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Blameless and you are wrapped in love.
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Creflo: we're gonna start off with recognizing our
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True identity.
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And i'm just--i'm gonna look at more scriptures under this
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Section because you need to just see where i'm coming from.
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So, when we talk about our true identity, we're really pointing
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Back to our true design in christ, all right?
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Before the fall.
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We're talk about our true identity.
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What was our true identity in christ?
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What is our true identity before the fall of adam?
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Okay, what's our true identity before religion tried to
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Convince us some things?
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What was our true identity before the law?
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Well, let's begin tonight in ephesians chapter 1 and verse
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4, and i wanna read ephesians 1, and 4 in the king james, and i
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Guess i have to pull my mirror out and get a chance to do it.
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King james and the mirror, but let's look it in the mirror--in
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The king james first.
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Notice what he says, "according as he hath chosen us," all
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Right, so god has already chosen us.
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And by us, i mean humanity.
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That's big.
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So, god has chosen us--you--he hadn't chosen you because you
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Joined world changers.
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He hadn't chosen you because, you know, you pray a hour
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A day.
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He's addressing humanity.
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He says, "according as he has chosen us in him before the
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Foundation of the world," now underline that word foundation
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Because i found out there was another word actually that was
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Used here.
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"according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundations of
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The world, that we should be," he chose us to be holy and he
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Chose us to be without blame before him in love, according as
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He has chosen us.
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And you didn't have anything to do with that.
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He chose you be--he said here before the foundations of
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The world.
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Now, i wanna show you something here.
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It uses a different greek word here in ephesians chapter--
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What did i say?
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1, and verse 4.
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Now listen to this out of the mirror translation.
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He says, "he associated us in christ before the fall of the
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World," the cosmos, humanity.
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So he says before man fell, and he's talking about falling in
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His thinking where his identity is concerned.
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So, paul uses a different word here.
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He uses the word kataballó, and that means falling away or it
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Means to put in a lower place, instead of the word themelios,
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And that's foundation.
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So, when he uses this word, kataballó, it's a falling away
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In your mind of your true identity.
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So, he says, "before you fell away in your thinking, before
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You fell away in your mind concerning your true identity."
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So what happened was there was a time before adam and eve sinned,
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Before they fell away in their thinking, before they
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Fell away in their thinking about who they really were.
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There was a time they knew who they really were and he said,
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"before they fell away in their thinking," he says, "we were
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Found in christ before we lost--before we were lost
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In adam."
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So, that's interesting.
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We were found in christ before we were lost in adam.
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Something happened in the garden where our thinking fell away and
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It's no longer the true identity, and that true identity
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Is holy and everything that god made us.
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And we fell away from it.
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And all of a sudden, we don't see ourselves the way we need to
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See ourselves.
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And so, the scripture says here, "he associated us in christ
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Before the fall of the world.
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Jesus is god's mind made up about us."
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Jesus is god's mind.
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In god's mind, jesus is god's mind made up about us.
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And you're gonna see a little bit later that jesus is the
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Mirror, and we look--when we see jesus, he says we should
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See ourselves.
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That's why he uses the word mirror.
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"jesus is god's mind made up about us.
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He always knew in his love that he would present us again," he
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Would present us again, "face-to-face before him in
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Blameless innocence."
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So, you can see that there's something that fail in our
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Thinking where you wouldn't even dare even consider that your
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Identity is the same as jesus's.
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I mean, that's just ludicrous in your mind because we have fallen
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In our thinking.
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And jesus has come to unveil who we are.
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So, my job is to take this, in some people's mind, outrageous
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Statement and to show you it's just been there the whole time
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In the word.
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It's just been there the whole time.
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And so, before adam made a choice to violate what god told
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Him to do, we were already seen by god as holy.
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Before adam--this is--this blows my mind.
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Before adams sinned, god already had decided to see us as holy
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And blameless.
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Before it happened, he made his mind up.
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Before they fell in their thinking, he made his mind up,
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You are holy, and you are blameless, and you are wrapped
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In love.
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That's our true identity.
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Not defined by our behavior but by being in him.
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So, my identity is defined by me being in him, my identity is not
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Defined by my behavior, all right?
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Now watch this.
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Go to genesis chapter 1 and verse 26.
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I--so, i'm telling you that you have missed out on your
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True identity.
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And i'm going to attempt to try to show you who you are truly.
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And i'm gonna--and i'm telling you right now, when you absorb
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That, then your behavior and everything is gonna start lining
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Up with that, okay?
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Genesis chapter 1:26.
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You're familiar with this.
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"and god said, let us make man," all right, finish it.
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How is he gonna make man?
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What's the blueprint?
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"in our image," the father, son, holy ghost, "and in," what?
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"our likeness."
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So, please understand image and likeness, image and likeness.
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That's the original blueprint, and that original blueprint was
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Never lost.
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Jesus came to restore it.
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Jesus came to unveil it.
