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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance

July 10, 2025 | S25 E167 | 28:54

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance | July 10, 2025
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Male announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: we're all growing.
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  • Now, we're not all at the same level, you know, we're not all
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  • Getting delivered from the same things, but there's
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  • A issue somewhere.
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  • Your attitude, how you treat waitresses and waiters.
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  • "i ain't gonna tip them."
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  • You ought to stop it.
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  • They got babies at home.
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  • You ought to go in there with the attitude that "i'm gonna
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  • Serve until," and if you ain't got no money, say, "i'm sorry.
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  • I'm so sorry, but i ain't got no--i'll get you the next time,"
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  • But don't act like, you know, we got that little thing.
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  • "where is your manager?"
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  • Like you all that.
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  • "i want to talk to your manager!
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  • I said i want grenadine in my coke and where's the grenadine?"
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  • You need to go home.
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  • You need to go somewhere else.
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  • That's an issue.
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  • Female announcer: look no further for encouragement
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  • To walk in the grace of god.
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪♪
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  • Creflo: do you understand what it feels like?
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  • Do you understand what it feels like to be a preacher and to
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  • Wake up and wonder if you're going to heaven because you
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  • Hadn't done enough?
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  • And then you compare yourself amongst yourself, and then you
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  • Start doing what you see some other minister or ministry doing
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  • Because they seem to be doing more, so that means they're
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  • Gonna be more, you know, okay with god than you are.
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  • Let's just pause for a moment.
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  • That's just too much.
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  • Somebody say, "that's just too much."
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  • Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, you think that's too much, wait
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  • Until we read this, are you ready?
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  • All right, we're gonna look at verse 20 through 31.
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  • Boy, this is heavy.
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  • "for no one can ever be made right with god by doing what the
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  • Law commands."
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  • That's what we've been taught though, right?
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  • "no one can ever be made right with god by doing what the
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  • Law commands.
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  • The law simply shows us how sinful we are."
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  • Okay, now let me explain this.
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  • The law was perfect.
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  • The law is not sin.
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  • The law is flawless.
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  • The law is perfect.
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  • The problem with a relationship with the law is you're trying to
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  • Take imperfection and match it with perfection.
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  • So, what's gonna happen when you hang around perfection?
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  • It's gonna show up all your flaws.
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  • I don't wanna hang around a perfect father, it's just gonna
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  • Show me how imperfect i am as a father.
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  • That's what that does.
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  • So, what god was saying is "you really think you can do this
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  • Without me?
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  • Okay, i'm gonna give you something perfect, since you
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  • That awesome.
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  • I'm gonna give you the law."
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  • And he says, "the reason why i gave the law was to show you how
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  • Sinful you are,
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  • To show you, you can't even go a day keeping it--not all of
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  • It, anyway."
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  • I heard a preacher one time who says,
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  • "i keep the law perfectly."
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  • I'm thinking, "this dude, he just broke one:
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  • Bragging and lying."
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  • Look at verse 21.
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  • Look at verse 20.
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  • He says, "nobody--no one can ever be made right with god by
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  • Doing what the law commands," why?
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  • Because the law simply shows us how sinful we are.
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  • It shows you how sinful you are.
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  • It was designed to condemn you.
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  • It was designed to shame you.
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  • It was designed to make you feel guilty and to show you, that's
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  • What the law was doing.
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  • "the law simply shows us how sinful we are."
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  • The law wasn't given so you can be saved.
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  • If the law could have saved us, jesus could have just stayed
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  • Away from the cross and hell.
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  • Verse 21, "but now--"
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  • So, we're talking about now under this new covenant--
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  • "god has shown us a way to be made right with him without
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  • Keeping the requirements of the law."
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  • God's made a way to show us how to be right with him without
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  • Keeping the requirements of the law, "as was promised in the
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  • Writings of moses and the prophets long ago."
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  • Next verse, "we are made right with god by placing our faith in
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • The day abraham said to god, "i believed," genesis records that
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  • Heaven said immediately, "you're righteous."
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  • He said, "i believe," heaven said, "you're righteous," wow.
