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Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation

January 13, 2025 | S25:E14

Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation
Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation | January 13, 2025
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  • And that calling and ministry is the ministry of reconciliation.
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  • And now you gotta ask yourself, "have i been involved in the
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  • Creflo: this morning, if you will, go with me to the book of
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5, 2 corinthians chapter 5, verse 17
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  • Through 21.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5, verse 17 through 21.
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  • And i'm gonna talk to you about, and i call this, the ministry
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  • Of reconciliation.
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  • What is that?
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  • You know, you can quote the scripture, you know where the
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  • Verse is, but what does this mean?
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  • And we wanna take some time to really dive into this, really
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  • Milk this, and i wanna relate to you the reconciliation that we
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  • Have with god versus the reconciliation that we should
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  • Have with one another.
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  • The ministry of reconciliation.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17, he says, "therefore if
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  • Any man be in christ," now notice there are no
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  • Limitations here.
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  • "if any man be in christ," regardless of his pigmentation,
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  • "if any man be in christ," he is a new creation, "he's a
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  • New creature."
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  • He is a new species of being that has never existed before.
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  • So if any man be in christ, the key is, are you in christ?
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  • And now if you're in christ, you take on a new creation.
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  • If you're in christ, then you're a new species of being that's
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  • Never existed before, praise god.
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  • The key is if you're in christ.
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  • And how do you get in christ?
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  • You get born again, you make jesus the lord of your life.
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  • And he says what happens is that now that you're in christ and
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  • Now that you're born again, "old things are passed away; and
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  • Behold, all things are become new."
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  • So i'm in christ, old things have passed away, the old man
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  • Has passed away, but he says that all things have
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  • Been--become new.
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  • So old things have passed and all things have become new when
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  • You get in christ.
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  • Next verse.
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  • "and all things are of god," when you get in christ, "who
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  • Hath reconciled us to himself," how did he do that?
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  • "by jesus christ."
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  • So all things are of god who have reconciled or restored
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  • To friendship.
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  • You've got to understand that there was enmity between god and
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  • Man, and to reconcile god says, "i've got to restore the
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  • Friendship that god had with man before sin was the reason that
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  • Destroyed that relationship."
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  • And now there's a cause for reconciliation between god
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  • And man.
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  • But now, you can see where if sin was the cause of this break,
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  • Of this breach, in this relationship, that somehow god's
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  • Gonna have to deal with sin in order to cause reconciliation.
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  • He's not gonna be able to reconcile if the very thing that
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  • Broke up the relationship is still there.
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  • So it says, "all things are of god, who hath reconciled us to
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  • Himself by jesus christ," that's the key, by jesus christ, "and
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  • Hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation."
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  • So a couple things here.
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  • He says he wants to reconcile us, or he has reconciled us,
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  • To himself.
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  • How did he do it?
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  • He did it through jesus.
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  • Christ.
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  • Jesus was the key to god being able to restore this friendship
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  • Between god and man.
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  • And then he has given to every man who has been reconciled the
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  • Ministry of reconciliation.
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  • He said, "to wit, that god was in christ," look at the deity
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  • Here: god was in christ.
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  • What was he doing in christ?
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  • "reconciling the world," or restoring the world,
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  • "unto himself."
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  • So god here is saying--what he is doing here is he's gonna do
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  • It for the whole world.
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  • He says, "i'm gonna make a way available for any man on the
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  • Planet to be restored to friendship with god through
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • "to wit, that god was in christ, reconciling the world unto
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  • Himself," now look at what he did here, "not imputing their
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  • Trespasses unto them."
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  • So he says, "i'm going to reconcile the world, but i'm not
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  • Gonna charge their sin to their account.
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  • I'm not gonna charge sin to their account."
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  • "not imputing their trespasses unto them," reconciling
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  • The world.
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  • There's only--"if i impute, if i charge sin to their account, i
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  • Won't be able to reconcile the world.
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  • If i don't deal with the sin issue, then i won't be able to
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  • Reconcile the world."
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  • So he says, "i'm not going to charge sin to their account.
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  • Therefore, i'll be able to cause reconciliation to be available
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  • To the world."
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  • "and hath committed unto us," watch this, "the word
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  • Of reconciliation."
