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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - How To Maintain Your Righteous Stance | July 16, 2025
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- The 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 are counted righteous because of your faith
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- In the lord jesus christ.
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- You are not counted righteous because of your good works and
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- Your good deeds.
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- Now, good works and good deeds will be born out of a person who
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- Have been made righteous because they believe in jesus christ.
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- But the good works are not responsible for you being
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- Made righteous.
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- You are made righteous because of jesus christ.
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- And, out of that righteousness, you produce all type of
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- Wonderful things born out of love.
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- Creflo dollar: hopefully, you're gonna choose to let
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- Heaven determine your thinking because whatever choice you
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- Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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- Creflo: can you say that he's a way-maker?
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- Yes!
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- Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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- Yes!
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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 say ♪
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- ♪ it's time we live a new life ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ let his love shine bright in you ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ we're saved by his grace, so we embrace your love today ♪
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- Creflo: some of you think that god can't use you anymore
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- Because of your past, and your mess ups, and stuff like that.
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- And he used three murderers in the bible, and you don't think
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- He can use you?
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- Somebody said, "say what?"
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- Yeah, he--moses, murderer; the apostle paul, murderer; david,
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- Peeping tom and murderer.
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- So get over that and start focusing in on your identity.
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- I am the righteousness of god.
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- I have been made righteous; i have not become righteous.
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- I didn't do nothing to deserve righteousness.
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- I believed in jesus, and he made me righteous.
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- He made me righteous.
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- I am righteous because of jesus.
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- And, as long as jesus is all right, i am all right.
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- Let me show you something, in the, when the law was given, at
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- The same time, if you look in exodus, that the law was given
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- This, the sacrificial system was instituted, where the lord said
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- That we're going to introduce the sacrificial system where you
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- Bring a sacrifice that's acceptable.
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- And, if that accepts that that sacrifice is acceptable, then i
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- Will bless you because of the sacrifice.
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- Now, those sacrifices could never take away sin; it could
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- Only cover sin.
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- He says, "i'll bless you because of the sacrifice--" which you
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- Automatically knew; when he gave the commandments, he said, "i
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- Know they're not gonna be able to keep them, so that's why i
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- Got to figure out a way where i can bless them."
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- Mhm, oh my goodness, "i'll bless you because of the sacrifice."
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- So, if the sacrifice presented wasn't not, wasn't all right,
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- You ain't gonna be all right.
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- So you got to bring a sacrifice that's acceptable.
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- But, for all of us, jesus is our sacrifice, and how many of you
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- Know, he's acceptable, huh?
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- So, if the sacrifice is all right, you're all right.
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- Is the sacrifice all right?
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- So, if you go around thinking, "oh, i ain't righteous no more,"
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- I'm gonna go to jesus, "you all right?"
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- He say, "yeah, i'm still good," and i'm thinking, "well, what
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- They doing?
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- He's still good, we still good.
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- I'm still good because he's still good."
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- He's the acceptable sacrifice.
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- He died once and for all, praise god.
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- I am the righteousness of god today, tomorrow, when i'm up,
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- When i'm down, i'm the righteousness of god.
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- As long as i am focused and still tied into jesus, i believe
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- In him, praise god.
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- He has made me righteous.
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- I receive my righteousness.
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- Are y'all getting this?
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- I'm, can you see i'm just drilling this in, this is going
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- To be your foundation for the year.
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- "look!
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- The lamb of god who takes away the sin of the world!"
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- So they treated jesus like the worst sinner.
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- Think about what he went through.
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- They treated him like the worst sinner ever--whipped with a cat
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- Of nine tails, nailed to a cross, spit on, ahh.
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- Then, after all of that, he who had never sinned went to the
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- Hell that was our hell to go to.
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- But he took our place and went to the hell that we were
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- Supposed to go through.
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- My god, mm hm hm.
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- Why did he do that?
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- He was treated like the worst sinner ever--my goodness--so
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- That you and i could be treated like the best righteous
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- Person ever.
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- Amen.
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- He who had never sinned, and didn't deserve the treatment,
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- Did it so that we who had sinned and were made righteous, and
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- Didn't deserve the treatment of a righteous man, that's what
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- He did.
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- "i will become the sinner.
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- Let them treat me like the worst sinner in the world so you can
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- Become the righteousness of god and be treated like the
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- Righteous of the world."
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- Wow, okay.
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- Maintaining your righteous stance, that's what we're
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- Talking about.
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- Now, let's look at romans chapter 4, verses 1 through 8.
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- Let's look at it again in the nlt, romans 4:1 through 8.
