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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance (Part 2)

July 14, 2025 | S25 E170 | 28:51

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance (Part 2) | July 14, 2025
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  • Male announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: the new testament no longer refers to a believer
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  • As a sinner.
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  • So, when somebody says, "we just sinners saved by grace," speak
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  • For yourself.
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  • I used to be a sinner, but now that i am saved, i am, according
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  • To scriptures 67 times in the new testament, a saint, a saint.
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  • By what jesus has done in this new agreement, i am away from
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  • The old, i accept the new, i am the righteousness of god
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  • Right now.
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  • I am not a sinner saved by grace, i am someone that used to
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  • Be a sinner, i have been saved by the grace of god, and now i
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  • No longer identify with any parts of that old identity.
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  • Creflo dollar: hopefully you're gonna choose to let
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  • Heaven determine your thinking because whatever choice you
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  • Make, then that's gonna be your mentality for the day.
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  • Creflo: can you say that he's a way-maker, yes!
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low, yes!
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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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  • ♪ whoa-oh, it's time we live a new life, ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-oh, let his love shine bright in you, ♪
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  • ♪ whoa-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: your righteousness is greater than your sin, and your
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  • Righteousness will eventually, your identity will eventually,
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  • Your identity as the righteousness of god, will
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  • Overcome the sinning.
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  • You keep worrying about the sinning, it's almost like you
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  • Think you can be righteous by doing, doing, doing, and you
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  • Think you can be free from sin by doing, doing, doing.
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  • And you don't get what this is all about, you need jesus
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  • Christ, you are a human being stained with the sin of adam and
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  • The only way out is jesus.
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  • You fall short of the glory of god, you have inferiority
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  • Because of what happened in the garden of eden, you feel like
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  • You don't measure up, you feel like you're not cared about.
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  • You are inferior and the only way to defeat that inferiority
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  • Is through jesus christ, and the devil knows it, he knows, "if i
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  • Can keep you in inferiority, if i can keep you thinking that
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  • Way, you won't change how you live, you won't change what
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  • You do."
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  • But the day you receive that, "i am the righteousness of god,"
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  • Then all of a sudden you ain't gonna wanna do what you used to
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  • Do because you're not who you used to be, because in him, he
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  • Has changed your identity.
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  • I'm more concerned about the character of saved folks, more
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  • Than i am, "when the devil gonna show up and when the
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  • Antichrist coming?
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  • And oh, what about 666 and that?"
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  • I ain't worrying about that, i'm more concerned about you
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  • Believing who jesus says you are.
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  • And if you'll believe who jesus says you are, if you should bump
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  • Into the antichrist, you can recall luke chapter 10:19,
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  • "behold, i give you power over all the power of the enemy, and
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  • You'll tread on serpents and you'll tread on scorpions, and
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  • Nothing will by any means hurt you."
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  • I am the righteousness of god, devil, take that stuff somewhere
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  • Else because, in jesus, you can't touch this.
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  • Are y'all see what i'm saying?
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  • It's not just you knowing what i am saying,
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  • It's you receiving.
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  • Until you place ownership of this righteousness
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  • And start walking around owning it,
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  • All you're doing is flapping your jaws.
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  • But if you'll move past flapping your jaws to, "i'm righteous,"
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  • Now the enemy has got a problem.
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  • Somebody said, "well, i don't need to know none of this."
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  • Well, "they that live godly shall suffer persecution," you
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  • Ready for yours?
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  • "oh, but pastor, it's gonna be hard."
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  • That's what life is, you're going down the path, you are on
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  • A journey, and i'm screaming to the top of my voice, tonight, i
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  • Screamed to the top of my voice this morning, because what
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  • Bothers me is this is so simple that your intelligentsia is
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  • Gonna let it pass by your mind while you allow the world to
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  • Move you into concentrating on something that's not as
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  • Important as your identity.
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  • I wanna remind you, the first attack satan released on adam
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  • Was his identity, the first attack that he released on jesus
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  • In the wilderness was his identity.
