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Creflo Dollar - The Importance Of Understanding Righteousness

August 22, 2025 | S25 E204 | 28:53

Creflo Dollar - The Importance Of Understanding Righteousness
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Importance Of Understanding Righteousness | August 22, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: you are the righteousness of god.
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  • "yeah, but pastor, i ain't no good."
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  • You're righteous.
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  • "yeah, but you don't know what i did last night."
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  • You're righteous.
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  • "yeah, but i got drunk last night."
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  • I know, jesus was with you.
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  • You're righteous.
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  • But here's what the devil and the church would do.
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  • You can't say you're righteous 'cause i saw
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  • What you did last night.
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  • You better hurry up and say you're righteous 'cause the
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  • Devil's trying to put a crack in your foundation.
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  • Male announcer: as a christian, what happens after you sin?
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  • Do you lose your righteousness?
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  • God's gift of righteousness gives us peace with him, not
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  • Creflo: so, what's up with this righteousness?
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  • Why do we need to understand it?
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  • Why is it our foundation?
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  • Because the bible says, "if our foundation be destroyed, then
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  • What shall the righteous do?"
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  • So, we have to understand our foundation of righteousness
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  • Because the enemy is going to do all he can to try to destroy
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  • That foundation first, and then move on in to destroy your life.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5, verse 21 in the nlt.
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  • And i want you to pay attention to these first
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  • Couple of scriptures.
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  • He says, "for god made christ, who never sinned, he made him to
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  • Be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made,"
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  • We didn't become but, "so that we could be made right with
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  • God," how?
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  • "through jesus christ."
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  • So, god made christ, and christ, who had never sinned, never one
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  • Time sinned, was the only one that could keep all of the law
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  • So that he can give us a new and a better way of living.
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  • And then he was the offering for our sin.
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  • Jesus was the sin offering.
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  • His life was given as the--i use the word propitiation, but jesus
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  • Was that sin offering, peace offering, ransom that was paid
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  • So we can be free from sin.
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  • And he made us right with god.
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  • Not of any of our doing were we made right with god, but it all
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  • Came through jesus christ.
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  • Please understand, you are righteous today because you
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  • Accepted jesus into your life and he made you righteous.
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  • Say out loud, "i am the righteousness of god through
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • Now, look at 1 corinthians chapter 1, verse 30 and 31.
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  • You've been made that way.
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  • You're not righteous through your own efforts, through your
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  • Own performance.
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  • You know, it wasn't like you're so good, so god's gonna say
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  • You're righteous.
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  • No, righteousness has been made available to the whole world if
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  • They accept it, if they accept him.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 1:30 says, "god has united you with
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  • Christ jesus.
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  • For our benefit god made him to be wisdom itself.
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  • Christ made us right with god,"
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  • Christ made us right with god.
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  • "he made us pure and he made us holy, and he freed us from sin."
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  • Christ, all of this because of christ.
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  • "therefore, as the scriptures says, 'if you want to boast,
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  • Boast only about the lord.'"
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  • And then galatians 2, verse 16 in the nlt
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  • And we'll get started here.
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  • Galatians 2:16.
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  • He says, "yet we know that a person is made right with god by
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  • Faith in jesus christ, not by obeying the law," or by your
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  • Performance in the law.
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  • He says, "and we have believed in christ jesus, so that we
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  • Might be made right with god because of our faith in christ."
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  • We've been made right with god because we believe in jesus,
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  • Because of our faith in christ, not because we have obeyed the
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  • Law or our performance or our efforts, our self-efforts.
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  • "for no one will ever be made right with god by obeying
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  • The law."
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  • See, in that time, if you do good, you get good.
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  • If you do bad, you get bad.
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  • Basically all--everything you got was based on what you
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  • Would do.
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  • But not so in this new covenant.
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  • We believe in jesus christ.
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  • He has made us right, and it's not based on your performance,
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  • Not based on your behavior.
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  • It's based on your belief and your faith in the lord
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • So, some would still ask the question, "why are we righteous
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  • In god's eye?"
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  • Is it because we do right?
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  • No, it's because of jesus.
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  • I'm righteous because of jesus, but religion has trained us to
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  • Think that we're righteous because we do right.
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  • No, i'm righteous because of jesus christ.
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  • And so, let's take a moment and look at some ways to define
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  • This righteousness.
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  • First of all, righteousness means right standing with god.
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  • Please understand something.