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- I didn't get a chance to really get to this last week, got to
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- Part of it, but let's look at the whole thing here.
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- Are you seeing this?
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- It's, people would get born again if they knew this, but
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- Not, they're not getting this.
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- What they're getting is all the rules you got to keep in order
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- To be born again.
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- You, what are you talking about, all the rules you have to keep?
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- It was a gift.
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- Listen to me.
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- If righteousness, if the blessing is a result of your
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- Good works--watch this--then you should get the credit
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- For it.
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- But, if righteousness is a gift, then jesus should get the credit
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- For it.
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- So now what we're gonna see here is, what do you really think?
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- You really think you all that?
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- So then you should get the credit for it.
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- But, if it's a gift, he should get the credit for it.
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- Watch this, they're gonna talk about abraham here, and this is
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- Awesome because, in the book of genesis, the bible says that
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- Abraham believed god--in genesis, before jesus--and
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- Heaven said, "you're righteous."
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- Before abraham did any goody goody thing, abraham believed
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- God, and heaven said, "you're righteous."
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- And then somebody said, "oh, abraham was perfect."
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- Oh, far from it.
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- Oh, dude, we can show some scriptures about abraham the
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- Coward, abraham the liar, abraham--oh, my goodness,
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- The fear person.
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- And god says, "it's too late.
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- I've already made him righteous."
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- So, even when he lied about sarah being his wife, even when
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- He was a coward, wouldn't stand up for her, even when all of
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- That stuff happened, he said, "i still got to treat him as
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- Righteous because i am showing a picture of what is to come."
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- And the old testament was all about shadows and pictures.
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- And that's why you gotta learn how to rightly divide between
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- The old covenant and the new covenant.
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- Because, in the old testament, the sabbath was a day, and
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- People still arguing about, "do you worship god on saturday
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- Or sunday?
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- We worship on thursday at 3."
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- That's not even the issue.
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- The issue is that you've got to rightly divide and know that, in
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- The old covenant, it was a shadow and a sign of jesus.
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- All of the shadows and the signs pointed to jesus.
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- Jesus even said, "these scriptures here speak of me."
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- But, in the new testament, they talked about the sabbath, and
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- They made it plain.
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- He said that the sabbath is me.
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- It was a day, but now the sabbath is jesus; jesus is your
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- Sabbath, glory be to god.
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- Jesus is your sabbath.
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- And you still wonder what day?
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- And we got whole denominations because we couldn't figure out
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- What day it was because we didn't rightly divide the word.
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- Look at, do you see that, you see the stuff that has come
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- Because we don't know how to read the bible.
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- We don't know how to rightly divide between what was true
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- Under the old covenant and what is true under the new covenant,
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- And we just, you know, the righteousness under the old
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- Covenant meant you had to earn it.
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- You were righteous because you did something right.
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- But people were still dying because the law was perfect, it
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- Was flawless, and men couldn't keep it.
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- And, if you complain, you die because the wages of sin
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- Was death.
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- But, under this new covenant, jesus said, "all right, we see
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- They can't do it.
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- So i'm gonna be the champion, god come down in flesh," glory
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- To god, "and i'm gonna do what men can't do.
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- And not one jot or tittle of that word in the law will go to
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- Pass until i fulfill every bit of it.
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- So, no, nothing in creation will be able to say that jesus didn't
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- Do it all."
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- He did it all.
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- And now, through him, you get to live life.
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- You couldn't live it perfectly, but he lived it perfectly.
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- Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
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- Get used to this; i'm gonna get bolder and louder and louder
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- About this gospel of grace more than ever before.
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- "abraham was, humanly speaking, the founder of the
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- Jewish nation."
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- And here's what he said, "what did he discover about being made
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- Right with god?
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- If his good deeds had made him acceptable to god, he would have
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- Had something to boast about."
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- So, if you believe that righteousness is a result of
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- Your good deeds, you have something to boast about.
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- And, if you listen carefully, church folks are boasting; they
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- Are boasting about what they do every day.
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- They are boasting, and, at the same time where they're
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- Boasting, they're condemning you and creating that sense of,
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- You know, approval addiction.
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- And you, now you're working real hard to try to gain their
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- Approval, and they ain't even doing half the stuff they're
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- Telling you.
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- They might have did it one time, and they're making it seem
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- Like they do it every day.
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- They don't do it every day.
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- They sleep past past 9 o'clock all the time.
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- They got up one time at 4 o'clock to pray, and that's
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- The last time.
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- But they got you thinking they get up every morning at
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- 4 o'clock, and now you're get up every morning at 4 o'clock and
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- Feeling condemned if you don't because they do that.
