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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance

July 9, 2025 | S25 E166 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance
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  • Creflo: i want to talk to you today about maintaining your
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  • Righteous stance.
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  • It is going to be under attack and here's how the attack is
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  • Gonna show up.
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  • It's gonna show up through shame of your past, guilt of your
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  • Past, and condemnation.
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  • Those will be the three missiles that will be launched against
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  • Your soul.
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  • Shame, guilt, condemnation.
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  • All designed to get you to change your mind about who you
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  • Are and who you are in christ jesus.
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  • Everything satan wants to do against the christian is
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  • Designed to get you to step away from your identity in
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  • Righteousness, to get you to one day to stand up to say, "okay,
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  • Okay, okay.
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  • I yield to my emotions.
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  • I yield to the shame.
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  • I yield to the guilt.
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  • I yield to the condemnation.
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  • And i'm just gonna lay down the bible and i'm just gonna lay
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  • Down my righteousness and i'm gonna listen to the world and
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  • I'm gonna go along with them because this is real."
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  • That's what he's gonna try to put after you.
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  • I'm telling you now so that this time next year and you're
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  • Wondering, what happened to the brother or sister?
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  • Why don't they care anymore?
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  • What happened to their love for god?
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  • They used to love god.
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  • They used to do this.
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  • What happened?
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  • I'm telling you now that they fell at the attack, an emotional
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  • Attack, to try to get you to simply deny that you are the
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  • Righteousness of god.
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  • I thought about this and i'm thinking, surely there's more
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  • You want me to talk about than that.
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  • He says, "son, they hadn't even got that yet."
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  • Listen to me.
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  • Because if he can attack your righteous stance, you're gonna
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  • End up standing like the rest of the world.
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  • You'll be open for all of the new ideas that the world will
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  • Bring your way and the technology that will come.
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  • So, here's what we got to do.
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  • That's what we're gonna talk about here.
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  • Verse 16 and 17 in the nlt.
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  • Let's begin.
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  • "for i am not ashamed," look it there, "of the good news
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  • About christ."
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  • And yet, the enemy's gonna do everything he can to get you to
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  • Be full of shame.
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  • He says, "i'm not ashamed of this good news about christ.
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  • I'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ."
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  • Why?
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  • "because it is the power of god."
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  • The gospel about christ is the power of god.
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  • What is it that's so powerful about the news
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  • Concerning christ?
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  • And yet he says, while you're begging for power and praying
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  • For power, he's telling you what--where the power is, the
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  • Gospel of christ, this gospel of grace.
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  • The good news about jesus christ.
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  • This almost too good to be true news about jesus christ, "is the
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  • Power of god at work."
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  • So, it's something about believing this grace of god,
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  • Believing this gospel of christ that will be power, that'll be
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  • At work.
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  • What is it at work doing?
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  • "saving everyone who believes, the jew first and also
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  • The gentile.
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  • This good news," about jesus, "tells us how god makes us right
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  • In his sight."
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  • So, the good news, the gospel, is about how god made
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  • Us righteous.
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  • The gospel is about the fact that you have been made
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  • Righteous and there is no more imputation of sin or god is no
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  • Longer charging sin to the person that's been made
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  • Righteous because he already charged that sin on jesus.
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  • He's not charging it on you because jesus stepped up and
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  • Said, "i'll take all their sin."
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  • It's like going out to eat with somebody and they say, "i'm
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  • Gonna pay everybody's bill."
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  • Jesus showed up at the restaurant and said, "i'm paying
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  • Everybody's bill."
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  • And with some of the friends that i hang out with, we work to
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  • Try to pay the bill before anybody know the bill
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  • Being paid.
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  • I am telling you, those of you who have not understood that the
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  • Bill has already been paid, once you believe the gospel that
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  • You've been made right, then you don't have to go around in the
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  • Shame and the condemnation and all that stuff because jesus has
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  • Taken all of your sin.
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  • He's also taken the punishment that we should have got for
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  • Our sins.
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  • He went ahead and went to hell for us.
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  • He went ahead and paid the ransom for us so that we could
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  • Believe that we are righteous in him.
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  • And the scripture says that's power.
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  • He said, "this is accomplished from start to finish," look it
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  • There, "by faith."
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  • "from start to finish by faith."
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  • You know what he's saying?
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  • "can i get you to believe it?
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  • Can i get you to receive it?
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  • Can i get you to by faith declare to somebody that i am
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  • The righteousness of god.
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  • I am holy.
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  • I am pure."
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  • Think about the apostle paul who was behind the murder of
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  • Christian people, who was sat back and watched stephen stone
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  • To death.
