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Creflo Dollar - Sin Consciousness vs. Innocence Consciousness (Part 1)

September 15, 2025 | 28:55

Creflo Dollar - Sin Consciousness vs. Innocence Consciousness (Part 1)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Sin Consciousness vs. Innocence Consciousness (Part 1) | September 15, 2025
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  • Creflo dollar: sin consciousness means you are more aware of your
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  • Sin, you are more aware of your shame, you are more aware of
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  • Your condemnation.
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  • Innocence consciousness is you are more aware of your
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  • Righteousness, you are more aware of your justification, you
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  • Are--so that's how i'm gonna be using them.
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  • When you see--when you hear me talk about sin consciousness,
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  • I'm talking about your awareness to the things that's the sin.
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  • When i talk about innocence consciousness, i'm talking about
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  • Your awareness to everything that christ, through his grace,
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  • Creflo: this morning, and i'm not even playing, we start a new
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  • Series--i'm serious.
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  • This is the most important series.
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  • This is the most important series ever, ever.
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  • We've been on this journey, and the journey keeps taking us
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  • Closer and closer and closer and closer and closer to
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  • The destiny.
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  • And i am grateful that i have a church that has been willing to
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  • Walk this journey with me.
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  • And--yeah, go ahead and give yourself a hand, to go through
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  • This journey with me.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • But in my studying over this series, and writing this series,
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  • I was so blown away, not from what i was reading, not from
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  • What i was writing, but from what i thought years ago but
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  • Dismissed, because i'm like, "no way, no way."
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  • And i immediately went back to, "well, nobody says that,
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  • Everybody else says this."
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  • And i understood that approval addiction just kind of kept me
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  • From digging, but since i've been delivered from approval
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  • Addiction, i've just been digging into everything, to the
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  • Point where it just, you know, so you'll see what i'm saying.
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  • So this is going to last for about a month and a half because
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  • I want to take my time, because i cannot assume that somebody in
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  • Here today has heard something that we started off with 13, 14
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  • Years ago in the beginnings of this grace.
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  • So this series is going to be a series and we're gonna deal
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  • With sin consciousness versus innocence consciousness.
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  • Sin consciousness versus innocence consciousness.
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  • And i believe it is the number one weapon that satan has used
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  • To keep the believer stagnant and paralyzed in that
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  • Same place.
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  • And the only thing we know is what we've heard, and what we've
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  • Always heard, because of the fear of a man or a woman of god
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  • To dig deeper.
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  • I know this one thing, if i'm not doing nothing for the lord--
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  • If i'm not doing nothing but making mistakes for the lord, at
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  • Least i would be doing something.
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  • But i'm not going to sit here and just repeat the same old
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  • Thing over and over and over again when it's slapping me in
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  • My face.
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  • So i want to start off by just telling a little stor, and
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  • When i say "story," i don't mean "lie," about how this stuff
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  • Started off.
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  • So here we are, god makes a man and he breathes into the
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  • Nostrils of that man the breath of life and that man becomes a
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  • Living soul.
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  • And then god says, "i'm going to take the same dna of this man
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  • That i just made, and i'll make a woman."
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  • And then you go to genesis chapter 3, and they're in the
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  • Garden, and they spent their time fellowshipping in the
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  • Presence of the lord.
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  • And there was no sin consciousness at all, to the
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  • Point where they did not wear,
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  • They did not wear artificial clothing.
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  • They did not have on artificial clothing.
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  • They were naked of artificial clothing.
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  • Now, why do i say it like that?
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  • Why do i say, "they were naked of artificial clothing?"
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  • They were naked of artificial clothing, but they were
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  • Not exposed.
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  • I believe that they were clothed with the glory.
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  • And so, you know, you're spending all this time with god,
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  • And so god makes a man and a woman, he makes mankind to
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  • Live forever.
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  • Mankind was never supposed to die.
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  • He was created immortal, not mortal, mortal is when you die.
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  • He was created to be immortal, to live forever.
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  • And so that's why we read in the old testament people living in
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  • 938 years, 800 years, and then as a result of the curse, the
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  • Time was shortened, but it still took time.