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- Boy, these church people, they something else, boy.
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- But i'm gonna love you.
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- I'm gonna love you all the way to heaven.
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- I know jesus is coming back, that's why i'm stirred up
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- Because i know it, i know he coming, he coming.
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- Praise the lord, he coming.
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- So, if you did good deeds, you got something, and you're made
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- Righteous because of your good deeds, you have something to
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- Boast about.
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- The bible even said in ephesians chapter 2 that there is
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- No boasting.
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- Why?
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- Because it's a gift of god; salvation is a gift of god.
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- Therefore, there is no boasting.
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- So if you're boasting, somehow, you think you're responsible for
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- The blessing and the righteousness that's in
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- Your life.
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- He says, "if good deeds had made him acceptable to god, he would
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- Have had something to boast about.
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- But that was not god's way.
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- For the scripture tells us, 'abraham believed god,'"
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- It tells us in genesis.
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- "'abraham believed god, and god counted him as righteous.'"
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- Why, because of all of his good deeds?
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- No, "'because of his faith.'
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- "when people work," i love this, "their wages are not a gift."
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- You worked for that.
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- It's not a gift when you work.
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- The bible says, "but it was something that you have earned."
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- So please understand, it's not a gift, it's something that
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- You've earned.
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- If you came to me and said, "i'm gonna do you a favor, but i'm
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- Gonna have to charge you," it's no longer a favor.
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- You are a hired hand now.
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- "when people work, their wages are not a gift, but something
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- They have earned.
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- But people are counted as righteous, not because of their
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- Work, but because of their faith in god who forgives sinners."
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- You are counted righteous because of your faith in
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- The lord jesus christ.
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- You are not counted righteous because of your good works and
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- Your good deeds.
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- Now, good works and good deeds will be born out of a person who
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- Have been made righteous because they believe in jesus christ.
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- But the good works are not responsible for you being
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- Made righteous.
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- You are made righteous because of jesus christ, and, out of
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- That righteousness, you produce all type of wonderful things
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- Born out of love.
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- Any work that you do that's not born out of love is a work
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- That's not acceptable by god.
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- So, if you're doing some good work so that people can, you
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- Know, recognize you or praise you in church, but it's not born
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- Out of love, it's not accepted by god.
- 00:15:13.726 --> 00:15:15.594
- So you're keeping up with all of the little goody, goody works
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- You do so, when you get to the gate, you can roll your little
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- Toilet back, put your toilet paper rolodex out, and say, and
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- They say, why "should i let you through the gate?"
- 00:15:23.502 --> 00:15:25.104
- You say, "here you go, lord.
- 00:15:25.104 --> 00:15:26.438
- Look at all this. look at that, look at that.
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- Look at that, that toilet paper still rolling down there.
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- Look at that. look at that.
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- All my good works." and then they close the gate.
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- Say, "what, what, what, what happened?"
- 00:15:37.249 --> 00:15:39.651
- You still didn't get it.
- 00:15:39.651 --> 00:15:42.521
- You still didn't get it.
- 00:15:42.588 --> 00:15:44.056
- You're in heaven bragging.
- 00:15:44.056 --> 00:15:47.926
- We don't want to hear but one word.
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- Why should i let you in?
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- Jesus.
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- Come on in.
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- I have faith in jesus.
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- I trust in jesus.
- 00:16:00.072 --> 00:16:02.441
- And people don't get that, to the point where there are
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- Religions that have been started as enemies of the cross.
- 00:16:05.978 --> 00:16:13.886
- I got a problem with jesus because i don't like the
- 00:16:13.886 --> 00:16:15.988
- Painting michelangelo did of jesus.
- 00:16:15.988 --> 00:16:18.390
- Everybody know that ain't jesus but you; everybody in the world
- 00:16:18.390 --> 00:16:23.162
- Know that ain't jesus.
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- I can't even see jesus walking around with long hair that he
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- Curled up right before he left with rosy cheeks and makeup--
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- That ain't, are you serious?
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- Have you read the description of jesus and the work that he did
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- And all the stuff that's going on?
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- That ain't how no jesus look.
- 00:16:37.376 --> 00:16:39.711
- But here's the deal.
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- I don't care.
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- I'm not moved by how he look.
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- I'm moved by what he did.
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- I'm moved that he died for me, that he was whipped with a cat
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- Of nine tails for me, that he was nailed to a cross for me,
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- That he went to hell for me, that he got up from the grave
- 00:16:55.227 --> 00:16:58.630
- For me, that he rose to be seated on the right hand of god,
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- The father almighty, for me.
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- And that he is coming back again for me.