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  • So again, he says not only was he responsible for reconciling,
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  • But he says, "i now commit to you the word or the ministry of
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  • Restoration to friendship, or the ministry of reconciliation."
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  • Now look at this, verse 20: "now then we are ambassadors
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  • For christ."
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  • Now, what's an ambassador?
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  • An ambassador is an authorized messenger, an
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  • Authorized representative.
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  • So he's committed to us the word of reconciliation, he's
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  • Committed to us the ministry of reconciliation, and then he
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  • Authorizes us as an authorized messenger of reconciliation, the
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  • Church, those of you who have been born again.
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  • "as though god did beseech you by us: we pray you in christ's
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  • Stead, that you be reconciled to god."
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  • That's the message: be reconciled to god.
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  • That's the thing we should be preaching to everybody in the
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  • World that's not born again: be reconciled to god.
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  • That's what you ought to be saying to that unsaved uncle.
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  • That's what you ought to be saying to that unsaved friend:
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  • Be reconciled to god.
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  • That's what you say to your children: be reconciled to god.
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  • And then in verse 21, very powerful verse: "for he hath
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  • Made him to be sin for us."
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  • He has made jesus to be sin for us.
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  • Why did he have to do that?
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  • "who knew no sin," so now this talks about not only the deity
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  • Of christ, but the sinlessness of christ.
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  • "he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin."
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  • He didn't know any sin, but he was made to be sin for us.
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  • He took our sins, he who had no sins.
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  • He took our sins.
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  • Why?
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  • "that we might be made the righteousness of god in him."
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  • Why?
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  • Why did we need to be made the righteousness of god and the
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  • Only way we could be made the righteousness of god was to get
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  • In jesus?
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  • What's going on here?
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  • I know this is something that we read over and over and over
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  • Again, but digging into this, what is really happening here?
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  • What is this ministry of reconciliation?
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  • Well, 2 corinthians chapter 5:17, we've read that and we
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  • Understand that there were great changes.
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  • "behold, all things have become new."
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  • The great changes reconciliation brings upon the sinner are
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  • Changes only the gospel, which i just shared with you, can bring
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  • To man.
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  • So there are three specific changes that we see in these
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  • Verses of scripture, and i think i wanna take some time to
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  • Show you.
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  • What are those changes that come as a result of reconciliation?
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  • The first change, number one, we see a change in devotion.
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  • Once a man has been restored back to friendship with god,
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  • Once a man has been saved, there is a change in devotion.
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  • That whatever you were devoted to before, that devotion is
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  • Gonna change, a change in devotion.
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  • Your interest will greatly change.
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  • A saved person will have interest in spiritual things and
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  • An unsaved person will not have interest in spiritual things.
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  • A saved person will have devotion for christ and an
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  • Unsaved person will not.
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  • So the change that happens when you're reconciled with god, your
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  • Interest will change, your devotion will change.
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  • I don't know what you were devoted to before, but once you
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  • Are reconciled back to god, your devotion is to him, to
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  • Spiritual things.
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  • The second change that we see, the change of deportment, or the
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  • Change in deportment, and all that is, is a change
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  • In behavior.
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  • A change in deportment, a change of deportment, there will be
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  • Change in that person's behavior.
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  • It may not be right away, but you're gonna see some right away
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  • Changes and then you're gonna see the holy spirit just
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  • Changing them from the inside out.
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  • There's gonna be a change in deportment.
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  • You're going to see a change in behavior when he is saved, when
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  • He is reconciled to god, that you're gonna see a change in
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  • That person's behavior.
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  • Now, you understand what i'm saying?
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  • When you get born again and you accept jesus as the lord and
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  • Savior of your life, the holy spirit is the agent of change
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  • And he's gonna show up in your life and he's gonna change your
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  • Desires on the inside.
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  • He's gonna change you within if you begin to recognize who you
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  • Are, and you're gonna see change in your life.
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  • That's gonna be a change.
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  • This change will especially be noted if that person was saved
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  • In his adult life.
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  • You will see a change, the change in deportment.
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  • Number three, you're gonna see a change in destiny.
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  • This is obvious.
