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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Sin Consciousness vs. Innocence Consciousness (Part 2) | April 16, 2026
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- Creflo dollar: so if he's not gonna come to deal with our
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- Why is he not coming to deal with our sin?
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- He already dealt with our sin, right?
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- When did he deal with our sin?
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- On the cross and when he died, right?
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- That's--our sins have been dealt with.
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- Creflo: we are in the middle-- we started a series last week.
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- I told you we're gonna really take our time in this series.
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- We're talking about, i believe, the very bottom-line reason why
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- Satan can get things in our lives to happen, or why we ask
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- The questions, "well, how come i didn't get healed?"
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- Or "why didn't i see the blessing in my life?"
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- Or "how come i didn't get the raise?"
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- You know the foundation to all of that?
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- Sin consciousness.
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- Sin consciousness is the root to all of that.
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- And so we're doing a series entitled "sin consciousness
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- Versus innocence consciousness."
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- And it's so important that we get to a place where we are more
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- Conscious of our innocence and our righteousness than we
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- Are sin.
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- And so one of the things i want you to begin to understand is
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- That i'm--when i use the word consciousness and sin
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- Consciousness, i'm talking about being aware to--and when i say
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- Sin consciousness--because you can define that in some
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- Different ways.
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- But in this series, when i talk about sin consciousness, i'm
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- Talking about being aware of sin.
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- When i talk about innocence consciousness or righteousness
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- Consciousness, i'm talking about being aware of the fact that you
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- Are innocent, that you have been acquitted, that you have been
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- Pardoned, and that you're more conscious of what jesus has done
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- For you under the grace of god than you are being conscious
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- About sin and the shame that comes with it and the guilt that
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- Comes with it and the condemnation that comes with it.
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- If you just pause just for a moment when you're around
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- People, you will be amazed of the magnitude of sin
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- Consciousness that comes in front of you.
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- People are more aware of their sins than they are of what jesus
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- Has already done, and that's a big deal.
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- So what satan wants to do is keep people sin conscious.
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- He wants people to be more aware of sin than they are of
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- Righteousness, more aware of sin than they are of their
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- Redemption, more aware of sin than they are anything else,
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- Because whatever you focus on the most, that's what you're
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- Gonna do more.
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- You're gonna do it more and more and more and more because you're
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- Focused on it more and more and more.
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- So this is something that i'm honored and privileged to teach
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- Our church so that as we come out of this, you'll begin to
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- Allow the spirit of god to escort you into all kinds of
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- Wonderful places.
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- So let's start here, part two of this.
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- 1 corinthians chapter 15, in verse 34.
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- And let's read verse 34 out loud together.
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- Ready?
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- Read.
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- "awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the
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- Knowledge of god:
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- I speak this to your shame."
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- But a lot of people have the knowledge of sin because the
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- Bible says when you live by the law, the law--where the law is
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- Is the knowledge of sin.
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- So when you live by the law, then you have the knowledge
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- Of sin.
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- But when you live by the grace of god and what jesus has
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- Accomplished for you, you have the knowledge of god.
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- And so what paul is saying here, "i need--" he says, "i need you
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- Guys to awake to righteousness."
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- So, obviously, we must be sleep to it.
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- And so there's this unconsciousness that paul is
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- Addressing here.
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- Paul is calling believers to awake, which implies a shift
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- From unconsciousness to consciousness.
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- And now this could mean, "wake up from sin consciousness,"
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- Which keeps people trapped in guilt and failure.
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- He says, "wake up to sin--from this sin consciousness.
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- You're still trapped in guilt.
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- You're still trapped in condemnation.
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- You're still trapped in failure.
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- Wake up from this failure."
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- And wake up to what?
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- Wake up to the innocence consciousness, which recognizes
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- Righteousness in christ.
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- He says, "wake up to righteousness."
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- So the phrase "awake to righteousness" suggests that
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- Righteousness is already a reality.
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- It's not something he's asking you to create.
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- He is saying "wake up" to something that already exists,
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- But a lot of people are still unaware of it.
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- And the sad part of it is a lot of church folks are still
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- Unaware of their righteousness, that most--a lot of people who
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- Attend church, a lot of people who are born again, are more sin
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- Conscious than they are righteousness conscious.
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- They are more aware of sin and are conscious of it.
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- So sin consciousness keeps people in an unconscious state,
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- Living as if sin still defines them.
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- Sin consciousness--you're living like jesus hadn't done
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- Anything about it.
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- Sin consciousness is still living and allowing sin to
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- Define your identity.
