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Creflo Dollar - Understanding The Foundation Of Righteousness

August 20, 2025 | S25 E202 | 28:55

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And like any gift, you have to decide to receive it.
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Like any gift, you have to decide, this is not something
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Earned, this is not something deserved, this is
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Something received.
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Creflo: if you have your bibles, go with me to the book of
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1 corinthians chapter 1, verse 30 through 31, i'm gonna read
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Out of the nlt.
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Each year i try my best to make sure that i do a series on
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Righteousness because it is the foundation, i believe, to living
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This grace life and to living by grace,
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Understanding righteousness.
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And so for the next couple of weeks we're going to to stay in
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This series and then after this series hopefully we'll be
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Talking about, you know, i believe you have to have a
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Relationship in order to live this life and we'll be talking
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About practically how do you develop it, you know?
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So we're gonna talk today, we're gonna look at understanding the
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Foundation of righteousness, understanding the foundation of
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Righteousness because even when i said that, some of you may
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Have, you know, been thinking well, you know, what's the big
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Deal about righteousness?
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You know, it's the foundation to this grace life and how does
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That work, what does that look like?
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Well, let's check this out, 1 corinthians chapter 1,
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Verse 30 and 31 in the nlt.
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He says, "god has united you with christ jesus."
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Now note, "god united us with christ jesus.
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For our benefit god made him, jesus, to be wisdom itself,"
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So jesus is wisdom, all right?
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He didn't have it, he is.
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"for god has made jesus to be wisdom itself.
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Christ made us right with god, christ made us right with god."
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You didn't become right with god through your own performance.
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You are right with god, your stance right now before god is
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His responsibility.
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He made you right with god.
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"he made us pure and," watch this, "holy."
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You ask, "well, am i holy?"
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He made you holy, your stance with god, you are righteous, you
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Are holy, and you have access to wisdom itself through
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Jesus christ.
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Now that's something that's just got to be received.
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That's something that you've got to say, you know what, "since he
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Made me righteous, then i receive that by declaring and
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Believing i am the righteousness of god, not because of what
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I've done.
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I've been made righteous, therefore i am righteous, even
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Though somebody doesn't see me righteous, he sees me righteous,
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And i am righteous and i am evolving in my state
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In righteousness.
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My stance is already settled, i'm already righteous, my state
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Is now transforming into what he made me."
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See, he makes you first and then you become what he makes you.
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Ah, ah, don't y'all start nothin' here this morning.
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And so, he made us righteous,
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You know, i know it blows the mind of some
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Believers when i say to you, you are holy, but i'm not
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Saying that based on your behaving and what you're doing.
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I'm saying that you are holy because he made you that way.
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You can't become something unless he already made you that
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What you are to be transformed into.
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You're on the journey towards what he made you, that's
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Your journey.
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And you've been made righteous, you've been made holy, he has
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Made us pure and holy, and he freed us, he freed us from sin.
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So you know what i say as a believer?
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I'm free from sin, i'm free from sin, i've been freed from sin,
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Jesus has freed me from sin, jesus has made me righteous and
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Jesus has freed me from sin.
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So part of this christian life and really a big part of your
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Faith, a big part of your faith is maintaining the victory that
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Jesus has obtained.
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If he made you that way, you maintain it, maintaining and
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Becoming what you've been made.
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So if somebody looks at you and got a problem with you're
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Saying, "i am the righteousness of god," and they say, "well, i
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Don't think you're righteous cause how you spoke to me
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Last night."
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So, "oh forgive me, i am already righteous, i'm just
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Becoming that.
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You caught me in the middle of the journey, but just cause you
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Caught me in the middle of the journey doesn't dismiss what
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He made."
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Somebody needs to say, "i am the righteousness of god."
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Now notice, it's you are the righteousness of god, not
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Because of what you do.
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You are the righteousness of god because of what he has already
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Done and the benefit of getting born again is that now you now
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Receive the stance that's finished, while your state is
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Becoming what he made you.
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So you already know where you're going.
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My destination is destination righteousness, destination
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Wisdom, destination pure and holy, destination of complete
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Total freedom.
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I already know who i am and so what happens is your life
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Starts, your life starts demonstrating and shedding the
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Old soulish behavior as you take on what you've been made.
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But i am the righteousness of god, nothing starts until you
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Agree "i am the righteousness of god."
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I need you to say that one more time, i am, but the time that
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Really matters is when you do something that's not righteous,
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And you have the mitigated gall to open your mouth and say in
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The middle of that, "i'm still the righteousness of god."
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That's when we know you believe it, "i'm still the righteousness
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Of god."
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Yeah, i failed, but while i'm getting up, i fell righteous,
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I'm getting up righteous, i'm standing up righteous cause i
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Was made righteous, hallelujah.
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So when i got knocked down, a righteous man got knocked down
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And a righteous man got back up, but that's got to be your
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Foundation, "i am the righteousness of god."
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Now, look at romans 3, 21 through 22 in the nlt, romans 3,
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21 through 22, now watch this, "but now god has shown us a way
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To be made right with him without keeping the requirements
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Of the law, as was promised in the writings of moses and the
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Prophets and he did that a long time ago."
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Verse 22, "we are made right with god by placing our faith in
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Jesus christ."
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My faith is in jesus christ, my faith is not in my performance,
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My faith is not in my behavior.
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Now, now, and i apologize for having to pause to say this but
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You have to do this, you have to explain to people so you know,
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They won't presume that, you know, that means something
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Totally different, you know.
