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Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin

July 18, 2025 | S25 E174 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin | July 18, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: all people who are born again, everybody that's
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  • Born again is 100% righteous.
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  • How many of you are born again in here this morning?
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  • Whoa, you are 100%, not 99.5%, you are 100% righteous.
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  • Now, the issue with this is i've got to get you to have
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  • Confidence in that truth.
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-oh, we're saved by his grace ♪
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  • Creflo: now, what we're gonna talk about today is extremely
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  • Radical, so i need you to kinda, like, make sure you're okay.
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  • We're gonna talk about the gift of righteousness versus the
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  • Curse of sin.
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  • So, what does that mean?
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  • Well, i don't even know if you've heard this ever taught in
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  • Church, but it's like we ignore it and we kinda go over it and
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  • Everybody's thinking about it but we're not addressing it.
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  • So, i'm gonna talk about sinning after you've been born again.
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  • We always talk about sin, you know, back in the day when you
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  • Were a sinner, as if you got born again and you stopped.
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  • Mighty quiet in here, isn't?
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  • So, we're gonna address the elephant that's been in church
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  • For years.
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  • What's the deal with sinning after you get born again?
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  • Does that happen?
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  • Yeah.
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  • Am i gonna be giving you a license and a "okay" to sin?
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  • No, i just think we need to get really honest and right now in
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  • My life i don't have time to be a religious preacher being
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  • Concerned about being validated by all of my peers.
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  • So, world changers nation, whether you're here in the dome
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  • Or online, let's rock and roll with this thing, amen.
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  • Let's rock and roll with this.
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  • Now, so, every scripture is so very important to me and i wanna
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  • Start off with 2 corinthians 5:17 through 19 in the king
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  • James and then in the new living translation.
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  • All right, he says, "therefore if any man be in christ," all
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  • Right, you got born again and when you got born again, you're
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  • Technically in christ, okay?
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  • If he's in christ, he says, "he's a new creature: the old
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  • Things have passed away; behold, all things are become new."
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  • So, the day you got in christ, your old sinful man passed away,
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  • Just like somebody when they die, you hear the term
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  • "they passed."
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  • That old sinful man passed, and by the grace of god you now
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  • Have a new creation that is just like god and flawless and
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  • Perfect and cannot sin.
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  • All right, now.
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  • "therefore if any man is in christ, he's a new creature: old
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  • Things are passed away; behold, all things are become new," next
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  • Verse, "and all things are of god, who hath reconciled,"
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  • Brought you back to god, "reconciled us to himself by
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  • Jesus christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
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  • Reconciliation," verse 19, now watch this, "to wit, that god
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  • Was in christ, reconciling the world unto himself," now watch
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  • This, "not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath
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  • Committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
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  • Now look at this in the nlt.
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  • Not imputing their trespasses unto them.
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  • If you can, guys, do you have the message translation of verse
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  • 17--verse 17 through 19?
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  • If you do, thank you.
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  • "because of this decision we don't evaluate people by what
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  • They have or how they look.
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  • We looked at the messiah that way once and got it all wrong,
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  • As you know.
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  • We certainly don't look at him that way anymore.
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  • Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with
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  • Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new.
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  • The old life is gone; a new life emerges!
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  • Look at it!
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  • All this comes from the god who settled the relationship between
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  • Us and him, and then called us to settle our relationship with
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  • Each other.
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  • God put the world square with himself through the messiah,
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  • Giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins.
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  • God has given us the task of telling everyone what he
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  • Is doing.
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  • We're christ's representatives.
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  • God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences
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  • And enter into god's work of making things right
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  • Between them."
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  • Now, go back to the nlt, 2 corinthians 5:16.
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  • Somebody says, "you really stuck on this one."
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  • Yeah, i gotta get this first one right.
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  • The nlt, 2 corinthians 5:17.
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  • "this means that anyone who belongs to christ has become a
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  • New person.
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  • The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
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  • And all of this is a gift from god, who brought us back to
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  • Himself through christ.
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  • And god has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
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  • For god was in christ, reconciling the world to
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  • Himself, no longer counting people's sins against them."
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  • He is no longer counting your sins against you.
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  • He is no longer holding your sins against you.
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  • So, everybody who think, well, i want god to use me.
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  • But then you think in your past, oh, well, you know, i did this,
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  • This, this.
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  • He's not counting that against you.
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  • "well, i asked god to heal me but i'm not healed.
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  • Oh, it must be that."
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  • No, he's not counting that against you.