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  • And when you read further in genesis, you see lying abraham,
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  • Coward abraham, turn-his-wife-in abraham, and then god turned
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  • Around in the middle of all of that, glory to god, and
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  • Transferred wealth into his hands, got his wife back, and
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  • Used him to bring healing to those who had a curse on 'em.
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  • I'm like, well, he sure didn't earn that, but god said, "i had
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  • Already declared he righteous."
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  • "we are made right with god by placing our faith in
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • How many of you believe in jesus,
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  • But not just believe that jesus exists, but you believe that
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  • Because of jesus, you've been made righteous?
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  • How many of you believe that you're righteous because
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  • Of jesus?
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  • See, here's the deal, so as you said, "jesus, i believe," he
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  • Said you're righteous, all right?
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  • So, some things, you know, popped off in your life, and you
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  • Were wondering, "uh-oh, am i still righteous?"
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  • Somebody said, "what do you do?"
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  • Go check with jesus.
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  • "jesus, you still all right?"
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  • He said, "yeah, i'm all right."
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  • "well, then i'm all right, because i'm not all right
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  • Because of what i do, i'm all right because of what he did,
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  • And if he is all right, then i am all right."
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  • See, during the time of the sacrificial animals, you
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  • Couldn't just bring any animal, the animal had to be acceptable,
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  • And if the animal sacrifice wasn't okay, you ain't okay.
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  • But jesus is our sacrifice who will always be okay, and if he
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  • Is okay, i am okay, you are okay.
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  • I thought, this is awesome, what a gift.
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  • This is so awesome.
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  • This is amazing.
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  • And there are people who turn the tv off and say, "i can't
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  • Hear this man say this."
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  • "you just trying to justify your sins."
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  • Exactly, it has been justified
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  • Just as if i'd never sinned.
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  • This church is either gonna explode in growth or we're gonna
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  • Be putting curtains in front of chairs.
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  • But either way, you and i who believe in jesus and our
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  • Righteousness will be able to stand in front of a righteous
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  • Christ and hear him say, "my good and faithful servant,
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  • Well done."
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  • And then god will look down the ages and he will use us for an
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  • Example and say, "look at what i did to those who didn't
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  • Deserve it.
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  • Look at what i did for those who couldn't do it.
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  • Look at my magnificent grace."
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  • "well, the gospel already been preached around the world."
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  • No, what i'm preaching is the gospel, and i can assure you
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  • This has not been preached all around the world, but it
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  • Will be.
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  • Technology is coming out, i'm gonna use it.
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  • We're already working on it.
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  • They're working on an ai type of software that will allow me to
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  • Speak every language in the world with my voice, so i'll be
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  • Able to go on television or media anywhere in the world and
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  • Everybody there will think that this black dude preaching
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  • Their language.
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  • I ain't sacred of ai.
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  • I ain't scared of technology.
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  • I'm going to get it saved and use it to preach the gospel, and
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  • When this gospel has been preached around the world, then
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  • The end will come.
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  • I asked god, i said, give me 35 years, give me at least 35
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  • Years, strength and strong, to preach this gospel, 35 years.
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  • I need y'all to agree, 35 years.
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  • I need y'all to agree with me, 35 years, 35 years.
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  • And i ain't talking about no 35 years can't hear, can't see,
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  • Can't remember where i put my bible, always on the podium.
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  • I ain't talking about that kind of 35, i'm talking about rock
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  • And--35 years more.
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  • You understand what i'm saying? you understand what i'm saying?
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  • Still coming here, still sitting out there, still looking good.
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  • I ain't stuntin' you.
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  • This gospel will be preached around this world.
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  • Why do you think he called us world changers?
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  • But we can't change the world until our world has
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  • Been changed.
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  • If you do that, you'll be putting the buggy before
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  • The horse.
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  • "we are made right with god by placing our faith in
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • And every time you see, "placing your faith in jesus christ,"
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  • It's not just saying i believe in jesus, it's saying placing
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  • Your faith in jesus christ and his righteousness.
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  • "and this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who
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  • We are.
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  • For everyone has sinned."
