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Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance (Part 2)

July 11, 2025 | S25 E168 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Maintaining Your Righteous Stance (Part 2) | July 11, 2025
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  • Coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: your failures don't change
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  • Jesus's righteousness.
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  • As long as jesus is righteous and you believe in him,
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  • You are righteous.
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  • But the church and religion teaches you that your failure
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  • Changes jesus's righteousness, because you think
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  • You're no longer righteous.
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  • You're righteous because of him, not because of you.
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  • So your failure didn't change his righteousness.
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  • So if he's okay, you okay.
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  • You're no longer okay, if he's not okay.
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  • The only way you're not okay is if something happened with him,
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  • Not being okay.
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  • But ain't nothing gonna happen with his okayness.
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  • As long as he is okay, you okay.
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  • Everybody say, i'm okay.
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me once again to
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  • The book of romans chapter 1, and verse 16.
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  • And so this morning, we began talking about maintaining
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  • Your righteous stance, that we understand that there's gonna be
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  • A release of technology like we've never seen before.
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  • But christian people, we're not afraid of technology.
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  • We're gonna use it to advance the gospel like never before.
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  • We also know that there's gonna be this weird dissension,
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  • Separation, split, whatever you wanna call it within the church.
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  • There will be a compromising, if you will, church.
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  • And then there will be one who will understand what the gospel
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  • Is all about.
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  • And there'll be lots of offense, and lots of slanders,
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  • And leaders fighting one another.
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  • But the church will be all right after it's all over,
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  • Which the church will still rise up out of that as well.
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  • There will be the coming together of governments from all
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  • Over the world as the antichrist spirit works diligently
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  • To achieve this one world government.
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  • At the same time, working diligently to annihilate
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  • The church.
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  • Everything is to prepare for the revealing of the antichrist,
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  • To work diligently with technology
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  • So that the communication will go all around the world
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  • At one time.
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  • And yet i'm not afraid of none of that.
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  • The thing that concerns me the most is that when all of that
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  • Is going on, what will be happening to you?
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  • For there will be an attack in your soul like
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  • You've never experienced.
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  • Our identity is righteousness.
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  • And there are many who still struggle with believing that
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  • They've been made righteous and satan will attack you in your
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  • Soul, in your mind, and in your emotions with shame, and guilt,
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  • And condemnation.
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  • And the objective is to shame you out of your real identity,
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  • Which is righteousness.
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  • The objective is to cause you to feel guilty about your past,
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  • And so you continue to have change connected to what god
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  • Has already forgiven you of.
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  • The objective is to condemn you to the point where you think
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  • God doesn't even want to use you anymore.
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  • Get the message from this morning.
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  • So what we're gonna deal with tonight is we're gonna talk
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  • About the effects of righteousness.
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  • What happens when you go ahead and receive it?
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  • What happens when you go ahead and believe it?
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  • What happens when you start walking in it?
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  • There are some, there are some effects that come with receiving
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  • Your righteousness.
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  • Let's begin tonight.
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  • Romans chapter 1, and verse 16, he says, "for i am not ashamed."
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  • The apostle paul is speaking here, "for i am not ashamed
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  • Of this good news," the gospel about christ.
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  • This good news is good news about christ.
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  • He says, i'm not ashamed of that.
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  • And yet there will be cold love that will go out throughout
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  • The church.
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  • People are going to come to a point where
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  • They just don't care anymore.
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  • Their love will wax cold.
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  • And i'm wondering how many of you who are seated here today,
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  • Will you even be interested in what jesus has to say this time
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  • Next year?
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  • An all out launch to just try to work on your soul so you can
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  • Give up, cave in, and quit.
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  • But i prophesy over world changers,
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  • Not here, devil.
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  • "i'm not ashamed of the good news about christ.
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  • This good news is the power of god at work in you."
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  • This good news about christ is the power of god.
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  • What is that good news?
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  • The good news that christ has forgiven you of your sins.
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  • The good news that in him, you've been made righteous
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  • Without working to earn that righteousness.
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  • But you have been made right, because your righteousness
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  • Is in him.
