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Creflo Dollar - The Importance Of Understanding Righteousness

March 16, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Importance Of Understanding Righteousness
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Importance Of Understanding Righteousness | March 16, 2026
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  • Every challenge that meets you.
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  • Now, will there be some discomfort?
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  • Well, yeah, of course, "they that live godly shall suffer
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  • Creflo: well, 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--i understand that i'm the righteousness of god because if
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  • I don't, i'm going to continue to receive self-condemnation.
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  • You know what happens when you're condemned?
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  • When you condemn yourself?
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  • You won't even have confidence in your prayers anymore.
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  • Condemnation is all about i'm not enough and all of a sudden,
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  • You know with the shame and the guilt and the inferiority, the
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  • Condemnation says you're not enough.
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  • You don't even believe you're enough to pray.
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  • So you ask other people to pray for you.
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  • I sometimes ask people to pray for me, but i got a revelation
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  • Of it.
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  • I'm like, i can pray.
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  • I can talk to god for myself and he hears my prayer.
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  • So i don't need to be asking you every time i see you, "pray for
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  • Me," "pray for me."
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  • You're just telling me, ooh, do you not believe in your prayers?
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  • Sometimes we use it just to let people know some stuff that we
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  • Want them to know.
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  • Pray for me that i get this million dollar job that i know i
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  • Already got, but i need you to pray about it.
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  • I just want to let you know, to let you know you ain't all that,
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  • But i got something going on myself.
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  • You're not supposed to--i got something going on myself.
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  • You know the bible says people pray in public because they want
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  • To be seen.
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  • Well, did you pray this morning?
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  • Did you?
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  • Why do you need to know that?
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  • Well, did you pray this morning?
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  • Nunya.
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  • What's that mean?
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  • None of your business.
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  • Stop it.
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  • We gotta stop this.
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  • We're playing these fantasy church games.
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  • You just gotta be tired of it.
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  • There's so much phoniness in the body of christ.
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  • You just--it's like these people are weird.
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  • They're weird people.
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  • I don't wanna be around these weird people.
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  • Hey, how you doing?
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  • This is the day the lord hath made [speaking in tongues]
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  • God dawg, i just said, hey.
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  • What is wrong with the church?
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  • A bunch of weirdos going around quoting scriptures like--and
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  • People are looking at you, you are weird.
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  • No, i'm a witness for the lord.
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  • The lord was nothing like that.
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  • When jesus walked on this earth, he walked and told jokes and had
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  • A good time and had a sense of humor and danced at parties.
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  • Don't take that too far.
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  • It was a wedding that he turned water into wine.
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  • Well, did he drink some of the wine?
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  • Ask him yourself.
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  • You know him, don't you?
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  • You pray, don't you?
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  • Ask him yourself, jesus, did you drink some of that wine when you
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  • Turned in that wine that day?
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  • I wanna know.
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  • Number two, the second reason why i think that righteousness
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  • Is important to understand is so you can deal with that
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  • Feeling of never being quite enough.
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  • I'm the righteousness of god.
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  • You deal with that inferior--inferiority, that
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  • Inferiority complex.
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  • When the bible says "we all have sinned and come short of the
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  • Glory of god," coming short is inferiority.
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  • It's the feeling of never being enough, it's the feeling of
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  • Always coming short and when you understand your righteousness
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  • You deal with those feelings of never being quite good enough,
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  • Never feeling like you're quite good enough to be a father,
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  • Quite good enough to be a wife or a husband, not quite good
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  • Enough to be whatever it is you're doing.
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  • You're always questioning that but the foundation of
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  • 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, it's the--
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  • There seems to always be something
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  • Lacking before god could be satisfied with me.
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  • What's lacking?
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  • Why is god not satisfied with me?
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  • You don't think you're righteous, so something's
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  • Always lacking.
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  • Understanding righteousness will get you out of that.
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  • Something's always lacking because of this--the stronghold
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  • In your mind that somehow you feel nothing's ever good enough
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  • For god.
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  • I'm never good enough for god, but basically the same thing.
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  • It's important to understand righteousness because it's hard
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  • To live under pressure to perform in order to be accepted
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  • And when you understand you're the righteous of god, you deal
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  • With that pressure to perform in order to be accepted, in order
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  • To be loved, in order to be blessed, in order to be used
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  • By god.
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  • You have an approval addiction that runs from human beings all
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  • The way up to the throne of god and you're trying to gain the
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  • Approval of someone who's already given you his approval.
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  • He called you his beloved, and when you don't understand
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  • Righteousness, you will continue to try to gain acceptance and
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  • Approval from others, and that's why some of you have to be
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  • Careful about social media because you say it doesn't
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  • Bother you, but boy when you post something and you got a
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  • Thousand people liking it and two of them say you look like a
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  • China cabinet, then i'm telling you--
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  • I honestly don't know where that came from.