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  • Now, let's talk about that just for a moment.
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  • "for everyone has sinned."
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  • "for everyone has sinned; we all fall short of god's
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  • Glorious standard."
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  • Now, listen to me,
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  • Everybody in this church got an issue.
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  • Everybody, everybody, every preacher on this planet got an
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  • Issue, every preacher.
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  • I have to move my neck just to say that, "every preacher..."
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  • I don't understand this thing we do when we see what we
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  • Already know,
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  • When the issue is revealed,
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  • When we see it,
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  • Then you panic as if you magically don't have one.
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  • And i think the bible somewhere say, you know, take heed, lest
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  • You fall.
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  • Everybody got an issue.
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  • I already told y'all, i know i got some issues, but because i
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  • Know i'm righteous, i don't have them same issues, i got some
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  • Different issues today.
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  • Well, maybe they've always been there.
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  • You know, i'm calming down, but every now and then the calmness
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  • Ain't there.
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  • Every now and then, you know, a word come out of my mouth.
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  • Not too bad of a word, but you know, when is god like, "this is
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  • Not bad and this is, you know, really bad"?
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  • But i got enough sense to go to god and say, "that's proof that
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  • I still need you.
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  • Help me to continue to develop.
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  • I'm on a journey."
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  • Now, some people see this at church, you so holy, and you are
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  • Holy in your stance,
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  • But your state's still catching up with your stance.
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  • We all growing.
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  • Not--we're not all at the same level, you know, we're not all
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  • Getting delivered from the same things,
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  • But there's a issue somewhere.
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  • Your attitude, how you treat waitresses and waiters.
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  • "i ain't gonna tip them."
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  • You ought to stop it.
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  • They got babies at home.
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  • You ought to go in there with the attitude that "i'm gonna
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  • Serve until--"
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  • And if you ain't got no money, say, "i'm sorry, i'm so sorry,
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  • But ain't got no--i'll get you the next time."
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  • But don't act like, you know--we got that little thing.
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  • "where is your manager?"
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  • Like you all that.
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  • "i want to talk to your manager!
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  • I said i want grenadine in my coke,
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  • And where's the grenadine?"
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  • You need to go home.
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  • You need to go somewhere else.
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  • That's an issue, you see what i'm saying?
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  • Fornicating is the issue, but that bad attitude is still a
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  • Same issue.
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  • You follow what i'm saying?
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  • So, nobody in here, including the good reverend, is without an
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  • Issue, and some of y'all needed to hear that.
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  • Some of y'all needed to hear, including me, because for so
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  • Long we stand on this pulpit like we are excluded, when in
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  • Fact, a better leader will be included so that it's easy to
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  • Follow somebody who has gone down the path, who has crossed
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  • The goal line, who know what you talking about.
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  • "for everyone has sinned, we all fall short of god's
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  • Glorious standard."
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  • We all fall short.
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  • Now, what is he describing here in this verse?
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  • Inferiority, okay, he is saying because of what adam did in the
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  • Garden, every person deals with inferiority.
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  • Inferiority is saying, "i don't measure up."
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  • Inferiority that says, "i don't feel like i'm cared for."
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  • Inferiority, it's this thing that men fight especially,
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  • That your manhood is under attack because of
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  • Your inferiority.
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  • Because what happens in the life of a man is in order for him to
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  • Battle his inferiority, he tries to gain a false sense
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  • Of superiority.
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  • This is where racism comes from.
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  • Racism comes from "i really feel inferior, but i'm gonna find
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  • Somebody of a different color so that i can pretend to
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  • Be superior."
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  • But it's a false superiority, which will create a false
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  • Identity and false intimacy, because you're now developing
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  • Under the covers, because you're not showing who you really are.
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  • And we encounter this every day.
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  • We encounter somebody's inferiority complex, and in
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  • Order to deal with it, i got to figure out how i can be
  • 00:19:06.225 --> 00:19:09.061
  • Superior--so you beat your wife?
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  • The ugly things we do to fight off inferiority, and the only
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  • Antidote for inferiority is jesus.
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  • That's the only antidote, it's jesus.