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  • When a person gets saved, when a person is reconciled, when a
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  • Person is restored back to god, this is the greatest and the
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  • Most important change: it's the eternal destiny of the
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  • Reconciled soul that is gonna now be in heaven.
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  • The unreconciled soul is headed for eternity in hell.
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  • The reconciled soul is headed for eternity in heaven.
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  • So there's a change in destiny.
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  • So we see very clearly three very, very clear changes that
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  • Will happen when you get born again, when you're reconciled to
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  • God, when you get saved.
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  • Number one, there's a change in devotion.
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  • Number two, there's a change in deportment, or change
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  • Of behavior.
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  • And number three, there's gonna be a change in destiny just by
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  • Accepting, be reconciled to god.
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  • Now listen to me carefully.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 18, "and all things are of
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  • God, who hath reconciled us to himself," how?
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  • "by jesus christ, and has given us--given to us the ministry
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  • Of reconciliation."
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  • Reconciliation is a work of god that can only happen through
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Now, i'm trying to get through your religious ears.
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  • I want you to understand, god would not have been able to
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  • Reconcile with man without jesus christ.
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  • Jesus christ is, in the equation, is the only way you
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  • And i could be restored back to friendship to god.
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  • Why?
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  • That's the question we're looking for--the answer we're
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  • Looking for.
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  • Reconciliation involves the work of the gospel.
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  • It's all, everything about reconciliation, all revolves
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  • Around christ.
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  • Everything about being reconciled back to god,
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  • Everything about being restored back to friendship after sin in
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  • The garden caused enmity between god and man, everything about
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  • Being restored back to god revolves around christ.
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  • Why?
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  • If you leave him out, you will not have any reconciliation.
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  • You know, i just thought, well, you know, just, god just
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  • Reconciled with man, but i never thought about the intricate
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  • Details of what god had to do and why he had to have a jesus
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  • In order to be able to do that.
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  • And i'm telling you right now, if it were not for jesus, he
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  • Would not be able to restore friendship with mankind.
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  • Now, 2 corinthians chapter 5:19, pay--please very pay--pay close
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  • Attention to what i'm saying because i'm gonna get into some
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  • Heavy stuff, but this is the foundation of where i'm going.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 19 and 20, god has called
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  • The reconciled to be involved in a ministry of reconciliation.
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  • You see in verse 18 that he has given us the ministry of
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  • Reconciliation; verse 19, that he has given unto us the word of
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  • Reconciliation, so god has called us to be involved in the
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  • Ministry of reconciliation.
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  • Everybody that's born again, everybody that's saved,
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  • Everybody that's had their friendship restored back to god,
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  • You have a calling on your life and you have a ministry in
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  • Your life.
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  • And that calling and ministry is the ministry of reconciliation.
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  • And now you've gotta ask yourself, "have i been involved
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  • In the ministry i've been called to?"
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  • You're trying to get into another ministry and god--and
  • 00:15:54.900 --> 00:15:57.102
  • That's fine, but god is calling us, everybody who's been saved,
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  • Everybody who's been restored--their friendship
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  • Restored back to god, you are now called into the ministry
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  • Of reconciliation.
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  • What's that about?
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  • Well, let's dissect that just for a moment.
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  • Let's look at all of the elements that are involved in
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  • This calling of the ministry of reconciliation.
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  • Let's look at all of the elements that are involved in
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  • The ministry of reconciliation.
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  • The first thing that we see that's involved is that there
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  • Is--there are messengers of reconciliation.
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  • We've all been called to ministry, so there are messages
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  • Of reconciliation.
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  • And in verse 19, he says, "and hath committed unto us the word
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  • Of reconciliation."
  • 00:16:46.151 --> 00:16:47.519
  • So he hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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  • We are--and then he also says we are ambassadors for christ,
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  • Which i told you an ambassador is a authorized messenger.
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  • So, you've been authorized as an ambassador to be a messenger of
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  • This reconciliation.
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  • And only the redeemed, only the reconciled, are given a
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  • Commission to spread this gospel, this good news about
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  • We've been restored back to friendship with god.
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  • So there are messengers in this call.
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  • Number two, it's the message of reconciliation.
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  • What's the message of reconciliation?
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  • Well, he says in scripture, "be you reconciled to god."
