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Creflo Dollar - The Truth About The Authority Of The Believer

December 31, 2025 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Truth About The Authority Of The Believer
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Truth About The Authority Of The Believer | December 31, 2025
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  • Partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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  • Coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: a policeman doesn't have to get dramatic.
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  • Any policeman that has a uniform on, he doesn't have to
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  • Get dramatic.
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  • He can stand in the middle of the street and say...
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  • And you stop, because he's operating from the seat of his
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  • Badge and his uniform.
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  • "stop."
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  • He don't have to say, "stop, stop!"
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  • He just...
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  • In fact, when you see him, you start hitting the brakes.
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  • "oh, that's a po-po, that's po-po, that right, that right."
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  • That's what demons ought to do with you.
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  • "uh-oh, they seated up there with god.
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  • Uh-oh, watch out. uh-oh, there go god.
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  • Uh-oh, uh-oh."
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  • Announcer: have you ever felt like no matter how hard you
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  • Try, it's still not enough?
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  • Like you're chasing peace, approval, maybe even god's love,
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  • But never quite catching it?
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  • In his book "the transformative power of grace," creflo dollar
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  • Shows you how to stop striving and start living.
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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  • ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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  • ♪ oh-oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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  • ♪ we are changed. ♪♪
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  • Creflo: okay, if you have your bibles, join me in the book of
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  • Ephesians, chapter 2:6.
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  • We are continuing on our teaching dealing with the truth
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  • Of the authority of the believer.
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  • And we spent several weeks talking about your true
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  • Identity, your jesus identity.
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  • You are righteous, say that out loud.
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  • "i'm righteous."
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  • You are forgiven.
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  • Say, "i'm forgiven."
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  • You are one with god.
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  • Say, "i'm one with god."
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  • You are seated with god.
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  • Say, "i'm seated with god."
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  • You are complete.
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  • And you are a child of god.
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  • I am a--
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  • Congregation: child of god.
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  • Creflo: okay, that's your true identity.
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  • Your true identity is, you are a mirror image of jesus.
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  • "as he is," john 4:17, "so are we in this earth."
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  • Now, it's important that you renew your mind to your true
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  • Identity, because everything concerning a successful
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  • Christian life will have to flow from your understanding of who
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  • You are.
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  • Satan obviously knows this, because he attacked adam
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  • And eve.
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  • The first place of attack was their identity.
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  • When jesus came wrapped in flesh, was tempted in the
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  • Wilderness, the first place the enemy attacked, "if thou be the
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  • Son of god," was the identity.
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  • The place that he attacks you in every day of your life is
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  • Your identity.
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  • You make a mistake, well, you're guilty.
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  • You don't do this right, well, you're not righteous.
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  • Or, you know, god can't do this--and always attacking
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  • Your identity.
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  • And what you've got to do is say, "no, that's not me,"
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  • You know.
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  • Unforgiving person, that's not me.
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  • Walking around guilty, that's not me.
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  • Walking around in condemnation, that's not me.
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  • Holding unforgiveness, that's not me.
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  • I am not what my past says i am.
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  • I am not what other people say i am.
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  • I am who god says i am.
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  • I am the righteousness of god.
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  • I'm redeemed, i'm holy, i'm sanctified.
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  • I'm everything god says i am.
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  • I am a child of god.
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  • I'm a mirror image of jesus christ.
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  • That becomes difficult to say sometimes, when you begin to
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  • Examine your behavior or your attitudes, and it's not quite up
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  • To the level of the confession of faith concerning
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  • Your identity.
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  • But that's the whole key.
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  • If you can begin to understand and embrace your identity, then
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  • Behavior will begin to flow from that embrace of your identity.
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  • If you start resting in who jesus says you are, then your
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  • Behavior begins to flow from that.
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  • We don't go from trouble to victory.
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  • We go from victory to victory.
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  • That's embracing what jesus has already done.
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  • If you understand that, say amen.
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  • Now, if that never becomes settled in your life, it's gonna
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  • Affect your authority.
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  • Authority flowing from your true identity.
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  • You're gonna find out that everything in your christian
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  • Life is is flowing from your true identity, flowing from who
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  • You are.
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  • And if that never happens, you're gonna always be the
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  • Christian that's trying to, through your performance,
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  • Do something.