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  • Oh, our society is something.
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  • I often sit in my kitchen in the morning and turn on the early
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  • Broadcast and listen to it to judge myself, and what can i say
  • 00:19:40.792 --> 00:19:45.030
  • Better, what better illustration i can use?
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  • And then i close and the lord's dealing with me and i say,
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  • "lord, i wonder if anybody in the world even watching this."
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  • I remember going to my ceo and i told him this.
  • 00:19:55.107 --> 00:19:59.745
  • I said, "man, i don't even know, is anybody paying attention to
  • 00:19:59.745 --> 00:20:03.282
  • This or am i just laughable?"
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  • He called the head of our television department, or the
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  • Head of our tv thing, tv buys or whatever that is, media, and he
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  • Had them to put a report together about where we stood,
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  • And the media guy came in, brother damon, he had to hold
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  • Back his tears.
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  • He said, "you ain't gonna believe this," and i'm like,
  • 00:20:32.611 --> 00:20:34.246
  • "yeah, what, go on and give it to me."
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  • We need to come off tv because ain't nobody paying attention
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  • To nothing.
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  • He said, "pastor, on the contrary--"
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  • He said, "you are the number one broadcaster on several networks
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  • And stations around the world."
  • 00:20:53.031 --> 00:20:57.436
  • And he answered the question, he says, "you wanna know if anybody
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  • Is watching?"
  • 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.942
  • And he put something in front of me, the millions of people that
  • 00:21:03.942 --> 00:21:07.412
  • Tune in every single day to get the gospel.
  • 00:21:07.412 --> 00:21:11.683
  • I may never know, and the whole time the spirit of god would say
  • 00:21:11.683 --> 00:21:15.454
  • To me, "you won't know until you see me the impact of
  • 00:21:15.454 --> 00:21:22.961
  • This ministry."
  • 00:21:22.961 --> 00:21:26.431
  • Now, what did i do when i received that?
  • 00:21:26.431 --> 00:21:32.437
  • It still ain't enough.
  • 00:21:32.437 --> 00:21:34.740
  • There's still some people that need to be reached.
  • 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:37.342
  • They're talking about building condos on the moon.
  • 00:21:37.342 --> 00:21:39.644
  • We gotta believe for a space shuttle, and we gotta get
  • 00:21:39.644 --> 00:21:45.283
  • Somebody that's gonna stay on the moon with them, because they
  • 00:21:45.283 --> 00:21:48.453
  • Need jesus.
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  • If that telescope discover life on mars or something, we gotta
  • 00:21:50.322 --> 00:21:53.091
  • Figure out how to get there.
  • 00:21:53.091 --> 00:21:54.426
  • They need jesus.
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  • We don't have just the god of the earth, our god is the god of
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  • The universe, hallelujah!
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  • And i don't know why he favored us on the planet!
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  • "what is man that thou art mindful of him?"
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  • That you visit him, oh, glory to god, this little dust, why do
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  • You visit this man who has been made a little lower than elohim,
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  • That you crown him with glory and honor?
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  • The little speck of something that can't even be seen in
  • 00:22:24.022 --> 00:22:27.325
  • Distant galaxies.
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  • What is man that you chose to live in him?
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  • The creator of the universe lives in us.
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  • Came down and died for us, went to hell for us, gave us the gift
  • 00:22:38.703 --> 00:22:44.209
  • Of righteousness, and we let some earthly religious theology
  • 00:22:44.209 --> 00:22:48.880
  • Talk us out of what he has given us.
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  • Male announcer: believers, are you equipped for battle?
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  • In these last days, our minds are the battlefield and arena
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  • Of our faith.
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  • In the five-part series "how to maintain your righteous stance,"
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  • I am righteous because of jesus, and as long as jesus is all
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  • Right, i am all right."
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  • He's the acceptable sacrifice.
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  • He died once and for all, praise god.
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  • I am the righteousness of god today, tomorrow, when i'm up,
  • 00:23:28.487 --> 00:23:32.390
  • When i'm down, i'm the righteousness of god.
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  • As long as i am focused and still tied into jesus, i believe
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