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Creflo Dollar - The Magnificent Gift of Righteousness

December 23, 2025 | 27:32

Creflo Dollar - The Magnificent Gift of Righteousness
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Magnificent Gift of Righteousness | December 23, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: the day you made jesus the lord of your life,
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  • Heaven said, "you're righteous."
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  • Before you could do any goody goody thing, heaven said,
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  • "you're righteous."
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  • You know that's hard for church people to believe right now
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  • Because we've been trained in religion.
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  • We've been trained, you've got to sweat like a sinner in order
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  • To be right with god.
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  • "i don't know if i'm okay with god, so i got to do one, two,
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  • Three, four, five things in order to do it."
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  • He says, "but god will impute, or charge, or credit to your
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  • Account righteousness without works."
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  • Creflo: hello, i'm creflo dollar, and welcome to
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  • Today's broadcast.
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  • Glory be to god, man.
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  • Are you ready for christmas?
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  • I am, and today we're going to talk about how grace always
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  • Chooses the unlikely.
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  • Now, if you've ever felt overlooked, unqualified, or not
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  • Enough, listen to me very, very carefully.
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  • You are exactly the person grace is looking for.
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  • Luke chapter 1, verse 28 says this: "and the angel came in
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  • Unto her, and said, hail, thou that art highly favored, the
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  • Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women."
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  • Now wait a minute, mary wasn't royalty.
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  • Mary wasn't famous.
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  • Mary wasn't the wealthiest in town.
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  • She was a teenage girl living in an ordinary place, doing
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  • Ordinary things, but grace showed up and called her
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  • Highly favored.
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  • That's what grace does, man.
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  • Grace does not look for the qualified.
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  • Grace qualifies the called.
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  • Mary didn't earn it.
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  • She didn't deserve it.
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  • Grace picked her.
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  • The angel said, "you are highly favored," and i love that.
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  • You know, that word favored, it means you have been given
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  • Grace, and in the greek it means to be freely given grace.
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  • You got it for free.
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  • You didn't earn it.
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  • So, mary is a picture for all of us.
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  • God is saying to you, "you are highly favored not because of
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  • Your works, not because of your resume, not because of how
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  • Perfect your life looks, you are highly favored for one reason
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  • And one reason only: because of jesus."
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  • Now think about this, mary asks, "how shall this be, seeing i
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  • Know not a man?"
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  • In other words, she's saying, "i don't have what it takes.
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  • I don't meet the qualifications."
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  • But the angel replied, "the holy ghost shall come upon thee, and
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  • The power of the highest shall overshadow thee."
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  • Did you hear that?
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  • Grace doesn't need your ability.
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  • It only needs your availability.
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  • The same grace that chose mary is the same grace that chooses
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  • You today.
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  • And when you feel weak, grace says, "my strength is made
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  • Perfect in your weakness."
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  • Now watch this, mary didn't argue with grace.
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  • She didn't say, "no, it's impossible."
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  • She said, "be it unto me according to thy word."
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  • That's the secret, agreement activates grace.
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  • And when you stop fighting it, stop disqualifying yourself and
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  • Start agreeing with what god says about you, then grace goes
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  • To work.
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  • I don't care if people wrote you off.
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  • God hasn't written you--god has written you in, not--you know,
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  • People will write you off, but god will write you in, that's
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  • What i'm trying to say.
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  • Now, i don't care if your past says you can't, grace says
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  • You will.
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  • All you have to say is, you know, be it unto me according to
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  • Your word.
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  • That's powerful.
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  • Be it unto me according to your word.
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  • And you know the word says a lot, be it unto me according to
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  • Your word.
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  • Now, what does this mean for you right now?
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  • Practically speaking, it means stop disqualifying yourself.
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  • Stop saying, "i can't do it because of my past.
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  • I can't do it because of where i come from.
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  • I can't do it because i don't have enough money or education."
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  • Grace is not looking at your background.
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  • Grace is looking at your yes.