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  • I mean, you're talking about an immortal now going to be mortal.
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  • You've heard those stories, right?
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  • So the big thing is in genesis chapter 3.
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  • Here is a man and a woman in the garden, and a lot of people
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  • Think the sin was they ate of that tree, which they were told
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  • Not to eat of, which could have been avoided had they been
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  • Obedient to the original instruction, and that was,
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  • "don't ignore all the trees in the garden."
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  • The big problem was you ignored all the trees in the garden and
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  • Zeroed in on that one tree with the help of lucifer.
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  • They had access to every tree in the garden.
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  • So, this deal took place in heaven, satan deceived, what,
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  • A third of the angels?
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  • And that's millions and millions, millions of
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  • Angels, right?
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  • And so they were kicked out of heaven.
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  • Satan, who is an archangel, if you read the description of
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  • Lucifer, he was the--he was clothed in beauty and
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  • Instruments and sounds would come out of him.
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  • He was decked out.
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  • So whatever picture you were told about lucifer is not a
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  • Horror picture, this dude was sharp.
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  • In fact, if he was here, he would get a lot of
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  • People's attention.
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  • A lot of you cougars would be going after lucifer.
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  • Y'all like, "excuse me. lou, lou!"
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  • So what happens is, he now, through his pride, exalted
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  • Himself up to try to be equal with god.
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  • Kicked out of heaven, now he invades mankind.
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  • And in the garden, his attempt was to deceive mankind, mm.
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  • And through the deception that happened in the garden, man
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  • Yielded to it--mankind yielded to it, and now sin for the
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  • First time entered into the realm of mankind.
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  • Mankind, now, is conscious of sin, how conscious?
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  • Now, all of a sudden, they're hiding themselves.
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  • And god didn't throw them away, they ran away from god.
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  • They were hiding themselves because god showed up, and
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  • They're like, "adam, where are y'all?"
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  • And they hid themselves, and they clothed themselves with
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  • Fig leaves.
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  • So something happened, sin came in, and because of the sin, a
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  • Consciousness of sin entered in.
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  • Now, there are a few things i want to show you right here.
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  • So that's all of the bedtime story stuff, and there's some
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  • Evidence that i want to show you of what's going on here, where
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  • This whole sin thing is concerned.
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  • Because you have to realize, once you get out of genesis,
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  • There was no standard for right or wrong, there was no law.
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  • That's why cain killed abel, because there was no law!
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  • That's why women slept with angels!
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  • There was no law, and they gave giants--there was no law!
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  • And they were doing all kinds of stuff!
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  • Because there was no standard, there was no law.
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  • And so the law had to eventually come into the earth, hm, to curb
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  • Sin, if you will.
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  • In other words, to let people know some standard of, "that's
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  • Not right, that has consequence, that'll do that."
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  • So it was a temporary band-aid.
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  • It was never supposed to exist forever.
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  • It was a temporary fix until jesus could come, until jesus
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  • Could get in the earth.
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  • Now, listen to this.
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  • So i ask, "what's the purpose of the law of moses?"
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  • And i want you to write this down, and then i'll prove it
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  • To you.
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  • The purpose of the law of moses was to expose sin and to reveal
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  • Man's need for a savior.
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  • The purpose for the law of moses was to expose sin.
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  • A law comes up and you'll see, based on the law, what you're
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  • Doing is wrong.
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  • So the purpose of the law of moses was to expose sin, but not
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  • Only that, but to reveal the need for a savior.
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  • So it's gonna get such cra-- it's gonna get so crazy that
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  • You're gonna be wanting a savior.
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  • Now, romans 3:20, in the king james, he says, "through the law
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  • Comes the knowledge of sin."
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  • He says, "therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh
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  • Be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge
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  • Of sin."
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  • So the law shows up, and because of the law, now you have a
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  • Knowledge of sin.
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  • Let me give you an illustration.
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  • When i was in germany, i was on the autobahn, i was wondering
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  • Why this dude was driving so fast.
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  • There is no speed limit on that, or at least it used to be, i
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  • Don't know what happened.
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  • There's no speed limit, you can go as fast as you want to go.
