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Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin (Part 1)

July 22, 2025 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Gift Of Righteousness vs. The Curse Of Sin (Part 1) | July 22, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: if you sin, here's what you do.
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  • The ransom has been paid for me.
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  • I'm good.
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  • I gotta renew my mind.
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  • That's crazy, but i'm good.
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  • You sinned.
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  • The ransom's been paid for me.
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  • I'm still the righteousness of god.
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  • I'm good.
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  • You sinned.
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  • I'm the righteousness of god.
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  • The sin offering has been paid for me.
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  • He didn't cover my sin, he kicked it out of socket.
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  • You know what he's saying do?
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  • Remind yourself of who you are and what has been done for you.
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  • Do not try to undo something by something you do.
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  • You are still righteous.
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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 every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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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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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today, ♪
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  • Creflo: could you become righteous by works?
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  • No.
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  • The old testament said in order to be righteous you had to
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  • Do right.
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  • In the new covenant, you're righteous because of your faith
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  • In jesus christ.
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  • So, in the same way that we couldn't become righteous by
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  • Works, we don't lose our righteousness by works.
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  • We didn't become righteous by works, we don't lose it
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  • By works.
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  • You didn't become righteous by your works, you don't lose it by
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  • Your works.
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  • Your works is not a factor.
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  • It wasn't a factor in you getting righteous and it's not
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  • Gonna be a factor in you losing your righteousness.
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  • It's a matter of faith in the redemptive work of jesus.
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  • Committing a sin doesn't make you partly
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  • Righteous--unrighteous, excuse me.
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  • Committing a sin doesn't make you partly unrighteous.
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  • Now, listen to this, i had to write this on a note card,
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  • Couldn't forget this.
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  • So, we believe that we are still the new creation even if we make
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  • A mistake.
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  • "but for sure our righteousness now," now, here's somebody
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  • Talking, "but our righteousness now has some dirty spots and it
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  • Needs to be cleansed for us to be 100% righteous again."
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  • That's our attitude in church.
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  • "i messed up, so my righteousness got some dirty
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  • Spots, so i need to be cleansed."
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  • So we go on this little weird journey that we go on.
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  • We ain't talking to nobody, we ain't looking at tv no more,
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  • We're not doing nothing, we're not gonna eat for five days.
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  • We're trying to make ourselves hurt a little bit because, "i'm
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  • 75--i'm 75% righteous now.
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  • 75, 75%,
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  • And i don't wanna get 50% righteous.
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  • I'm 75 right now, i gotta stop it right now."
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  • That's crazy.
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  • For do you even think that you have a god that's so wise, that
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  • Would even do that?
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  • Only religious men do that.
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  • The question is, is this the way it works?
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  • Now, if you say, "yes, this is the way it works," then we have,
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  • Once again, returned to the mindset of self-righteousness.
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  • You still think you bring something to the table.
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  • You still think it's something about you.
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  • You won't let it go.
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  • You still think your self-righteousness--"oh, the
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  • Lord opened that door for me because i did this, did this."
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  • Or even, "the lord closed that door because i didn't do this
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  • And this and"--they both the same.
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  • You still trying to take credit for what you can't do.
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  • Self-righteousness is based on ourselves, it's based on our
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  • Good works and our right lifestyle.
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  • God's righteousness is based on god himself.
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  • So, here's the question.
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  • If you have missed the mark by doing something against god's
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  • Will, did that affect the righteousness of jesus?
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  • Now, i--you know.
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  • Did jesus get some dirty spot and needs to be cleansed?
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  • Because if you're righteous because of jesus and you say you
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  • Got a dirty spot, then jesus got a dirty spot because your
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  • Righteousness is not based on your spots, it's based on jesus.
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  • And if jesus ain't got no spot, quit acting like you got a spot.
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  • Jesus has always and will always remain fully righteous.
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  • And this is the good news: jesus christ himself has become
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  • Our righteousness.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 1, verse 30 and 31 in the nlt.
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  • 1 corinthians 1, verse 30 and 31 in the nlt.
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  • These scriptures are everywhere.
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  • "god has united you with christ jesus.