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  • And here's the good news: when you say yes, grace will do the
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  • Heavy lifting.
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  • Grace will supply the power.
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  • Grace will make the impossible, possible.
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  • Just like mary, you'll find yourself carrying something
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  • Greater than you could ever imagine, all because grace
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  • Chose you.
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  • Now, in our confession, i want you to really mean this.
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  • I want you to to hear this loud and clear: you are
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  • Highly favored.
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  • Grace has chosen you.
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  • You don't have to qualify yourself.
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  • You don't have to clean yourself up to be chosen.
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  • Grace does the choosing and grace does the equipping.
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  • Now let's make this confession of faith together.
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  • Say it out loud and say it boldly with me right now.
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  • I am highly favored by god.
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  • Grace has chosen me not because of my works but because
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  • Of jesus.
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  • I don't have to qualify myself.
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  • Grace qualifies me.
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  • I say, be it unto me according to god's word.
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  • I am chosen, i am favored, and i am equipped by grace.
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  • Praise god.
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  • You know, you need to give god some praise, bro.
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  • I mean, i'm about ready to tear this set up.
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  • 'cause, you know, god is so good, and god has chosen you.
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  • Don't let that go.
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  • You're chosen by god.
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles this morning, go with me to the
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  • Book of 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21.
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  • And i want to take a few minutes and i want to talk about this
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  • Magnificent gift of righteousness.
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  • This magnificent gift of righteousness.
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  • One of the things i want us to understand is i try to, as much
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  • As possible, talk about the righteousness of god because it
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  • Is one of those things that people still struggle with as
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  • Far as receiving it, and walking in it, and understanding it.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21.
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  • He says, "for he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no
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  • Sin; that we might be made the righteousness of god in him."
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  • Some people say that you are righteous until you fail or
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  • Until you fall and that you can sin away this gift.
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  • That you can sin away or somehow get rid of this
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  • Marvelous gift of righteousness that has been given to us.
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  • I want you to think about something.
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  • When we were all sinners, we did righteous deeds.
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  • Righteous things we did.
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  • As a sinner before i got born again, i did some goody goody
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  • Deeds, man.
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  • And we all did some pretty good deeds and we were not even
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  • Born again.
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  • We did good deeds and we were still spiritually dead.
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  • But i was still a sinner.
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  • I was still spiritually dead.
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  • Doing the good deeds did not eradicate my spiritual deadness.
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  • And so we thought, "well, i won't get born again, but i'll
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  • Go to church at least twice a month.
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  • Well, i won't get born again, but you know, i'll feed
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  • The poor."
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  • And you're still spiritually dead.
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  • And the thing i want you to think about is that while we
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  • Were still sinners, i can't righteous
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  • Deed away my sinhood.
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  • In other words, my righteous deeds would not get rid of my
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  • Status as a sinner, and we all know this.
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  • And somehow, when you begin to relate that to the gift of
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  • Righteousness, we throw all of that out of the building, the
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  • Fact that we have been made righteous.
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  • And when we got born again and when we were made righteous, how
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  • Many of you know you still sinned?
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  • Now that's the first time i did that with boldness, i said, you
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  • Know, you still sin.
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  • You know, i try to ease it in there and say, you know when you
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  • Were righteous, you know, you still wasn't perfect, or you
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  • Still made some mistakes.
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  • I try to say it in other ways and i'm asking the lord to work
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  • With me so i can be straight down the line.
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  • But since you've been born again, you still sin.
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  • Maybe not as bad as before because now that you're saved
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  • And god's been working on you and certain things you don't
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  • Do anymore, but you still operated in some level of sin.
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  • Somebody says, "well, i can't receive that."
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  • Well, let me ask you a question: are you perfect now?
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  • You're perfect in christ jesus, but you're not flawless as far
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  • As your humanity is concerned, 'cause you still act a little
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  • Crazy every now and then.
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  • You still treat people a little bad every now and then.
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  • You're still rude to the waitress that comes.
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  • You still got some issues in your life, but those issues will
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  • Not eradicate the gift of righteousness.