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- So the apostle paul's exhortation is for believers to
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- Step into the awareness of their true identity in christ, where
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- Sin loses its dominion because they are no longer living under
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- The law, but they are now living under grace.
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- Romans 6:14 tells us that we are no longer to be living under
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- The law.
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- "for sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under
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- The law, but you're under grace."
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- But notice in the same verse, if you live life under the law--
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- Those 613 we talked about last week.
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- If you live life under the law, sin can dominate you because you
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- Have the knowledge of sin, and that knowledge creates an
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- Awareness of sin.
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- And, you know, he says, "live under grace," and--because if
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- You keep living under sin consciousness, you can't see
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- Nothing but sin.
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- You can't see nothing but sinning.
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- You'll sit back, and you'll reflect on the sinful mistakes
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- You've made in the past, and you sit up there and think about
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- That, and it's like jesus hadn't even come.
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- It's like we celebrate easter, talk about he was resurrected
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- From the dead and that he arose and he arose and he arose,
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- For what?
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- You still as sin conscious after you got saved as you were before
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- You got saved.
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- And in order for god to do what he wants to do in our lives,
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- He's got to get us to understand how powerful it is to walk away
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- From this sin consciousness and to accept this
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- Righteousness consciousness.
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- So let's dig into this a little bit now.
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- Let's go to the book of hebrews chapter 9, in verse 28.
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- Hebrews chapter 9, in verse 28.
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- Let's read it in the nlt first, and then i want to read it in
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- The mirror translation.
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- Hebrews chapter 9:28.
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- So i'm gonna try to convince you today that sin is no longer on
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- The agenda.
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- And a lot of christians think it is.
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- They think, "well, you know, jesus don't love me if i sin."
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- Well, he died so you don't have to sin.
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- He died to deliver you from the sin nature and from the
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- Sin behavior.
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- He did.
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- But you're saying consciousness keeps you doing the same thing.
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- So i gotta convince you today that it's already been
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- Dealt with.
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- It's finished, it's dealt with, it's not on the agenda.
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- The sin meter has been turned off.
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- That sounds strange, doesn't it?
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- 'cause that ain't what you're hearing in church.
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- The sin meter has been turned off.
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- Now, does that mean you just, "well, since it's turned off, i
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- Might as well sin"?
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- No, no, no, no.
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- When you are less sin conscious and more righteousness
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- Conscious, you're gonna be moved more to righteousness.
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- You ain't--you're not gonna be interested in sinning like you
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- Used to sin, okay, because the consciousness of it is not there
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- Anymore because you're not giving it the nourishment that
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- You normally give it.
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- I promise you, go to--well, i don't want you to do that, but
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- Let's say the churches you have gone to.
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- I was gonna say, "well, go to any church--"
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- The churches you've gone to.
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- I remember the churches i've gone, all i heard was sin,
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- Sin, sin.
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- And then when they hear me preach grace, they say, "the
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- Problem with brother dollar is he don't--he need to preach on
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- Sin some more, and people need to be accountable to their sin."
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- Rick, i need to be accountable to my righteousness.
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- And if i'll be accountable to my righteousness and to do what
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- Jesus has already done, the sin consciousness will take care
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- Of itself.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- So this is something people have in their head.
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- You're trapped in your mind.
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- Sin consciousness is a trap in your mind.
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- All right, so that's what we're gonna do today.
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- Through scripture and through the word, i'm gonna try to show
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- You it's not on the agenda.
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- It's been dealt with.
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- Oh, you better get right.
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- You better--this ain't santa claus coming to town, and you
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- Better get right and all that stuff.
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- You got right when you got saved, and you got right when
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- Jesus presented all of your righteousness, and when you
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- Accepted him, you got right.
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- You can't get no more right than what jesus gave you.
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- I know it sounds weird because i say stuff, and you're trying to
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- Say, "it sounds like a false prophet to me."
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- It sounds weird, it's just--i'm talking to you from a
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- Perspective you hadn't been spoken to before.
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- You have been preached the law all your life.
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- You've been preached under the old covenant all your life, and
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- Under the old covenant, it's about what you do in order to
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- Get god to do something for you.
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- And if you don't do, then something's gonna happen bad
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- For you.
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- The bible says in deuteronomy 28, if you look at it, "if you
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- Obey god, then you're blessed.
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- But if you disobey god, you'll be cursed."
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- And you're still walking around, thinking what you did two years
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- Ago or last week now got you under a curse.