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  • The day you got born again, you entered into your legal stance
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  • In god's eye.
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  • In god's eye, you stand righteous.
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  • In god's eyes, you stand holy, you stand perfect, you stand
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  • Redeemed in god's eye.
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  • As soon as you get born again, you have a stance in god's eye,
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  • And god sees you based based on who he says you are in his eyes.
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  • You believe jesus, now you have that stance.
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  • Now, remember when i taught on the difference between your
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  • Stance versus your state?
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  • Your state is basically your walk with god right now, okay?
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  • In god's eye, he sees you perfect.
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  • But right now, your living state is not perfect.
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  • So, you see the deal?
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  • The path is to take your state and finally reach your stance.
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  • So, your state won't change your stance.
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  • How you're behaving and how you're living right now won't
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  • Change your stance.
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  • But because you're born again and grace is teaching you, going
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  • Down this journey, you're gonna get better and better.
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  • The holy spirit's working in you.
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  • He's working on your desire to give you the desire to do what
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  • Pleases god.
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  • There's work going on.
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  • God is working on you right now.
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  • Your behavior right now, your state does not match your stance
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  • Right now, but you're saved, and you believe in jesus.
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  • And he is working on you.
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  • He said we are his workmanship.
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  • He's working on you.
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  • What is he working on?
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  • He's working on this journey that you're taking.
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  • He's working on bringing your state, that's how you're living
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  • Right now, into to a perfect alignment with your stance.
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  • So, the stance is not going to change.
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  • You are righteous when you're crazy.
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  • You are perfect when you're not perfect, but that stance is
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  • There, heh, to draw you to what he is gonna make you.
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  • Now, there--nowhere in that did i say, "all right, you got a
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  • Free license to go act like a fool."
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  • You can go act like a fool, but god gonna use the foolishness
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  • And the consequences that comes from your foolish actions to
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  • Mature you and to cause you to grow and you're gonna get
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  • Closer to your stance.
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  • See, some of y'all think y'all outsmarting god.
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  • You're not.
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  • He gonna--see, some of the things we do, they bring on some
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  • Of the trouble we have.
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  • So, whether you bought the trouble or the trouble was
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  • Allowed to come, he's gonna mature you through your
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  • Discomfort, and on that journey, you're gonna get better and
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  • Better and better, and you're gonna want god more and more and
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  • More, and you're gonna desire to do what pleases god more than
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  • You desire to do what pleases you, and you're gonna wake up
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  • One day and you're gonna look in the mirror and you're gonna
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  • Realize, "i am really close to that stance."
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  • But jesus promised, "i started the work in you, i'm gonna
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  • Complete--i'm gonna continue to work in you."
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  • And when jesus says--when the return of the lord comes, "i'm
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  • Gonna complete the work in you."
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  • Listen, that is his responsibility.
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  • "well, what if i'm not there when jesus come?"
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  • That ain't your problem.
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  • Jesus promised he would have you ready when the time comes.
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  • And that's who i am trusting.
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  • I'm saying this because while your stance is righteousness and
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  • Perfect and holy, your state is not there yet.
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  • Stop judging people while they're in the midst
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  • Of processing.
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  • You're processing.
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  • Some of y'all are not like you were five years ago, four years
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  • Ago, three years ago when you was cussing everybody out here
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  • That looked at you funny.
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  • Two years ago when you would cut somebody for talking about
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  • Your mama.
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  • A year ago, three months ago, last week, something has
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  • Happened to bring you closer to your stance.
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  • Your behavior doesn't determine your identity.
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  • Your identity determines your behavior.
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  • Huh?
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  • "yeah, but i misbehaved."
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  • You're still righteous, why?
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  • Because your behavior didn't determine your righteousness
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  • In the first place.
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  • Your faith in jesus determined your righteousness in the
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  • First place.
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  • Not your behavior.
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  • You keep trying to use what behavior didn't do in the first
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  • Place as if it has the authority to make the corrections.
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  • You are the righteousness of god.
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  • "yeah, but pastor, i ain't no good."
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  • You're righteous.
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  • "yeah, but you don't know what i did last night."
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  • You're righteous.
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  • "yeah, but i got drunk last night."
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  • I know. jesus was with you.
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  • You're righteous.
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  • But here's what the devil and the church would do.
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  • "you can't say you righteous cause i saw what you did
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  • Last night."
