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Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For those Who Are In Christ (Part 2)

May 18, 2025 | S25:E121

Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For those Who Are In Christ (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - No Condemnation For those Who Are In Christ (Part 2) | May 18, 2025
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  • Announcer: coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: i'm gonna show you the little trick you've been
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  • Playing on us.
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  • The truth is is you don't have it all together, and that's
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  • Where our solution can start.
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  • Our solution starts with the truth of knowing you don't have
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  • It all together, and the problem comes is when you have to really
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  • Deceive yourself into thinking you have it all together.
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  • How can we expect to be delivered off the foundation of
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  • A lie that we're doing it to ourselves?
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  • Announcer: as a christian, what happens after you sin?
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  • Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of psalms
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  • 34, verse 22 in the nlt.
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  • Verse 22 says, "but the lord will redeem those who serve him.
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  • No one who takes refuge in him will be condemned,"
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  • No one that takes refuge in him will be condemned.
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  • Now, look at john chapter 3, verse 17 through 18.
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  • "no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned."
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  • Verse 17 and 18: "for god sent not his son into the world to
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  • Condemn the world," so jesus was not sent here to judge and
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  • Disapprove and condemn the world, "but that the world
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  • Through him might be saved."
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  • Not, they're not gonna get saved through condemnation.
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  • They're gonna get saved through jesus.
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  • Verse 18: "he that believeth on him is not condemned," the
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  • Authenticity of your belief on him is going to be equal to your
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  • Decision to depend on him.
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  • It's not just a mental ascent, "oh, i believe in him."
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  • But it says, "i believe in him.
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  • Watch my life.
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  • I depend on him."
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  • "he that believeth on him," or depends on him, "is not
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  • Condemned: but he that believes not," who depends not on him,
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  • "is condemned already," because we're gonna find out what
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  • That means.
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  • Why is it that you're condemned already for not believing?
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  • "because he has not believed in the name of the son of the only
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  • Begotten son--the only begotten son of god."
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  • You're already condemned because you're not believing in the only
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  • One who can make sure you're not condemned.
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  • And then finally, in romans chapter 8, verse 1, romans 8,
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  • Verse 1: "there is therefore," now this is interesting because
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  • Paul is saying this right after he had a chapter full of
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  • Confessions about all the issues he got in his life.
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  • And the challenge it was to try to stop doing the stuff that he
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  • Knew he wasn't supposed to be doing and how hard it was for
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  • Him to be doing the stuff that he know he should be doing, and
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  • He was like, "old wretched man that i am, who can deliver me
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  • From this bondage of sin?"
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  • And he comes here in verse 1, and he says, "there is therefore
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  • Now no condemnation to them which are in
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  • Christ jesus," period.
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  • There is no condemnation to them who are in christ jesus period.
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  • Some translations show you that "who walk not after the flesh
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  • And the spirit" is in italicized.
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  • That part did not appear in the original greek.
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  • Here's what it read in the original greek: "there is
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  • Therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
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  • Christ jesus," period.
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  • You still don't bring anything to the table.
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  • You got in jesus, you believed in him, you depend on him, and
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  • There is no condemnation to those who are in
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  • Christ jesus period.
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  • Now, what i wanna do, even if it takes me the rest of this
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  • Service--i don't think we get condemnation.
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  • It's become one of those words that you just kind of use, but
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  • You don't really dig in deep.
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  • In fact, for the most of you, i'd come and ask, "are you
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  • In condemnation?"
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  • You would probably say, "no, i'm not incumbent of condemnation."
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  • Let me give you a familiar definition of this, and then
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  • We'll--we'll go from there.
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  • Condemnation is an expression of strong disapproval.
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  • Have you ever--have you ever had disapproval?
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  • It's an expression of disapproval.
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  • It is to pronounce unfit, guilty, vulnerable.
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  • Judgment and punishment are attached to condemnation.