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  • You know, you're going to try to get healed through
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  • Your performance.
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  • You're going to try to get rich through your performance.
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  • You're going to try to minister to people through
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  • Your performance.
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  • And what you don't understand is--let me do something
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  • Right quick.
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  • I'm gonna do something right quick, see?
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  • See if i can do that.
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  • Anybody, can you articulate what you want from god?
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  • Or what you want god to do for you or somebody in your life?
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  • Raise your hands, anybody.
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  • What, what, holler, what, what, what?
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  • Okay, would like god to change your financial situation.
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  • Anybody else?
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  • Real quick, what is it?
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  • Save your whole family.
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  • What else?
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  • Female: renew my mind.
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  • Creflo: renew your mind, you gotta do that.
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  • What else?
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  • Female: i wanna be an example of him, i'd like to be an example.
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  • Creflo: want to be an example of him.
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  • Okay, one more, one more.
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  • What, what, what, what?
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  • Family relationships.
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  • All right, so here, here.
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  • Female: continue direction.
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  • Creflo: continue direction.
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  • All right, so everything that was mentioned, here's the deal.
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  • It's already done.
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  • It's already done.
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  • So what we have to do is get in alignment with the finished.
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  • Some kind of little bug has been trying to attack my body for the
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  • Last four days.
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  • I resist it, from the place of my authority.
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  • I'm not going to god saying, "oh, god, heal me."
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  • That was done.
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  • You got to get that.
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  • That was done.
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  • So from the place of my authority, i'm healed and i
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  • Resist it.
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  • From the place of the authority, your financial situation is
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  • Already done.
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  • He's provided, he's your supply house.
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  • From the place of your authority, directions are
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  • Already there.
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  • It's an alignment.
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  • From the place of your authority.
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  • You see, we don't think that matters, how we articulate it
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  • And how we look at it, but it does.
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  • It's like the tv dish.
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  • You're not picking the signal up because the dish needs to
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  • Be adjusted.
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  • I'm trying to adjust your dish.
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  • But religion says you need to perform to make that happen, you
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  • Need to perform to get that, you need to perform to get that.
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  • I need to perform to get my healing and manifestation.
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  • No, i don't.
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  • I am seated with him in heavenly places.
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  • I'm seated in the executive authority seat.
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  • He's already healed me, so i am not praying, "oh god, heal me."
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  • I am like, from a place of my authority, saying, "thank you,
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  • Lord, i'm healed."
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  • Lord, i'm already healed.
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  • I am not trying to perfect what you've already perfected.
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  • So you understand that?
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  • So listen to how you say stuff.
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  • Listen to how you pray stuff.
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  • Because it's out of line.
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  • Your dish is out of line.
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  • Mhm, some of these people.
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  • All right, all right, now.
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  • Now, let's take it step by step now.
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  • Ephesians chapter 2:6.
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  • Now here's what i want you to see.
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  • Under the new covenant, under the new covenant, authority
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  • Isn't something you work up.
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  • Under the new covenant, authority is not something you
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  • Fight for.
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  • Under the new covenant, which is what we live by, our covenant is
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  • This new covenant, authority is something you've already been
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  • Given, because of your union with christ.
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  • You've already been given authority.
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  • Authority basically means you have the right and the backing
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  • To act on god's behalf, because you are seated with him.
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  • You have the right and the authority to act on god's
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  • Behalf, because you are seated with him in this earth.
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  • So please understand, it's not you trying to get god to move.
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  • It's you moving because god has already moved and seated you
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  • With christ.
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  • Most of our religious experience has been training us to do a, b,
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  • C, d to get god to move.
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  • No, god has done all the moving he plan on doing.
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  • I remember as a church we used to fast.
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  • Why?
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  • To get god to move.
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  • Well, what kind of fast are we gonna do?
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  • A daniel fast, a complete fast, and we got real fancy with the
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  • Different fasts.
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  • And no meat fast and all that.
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  • To get god to move.
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  • And i don't know if you were ever being honest, but i did all
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  • Them fasts and it didn't seem like he was moving.
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  • I stayed hungry all that time and it--
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  • Why?
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  • Because he's already moved.