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  • "well, i prayed but i don't have an answer to my prayer and maybe
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  • It was just"--no, he's not counting your sin against you.
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  • So, in other words, you're not gonna be able to use your sin as
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  • An excuse for why certain things are not happening in your life.
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  • It may be because you're self righteous or it may be because
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  • You depend more on you than god, but it is not because of your
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  • Sin, because he doesn't hold your sin against you.
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  • That's hard, in a religious church saying something
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  • Like that.
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  • But when jesus went in these villages and the bible says that
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  • He couldn't heal none of them, and somebody said, "it was
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  • Because of sin, it was because of sin, it was because of sin,"
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  • They said, "no, it wasn't because of sin, it was because
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  • Of self righteousness."
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  • They had more trust in themselves than they had
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  • In jesus.
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  • Now, follow me very carefully now, as we walk through this,
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  • And you see the reason why i wanted to start off with that.
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  • All people who are born again, everybody that's born again is
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  • 100% righteous.
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  • How many of you are born again in here this morning?
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  • Whoa, you are 100%, not 99.5%, you are 100% righteous.
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  • Now, the issue with this is i've got to get you to have
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  • Confidence in that truth.
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  • So, can we lose our righteousness as easily as we
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  • Received it if we commit a sin after being born again?
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  • If we commit a sin after being born again, can we lose our
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  • Righteousness as easily as we received it?
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  • Or maybe we are still righteous, but no longer 100%.
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  • Maybe we're now 89%, maybe 75%, and we need to cleanse ourselves
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  • From all unrighteousness.
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  • For some, it's hard to believe that a person who committed a
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  • Sin could still be righteous.
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  • There are some who are listening to me now, as i'm asking these
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  • Questions, it's so hard for you to believe that a person who
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  • Committed a sin can still be righteous.
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  • Committing a sin doesn't make you unrighteous again.
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  • And this is stuff that we've always thought, but now i'm just
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  • Saying it.
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  • Committing a sin doesn't make you unrighteous again.
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  • Your tradition is freaking out, but stay here with me.
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  • Now.
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  • Now, let's examine all this stuff i just said.
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  • Let's take it through the test.
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  • How do we become righteous?
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  • By faith in?
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  • So, the day you decided to believe in jesus, heaven says
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  • You're righteous.
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  • So, are we then going to lose our righteousness by our works
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  • Or our lifestyle?
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  • See, if we think this way, then we still have the mindset of
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  • Self-righteousness, self-righteousness is
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  • Driving that.
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  • Self-righteousness has said, "wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
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  • Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  • But i got to do this in order to be righteous.
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  • And if i do that, then i'm gonna undo my righteousness."
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  • So, you're putting it all on you.
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  • Your self-righteous is centered, and so that's why it's kind of
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  • Difficult for you to just wholeheartedly take in what i'm
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  • Saying because self-righteousness has reigned
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  • In your life and in your religion.
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  • And you've been trained in self-righteousness, you come to
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  • Church and you're trained in self-righteousness.
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  • You're told if you do abc, then you might get xyz, and you're
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  • Told if you don't do abc, you won't get xyz.
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  • And you're told if you do, you know, jwe, then, you know,
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  • That's gonna mess up abc.
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  • And we try to treat this thing like a mathematical equation,
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  • And it's not.
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  • Follow me now.
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  • I--let me say this now.
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  • I need to say this right now.
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  • I am not trying to give a license to sin or to defend sin.
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  • That's not what i'm doing.
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  • I'm not giving a license to sin or defend sin.
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  • I'm trying to get you to understand what we're saying and
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  • Then all this stuff will work it's--it'll--i'm trying to put
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  • Everything in its proper place.
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  • The objective of grace is always to achieve holiness.
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  • The objective of that new creation that you got when you
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  • Got born again, that new creation, it's his job is to
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  • Move you towards a sinless life.
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  • The new creation wants you to do right.
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  • The new creation doesn't want you to sin.
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  • The new creation wants you to do right.
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  • However, that's a process, because your soul has been
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  • Programmed by the old man and the old man, when he passed
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  • Away, left behind the sin software.
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  • So, the flesh and the sin software is still in
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  • Your thinking.
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  • And even though you received the new creation in its perfection,
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  • You still got the same software.
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  • And so, without renewing your mind, you got the new creation
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  • Screaming, trying to get you to change your mind, and so we have
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  • To be renewed in the spirit of our mind so that our mind, being
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  • Renewed with the word, will line up with the new creation.