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  • When he got converted on the road to damascus and when he
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  • Received jesus as his lord and when he understood the power of
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  • The gospel, he said this, "i have wronged no man.
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  • I have corrupted no man.
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  • I have defrauded no man."
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  • And i know i can turn to the next page and find where he
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  • Corrupted, where he defrauded, and where he did all the things
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  • He just said he didn't done.
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  • Well, who was talking?
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  • He--that was his belief.
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  • "i received that i've been made righteous and i will not
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  • Contradict that with my action, i will not contradict that with
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  • My words, i received that he made me righteous."
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  • And he said, "that's power."
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  • Don't you know it upset hell when hell can't convince you
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  • That you're still a sinner.
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  • Even the new testament refuses to refer to you as a sinner.
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  • Now that you are born again, 67 times he says in the new
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  • Testament, 67 times you see the word "saint."
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  • Turn to your neighbor and say, "hello, saint."
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  • Now, that's if you've been born again.
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  • Now, if you sitting by somebody hadn't been born again, say,
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  • "hey, sinner."
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  • He says, "as the scripture says, 'it is through faith that
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  • A righteous person has life.'"
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  • He says, "something happens when you become so convinced that i
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  • Am righteous."
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  • When you so gain i am righteous with all of the mistakes and all
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  • The trip ups and it's getting better, because the more you can
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  • Agree with your new identity in righteousness, the more the
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  • Power is released to change you from glory to glory.
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  • Somebody shout, "i'm the righteousness of god."
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  • But the battle we fight is not believing we're righteous, so we
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  • Continue to try to do something to be what he's already made us.
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  • Go with me to the book of romans chapter 5, verse 17 and 19.
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  • Verse 17 and 19.
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  • Romans 5, 17 and 19.
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  • You know, i figure today the best way to tackle this is
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  • Scripture by scripture.
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  • So, if you still don't believe, you know it ain't god's fault
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  • And you know it ain't my fault.
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  • I done told you, i done told you, and i done told you.
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  • Look at verse 17 and then 19.
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  • He says, "for the sin of this one man, adam," so now he's
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  • Talking about adam.
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  • "the sin of this one man, adam," all that stuff that happened in
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  • The garden, "caused death to rule over many."
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  • Adam sinned, died spiritually, and so every person that's born
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  • On the planet comes here spiritually dead because of the
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  • Sin of one man.
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  • Now they didn't do anything.
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  • They were just born.
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  • They just showed up.
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  • They didn't commit a sin.
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  • They showed up and they were victims of adam's action.
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  • Oh, my goodness.
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  • So, they were sinners.
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  • Born into sin, shaped into iniquity.
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  • "but even greater," so now there is something greater than sin.
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  • I need to pause, see, i didn't see this when i was studying it.
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  • I see it.
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  • There is something greater than sin.
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  • It's the righteousness of god.
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  • There is somebody greater than the first adam.
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  • It's jesus.
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  • You say, "why do you keep emphasizing righteousness?"
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  • Because righteousness is greater than sin.
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  • And if you focus more on righteousness, which is greater
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  • Than sin, it's gonna change your sin situation to line up with
  • 00:12:17.572 --> 00:12:22.777
  • Your righteousness situation.
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  • He says, "but even greater is god's wonderful grace and his
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  • Gift of righteousness," look it there, "his wonderful grace and
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  • His gift of righteousness."
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  • Righteousness is so powerful that god gave it by grace.
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  • You are righteous by grace, which means, when something is
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  • By grace, you got it without having to earn it, without
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  • Having to work for it, not--without having to qualify
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  • For it.
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  • You're righteous by grace.
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  • Say, "i'm righteous by grace."
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  • God favored you with it.
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  • There's no way you can brag about being righteous in him
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  • Because it's a gift, alright?
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  • "but even greater is god's wonderful grace and his gift of
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  • Righteousness," now watch this, here's again the key, "for all
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  • Who receive it," for all who receive it, for all who
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  • Receive it.
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  • I can tell you about it, but will you receive it?
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  • I can put a gift in the box and extend it to you, but will you
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  • Receive it?
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  • I can put a bow on it, tell you there's a million dollars in the
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  • Box, but will you receive it?
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  • And that's the issue we have right now with christian people.
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  • We say we receive it at church and then when we're ashamed,
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  • Guilty, or feeling something happened emotional or something
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  • Happened in our lives, we forget we received the box.
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  • "for all who receive it."
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  • How many of you will receive it today?
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  • I'm not talking about just saying it.
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  • How many of you will receive it today?
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  • Now, you gotta know, every hand didn't go up.