  • 00:17:31.763 --> 00:17:34.833
  • That's the message.
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  • Be reconciled to god, that's the message.
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  • Be reconciled to god.
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  • It's not complicated.
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  • That's the message when you go back--go on the street: be
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  • Reconciled to god.
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  • When you go to jail: be reconciled to god.
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  • When you have your thanksgiving dinners with your unsaved
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  • Relatives: be reconciled to god.
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  • The great need of man is reconciliation with god.
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  • That's the greatest need.
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  • The great need to man is sin created enmity between you and
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  • God, and god's figured out a way to restore the friendship.
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  • And now that he's been successful in figuring that out,
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  • He is saying to every man that's not saved, "be reconciled
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  • To god."
  • 00:18:15.073 --> 00:18:16.942
  • So the message is not heard in a lot of churches today, though it
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  • Is, in my opinion, the only thing that brings salvation to
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  • The souls of men.
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  • Nothing you do can get you saved.
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  • You gotta be reconciled to god.
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  • To accept that will be to your benefit.
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  • To deny that will be to your strong disadvantage.
  • 00:18:39.031 --> 00:18:43.802
  • Here's the third element that we see in this calling.
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  • In this calling of reconciliation there is a
  • 00:18:47.739 --> 00:18:50.475
  • Savior, there is a savior in reconciliation.
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  • God was in christ.
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  • Did you notice that in scripture?
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  • God was in christ.
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  • What was he doing in christ?
  • 00:18:58.584 --> 00:18:59.952
  • Reconciling the world unto himself.
  • 00:18:59.952 --> 00:19:02.521
  • So reconciliation comes, watch this, reconciliation, a
  • 00:19:02.521 --> 00:19:06.558
  • Restoration of friendship can only come, watch this, through
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • I'm headed somewhere, yeah*, guys.
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  • I'm headed somewhere.
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  • The savior is jesus.
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  • You're gonna figure out--you're gonna see that today.
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  • What is the savior's stuff?
  • 00:19:20.672 --> 00:19:22.040
  • The savior is jesus.
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  • He is the only one by whom men can be reconciled to god.
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  • You have to have a savior.
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  • We gotta be saved from something in order to be restored back to
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  • Friendship with god.
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  • Jesus is that savior.
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  • He is the only one by whom men can be reconciled to god.
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  • This is god's plan.
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  • This is not man's plan.
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  • This is god's plan.
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  • God was in christ.
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  • His plan was "i'm going to use jesus in order to restore
  • 00:19:51.637 --> 00:19:57.476
  • Friendship that was broken in the garden."
  • 00:19:57.476 --> 00:19:59.544
  • Why?
  • 00:19:59.544 --> 00:20:02.814
  • Here's the next element in reconciliation, the sanctifying
  • 00:20:02.814 --> 00:20:07.052
  • That takes place in reconciliation.
  • 00:20:07.052 --> 00:20:09.021
  • The word "sanctify" is the same greek word for "holiness," and
  • 00:20:09.021 --> 00:20:14.459
  • It means "whole."
  • 00:20:14.459 --> 00:20:15.794
  • Somehow, god's got to figure out how to make man whole.
  • 00:20:15.794 --> 00:20:18.930
  • "he's been infected with sin, we gotta make him whole.
  • 00:20:18.930 --> 00:20:21.400
  • I cannot reconcile or restore friendship with man until i can
  • 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.937
  • Make him whole."
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  • So, the sanctification that's in reconciliation.
  • 00:20:27.739 --> 00:20:31.476
  • And notice what he said, "not imputing their trespasses
  • 00:20:31.476 --> 00:20:34.780
  • Unto them."
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  • Oh, there's only--listen, he cannot reconcile man with the
  • 00:20:36.715 --> 00:20:43.088
  • Sin that caused the break.
  • 00:20:43.088 --> 00:20:46.158
  • He's got to deal with the sin.
  • 00:20:46.158 --> 00:20:48.026
  • So he says, "i'm not going to impute their trespasses
  • 00:20:48.026 --> 00:20:50.929
  • Under them."
  • 00:20:50.929 --> 00:20:52.264
  • So reconciliation involves the removal of sin from the sinner.