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  • And when the new creation now begins to dominate and then your
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  • Soul and your mind and your thinking lines up with the new
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  • Creation, then your body will just fall in line.
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  • Why is it that you got saved one day and cuss somebody out the
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  • Next day?
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  • Because you got saved for real, but you still have that
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  • Software working.
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  • You notice, sometimes your telephone sends you a text and
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  • Says it's time for a update?
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  • See, when you get born again, it's time for an update.
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  • You got to update the software.
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  • Some of us try to live a christian life without doing
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  • The update.
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  • And have you noticed, when you don't update after a while the
  • 00:14:22.341 --> 00:14:25.444
  • Phone start tripping out, it start doing things, it start
  • 00:14:25.444 --> 00:14:29.415
  • Cutting off, it starts doing all kinds of stuff because it needs
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  • An update, glory to god.
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  • And that's why you can be born again and you're still tripping
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  • Out because you haven't received the update.
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  • On our phones the update can take a matter of five or ten
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  • Minutes, or so.
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  • But in this life and this body, we are continually being updated
  • 00:14:47.266 --> 00:14:53.038
  • Because look at how crazy the times are.
  • 00:14:53.038 --> 00:14:55.541
  • You are saved, you have a new creation, but you might need
  • 00:14:55.541 --> 00:14:59.311
  • To update.
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  • Ain't no "might," you do.
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  • Is everybody with me so far?
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  • All right, now, to know that we have received the gift of
  • 00:15:07.653 --> 00:15:11.390
  • Righteousness and know that we are brand new creations is the
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  • Key to getting free from the bondage of sin.
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  • Number one, i know that i have received the gift
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  • Of righteousness.
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  • The day i got born again, i was made righteous.
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  • Say out loud, "i have received the gift of righteousness."
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  • Okay, second thing, i know that i have a brand new creation.
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  • I know that the old man--the old man, the old nature--somebody
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  • Say, "why did i sin so much?"
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  • Because you had the nature, you had the nature to sin.
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  • When you sinned, you did all kinds of stuff because you had
  • 00:15:51.096 --> 00:15:54.166
  • The nature to sin.
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  • When you no longer have that nature anymore, you have a new
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  • Nature, and you gotta believe, "i've received the new nature, i
  • 00:15:58.937 --> 00:16:03.375
  • Received the new creation and i have the gift of righteousness."
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  • That's gonna be the key to overcoming this bondage of sin,
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  • By you knowing, "i have the gift of righteousness, i have been
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  • Made right because of jesus, and i have the new creation because
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  • Of jesus."
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  • That's where it starts right here.
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  • It starts with what you believe.
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  • Taffi said it this morning.
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  • When you believe right, you will live right.
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  • But when you believe wrong, you will live wrong.
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  • All right, romans chapter 5:19, let's go there.
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  • Romans 5:19.
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  • All right, now what's this.
  • 00:16:40.479 --> 00:16:42.281
  • "for as by one man's disobedience," for as by one
  • 00:16:42.281 --> 00:16:47.719
  • Man's disobedience.
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  • Who is this one man?
  • 00:16:49.455 --> 00:16:51.690
  • "many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
  • 00:16:51.690 --> 00:16:57.596
  • Be made," who is the one who is obedient?
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  • Okay.
  • 00:17:01.834 --> 00:17:03.602
  • Look at this in the nlt.
  • 00:17:03.602 --> 00:17:06.271
  • See, all of this is based on what one guy did versus
  • 00:17:06.271 --> 00:17:10.008
  • One--another guy.
  • 00:17:10.008 --> 00:17:11.376
  • He says, "because of one person's--person disobeyed god,
  • 00:17:11.376 --> 00:17:14.580
  • Many became sinners," because one person disobeyed god.
  • 00:17:14.580 --> 00:17:17.216
  • Adam did what he did in the garden.
  • 00:17:17.216 --> 00:17:18.717
  • From that point on, everybody had the nature of sin.
  • 00:17:18.717 --> 00:17:22.454
  • "but because one other person," jesus, "obeyed god, many will be
  • 00:17:22.454 --> 00:17:26.859
  • Made righteous."
  • 00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:28.193
  • Now, i'm gonna say this to you.
  • 00:17:28.193 --> 00:17:29.561
  • Your sin nature and your new creation, you did not get those
  • 00:17:29.561 --> 00:17:35.167
  • By any contribution of your own.
  • 00:17:35.167 --> 00:17:41.073
  • Both of you being a sinner came by what one man did and you
  • 00:17:41.073 --> 00:17:47.045
  • Being righteous came by what one man did.