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  • See, look at y'all, you're kind of scared right now because
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  • Somehow religion has convinced you that now that you're born
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  • Again, you're flawless, and you know that ain't true.
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  • You know the day you got born again, you might have cussed two
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  • Or three people out that day.
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  • You try to forget that day, but you know that's not true.
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  • And then you hear the thing that says, you know, you're born
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  • Again, as if to say you're born again, you're supposed to
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  • Be flawless.
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  • It doesn't work like that.
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  • You got born again and you got on a journey.
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  • And on that journey, you started eradicating some bad behaviors,
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  • You start getting rid of some lust, you start getting rid of
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  • Some bad attitudes, and today on your journey,
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  • You're not what you used to be,
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  • You're not what you want to be, but the journey continues and
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  • You did not lose the gift of righteousness.
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  • Let me stay on that a little bit because some of y'all still, "i
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  • Just don't know."
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  • But all you got to do is ask yourself, "am i flawless?"
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  • And the answer to that is no, you are not flawless.
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  • For you to put sin in categories, big sin, little sin,
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  • And then you look at yourself, no sin.
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  • Bible didn't talk about big sin, little sin.
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  • It's sin is sin.
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  • But somehow religion says to us that once you got born again,
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  • There are no more flaws.
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  • Now that you're born again, you're better than what you used
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  • To be.
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  • Now that you're born again, there's just certain things
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  • You're not interested in doing anymore because the holy
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  • Spirit's been working on the inside of you.
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  • Now that you're born again, there's certain things you
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  • Refrain from doing.
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  • You're like, no, i don't want to do that no more because i'm not
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  • That same person.
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  • No, i don't want to say that no more.
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  • I'm not that same person.
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  • No, i don't want to hear that anymore.
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  • I'm not that same person.
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  • Yeah, now that you're born again, you're like, "wait a
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  • Minute, i'm gonna put some new boundaries up.
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  • There's a new season in my life, and that new season causes me
  • 00:13:36.262 --> 00:13:40.366
  • To, i mean, i got put some new boundaries up.
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  • There's certain things i don't want to do no more.
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  • There's certain places i don't want to go no more.
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  • There's certain--" and with all of your effort to try to build
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  • Those boundaries up to honor god as a christian that's born
  • 00:13:50.509 --> 00:13:54.513
  • Again, somehow you still, maybe months go by, years go by, but
  • 00:13:54.513 --> 00:13:59.585
  • On this journey, you still may fall.
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  • But does that mean you lost the magnificent gift
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  • Of righteousness?
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  • You fail righteous.
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  • You got up righteous.
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  • You're gonna die righteous.
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  • You're going to heaven righteous because this righteousness is
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  • Not based on you.
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  • You are righteous in him.
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  • Well, why are we righteous in god--god's eye?
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  • Why are we righteous in god's eye?
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  • Is it because we do right?
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  • Why are we righteous in god's eye?
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  • That's just as bad as the other i just explained.
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  • Do we think we're righteous because we do right?
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  • No, we're not righteous in god's eye because we do right.
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  • So that's gonna take care of all of the plans you're making.
  • 00:14:57.142 --> 00:15:00.179
  • "well, you know what, in order for me to be the righteousness
  • 00:15:00.179 --> 00:15:02.247
  • Of god, i gotta do right."
  • 00:15:02.247 --> 00:15:04.016
  • No, the doing right will come first--will come afterwards, but
  • 00:15:04.016 --> 00:15:07.152
  • What you got to get a hold of us first is that i am not righteous
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  • Because i do right.
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  • I am righteous because of jesus.
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  • Take jesus out of the situation and you can do right all day
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  • Long, but you're just doing right spiritually dead.
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  • But now that you're born again, you are doing right in jesus.
  • 00:15:22.634 --> 00:15:26.305
  • Your righteousness is because of jesus.
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  • I am righteous because of jesus.
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  • I didn't become righteous.
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  • He made me righteous.