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  • I remember one time in the early days when we were having church
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  • In the school, and i went in.
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  • Taffi and i have been married for about maybe a month.
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  • Went in the bedroom, new carpet, i'm on the floor.
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  • I mean, i got to do it right because i need to get him
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  • To move.
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  • I'm all on the floor, [speaking in tongues].
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  • Carpet fibers getting in my mouth.
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  • And taffi started cooking spaghetti and french bread.
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  • And i had my face right there by the door smelling all
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  • That stuff.
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  • And i just got to be honest, i was getting weak.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Huh, say.
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  • [speaking in tongues] spaghetti [speaking in tongues]
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  • Spaghetti [speaking in tongues] spaghetti.
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  • And finally, i got choked up from the carpet, you know.
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  • And when i got choked up and i couldn't say nothing else,
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  • Trying to clear my throat of the carpet, the lord asked me, "what
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  • You doing?"
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  • I said, "i'm praying so i can be anointed."
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  • He said, "i did that when i called you."
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  • I said, "what, you did what?"
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  • He said, "i anointed you when i called you.
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  • You're already anointed for tomorrow.
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  • You just--you're already anointed.
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  • So if you're gonna spend time with me, spend time getting in
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  • Line with what you already are."
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  • All right, wait, wait, wait.
  • 00:12:14.747 --> 00:12:16.248
  • And i'm thinking, i didn't say it out loud, but i'm thinking,
  • 00:12:16.248 --> 00:12:18.150
  • "for real though?"
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  • So i said, "in jesus's name, amen."
  • 00:12:20.219 --> 00:12:21.754
  • And i got up and had me some spaghetti and french bread.
  • 00:12:21.754 --> 00:12:25.825
  • And that's the first time i saw that, but didn't know how to
  • 00:12:25.825 --> 00:12:29.728
  • Articulate it or to explain that.
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  • So, we've been trying to get god to move.
  • 00:12:33.766 --> 00:12:38.003
  • And if you understand that god's already moved and that you're
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  • Seated with him already, then you can stop all
  • 00:12:42.842 --> 00:12:46.278
  • That tomfoolery.
  • 00:12:46.278 --> 00:12:48.347
  • And if you'll notice, almost every church i know of is
  • 00:12:48.347 --> 00:12:51.383
  • Teaching a doctrine that says, "you got to do this in order for
  • 00:12:51.383 --> 00:12:54.486
  • God to do that."
  • 00:12:54.486 --> 00:12:55.855
  • That was under the old covenant of promise.
  • 00:12:55.855 --> 00:12:58.390
  • But that old covenant is obsolete.
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  • We learn from that covenant to see the shadows as we come into
  • 00:13:00.926 --> 00:13:05.297
  • The reality of those shadows in this new covenant.
  • 00:13:05.297 --> 00:13:08.334
  • For example, in the old covenant, the sabbath was a day.
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  • In the new covenant, the reality of that was jesus is
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  • Our sabbath.
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  • Amen.
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  • In the old covenant, the sacrifices were the animals to
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  • Cover your sins.
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  • In the new covenant, jesus was that final sacrifice, not just
  • 00:13:22.882 --> 00:13:26.252
  • To cover your sins, but to kick it out of sight.
  • 00:13:26.252 --> 00:13:34.360
  • Look at colossians 3:1-4 in the mirror.
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  • We got to change our mind, in order to start seeing things.
  • 00:13:41.934 --> 00:13:46.472
  • You should be seeing manifestations like on a
  • 00:13:46.472 --> 00:13:48.707
  • Day-to-day basis, until the point where it starts getting,
  • 00:13:48.707 --> 00:13:52.244
  • It shows up quickly.
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  • I mean, your body's under attack and you say, "i resist that."
  • 00:13:53.913 --> 00:13:57.516
  • You know, healing is already done and i have the right to act
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  • On behalf of god because i'm seated with him.
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  • No, we're not doing this today.
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  • I'm not the one, move.
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  • I don't even receive you--move.
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  • I'm healed.
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  • I resist you, sickness.
  • 00:14:09.662 --> 00:14:12.264
  • I resist you, lack.
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  • I resist you, worry.
  • 00:14:17.303 --> 00:14:21.006
  • No!
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  • You don't know who you're talking to.