  • 00:20:52.264 --> 00:20:58.437
  • In order for man to be reconciled back to god, he's got
  • 00:20:58.437 --> 00:21:00.872
  • To remove the sin from the sinner.
  • 00:21:00.872 --> 00:21:03.108
  • God cannot be reconciled to man unless sin has been removed from
  • 00:21:03.108 --> 00:21:07.913
  • The man.
  • 00:21:07.913 --> 00:21:09.247
  • Whoo!
  • 00:21:09.247 --> 00:21:10.615
  • He cannot be reconciled to man unless sin has been removed from
  • 00:21:10.615 --> 00:21:14.486
  • The man because it's the sin that caused the break.
  • 00:21:14.486 --> 00:21:17.856
  • Please get that, all right?
  • 00:21:17.856 --> 00:21:21.526
  • Let's go to the next element that you will find in this
  • 00:21:21.526 --> 00:21:25.063
  • Ministry of reconciliation: the substitute for reconciliation,
  • 00:21:25.063 --> 00:21:30.202
  • The substitute.
  • 00:21:30.202 --> 00:21:31.536
  • There has to be a substitute for reconciliation.
  • 00:21:31.536 --> 00:21:32.938
  • "he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin,"
  • 00:21:32.938 --> 00:21:37.109
  • The substitute.
  • 00:21:37.109 --> 00:21:38.443
  • He has made jesus to be sin, who knew no sin.
  • 00:21:38.443 --> 00:21:42.714
  • So christ's death was a--it was substitutionary.
  • 00:21:42.714 --> 00:21:49.354
  • It was christ dying instead of man.
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  • Christ taking man's sin and going through the death and the
  • 00:21:53.825 --> 00:21:57.996
  • Punishment and the pain and hell for man's sin, christ became
  • 00:21:57.996 --> 00:22:02.601
  • The substitute.
  • 00:22:02.601 --> 00:22:03.935
  • Instead of man, christ became the substitute.
  • 00:22:03.935 --> 00:22:06.538
  • He took upon himself our sins, he paid the price on the christ*
  • 00:22:06.538 --> 00:22:10.642
  • That sinners could not pay.
  • 00:22:10.642 --> 00:22:13.745
  • It was too expensive.
  • 00:22:13.745 --> 00:22:15.147
  • Sinners could not pay it, so jesus paid it.
  • 00:22:15.147 --> 00:22:17.816
  • So notice here the sinless of christ, it's taught in this
  • 00:22:17.816 --> 00:22:23.021
  • Text, who knew no sin.
  • 00:22:23.021 --> 00:22:25.290
  • But you see, the sinless of christ and the deity of christ,
  • 00:22:25.290 --> 00:22:29.161
  • They are in the reconciliation message.
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  • All right, we're there now.
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  • Now take everything i just said to you, watch this last element,
  • 00:22:35.734 --> 00:22:41.006
  • And here we go.
  • 00:22:41.006 --> 00:22:43.508
  • The last element here that we find in this ministry, this
  • 00:22:43.508 --> 00:22:46.244
  • Calling of reconciliation, is the sanctity, the sanctity
  • 00:22:46.244 --> 00:22:51.716
  • From reconciliation.
  • 00:22:51.716 --> 00:22:54.319
  • That we might be made the righteousness of god in him.
  • 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:59.524
  • That we might be made, he has to now make us the righteousness
  • 00:22:59.524 --> 00:23:04.463
  • Of god.
  • 00:23:04.463 --> 00:23:05.797
  • And the only way he can do that is to make us righteous in him.
  • 00:23:05.797 --> 00:23:10.335
  • Listen to me carefully, this is radical, what i'm about to say:
  • 00:23:10.335 --> 00:23:14.005
  • In order to be reconciled to god, we must be as good as god.
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  • Male announcer: strife and discord are all too common in
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  • Today's world.
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  • Bridge divides and find harmony.
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  • Creflo: reconciliation must begin with the heavenly
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  • Conviction by god.
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  • People will disappoint you, people will wreck your emotions,
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  • People will be hateful, people will let you down.
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  • But god is a relational god.
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  • God endorses relationships.
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  • He says, "when you come together, i'm gonna use your
  • 00:23:57.916 --> 00:24:00.819
  • Differences to strengthen one another."
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