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  • The attack that he's about to release on all of us is our
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  • Identity in jesus christ, not what your last name is right
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  • Now, but do you know who you are in christ jesus?
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  • And if you fail to answer that, you become open prey for the
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  • Devil to reap havoc in every area of your life, your
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  • Relationships, your marriages.
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  • Oh yeah, you got to know you the righteousness of god while
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  • You're married, because if not, you'll start conducting yourself
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  • Like worldly relationships, and you won't see that through this
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  • Righteousness you conduct yourself as someone who is holy
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  • And righteous and without fault.
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  • But if you won't do that, you won't have patience with jethro
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  • And them, and you'll just say, "look, you know, i ain't in him
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  • No more, i love him, but i'm not in love with him," you know that
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  • Excuse that we use.
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  • So far, all i've done tonight is read scripture and tell you what
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  • It said, because we are now figuring out that people are
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  • Interested in living according to the bible, they're interested
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  • In living according to religion.
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  • "i don't want to hear what the bible got to say, all i know is
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  • My bible tells me," and you don't even know how to read
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  • The bible.
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  • That's just like you going around talking about, "the lord
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  • Spoke to me last night," and you just got baptized, still
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  • Dripping water all over the floor, ain't heard from god, but
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  • Now, all of a sudden, he been speaking to you about a lot of
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  • Stuff, don't know the difference between his presence and the air
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  • Condition turned down low.
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  • But those are the kind of people that can gain influence on
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  • Social media and you will follow them until you come to realize,
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  • "that's not even in the bible."
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  • So people are interested in living according to the word,
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  • Because as soon as you show the word, they say, "well, i'm
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  • Interested in hearing what i've heard before."
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  • And most people come to church to hear, they don't come to
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  • Church to hear no revelation, they come to church to hear what
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  • They already know, and i'm not trying to continue to preach
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  • What you already know.
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  • I'm trying to challenge you, i'm trying to make you mad, i'm not
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  • Trying to make you, "let me see where he got it from."
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  • I'm trying to, that's why i'm reading.
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  • I'm reading right now, i'm just reading, i've been reading all
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  • Day, because my opinion about life doesn't matter, now we're
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  • Where the rubber meets the road.
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  • Have you received your identity?
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  • "i am the righteousness of god, in him i am righteous, in him i
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  • Am holy, in him i am pure."
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  • My stance in him is righteous, holy and pure, my state is not
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  • There yet, i'm on my way, but if i receive my stance, righteous,
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  • Holy and pure, then that's gonna translate and begin to impact my
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  • State, and i'll begin to transform into what i believe
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  • About jesus and what he has done for me.
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  • Now, watch this, 2 corinthians chapter 5, verse 17, in the nlt,
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5:17, in the nlt.
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  • You know, i could get up and say a lot of inspirational phrases,
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  • But sometimes those phrases aren't even biblical.
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  • They sound good, they're motivational, but they may not
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  • Be biblical.
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  • Verse 17 says, "this means that anyone who belongs to christ has
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  • Become a new person."
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  • How many of you belong to christ?
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  • Okay, so you're not the same.
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  • "the old life is gone; a new life has begun!"
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  • Say this out loud, "out with the old, in with the new, out with
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  • The old identity, in with the new identity."
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  • Your old identification was sinner, your new identification
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  • Is righteous.
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  • The new testament no longer refers to a believer as
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  • A sinner.
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  • So when somebody says, "we just sinners saved by grace," speak
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  • For yourself.
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  • I used to be a sinner, but now that i am saved, i am, according
  • 00:11:24.430 --> 00:11:29.268
  • To scriptures 67 times in the new testament, a saint, a saint.
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  • By what jesus has done in this new agreement, i am away from
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  • The old, i accept the new, i am the righteousness of god
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  • Right now.
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  • I am not a sinner saved by grace, i am someone that used to
  • 00:11:50.422 --> 00:11:55.027
  • Be a sinner, i have been saved by the grace of god and now i no
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  • Longer identify with any parts of that old identity.
