
  • 00:24:26.945 --> 00:24:30.649
  • But never quite catching it?
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  • In his book, "the transformative power of grace," creflo dollar
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  • Shows you how to stop striving and start living because god's
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  • Love, his favor, his blessing, they were never meant to
  • 00:24:39.257 --> 00:24:42.427
  • Be earned.
  • 00:24:42.427 --> 00:24:43.762
  • They're gifts he's already given you.
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  • It's time to let go of guilt, to release the fear, and to finally
  • 00:24:45.430 --> 00:24:49.334
  • Root your faith in truth, not effort.
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  • This book isn't just words on a page, it's a reminder you are
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  • Already loved, already accepted, already free because of grace.
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  • It's time to stop striving and start living.
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  • It's already yours.
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  • For example, we help those in need in our communities, those
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  • Creflo: as we wrap up today's broadcast, i'd like to take a
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  • Moment to pray for you.
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  • I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
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  • Jesus christ as your personal lord and savior.
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  • There's no better way to embark upon a new stage in your life
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  • Than to enter into a personal relationship with christ.
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  • So if you want to become born again and begin an exciting,
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus, pray this prayer with
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  • Me now.
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  • Heavenly father, come into my heart.
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  • Save me.
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  • I receive you now by faith.
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  • And i declare in jesus's name that i am saved.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen.
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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  • The kingdom of god.
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