  • 00:17:47.045 --> 00:17:51.383
  • None of those came by what you did.
  • 00:17:51.383 --> 00:17:57.956
  • All right, look at verse 18.
  • 00:17:57.956 --> 00:18:00.192
  • Look at verse 18.
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  • Saint romans 5:18.
  • 00:18:01.527 --> 00:18:04.129
  • "yes, adam's one sin brings condemnation for everyone."
  • 00:18:04.129 --> 00:18:08.500
  • Now, look at this.
  • 00:18:08.500 --> 00:18:10.302
  • "adam's one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but
  • 00:18:10.302 --> 00:18:14.740
  • Christ's one act of righteousness," christ's one act
  • 00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:19.178
  • Of righteousness, "brings a right relationship with god and
  • 00:18:19.178 --> 00:18:23.549
  • New life for everyone."
  • 00:18:23.549 --> 00:18:25.651
  • All right, so what adam did is responsible for the condemnation
  • 00:18:25.651 --> 00:18:31.323
  • In your life.
  • 00:18:31.323 --> 00:18:33.358
  • For you to say that you are saved and have a new creation
  • 00:18:33.358 --> 00:18:36.361
  • And you are still experiencing condemnation, no, condemnation
  • 00:18:36.361 --> 00:18:40.232
  • Came by what adam did.
  • 00:18:40.232 --> 00:18:42.968
  • But the righteous act that jesus performed made us right with god
  • 00:18:42.968 --> 00:18:48.273
  • And the righteous act that jesus performed gave us a new creation
  • 00:18:48.273 --> 00:18:52.711
  • And gave us a new life.
  • 00:18:52.711 --> 00:18:55.247
  • So, we're putting things in the right place here, man, so we can
  • 00:18:55.247 --> 00:18:58.817
  • See what's happening here.
  • 00:18:58.817 --> 00:19:00.819
  • All right.
  • 00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:03.188
  • So, there are two kinds of people on the earth right now.
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  • Two kinds.
  • 00:19:08.493 --> 00:19:09.861
  • Somebody says, "there's all kinds."
  • 00:19:09.861 --> 00:19:11.196
  • No, no, only two kinds, and everything is gonna flow.
  • 00:19:11.196 --> 00:19:15.334
  • Now, i ain't talking about color.
  • 00:19:15.334 --> 00:19:16.668
  • I'm talking about two kinds.
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  • The first kind is from adam.
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  • The second kind is from the new creation.
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  • You are either in adam or you are in christ.
  • 00:19:32.284 --> 00:19:37.089
  • You are either in adam or you are in christ.
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  • 1 corinthians 15, verse 22 in the king james.
  • 00:19:42.728 --> 00:19:46.031
  • I'm gonna look at three verses here.
  • 00:19:46.031 --> 00:19:47.366
  • 1 corinthians 15:22, 45, and 47.
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  • 1 corinthians 15:22, 45, 47, king james.
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  • King james.
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  • Now, look at these scriptures, listen to this line by line
  • 00:19:55.974 --> 00:20:00.379
  • Stuff, you know i'm going somewhere, you know i'm gonna
  • 00:20:00.379 --> 00:20:03.048
  • Take you somewhere.
  • 00:20:03.048 --> 00:20:04.383
  • I'm trying to give you all the ingredients before we take the
  • 00:20:04.383 --> 00:20:06.551
  • Cake out of the oven.
  • 00:20:06.551 --> 00:20:11.390
  • "for as in adam," what happened in adam?
  • 00:20:11.390 --> 00:20:14.393
  • "all die, even so in christ shall all be," what?
  • 00:20:14.393 --> 00:20:20.732
  • "made alive."
  • 00:20:20.732 --> 00:20:22.100
  • Look at the contrast here, verse 45.
  • 00:20:22.100 --> 00:20:24.836
  • "and so it is written, the first man adam was made a," what?
  • 00:20:24.836 --> 00:20:29.741
  • "living soul; the last adam," who was jesus, "was made," what?
  • 00:20:29.741 --> 00:20:36.315
  • "a quickening spirit."
  • 00:20:36.315 --> 00:20:38.817
  • See the contrast there, you're either one or the other.
  • 00:20:38.817 --> 00:20:42.387
  • 47, "the first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is
  • 00:20:42.387 --> 00:20:51.997
  • Of the lord from heaven."
  • 00:20:51.997 --> 00:20:55.500
  • So, you either still earthy or you're of the lord from heaven.