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  • But i was limited, and taking advantage of that liberty, "i
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  • Finally can drive as fast as i want to," i was limited in my
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  • Conscience to drive fast is what i want to because of the law
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  • That i have been up under in the united states.
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  • I have been up under the law of going only 55 miles, so what's
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  • The speed limit?
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  • And i had to--i was consciously aware that there's a speed limit
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  • Somewhere in the united states.
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  • So when you tell me i can go as fast as i want to go, there's a
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  • Liberty that i'm not taking advantage of because my
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  • Consciousness--are you following what i'm saying?
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  • All right, so likewise, the law shows up, and the law brings
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  • With it the consciousness of sin.
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  • The law brings with it the knowledge of sin.
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  • So there's the law, [snaps fingers] and
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  • The knowledge of sin.
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  • So i am conscious of the sin.
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  • The animal--the sacrificial offerings, where they had to
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  • Bring an animal to get their sins conscious.
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  • You're conscious of sins every year because every year you got
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  • To bring a sacrifice to get your sins conscious, more
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  • Consciousness of sin.
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  • Now, this was a temporary system--now, here's the thing
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  • That got me--that was given to israel.
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  • It was a temporary system that was given to israel.
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  • It wasn't a human system, it was a temporary system for humans
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  • In israel.
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  • All right, now here's why i say that.
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  • Because this temporary system that was given to israel pointed
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  • To christ.
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  • In fact, galatians chapter 3-- write it down.
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  • I won't have time to look at all the scriptures, but galatians
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  • Chapter 3, verse 24 calls the law a schoolmaster.
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  • It refers to the law as a schoolmaster that led people to
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  • Jesus so they could be justified by faith.
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  • The law was a schoolmaster to lead people to a savior so they
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  • Could be justified by faith.
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  • So there were 613 laws, or 613 commandments, and the mosaic
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  • Covenant is--it's not just the ten commandments, but rather,
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  • It's a set of laws that included the ten commandments.
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  • So you got 603 laws plus the ten commandments, which would make
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  • Up the entire mosaic covenant, the entire mosaic law.
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  • So all of the laws we're familiar with, the ten
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  • Commandments was a part of the mosaic law.
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  • It was a part of the governance of israel at that time.
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  • It was given to israel 613 laws.
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  • Now, you can ask siri this, and she'll tell you.
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  • I'm trying to get you to wake up.
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  • You can ask siri, "how many laws are in the mosaic law?"
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  • She'll say 613.
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  • "does that include the ten commandments?"
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  • Yes, that includes the ten commandments.
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  • So don't go all rogue on me if i'm telling you those ten
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  • Commandments that you got hanging up in your house is a
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  • Part of the law.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • I want to fix something before i go.
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  • "so you're trying to say we don't need the
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  • Ten commandments?"
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  • No, i got jesus.
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  • Now, i--because of the holy ghost, he will administer
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  • The heartbeat of the law.
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  • Because before, it was those 603 rules that tried to administer
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  • The ten commandments.
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  • The ten commandments represents god's excellence, it represents
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  • God's character, but it failed miserably because rules cannot
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  • Implement that character.
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  • It's going to take a new administrator, and the new
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  • Administrator is the holy spirit, and because of the holy
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  • Spirit, he'll show you how not to kill, how not to steal, he'll
  • 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:53.185
  • Show you all those things.
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  • You don't need to do it by the law, because the law was to
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  • Direct you to christ.
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  • The old covenant is a shadow document of the new covenant,
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  • Which is the real thing.
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  • If you understand that, say amen.
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  • All right, now, for this series, as you can see, you can see
  • 00:18:09.134 --> 00:18:16.008
  • Where sin consciousness was born.
  • 00:18:16.008 --> 00:18:18.944
  • I just showed you where sin consciousness started.
  • 00:18:18.944 --> 00:18:22.915
  • There was one time in adam and eve in the garden, they were
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  • Innocent conscious.
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  • There was no sin conscious amongst adam and eve until satan
  • 00:18:29.054 --> 00:18:32.524
  • Came in and deceived them, and sin came in, and so did sin
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  • Consciousness, and men were conscious of sin.