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- I don't care what he looked like.
- 00:17:08.040 --> 00:17:15.614
- It's because of what he did that's exalted, instead of me
- 00:17:15.614 --> 00:17:21.186
- Trying to look at what i'm gonna do.
- 00:17:21.186 --> 00:17:22.955
- See if i believe i'm the righteousness of god, then, out
- 00:17:22.955 --> 00:17:25.958
- Of that righteousness, behavior is gonna line up with it.
- 00:17:25.958 --> 00:17:32.431
- But, when your behavior ain't right, you come to church,
- 00:17:32.431 --> 00:17:34.600
- Preacher make you feel bad, christian folks make you feel
- 00:17:34.600 --> 00:17:37.102
- Bad--it is amazing to me how christian people love turning on
- 00:17:37.102 --> 00:17:42.374
- One another, like you celebrate somebody's fall, which indicates
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- You don't believe.
- 00:17:50.215 --> 00:17:51.583
- Even if they did fail, we forgive--quickly, we
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- Forgive quickly.
- 00:17:55.587 --> 00:17:57.222
- But now you start qualifying who can fall and who can't, when all
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- Of us got an issue.
- 00:18:04.363 --> 00:18:11.904
- And, for you to act like that is for you to believe you don't
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- Have no issue.
- 00:18:14.606 --> 00:18:15.941
- You mean to tell me you got time to slander somebody else's fall,
- 00:18:15.941 --> 00:18:21.079
- When, in the booth in the back in the corner--
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- Wilson, you remember him--? in the booth in the back--
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- Geraldine, you remember him--?
- 00:18:25.317 --> 00:18:26.652
- Booth in the back in the corner in the dark,
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- You got your own little stuff.
- 00:18:28.554 --> 00:18:31.523
- And your little stuff might not be somebody else's stuff, but
- 00:18:31.523 --> 00:18:34.326
- You got some stuff somewhere.
- 00:18:34.326 --> 00:18:35.761
- Wake up and smell the coffee.
- 00:18:35.761 --> 00:18:37.095
- You are not a bed of roses.
- 00:18:37.095 --> 00:18:40.799
- You got some weeds in your yard somewhere, too.
- 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:49.141
- It's amazing; it is so amazing to me.
- 00:18:49.141 --> 00:18:51.810
- I sit and look at preachers who are supposed to be preaching
- 00:18:51.810 --> 00:18:56.248
- Love and the gospel, and they did, they did it--it's mammon,
- 00:18:56.248 --> 00:19:00.452
- Ain't it?
- 00:19:00.452 --> 00:19:01.787
- They got their podcast because they're, "we're gonna get
- 00:19:01.787 --> 00:19:03.155
- Paid now.
- 00:19:03.155 --> 00:19:04.489
- We're gonna get paid now."
- 00:19:04.489 --> 00:19:06.058
- And you wouldn't believe how mammon has substituted as gods
- 00:19:06.058 --> 00:19:11.563
- In the lives of a lot of christian.
- 00:19:11.563 --> 00:19:13.599
- You still trying to get your bag instead of trying to get
- 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:17.169
- Your salvation.
- 00:19:17.169 --> 00:19:24.943
- "well, i don't agree with that; right is right."
- 00:19:24.943 --> 00:19:26.311
- Who you think you are?
- 00:19:26.311 --> 00:19:28.213
- Let us follow you home; let us shrink and get on your little
- 00:19:28.213 --> 00:19:32.484
- Shoulder, say, "right is right.
- 00:19:32.484 --> 00:19:34.886
- Right is right."
- 00:19:34.886 --> 00:19:38.957
- Let me look at your computer and see where you've been.
- 00:19:38.957 --> 00:19:45.697
- Ha, yeah, stop it.
- 00:19:45.697 --> 00:19:53.238
- That's why folks don't want to have nothing to do with y'all
- 00:19:53.238 --> 00:19:56.975
- Because y'all too holier than thou, dog gone holy ghost
- 00:19:56.975 --> 00:20:00.245
- Sheriff, going around trying to arrest everybody.
- 00:20:00.245 --> 00:20:02.881
- You need to turn around and handcuff yourself, and rescue--
- 00:20:02.881 --> 00:20:07.452
- Where are the christians?
- 00:20:07.452 --> 00:20:10.255
- Where are the christian people?
- 00:20:10.255 --> 00:20:12.391
- I tell you where they are.
- 00:20:12.391 --> 00:20:13.792
- They're illiterate of the manuscript of life.
- 00:20:13.792 --> 00:20:18.096
- They still don't know how to read the bible, so what are
- 00:20:18.096 --> 00:20:20.499
- They doing?