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  • Condemnation is a feeling that you don't measure up.
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  • Condemnation is a feeling that you're not enough.
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  • You're not enough.
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  • And when things happen in your life, the thing that comes up is
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  • Maybe you're not enough.
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  • When things don't work out the way that you thought it should
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  • Have worked out, it comes up.
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  • Well, maybe you were not enough.
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  • Inferiority and condemnation, they go hand in hand.
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  • Maybe you're not enough.
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  • And romans chapter 8 and 1 says, "there's no condemnation in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • But i'm gonna tell you right now, there's condemnation
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  • Everywhere else.
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  • So, what does it look like?
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  • Condemnation is you waiting on the verdict.
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  • I'm waiting on the verdict.
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  • Was that enough?
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  • Condemnation.
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  • I'm waiting to see if i was good enough.
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  • I'm waiting to see if i matter.
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  • We want a verdict that our life is meaningful.
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  • We seek that verdict.
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  • We seek that verdict from our workplace.
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  • We seek that verdict from our relationships.
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  • We seek that verdict even from our reputation.
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  • Either i feel like i was good enough or i wasn't good enough.
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  • And then we make our work, and our relationship, and our
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  • Reputation, we make those things our judge, and we're waiting to
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  • See the verdict.
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  • The world will always eventually give you the same verdict: not
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  • Good enough.
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  • And so we live in fear, knowing that the verdict of condemnation
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  • Is coming.
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  • We live in this fear, knowing that somebody, some
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  • Relationship, husband, wife, somebody at the job, something
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  • About my relationship, and you'll find yourself, if you're
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  • Not careful, sitting back being okay because you settled.
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  • I don't mean much, so here's the verdict: i'm not good enough.
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  • And what people don't understand is what that does in a person's
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  • Life who only fears the verdict of not being good enough.
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  • Well, i just might as well go and act the fool or i might as
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  • Well just go act crazy.
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  • I might as well just go and get high.
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  • I might as well just go and cheat.
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  • I might as well--because you can't--you have no--you don't
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  • Stop sinning when the verdict is not good enough.
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  • I don't--it must have been god.
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  • I was minding my own business, getting ready to wrap up.
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  • You know how sometimes when you're having a conversation--i
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  • Don't know if this happened to you.
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  • You have a conversation around somebody and your phone is on,
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  • And then that thing pops up.
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  • Somebody said that happens to you--said don't ever happen
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  • To me.
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  • Yeah, happens to me.
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  • And i'm--and i'm--and i'm--and i'm rehearsing this out loud,
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  • And this article--i found a article out of the "new york"
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  • Magazine, which was so sad, but i read it, and it describes
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  • People today as feeling guilty and inadequate at every turn.
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  • They compare themselves relentlessly to others.
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  • They are turned inside out day after day by special--so--by
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  • Social media.
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  • And one person, according to this article, said, "i think my
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  • Primary emotion in my life is guilt."
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  • So if you ever wanted to wonder--wonder what's going on
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  • In the world and why people are acting like they act: because
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  • They are afraid of the verdict.
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  • We feel naked and ashamed.
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  • People are filled with anxiety, and doubt, and guilt, and we're
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  • Working harder and harder to convince everybody, including
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  • Ourselves, that we have it all together.
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  • And especially the christian people, we work real hard to try
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  • To prove to even other christian people we got it all together,
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  • And the truth is is you don't.
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  • I'm gonna show you the little trick you've been playing on us.
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  • The truth is is you don't have it all together, and that's
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  • Where our solution can start.
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  • Our solution starts with the truth of knowing you don't have
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  • It all together, and the problem comes is when you have to really
  • 00:12:38.537 --> 00:12:42.174
  • Deceive yourself into thinking you have it all together.
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  • How can we expect to be delivered off the foundation of
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  • A lie that we're doing it to ourselves?
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  • We don't need condemnation to come from the world, ladies
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  • And gentlemen.
