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Creflo Dollar - How To Maintain Your Righteous Stance

July 15, 2025 | S25 E171 | 28:54

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Creflo dollar: he said, so i'm not looking at what you have
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Do right once you believe you're the righteousness of god.
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Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of 2
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Corinthians chapter 5, verse 17 through 21 in the nlt.
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We're gonna continue with maintaining your
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Righteous stance.
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I'm seeing it already how, yes there are prophetic things that
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Are gonna take place.
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You can cast out devils, but you can't cast that prophecy.
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I understand that we can have 24 hour prayer.
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But when god says something is gonna happen, it's gonna happen,
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Doesn't mean cancel prayer because prayer can still show up
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And do some amazing things when people are going through stuff.
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However, as the christian, we must understand that your mind
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Is the battleground.
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Your mind is the arena of faith.
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You will lose it or you will win it in the battleground of
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Your mind.
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You have to understand that satan's most powerful weapon is
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The power of suggestion.
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What can he suggest to you?
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What can he say to you through vehicles in this world?
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And if a person doesn't know his god, and if a person doesn't
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Know the word of god, then you're easy prey for deception.
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And yet, i am concerned about the christian who's been saved
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For some time.
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I'm also concerned about the prophecy that love will grow and
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Wax cold and wondering how many of you will be here by the end
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Of the year, that attack that will show up to try to convince
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You that it just doesn't matter.
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And all of a sudden, i don't care about the bible and i'm not
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Concerned about god.
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And i'm sure right now you can't see yourself there, which is why
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You have to make your mind up right now.
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God, i'm in it.
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I'm not going nowhere come hell or high water.
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I will never let you go. i will never let you go.
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And the way to do that is to keep him on your mind.
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There's the battle of the mind, and with satan's m.o, it is
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Always to attack you where your identity is concerned.
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And there are lots of people who just don't know who they are.
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Maybe the issue was being raised by a single mother or the issue,
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Maybe you went into foster care, or all of those are sad.
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But once you get born again, jesus now is responsible for
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Your identity.
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You are the righteousness of god.
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He released that attack in the garden of eden, and that's why
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We are where we are today.
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Jesus showed up to reconcile everything, and the first thing
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He did is he attacks, he attacks the lord's identity.
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"if thou be the son of god."
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So the thing we have to be aware of this year, we really gotta
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Guard our heart and guard our ears and guard our eyes and we
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Got to be careful, because, i mean, we're living in the age of
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Social media.
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You got to be careful not to allow that to become your
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New pastor.
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And it starts ministering all kinds of things to you that you
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Think are true.
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But social media is driven by the spirit of mammon.
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Mammon is not money.
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Mammon is the spirit behind money.
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Mammon says, you don't need god, you need money.
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Mammon says, you know, you cheat to get it.
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Mammon says--mammon is looking for church people, and you've
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Got to understand the motivation behind social media and podcast
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Is, i can make money if the clickbait is right.
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I remember one time i went in trying to show our podcast and
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Found out three different times i was dead.
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According to social media, i was gone.
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You have got to guard your ears and you have got to guard your
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Heart and you have got to guard your mind because those are the
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Entrances into a man's heart.
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And satan knows it.
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And he wants to do everything he can to take the church down.
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He will fail.
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He tried before.
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I don't know why he keep trying to do it.
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The church keep rising up, no matter how bad it's hit.
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It just keeps getting back up, it keeps getting back up.
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Praise god.
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Which is why it is vital that you know and understand that you
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Are the righteousness of god, not by your works.
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You are righteous because of your faith and your belief in
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Jesus christ.
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And you cannot allow him to take that from you.
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2 corinthians chapter 5, and verse 21.
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We'll begin this morning.
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He says, "this means that anyone who belongs to christ has become
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A new person."
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So everybody in here who has made jesus the lord of your
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Life, and you have had the experience of being born again.