- 00:20:20.499 --> 00:20:21.867
- They're making up their own right and wrong.
- 00:20:21.867 --> 00:20:27.205
- And they keep joining churches that tell them what they already
- 00:20:27.205 --> 00:20:29.908
- Know or what they think they already know.
- 00:20:29.908 --> 00:20:33.512
- Well, it wasn't a scripture one time out here--
- 00:20:33.512 --> 00:20:34.846
- You fall down, whoever falling in the ditch, and then you
- 00:20:34.846 --> 00:20:37.182
- Gonna, you have somebody that's gonna fall in the ditch right
- 00:20:37.182 --> 00:20:38.684
- Behind you because you're all gonna fall in the--the blind
- 00:20:38.684 --> 00:20:41.320
- Leading the blind--and everybody in the ditch.
- 00:20:41.320 --> 00:20:49.828
- "better watch out, pair--you might
- 00:20:49.828 --> 00:20:51.196
- Go viral."
- 00:20:51.196 --> 00:20:52.531
- I've been going viral for 30 years; i don't care.
- 00:20:52.531 --> 00:20:56.401
- I am delivered from approval.
- 00:20:56.401 --> 00:21:00.639
- I don't need nobody's approval.
- 00:21:00.639 --> 00:21:03.709
- I already got god's approval.
- 00:21:03.709 --> 00:21:05.210
- That is the only approval i need.
- 00:21:05.210 --> 00:21:13.185
- Well, well, well, what, well, what?
- 00:21:13.185 --> 00:21:19.758
- Just got baptized two hours ago.
- 00:21:19.758 --> 00:21:25.163
- Look at them all, looking at me like that.
- 00:21:29.034 --> 00:21:33.538
- "people are counted righteous, not because of their works, but
- 00:21:37.743 --> 00:21:40.379
- Because of their faith in god who forgives them."
- 00:21:40.379 --> 00:21:42.514
- Now, now watch this; i'm saying i'll let to set you up for this
- 00:21:42.514 --> 00:21:48.687
- Next verse.
- 00:21:48.687 --> 00:21:50.455
- Here it goes; are you ready?
- 00:21:50.455 --> 00:21:56.094
- I hope i did a good job to prepare you for what we're about
- 00:21:56.094 --> 00:21:59.164
- To read.
- 00:21:59.164 --> 00:22:01.400
- "david also spoke of this when he described the happiness of
- 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:06.271
- Those who are declared righteous without working for it."
- 00:22:06.271 --> 00:22:15.247
- So here's david because david's looking at this, and he's like,
- 00:22:15.247 --> 00:22:18.650
- What he was saying is, "ooh, y'all don't know how blessed
- 00:22:18.650 --> 00:22:20.886
- Y'all are."
- 00:22:20.886 --> 00:22:22.487
- He said, "that wasn't the same when i did it."
- 00:22:22.487 --> 00:22:29.394
- Verse 7, he said, "oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is
- 00:22:29.394 --> 00:22:39.438
- Forgiven, and whose sins are put out of sight.
- 00:22:39.438 --> 00:22:50.415
- Yes, what joy for those whose record
- 00:22:54.186 --> 00:22:57.189
- The lord has cleared of sin."
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- Male announcer: believers, are you equipped for battle?
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- In the five-part series, "how to maintain your righteous stance,"
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- Creflo: start focusing in on your identity.
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- I am the righteousness of god.
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- I am righteous because of jesus.
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- And, as long as jesus is all right, i am all right.
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- He's the acceptable sacrifice.
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- He died once and for all, praise god.
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- I am the righteousness of god, today, tomorrow, when i'm up,
- 00:23:37.062 --> 00:23:41.533
- When i'm down, i'm the righteousness of god.
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- As long as i am focused and still tied in to jesus, i
- 00:23:43.602 --> 00:23:47.506
- Believe in him, praise god.
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- He has made me righteous.
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- I receive my righteousness.
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- Spiritual law.
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- It's a reflex of god's love.
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- And i'm so glad that taffi and i began to understand how to walk
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- Creflo: we never want to assume that all of you are born
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- Again christians.
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- Of salvation.
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- Pray with me, and just repeat after me.
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- "heavenly father, i believe that jesus died for my sins.
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- I believe that jesus was the payment for my sins, that he was
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- The sin offering.
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- And i receive him as my peace offering.
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- Jesus, come into my heart; save me.
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- And today, by faith, i receive you and declare that i am saved,
- 00:26:47.919 --> 00:26:54.526
- In jesus's name, 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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