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  • For our benefit god made him," for our benefit god made jesus,
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  • "to be wisdom itself.
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  • Christ made us right with god," not creflo, not jenny, not none
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  • Of the name--whatever name you mention, it had nothing to do
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  • With it.
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  • You didn't bring nothing to the table.
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  • Is anybody here?
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  • Some of y'all looking at me like, "mm, mm, mm."
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  • "for our benefit god made him to be wisdom itself.
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  • Christ made us be right with god; he made us pure and he made
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  • Us holy, and he freed us from sin."
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  • It is not my righteousness that makes me right, but if i receive
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  • His righteousness, i'll do right.
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  • It's not me performing holiness that makes me holy, but if i
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  • Believe i'm holy, i'll behave holy.
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  • It's not me trying to be pure that makes me pure.
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  • See, religion and church says it's you doing all of that
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  • That's responsible for making you all of that.
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  • No, no.
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  • You doing righteous doesn't make you righteous, but you receiving
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  • Righteousness will make you righteous.
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  • You receiving holiness is what's gonna make you holy.
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  • You receiving purity is what's gonna make you pure.
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  • You keep saying, "no, it's gotta be more than just receiving it.
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  • I don't receive that, brother, i don't receive that," because
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  • You are so used to being self-righteous and you find
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  • Security in being self-righteous--
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  • I mean, you find something out of being--you love telling
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  • People what you done did and how you done did it and what you
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  • Brought to the table.
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  • "they didn't have nothing to eat until i brought that ham to
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  • The table."
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  • You love doing that, you stuck in that, you stuck in that and
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  • Your actions and your behavior, it doesn't change, because
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  • You're trying to achieve what's been achieved.
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  • You might as well buy you a big cross, put it in the backyard
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  • And have somebody nail you to the cross, only then to find out
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  • It's not your blood that's gonna do nothing.
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  • All you gonna do is bleed out.
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  • We're not born again by your blood.
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  • We're not gonna miss hell because of your blood.
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  • We're not made righteous because of your blood.
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  • We're not holy because of your blood.
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  • Your blood can't do nothing, hallelujah, but the blood
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  • Of jesus.
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  • Satan has deceived people into thinking that what jesus did was
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  • Not enough for us.
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  • 2 corinthians 11:2 through 4 in the nlt.
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  • This is a trick.
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  • The whole thing has been a propaganda trick.
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  • Through fear and condemnation and shame you come to church,
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  • You pray, you give.
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  • And what happened is, people just got so tired of being in
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  • Fear and condemnation and shame.
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  • When i was at the church, i got so tired, my pastor called me
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  • And said, "you coming to church tonight?"
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  • I said, "no."
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  • He said, "why?"
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  • I said, "i'm tired.
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  • I'm tired of feeling bad.
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  • I'm tired of feeling guilty," and i'm on the
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  • Minister's platform.
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  • I'm tired of feeling guilty.
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  • I'm tired of feeling shame.
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  • I come--every time i come, i have to hear about these rules.
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  • "you can't do this. you can't do that.
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  • If you do that, you ain't gonna do that.
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  • You gotta do that. you gotta pray in jesus's name.
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  • In jesus's name, not jesus name, and if you don't pray in
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  • Jesus's--i'm like got dog, i don't wanna come--i don't want
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  • To come and i seriously considered atheism because it
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  • Made more sense than that stuff i was hearing.
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  • I got tired and i was like, i thought church people was
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  • Supposed to be about love, them was the meanest--never met
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  • Nobody like them.
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  • And i thought, if this is what it's supposed to be like, i just
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  • Don't think i'm gonna make it and since i can't seem to do
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  • Nothing right, then i might as well enjoy myself.
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  • ♪ i'm gonna go to the party, ♪
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  • ♪ stand around, ♪
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  • ♪ but i got myself together, ♪
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  • ♪ really get down. ♪
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  • I'm being honest with you.
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  • It just--it's like, what is this?
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  • And then we would celebrate easter and i'm like, "why are we
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  • Celebrating easter?"
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  • They said, "jesus died." i'm like, "why?"
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  • "and he rose again."
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  • "okay. why?"