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This scripture says that you are a new person.
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He's describing the fact that when you got born again, the old
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Man left and the new creation came in.
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The old man parted and the new creation came in, and you have
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Now become a new person based on that new creation that showed up
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When you got born again.
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He said, "the old life is gone."
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Say that out loud, "the old life is gone."
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He says, "a new life has begun!"
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The day you got born again and receive that new creation, "a
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New life has begun.
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And all of this is a gift from god.
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That's what i need to get you to see.
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It's all a gift from god.
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Religion loves for us to try to take credit for what has
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Happened to us.
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It is all a gift from god, "who brought us back to himself
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Through christ."
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Now, at one time, there was enmity between god and mankind,
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Sin, because of what happened in the garden, there was enmity
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Between god and mankind.
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But because of jesus and his shed blood, and you receiving
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Jesus, we have been bought back to god.
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There has been reconciliation between god and man.
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We've been bought back through to god through christ jesus
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Before christ jesus.
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And i don't think people realize that
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Enmity was between god and man.
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"and god has given us this task of reconciling people."
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So he says, now that you who are born again, you have experienced
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Reconciliation between your god and yourself.
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He says, now i give you the ministry to go out and tell
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People to come back, come to god, come to god.
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It's not just about our church.
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It's not just about what you do.
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We have been given the ministry of reconciliation.
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When was the last time you shared with someone who's not
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Born again?
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When was the last time you gave witness to jesus to someone
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That's not born again?
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Think about, somebody had to tell you.
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Who was the person that told you?
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Who was the person?
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I remember.
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I remember, i mean, had no sense at all as far as what god was,
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Who he was and didn't know nothing.
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I'm praying this year that we will become world changers.
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When people see world changers, they're thinking whole world.
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We're not talking about whole world.
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You can't change the whole world until you've changed, until your
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World has been changed.
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And when your world has been changed, then you can reach out
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And begin to change somebody else's world.
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Think about that.
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How many people will you encounter this year that don't
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Know jesus?
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And maybe, just maybe you're at that place just to share witness
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Of jesus.
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Last week i ran out to get some, what was that i went out to
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Get?
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I got something that had something to do with my pancakes
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That night.
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And i ran to the store and get it, and taffi said i'll
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Go get it for you.
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I said, no, i don't want you to go get it for me.
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I know exactly what i need. i'll go in there and get it.
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And then it was a long line and, you know, people were, you know,
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Getting their liquor and all that stuff.
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And i was standing behind a guy, and he turned to me and he said
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"it just irks me, just bothers me all kinds of things when
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People don't have their money ready when they get up to the
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Cash register."
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I say, "yeah, but you just probably need to get over all
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Those little things that irk you."
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He said, "well, well, yeah.
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Yeah, you're right, you're right.
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Just because the other day when i was, you know, i was riding
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Around with my son and this guy just pulled out in front of me
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And i said, 'well, look at this guy right here pulling out in
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Front of me,' and i was about ready to go off on him because,
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You know, i had my gun with me," and i told him, i said, "yeah, i
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Got a 'peace, be still' too."
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I said, "sometimes it's the small foxes.
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So don't let that bother you, because there'll be a lot of
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Those irritants that'll be released to see if it can get
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Your emotions to control your life and your emotions versus
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God controlling."
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He said, "yeah, yeah, you're right."
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He said, "i surely enjoyed talking to you.
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It's a blessing."
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I'm like, uh-huh, yeah, wasn't a blessing five minutes ago, but
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It's a blessing now.
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It doesn't take much if you just water the seed.
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If you would just water and plant, god'll give
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The increase.
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You don't have to just beat somebody up.
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You need to get saved right now.
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No, no, no, i might just be god's plan for watering, and
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Then they'll send somebody else that might be god's plan for
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Planting, but he will always give the increase.
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And so let's make up in our mind that we're gonna be witnesses
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For jesus this year.