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  • You better hurry up and say you're righteous 'cause the
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  • Devil's trying to put a crack in your foundation.
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  • Your behavior has no choice but to line up with your identity,
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  • But you keep seeing yourself as you behave.
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  • Stop it.
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  • I am the righteousness of god.
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  • Say it two times like you believe it.
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  • Say it one more time.
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  • You see how vital this is?
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  • The plan that the enemy has devised for your life is attack
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  • Their identity.
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  • Now, let's go through this very methodically.
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  • I want to look at this, man.
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  • This is the key to your whole life in grace.
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  • The identity that you obtained the day you got born again.
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  • The identity that you have obtained the day you had faith
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  • In jesus christ.
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  • Get ready, guys.
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  • You are the righteousness of god.
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  • That's the foundation.
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  • That's--that is going to be the place of attack.
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  • It's always gonna be attacking your identity.
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  • And you must know before you walk out of these doors today
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  • That i have been made righteous and my behavior will no longer
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  • Dictate my identity.
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  • All right?
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  • Now, because jesus lives in you and because you love god, when
  • 00:13:32.024 --> 00:13:34.994
  • You do crazy stuff, you're just gonna--you're gonna feel
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  • Some kind of way, but put those feelings in check, all right?
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  • Yeah, i feel that kind of way because i'm in love with jesus,
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  • Not because he's an evil god that's getting ready to punish
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  • Me because of what i did.
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  • I feel this way because i love god and that's not what i wanna
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  • Do, but i'm still the righteousness of god.
  • 00:13:52.244 --> 00:13:55.347
  • So, you gotta learn how to, you know, go through all that and
  • 00:13:55.347 --> 00:13:57.449
  • Keep reminding yourself, "i'm still the righteousness of god."
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  • Now lord, there may be consequences for what i do.
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  • I don't know, let your will be done, but i'm still the
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  • Righteousness of god.
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  • God, i feel so bad for how i say it and carry it on, but i'm
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  • Still the righteousness of god.
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  • That has to be in your life if you're gonna be ready for this
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  • Next phase that's about to hit the earth.
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  • Now, please remember something now.
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  • Please remember something.
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  • Don't get your focus all on the crazy that happens.
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  • Remember this now.
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  • Don't forget it.
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  • When sin abounds--
  • 00:14:33.352 --> 00:14:36.455
  • Crazy ain't gonna ever get ahead of grace.
  • 00:14:36.455 --> 00:14:43.629
  • So, what you ought to do as much crazy as you see, you ought to
  • 00:14:43.629 --> 00:14:46.598
  • Say, "uh-oh, grace getting ready to increase some more."
  • 00:14:46.598 --> 00:14:49.368
  • "oh, you saw that crazy?
  • 00:14:49.368 --> 00:14:51.070
  • Grace getting ready to increase some more."
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  • Ooh, jesus.
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  • Now, let's look at the importance of understanding
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  • Righteousness and how it helps to combat some of the things i'm
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  • Going to show you.
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  • Why is it so important to understand this righteousness?
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  • Number one, because of self-condemnation.
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  • Self conde--i understand that i'm the righteousness of god
  • 00:15:18.764 --> 00:15:21.400
  • Because if i don't, i'm going to continue to
  • 00:15:21.400 --> 00:15:24.403
  • Receive self-condemnation.
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  • And you know what happens when you're condemned, when you
  • 00:15:25.771 --> 00:15:28.607
  • Condemn yourself?
  • 00:15:28.607 --> 00:15:31.143
  • You won't even have confidence in your prayers anymore.
  • 00:15:31.143 --> 00:15:33.846
  • Condemnation is all about, "i'm not enough."
  • 00:15:33.846 --> 00:15:36.615
  • And all of a sudden, you know, with the shame and the guilt,
  • 00:15:36.615 --> 00:15:41.387
  • And the inferiority, the condemnation says you're
  • 00:15:41.387 --> 00:15:43.655
  • Not enough.
  • 00:15:43.655 --> 00:15:44.990
  • You don't even believe you're enough to pray, so you ask other
  • 00:15:44.990 --> 00:15:48.394
  • People to pray for you.
  • 00:15:48.394 --> 00:15:53.032
  • I sometimes ask people to pray for me,
  • 00:15:53.032 --> 00:15:54.466
  • But i got a revelation of it.
  • 00:15:54.466 --> 00:15:55.834
  • I'm like, i can pray.
