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Creflo Dollar - The Magnificent Gift Of Rightousness (Part 1)

December 24, 2024 | S

Creflo Dollar - The Magnificent Gift Of Rightousness (Part 1)
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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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  • 'cause we've been trained in religion.
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  • We've been trained.
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  • You've got to sweat like a sinner in order to be right
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  • With god.
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  • "i don't know if i'm okay with god, so i gotta do
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  • One, two, 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: if you have your bibles this morning, go with me to the
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  • Book of 2 corinthians chapter 5, in verse 21.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5, in verse 21.
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  • And i wanna take a few minutes, and i wanna 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, in 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, that you can
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  • Sin away or somehow get rid of this marvelous gift of
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  • 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.
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  • 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 deed away
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • With boldness, i said, "you know you still sinned."
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  • You know, i try to ease it in there and say, "you know when
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  • You 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, maybe not
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  • As bad as before, because now that you're saved and god's been
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  • Working on you, and certain things you don't do anymore, but
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  • 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, you still treat people a little bad
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  • Every now and then, 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.
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  • You're kind of scared right now because somehow religion has
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  • Convinced you that now that you're born again, you're
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  • 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.
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  • You're supposed to 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.
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  • You start getting rid of some bad attitudes.
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  • And today on your journey, 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, 'cause some of y'all still,
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  • "well, i just don't know."
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  • But all you gotta 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
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  • Sin, and then you look at yourself, no sin.
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  • Bobby doesn'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
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  • Holy 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 wanna 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 wanna 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
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  • To--i mean, i gotta put some new boundaries up.
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  • I--there's certain things i don't want to do no more.
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  • There's certain places i don't wanna 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
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  • Again, somehow you still--maybe months go by or years go by, but
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  • 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, you got up righteous, you're gonna die
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  • Righteous, you're going to heaven righteous, because this
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  • Righteousness is not based on you.
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  • You are righteous in him.
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  • Well, why are we righteous in 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.
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  • "well, you know what?
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  • In order for me to be the righteousness of god, i gotta
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  • Do right."
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  • No, the doing right will come first--will come afterwards,
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  • But what you gotta get a hold of first is that "i am not
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  • Righteous because i do right.
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  • I am righteous because of jesus."
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  • Take jesus out 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.
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  • 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.
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  • And so you keep focusing more on doing right instead of being who
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  • He says you are.
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  • And the day you believe you're righteous, then you're gonna
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  • Start doing right because your new identity will just not
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  • Continue to put up with certain things you do.
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  • But you keep allowing your behavior to determine who you
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  • Are, and you are who jesus says you are, and jesus says, "now
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  • That you're born again, you are the righteousness of god."
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  • And the day you believe that, you gonna start doing right.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians 5:21, our text.
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  • He says, "for he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew
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  • No sin."
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  • Jesus was made to be sin in our place.
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  • Now, we know lots of sin.
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  • He knew no sin, and he was made to be sin for us, and jesus knew
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  • No sin.
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  • Why would he do that?
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  • That we might be, watch this: made--just like he was made a
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  • Sinner or made sin and had never sinned, we were made righteous
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  • Without ever doing right.
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  • Wow.
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  • He was made sin and never sinned, so we could be made
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  • Righteous without knowing how to walk in that kind
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  • Of righteousness.
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  • The issue's got to be greater than our doctrine.
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  • The issue has got to be about a personal relationship with jesus
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  • Christ, not fussing about what that person said, and "i agree
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  • With this," and "i agree with that."
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  • The real issue--at the end of the day, when you finish fussing
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  • And fighting and arguing, the real issue is, do you have a
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  • Personal relationship with jesus?
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  • That's the real issue, 'cause what good does it do for you to
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  • Be expert theologians and rightly dividing the word with
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  • Perfection and you don't know jesus for yourself?
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  • You don't know jesus.
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  • You don't walk in love.
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  • You got a hard time forgiving everybody for all that kind
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  • Of stuff.
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  • You have no relationship with jesus.
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  • This whole deal is based on our relationship with jesus.
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  • We're here celebrating this morning 'cause we have a
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  • Relationship with jesus christ.
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  • Now, you might not be exactly what you wanna be, but keep that
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  • Relationship with jesus.
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  • Hang on with that relationship with jesus.
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  • I mean, as crazy as you might be sometimes, bring the lord up in
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  • That conversation.
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  • "lord, i know i don't deserve it, but i need you to help me
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  • Right now."
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  • You have a relationship with jesus.
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  • Now, surely a lot of times people immediately think,
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  • "oh, he's just giving people a license to sin.
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  • Oh, he's just making sin not to be this little, small matter."
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  • No, there are consequences for you sinning.
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  • You wanna go and cheat on your wife, you get back home that
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  • Night, and she got a shotgun 'cause she found out about it?