  • 00:14:22.341 --> 00:14:23.709
  • I'm seated with him.
  • 00:14:23.709 --> 00:14:27.379
  • "well, let's pray and see what your god gonna do."
  • 00:14:27.379 --> 00:14:29.248
  • Uh-uh.
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  • If i'm gonna pray, my prayer is gonna be thanking him for the
  • 00:14:30.616 --> 00:14:34.019
  • Goodness and the authority to resist you.
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  • Look at this. i love this.
  • 00:14:42.161 --> 00:14:43.562
  • "see yourselves co-raised with christ."
  • 00:14:43.562 --> 00:14:45.564
  • Can you see yourself, when he says you've been raised
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  • With him?
  • 00:14:47.533 --> 00:14:48.867
  • I've been raised with christ. what does that mean?
  • 00:14:48.867 --> 00:14:50.202
  • Watch this.
  • 00:14:50.202 --> 00:14:51.537
  • "now ponder with persuasion the consequence of your co-inclusion
  • 00:14:51.537 --> 00:14:55.975
  • In him."
  • 00:14:55.975 --> 00:14:57.309
  • Ponder means to roll it over again, roll it over in
  • 00:14:57.309 --> 00:14:59.244
  • Your head.
  • 00:14:59.244 --> 00:15:00.579
  • A lot of stuff we can't do because we're not rolling
  • 00:15:00.579 --> 00:15:02.081
  • It over in our head.
  • 00:15:02.081 --> 00:15:03.415
  • We come to church, you know, trying to get our check-off for
  • 00:15:03.415 --> 00:15:05.384
  • The day, and instead of knowing that i'm hearing truth that i
  • 00:15:05.384 --> 00:15:08.754
  • Need to adjust my thinking to.
  • 00:15:08.754 --> 00:15:11.690
  • Okay, "now ponder with persuasion the consequences of
  • 00:15:11.690 --> 00:15:15.627
  • Your co-inclusion with him.
  • 00:15:15.627 --> 00:15:16.996
  • Relocate yourselves mentally."
  • 00:15:16.996 --> 00:15:19.431
  • Relocate yourselves mentally.
  • 00:15:19.431 --> 00:15:22.201
  • You gotta get off that plane, that plane where you're thinking
  • 00:15:22.201 --> 00:15:27.272
  • Religiously, and you gotta relocate yourself to
  • 00:15:27.272 --> 00:15:30.342
  • Think higher.
  • 00:15:30.342 --> 00:15:32.544
  • You got to--can't think with about the things on the earth.
  • 00:15:32.544 --> 00:15:36.048
  • You got to think about those higher things.
  • 00:15:36.048 --> 00:15:38.550
  • And you're stuck in the religion, you're stuck in what
  • 00:15:38.550 --> 00:15:41.153
  • Social media tells you, and he's saying your thinking is
  • 00:15:41.153 --> 00:15:45.157
  • Romper room.
  • 00:15:45.157 --> 00:15:48.027
  • You need to come up here.
  • 00:15:48.027 --> 00:15:49.395
  • You're seated with god.
  • 00:15:49.395 --> 00:15:50.729
  • You're trying to get to god.
  • 00:15:50.729 --> 00:15:52.164
  • "oh, most holy god."
  • 00:15:52.164 --> 00:15:53.499
  • He's like, "you're sitting with me."
  • 00:15:53.499 --> 00:15:56.568
  • Where, how?
  • 00:15:56.568 --> 00:15:57.903
  • How you sit with me?
  • 00:15:57.903 --> 00:15:59.271
  • "engage your thoughts with throne room reality."
  • 00:15:59.271 --> 00:16:04.209
  • "engage your thoughts with throne room realities."
  • 00:16:04.209 --> 00:16:09.782
  • What is he saying?
  • 00:16:09.782 --> 00:16:11.150
  • Get your thoughts connected to throne room realities, "where
  • 00:16:11.150 --> 00:16:15.754
  • You are co-seated with christ."
  • 00:16:15.754 --> 00:16:18.457
  • And where are you seated with christ?
  • 00:16:18.457 --> 00:16:20.826
  • In the same chair?
  • 00:16:20.826 --> 00:16:22.161
  • No, he ain't talking about that.