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- Since jesus has come and was raised from the dead, you
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- Ain't--you are--you have been delivered from the curse.
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- It is not about what you do, it's about what he has already
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- Done for you.
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- Sin is no longer a part of the agenda, and i'm gonna go viral.
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- But it ain't no longer a part of the agenda.
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- So now--that's a bold statement, so now, if you
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- Believe the bible, and if you believe scripture, i can show
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- That to you.
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- You wanna see?
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- Okay.
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- All right, fair enough, right?
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- Hebrews chapter 9, verse 28 in the nlt.
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- Let's read out of that first, and then we're gonna go to
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- The mirror.
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- And we're gonna look at about 2 or 3 of these, all right?
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- All right.
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- "so also christ was offered once for all times."
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- Now, christ was offered as our sin sacrifice, or the payment
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- For our sin.
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- So christ was offered to pay the ransom to deliver us from sin.
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- Christ was the offering.
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- He's the peace offering, he's the sin offering, and he was
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- Offered, and that was done almost 2,000 years ago.
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- "so also christ was offered, and he did it once and for
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- All times."
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- Christ is not jumping on the cross every time you sin.
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- What he did, he did once and for all, right?
- 00:13:12.194 --> 00:13:16.565
- "so also christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice," a
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- Sin sacrifice, to do what?
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- To take away what?
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- All: sins.
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- Creflo: so the purpose of christ's offering on the cross
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- Was to do what?
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- All: take away sin.
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- Creflo: so all the stuff we talked about, "oh, jesus died on
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- The cross.
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- He was whipped with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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- ♪ oh, lord ♪♪
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- That was to take away the sins.
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- It wasn't to take away the sin so you can sin more.
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- It was to take away the sin so you'll be less conscious of sin
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- So you'll start operating in the righteousness that you now
- 00:13:53.936 --> 00:13:57.306
- Believe more than the sin consciousness.
- 00:13:57.306 --> 00:14:02.912
- "he was sacrificed to take away the sins of the--many people.
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- He will come again, not to deal with our sins."
- 00:14:06.682 --> 00:14:14.623
- So if you look at the agenda that jesus has when he comes
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- Again, sin is not on the agenda.
- 00:14:17.826 --> 00:14:21.230
- "he will come again, but not to deal with our sins."
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- Is that what it say?
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- So if he's not gonna come to deal with our sin--why is he
- 00:14:30.572 --> 00:14:33.442
- Not coming to deal with our sins?
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- I mean, you've heard that all your life.
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- Why is he not coming to deal with our sin?
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- He already dealt with our sins, right?
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- When did he deal with our sins?
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- On the cross and when he died, right?
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- That's--our sins have been dealt with.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- "not to deal with our sins, but to," what?
- 00:14:56.899 --> 00:14:59.501
- "bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him."
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- Salvation--so this was when he was raised from the dead, and he
- 00:15:06.475 --> 00:15:10.079
- Bought salvation as a result of him being raised from the dead.
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- It's not talking about a future coming of the lord.
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- Most people look at this scripture as futuristic.
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- It's not.
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- It's talking about the fact that when he was given as a sacrifice
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- Almost 2,000 years ago, that sacrifice dealt with our sin.
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- And now when he comes back from that sacrifice, he's coming to
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- Give salvation, or soteria, or wholeness, to all who are
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- Eagerly waiting for him.
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- And so now you can get born again.
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- Now you can be whole.
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- Now you can be delivered.
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- Now you can be all of these things that you couldn't
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- Be before.
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- He says, "i dealt with your sins as a sacrifice.
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- Now i'm getting ready to deal with your salvation as you live
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- The rest of your life."
- 00:15:56.592 --> 00:16:04.033
- Okay, romans chapter 4, this is not on the notes, but i'm
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- Thinking about it.
- 00:16:09.338 --> 00:16:10.672
- Romans chapter 4, verse 6. romans 4:6.
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- "david also spoke of this when he described the happiness of
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- Those who are declared righteous without working for it."
- 00:16:19.348 --> 00:16:25.854
- "david spoke of this when he described the happiness of those
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- Who are declared righteous without working for it."
- 00:16:28.590 --> 00:16:32.494
- You were declared righteous without working for it.
- 00:16:32.494 --> 00:16:35.431
- And what have we done in the church for a million years?
- 00:16:35.431 --> 00:16:38.500
- We've been trying to work for it, haven't we?
- 00:16:38.500 --> 00:16:42.204
- Trying to work for it, trying to work to be righteous.