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  • There are consequences for sinning.
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  • Ain't nobody trying to make light of sin.
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  • I'm just trying to make jesus greater than your sin.
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  • I'm trying to make righteousness greater than your sin.
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  • And besides, i'm tired of arguing and debating with people
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  • Over theology.
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  • "well, you know, i got a problem with what you said about
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  • 2 corinthians."
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  • Okay, dude.
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  • That is your prerogative.
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  • You have a right to do that.
  • 00:14:00.920 --> 00:14:02.288
  • Now, let me ask you something: do you have a relationship
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  • With jesus?
  • 00:14:03.756 --> 00:14:06.325
  • "i know him."
  • 00:14:06.325 --> 00:14:07.660
  • How well do you know him?
  • 00:14:07.660 --> 00:14:10.896
  • Do you have a relationship with jesus?
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  • 'cause at the end of the day, your expert theology without an
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus--
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  • Are you following what i'm saying?
  • 00:14:23.542 --> 00:14:26.946
  • You need to know you know him.
  • 00:14:26.946 --> 00:14:29.615
  • No, you don't need to think you know him.
  • 00:14:29.615 --> 00:14:31.383
  • You need to know you know him.
  • 00:14:31.383 --> 00:14:33.852
  • I mean, it's crazy.
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  • You got to pray before you go to the grocery store 'cause some
  • 00:14:35.187 --> 00:14:37.823
  • Demon-possessed person might be in the cereal isle with a gun
  • 00:14:37.823 --> 00:14:41.593
  • Mad at somebody, and you--all you wanted was some butter.
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  • You got to know you know jesus.
  • 00:14:45.497 --> 00:14:50.002
  • You in your car, and you honestly pulled out.
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  • You didn't see the other car.
  • 00:14:52.771 --> 00:14:54.473
  • You didn't do none on purpose, but they upset.
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  • They mad.
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  • They mad at they self.
  • 00:14:58.610 --> 00:14:59.945
  • They treat themselves bad, and all of a sudden, they wanna take
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  • All their issues for the week out on you.
  • 00:15:01.847 --> 00:15:05.284
  • You better know that you know jesus.
  • 00:15:05.284 --> 00:15:11.156
  • And we are here celebrating jesus, who showed up as a gift
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  • To give gifts unto men, and he gave us this magnificent gift
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  • Of righteousness.
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  • Now look at romans chapter 4, verse 6 through 8.
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  • Whew, you talking about--whew, there's not even a word for what
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  • We getting ready to read.
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  • I mean, jesus became sin, which means they treated jesus like
  • 00:15:45.457 --> 00:15:50.062
  • The world's worst sinner.
  • 00:15:50.062 --> 00:15:54.433
  • Jesus was treated as the world's worst sinner, went to hell for
  • 00:15:54.433 --> 00:15:58.070
  • Us, who had never sinned, so that heaven can treat us like
  • 00:15:58.070 --> 00:16:04.943
  • The best righteousness ever.
  • 00:16:04.943 --> 00:16:10.482
  • And somebody said, "well, i don't believe in jesus."
  • 00:16:10.482 --> 00:16:12.718
  • There's gonna be a lot of antichrist attitudes that
  • 00:16:12.718 --> 00:16:17.022
  • Arrives up like you ain't never seen before.
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  • They're gonna treat jesus like he stole something, and you're
  • 00:16:20.492 --> 00:16:24.997
  • Gonna have to know in whom you believe in.
  • 00:16:24.997 --> 00:16:29.334
  • Will you be quickly talked out of jesus?
  • 00:16:29.334 --> 00:16:32.871
  • Not if you have a relationship with him.
  • 00:16:32.871 --> 00:16:35.074
  • 'cause when you have a relationship with him, you will
  • 00:16:35.074 --> 00:16:37.309
  • Have a flashback at a time where you were deep in a ditch, and
  • 00:16:37.309 --> 00:16:42.548
  • You know nobody could have got you out that ditch but jesus.
  • 00:16:42.548 --> 00:16:48.153
  • And i'm telling you, you need to know that you know him.
  • 00:16:48.153 --> 00:16:54.293
  • David is reflecting on this new covenant that was to come, and
  • 00:16:54.293 --> 00:17:00.232
  • In verse 8--verse 6, he says, "even as david also described
  • 00:17:00.232 --> 00:17:05.537
  • The blessedness of the man, unto whom god imputeth righteousness
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  • Without works."
  • 00:17:14.313 --> 00:17:17.416
  • Now, look at this now.
  • 00:17:17.416 --> 00:17:20.452
  • David is describing what this must look like.
  • 00:17:20.452 --> 00:17:24.356
  • "the blessedness of the man, unto whom god imputeth."