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  • You know why?
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  • Because we're already condemning ourselves.
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  • Anything that we look to other than god will return the
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  • Verdict: not good enough.
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  • So what we've done is we've created different idols trying
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  • To get the verdict we want, and an idol is something that takes
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  • God's place, and we're looking for some idol.
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  • We're looking somewhere.
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  • We're looking--we're looking somewhere for somebody, some
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  • Idol somewhere, to say we are enough.
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  • And i'm promising you no matter where you look outside of jesus,
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  • It's gonna be the same verdict: not enough.
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  • You're hoping that somehow, as you start doing something, that
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  • Somebody gonna say, "you're enough!"
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  • But you're gonna meet somebody somewhere that's gonna be
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  • Saying, "it's not enough."
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  • But then jesus does something so amazing.
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  • I want you to listen to me so carefully.
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  • He freely justifies us, which means he declares us as being
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  • Right even though we're wrong.
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  • And i know some of you have struggled with this issue of
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  • "you're the righteousness of god" when you ain't doing right.
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  • I know some of you have struggled with the issue of
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  • "you've been made holy" when you know you ain't holy.
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  • Let me give you an illustration.
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  • Let's say you were in my college class, and you took the
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  • Final exam.
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  • Now before the exam, you were passing with a pretty
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  • Good grade.
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  • But when you took the exam, you failed.
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  • You did not do a good job on that final exam.
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  • Now, i can't tell you, "oh, you did a great job on the final
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  • Exam," because you didn't.
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  • But what i can do is say, "you know, i'm not gonna count that
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  • Final grade against you, so you're still gonna be able to
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  • Pass as if you didn't take the exam."
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  • Now, i didn't try to manipulate or fix up the fact that you
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  • Still did a bad job on the exam.
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  • I just decided not to count it against you.
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  • And that's what god's grace does for us.
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  • He doesn't applaud you for sinning.
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  • He still don't like the sin.
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  • He still don't like how you acted.
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  • He still don't like how you talking to folks.
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  • He still don't like how you--you--you--you answering
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  • Those midnight calls.
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  • You know, he still don't like all of that stuff, but he
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  • Decided not to count it against you.
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  • He will not hold it against you.
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  • He's not focusing on what you did and how bad the test was.
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  • You're only focusing on "that doesn't count against me."
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  • Verdict: you're good enough not because of what you have done
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  • But because you decided to believe my son jesus christ, and
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  • The verdict is "good enough."
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  • That is the only place you're going to get that verdict.
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  • You're not gonna get it from the world.
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  • You may not get it from your relationship.
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  • You might not even get it from your marriage.
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  • But there is a guarantee that you will get this verdict from
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  • The lord jesus christ, no condemnation.
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  • Let me read something else i saw in this article, which was--
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  • I knew i should have underlined it.
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  • Here it is.
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  • I was kind of shocked when i saw this.
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  • Obviously, this person knows about grace.
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  • Nevertheless, our lives are never paragons of beauty
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  • And holiness.
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  • I lose my temper with my kids, my parents, my spouse.
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  • We all struggle in the same way.
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  • We gossip.
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  • We judge others who don't have it together.
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  • We're insensitive.
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  • We dismiss people we disagree with.
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  • We lust.
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  • We covet.
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  • We envy.
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  • Anxiety, doubt, and temptation rules us.
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  • Our lives are not beautiful.
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  • Our failures produce panic as we fear what they mean--what
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  • That means.
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  • Might we not be forgiven?
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  • Are we still in deep insecurity?
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  • And doubt arises.
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  • Might we be condemned?
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  • But if you put your faith in jesus but still feel condemned,
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  • Then you're still placing the condemnation somewhere, perhaps
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  • In your own goodness, your own reputation, or how much you are
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  • Doing for god.
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  • You're still looking to try to earn the verdict you desire.