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  • Oh, i know where it came from.
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  • We went to a football game and you know how they show the
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  • Little pictures of all the people on the camera just go
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  • From place to place, and they showed a picture of this woman
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  • And there were two guys behind us.
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  • I think they were kind of little tipsy and he turned to him and
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  • Said, "she looks like a china cabinet."
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  • I never quite heard a person described as a piece of
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  • Furniture before.
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  • You know, i even have people who are so spiritually deep, they
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  • Have problems with laughter in church and god doesn't have
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  • Problems with laughter and i had a lady got mad at me one time.
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  • She said, "i used to be your partner, but all that laughing,
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  • I just can't handle that, this is serious."
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  • You know, when you completely depend on god, it's not
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  • That serious.
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  • It's only serious when you're trying to do it yourself.
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  • It's only serious when you keep reverting back to you know,
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  • Self-preservation but when you finally get to a point where i
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  • Depend on god, i trust god, he's going to take care of me.
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  • You enter into a place of peace, you enter into a place of joy,
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  • You enter--the bible talks about--this is how god dealt
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  • With the devil.
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  • He laughed at him, and that's what you got to learn to do.
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  • When crazy stuff going on and sometimes you have crazy days,
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  • You might need to just pause, sing a favorite song and do
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  • A laugh.
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  • Somebody say what if it ain't funny?
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  • It ain't got to be funny to laugh.
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  • Ha, ha, ha, he, he, he, he.
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  • I had a mindset of conditional love.
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  • I grew up in a traditional setting where it was conditional
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  • Love, that god would love me if i through my performance
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  • Demonstrated that i loved him 'cause i couldn't believe i was
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  • The righteousness of god without doing right and i was
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  • Completely wrong.
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  • His love is unconditional.
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  • The fear and the pressure disappeared when i begin to
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  • Recognize that i am the righteousness of god.
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  • Are you all hearing what i'm saying here?
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  • I am the righteousness of god, and then when i got to a point
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  • Where i began to understand god and start trusting
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  • God's righteousness.
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  • Start trusting god's unearned favor and his unconditional love
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  • With no restraints.
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  • It plays a major role in your transformation.
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  • Dude, i am--i'm good.
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  • I'm so free.
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  • The greatest deliverance is deliverance from people and
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  • You--because you know god.
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  • Because you spend time with him.
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  • It's not a segregated time in the day where you say i prayed
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  • For two hours in my closet.
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  • I mean, hooray!
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  • I've been talking to god all day, so what's up?
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  • And that's what we got to move, we got to move from the
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  • Traditional segregation of worship with god, and it's got
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  • To become a life living with him and until this becomes a life,
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  • It'll never become a reality, and it's not real with a lot of
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  • People because you only do it at church and then you put a time
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  • Limit on how long you do it at church and you're not living.
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  • You start growing from your living, the things that happen
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  • Throughout the day, when it's good, thank you jesus.
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  • When it's bad, help me lord.
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  • When you don't know what to do, give me wisdom.
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  • When you feel like you're about to allow your emotions to take
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  • Over, oh god, keep me, hold me, oh lord, let that patience in me
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  • Just begin to flow out of me.
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  • That's how you start growing.
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  • I was thinking about this the other day, the way you start
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  • Growing, somebody says do we have to always go through some
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  • Trouble in order to grow?
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  • I asked the lord that i said do we have to go to--do we have to
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  • Just go through hell in order to grow?
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  • He said, no, just take advantage of all of the challenges that
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  • Meet you every day.
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  • Every challenge that meets you.
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  • Now, will there be some discomfort?
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  • Well yeah, of course, "they that live godly shall suffer
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  • Persecution," but use all of those small everyday stuff
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  • To grow.
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  • Stuff that happens, somebody says something ugly to you and
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  • You said, praise the lord.
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  • You know, and then you had to work on getting your emotions
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  • Under control.
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  • Boy, i remember five years ago i'd have bloodied your nose.
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  • Yeah, but it ain't five years ago.
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  • God's working on you.
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  • Or when you got bad news, those are opportunities to grow.
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  • Or when you had to be patient with, you know, service when you
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  • Went out to eat dinner, opportunity to grow.
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  • Or when you were going to give her--give them a tip.
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  • You didn't go back to talking about, well, you don't get no
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  • Tip because i mean you sound like the law.
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  • You don't get no tip because you didn't do good, so you ain't
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  • Going to get good.
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  • You did bad, so you're going to get bad and she got two kids,
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  • And she has to live off those tips and so that's an
  • 00:13:56.682 --> 00:13:59.585
  • Opportunity for you to show mercy.
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  • So i mean, excuse me, but--and i do care what we do here at
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  • Church, but i'm a lot more concerned about after the
  • 00:14:10.162 --> 00:14:13.399
  • Benediction, what?
