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Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation (Part 3)

January 20, 2025 | S25:E20

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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation (Part 3) | January 20, 2025

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Creflo: tonight, i wanna challenge your thinking.
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I wanna confront your intimacy that you have with the
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Holy spirit.
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And yet, i have come to know and come to understand that you will
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Never ever accomplish anything in anger.
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I've seen so many great messages get lost in anger.
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You have to make your mind up that you're gonna walk in love
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No matter what, amen?
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So allow me to take you through the scriptures.
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We--we're gonna dig into this thing, and i want you to just
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Stay there with me.
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I call it milking the scriptures.
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I wanna milk this, i want you to see some things.
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I wanna set you up and pray that this will really hit home with
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You and make a mark in your life that cannot be erased.
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2 corinthians chapter 5 verse 17, let's read verse 17 through
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21, very familiar scripture, verse 17 through 21, ready?
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Read: "therefore if any man be in christ, he is a new creature:
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Old things are passed away; behold, all things are
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Become new.
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And all things are of god, who hath reconciled us to himself by
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Jesus christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
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Reconciliation; to wit, that god was in christ, reconciling the
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World unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and
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Hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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Now then we are ambassadors for christ, as though god did
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Beseech you by us: we pray you in christ's stead, be ye
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Reconciled to god.
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For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
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Might be made the righteousness of god in him."
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Now, 2 corinthians chapter 5 and 17, we notice that there was
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A great change here.
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And we see in 17 that "if any man be in christ, he's a new
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Creature," so the great changes reconciliation brings upon a
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Sinner are the changes that only the gospel can bring to a man.
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I wanna bring to your attention three very important changes
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That occur, and just stay here in this--these few verses here
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And just pick out some things that--that'll kinda help us.
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There are three changes, three very important changes that
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Occurs when a person is reconciled back to god.
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That word "reconcile" is interesting: it is to restore to
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Friendship, it is to restore to harmony, but it also has little
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Synonyms like compatibility and agreement.
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And so the first change that you see, of course, when someone is
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Reconciled back to god, number one, you see the change
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In devotion.
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You see very clearly that your interest will greatly change;
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That a saved person, one who's been born again now, will have
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Interest in spiritual things, which an unsaved person
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Will not.
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And a saved person will have devotion for christ, which an
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Unsaved person will not.
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It kind of labels the distinction here, that there is
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A change of devotion to one who has been saved or reconciled
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To god.
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Second change we see is that there's a change in deportment
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Or behavior.
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You begin to see that, that there will be a change in a
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Person's behavior.
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As they get born again, the holy spirit begins to work on the
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Inside of them, giving them desires to do what pleases god.
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And there will be a change in a person's behavior when he is
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Saved or reconciled to god, and this change will especially be
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Noted if that person was saved in his adult life because you
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Very familiar with how they lived before they got saved,
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Pretty, pretty interesting things.
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And then the third important change that occurs when a
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Person's reconciled to god is there's a change in destiny, and
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That's a very important one, it's--this is the greatest and
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Most important change.
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The eternal destiny of that reconciled soul is now heaven,
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And then of course, the unreconciled soul is headed for
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Eternity in hell.
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And a man, a woman who's been reconciled to god sees that
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Change in destiny.
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Now, in 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 18, he says: and
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All things are of god, who hath reconciled us to himself by
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Jesus christ, and has given to us the ministry
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Of reconciliation."
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Reconciliation is a work of god that can only be possible
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Through jesus.
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Reconciliation is a work of god through jesus christ.
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Reconciliation involves--it involves the work of the gospel
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And it--and all of it revolves around jesus christ.
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If you leave him out, nothing works, leave him out and you
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Will not have any reconciliation.
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If you leave jesus out--now, understand what god is doing
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Here: because of sin, there's enmity between god and man
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Because of sin.
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And so when jesus was gonna show up on the earth, the angels
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Began to declare, "peace on earth, goodwill towards men."
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And now because of jesus, who would later become that sin
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Offering, he would become that peace offering, he would become
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That payment, it is now possible for there to be peace between
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God and man, and it is now possible, because of jesus, for
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Man to be reconciled back to god.
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But reconciliation is not possible without jesus christ,
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And i wanna keep slipping this in there.
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Why, why is reconciliation not possible without jesus christ?
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You know, somebody said, well, he's god, why don't you just go
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And fix everything?
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It's not possible.
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Yeah, he is god, but reconciliation between god and
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Man was absolutely and could not be possible without
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Jesus christ.
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If you understand that, say, amen.
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So 2 corinthians chapter 5, 19 and 10, we see that god has