  • 00:18:47.072 --> 00:18:55.080
  • And what he asked you for is, "believe in me," and the
  • 00:18:55.080 --> 00:18:59.651
  • Verdict, "no condemnation."
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  • But the temptation that we still wrestle with--'cause i hear you
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  • Believe in jesus and no--no condemnation.
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  • I don't want to do that.
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  • I want the verdict from the world.
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  • I want the verdict from my peers.
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  • I want the verdict from the people i respect.
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  • I want the verdict!
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  • I want somebody to give me an award, to tell me i'm all right!
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  • I want somebody to honor me, to tell me that--that--that i'm
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  • Good enough!
  • 00:19:39.524 --> 00:19:41.426
  • And you know, the strange thing about it is that one night, i
  • 00:19:41.426 --> 00:19:44.296
  • Was on my way leaving a meeting.
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  • A friend of mine, his precious, precious son, he had just had
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  • The night of--that anybody would want.
  • 00:19:50.369 --> 00:19:52.437
  • He won awards.
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  • You understand?
  • 00:19:53.939 --> 00:19:55.274
  • Great awards, and those awards are supposed to mean you're
  • 00:19:55.274 --> 00:19:58.410
  • Good enough.
  • 00:19:58.410 --> 00:20:00.612
  • And with those awards, he said, "it was the saddest day of my
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  • Life, that i had all these awards and i had nobody there
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  • That i knew loved me to celebrate it with me.
  • 00:20:07.653 --> 00:20:10.055
  • And if you don't hurry up and get here, i'm gonna blow my
  • 00:20:10.055 --> 00:20:11.857
  • Brains out."
  • 00:20:11.857 --> 00:20:13.458
  • You see, i don't care if you do get something from the world,
  • 00:20:13.458 --> 00:20:17.095
  • Where they're kind of saying that you're enough, if you keep
  • 00:20:17.095 --> 00:20:23.335
  • Telling yourself you're not enough, even with the awards,
  • 00:20:23.335 --> 00:20:29.074
  • The verdict of "not guilty" can only come through your belief in
  • 00:20:29.074 --> 00:20:35.280
  • Jesus christ.
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  • If you understand that, say "amen."
  • 00:20:36.615 --> 00:20:38.884
  • Now let's--let's--let's--let's search this now.
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  • Christ, according to these three scriptures we just read, is the
  • 00:20:44.256 --> 00:20:49.861
  • Only solution for condemnation.
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  • That's it. that's it.
  • 00:20:53.332 --> 00:20:57.135
  • And people that don't know that will experience the feeling of
  • 00:20:57.135 --> 00:21:00.839
  • "not enough" and condemnation for the rest of their life.
  • 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.275
  • But for you, who are hearing this today, you hear this and
  • 00:21:03.275 --> 00:21:06.211
  • Hear it clearly: christ is the only solution for the--for the
  • 00:21:06.211 --> 00:21:14.219
  • Issue of condemnation.
  • 00:21:14.219 --> 00:21:16.621
  • Now, self-righteousness can become the route to
  • 00:21:16.621 --> 00:21:20.525
  • Self-condemnation because self-righteousness still is
  • 00:21:20.525 --> 00:21:24.496
  • Trying to deal with it through your own performance and your
  • 00:21:24.496 --> 00:21:28.100
  • Own self.
  • 00:21:28.100 --> 00:21:33.372
  • Condemnation, how powerful is it?
  • 00:21:33.372 --> 00:21:38.377
  • Condemnation is what gives birth to fear.
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  • You're talkin' about the route to fear, the route to fear.
  • 00:21:45.417 --> 00:21:48.920
  • You're afraid that what god said won't come to pass.
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  • You're afraid you might lose this.
  • 00:21:51.723 --> 00:21:53.291
  • You're afraid.
  • 00:21:53.291 --> 00:21:54.659
  • Fear, fear, people walk in fear.
  • 00:21:54.659 --> 00:21:58.296
  • People--people fear things.