  • 00:18:37.429 --> 00:18:41.300
  • Human race was conscience of sin, and people think that's no
  • 00:18:41.300 --> 00:18:45.504
  • Big deal.
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  • I tell you, it's the biggest deal ever.
  • 00:18:46.872 --> 00:18:48.207
  • Even today in the churches, it--there are people preaching
  • 00:18:48.207 --> 00:18:55.280
  • How you should obey the mosaic law so you can stay conscious of
  • 00:18:55.280 --> 00:19:03.088
  • Your sin.
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  • Some of you still are conscious of your shame, and you're still
  • 00:19:05.757 --> 00:19:09.394
  • Conscious of your condemnation, and you're still conscious of
  • 00:19:09.394 --> 00:19:12.764
  • Your guilt.
  • 00:19:12.764 --> 00:19:14.099
  • You're so conscious, like the autobahn, you can't receive the
  • 00:19:14.099 --> 00:19:17.703
  • Liberty that jesus has given to you, all right?
  • 00:19:17.703 --> 00:19:24.910
  • Now, for this series, i'm going to define, so you'll know how
  • 00:19:24.910 --> 00:19:29.648
  • I'm talking about it, i'm going to define consciousness as
  • 00:19:29.648 --> 00:19:35.320
  • Awareness, or self-aware.
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  • So when i say--the reason i do this, because i don't want you
  • 00:19:38.857 --> 00:19:41.126
  • To think conscious, you know, "oh, i'm up, conscious;
  • 00:19:41.126 --> 00:19:43.929
  • Unconscious, i'm down."
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  • I'm referring to it--i'm referring and defining it
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  • As awareness.
  • 00:19:49.568 --> 00:19:52.304
  • Sin consciousness means you are more aware of your sin, you are
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  • More aware of your shame, you are more aware of
  • 00:19:57.142 --> 00:20:00.879
  • Your condemnation.
  • 00:20:00.879 --> 00:20:04.783
  • Innocence consciousness is you are more aware of your
  • 00:20:04.783 --> 00:20:08.453
  • Righteousness, you are more aware of your justification, you
  • 00:20:08.453 --> 00:20:12.691
  • Are--so that's how i'm gonna be using them.
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  • When you see--when you hear me talk about sin consciousness,
  • 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:16.895
  • I'm talking about your awareness to the things that's the sin.
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  • When i talk about innocence consciousness, i'm talking about
  • 00:20:21.300 --> 00:20:25.103
  • Your awareness to everything that christ, through his grace,
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  • Has made available to you.
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  • We're on the same page?
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  • All right, whoo, you're sure we're all on the same bus
  • 00:20:31.677 --> 00:20:35.981
  • Now, right?
  • 00:20:35.981 --> 00:20:37.316
  • All right, so that is as much of the beginning that i can put out
  • 00:20:37.316 --> 00:20:42.754
  • For you, and then we can get started with some of these
  • 00:20:42.754 --> 00:20:46.658
  • Amazing things that i that i'm about to show you now.
  • 00:20:46.658 --> 00:20:50.996
  • Let's go to our text for this series, 1 corinthians chapter 1,
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  • Verse 15 and 34.
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  • 1 corinthians 1, verse 15 and-- excuse me, 1 corinthians chapter
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  • 15, verse 34.
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  • I don't know what i just said.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 15 and verse 34.
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  • Now, follow me carefully.
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  • He says, "awake to righteousness."
  • 00:21:20.058 --> 00:21:25.197
  • Huh, could it be that while we were in sin consciousness, we
  • 00:21:25.197 --> 00:21:30.602
  • Were unconscious to righteousness?
  • 00:21:30.602 --> 00:21:35.006
  • "awake to righteousness," and he says, "when you become aware of
  • 00:21:35.006 --> 00:21:40.312
  • Your righteousness and you're up, you're awake, then you'll
  • 00:21:40.312 --> 00:21:46.118
  • Sin no more."