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  • "that's why." what?
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  • What? what?
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  • And they kept blowing smoke in my ear and i got tired of it
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  • And one day i woke up and i'm just, "i'm done with this."
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  • A little boy i was working with at the fulton county parks and
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  • Recreation, he drowned and he died and i didn't
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  • Understand that.
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  • And i went in the room and i said, "lord, this little boy
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  • Ain't seen his life, go on, take my life, let this boy live," and
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  • He didn't do it and i'm like--i spent three days locked up in
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  • The room because i'm trying to consider becoming an atheist,
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  • And this is--something's wrong with this, something's just not
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  • Right with this stuff.
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  • I do everything they tell me to do, i fast, i pray for hours, i
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  • Do everything they tell me to do, and i don't understand.
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  • I'm broke, i'm busted, disgusted, i'm driving my mama's
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  • Station wagon.
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  • I can't--i'm just--where is this god?
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  • And so, ain't no one -- well, i'm gonna be no preacher.
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  • I can't stand them jokers.
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  • Showing up, eating all the chicken up, talking about--can't
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  • Stand them preachers.
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  • I'm being honest with you.
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  • I was so tired and it just--
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  • And then one day i heard this word,
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  • "will you become a student of grace?"
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  • I'm like, what's that?
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  • See, the bible says grace teaches you.
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  • You know another translation for that word teacher?
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  • He parents you.
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  • Grace will be your parent, which means he's patient with
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  • Everything involving your transformation and he parents,
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  • The grace of god parents you, and i needed a parent.
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  • Here is paul's concern and it's still the same today.
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  • "for i am jealous for you with the jealousy of god himself.
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  • I promised you as a pure bride to be one husband--christ."
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  • Three, "but i fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion
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  • To christ will be corrupted, just as eve was deceived by the
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  • Cunning ways of the serpent.
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  • You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they
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  • Preach a different jesus than the one we preach, or a
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  • Different kind of spirit than the one you received, or a
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  • Different kind of gospel than the one you believed."
  • 00:15:36.849 --> 00:15:44.023
  • And you gladly put up with it, you gladly just hear it because
  • 00:15:44.023 --> 00:15:50.162
  • They have gigantic crowds and you gladly put up with it.
  • 00:15:50.162 --> 00:15:54.299
  • And paul said that, "if anybody preach any of the gospel or if
  • 00:15:54.299 --> 00:15:58.070
  • Any angel preach any of the gospel, then that which i
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  • Preach, let him be a curse," and he said it twice.
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  • So, since i've stopped--since i've been preaching this gospel
  • 00:16:13.385 --> 00:16:17.156
  • Of grace for 12, 13 years, i've lost all of my preacher friends.
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  • Isn't that sad?
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  • Because at least you could still love me, if you disagree
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  • With me.
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  • You can still have me over for a baloney sandwich if you disagree
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  • With me.
  • 00:16:32.271 --> 00:16:38.444
  • What is that?
  • 00:16:38.444 --> 00:16:43.048
  • And then i learned grace people gotta learn how to be
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  • Gracious people.
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  • Even when it's not fun, even when it doesn't feel good, even
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  • When it hurts, you gotta be gracious.
  • 00:16:56.829 --> 00:17:04.736
  • And the same things happened with our marriage.
  • 00:17:04.736 --> 00:17:08.107
  • Some women would rather be dominated and abused by men than
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  • To understand that jesus came to set you free from
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  • Male domination.
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  • Look at the men.
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  • Hey, men, i got news for you.
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  • You ain't the boss.
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  • You're supposed to be an equal partner in the corporation that
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  • You married into, but you scared.
  • 00:17:32.798 --> 00:17:36.802
  • You scared because you're so inferior you have hidden behind
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  • False superiority to make you feel better about
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  • Your inferiority.
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  • And now a woman's got to dumb herself down to your dumb butt
  • 00:17:47.846 --> 00:17:51.917
  • Because--oh, excuse me, i'm sorry.
  • 00:17:51.917 --> 00:17:56.088
  • She can't be smart, she can't be intelligent, she can't be a co
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  • Or ceo, she can't run nothing because your butt is so dumb
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  • That you get inferior if she make more money than you make.