  • 00:15:55.834 --> 00:15:58.070
  • I can talk to god for myself, and he hears my prayer.
  • 00:15:58.070 --> 00:16:01.440
  • So, i don't need to be asking you every time i see you, "pray
  • 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.510
  • For me, pray for me."
  • 00:16:04.510 --> 00:16:05.878
  • You're just telling me, "oh, do you not believe in
  • 00:16:05.878 --> 00:16:07.312
  • Your prayers?"
  • 00:16:07.312 --> 00:16:11.116
  • Sometimes we use it just to let people know some stuff that we
  • 00:16:11.116 --> 00:16:15.654
  • Want them to know.
  • 00:16:15.654 --> 00:16:18.390
  • "pray for me that i get this million dollar job that i know i
  • 00:16:18.390 --> 00:16:23.162
  • Already got, but i need you to pray about it.
  • 00:16:23.162 --> 00:16:24.863
  • I just want to let you know you ain't all that, but i got
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  • Something going on myself."
  • 00:16:28.233 --> 00:16:31.804
  • You know how folks there, "i got something going on myself."
  • 00:16:31.804 --> 00:16:38.377
  • You know, the bible says people pray in public because they want
  • 00:16:38.377 --> 00:16:40.879
  • To be seen.
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  • Number two, the second reason why i think that righteousness
  • 00:16:45.150 --> 00:16:49.154
  • Is important to understand is so you can deal with that feeling
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  • Of never being quite enough.
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  • I'm the righteousness of god.
  • 00:16:59.131 --> 00:17:00.466
  • You deal with that inferiority, that inferiority complex.
  • 00:17:00.466 --> 00:17:05.804
  • When the bible says, "we all have sinned and come short of
  • 00:17:05.804 --> 00:17:09.108
  • The glory of god," coming short is inferiority.
  • 00:17:09.108 --> 00:17:13.378
  • It's the feeling of never being enough.
  • 00:17:13.378 --> 00:17:16.748
  • It's the feeling of always coming short.
  • 00:17:16.748 --> 00:17:18.984
  • And when you understand your righteousness, you deal with
  • 00:17:18.984 --> 00:17:22.888
  • Those feelings of never being quite good enough, never feeling
  • 00:17:22.888 --> 00:17:28.460
  • Like you're quite good enough to be a father, quite good enough
  • 00:17:28.460 --> 00:17:31.363
  • To be a wife or a husband, quite not--you're not quite good
  • 00:17:31.363 --> 00:17:34.967
  • Enough to be whatever it is you're doing.
  • 00:17:34.967 --> 00:17:36.902
  • You're always questioning that, but the foundation of
  • 00:17:36.902 --> 00:17:40.539
  • Righteousness helps you to walk free from that.
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  • That's why it's important to know.
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  • Number three,
  • 00:17:44.877 --> 00:17:52.618
  • It's the--there seems to always be something
  • 00:17:52.618 --> 00:17:58.524
  • Lacking before god could be satisfied with me.
  • 00:17:58.524 --> 00:18:03.562
  • What's lacking?
  • 00:18:03.562 --> 00:18:06.365
  • Why is god not satisfied with me?
  • 00:18:06.365 --> 00:18:08.500
  • You don't think you're righteous, so something's
  • 00:18:08.500 --> 00:18:10.636
  • Always lacking.
  • 00:18:10.636 --> 00:18:13.105
  • Understanding righteousness will get you out of that.
  • 00:18:13.105 --> 00:18:15.140
  • Something's always lacking because of this--the stronghold
  • 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:23.582
  • In your mind that somehow you feel nothing's ever good enough
  • 00:18:23.582 --> 00:18:28.921
  • For god, i'm never good enough for god, basically
  • 00:18:28.921 --> 00:18:31.223
  • The same thing.
  • 00:18:31.223 --> 00:18:35.260
  • It's important to understand righteousness because it's hard
  • 00:18:35.260 --> 00:18:42.134
  • To live under pressure to perform in order to be accepted.
  • 00:18:42.134 --> 00:18:47.472
  • And when you understand you're the righteousness of god, you
  • 00:18:47.472 --> 00:18:49.841
  • Deal with that pressure to perform in order to be accepted,
  • 00:18:49.841 --> 00:18:53.545
  • In order to be loved, in order to be blessed, in order to be
  • 00:18:53.545 --> 00:18:56.715
  • Used by god.