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We're gonna take advantage of being an example, sharing some
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Light, sharing some words, sharing some love, and allowing
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God to have the opportunity to increase.
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I'm believing that we're gonna see more people saved this year
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Than we have ever seen in the last 38 years.
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And it's because you are reaching out to make a mark that
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Can't be erased.
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He says, and so god has given us this task of reconciling people
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To him.
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"for god was in christ, reconciling the world
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To himself,"
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Whoa, "no longer counting people's sins against them."
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That's strong, that's strong.
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That's an argument amongst the clergy.
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He said god was reconciling the world, the whole world.
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He was doing something so that the whole world could take
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Advantage of something.
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And what he was saying is i'm going to give my son, jesus
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Christ, and i'm gonna put every--i'mma put the whole
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World sin on him.
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So when you're ready to receive him, i want you to know that
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He's already taking care of all of your sins.
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You just need to sign for the package.
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What would happen if some sinner would hear that?
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What would happen if some sinner would hear
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God--jesus--god has already taken care of your sins through
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Jesus christ and has decided to forgive you of
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All of your sins, and that guy ends up going to hell,
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And he said, "what was the bad thing that actually sent
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Me here?"
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He said, "it wasn't your behavior.
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It was because you didn't sign for the salvation package."
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Now, how tormenting is that?
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Ending up in hell because everything was done.
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All you had to do is sign the receipt.
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Phew.
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"and he gave us this wonderful message
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Of reconciliation."
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Verse 20, "so we are christ's ambassadors;" we are
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Christ's ambassadors.
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We're representative of christ.
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We are ambassadors.
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You know, we're an ambassador for christ because our
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Citizenship is in heaven.
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Well, okay, i'll speak for myself.
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My citizenship is in heaven.
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You waiting on the government to tell you about aliens?
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I am one.
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You are aliens, praise god.
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My god, y'all don't hear me.
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Somebody, "what, what?"
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"god is making his appeal through us.
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We speak for christ when we plead, 'come back to god!'
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For god made christ, who never sinned, to be the offering," or
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The propitiation or the
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Sacrifice for mankind, "to be
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The offering for our sins, so that we could be made right with
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God through christ" jesus.
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Mmm-mm-mm.
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Christ who never sinned became sin but he never sinned.
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He was a serpent on the cross.
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He became sin, but he never sinned.
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He became sin so he could be the offering, the propitiation,
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The ransom.
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He was the ransom.
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He paid the ransom price, glory to god, "so that we could be
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Made right with god through christ jesus.
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So he who had never sinned was made sin so that we who had
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Never been righteous could be made righteous without doing
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Right, because he was made a sinner without ever sinning, you
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Can be made righteous without ever doing right.
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He said, so i'm not looking at what you have done when i made
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You righteous.
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I'm looking at what jesus has done, and if you believe that
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You are the righteousness of god, you'll do right once you
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Believe you're the righteousness of god.
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But you keep trying to do right to qualify your status.
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Look at john 1:29.
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I asked the question last week, why are we righteous in
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God's eyes?
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Is it because we do right?
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No, it's because of jesus.
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Why am i righteous in god's eyes?
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Because i do right?
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No, it's because of jesus.
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It's gotta be humbling to a religious person who all of his
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Life has worked on doing right so he can be right with god.
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But i'm not right with god because i do right.
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I'm right with god because i believe in jesus.
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And what jesus has done has made me the righteousness of god.
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And the day you believe you're righteous, your behavior is
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Gonna line up with that.
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But as long as you allow your bad behavior to tell you that's
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Who you are.
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You keep going back to, what i can do to be made righteous
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Versus believing in jesus and what he has already done to make
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It righteous.
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Verse 29 says, "the next day, john," now john here is talking
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About john the baptist, not the apostle john, but he says, "the
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Next day, john" the baptist, he "saw jesus coming towards him
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And he said, 'look!