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  • It's after the benediction that counts, guys, it's not, oh i
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  • Went to church.
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  • You ain't doing nothing but sitting down and listening and i
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  • Ain't doing nothing but standing up and talking.
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  • We can't worship god, you sit and listening and i'm talking.
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  • The worship starts after the benediction.
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  • Lord, what do you want me to do?
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  • What do you wanna do through me?
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  • What do you wanna say through me?
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  • How do i grow in this situation?
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  • Don't nobody want to hear that.
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  • We want this lollipop, blow pop christianity.
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  • Well we ain't got to do nothing and it ain't like you're doing
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  • Nothing but practicing the grace of god and practicing completely
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  • Dependent on god.
  • 00:14:51.770 --> 00:14:54.239
  • Folks, some folks don't want no better in their life.
  • 00:14:54.239 --> 00:14:57.676
  • "i don't want to listen to this.
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  • I ain't got time for this.
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  • This ain't putting no money in my pocket," see that's
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  • Your problem.
  • 00:15:06.986 --> 00:15:08.354
  • That demon called mammon has gotten hold of your life and
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  • Nothing moves you but money and the devil can use that to
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  • Kill you.
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  • This whole nation is governed by mammon.
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  • You have to pay thousands of dollars to get medication to
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  • Stay alive.
  • 00:15:30.743 --> 00:15:34.713
  • Ain't nobody feeling sorry for you?
  • 00:15:34.713 --> 00:15:36.081
  • Yeah, but they're gonna die tomorrow.
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  • Sorry ma'am, you know, we need the $10,000 in order to get
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  • His medication.
  • 00:15:39.985 --> 00:15:41.320
  • What?
  • 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:43.322
  • Understanding righteousness, secondly causes us to reign
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  • In life.
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  • Look at romans 5:17 in the nlt.
  • 00:15:49.595 --> 00:15:53.232
  • Romans 5:17 in the nlt.
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  • You can rule and reign in life when you begin to
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  • Understand righteousness.
  • 00:16:01.540 --> 00:16:04.009
  • Watch this, he says, "for the sin of this one man, adam,
  • 00:16:04.009 --> 00:16:09.214
  • Caused death to rule over many.
  • 00:16:09.214 --> 00:16:13.619
  • But even greater is god's wonderful grace and his gift of
  • 00:16:13.619 --> 00:16:19.124
  • Righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph
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  • Over sin and death through this one man, jesus christ."
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  • How many of you are ready to rule and reign in life?
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  • Yeah, see, this is a relationship.
  • 00:16:36.075 --> 00:16:40.045
  • Christianity is a relationship.
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  • It's not a game, it's a relationship.
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  • It's a relationship with the christ, it's a relationship
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  • With jesus.
  • 00:16:48.587 --> 00:16:49.955
  • It's not a religion thing that you can check off and say i went
  • 00:16:49.955 --> 00:16:52.524
  • To church today, i did good so god can do good to me.
  • 00:16:52.524 --> 00:16:55.627
  • It's a relationship.
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  • He wants to know you.
  • 00:16:56.995 --> 00:16:58.564
  • You should get to know him.
  • 00:16:58.564 --> 00:17:00.199
  • It's a relationship.
  • 00:17:00.199 --> 00:17:01.533
  • It doesn't work like he said if--without relationship.
  • 00:17:01.533 --> 00:17:05.304
  • The new testament requires a relationship.
  • 00:17:05.304 --> 00:17:10.142
  • That means you got to know him for real.
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  • That means you got to put your sage away and your
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  • Crystals away.
  • 00:17:17.282 --> 00:17:18.617
  • This ain't what this is.
  • 00:17:18.617 --> 00:17:23.388
  • It ain't palm reading, it ain't crystals, it ain't smoke in
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  • The air.
  • 00:17:25.991 --> 00:17:27.359
  • This is so much greater.
  • 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:28.927
  • It's the one who made the crystals, the one who
  • 00:17:28.927 --> 00:17:31.430
  • Manufactured the smoke.
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  • It is jesus christ, the son of the living god.
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  • Thirdly, understanding righteousness causes us
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  • To mature.
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  • Hebrews 5 turn there verses 12 to 13.
  • 00:17:56.555 --> 00:18:00.993
  • In hebrews 5 we see the context as being mature in understanding
  • 00:18:00.993 --> 00:18:05.364
  • The gospel of grace, but what brings maturity?
  • 00:18:05.364 --> 00:18:10.736
  • The word of righteousness does.
  • 00:18:10.736 --> 00:18:13.672
  • That's something, the word of righteousness, and you can see
  • 00:18:13.672 --> 00:18:16.475
  • How, maintaining your maturity regardless of what's going on.
  • 00:18:16.475 --> 00:18:20.646
  • Look at what he says here.