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Called the reconciled, he has called the born again person to
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Be involved in a ministry of reconciliation.
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So for all of you who have made jesus the lord of your life and
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All of you who have been reconciled to god and all of you
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Who have been born again, you have a calling on your life.
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And that calling is involving this ministry of reconciliation,
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All of us.
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And i think sometimes we forget that we're born again with a
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Call of the ministry of reconciliation.
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We've been reconciled and given the ministry of reconciliation,
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So for--just for a moment, i wanna talk to you about the six
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Elements that are involved in the calling of the ministry
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Of reconciliation.
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I--i'm setting you up like a slab of beefs, baby, i'm gonna
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Get ready to barbecue you, roast you, sauté you.
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There's a calling of reconciliation, and there's six
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Elements that are involved in that calling.
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The first element is the messengers of reconciliation.
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And in verse 19, of course, he says: "and he hath committed
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Unto us the word of reconciliation."
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He also says in verse 20 that "we are ambassadors for christ,"
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Or authorized messengers.
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And so he makes it very clear, in this calling of
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Ref--reconciliation, only the reconciled, only the redeemed
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Are given the commission to spread this--the gospel.
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We've been commissioned in this ministry of reconciliation, so
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We are the messengers, those who have been reconciled back
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To god.
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By a show of hand, how many of you born again in here?
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Oh, wow, so i--i'm gonna say it like this, with a drawl, all
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Y'all have the calling of reconciliation on your life.
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So there's the messengers of reconciliation.
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The second element here, of this calling of reconciliation, is
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The message of reconciliation.
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You'll notice in verse 20 he says: "be ye reconciled to god,"
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The message of reconciliation.
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You see, there's a great move of god that's just--it just--it's
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Already stepped in.
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There's a great move of god like this earth has never seen
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Before, and now like no other time is the time for the
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Messengers of reconciliation to start preaching the message of
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Reconciliation to those who have not been reconciled to god.
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It's time to tell it to your uncle joe, time to tell it to
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Your brothers, your sisters, your neighbors, people that you
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Work with.
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It is time to say, "be reconciled to god."
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Because a lot of people have tried the--they tried the rest,
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But they've not tried the best.
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They've depended on their own abilities, they depended on what
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They could do, and those things are failing.
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Their systems are failing, their wisdom is failing and they're
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Looking for something right now, and they need to hear from us
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Who have been called to this message.
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They need to hear, "be reconciled to god."
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I don't understand why i don't have a job, be reconciled
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To god.
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I don't understand 100%, be reconciled to god.
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That's a message you don't wait until your preacher preaches,
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You preach it.
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You're being ca--i'm calling you right now, i'm ordaining you
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Right now as a messenger of reconciliation, preach: be
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Reconciled to god.
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If you understand that, say, amen.
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So the great need of a man is reconciliation with god.
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The message is not heard in many churches today, and though it's
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The only message that can bring salvation to the souls of men.
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You have the messengers, you have the message, number three,
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The third element, there's the savior in reconciliation.
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There's the savior.
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Verse 19 again, he says: "god was in christ," doing what?
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"reconciling the world unto himself."
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Reconciliation comes through jesus christ, you got to
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Know that.
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The savior is jesus, hm, he is the only one by whom men can be
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Reconciled to god.
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Why?
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The only one by which men can be reconciled to god.
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Now, this is god's plan, not man's plan.
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And i want you to note, in these scriptures, you see the deity of
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Christ in this text, god was in christ.
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The fourth element, the sanctifying in reconciliation,
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The sanctifying in reconciliation.
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Verse 19: "not imputing their trespasses unto them."
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There had to be a separation, there had to be a sanctifying
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In reconciliation.
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Reconciliation--listen to this: reconciliation involved the
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Removal of sin from the sinner, oh yeah, reconciliation involved
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Not--to not impute means i'm not charging this to your account.
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And notice, he was not imputing their sins unto them, not
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Imputing their trespasses unto them.
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He's not charging their sin unto them.
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See, reconciliation involved the removal of sin from the sinner
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Because god cannot be reconciled to man unless sin has been
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Removed from the man.
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There can be no reconciliation to man unless you take away what
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Made god and man an enemy, lord, have mercy!
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So god says, in this reconciliation, i'm gonna do
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Some sanctifying, and i will not impute their trespasses
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Unto them.
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And the reason why i'm not gonna impute their trespasses unto
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Them is because i--they gonna keep on messing up, but that's
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Why i need jesus.
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God cannot be reconciled to man unless sin has been removed from
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Man, and jesus came to take away the sins and make that available
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To the whole world and whoever wanted to come and be a part of
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This plan.
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The fifth element for reconciliation is the substitute
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For reconciliation.
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Notice in verse 21: "he hath made him to be sin for us, who
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Knew no sin."