  • 00:18:56.715 --> 00:18:58.717
  • You have an approval addiction that runs from human beings all
  • 00:18:58.717 --> 00:19:02.988
  • The way up to the throne of god.
  • 00:19:02.988 --> 00:19:05.824
  • And you're trying to gain the approval of someone who's
  • 00:19:05.824 --> 00:19:10.462
  • Already giving you his approval.
  • 00:19:10.462 --> 00:19:13.699
  • He called you his beloved.
  • 00:19:13.699 --> 00:19:15.934
  • And when you don't understand righteousness, you will continue
  • 00:19:15.934 --> 00:19:19.404
  • To try to gain acceptance and approval from others.
  • 00:19:19.404 --> 00:19:29.281
  • Understanding righteousness, secondly, causes us to reign
  • 00:19:29.281 --> 00:19:33.585
  • In life.
  • 00:19:33.585 --> 00:19:35.487
  • Look at romans 5:17 in the nlt.
  • 00:19:35.487 --> 00:19:39.224
  • Romans 5:17 in the nlt.
  • 00:19:39.224 --> 00:19:42.494
  • You can rule and reign in life when you begin to
  • 00:19:42.494 --> 00:19:47.532
  • Understand righteousness.
  • 00:19:47.532 --> 00:19:50.002
  • Watch this.
  • 00:19:50.002 --> 00:19:51.370
  • He says, "for the sin of this one man, adam, caused death to
  • 00:19:51.370 --> 00:19:57.009
  • Rule over many.
  • 00:19:57.009 --> 00:19:59.544
  • But even greater is god's wonderful grace and his gift of
  • 00:19:59.544 --> 00:20:05.083
  • Righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph
  • 00:20:05.083 --> 00:20:11.290
  • Over sin and death through this one man, jesus christ."
  • 00:20:11.290 --> 00:20:18.163
  • How many of you are ready to rule and reign in life?
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:20:21.967 --> 00:20:23.335
  • See, this is a relationship.
  • 00:20:23.335 --> 00:20:26.004
  • Christianity is a relationship.
  • 00:20:26.004 --> 00:20:28.807
  • It's not a game, it's a relationship.
  • 00:20:28.807 --> 00:20:31.710
  • It's a relationship with the christ.
  • 00:20:31.710 --> 00:20:33.578
  • It's a relationship with jesus.
  • 00:20:33.578 --> 00:20:35.681
  • It's not a religion thing that you can check off and say, "i
  • 00:20:35.681 --> 00:20:38.350
  • Went to church today.
  • 00:20:38.350 --> 00:20:39.685
  • I did good so god can do good to me."
  • 00:20:39.685 --> 00:20:41.586
  • It's a relationship.
  • 00:20:41.586 --> 00:20:42.988
  • He wants to know you, you should get to know him.
  • 00:20:42.988 --> 00:20:46.158
  • It's a relationship.
  • 00:20:46.158 --> 00:20:47.492
  • It doesn't work like he said if--without relationship.
  • 00:20:47.492 --> 00:20:51.263
  • The new testament requires a relationship.
  • 00:20:51.263 --> 00:20:56.034
  • That means you got to get to know him for real.
  • 00:20:56.034 --> 00:21:01.039
  • That means you gotta put your sage away and your
  • 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.241
  • Crystals away.
  • 00:21:03.241 --> 00:21:04.609
  • This ain't what this is.
  • 00:21:04.609 --> 00:21:05.977
  • This ain't what this is.
  • 00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:09.381
  • It ain't palm reading. it ain't crystals.
  • 00:21:09.381 --> 00:21:11.216
  • It ain't smoke in the air.
  • 00:21:11.216 --> 00:21:13.418
  • This is so much greater.
  • 00:21:13.418 --> 00:21:14.886
  • It's the one who made the crystals, the one who
  • 00:21:14.886 --> 00:21:17.422
  • Manufactured the smoke.
  • 00:21:17.422 --> 00:21:18.857
  • It is jesus christ, the son of the living god.
  • 00:21:18.857 --> 00:21:33.205
  • Thirdly, understanding righteousness causes us
  • 00:21:37.142 --> 00:21:41.179
  • To mature.
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  • Hebrews 5, turn there, verses 12 through 13.
  • 00:21:43.815 --> 00:21:48.487
  • In hebrews 5, we see the context as being mature in understanding
  • 00:21:48.487 --> 00:21:52.824
  • The gospel of grace.