  • 00:18:20.646 --> 00:18:23.782
  • Let's read it in king james.
  • 00:18:23.782 --> 00:18:26.084
  • Matthew--hebrews 5:12-13.
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  • "for when, for the time you ought to be teachers.
  • 00:18:29.855 --> 00:18:34.993
  • You have needs that one teach you again.
  • 00:18:34.993 --> 00:18:38.130
  • Which be the first principles of the oracles of god and are
  • 00:18:38.130 --> 00:18:44.269
  • Become such as have need of milk, and not a strong meat."
  • 00:18:44.269 --> 00:18:51.376
  • So the question, how many christians are still on milk?
  • 00:18:51.376 --> 00:18:58.217
  • And how long will we be on milk?
  • 00:18:58.217 --> 00:19:03.055
  • "for everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of
  • 00:19:03.055 --> 00:19:09.161
  • Righteousness, for he is a babe."
  • 00:19:09.161 --> 00:19:12.431
  • Yeah, but i've been born again, saved for 25 years and still
  • 00:19:15.934 --> 00:19:20.639
  • Unskillful in the word of righteousness.
  • 00:19:20.639 --> 00:19:22.808
  • He says you're a babe.
  • 00:19:22.808 --> 00:19:25.077
  • Boo boo pamper baby, you're a babe.
  • 00:19:25.077 --> 00:19:29.348
  • 'cause you're unskillful in the word of righteousness, and the
  • 00:19:29.348 --> 00:19:33.285
  • Enemy can just come in, play with your emotions, and you'll
  • 00:19:33.285 --> 00:19:37.289
  • Allow your emotional behavior to put a crack in your foundation
  • 00:19:37.289 --> 00:19:42.261
  • Of righteousness, 'cause you're still unskillful in it.
  • 00:19:42.261 --> 00:19:47.599
  • You're still trynna operate in dead works, and dead works are
  • 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:52.504
  • Me trying to do something to deserve something from god.
  • 00:19:52.504 --> 00:20:00.712
  • Boy, this is gonna be one season boy 'cause i'm gonna preach it
  • 00:20:00.712 --> 00:20:07.252
  • As hard as i can and you will not be able to go to heaven and
  • 00:20:07.252 --> 00:20:14.926
  • God say, "did you ever become skillful in the word
  • 00:20:14.926 --> 00:20:20.899
  • Of righteousness?"
  • 00:20:20.899 --> 00:20:22.334
  • "no, jesus, my church didn't preach that."
  • 00:20:22.334 --> 00:20:26.471
  • And jesus is gonna say, "world changers?"
  • 00:20:26.471 --> 00:20:33.578
  • He said, "yeah, they didn't teach that," and then i'm will
  • 00:20:33.578 --> 00:20:38.083
  • Be right behind the throne, stick my head out,
  • 00:20:38.083 --> 00:20:39.751
  • "you is a liar."
  • 00:20:39.751 --> 00:20:41.553
  • We don't think about that.
  • 00:20:44.022 --> 00:20:45.691
  • We think the most insignificant thing you can do throughout your
  • 00:20:45.691 --> 00:20:48.794
  • Week is come to church and hear a sermon and when you get to
  • 00:20:48.794 --> 00:20:52.898
  • Heaven, you're going to find out that it was the most important
  • 00:20:52.898 --> 00:20:56.301
  • Thing you could have done because faith cometh by hearing.
  • 00:20:56.301 --> 00:21:02.674
  • And we could just--and then jesus goes, you mean to tell me
  • 00:21:02.674 --> 00:21:05.277
  • You couldn't hear?
  • 00:21:05.277 --> 00:21:10.115
  • Say, no lord, i went to world changers.
  • 00:21:10.115 --> 00:21:13.385
  • He will say michael, pull the record.
  • 00:21:13.385 --> 00:21:16.988
  • They look at the record.
  • 00:21:16.988 --> 00:21:19.224
  • Man, you only went to church on easter?
  • 00:21:19.224 --> 00:21:28.066
  • He said, well, come on i'm gonna have to--you're gonna have to go
  • 00:21:32.304 --> 00:21:35.440
  • To the one-on-one class and catch up.
  • 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:40.612
  • You did make me your lord and savior.
  • 00:21:40.612 --> 00:21:43.415
  • I did receive you.
  • 00:21:43.415 --> 00:21:45.484
  • That's all you need to do to get in, but remember the purpose for
  • 00:21:45.484 --> 00:21:48.286
  • It was for you to mature.
  • 00:21:48.286 --> 00:21:50.355
  • The idea was for you to mature so that the fruit of my spirit
  • 00:21:50.355 --> 00:21:54.526
  • Will flow out of you into somebody else's life.
  • 00:21:54.526 --> 00:21:58.096
  • Male announcer: do you know who you are?
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