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That is the blueprint that humanity was made from.
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You were made from that blueprint.
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The blueprint.
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I mean, i got the mitigated gall to stand up here in this pulpit
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Tonight and to tell you that your true identity is--and your
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True design is that of the father, son, the holy spirit,
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The godhead.
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Whoa, yeah, it's hard to believe because if nobody ever told you
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That before, you're like--here's what you've heard most of the
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Time, "well, you're just a human."
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All right, let's keep going.
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Colossians 3:10 in the king james and in the mirror.
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So, you see why we got to get practical, all right?
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All right, look at verse 10 in the king james.
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He says, "and have put on the new man, which is renewed,"
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Renewed or new--made new again, "in the knowledge after the
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Image of him that created him."
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Please look at this.
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"and have put on the new man, which is made new again or
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Renewed in the knowledge after," it's been renewed in the
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Knowledge after, "the image of him that created him."
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Made after the image of god who created you.
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Your image is of god, right?
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All right, if--let's look at the mirror.
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Let's look at the mirror.
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It's like we read over these scriptures, like, you know, oh
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My goodness, they just, you know, when you don't understand
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Something, you read over it real quick to get to what you
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Do understand.
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I'm saying let's back up and let's look at this stuff, man,
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And really take a big look at it.
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Colossians chapter 3 and verse 10.
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He says, "you are clothed in the knowledge of the authentic, yet
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Brand new, you!"
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So, you know, you got born again, okay?
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You started believing, you received him, all right?
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And he says, you know, so you're being renewed in the knowledge
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Of that authentic yet brand new, you.
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"your thoughts are permeated in our co-resurrection and
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Co-enthroned, royal life!
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Instead of the old, worn-out garments of pretense--there is a
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Freshness about you which continues to sparkle
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With newness!
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Just like the beautiful blossoms on a tree, regardless of the age
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Of the tree, so we continue to mirror the unfading,
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Imperishable pattern of the exact image of our creator."
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That's strong.
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That's strong.
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"we continue to mirror the unfading, imperishable pattern
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Of the exact image of our creator."
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What do you do with that?
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What do you do with that?
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You do you--do you throw that away and say, "well, you know,
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That ain't what he really meant"?
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But it's like all over the new testament, it's all over the
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Scripture talking about who you are, and we are ignoring it,
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All right?
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All right, let's go a little deeper here.
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So, practically, our identity is the image of christ.
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Practically speaking, my identity is the image of christ.
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When we see jesus, we see ourselves.
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When we see him, we see ourselves, but not many people
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Think that.
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I even used to say it myself, "well, you know, that's jesus.
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I'm just a human."
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That's not what he wants.
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He wants for us to see ourselves in jesus.
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All right, there's a scripture for that.
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Look at 1 john chapter 4:17.
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1 john chapter 4, verse 17.
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And let's look at it in king james and then move from the
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King james to the mirror translation.
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1 john chapter 4:17.
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All right, let's look at it in king james.
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He says, "herein is our love made perfect, that we may have
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Boldness in the day of judgment: because," watch this, "as he is,
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So are we in this world."
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We are as jesus is.
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As jesus is, so are we.
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While we're in this world, we is as he is.
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Oh, boy.
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All right, now that's not future tense, that's present identity.
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In christ, our identity is righteous, innocence, loved,
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Empowered, complete, and in union with him.
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Now look at this same scripture in verse 17, 1 john 4:17 in
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The mirror.
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He says, "so now, in our awakening to our joint inclusion
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In this love union, everything is perfect.
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Its completeness is not compromised in contradiction.
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Our confident conversation echoes this fellowship even in
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The face of crisis; because, as he is, so are we in this world--
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Our lives are mirrored in him.
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We are as blameless in this life as jesus is.
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This perfect love union is the source of our confidence when we
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Face the scrutiny of contradiction."
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And believe me, over the weeks we'll break all that down, but
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I'm trying to just put the picture in front of you right
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Now before we get practical.
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Now look at the 2 corinthians chapter 3, verse 18.
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2 corinthians chapter 3, verse 18.
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I just want you to be amazed of the number of times you're
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Seeing this come up and we just bypass it.
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We just kind of go past it.
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And we, we're--we settle--we've settled for our plain humanity
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Without understanding, you know, the design, all right?
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All right, 2 corinthians chapter 3:18 in the mirror.
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He says, "now, we all, with new understanding, see ourselves in
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Him as in a mirror."
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Ah, that's great translation.
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"the days of window-shopping are over.
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In him every face is unveiled.
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In gazing with wonder at the likeness of elohim displayed in
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Human form," elohim displayed in human form, "we suddenly realize
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That we are looking into a mirror, where every feature of
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Their image, articulated in the lord, is reflected within us.
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The spirit of the lord engineers this radical transformation; we
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Are led from an inferior mind-set to the revealed
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Endorsement of our authentic identity.