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  • The day i got born again, i have been made the righteousness
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  • Of god.
  • 00:15:36.582 --> 00:15:37.916
  • And so you keep focusing more on doing right instead of being who
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  • He says you are.
  • 00:15:41.754 --> 00:15:43.088
  • And the day you believe you're righteous, then you're gonna
  • 00:15:43.088 --> 00:15:45.557
  • Start doing right because your new identity will just not
  • 00:15:45.557 --> 00:15:50.262
  • Continue to put up with certain things you do, but you keep
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  • Allowing your behavior to determine who you are and you
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  • Are who jesus says you are.
  • 00:15:58.337 --> 00:16:00.439
  • And jesus says, now that you're born again, you are the
  • 00:16:00.439 --> 00:16:03.375
  • Righteousness of god and the day you believe that, you're gonna
  • 00:16:03.375 --> 00:16:06.478
  • Start doing right.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians 5:21, our text, he says, "for he hath made
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  • Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin," jesus was made to be
  • 00:16:20.325 --> 00:16:30.269
  • Sin in our place.
  • 00:16:30.269 --> 00:16:33.939
  • Now, we know lots of sin.
  • 00:16:33.939 --> 00:16:36.208
  • He knew no sin and he was made to be sin for us.
  • 00:16:36.208 --> 00:16:43.615
  • And jesus knew no sin.
  • 00:16:43.615 --> 00:16:47.319
  • Why would he do that?
  • 00:16:47.319 --> 00:16:49.254
  • That we might be, watch this, made just like he was made a
  • 00:16:49.254 --> 00:16:54.326
  • Sinner or made sin and had never sinned.
  • 00:16:54.326 --> 00:16:57.963
  • We were made righteous without ever doing right.
  • 00:16:57.963 --> 00:17:02.367
  • Wow.
  • 00:17:02.367 --> 00:17:04.403
  • He was made sin and never sinned
  • 00:17:04.403 --> 00:17:08.140
  • So we could be made righteous
  • 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:11.143
  • Without knowing how to walk in that kind of righteousness.
  • 00:17:11.143 --> 00:17:15.581
  • The issue's got to be greater than our doctrine.
  • 00:17:15.581 --> 00:17:21.887
  • The issue has got to be about a personal relationship with jesus
  • 00:17:21.887 --> 00:17:27.526
  • Christ, not fussing about what that person said, and i agree
  • 00:17:27.526 --> 00:17:31.063
  • With this and i agree with that.
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  • The real issue at the end of the day when you finish fussing and
  • 00:17:32.431 --> 00:17:34.500
  • Fighting and arguing, the real issue is do you have a personal
  • 00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:38.971
  • Relationship with jesus?
  • 00:17:38.971 --> 00:17:42.841
  • That's the real issue.
  • 00:17:42.841 --> 00:17:44.176
  • Because what good does it do for you to be expert theologians and
  • 00:17:44.176 --> 00:17:50.282
  • Rightly dividing the word with perfection, and you don't know
  • 00:17:50.282 --> 00:17:55.521
  • Jesus for yourself?
  • 00:17:55.521 --> 00:17:58.357
  • You don't know jesus, you don't walk in love.
  • 00:17:58.357 --> 00:18:01.193
  • You got a hard time forgiving everybody for all that kind
  • 00:18:01.193 --> 00:18:04.096
  • Of stuff.
  • 00:18:04.096 --> 00:18:05.464
  • You have no relationship with jesus.
  • 00:18:05.464 --> 00:18:06.798
  • This whole deal is based on our relationship with jesus.
  • 00:18:06.798 --> 00:18:10.335
  • We're here celebrating this morning because we have a
  • 00:18:10.335 --> 00:18:13.205
  • Relationship with jesus christ.
  • 00:18:13.205 --> 00:18:15.073
  • Now you might not be exactly what you want to be, but keep
  • 00:18:15.073 --> 00:18:19.144
  • That relationship with jesus.
  • 00:18:19.144 --> 00:18:20.479
  • Hang on with that relationship with jesus.