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  • These are decisions you have to make, i've made a decision i'm
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  • Gonna preach this gospel, and if there are three people left, i'm
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  • Gonna preach it to them, i'd rather please god than men.
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  • And that's what happens when you become the righteousness of god,
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  • You're willing to let it all go so that you might please one
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  • Person, and really, that's the only one that's gonna matter at
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  • The end of the day.
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  • And you still trying to impress people by buying stuff you can't
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  • Afford, trying to impress somebody that doesn't care,
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  • That's that approval addiction, and you got it and you won't
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  • Admit that you have it, and you're comparing yourself
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  • Amongst yourself.
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  • Taffi asked me to share from a man's perspective the attitude
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  • Of biblical equality, and she asked the right person.
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  • Because i didn't know about that when taffi went to south africa,
  • 00:13:06.398 --> 00:13:09.602
  • Called me, talking about, "i got some."
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  • I'm like, "don't be bringing none in here now, you know?
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  • If you don't start nothing, it ain't gonna be nothing."
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  • And she came with this biblical equality stuff, i'm like, "what
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  • In the world?"
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  • And i said, "wait a minute, this is just grace," god had already
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  • Prepared me with his grace.
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  • And i was amazed at the number of people in this world that
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  • Don't understand that some of the things we're doing today is
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  • A result of a curse, like male domination.
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  • When god said that the man shall have dominion over you, it was
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  • After they sinned in the garden, and then he started dishing out
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  • The curses and one of the curses was male domination.
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  • But we took male domination and said, "this is what you're
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  • Supposed to do."
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  • And it's like, dude, we do the same thing with living for 70,
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  • 70 was a downgrade, it was a part of the curse.
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  • It ain't the blessing to live for 70 years, you're supposed to
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  • Be living way past 70 years, that's a downgrade.
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  • And it's amazing to me how we take pieces of the curse and try
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  • To turn it into a blessing.
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  • "man supposed to dominate his wife."
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  • God knew better than that, because if you take an inferior
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  • Man and try to tell him he has dominion over his woman, he is
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  • Going to feel so inferior that he's got to get involved into
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  • Some false superiority to kind of deal with his inferiority,
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  • And then start doing stupid stuff.
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  • And then, before you know it, he putting his hands on his woman
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  • And beating his woman because he got a problem with his
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  • Own inferiority.
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  • Male domination is a part of the curse, it is not god's plan, it
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  • Is not god's idea, it is not god wanting that to happen.
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  • He said, "y'all messed up in the garden, and as a result of it,
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  • Men are going to dominate."
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  • And then he said something interesting, "actually, women
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  • Want to be in charge, but the man gonna dominate the woman."
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  • And jesus said, "but give me some time, i'm gonna fix it."
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  • He go, "we gonna bruise his head, but he will hit
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  • Your heel."
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  • He said, "i'm gonna fix it."
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  • And i'm just amazed at the number of leaders that
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  • Can't read.
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  • We have a new identity, we are not sinners with new clothes on,
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  • We are new from within and we have become partakers of the
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  • Divine nature of christ.
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  • We're no longer called sinners, but saints, no longer do we put
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  • Our trust in our self-effort, but we put our trust in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Look at romans, in romans chapter 5:17, in the nlt.
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  • Romans 5:17, he says, for the sin of this one man, adam,
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  • Caused death to rule over many."
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  • So, because of what adam did, everybody after adam came to the
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  • Earth spiritually dead.
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  • "but even greater," even greater than what adam did, "is god's
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  • Wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness."
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  • Isn't that interesting?
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  • Could have mentioned any other gift, but he says that this gift
  • 00:16:55.427 --> 00:16:58.497
  • Of righteousness came by grace, not by effort, not by your
  • 00:16:58.497 --> 00:17:04.203
  • Works, it came by his unmerited favor.
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  • He favored you and gave you undeserved privilege
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  • To receive this gift of righteousness,
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  • And we still struggle to receive.