  • 00:16:22.161 --> 00:16:23.629
  • You're co-seated with christ "in executive authority of god's
  • 00:16:23.629 --> 00:16:28.534
  • Right hand."
  • 00:16:28.534 --> 00:16:30.502
  • Co-seated.
  • 00:16:30.502 --> 00:16:32.704
  • You are seated in the authority that christ himself has.
  • 00:16:32.704 --> 00:16:38.811
  • All right, look at what christ was able to do while he was on
  • 00:16:38.811 --> 00:16:40.712
  • The earth.
  • 00:16:40.712 --> 00:16:42.047
  • He says you can do the exact same things, but you're going to
  • 00:16:42.047 --> 00:16:45.150
  • Have to get your thoughts lined up with throne room realities,
  • 00:16:45.150 --> 00:16:54.660
  • Because you're seated with christ "in the
  • 00:16:54.660 --> 00:16:56.495
  • Executive authority."
  • 00:16:56.495 --> 00:16:58.697
  • Oh my god, look at verse 2, okay, "become affectionately
  • 00:16:58.697 --> 00:17:02.468
  • Acquainted with throne room thoughts that will keep you from
  • 00:17:02.468 --> 00:17:05.637
  • Being distracted again by the earthly [soul-ruled] realm."
  • 00:17:05.637 --> 00:17:11.743
  • 3, "your union with his death broke the association with
  • 00:17:11.743 --> 00:17:16.548
  • The world."
  • 00:17:16.548 --> 00:17:18.350
  • Your union with his death broke the association with the world.
  • 00:17:18.350 --> 00:17:22.154
  • Quit trying to do things the way the world does things.
  • 00:17:22.154 --> 00:17:26.024
  • Your association with him broke your association with the world.
  • 00:17:26.024 --> 00:17:32.331
  • But you still--and i want to add religion too.
  • 00:17:32.331 --> 00:17:35.434
  • It broke your association with religion as well.
  • 00:17:35.434 --> 00:17:38.370
  • "see yourselves," he said, do that.
  • 00:17:38.370 --> 00:17:40.038
  • Now if he says see yourself, start seeing yourself like this.
  • 00:17:40.038 --> 00:17:42.608
  • "see yourself located in a fortress where your life is
  • 00:17:42.608 --> 00:17:45.377
  • Hidden with christ in god."
  • 00:17:45.377 --> 00:17:47.646
  • 4, "the unveiling of christ as defining our lives."
  • 00:17:47.646 --> 00:17:54.653
  • "the unveiling of christ as defining our lives," ooh jesus,
  • 00:17:54.653 --> 00:18:00.425
  • "immediately implies that what is evident in him is equally
  • 00:18:00.425 --> 00:18:04.963
  • Mirrored in you."
  • 00:18:04.963 --> 00:18:06.365
  • "the exact life on--" that's--i know you, before i read that
  • 00:18:10.536 --> 00:18:19.144
  • It's like, "are you seriously going to say this?"
  • 00:18:19.144 --> 00:18:24.183
  • "the life that's on exhibit, the exact life on exhibit in christ,
  • 00:18:24.183 --> 00:18:31.023
  • Is now repeated in you.
  • 00:18:31.023 --> 00:18:34.226
  • We are included in the same bliss and joined-oneness with
  • 00:18:38.430 --> 00:18:43.535
  • Him; just as his life reveals you, your life should
  • 00:18:43.535 --> 00:18:47.606
  • Reveal him."
  • 00:18:47.606 --> 00:18:51.276
  • Your life should reveal him.
  • 00:18:51.276 --> 00:18:55.280
  • So this is like he's saying, you gotta start thinking like this.
  • 00:18:55.280 --> 00:19:00.152
  • And if you start thinking, "well, you know, that's jesus,
  • 00:19:00.152 --> 00:19:04.556
  • But that's us, but, you know, i ain't jesus,"
  • 00:19:04.556 --> 00:19:07.859
  • Dude, you never gonna operate in this type of authority where
  • 00:19:07.859 --> 00:19:12.664
  • It's gonna be based on just you believing that and being seated
  • 00:19:12.664 --> 00:19:17.135
  • In that.