  • 00:18:20.479 --> 00:18:22.147
  • I mean as crazy as you might be sometimes, bring the lord up in
  • 00:18:22.147 --> 00:18:26.084
  • That conversation.
  • 00:18:26.084 --> 00:18:27.452
  • Lord, i know i don't deserve it, but i need you to help me
  • 00:18:27.452 --> 00:18:30.289
  • Right now.
  • 00:18:30.289 --> 00:18:31.657
  • You have a relationship with jesus.
  • 00:18:31.657 --> 00:18:35.627
  • Now, surely a lot of times people immediately think, "oh,
  • 00:18:35.627 --> 00:18:38.197
  • He's just giving people a license to sin.
  • 00:18:38.197 --> 00:18:40.599
  • Oh, he's just making, making sin not to be this little
  • 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.635
  • Small matter."
  • 00:18:43.635 --> 00:18:44.970
  • No, there are consequences for your sinning.
  • 00:18:44.970 --> 00:18:46.905
  • You wanna go and cheat on your wife, you get back home that
  • 00:18:46.905 --> 00:18:49.741
  • Night, she got a shotgun because she found out about it.
  • 00:18:49.741 --> 00:18:52.377
  • There are consequences for sinning.
  • 00:18:52.377 --> 00:18:54.580
  • Ain't nobody trying to make light of sin.
  • 00:18:54.580 --> 00:18:56.582
  • I'm just trying to make jesus greater than your sin.
  • 00:18:56.582 --> 00:18:59.218
  • I'm trying to make righteousness greater than your sin.
  • 00:18:59.218 --> 00:19:02.387
  • And besides, i'm tired of arguing and debating with people
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  • Over theology.
  • 00:19:10.596 --> 00:19:13.232
  • "well, you know, i got a problem with what you said about
  • 00:19:13.232 --> 00:19:17.169
  • 2 corinthians."
  • 00:19:17.169 --> 00:19:18.570
  • Okay, dude, that is your prerogative.
  • 00:19:18.570 --> 00:19:20.505
  • You have a right to do that.
  • 00:19:20.505 --> 00:19:22.007
  • Now let me ask you something: do you have a relationship
  • 00:19:22.007 --> 00:19:23.976
  • With jesus?
  • 00:19:23.976 --> 00:19:26.678
  • "i know him."
  • 00:19:26.678 --> 00:19:28.013
  • How well do you know him?
  • 00:19:28.013 --> 00:19:31.250
  • Do you have a relationship with jesus?
  • 00:19:31.250 --> 00:19:32.584
  • Because at the end of the day, your expert theology without an
  • 00:19:32.584 --> 00:19:39.024
  • Intimate relationship with jesus--
  • 00:19:39.024 --> 00:19:43.829
  • Are you follow what i'm saying?
  • 00:19:43.829 --> 00:19:47.299
  • You need to know you know him.
  • 00:19:47.299 --> 00:19:50.168
  • Now you don't need to think you know him, you need to know you
  • 00:19:50.168 --> 00:19:52.704
  • Know him.
  • 00:19:52.704 --> 00:19:54.206
  • I mean, it's crazy.
  • 00:19:54.206 --> 00:19:55.574
  • You got to pray before you go to the grocery store 'cause some
  • 00:19:55.574 --> 00:19:58.277
  • Demon-possessed person might be in the cereal isle with a gun,
  • 00:19:58.277 --> 00:20:01.947
  • Mad at somebody, and all you wanted was some butter.
  • 00:20:01.947 --> 00:20:05.951
  • You got to know you know jesus.
  • 00:20:05.951 --> 00:20:10.455
  • You in your car and you honestly pulled out.
  • 00:20:10.455 --> 00:20:13.225
  • You didn't see the other car.
  • 00:20:13.225 --> 00:20:14.860
  • You didn't do nothing on purpose, but they upset.
  • 00:20:14.860 --> 00:20:17.663
  • They mad, they mad at their self.
