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Creflo Dollar - Recognizing Our True Identity

November 10, 2025 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - Recognizing Our True Identity
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Recognizing Our True Identity | November 10, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: before adam sinned, god already had decided
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  • Before it happened, he made his mind up, before they fell in
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  • Their thinking, he made his mind up: you are holy and you are
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  • That's our true identity.
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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,
  • 00:16:55.194 --> 00:17:01.433
  • 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
  • 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:53.552
  • 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
  • 00:18:36.528 --> 00:18:42.067
  • 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.
  • 00:18:50.576 --> 00:18:53.545
  • 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.
  • 00:19:09.061 --> 00:19:10.696
  • That's still your design.
  • 00:19:10.696 --> 00:19:12.831
  • Well, in god's eyes, please understand, you had to get your
  • 00:19:12.831 --> 00:19:16.768
  • Design from heaven before it was then put it in your
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  • Mother's womb.
  • 00:19:20.038 --> 00:19:22.140
  • 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
  • 00:19:31.750 --> 00:19:35.087
  • The word was god," and then the word became flesh.
  • 00:19:35.087 --> 00:19:39.825
  • But the word was the word spiritually before it was the
  • 00:19:39.825 --> 00:19:42.594
  • Word that became flesh.
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  • And you--i don't know your--just say your name's jeannie.
  • 00:19:45.998 --> 00:19:48.567
  • Jeannie was born in heaven before jeannie was born on
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  • The earth.
  • 00:19:54.740 --> 00:19:59.745
  • And now all i'm trying to do is unveil.
  • 00:19:59.745 --> 00:20:03.348
  • I'm trying to do the same thing jesus tried to do, unveil your
  • 00:20:03.348 --> 00:20:07.386
  • Magnificent design and identity, because it changes everything.
  • 00:20:07.386 --> 00:20:14.526
  • Once you get this, a lot of stuff that used to be hard to
  • 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:17.462
  • Do, it's just gonna flow out.
  • 00:20:17.462 --> 00:20:19.164
  • Now, i think it's very, very important for me to look at how
  • 00:20:19.164 --> 00:20:25.804
  • Does this operate practically.
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  • 'cause, i mean, you see the scriptures, and the more we go
  • 00:20:29.074 --> 00:20:30.976
  • Back and look at the scriptures, when you see what i'm saying
  • 00:20:30.976 --> 00:20:33.178
  • Practically, you'll begin to see how vital it is for you to grab
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  • Hold of this.
  • 00:20:36.748 --> 00:20:38.083
  • So, let's look at a practical operation from your
  • 00:20:38.083 --> 00:20:39.818
  • True identity.
  • 00:20:39.818 --> 00:20:41.153
  • Operating from your true identity, here's what it means.
  • 00:20:41.153 --> 00:20:45.490
  • 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.
  • 00:20:52.564 --> 00:20:57.836
  • So, i'm talking about i'm operating in life in my
  • 00:20:57.836 --> 00:21:00.539
  • True identity.
  • 00:21:00.539 --> 00:21:01.907
  • So, what does that mean?
  • 00:21:01.907 --> 00:21:03.241
  • That means i accept my true identity, therefore i respond to
  • 00:21:03.241 --> 00:21:08.914
  • All the situations of life based on who i am in christ.
  • 00:21:08.914 --> 00:21:13.618
  • I'm not responding anymore based on how things look, i'm not
  • 00:21:13.618 --> 00:21:16.755
  • 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.
  • 00:21:26.164 --> 00:21:27.532
  • All right, so how do you respond?
  • 00:21:27.532 --> 00:21:28.867
  • So, instead of saying, "i'm scared," you pause and you say,
  • 00:21:28.867 --> 00:21:32.771
  • "wait, that's not who i am.
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  • I'm not the scary guy.
  • 00:21:36.675 --> 00:21:38.744
  • That's not who i am.
  • 00:21:38.744 --> 00:21:40.112
  • 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?
  • 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.721
  • And so, what happens is you're aligning your experience up with
  • 00:21:49.721 --> 00:21:53.625
  • Your identity instead of doing like you used to do.
  • 00:21:53.625 --> 00:21:56.895
  • I accept my true identity, it's in christ.
  • 00:21:56.895 --> 00:22:01.233
  • Now, every experience that happens in my life, i am now
  • 00:22:01.233 --> 00:22:05.303
  • Going to align it with who i am.
  • 00:22:05.303 --> 00:22:08.140
  • Fear comes up and i'm like, "wait a minute, that's not me.
  • 00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:12.344
  • I'm not gonna align myself with fear.
  • 00:22:12.344 --> 00:22:15.414
  • I've been given love.
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  • That's what i'm gonna align myself up with.
  • 00:22:16.748 --> 00:22:18.850
  • I've been given a sound mind.
  • 00:22:18.850 --> 00:22:20.252
  • That's what i'm align myself with.
  • 00:22:20.252 --> 00:22:21.720
  • I am no longer going to align my identity and i'm not gonna
  • 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:26.825
  • Respond to fear because my true identity says, 'you don't
  • 00:22:26.825 --> 00:22:31.763
  • Have fear.
  • 00:22:31.763 --> 00:22:33.131
  • That's not you.'
  • 00:22:33.131 --> 00:22:34.633
  • My true identity says, 'no, i've not been given a spirit
  • 00:22:34.633 --> 00:22:37.903
  • Of fear.'"
  • 00:22:37.903 --> 00:22:39.237
  • So, you're--you have to know who you are in order to determine
  • 00:22:39.237 --> 00:22:42.374
  • How you're gonna respond in those experiences that are in
  • 00:22:42.374 --> 00:22:45.977
  • Your life.
  • 00:22:45.977 --> 00:22:47.312
  • Let me give you another illustration.
  • 00:22:47.312 --> 00:22:48.780
  • Let's say maybe someone wronged you and your old self wants to
  • 00:22:48.780 --> 00:22:54.686
  • Get revenge or, you know, you wanna shut them down.
  • 00:22:54.686 --> 00:22:57.689
  • "i'm from college park, i will cut you."
  • 00:22:57.689 --> 00:22:59.424
  • You know, you wanna do all of that, but then when you're
  • 00:22:59.424 --> 00:23:02.394
  • Thinking about that, what you're saying is, "that's not me."
  • 00:23:02.394 --> 00:23:06.465
  • You're pausing, "that's not me.
  • 00:23:06.465 --> 00:23:10.202
  • No, no, no, i don't cut, i don't--that's not me.
  • 00:23:10.202 --> 00:23:15.507
  • I'm no longer going to allow me to respond like that," okay?
  • 00:23:15.507 --> 00:23:21.546
  • So, the real you, the christ in you remembers i've been forgiven
  • 00:23:21.546 --> 00:23:26.852
  • And you wanna hold on to something, but that's not you.
  • 00:23:26.852 --> 00:23:30.322
  • I mean, just--if you just start practicing that, you pause and
  • 00:23:30.322 --> 00:23:33.592
  • Say, "yeah, i'm not gonna hold on to unforgiveness," why?
  • 00:23:33.592 --> 00:23:36.561
  • "'cause that's not who i am."
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