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From the fading glory of our own achievement, to the discovery of
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The most amazing reality, that we are god's glory!"
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Think about you looking for god's glory and you're it.
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All right, so, we're looking at christ and realizing, "wait a
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Minute, that's me."
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I'm gonna say that two more times.
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I know--i already know what you're going through.
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I've already been through it.
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We're looking at christ and realizing, "wait a minute,
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That's me.
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That's who i've been all along."
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So, when you say god's will is for us to come to our true
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Identity, you're declaring that it's his will for us to remember
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Who we are in christ, not who religion told us we were, not
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Who sin tried to shape us into being, but who is he--who he is.
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He says we are and always have been in god's heart.
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We always have been in god's heart.
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See, it started in garden of eden.
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They ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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And the bible said all of a sudden, they were naked and
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Ashamed, and they went and they hid themselves from god because
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They thought god is now looking at them differently.
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God has never changed how he looked at humanity.
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It was adam and eve that changed how they looked at themselves.
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Are you following what i'm saying?
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It's the same thing that happens with us on a day-to-day basis.
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We--it's how we look at ourselves, and you're thinking
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That god is looking at you the way you're looking at you.
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And god's not looking at you the way you're looking at you.
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God is looking at you the way he's always looked at you in
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His heart.
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He's looking at you as his image, his sons, his children.
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He's always looking.
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And none of your behavior has ever tweaked how god sees you in
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His heart because he saw you in his heart before a man
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Ever misbehaved.
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And he's still seeing you the same way.
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But your bad behavior somehow moves you away from your
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True design.
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It's still your design.
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It's still your design.
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You're still a human being with two hands and two feet.
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I don't care how you behave, you still got it.
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That's still your design.
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Well, in god's eyes, please understand, you had to get your
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Design from heaven before it was then put it in your
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Mother's womb.
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Your original design, you were born in heaven and then placed
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In your mother's womb to be born in the earth.
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Jesus went through the same process.
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"in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and
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The word was god," and then the word became flesh.
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But the word was the word spiritually before it was the
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Word that became flesh.
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And you--i don't know your--just say your name's jeannie.
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Jeannie was born in heaven before jeannie was born on
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The earth.
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And now all i'm trying to do is unveil.
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I'm trying to do the same thing jesus tried to do, unveil your
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Magnificent design and identity, because it changes everything.
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Once you get this, a lot of stuff that used to be hard to
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Do, it's just gonna flow out.
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Now, i think it's very, very important for me to look at how
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Does this operate practically.
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'cause, i mean, you see the scriptures, and the more we go
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Back and look at the scriptures, when you see what i'm saying
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Practically, you'll begin to see how vital it is for you to grab
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Hold of this.
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So, let's look at a practical operation from your
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True identity.
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Operating from your true identity, here's what it means.
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It means you respond to life from who you are in christ and
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Not from how things look or how you feel in the moment.
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So, i'm talking about i'm operating in life in my
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True identity.
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So, what does that mean?
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That means i accept my true identity, therefore i respond to
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All the situations of life based on who i am in christ.
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I'm not responding anymore based on how things look, i'm not
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Responding anymore based on how things feel in that moment.
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Let me give you an illustration.
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Let's say fear tries to creep in, and fear tries to creep in
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A lot.
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All right, so how do you respond?
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So, instead of saying, "i'm scared," you pause and you say,
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"wait, that's not who i am.
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I'm not the scary guy.
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That's not who i am.
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I've been given a spirit--i have not been given a spirit of fear,
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I've been given a spirit of love and power and of a sound
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Mind," all right?
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And so, what happens is you're aligning your experience up with
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Your identity instead of doing like you used to do.
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I accept my true identity, it's in christ.
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Now, every experience that happens in my life, i am now
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Going to align it with who i am.
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Fear comes up and i'm like, "wait a minute, that's not me.
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I'm not gonna align myself with fear.
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I've been given love.
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That's what i'm gonna align myself up with.
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I've been given a sound mind.
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That's what i'm align myself with.
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I am no longer going to align my identity and i'm not gonna
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Respond to fear because my true identity says, 'you don't
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Have fear.
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That's not you.'
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My true identity says, 'no, i've not been given a spirit
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Of fear.'"
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So, you're--you have to know who you are in order to determine
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How you're gonna respond in those experiences that are in
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Your life.
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Let me give you another illustration.
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Let's say maybe someone wronged you and your old self wants to
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Get revenge or, you know, you wanna shut them down.
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"i'm from college park, i will cut you."
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You know, you wanna do all of that, but then when you're
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Thinking about that, what you're saying is, "that's not me."
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You're pausing, "that's not me.
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No, no, no, i don't cut, i don't--that's not me.
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I'm no longer going to allow me to respond like that."
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The son of god and that he died and was raised from the
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Dead and has forgiven all of my sins.
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Personal savior.
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Creflo Dollar - Recognizing Our True Identity

July 16, 2026 | 27:30

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