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  • "it is the power of god at work, saving everyone
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  • Who believes--the jew first and also the gentile."
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  • And in verse 17, he says this, "this good news tells us
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  • How god makes us right in his sight."
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  • So he is specifically talking about the good news
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  • Of how you've been made righteous in the sight of god.
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  • How you just believing that you've been made right
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  • Because of jesus.
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  • That is the good news the world can't understand.
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  • And even some of the church can't understand, how can you be
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  • Made right without earning it through your goody-goody things?
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  • This good news tells us how god makes us right in his sight.
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  • He said, this is accomplished from start to finish
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  • By your faith.
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  • Something happens when you finally say, okay god, i believe
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  • I'm the righteousness of god, because you said so.
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  • Abraham said, i believe and the bible says in genesis,
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  • Immediately heaven said, you're righteous without him doing
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  • Any goody-goody thing first.
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  • Heaven said you're righteous because you believe.
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  • He said, "this is accomplished from start to finish by faith."
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  • As the scripture says, "it is through faith that
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  • A righteous person has life."
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  • Now, let's look at the effects of righteousness.
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  • 1 john chapter 2, and verse 1.
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  • 1 john chapter 2, and verse 1.
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  • What happens when you finally just give up on sweating
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  • To try to get what has already been given to you?
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  • What happens when you begin to accept the fact that i am
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  • Who he says that i am.
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  • That is my identity.
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  • I am the righteousness of god when i'm up, when i'm down,
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  • When i missed it, when i made it,
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  • I'm the righteousness of god.
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  • What happens when you do that?
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  • Here's the first effect, "my dear children,
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  • I am writing this to you so that you will not sin.
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  • But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case
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  • Before the father, he is jesus christ, the one who is
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  • Truly righteous."
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  • You know what he is saying here?
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  • That your failures don't alter jesus's righteousness.
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  • Think about what i said.
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  • Your failures don't change jesus's righteousness.
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  • As long as jesus is righteous and you believe in him,
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  • You are righteous.
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  • But the church and religion teaches you that your failure
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  • Changes jesus's righteousness because you think
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  • You're no longer righteous.
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  • You're righteous because of him, not because of you.
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  • So your failure didn't change his righteousness.
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  • So if he's okay, you okay.
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  • You're no longer okay, if he's not okay.
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  • The only way you're not okay is if something happened with him
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  • Not being okay.
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  • But ain't nothing gonna happen with his okayness.
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  • As long as he is okay, you okay.
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  • Everybody say i'm okay.
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  • Once you believe, your failures don't alter his righteousness.
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  • Let's look at the next effect.
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  • Ephesians chapter 1. let's look at this in the nlt.
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  • Ephesians chapter 1, verse 4, and then colossians chapter 1
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  • And 22.
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  • So i'm righteous because i believe in jesus.
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  • And jesus said, that he's made me right with him.
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  • And i say, i believe that lord and it's hard to believe
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  • When you're not doing right.
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  • But you're doing right doesn't change your identity
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  • Is righteous.
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  • And that's what satan's after.
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  • I got to get you to believe that you are as you behave.
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  • Look what he says here in verse 4, "even before he made
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  • The world, god," oh my goodness, "god loved us and chose us
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  • In christ and in christ, he chose us to be holy in christ,
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  • And he chose us to be without fault in his eyes."
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  • You know how strong that is?
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  • So he said before he made the world, he--before you were born,
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  • Before you even formed into a fetus.
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  • He loved you and he chose you in christ.
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  • He already decided he's not gonna see you in yourself.
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  • He gonna see you in christ.
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  • And in christ, and what does it mean to be in christ?
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  • If you're born again, you're in christ.
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  • In christ, you are holy right now.
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  • But you don't believe that and satan's gonna work on that.
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  • Don't believe that ain't no way you holy in christ.
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  • Look at you, look at what you did last year.
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  • Look at what you just did five minutes ago.
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  • How you gonna say you holy?
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  • The same way, paul, a murderer and a persecutor of the church
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  • And one who stood by and allowed steven to be stoned to death.