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  • So, there's still a struggle with, "how can i receive that
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  • Because my church told me i had to do x, y, and z in order to
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  • Be righteous."
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  • So, you're trying to be something that jesus has already
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  • Made you.
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  • And what jesus says is that "i don't need what you got to do to
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  • Make you that.
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  • I went ahead and passed your actions and made you that free."
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  • My goodness.
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  • "for all who receive it will live in triumph," or victory.
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  • How many wanna live in victory and triumph?
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  • Alright, so that's what i am prophesying over your lifetime.
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  • Because you've received the gift of righteousness, you will live
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  • In victory.
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  • You will live in triumph.
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  • Hallelujah, there'll be some days where it look like you're
  • 00:14:51.659 --> 00:14:54.128
  • Gonna lose, but watch out, at the end of that day you're gonna
  • 00:14:54.128 --> 00:14:57.265
  • See triumph in your life.
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  • It may be a week where it looks like you're gonna lose.
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  • Oh, they messing with you, they lying on you, they talking about
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  • You, but watch out, you are the righteousness of god.
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  • Right in the midnight hour, your victory shall show up.
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  • I declare in the name of jesus, if you'll receive this
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  • Righteousness, you're gonna walk in victory.
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  • It might not seem like it's there, but you will always
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  • Triumph in christ jesus.
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  • We will walk in victory.
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  • We will walk in triumph.
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  • We will walk in promotion.
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  • We will walk in the goodness of the lord because we know
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  • Who we are.
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  • We have received the gift of righteousness.
  • 00:15:38.406 --> 00:15:45.446
  • Now you see why he want to attack it.
  • 00:15:45.446 --> 00:15:49.684
  • He says, "you'll triumph it."
  • 00:15:49.684 --> 00:15:51.319
  • Now, watch this.
  • 00:15:51.319 --> 00:15:52.653
  • Not only will you have victory, you're gonna have victory "over
  • 00:15:52.653 --> 00:15:54.756
  • Sin and death through this one man, jesus christ."
  • 00:15:54.756 --> 00:16:00.395
  • See, we think that victory over sin is by teaching you--making
  • 00:16:00.395 --> 00:16:06.801
  • Sin greater.
  • 00:16:06.801 --> 00:16:08.803
  • Come to church, let me condemn you with sin, let me tell you
  • 00:16:08.803 --> 00:16:11.005
  • You ain't no good, let me tell you god don't like ugly, and he
  • 00:16:11.005 --> 00:16:13.207
  • Don't like ugly, but all of that is designed to make you feel
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  • Condemned, to make you feel shame.
  • 00:16:17.378 --> 00:16:18.946
  • "you ought to be ashamed of yourself, not praying," and all
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  • That stuff.
  • 00:16:22.050 --> 00:16:23.384
  • "you ought at least feel guilty for doing what you did."
  • 00:16:23.384 --> 00:16:26.320
  • I--that's not my job.
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  • That's not what i'm called to preach.
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  • I'm called to preach, "you know better because you are the
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  • Righteousness of god.
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  • You'll do better because you are the righteousness of god.
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  • You are better because you are the righteousness of god."
  • 00:16:38.699 --> 00:16:46.674
  • See, you're trying to stop sin when sin has already been dealt
  • 00:16:46.674 --> 00:16:50.745
  • With and you already have victory over it, but sometimes
  • 00:16:50.745 --> 00:16:53.648
  • You give victory to sin just by receiving that, "well, i still
  • 00:16:53.648 --> 00:16:58.519
  • Must be a sinner.
  • 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:59.887
  • It must not have took."
  • 00:16:59.887 --> 00:17:06.427
  • Are y'all seeing how important this is?
  • 00:17:06.427 --> 00:17:08.963
  • Come on, let's travel through the scripture.
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  • So far, all i've done is read the scripture and explain it.
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  • Look at romans chapter 3 in the nlt.
  • 00:17:14.769 --> 00:17:19.507
  • Let's go to the nlt.
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  • Romans chapter 3 and i'm gonna read 20 through 31.
  • 00:17:20.875 --> 00:17:25.046
  • Romans chapter 3, 20 through 31 because there's always somebody
  • 00:17:25.046 --> 00:17:30.885
  • Quote, "trying to correct my teaching," unquote.
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  • And i'm like, "dude, i'm not even teaching.
  • 00:17:37.625 --> 00:17:39.660
  • I'm just reading.
  • 00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:40.995
  • I can't help it that i know how to read the bible."
  • 00:17:40.995 --> 00:17:46.400
  • And in order to read the bible, you got to understand context
  • 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:50.004
  • And pretext and you got--you just got to understand how
  • 00:17:50.004 --> 00:17:53.074
  • To read.