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  • Somehow we still let behavior convince us that we're not who
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  • He said we are, because we work so hard to be a lawman,
  • 00:17:39.671 --> 00:17:49.381
  • Galatians chapter 2:16 in the message, instead of a god man.
  • 00:17:49.381 --> 00:17:56.989
  • There's so much we can say about this.
  • 00:17:56.989 --> 00:18:01.193
  • "for all who receive it," now here it is, "will live in
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  • Victory over sin and death."
  • 00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:10.769
  • Look at your victory over sin and death.
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  • Receiving the gift of righteousness, that's where your
  • 00:18:12.804 --> 00:18:17.276
  • Victory is gonna come from.
  • 00:18:17.276 --> 00:18:19.044
  • Receiving your identity as the righteousness of god, you
  • 00:18:19.044 --> 00:18:24.883
  • Overcome, "sin and death through this one man, jesus christ."
  • 00:18:24.883 --> 00:18:31.390
  • The issue i'm trying to point out, tonight, is have you or
  • 00:18:31.390 --> 00:18:38.397
  • Will you receive this gift of righteousness?
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  • "i have been made," not become, you didn't become it, to become
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  • It means you did something to deserve it, "i have been made
  • 00:18:49.441 --> 00:18:54.546
  • Righteous by what jesus has done, and i believe jesus," and
  • 00:18:54.546 --> 00:19:00.619
  • That, "i have been made righteous."
  • 00:19:00.619 --> 00:19:03.855
  • Now i will see victory over the behavior and the sin that you
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  • Have tried for years and years to overcome through your own
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  • Self-effort and it seemed like it got worse and worse, because
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  • You went back to believing that you were a sinner and refused to
  • 00:19:25.544 --> 00:19:31.883
  • Accept that you have been made righteous.
  • 00:19:31.883 --> 00:19:38.123
  • Wow.
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  • Say out loud, "i am the righteousness of god, i believe
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  • I've been made right."
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  • Now, i want to end with where we started this morning,
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  • Romans 3:20-31.
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  • The bible says, "we reign in life," romans 5:17, that's
  • 00:20:01.046 --> 00:20:08.020
  • Another effect of it.
  • 00:20:08.020 --> 00:20:12.157
  • When we understand that we are the righteousness of god,
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  • According to james 5:16, our prayers avail much.
  • 00:20:15.627 --> 00:20:23.769
  • Another effect is that we are heirs of god and joint heirs
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  • With christ jesus.
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  • Healing comes when you understand you're the
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  • Righteousness of god.
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  • Romans chapter 3, in the nlt, starting at verse 20, he says,
  • 00:20:36.948 --> 00:20:43.689
  • "for no one can ever be made right with god by doing what the
  • 00:20:43.689 --> 00:20:47.926
  • Law commands.
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  • The law simply shows us how sinful we are."
  • 00:20:51.697 --> 00:20:56.201
  • Yeah, the law in the old testament shows you how sinful
  • 00:20:56.201 --> 00:21:00.539
  • You are, why is that?
  • 00:21:00.539 --> 00:21:02.240
  • The law is perfect, nothing wrong with the law.
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  • The law is perfect, the problem is, we are not, we are
  • 00:21:04.876 --> 00:21:08.947
  • Fallen men.
  • 00:21:08.947 --> 00:21:11.683
  • And when you take fallen men, something that's imperfect, and
  • 00:21:11.683 --> 00:21:15.087
  • Try to match it with something that's perfect, the only thing
  • 00:21:15.087 --> 00:21:17.723
  • That's gonna happen is you're gonna see your imperfections in
  • 00:21:17.723 --> 00:21:20.959
  • The face of perfection like you've never seen it before.
  • 00:21:20.959 --> 00:21:26.031
  • Jesus said, "i gotta come up with something else, this is
  • 00:21:26.031 --> 00:21:28.133
  • Not working."