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The lamb of god who takes away the sin of the world!'"
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That is so hard for people to get, especially church people
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Because we're so sin conscious.
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There are people that get up in the morning before they even go
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Outside and they say they're grace.
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So lord forgive me for the sin that i hadn't done yet because
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That sin consciousness, we're more conscious of sin than we
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Are of the fact that we've been made righteous.
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Well, where'd you get that sin consciousness from?
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Church.
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You got it from church.
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You came to church all your life and you--that's all was preached
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On, sin.
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God don't like ugly.
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You need to do this or you're gonna go to hell.
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If you don't do that, then god ain't gonna do that.
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You better be careful 'cause you're gonna be cursed if you
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Do that.
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Uh-huh, that's the reason why she died early.
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Uh-huh, that's the reason why that happened.
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That's why you lost your job.
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That's why you--like god's the punisher.
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God's not the punisher.
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And besides, who wants to develop in a
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Forced relationship?
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I'm not interested in a forced relationship.
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I wanna--i don't wanna marry somebody that somebody forced me
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To marry.
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And say if you don't marry, you ain't gonna get the money.
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And if you don't marry, then we gonna not let you have this.
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And if you don't marry, no, no, no.
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I wanna marry somebody 'cause, i mean, i can't live without you.
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You made me do that.
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That's why i was like, i wanna marry somebody because i'm like,
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Well, what i get silly when i'm around, hey!
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I remember when i, first--well, the second time i met taffi, she
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Had transferred to the college i was in and there was this big
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Walkway where everybody would pass by and it was a
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Spring time.
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And whoo!
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It was the spring time.
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You know what i'm talking?
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Whoo!
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It was a spring--had love valley down.
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You remember?
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Whoo! it was a spring.
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And taffi had on this sun dress with all kind of colors.
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And she had a tan on her skin, and i just love beautiful skin
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And whoo!
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And she walked past me and i walked past her, and we had been
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Introduced and i said, oh, and i got sick.
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I can't believe i said, i wanted to slap myself.
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I said, "oh, look at the little girl with the
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Pretty little dress on."
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She said, "i ain't no little girl, i'm a grown woman."
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I'm like goddang. i was like godoggit.
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Oh lord. oh, i didn't mean that.
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I just, i got silly.
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I want a relationship that when i get before his presence he, i,
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Oh glory to god.
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I lift my hands up and i don't mean to.
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I jerk and i don't mean to,
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But something happens in the presence of the
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Lord because i want that relationship.
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Nobody's making me, nobody's threatening me into
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The relationship.
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Nobody's putting fear on me in the relationship.
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That's the same way in my giving.
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I give 'cause i want to.
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I adore him. i want to give.
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Nobody's gonna tell me you cursed with a curse if you don't
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Give a certain percentage.
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Wait a minute, now you're putting fear on me, and
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So the only reason i'm giving it because i'm scared?
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No, i give because i delight in him and i love him and i, oh, i
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Wanna please him, and i want him happy.
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I want him to find joy in my relationship.
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I asked god this morning when i was praying.
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I said, "now lord, i think i know
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But i still wanna ask you this.
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What did enoch and elijah do to make you just take them?
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I said, i said, "well, did you just take them because that was
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Part of the plan and you had already planned or did they
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Do something?
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Did they do something that you found great delight in?"
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And he quickly answered me.
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He says, i am not a respecter of person.
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He says, i find as much delight in you
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As i find in them.
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Because in them i couldn't live in, but i'm living in you.
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In these last days, our minds are the battlefield,
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In the five part series, "how to maintain your righteous stance,"
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Creflo dollar uncovers how we get the upper hand in
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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, and as long as jesus is alright,
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I am alright.
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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.
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Today, tomorrow, when i'm up, when i'm down, i'm the
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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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Creflo Dollar - How To Maintain Your Righteous Stance

July 15, 2025 | S25 E171 | 28:54

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