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  • And this paul said 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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  • How can he say that when you can turn to the next page and see
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  • Him wronging people, defrauding people, and corrupting people?
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  • How could he say that?
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  • He made his mind up.
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  • Since i don't know what to do with my wicked self, i'm gonna
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  • Go ahead and receive jesus, and believe him, and realize
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  • That my righteousness is always gonna be stronger than my sin.
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  • And if i believe that i'm righteous, i'm telling you,
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  • That's gonna take care of your sinning.
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  • You gotta get your identity fixed before you see
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  • Your behavior fixed.
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  • And religion is teaching you to deal with your behavior first
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  • And ignore your identity.
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  • But jesus is saying, i need you to believe your identity
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  • In jesus christ.
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  • And in christ jesus, i need you to believe you're holy.
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  • And in christ jesus, as you believe that you are holy,
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  • I see you as holy.
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  • But i also see you without fault.
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  • Oh think about--thinking about this knowing you got plenty
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  • Of fault.
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  • But you sit there and say, jesus sees me with no fault.
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  • Who does that?
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  • It's not hard to love him.
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  • He loved me before i was ever born, died for me.
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  • Went to the hell i should have went to.
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  • And then he says, i see you with no fault.
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  • That's beyond my thinking.
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  • I don't, i can't figure that out.
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  • How can you see me without fault?
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  • He said, cause i'm not looking at you outside of christ.
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  • When i look at you, i'm only looking at you in christ,
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  • And i see you holy and i see you righteous and i see you
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  • Without fault.
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  • And satan wants to contradict that just like he did with
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  • Adam and eve in the garden.
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  • He wants to come to you and say lie, lie, lie, look at yourself.
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  • Remember what you did?
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  • You ain't no good.
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  • Because if he can destroy and attack your identity,
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  • You will buy the chaos that is to come in this world.
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  • There's gonna be chaos, and there's gonna be foolishness
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  • Like you've never seen before.
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  • But just because there's gonna be chaos doesn't mean you have
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  • To dwell in the chaos.
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  • You can dwell in the peace that comes with believing christ,
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  • And operating in his grace.
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  • And the church said, amen.
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  • Now let's look at this scripture in colossians chapter 1, 22,
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  • In the nlt.
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  • This literally broke me down when i was reading yesterday
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  • Because i'm like, i believe it, but you're so awesome.
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  • He said, "yet now he has reconciled you to himself."
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  • He did it, "through the depth of christ in his physical body."
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  • Now, as a result of jesus dying in his physical body,
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  • "he has brought you into his own presence."
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  • I now have access to the presence of god, not because
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  • I earned it, not because i deserved it, but i believed in
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  • Jesus and him making me right, and now i have access
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  • To his presence.
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  • And he says, "and you are holy, and you are blameless
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  • As you stand before him without a single fault."
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  • Now, that may not mean a lot to a lot of you, but somebody who's
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  • Been walking around, beating themselves up and allowing
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  • The devil to beat you up, and telling you day in
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  • And night that you ain't no good, that you deserve hell.
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  • That all what you did will never be forgiven or you should be
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  • Ashamed of yourself.
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  • It may not mean much to you, but to that guy, it means a whole
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  • Lot because it says i got an opportunity to walk away from
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  • All of the crazy i used to be, and stand in his presence
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  • Without one single fault.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • My goodness.
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  • That's the effect of it.
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  • If this thing takes place, if satan doesn't stop this thing,
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  • You're gonna walk around knowing that you're more powerful
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  • Than he is.
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  • He's got to get you to accept that you are every bit
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  • Of your bad behavior.
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  • And the bad behavior won't change because you won't yield
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  • To believing jesus as the one who's made you righteous.
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  • 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
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  • Will overcome the sinning.
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  • You keep worrying about the sinning.
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  • It's almost like you think you can be righteous by doing,
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  • Doing, doing, and you think you can be free from sin by doing,
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  • Doing, doing.
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  • And you don't get what this is all about.
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  • You need jesus christ.
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  • You are a human being stained with the sin of adam.
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  • And the only way out is jesus.
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  • You fall short of the glory of god.