  • 00:21:58.296 --> 00:22:00.832
  • They--they fear that--that things are just not
  • 00:22:00.832 --> 00:22:04.136
  • Gonna happen.
  • 00:22:04.136 --> 00:22:05.470
  • And we wonder, where does that fear come from?
  • 00:22:05.470 --> 00:22:07.539
  • It comes from condemnation.
  • 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:09.908
  • Condemnation produces fear, and when you're operating in the
  • 00:22:09.908 --> 00:22:14.846
  • Fear of this, and the fear of that, and the fear of all these
  • 00:22:14.846 --> 00:22:17.582
  • Other kind of things, then that fear is gonna move you
  • 00:22:17.582 --> 00:22:25.557
  • Into stress.
  • 00:22:25.557 --> 00:22:29.227
  • Condemnation produces fear, fear produces stress, and stress will
  • 00:22:29.227 --> 00:22:36.268
  • Bring on the manifestations of the curse.
  • 00:22:36.268 --> 00:22:40.972
  • Watch carefully now.
  • 00:22:40.972 --> 00:22:42.474
  • It's condemnation.
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  • That's why i'm talkin' about this.
  • 00:22:43.809 --> 00:22:45.177
  • Condemnation.
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  • You're walkin' in fear.
  • 00:22:46.511 --> 00:22:49.281
  • Job said, "the things i fear the most has come upon me."
  • 00:22:49.281 --> 00:22:53.485
  • Your fear starts with condemnation.
  • 00:22:53.485 --> 00:22:56.254
  • Condemnation opens the door for fear.
  • 00:22:56.254 --> 00:23:02.327
  • What are you fearing?
  • 00:23:02.327 --> 00:23:03.695
  • What's the thing you fear every day?
  • 00:23:03.695 --> 00:23:06.531
  • Why do you fear that your marriage is not gonna make it?
  • 00:23:06.531 --> 00:23:08.834
  • Why do you fear that you're not gonna be able to pay your bills?
  • 00:23:08.834 --> 00:23:11.303
  • Why do you fear that your children are gonna come out
  • 00:23:11.303 --> 00:23:13.238
  • A certain way?
  • 00:23:13.238 --> 00:23:14.573
  • What's the fear you have?
  • 00:23:14.573 --> 00:23:15.941
  • That fear is coming from condemnation.
  • 00:23:15.941 --> 00:23:19.311
  • Condemnation is the root to every fear you'll ever
  • 00:23:19.311 --> 00:23:22.414
  • Experience in life.
  • 00:23:22.414 --> 00:23:25.083
  • Condemnation equals fear, and fear--fear will bring about
  • 00:23:25.083 --> 00:23:30.822
  • The stress.
  • 00:23:30.822 --> 00:23:33.325
  • And do you know stress, when you are dis-eased, you will open the
  • 00:23:33.325 --> 00:23:38.964
  • Door for disease?
  • 00:23:38.964 --> 00:23:42.334
  • Well, that's happening.
  • 00:23:42.334 --> 00:23:43.668
  • When condemnation produces fear and fear produces stress, stress
  • 00:23:43.668 --> 00:23:47.973
  • Opens the door for the manifestations of the curse.
  • 00:23:47.973 --> 00:23:52.844
  • Announcer: we don't need to rely on our performance to earn
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  • God's approval.
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  • He already approves of us.
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  • In this three message series, "the danger of condemnation,"
  • 00:24:02.020 --> 00:24:05.223
  • Creflo dollar uncovers how condemnation is the root of many
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  • Struggles for believers.
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  • But transformation comes from the love and compassion
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  • Demonstrated by jesus.
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  • Literally, he says, "i have come to end
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  • Your shame, your blame,
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  • Your guilt, your condemnation,
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  • Because through me, you will get a free gift of no condemnation.
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  • When there is no condemnation, the transformation can take off.
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