- 00:16:42.204 --> 00:16:44.540
- "what you doing?"
- 00:16:44.540 --> 00:16:45.874
- "i'm going to church because i'm working to be righteous."
- 00:16:45.874 --> 00:16:47.976
- "what you doing?"
- 00:16:47.976 --> 00:16:49.311
- "well, i didn't cuss her out because i wanna be righteous."
- 00:16:49.311 --> 00:16:53.315
- You're righteous only because jesus is righteous, all right?
- 00:16:53.315 --> 00:16:57.186
- So now watch this, next verse.
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- Verse 7, "oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven."
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- Oh, i'm rejoicing over that.
- 00:17:04.226 --> 00:17:06.361
- My disobedience has been forgiven.
- 00:17:06.361 --> 00:17:08.831
- I said, my disobedience has been forgiven.
- 00:17:08.831 --> 00:17:12.134
- I said, my disobedience has been forgiven, hallelujah.
- 00:17:12.134 --> 00:17:16.638
- "whose sins are put out of sight."
- 00:17:16.638 --> 00:17:24.146
- "yes, what joy for those whose record the lord has cleared
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- Of sin."
- 00:17:32.988 --> 00:17:37.092
- Now read verse 8 in the king james version because i want you
- 00:17:37.092 --> 00:17:41.163
- To make sure you know this word that they use in the king james,
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- The word impute.
- 00:17:45.701 --> 00:17:48.170
- "blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute."
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- That's a word that means--when i impute something to your
- 00:17:52.508 --> 00:17:55.744
- Account, i charge something to your account.
- 00:17:55.744 --> 00:17:58.647
- And right here, he says, "blessed is the man to whom the
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- Lord will not charge sin to your account."
- 00:18:00.949 --> 00:18:05.921
- The meter's been turned off, guys.
- 00:18:05.921 --> 00:18:09.158
- Someone says, "well, how come i keep sinning?"
- 00:18:09.158 --> 00:18:10.926
- Because you're still sin conscious.
- 00:18:10.926 --> 00:18:13.896
- You're still sin conscious.
- 00:18:13.896 --> 00:18:15.230
- That's why you keep sinning.
- 00:18:15.230 --> 00:18:16.932
- "well, i'm trying not to smoke weed no more.
- 00:18:16.932 --> 00:18:18.867
- Why i keep smoking weed?"
- 00:18:18.867 --> 00:18:20.235
- 'cause every time you smoke one time, then you get sin
- 00:18:20.235 --> 00:18:21.803
- Conscious, and then you smoke it again, you're more
- 00:18:21.803 --> 00:18:23.305
- Sin unconscious.
- 00:18:23.305 --> 00:18:24.673
- And you don't believe that he's made you righteous, and you
- 00:18:24.673 --> 00:18:26.341
- Focus more on your sin consciousness, and that's what
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- Keeps the sin behavior going.
- 00:18:28.644 --> 00:18:33.682
- "blessed is a man to whom the lord will not impute."
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- No, will not.
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- No, will never.
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- Study the original words here.
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- Will not, no, will not at any time, will not, no--the
- 00:18:43.592 --> 00:18:47.296
- Emphasis he puts on that.
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- No, will not, never.
- 00:18:48.730 --> 00:18:50.065
- Not ever will he ever impute sin to your account.
- 00:18:50.065 --> 00:18:59.808
- "you better be careful if you don't want your record to be
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- Full of--" it ain't gonna be on there.
- 00:19:01.777 --> 00:19:05.581
- [speaking in tongues]
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- Hold on a minute now. hold on a minute now.
- 00:19:08.317 --> 00:19:11.653
- In our law in the united states of america--
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- [speaking in tongues]
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- Once a case has been determined, one time, and they
- 00:19:17.726 --> 00:19:23.532
- Said, "you are innocent of these charges," you can't go back and
- 00:19:23.532 --> 00:19:30.706
- Try that person for the same case.
- 00:19:30.706 --> 00:19:36.645
- They call it what, double jeopardy?
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- You understand what i'm saying?
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- So for jesus to forgive us of all of our sins and declared
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- Innocent, i can never
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- Be tried again for the case of sin.
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- Yeah, y'all don't know that. i know it's strange.
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- Some of y'all, "uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh," because you're
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- Sin conscious.
- 00:20:04.806 --> 00:20:06.241
- Either you're sin conscious or you just left sin.
- 00:20:06.241 --> 00:20:08.443
- You're sin conscious.