  • 00:20:17.663 --> 00:20:19.398
  • They treat themselves bad and all of a sudden they want to
  • 00:20:19.398 --> 00:20:22.000
  • Take all their issues for the week out on you.
  • 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.837
  • You better know that you know jesus.
  • 00:20:25.837 --> 00:20:31.543
  • And we are here celebrating jesus who showed up as a gift to
  • 00:20:31.543 --> 00:20:37.382
  • Give gifts unto men, and he gave us this magnificent gift
  • 00:20:37.382 --> 00:20:42.587
  • Of righteousness.
  • 00:20:42.587 --> 00:20:44.256
  • Now, look at romans chapter 4, verse 6 through 8.
  • 00:20:47.592 --> 00:20:52.230
  • Oh, you're talking about.
  • 00:20:52.230 --> 00:20:54.800
  • You're talking about, oh.
  • 00:20:54.800 --> 00:20:59.971
  • There's not even a word for what we're getting ready to read.
  • 00:20:59.971 --> 00:21:02.274
  • I mean, jesus became sin, which means they treated jesus like
  • 00:21:05.811 --> 00:21:10.415
  • The world's worst sinner.
  • 00:21:10.415 --> 00:21:11.817
  • Jesus was treated as the world's worst sinner, went to hell for
  • 00:21:14.953 --> 00:21:18.256
  • Us, who had never sinned, so that heaven can treat us like
  • 00:21:18.256 --> 00:21:25.230
  • The best righteousness ever.
  • 00:21:25.230 --> 00:21:30.836
  • And somebody said, "well, i don't believe in jesus."
  • 00:21:30.836 --> 00:21:33.071
  • There's gonna be a lot of anti-christ attitudes that rise
  • 00:21:33.071 --> 00:21:37.776
  • Up like you ain't never seen before.
  • 00:21:37.776 --> 00:21:40.879
  • They're gonna treat jesus like he stole something and you're
  • 00:21:40.879 --> 00:21:45.384
  • Going to have to know in whom you believe in.
  • 00:21:45.384 --> 00:21:49.855
  • Will you be quickly talked out of jesus?
  • 00:21:49.855 --> 00:21:53.291
  • Not if you have a relationship with him.
  • 00:21:53.291 --> 00:21:55.594
  • 'cause when you have a relationship with him, you will
  • 00:21:55.594 --> 00:21:57.696
  • Have a flashback at a time where you were deep in a ditch, and
  • 00:21:57.696 --> 00:22:02.901
  • You know nobody could have got you out that ditch but jesus.
  • 00:22:02.901 --> 00:22:08.507
  • And i'm telling you, you need to know that you know him.
  • 00:22:08.507 --> 00:22:11.643
  • David is reflecting on this new covenant that was to come.
  • 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:20.452
  • And in verse 8--verse 6, he says, "even as david also
  • 00:22:20.452 --> 00:22:24.656
  • Described the blessedness of the man, unto whom god imputeth
  • 00:22:24.656 --> 00:22:33.665
  • Righteousness without works."
  • 00:22:33.665 --> 00:22:37.803
  • Now, look at this now.
  • 00:22:37.803 --> 00:22:40.972
  • David is describing what this must look like.
  • 00:22:40.972 --> 00:22:44.743
  • "the blessedness of a man unto whom god imputeth."
  • 00:22:44.743 --> 00:22:48.847
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  • 00:22:48.847 --> 00:22:51.383
  • It means to credit or to charge to your account.
  • 00:22:51.383 --> 00:22:59.157
  • To credit something to your account or to charge something
  • 00:22:59.157 --> 00:23:03.261
  • To your account.
  • 00:23:03.261 --> 00:23:05.864
  • And the scripture says, "unto whom god imputeth, or charges,
  • 00:23:05.864 --> 00:23:12.771
  • Or credits righteousness to those of you who are born again
  • 00:23:12.771 --> 00:23:19.177
  • Without any works" to qualify the righteousness.
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me.
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  • 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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