  • 00:21:52.824 --> 00:21:55.894
  • But what brings maturity?
  • 00:21:55.894 --> 00:21:58.230
  • The word of righteousness does.
  • 00:21:58.230 --> 00:22:01.099
  • That's something, the word of righteousness.
  • 00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:03.335
  • And you can see how maintaining your maturity regardless of
  • 00:22:03.335 --> 00:22:07.205
  • What's going on.
  • 00:22:07.205 --> 00:22:08.573
  • Look at what he says here.
  • 00:22:08.573 --> 00:22:11.243
  • Let's read it in king james.
  • 00:22:11.243 --> 00:22:13.278
  • Hebrews 5:12 through 13, "for when for the time ye ought to be
  • 00:22:13.278 --> 00:22:19.418
  • Teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the
  • 00:22:19.418 --> 00:22:25.457
  • First principles of the oracles of god; and are become such as
  • 00:22:25.457 --> 00:22:32.397
  • Have need of milk, and not a strong meat."
  • 00:22:32.397 --> 00:22:37.769
  • So, the question, how many christians are still on milk?
  • 00:22:37.769 --> 00:22:44.476
  • And how long will we be on milk?
  • 00:22:44.476 --> 00:22:49.414
  • "for everyone that uses milk
  • 00:22:49.414 --> 00:22:52.150
  • Is unskillful in the word of
  • 00:22:52.150 --> 00:22:55.554
  • Righteousness: for he is
  • 00:22:55.554 --> 00:22:57.589
  • A babe."
  • 00:22:57.589 --> 00:23:02.360
  • "yeah, but i've been born--
  • 00:23:02.360 --> 00:23:03.962
  • I've been born again, saved for 25 years," and still unskillful
  • 00:23:03.962 --> 00:23:07.866
  • In the word of righteousness.
  • 00:23:07.866 --> 00:23:09.234
  • He says you're a babe.
  • 00:23:09.234 --> 00:23:11.470
  • Boo boo pamper baby, you're a babe because you're unskillful
  • 00:23:11.470 --> 00:23:16.675
  • In the word of righteousness.
  • 00:23:16.675 --> 00:23:19.344
  • And the enemy can just come in, play with your emotions, and
  • 00:23:19.344 --> 00:23:23.281
  • You'll allow your emotional behavior to put a crack in your
  • 00:23:23.281 --> 00:23:28.153
  • Foundation of righteousness 'cause you're still unskillful
  • 00:23:28.153 --> 00:23:32.290
  • In it.
  • 00:23:32.290 --> 00:23:34.025
  • You're still trying to operate in dead works.
  • 00:23:34.025 --> 00:23:37.696
  • And dead works are me trying to do something to deserve
  • 00:23:37.696 --> 00:23:41.399
  • Something from god.
  • 00:23:41.399 --> 00:23:43.335
  • Male announcer: do you know who you are?
  • 00:23:47.239 --> 00:23:48.707
  • It's a question the world often struggles with, but god's word
  • 00:23:48.707 --> 00:23:51.910
  • Provides the answer for his children.
  • 00:23:51.910 --> 00:23:54.312
  • In creflo dollar's two message series, "understanding the
  • 00:23:54.312 --> 00:23:57.716
  • Foundation of righteousness," you can uncover the foundation
  • 00:23:57.716 --> 00:24:01.152
  • On which to build your life so that your identity is secure.
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  • Creflo: when you go before god and pray, i want you to go
  • 00:24:04.723 --> 00:24:08.026
  • Before god as if sin never existed.
  • 00:24:08.026 --> 00:24:10.762
  • Stand in the presence of the father without any sense of
  • 00:24:10.762 --> 00:24:14.666
  • Fear, without any sense of guilt, without any sense
  • 00:24:14.666 --> 00:24:18.436
  • Of shame.
  • 00:24:18.436 --> 00:24:19.905
  • Understanding righteousness causes us to reign in life.
  • 00:24:19.905 --> 00:24:23.909
  • Your behavior has no choice but to line up with your identity.
  • 00:24:23.909 --> 00:24:28.380
  • Do not let go of your
  • 00:24:28.380 --> 00:24:30.282
  • Foundation of righteousness.
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  • Right now as my lord and personal savior.
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  • Now, that simple prayer changed your entire eternal destination
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  • And we want to welcome you to the family of god.
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  • Male announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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  • Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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  • Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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  • The preceding program was brought to you in part by the
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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