  • 00:17:24.356 --> 00:17:28.427
  • That word impute, it means to credit or to charge to
  • 00:17:28.427 --> 00:17:36.535
  • Your account.
  • 00:17:36.535 --> 00:17:38.704
  • To credit something to your account or to charge something
  • 00:17:38.704 --> 00:17:42.875
  • To your account.
  • 00:17:42.875 --> 00:17:45.410
  • And the scripture says, "unto whom god imputeth," or charges
  • 00:17:45.410 --> 00:17:52.351
  • Or credits, "righteousness to those of you who are born again
  • 00:17:52.351 --> 00:17:58.624
  • Without any works to qualify the righteousness."
  • 00:17:58.624 --> 00:18:05.264
  • He's going to credit righteousness to your account
  • 00:18:05.264 --> 00:18:08.467
  • Just 'cause you said, "i believe."
  • 00:18:08.467 --> 00:18:10.035
  • Just 'cause you made him the lord of your life.
  • 00:18:10.035 --> 00:18:12.471
  • The day you made jesus the lord of your life, heaven said,
  • 00:18:12.471 --> 00:18:16.241
  • "you're righteous."
  • 00:18:16.241 --> 00:18:18.310
  • Before you could do any goody-goody thing, heaven said,
  • 00:18:18.310 --> 00:18:20.679
  • "you're righteous."
  • 00:18:20.679 --> 00:18:22.114
  • You know, that's hard for church people to believe right now,
  • 00:18:22.114 --> 00:18:24.383
  • 'cause we've been trained in religion.
  • 00:18:24.383 --> 00:18:26.418
  • We've been trained.
  • 00:18:26.418 --> 00:18:27.753
  • You've got to sweat like a sinner in order to be right
  • 00:18:27.753 --> 00:18:30.689
  • With god.
  • 00:18:30.689 --> 00:18:32.057
  • "i don't know if i'm okay with god, so i gotta do
  • 00:18:32.057 --> 00:18:33.926
  • One, two, three, four, five things in order to do that."
  • 00:18:33.926 --> 00:18:36.595
  • He says, "but god will impute," or charge or credit to your
  • 00:18:36.595 --> 00:18:41.767
  • Account, "righteousness without works."
  • 00:18:41.767 --> 00:18:46.438
  • Look at the next verse: "saying, blessed are they whose
  • 00:18:46.438 --> 00:18:51.743
  • Iniquities are forgiven," your iniquities are forgiven right
  • 00:18:51.743 --> 00:18:57.216
  • Now, "and whose sin," from david's eyes, "are covered."
  • 00:18:57.216 --> 00:19:04.256
  • Our sins are not covered, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:19:04.256 --> 00:19:06.491
  • Our sins have been completely wiped away.
  • 00:19:06.491 --> 00:19:11.330
  • Mm, you don't understand.
  • 00:19:11.330 --> 00:19:13.565
  • The blood of animal sacrifices covered sin back in the day.
  • 00:19:13.565 --> 00:19:19.004
  • But the blood of jesus doesn't cover sin.
  • 00:19:19.004 --> 00:19:22.674
  • It kicks sin out of its socket.
  • 00:19:22.674 --> 00:19:27.379
  • Y'all don't understand what i'm saying.
  • 00:19:27.379 --> 00:19:29.414
  • See, they had to go in with different animal sacrifices and
  • 00:19:29.414 --> 00:19:33.785
  • All offer the blood of the animal sacrifices just so their
  • 00:19:33.785 --> 00:19:36.622
  • Sins could be covered one year.
  • 00:19:36.622 --> 00:19:39.825
  • It would only be covered one year.
  • 00:19:39.825 --> 00:19:41.193
  • And they have to return every year because they could never
  • 00:19:41.193 --> 00:19:44.863
  • Get rid of sin.
  • 00:19:44.863 --> 00:19:46.665
  • So every--they could just cover it for a year.
  • 00:19:46.665 --> 00:19:48.900
  • Imagine how long it must have been if they just left the
  • 00:19:48.900 --> 00:19:52.004
  • Sacrifice and they just got their sins covered, and they had
  • 00:19:52.004 --> 00:19:55.073
  • An argument on the way home.
  • 00:19:55.073 --> 00:19:56.408
  • Got dog it, they gotta hold that for the next 12 months.
  • 00:19:56.408 --> 00:20:02.381
  • But you and i, who are born again, we are not under the
  • 00:20:02.381 --> 00:20:06.752
  • Blood of animals.
  • 00:20:06.752 --> 00:20:08.086
  • We are under the blood of jesus, and the blood of jesus did not
  • 00:20:08.086 --> 00:20:12.157
  • Cover your sin.
  • 00:20:12.157 --> 00:20:13.525
  • The blood of jesus kicked your sin clean out of socket,
  • 00:20:13.525 --> 00:20:16.828
  • Praise god.