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  • I don't mind being my wife's boy.
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  • Make that money, girl.
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  • Bring that bag home.
  • 00:18:11.837 --> 00:18:13.205
  • I don't mind.
  • 00:18:13.205 --> 00:18:16.675
  • I'm gonna cut my hours so i can serve her, run her some bath
  • 00:18:16.675 --> 00:18:21.480
  • Water, make her a cheese sandwich when she come home.
  • 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.684
  • What's the matter with you?
  • 00:18:25.684 --> 00:18:33.392
  • So, i'm almost through here.
  • 00:18:33.392 --> 00:18:37.663
  • What are we to do if we have committed a sin?
  • 00:18:37.663 --> 00:18:44.770
  • What are we to do, as christians, if we have committed
  • 00:18:44.770 --> 00:18:49.041
  • A sin?
  • 00:18:49.041 --> 00:18:51.677
  • Go to the book of 1 john 2:1 and 2.
  • 00:18:51.677 --> 00:18:58.083
  • 1 john 2: 1 and 2. this is what we do.
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  • You're a christian.
  • 00:19:04.122 --> 00:19:05.824
  • You have a new creation, the software, which is--that's the
  • 00:19:05.824 --> 00:19:11.430
  • Flesh, that mind, that unrenewed mind, that's the flesh.
  • 00:19:11.430 --> 00:19:15.601
  • Not so much your body as much as it is your flesh.
  • 00:19:15.601 --> 00:19:18.637
  • Again, get to the root of it.
  • 00:19:18.637 --> 00:19:20.872
  • The root of your body doing stuff is this
  • 00:19:20.872 --> 00:19:24.576
  • Unrenewed software.
  • 00:19:24.576 --> 00:19:28.814
  • So, what do we do?
  • 00:19:28.814 --> 00:19:30.449
  • "my little children, these things write i unto you, that
  • 00:19:30.449 --> 00:19:33.385
  • You sin not."
  • 00:19:33.385 --> 00:19:34.987
  • Okay, that's what he said.
  • 00:19:34.987 --> 00:19:36.722
  • So, he said--so, as christians, he's not advocating sinning
  • 00:19:36.722 --> 00:19:40.459
  • Because he's like yield to the new creation and you--just like
  • 00:19:40.459 --> 00:19:43.862
  • You yield to the old man, the old sin man.
  • 00:19:43.862 --> 00:19:46.565
  • So he says, "what do you do if you sin?"
  • 00:19:46.565 --> 00:19:48.967
  • He says now, "these things i write unto you, so you sin not.
  • 00:19:48.967 --> 00:19:52.271
  • If any man sin, we have an advocate," someone who pleads
  • 00:19:52.271 --> 00:19:56.642
  • Our case.
  • 00:19:56.642 --> 00:19:58.043
  • So, jesus says, "i'll plead and stand before the father on
  • 00:19:58.043 --> 00:20:01.079
  • Your behalf."
  • 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:03.115
  • Now, what is it that we do?
  • 00:20:03.115 --> 00:20:05.183
  • Verse 2.
  • 00:20:05.183 --> 00:20:08.553
  • Remember this, "he is the propitiation,"
  • 00:20:08.553 --> 00:20:15.927
  • He is the sin offering, he is the ransom that has been paid.
  • 00:20:15.927 --> 00:20:22.801
  • "he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but
  • 00:20:22.801 --> 00:20:26.405
  • Also for the sins of the whole world."
  • 00:20:26.405 --> 00:20:28.040
  • If you sin, here's what you do.
  • 00:20:28.040 --> 00:20:33.345
  • The ransom has been paid for me.
  • 00:20:33.345 --> 00:20:36.214
  • I'm good.
  • 00:20:36.214 --> 00:20:39.351
  • I gotta renew my mind.
  • 00:20:39.351 --> 00:20:40.686
  • That's crazy, but i'm good.
  • 00:20:40.686 --> 00:20:42.921
  • You sinned.
  • 00:20:42.921 --> 00:20:44.256
  • The ransom's been paid for me.