  • 00:21:46.118 --> 00:21:49.121
  • So one of the reasons for the sin in your life and all the
  • 00:21:49.121 --> 00:21:54.693
  • Stuff that's going on in your life and the trauma and all of
  • 00:21:54.693 --> 00:21:57.529
  • That stuff, is because of sin consciousness, and he's trying
  • 00:21:57.529 --> 00:22:00.966
  • To say, "wake up to innocence consciousness, and sin not; for
  • 00:22:00.966 --> 00:22:08.273
  • Some have not the knowledge of god."
  • 00:22:08.273 --> 00:22:10.542
  • Now, sin--the law gives you the knowledge of sin, but some have
  • 00:22:10.542 --> 00:22:15.614
  • Not the knowledge of god.
  • 00:22:15.614 --> 00:22:17.582
  • "i speak this to your shame."
  • 00:22:17.582 --> 00:22:20.719
  • Now, paul is calling believers to awake, which implies a shift
  • 00:22:20.719 --> 00:22:25.624
  • From unconsciousness to consciousness.
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  • Say amen if you understand what i just said.
  • 00:22:27.993 --> 00:22:30.762
  • So this could mean wake up from sin consciousness!
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  • Wake up from sin consciousness, which keeps people trapped in
  • 00:22:34.433 --> 00:22:37.769
  • Guilt and failure.
  • 00:22:37.769 --> 00:22:39.838
  • Wake up from sin consciousness, which keeps people trapped
  • 00:22:39.838 --> 00:22:43.241
  • Into condemnation.
  • 00:22:43.241 --> 00:22:45.844
  • Wake up from sin consciousness and wake up to innocence
  • 00:22:45.844 --> 00:22:53.118
  • Consciousness, which recognizes righteousness in christ.
  • 00:22:53.118 --> 00:22:57.422
  • Wake up to innocence consciousness, wake up to
  • 00:22:57.422 --> 00:23:01.126
  • Redemption, wake up to grace, wake up to everything that jesus
  • 00:23:01.126 --> 00:23:05.864
  • Has done for you.
  • 00:23:05.864 --> 00:23:07.833
  • So the phrase "awake to righteousness," it couldn't
  • 00:23:07.833 --> 00:23:11.903
  • Suggest that righteousness--if you're gonna awake to something,
  • 00:23:11.903 --> 00:23:16.675
  • Could it suggest that righteousness is already
  • 00:23:16.675 --> 00:23:19.077
  • A reality?
  • 00:23:19.077 --> 00:23:21.112
  • I am waking up to something that already is a reality.
  • 00:23:21.112 --> 00:23:25.317
  • But many people aren't aware that it's already a reality.
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  • He's not saying, "wake up so you can create righteousness."
  • 00:23:29.688 --> 00:23:35.494
  • He is saying, "wake up to what's already been made available."
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  • Male announcer: are you trapped in guilt and shame, trying to
  • 00:23:44.269 --> 00:23:46.771
  • Earn god's approval?
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  • In his powerful six-message series, "sin consciousness
  • 00:23:48.106 --> 00:23:51.843
  • Versus innocence consciousness," creflo dollar exposes the enemy
  • 00:23:51.843 --> 00:23:56.248
  • Strategy to keep believers focused on their failures.
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  • Discover how god truly sees you in christ.
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  • You are innocent, forgiven, and righteous.
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  • Creflo: it's not because of our performance that i'm holy, it's
  • 00:24:05.690 --> 00:24:07.893
  • Not because of my performance that i'm righteous, it is
  • 00:24:07.893 --> 00:24:10.529
  • Because of what christ has done for me.
  • 00:24:10.529 --> 00:24:14.366
  • God sees you as holy!
  • 00:24:14.366 --> 00:24:15.967
  • This is god saying, "my mind is made up where you're concerned,
  • 00:24:15.967 --> 00:24:18.570
  • You're in jesus, you're righteous, you're holy, you're
  • 00:24:18.570 --> 00:24:21.439
  • Everything he is!
  • 00:24:21.439 --> 00:24:22.774
  • And i already made my mind up about you, you are
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  • His reflection."
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  • Very simple prayer.
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  • "heavenly father, i believe in jesus.
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  • I believe that he died, that he rose again, and that he
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  • Lives today.
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  • Come into my life, save me.
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  • I receive you as my savior.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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