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He made him; he who knew no sin was made sin for us.
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So christ, his death was substitutionary, it was for us.
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He died--he who didn't ha--he who had never sinned took our
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Sin, died in our place, was the substitute for us because if we
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Would have died, all the wrong stuff would have happened.
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But he who had never sinned did like a basketball player and
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Said, "i'm a sub.
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Take him out, i'm in for him," glory be to god.
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He took upon himself our sin, he paid the price on the cross that
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Sinners could not pay.
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And notice the scripture keeps mentioning that, the sinlessness
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Of christ is taught here, "who knew no sin."
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Both the sinlessness of christ and the deity of christ are in
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The reconciliation message.
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So the fifth element was the substitution that was involved
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In reconciliation, and then the final one, the sixth one, the
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Sanctity from reconciliation.
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All right, listen to this carefully, verse 21 again: "that
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We might be made the righteousness of god," and can
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Only be made righteous in jesus because when it comes to us, all
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Have sinned and come short.
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But jesus who had never sinned didn't come short, so if we can
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Get in him and he is the substitution for us, then the
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Bible makes it clear that we are made righteous in jesus.
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See, i'm righteous, not because of my righteousness, i'm
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Righteous because of his righteousness and i'm in him, so
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I have been made righteous.
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I didn't become righteous because of all my goody, goody
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Deeds, i was made righteous because i accepted jesus.
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And once i got into him, god now looks at me through jesus and he
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Sees me righteous.
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So in order to be reconciled to god--here it goes, here it goes,
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In order to be reconciled to god, we got to be as good as
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God, and you can't by yourself,
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You can't in your own ability.
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But in order for reconciliation to work, god's got to figure
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Something out so that there can be a compatibility between us
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And him.
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So how is he gonna make us, who have sinned, who have fallen
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Short, how is he gonna make us compatible with him to reconcile
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Us to be restored into harmony with him?
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How do you take a fallen us and bring us up to compatibility
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With him?
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Answer: jesus, the great equalizer; that's the only way,
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That's the only way.
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The only way that can--that this can happen is for the righteous
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God to impute to us his righteousness.
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Now he's charging righteousness to our account, oh, glory!
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I realize that i am not righteous because of what i do,
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I'm righteous because he said it.
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Abraham was righteous because god said, "you're righteous,"
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Oh, y'all don't hear me.
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Look at romans chapter 4, 20 and 20--20 through 25.
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Now, this is just my introduction.
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Look at romans chapter 4, verses 20 through 25.
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Watch this now, watch this, oh, glory to god.
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"he staggered not at the promise of god through unbelief; but was
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Strong in faith, giving thanks and glory to god; and
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Boon--being fully persuaded, what he had promised, he was
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Able also to perform.
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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
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Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
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To him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we
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Believe on him that raised jesus our lord from the dead."
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Isaiah chapter 61 and 10, look at what it says here.
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Isaiah chapter 61 and 10 talks about that we are clothed.
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He says: "i will greatly rejoice in the lord, my soul shall be
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Joyful in my god; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
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Salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
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And as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, praise
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The lord, and as a bride adorneth herself with
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Her jewels."
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Notice, "he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,"
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Hallelujah, i have been made righteous!
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Say that out loud: "i have been made righteous."
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You don't get up the next morning and say, "well, i don't
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Know if i'm righteous today because i didn't pray for an
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Hour," no, he made you righteous, he made
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You righteous!
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God wants--wanted to reconcile with you and he had to impute
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Righteousness unto you.
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Somehow, somehow this equation has got to be solved, how, how
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Are we gonna be made as good as god?
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Announcer: strife and discord are all too common in today's
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World, do you avoid it or face it head on?
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In his series, "the ministry of reconciliation," creflo dollar
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Shares powerful insights and practical tools to help us
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Creflo: reconciliation must begin with a heavenly
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Conviction by god.
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People will disappoint you.
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People will wreck your emotions.
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People will be hateful.
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People will let you down.
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But god is a relational god, god endorses relationships.
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He says when you come together, i'm gonna use your differences
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To strengthen one another.
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Polar opposite of the darkness that you've experienced.
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It is but god.
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Caroline leaf: so you have to build your relationship with god
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By spending time.
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Taffi: so we rejoice today knowing that he is god, and he
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Taught us about giving.
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And we understand that giving and receiving is a spiritual
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Law, it's a reflex of god's love.
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And i'm so glad that taffi and i began to understand how to walk
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In this principle.
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But we give, not out of necessity, we give out of a
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Cheerful heart, we give because we're grateful and we're
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Thankful to what god has done.
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Creflo Dollar - The Ministry of Reconciliation (Part 3)

January 20, 2025 | S25:E20

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