  • 00:21:28.133 --> 00:21:29.835
  • Because the law in and of itself will cause condemnation and
  • 00:21:29.835 --> 00:21:34.373
  • Shame and guilt, which what it was designed to do.
  • 00:21:34.373 --> 00:21:39.277
  • The bible says, "the law simply shows us how sinful we are."
  • 00:21:39.277 --> 00:21:42.047
  • Verse 21, "but now god has shown us a way to be made right with
  • 00:21:42.047 --> 00:21:46.418
  • Him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was
  • 00:21:46.418 --> 00:21:52.324
  • Promised in the writings of moses and the prophets long ago.
  • 00:21:52.324 --> 00:21:57.896
  • We are made right with god by placing our faith in
  • 00:21:57.896 --> 00:22:00.832
  • Jesus christ.
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  • And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who
  • 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:07.205
  • You are.
  • 00:22:07.205 --> 00:22:09.274
  • For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of god's
  • 00:22:09.274 --> 00:22:14.045
  • Glorious standard."
  • 00:22:14.045 --> 00:22:16.214
  • That just simply means, as a result of sin, everyone has to
  • 00:22:16.214 --> 00:22:22.287
  • Deal with inferiority.
  • 00:22:22.287 --> 00:22:24.723
  • Inferiority is that feeling of falling short, inferiority is
  • 00:22:24.723 --> 00:22:28.326
  • That feeling of not feeling that you're noticed or that you're
  • 00:22:28.326 --> 00:22:35.534
  • Cared for.
  • 00:22:35.534 --> 00:22:40.405
  • The only antidote and answer for inferiority is jesus.
  • 00:22:40.405 --> 00:22:45.477
  • 24, "yet god, in his grace, freely makes us right in
  • 00:22:45.477 --> 00:22:50.849
  • His sight.
  • 00:22:50.849 --> 00:22:52.184
  • He did this through jesus christ when he freed us from the
  • 00:22:52.184 --> 00:22:55.687
  • Penalty of our sin.
  • 00:22:55.687 --> 00:23:01.092
  • For god presented jesus as the sacrifice for sin.
  • 00:23:01.092 --> 00:23:03.929
  • People are made right with god when they believe that jesus
  • 00:23:03.929 --> 00:23:07.199
  • Sacrificed his life."
  • 00:23:07.199 --> 00:23:08.533
  • How many of you believe that jesus sacrificed his life, how
  • 00:23:08.533 --> 00:23:11.403
  • Many of you believe in this shedding of his blood?
  • 00:23:11.403 --> 00:23:13.672
  • When you believe what jesus did for you, the reason why he's not
  • 00:23:13.672 --> 00:23:17.909
  • Going to charge sin to your account is because he decided to
  • 00:23:17.909 --> 00:23:22.214
  • Charge it to the account of jesus.
  • 00:23:22.214 --> 00:23:24.216
  • Jesus has taken upon himself all of the sins of the world, both
  • 00:23:24.216 --> 00:23:28.687
  • Of those who are born again and who are not born again.
  • 00:23:28.687 --> 00:23:31.256
  • He says, "i took the the sins of the sinner," so when he got
  • 00:23:31.256 --> 00:23:34.726
  • Ready to get born again, i was already his sacrifice as well.
  • 00:23:34.726 --> 00:23:40.999
  • "people are made right with god when they believe that jesus
  • 00:23:40.999 --> 00:23:44.035
  • Sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.
  • 00:23:44.035 --> 00:23:47.105
  • The sacrifice shows that god was being fair when he held back and
  • 00:23:47.105 --> 00:23:52.177
  • Did not punish those who sinned in times past, for he was
  • 00:23:52.177 --> 00:23:56.982
  • Looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this
  • 00:23:56.982 --> 00:24:00.785
  • Present time.
  • 00:24:00.785 --> 00:24:02.120
  • God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is
  • 00:24:02.120 --> 00:24:07.125
  • Fair and just, and he makes sinners right in his sight when
  • 00:24:07.125 --> 00:24:13.198
  • They believe in jesus."
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