  • 00:20:16.828 --> 00:20:21.333
  • "saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and
  • 00:20:21.333 --> 00:20:25.170
  • Whose sins are covered."
  • 00:20:25.170 --> 00:20:26.938
  • Verse 8, "blessed," now, this is heavy, "is the man--" oh, boy.
  • 00:20:26.938 --> 00:20:34.813
  • Here we go.
  • 00:20:34.813 --> 00:20:36.181
  • "blessed is the man to whom the lord will not."
  • 00:20:36.181 --> 00:20:43.655
  • He will not charge-- gosh almighty--
  • 00:20:43.655 --> 00:20:49.961
  • Sin to the account of the righteous.
  • 00:20:49.961 --> 00:20:56.034
  • Yeah, y'all can't--you can't handle that.
  • 00:20:56.034 --> 00:20:57.569
  • You ain't ready.
  • 00:20:57.569 --> 00:20:58.904
  • You're still religious.
  • 00:20:58.904 --> 00:21:00.272
  • You're still--
  • 00:21:00.272 --> 00:21:01.606
  • You're still struggling trying to figure out in your mind,
  • 00:21:01.606 --> 00:21:04.076
  • "well, how can that be?"
  • 00:21:04.076 --> 00:21:05.444
  • See, you're gonna have to receive this.
  • 00:21:05.444 --> 00:21:07.546
  • This is something you've got to receive.
  • 00:21:07.546 --> 00:21:09.314
  • You ain't gonna get no better until you receive what he's
  • 00:21:09.314 --> 00:21:11.717
  • Already giving you, and this is a--that's why i call it the
  • 00:21:11.717 --> 00:21:15.687
  • Magnificent gift of righteousness.
  • 00:21:15.687 --> 00:21:17.489
  • Who does this?
  • 00:21:17.489 --> 00:21:20.592
  • "blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute," or
  • 00:21:20.592 --> 00:21:24.896
  • Charge, "sin to your account."
  • 00:21:24.896 --> 00:21:28.934
  • Now, to some, they'll say, "well, shoot, since he ain't
  • 00:21:28.934 --> 00:21:31.770
  • Gonna charge it to my account, i might as well go out there
  • 00:21:31.770 --> 00:21:33.872
  • And sin."
  • 00:21:33.872 --> 00:21:35.207
  • But remember: there are consequences for sin.
  • 00:21:35.207 --> 00:21:38.276
  • See, some folks try--they try to look for a loophole and live
  • 00:21:38.276 --> 00:21:41.847
  • In wicked.
  • 00:21:41.847 --> 00:21:43.281
  • But when you got the spirit of god living on the inside of you
  • 00:21:43.281 --> 00:21:46.818
  • Convincing you that you are the righteousness of god, you want
  • 00:21:46.818 --> 00:21:51.056
  • To release god's program.
  • 00:21:51.056 --> 00:21:54.526
  • You don't want to release death.
  • 00:21:54.526 --> 00:21:56.094
  • You wanna release life.
  • 00:21:56.094 --> 00:21:59.531
  • That's how i can--that's how you can tell if you're
  • 00:21:59.531 --> 00:22:01.433
  • Really saved.
  • 00:22:01.433 --> 00:22:02.768
  • 'cause if you're really saved, it ain't gonna taste as good as
  • 00:22:02.768 --> 00:22:05.237
  • It used to taste before you got saved.
  • 00:22:05.237 --> 00:22:07.139
  • It ain't gonna look as good as it used to look before you
  • 00:22:07.139 --> 00:22:09.674
  • Got saved.
  • 00:22:09.674 --> 00:22:11.042
  • You're not gonna be looking and see all the hotels you can get,
  • 00:22:11.042 --> 00:22:14.746
  • You know, like you did before you got saved.
  • 00:22:14.746 --> 00:22:17.048
  • You're not interested no more.
  • 00:22:17.048 --> 00:22:18.383
  • Something has happened on the inside of you.
  • 00:22:18.383 --> 00:22:21.153
  • God has been working on your desire.
  • 00:22:21.153 --> 00:22:23.755
  • He's been changing your want to, and you don't want to do what
  • 00:22:23.755 --> 00:22:27.325
  • You used to want to do.
  • 00:22:27.325 --> 00:22:28.794
  • Now you're only interested in doing what he wants you to do.
  • 00:22:28.794 --> 00:22:32.164
  • You want to please god.
  • 00:22:32.164 --> 00:22:33.832
  • So this is not a loophole to sin some more.
  • 00:22:33.832 --> 00:22:37.569
  • This is the very essence of god's love for us, who says,
  • 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:43.375
  • "now that you are saved, i'm not gonna charge to your account--"
  • 00:22:43.375 --> 00:22:54.453
  • Whew, boy.
  • 00:22:57.789 --> 00:23:04.996
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