- 00:20:08.443 --> 00:20:12.214
- So it's hard to hear this when you're sin conscious because
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- You're needing to justify your actions.
- 00:20:15.050 --> 00:20:21.556
- Whew, boy.
- 00:20:21.556 --> 00:20:25.294
- Ah, but it's god.
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- I'm gonna let y'all just meditate on that just for
- 00:20:27.763 --> 00:20:29.798
- A minute.
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- Wow.
- 00:20:32.100 --> 00:20:34.403
- Titus chapter 2, verses 12-14.
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- Titus chapter 2, verse 12.
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- Somebody say, "is that in the bible?"
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- Yeah, that's what i'm trying to show you.
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- We--there's stuff in the bible.
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- You ready?
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- Let's start at verse 11 in the king james.
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- I want you to get the context.
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- Context is king.
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- Now, i'm--you know, when i first heard this, the only thing
- 00:21:02.264 --> 00:21:04.333
- Going in my head was, "well, does that mean i keep sinning?
- 00:21:04.333 --> 00:21:07.302
- Does that mean i keep sinning?
- 00:21:07.302 --> 00:21:08.737
- Is this a license to sin?"
- 00:21:08.737 --> 00:21:10.105
- No, it's not a license to sin.
- 00:21:10.105 --> 00:21:11.773
- It's a license to be righteous, not a license to sin.
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- Grace doesn't give you a license to sin.
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- Grace is your way out of sin.
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- All right, now watch this: "for the grace of god that
- 00:21:25.187 --> 00:21:27.556
- Bringeth salvation."
- 00:21:27.556 --> 00:21:29.725
- Remember jesus said he's coming back to give salvation to all
- 00:21:29.725 --> 00:21:33.395
- Those who await?
- 00:21:33.395 --> 00:21:34.930
- Grace is a person.
- 00:21:34.930 --> 00:21:36.264
- Grace is not a curriculum, grace is not a subject matter, grace
- 00:21:36.264 --> 00:21:39.668
- Is a person.
- 00:21:39.668 --> 00:21:41.036
- John chapter 1, i believe 14, "jesus, full of grace
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- And truth."
- 00:21:44.406 --> 00:21:45.741
- So grace is a person.
- 00:21:45.741 --> 00:21:47.109
- So we're not talking about some curriculum here.
- 00:21:47.109 --> 00:21:51.079
- It's a--jesus is grace.
- 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:52.881
- Jesus is full of grace and truth.
- 00:21:52.881 --> 00:21:54.449
- So when we talk about grace, we're talking about jesus, the
- 00:21:54.449 --> 00:21:56.685
- King of grace.
- 00:21:56.685 --> 00:21:58.019
- He is grace.
- 00:21:58.019 --> 00:21:59.788
- "for the grace of god that bringeth," what?
- 00:21:59.788 --> 00:22:02.224
- "salvation."
- 00:22:02.224 --> 00:22:03.558
- I just showed you the scripture where he says he's coming back
- 00:22:03.558 --> 00:22:05.160
- To bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
- 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:08.363
- "for the grace of god that bringeth salvation, he has
- 00:22:08.363 --> 00:22:11.400
- Appeared to all men."
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- In other words, what he desires to do, he has done for the
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- Entire human race already.
- 00:22:17.072 --> 00:22:20.575
- For every living person--every living person on the planet has
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- Access to this grace, has access to be pardoned, has access to
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- Walk in the freedom of sin.
- 00:22:35.090 --> 00:22:39.895
- He says, "for the grace of god that bringeth salvation unto--
- 00:22:39.895 --> 00:22:44.032
- Salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us," so jesus
- 00:22:44.032 --> 00:22:49.070
- Wants to teach us, "that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts."
- 00:22:49.070 --> 00:22:57.045
- He said he'll teach us.
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- You've been trying to teach yourself.
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- He says, "i'm gonna teach you how to do this."
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- Part of the new covenant was he said that "no man--you'll have
- 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.690
- No need for any man to teach you, but the holy spirit will
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- Teach you."
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- I don't ever want to take for granted that you have received
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- Than to enter into a personal relationship with christ.
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- So if you want to become born again and begin an exciting,
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- Intimate relationship with jesus, pray this prayer with
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- Me now.
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- "heavenly father, come into my heart, save me.
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- I receive you now by faith, and i declare in jesus's name that i
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- Am saved.
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- Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen."
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- Well, if you prayed that prayer with me, i wanna welcome you to
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- The kingdom of god.
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- Announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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- Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring this
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- Message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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