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  • You gotta understand if i wrote--what if i wrote you
  • 00:17:54.442 --> 00:17:56.577
  • A letter, okay, and that letter was from me to you, that's part
  • 00:17:56.577 --> 00:18:01.215
  • Of context.
  • 00:18:01.215 --> 00:18:02.583
  • I can't take your letter and make it for everybody.
  • 00:18:02.583 --> 00:18:07.822
  • That's part of context.
  • 00:18:07.822 --> 00:18:10.725
  • And then i got to understand the old covenant, or agreement, and
  • 00:18:10.725 --> 00:18:16.797
  • The new covent, or agreement, and then in the new covenant he
  • 00:18:16.797 --> 00:18:20.935
  • Says, "we have a new agreement.
  • 00:18:20.935 --> 00:18:24.272
  • We are not going to operate by the old agreement anymore.
  • 00:18:24.272 --> 00:18:26.641
  • We have a new agreement."
  • 00:18:26.641 --> 00:18:29.343
  • And then we tell you the new agreement and you still want to
  • 00:18:29.343 --> 00:18:31.812
  • Stay with the old.
  • 00:18:31.812 --> 00:18:33.181
  • It's just like if i give you a contract and we're doing
  • 00:18:33.181 --> 00:18:35.349
  • Business and--i said business, we're doing business, and i give
  • 00:18:35.349 --> 00:18:39.053
  • You a contract and we got a $200,000 bill on that contract.
  • 00:18:39.053 --> 00:18:43.457
  • And then i come back and say, "let's tear this up.
  • 00:18:43.457 --> 00:18:47.295
  • Here's a new contract."
  • 00:18:47.295 --> 00:18:49.163
  • And then when i leave, you get the old one out of the trash can
  • 00:18:49.163 --> 00:18:52.133
  • Tape it back together and say, "no, i'm gonna live by the
  • 00:18:52.133 --> 00:18:55.002
  • Old one."
  • 00:18:55.002 --> 00:18:56.604
  • That's what church folks doing.
  • 00:18:56.604 --> 00:18:58.139
  • I keep trying to tell you about the new agreement and you keep
  • 00:18:58.139 --> 00:19:01.542
  • Trying to take me back to the old agreement.
  • 00:19:01.542 --> 00:19:03.744
  • We have torn up the old agreement.
  • 00:19:03.744 --> 00:19:06.447
  • According to the new agreement, this is a better agreement.
  • 00:19:06.447 --> 00:19:20.528
  • "well, creflo, then, you know, creflo about to tell people not
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  • To tithe."
  • 00:19:27.335 --> 00:19:28.669
  • Yeah.
  • 00:19:28.669 --> 00:19:30.004
  • Don't you dare bring no animals in here.
  • 00:19:30.004 --> 00:19:33.874
  • "well, jesus, you know, he said we should tithe."
  • 00:19:33.874 --> 00:19:36.377
  • Did you see what he was talking about tithing?
  • 00:19:36.377 --> 00:19:38.212
  • Spices.
  • 00:19:38.212 --> 00:19:43.651
  • Because he was still under the old agreement.
  • 00:19:43.651 --> 00:19:47.655
  • The only time they mentioned money was when they were taking
  • 00:19:47.655 --> 00:19:50.758
  • A long trip and they said, "you can go ahead and sell all of
  • 00:19:50.758 --> 00:19:56.130
  • Your animals and your produce and convert it over to money."
  • 00:19:56.130 --> 00:20:00.101
  • And then when you get to where you're going, then if you want
  • 00:20:00.101 --> 00:20:02.536
  • To use it to buy some other stuff, because they weren't
  • 00:20:02.536 --> 00:20:04.705
  • Taking no money.
  • 00:20:04.705 --> 00:20:06.073
  • The priest wasn't taking no money.
  • 00:20:06.073 --> 00:20:07.808
  • Money could not get your sin covered.
  • 00:20:07.808 --> 00:20:10.544
  • Over there, the priest wasn't taking no money.
  • 00:20:10.544 --> 00:20:12.179
  • The priest had to have some animal stock or some produce.
  • 00:20:12.179 --> 00:20:19.186
  • Now, if you want to keep doing that, do it at home.
  • 00:20:19.186 --> 00:20:28.896
  • And listen, if you wanna give 10% of your finances, 20% of
  • 00:20:28.896 --> 00:20:32.099
  • Your finances, i--that's between you and god.
  • 00:20:32.099 --> 00:20:36.203
  • And some people will fight you.
  • 00:20:36.203 --> 00:20:37.638
  • "well i just don't agree with that."