  • 00:20:44.256 --> 00:20:45.791
  • I'm still the righteousness of god.
  • 00:20:45.791 --> 00:20:48.360
  • I'm good.
  • 00:20:48.360 --> 00:20:50.462
  • You sinned.
  • 00:20:50.462 --> 00:20:51.797
  • I'm the righteousness of god.
  • 00:20:51.797 --> 00:20:53.799
  • The sin offering has been paid for me.
  • 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:56.301
  • He didn't cover my sin, he kicked it out socket.
  • 00:20:56.301 --> 00:20:59.371
  • You know what he's saying do?
  • 00:20:59.371 --> 00:21:01.206
  • Remind yourself of who you are and what has been done for you.
  • 00:21:01.206 --> 00:21:08.547
  • Do not try to undo something by something you do.
  • 00:21:08.547 --> 00:21:17.656
  • You are still righteous.
  • 00:21:17.656 --> 00:21:26.465
  • "well, pastor dollar"--i know it's in the room.
  • 00:21:26.465 --> 00:21:28.700
  • I'm gonna say it because i'm free.
  • 00:21:28.700 --> 00:21:31.069
  • I know it's in the room.
  • 00:21:31.069 --> 00:21:32.404
  • "what you talking about?
  • 00:21:32.404 --> 00:21:33.739
  • Once saved, always saved?"
  • 00:21:33.739 --> 00:21:35.073
  • Yes, you should always be saved unless you turn away from it and
  • 00:21:35.073 --> 00:21:40.746
  • You still ain't that deep that--see, that's another one of
  • 00:21:40.746 --> 00:21:44.116
  • Them demon doctrines.
  • 00:21:44.116 --> 00:21:45.450
  • "let me convince you that there's no way that you can get
  • 00:21:45.450 --> 00:21:49.321
  • In christ and be all right in him for the whole time," because
  • 00:21:49.321 --> 00:21:55.494
  • You're basing it on what you do.
  • 00:21:55.494 --> 00:21:57.262
  • When you're in christ, you're sealed with the holy spirit
  • 00:21:57.262 --> 00:22:00.766
  • Of promise.
  • 00:22:00.766 --> 00:22:05.670
  • You would have to--it would be real hard but you would have to
  • 00:22:05.670 --> 00:22:09.975
  • Just turn your back on god and just go crazy another way, but
  • 00:22:09.975 --> 00:22:15.947
  • You would have to be full of revelation, full of this--all
  • 00:22:15.947 --> 00:22:18.817
  • Gifts after--you can't even qualify to do that.
  • 00:22:18.817 --> 00:22:23.488
  • You better hope that's right.
  • 00:22:23.488 --> 00:22:28.193
  • You better hope that once you in christ that they closed the door
  • 00:22:28.193 --> 00:22:32.164
  • Behind and you can't get out of christ.
  • 00:22:32.164 --> 00:22:34.032
  • Oh, let me [speaking in tongues].
  • 00:22:34.032 --> 00:22:35.901
  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. alright, alright.
  • 00:22:35.901 --> 00:22:37.536
  • Alright, check this out.
  • 00:22:37.536 --> 00:22:38.937
  • So, the ark that noah was in [speaking in tongues].
  • 00:22:38.937 --> 00:22:46.578
  • That's got to be god that did--
  • 00:22:46.578 --> 00:22:48.146
  • The ark represented jesus.
  • 00:22:48.146 --> 00:22:57.589
  • With all that water, i know they fell, but they were in the ark.
  • 00:23:01.827 --> 00:23:09.367
  • They didn't fall out of the ark, they fell in the ark, so they
  • 00:23:09.367 --> 00:23:16.641
  • Were still safe.
  • 00:23:16.641 --> 00:23:22.714
  • Noah and his wife might even had an argument, but they had it in
  • 00:23:22.714 --> 00:23:29.488
  • The ark.
  • 00:23:29.488 --> 00:23:33.492
  • When you sin, you don't fall out of christ, you fall in him, you
  • 00:23:33.492 --> 00:23:40.365
  • Fall right in his arms.
  • 00:23:40.365 --> 00:23:41.700
  • You don't fall out of him, you fall in him.
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