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  • You have inferiority because of what happened
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  • In the garden of eden.
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  • You feel like you don't measure up, you feel like
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  • You're not cared about.
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  • You are inferior.
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  • And the only way to defeat that inferiority is through
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  • Jesus christ and the devil knows it.
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  • He knows if i can keep you in inferiority, if i can keep you
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  • Thinking that way, you won't change how you live,
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  • You won't change what 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
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  • To do, because you're not who you used to be.
  • 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.822
  • Because in him, he 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 antichrist
  • 00:19:16.568 --> 00:19:20.372
  • Coming, and oh, what about 666?
  • 00:19:20.372 --> 00:19:22.541
  • And yet i ain't worrying about that.
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  • I'm more concerned about you believing who jesus says
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  • You are.
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  • And if you believe who jesus says you are, if you should bump
  • 00:19:28.380 --> 00:19:31.116
  • Into the antichrist, you can recall luke chapter 10:19.
  • 00:19:31.116 --> 00:19:36.088
  • "behold, i give you power over all the power of the enemy.
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  • And you'll tread on serpents, and you'll tread on scorpions.
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  • And nothing will, by any means hurt you."
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  • I am the righteousness of god, devil.
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  • Take that stuff somewhere else because in jesus
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  • You can't touch this.
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  • Are y'all see what i'm saying?
  • 00:19:58.477 --> 00:20:02.047
  • It's not just you knowing what i am saying,
  • 00:20:02.047 --> 00:20:08.520
  • It's you receiving until you place ownership
  • 00:20:08.520 --> 00:20:18.563
  • Of this righteousness, 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 move past flapping your jaws, to i'm righteous.
  • 00:20:33.845 --> 00:20:42.988
  • Now, the enemy has got a problem.
  • 00:20:42.988 --> 00:20:47.693
  • Somebody said, well, i don't need to know none of this.
  • 00:20:47.693 --> 00:20:50.529
  • Well, "they that live godly shall suffer persecution."
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  • You ready for yours?
  • 00:20:52.531 --> 00:20:57.469
  • But pastor it's gonna be hard.
  • 00:20:57.469 --> 00:20:58.904
  • That's what life is.
  • 00:20:58.904 --> 00:21:00.272
  • You're going down the path, you are on a journey.
  • 00:21:00.272 --> 00:21:02.908
  • And i'm screaming to the top of my voice tonight because
  • 00:21:02.908 --> 00:21:08.213
  • What bothers me is this is so simple that your intelligentsia
  • 00:21:08.213 --> 00:21:14.519
  • Is gonna let it pass by your mind.
  • 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:16.888
  • Why you allow the world to move you into concentrating
  • 00:21:16.888 --> 00:21:21.693
  • On something that's not as important as your identity.
  • 00:21:21.693 --> 00:21:26.098
  • I wanna remind you the first attack satan released on adam
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  • Was his identity.
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  • 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
  • 00:21:39.444 --> 00:21:43.882
  • Our identity in jesus christ, not what your last name is
  • 00:21:43.882 --> 00:21:47.652
  • Right now.
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  • 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
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  • For the devil to reap havoc in every area of your life.
  • 00:22:01.967 --> 00:22:05.637
  • Your relationships, your marriages, oh yeah.
  • 00:22:05.637 --> 00:22:10.842
  • You got to know you're the righteous righteousness of god.
  • 00:22:10.842 --> 00:22:13.145
  • Why are you married?
  • 00:22:13.145 --> 00:22:14.613
  • Because if not, you'll start conducting yourself like worldly
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  • Relationships, and you won't see that through this righteousness,
  • 00:22:18.717 --> 00:22:26.358
  • You conduct yourself as someone who is holy, and righteous,
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  • And without fault.
  • 00:22:32.497 --> 00:22:34.633
  • But if you won't do that, you won't have patience with
  • 00:22:34.633 --> 00:22:38.203
  • Jethro and them, and you'll just say, look, i'm--you know,
  • 00:22:38.203 --> 00:22:43.308
  • I ain't in him no more.
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  • I love him, but i'm not in love with him.
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  • You know that excuse that we use.
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