  • 00:20:55.500 --> 00:21:03.008
  • Only two kind of people on the earth: in adam, in christ; new
  • 00:21:03.008 --> 00:21:09.214
  • Creation, old man.
  • 00:21:09.214 --> 00:21:11.917
  • Only two kind of people on the earth.
  • 00:21:11.917 --> 00:21:14.953
  • Now, look at galatians chapter 6 and 15.
  • 00:21:14.953 --> 00:21:20.625
  • Galatians 6 and 15.
  • 00:21:20.625 --> 00:21:26.832
  • "for in christ jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing,
  • 00:21:26.832 --> 00:21:35.307
  • Nor uncircumcision availeth any thing, but a new creature."
  • 00:21:35.307 --> 00:21:40.379
  • Now, you know what he was saying?
  • 00:21:40.379 --> 00:21:41.780
  • He says, "you're circumcising," in the old testament every male
  • 00:21:41.780 --> 00:21:46.184
  • Had to be circumcised.
  • 00:21:46.184 --> 00:21:47.519
  • He said--in order to be a part of that covenant.
  • 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.788
  • He said, "in christ, circumcision ain't gonna get it,
  • 00:21:49.788 --> 00:21:55.827
  • Or not being circumcised ain't gonna get it."
  • 00:21:55.827 --> 00:21:58.964
  • He said, "but here is what you get when you get in christ, a
  • 00:21:58.964 --> 00:22:03.735
  • New creation."
  • 00:22:03.735 --> 00:22:06.438
  • And you got to believe that on the inside i have a
  • 00:22:06.438 --> 00:22:10.108
  • New creation.
  • 00:22:10.108 --> 00:22:12.310
  • We are either in adam, having a sinful nature, or we are in
  • 00:22:12.310 --> 00:22:18.784
  • Christ, being the new creation.
  • 00:22:18.784 --> 00:22:21.853
  • Now those of you who are saved i want you to say out loud, "i am
  • 00:22:21.853 --> 00:22:24.723
  • In christ.
  • 00:22:24.723 --> 00:22:26.958
  • I have the new creation."
  • 00:22:26.958 --> 00:22:31.496
  • In our old nature, in our old self, we were sinners.
  • 00:22:31.496 --> 00:22:37.102
  • Before you got the new creation, you had a sinful nature, you had
  • 00:22:37.102 --> 00:22:41.940
  • An old self, you were sinners, but in your new nature in christ
  • 00:22:41.940 --> 00:22:47.813
  • You have the new creation, you have the new self, we are
  • 00:22:47.813 --> 00:22:52.984
  • Righteous because we're in christ and we have a
  • 00:22:52.984 --> 00:22:57.489
  • New creation.
  • 00:22:57.489 --> 00:22:59.891
  • Now, look at romans chapter 5, verse 12 through 21 in the nlt.
  • 00:22:59.891 --> 00:23:05.931
  • Romans chapter 5, verse 12 through 21 in the nlt.
  • 00:23:05.931 --> 00:23:12.938
  • All right.
  • 00:23:12.938 --> 00:23:17.375
  • "when adam sinned, sin entered the world.
  • 00:23:17.375 --> 00:23:23.648
  • Adam's sin brought death."
  • 00:23:23.648 --> 00:23:27.018
  • Do you understand that when god made man, man was never supposed
  • 00:23:27.018 --> 00:23:30.755
  • To die?
  • 00:23:30.755 --> 00:23:32.123
  • He made man immortal.
  • 00:23:32.123 --> 00:23:37.062
  • He was not--man was not--adam and eve were not made
  • 00:23:37.062 --> 00:23:40.632
  • Mortal beings.
  • 00:23:40.632 --> 00:23:42.000
  • They were made never to die.
  • 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:45.303
  • They were supposed to live forever, but, "when adam sinned,
  • 00:23:45.303 --> 00:23:51.877
  • Sin entered the world.
  • 00:23:51.877 --> 00:23:53.245
  • Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for
  • 00:23:53.245 --> 00:23:59.618
  • Everyone's sinned."
  • 00:23:59.618 --> 00:24:00.952
  • Have you noticed in the old testament, people would live
  • 00:24:00.952 --> 00:24:02.420
  • 500 years?
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  • It took a long--it took hundreds of, i'd say thousands, of years
  • 00:24:04.289 --> 00:24:09.794
  • To work out eternity from the body.
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  • Heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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  • I believe that he died and that he rose again and that he
  • 00:26:36.708 --> 00:26:40.712
  • Lives today.
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  • Come into my life, save me, i receive you as my savior.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, that's how
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