  • 00:20:37.638 --> 00:20:39.740
  • You have that right.
  • 00:20:39.740 --> 00:20:41.842
  • But you're gonna look real funny in heaven trying to explain to
  • 00:20:41.842 --> 00:20:44.779
  • Jesus after he died, crucified, dead and buried, went to hell
  • 00:20:44.779 --> 00:20:50.318
  • For you, only for you to stay with the old agreement when he
  • 00:20:50.318 --> 00:20:55.156
  • Said, "we don't need no more sacrifice because i'm the one
  • 00:20:55.156 --> 00:20:59.927
  • Sacrifice, i'm the one for all time sacrifice.
  • 00:20:59.927 --> 00:21:03.297
  • I'm the one for all time"--jesus even said to the priest, "sit
  • 00:21:03.297 --> 00:21:06.634
  • Down now because we won't be coming back no more."
  • 00:21:06.634 --> 00:21:09.303
  • "i'm the one and i'm the one and forever time sacrifice and
  • 00:21:09.303 --> 00:21:14.041
  • Through this one--and so, through this one and for all
  • 00:21:14.041 --> 00:21:17.044
  • Sacrifice, i done took care of your sin."
  • 00:21:17.044 --> 00:21:22.316
  • I don't know why that's so hard to believe.
  • 00:21:22.316 --> 00:21:25.219
  • It's because religion, like a demon, has put handcuffs on you
  • 00:21:25.219 --> 00:21:29.890
  • And you don't wanna take them off.
  • 00:21:29.890 --> 00:21:36.664
  • The only thing talking about me has done has made me more bold
  • 00:21:36.664 --> 00:21:40.401
  • To keep preaching because i'm not going back to where i
  • 00:21:40.401 --> 00:21:43.104
  • Came from.
  • 00:21:43.104 --> 00:21:44.438
  • I'm not going back to the old agreement.
  • 00:21:44.438 --> 00:21:46.140
  • I'm not going back to the old contract.
  • 00:21:46.140 --> 00:21:48.909
  • That contract had me feeling shameful.
  • 00:21:48.909 --> 00:21:51.045
  • That contract had me feeling guilty.
  • 00:21:51.045 --> 00:21:52.913
  • That contract had me feeling condemned.
  • 00:21:52.913 --> 00:21:54.715
  • That contract had me feeling unworthy.
  • 00:21:54.715 --> 00:21:56.817
  • That contract had me thinking, i don't even know if i'm gonna
  • 00:21:56.817 --> 00:21:59.720
  • Get to heaven.
  • 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:01.055
  • I was scared to die because the old contract made me--it made it
  • 00:22:01.055 --> 00:22:03.224
  • Hard for me to believe that i was gonna die and go to heaven.
  • 00:22:03.224 --> 00:22:06.127
  • But under this new contract, i have a blessed assurance that
  • 00:22:06.127 --> 00:22:10.564
  • When i'm absent from the body i'll be present with the lord.
  • 00:22:10.564 --> 00:22:18.672
  • I mean, i'm going for it this year.
  • 00:22:18.672 --> 00:22:20.174
  • Y'all might have to put me out because i'm getting so radical.
  • 00:22:20.174 --> 00:22:24.145
  • And i got other churches i can go to, i just start up there,
  • 00:22:24.145 --> 00:22:26.680
  • But i ain't holding back nothing.
  • 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.883
  • Jesus is on his way back.
  • 00:22:28.883 --> 00:22:31.085
  • I am gonna preach this gospel of jesus christ until it gets the
  • 00:22:31.085 --> 00:22:37.591
  • Hell out of you or you let heaven get in you.
  • 00:22:37.591 --> 00:22:41.061
  • I will not go back.
  • 00:22:41.061 --> 00:22:45.032
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:22:45.032 --> 00:22:51.272
  • I ain't doing it.
  • 00:22:51.272 --> 00:22:53.274
  • I ain't doing it.
  • 00:22:53.340 --> 00:22:56.343
  • Y'all can get together and vote me out.
  • 00:22:56.343 --> 00:22:57.978
  • Well, you can't vote me out.
  • 00:22:57.978 --> 00:22:59.380
  • I was here first.
  • 00:22:59.380 --> 00:23:01.382
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:01.382 --> 00:23:05.553
  • I mean, it say all of what i'm saying.
  • 00:23:09.423 --> 00:23:10.958
  • It say right there, rat there, r-a-t, right there in hebrews
  • 00:23:10.958 --> 00:23:15.896
  • And right there it say there is a better covenant better than
  • 00:23:15.896 --> 00:23:21.335
  • The old one.
  • 00:23:21.335 --> 00:23:24.839
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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