  • 00:19:17.135 --> 00:19:18.470
  • So, authority under the new covenant is really about, watch
  • 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:21.840
  • This, position, not performance.
  • 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:27.212
  • Authority is about your position.
  • 00:19:27.212 --> 00:19:30.582
  • Your position.
  • 00:19:30.582 --> 00:19:31.917
  • I just showed you where you're positioned.
  • 00:19:31.917 --> 00:19:33.285
  • You're positioned with christ.
  • 00:19:33.285 --> 00:19:34.620
  • You're seated with christ.
  • 00:19:34.620 --> 00:19:36.321
  • You are the mirror image of christ.
  • 00:19:36.321 --> 00:19:38.490
  • You sit in executive authority with christ.
  • 00:19:38.490 --> 00:19:41.159
  • That is your position.
  • 00:19:41.159 --> 00:19:42.995
  • But you know what we've done with our authority over
  • 00:19:42.995 --> 00:19:45.163
  • The years?
  • 00:19:45.163 --> 00:19:46.531
  • We've made it about our performance.
  • 00:19:46.531 --> 00:19:48.033
  • "satan!
  • 00:19:48.033 --> 00:19:51.770
  • I command you in the name of jesus."
  • 00:19:51.770 --> 00:19:54.206
  • And then the devil said, "aight."
  • 00:19:57.209 --> 00:20:00.512
  • And you say, "oh, oh, i ain't fast enough," and so you're
  • 00:20:00.512 --> 00:20:03.148
  • Trying to perform.
  • 00:20:03.148 --> 00:20:05.784
  • Why?
  • 00:20:05.784 --> 00:20:07.119
  • Because you have not yet aligned yourself with your seat.
  • 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:14.526
  • A policeman doesn't have to get dramatic.
  • 00:20:14.526 --> 00:20:17.329
  • Any policeman that has a uniform on, he doesn't have to
  • 00:20:17.329 --> 00:20:19.931
  • Get dramatic.
  • 00:20:19.931 --> 00:20:21.733
  • He can stand in the middle of the street and say...
  • 00:20:21.733 --> 00:20:26.271
  • And you stop, because he's operating from the seat of his
  • 00:20:26.271 --> 00:20:32.878
  • Badge and his uniform.
  • 00:20:32.878 --> 00:20:35.881
  • "stop."
  • 00:20:35.881 --> 00:20:37.516
  • He don't have to say, "stop, stop!"
  • 00:20:37.516 --> 00:20:40.552
  • He just...
  • 00:20:40.552 --> 00:20:42.654
  • In fact, when you see him, you start hitting the brakes.
  • 00:20:42.654 --> 00:20:47.225
  • "oh, that's a po-po, that's po-po.
  • 00:20:47.225 --> 00:20:49.461
  • That right, that right."
  • 00:20:49.461 --> 00:20:52.531
  • That's what demons ought to do with you.
  • 00:20:52.531 --> 00:20:54.599
  • "uh-oh, they seated there with god.
  • 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:56.201
  • Uh-oh, watch out.
  • 00:20:56.201 --> 00:20:57.569
  • Uh-oh, there go god, uh-oh."
  • 00:20:57.569 --> 00:21:03.608
  • But you're not convinced about where you're seated.
  • 00:21:03.608 --> 00:21:08.480
  • You're not convinced about where you're seated.
  • 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:09.915
  • So you do a lot of doubting about your seat, who you are.
  • 00:21:09.915 --> 00:21:18.156
  • Not too sure that--that i'm really seated with him.
  • 00:21:18.156 --> 00:21:24.229
  • What are you doubting?
  • 00:21:24.229 --> 00:21:25.597
  • You're doubting your identity.
  • 00:21:25.597 --> 00:21:27.232
  • Not too sure that that's me.
  • 00:21:27.232 --> 00:21:30.802
  • Wow.
  • 00:21:30.802 --> 00:21:33.438
  • We do a lot of dramatic stuff in church.
  • 00:21:33.438 --> 00:21:37.809
  • You know, choking people, trying to get the devil to come out.
  • 00:21:37.809 --> 00:21:42.814
  • I remember i was in the baptist church and this dear sister, she
  • 00:21:42.814 --> 00:21:45.550
  • Had this guy by the neck.
  • 00:21:45.550 --> 00:21:48.954
  • She said, "come out, brother, come out!"
  • 00:21:48.954 --> 00:21:52.023
  • And they were trying to get her attention.
  • 00:21:52.023 --> 00:21:53.392
  • They said, "sister, sister."
  • 00:21:53.392 --> 00:21:54.726
  • "what, what?"
  • 00:21:54.726 --> 00:21:56.094
  • They said, "you choking him, you're choking him."
  • 00:21:56.094 --> 00:21:58.530
  • All of the drama we do.
  • 00:22:02.067 --> 00:22:03.468
  • So our authority is about our position, not our performance.
  • 00:22:03.468 --> 00:22:11.610
  • Are you following me now?
  • 00:22:11.610 --> 00:22:13.879
  • Our position, not our performance.
  • 00:22:13.879 --> 00:22:17.516
  • You're operating from a finished work.
  • 00:22:17.516 --> 00:22:21.753
  • Not trying to make something happen, not trying to
  • 00:22:21.753 --> 00:22:25.257
  • Finish something.
  • 00:22:25.257 --> 00:22:26.625
  • You're operating from something that's already finished.
  • 00:22:26.625 --> 00:22:29.694
  • So i'm gonna pray concerning healing.
  • 00:22:29.694 --> 00:22:31.196
  • I'm not going to god begging him to heal me.
  • 00:22:31.196 --> 00:22:33.899
  • Healing is finished.
  • 00:22:33.899 --> 00:22:35.267
  • So i am now, everything i do, my praise, my prayer, is operating
  • 00:22:35.267 --> 00:22:39.070
  • From the finished work.
  • 00:22:39.070 --> 00:22:40.405
  • I'm operating from the finished work, from who i am in
  • 00:22:40.405 --> 00:22:44.109
  • Christ jesus.
  • 00:22:44.109 --> 00:22:45.477
  • Now, when people say you have to exercise your authority, it
  • 00:22:45.477 --> 00:22:49.381
  • Doesn't mean straining and forcing something to happen.
  • 00:22:49.381 --> 00:22:55.654
  • It means agreeing with what already is true, and then
  • 00:22:55.654 --> 00:23:01.359
  • Speaking and acting from that place.
  • 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:05.864
  • My authority says, "i agree that that's already true" and from
  • 00:23:05.864 --> 00:23:10.735
  • The place that that's already true, whatever i say, i'm gonna
  • 00:23:10.735 --> 00:23:15.273
  • Say it from that place of the finished works of jesus.
  • 00:23:15.273 --> 00:23:18.944
  • I'm gonna act from that place of the finished works of jesus.
  • 00:23:18.944 --> 00:23:22.714
  • So what i speak is gonna be finished.
  • 00:23:22.714 --> 00:23:26.051
  • It's not gonna be, "oh god, please, please lord, take care
  • 00:23:26.051 --> 00:23:31.690
  • Of me."
  • 00:23:31.690 --> 00:23:33.058
  • Or "please god, deliver me."
  • 00:23:33.058 --> 00:23:35.927
  • It's gonna be, "ooh, i thank you for your goodness that i am
  • 00:23:35.927 --> 00:23:40.131
  • Delivered and you've already delivered me from that."
  • 00:23:40.131 --> 00:23:42.067
  • And i enter into a rest.
  • 00:23:42.067 --> 00:23:44.269
  • I enter into the same place and i'm speaking from that place of,
  • 00:23:44.269 --> 00:23:47.272
  • It is finished.
  • 00:23:47.272 --> 00:23:49.374
  • And then i'm acting from that place.
  • 00:23:49.374 --> 00:23:50.709
  • You know how pitiful we can act sometimes.
  • 00:23:50.709 --> 00:23:53.645
  • No, i'm acting from the place of, it's finished.
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  • Creflo: salvation is the beginning of a new life for
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  • It is from this point that we can move into the fullness of
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  • Who god has called us to be and see the manifestation of the
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  • Finished works of jesus.
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  • It is one of my greatest pleasures to help people to
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  • Understand who christ is and to lead people to christ.
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  • If you would like salvation today, pray this prayer with me.
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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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  • Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, that's how
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  • Simple it is.
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  • Welcome to the family of god.
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