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Nobody's giving you the license to sin, okay, all right now,
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Even if you do sin, he says, "i'm not gonna charge that to
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Your account.
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I'm not gonna charge that against you."
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But now what you still understand that there are
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Consequences in this, there are consequences in this natural
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World that exists.
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Here's a benefit, it's like if you take an exam and i'm your
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Classroom teacher and you were getting ready to graduate and
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You took the final exam and there's information in there
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That you need to know in order to be successful in what you're
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Gonna do, all right, you flunk the exam except i'm not gonna
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Hold it against you, i'm not gonna count it against you.
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That's a blessing of the lord it's not being counted against
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Us, but please don't get so deep and dumb that you don't
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Recognize there's still stuff in that test that you failed that
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You probably need to learn.
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You know, sometimes the mercy and grace comes and rescue you
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And you think, well, you know, "he rescued me, but i still
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Don't need to deal with the consequences of of how i
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Behave," your bad behavior can kill you.
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You'll go to heaven, but you're gonna be dead.
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So this stuff about, "i'm under the grace of god and i can go
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And commit adultery," that's some people who thought that.
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"i can just go and sleep around and i can do that," you know, he
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Won't hold it against you, but the natural consequences of your
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Actions might.
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And your wife come in and catch you and miss kitty in the bed
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And she pulled a gun out and said "oops," bam, oh, there it
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Is, you understand what i'm saying?
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You're the righteous, but we wanna dismiss consequences in
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The natural and you keep going with that thing and you holler,
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"i'm the righteousness of god."
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I'm glad you're doing that because i hope you believe that
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Before the bullet reach you.
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I think y'all understand what i'm saying, right?
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And while you dying, "i'm the righteousness of god."
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So this is not a heaven or hell issue, heaven was already
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Settled the day you got born again, but don't be enslaved,
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Don't be a slave to anything.
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It's not even right, please understand what i'm saying, and
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It's not a matter if this is right or wrong, it's a matter of
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Are you turning yourself over to enslavement?
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Well, god, mind you, how pastor dickow said this past week, he
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Said, "wine is something but liquor is quicker."
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Yeah, he said, "wine is fine, but liquor is quicker."
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And my thing is, are you gonna be a slave to liquor quicker?
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Don't desire to to be enslaved to anything, that's the issue.
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I wanna give my whole life to god, i don't wanna allow pieces
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Of my life to be in bondage and in slavery to something
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Else, amen.
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"well, i ain't know all that, i don't know about, i'm, you know,
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I'm embracing what i thought it was."
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Yeah, it is awesome and it gives you freedom, but do you
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Understand that freedom has boundaries?
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So it says, "we're made right with god by placing our faith in
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Jesus christ."
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My faith is in jesus, the person, grace is a person, my
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Faith is in jesus, "and this is true for everyone," watch this,
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"who believes jesus, no matter who we are, no matter who
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We are."
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I have faith in jesus, i'm not talking about whether you agree
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Or disagree with a doctrine or with a teaching or, i'm talking
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About jesus, do you believe jesus?
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Yes, "i'm the righteousness of god," because i'm not righteous
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By my own, it's the difference between self-righteousness and
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The righteousness we have by faith in jesus christ.
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There's righteousness that you get by performing, "well, i'm
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Righteous because of my performance," okay?
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And then there's the righteousness you get without
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Your performance, but your simple belief and faith in
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Jesus christ.
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We are righteous with his righteousness.
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So, self-righteous or god righteous, it's a choice.
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And most of the church over the years, i don't know if i'm sure
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They knew it, but maybe they didn't, have been really working
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For self-righteousness, "do good, get good."
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Self-righteousness, "i'm good because i did good," okay?
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Self-righteousness, we're not talking about
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Self-righteousness, we're talking about righteousness
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Through our belief and faith in jesus christ, the righteous, who
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Made us righteous with his righteousness, i have been
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Declared righteous, amen.
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Now, god's righteousness is given to us as a gift and like
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Any gift, you have to decide to receive it.
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Like any gift, you have to decide, this is not something
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Earned, this is not something deserved, this is something
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Received, okay?
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And so that's what this is, righteousness is a gift
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Received, not earned.
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It's amazing to me, we can hear this and then as soon as
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Something comes up in our life, we're trying to earn it.
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We're trying to do something to feel more righteous or to be
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More righteous instead of just being righteous because it's a
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Gift and i receive that gift, "i am the righteousness of god."
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Since i've understood the grace of god, i understood how
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Important it is to bring a series to you at least once a
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Year on the righteousness of god because, man, i tell you what,
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The enemy is after your foundation, are you listening
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To me?
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He's after your foundation, look at psalms 11, and 3 in the king
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James, he's after your foundation.
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The foundation of the house is the most important part of
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The house.
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If there is a crack in your foundation, and if you allow
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Your foundation to be toyed with, with religion and stuff
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Like that, if the enemy can get your foundation and one day you
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Stay up, you say, "i don't believe i'm righteous," i'm
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Telling you the house falls.
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Psalms 11, and 3 gives us a reminder, he says, "if the
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Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
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And so i give you an illustration of two houses, two
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Houses can look the same: the same kind of windows, the same
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Kind of doors, the same kind of roof, but one was built on sand
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And the other one was built on the rock, follow me carefully.
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When challenges come, only the house built on the rock will
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Stand, and challenges are gonna come.
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It shouldn't be whether or not challenges are gonna come,
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Challenges are going to come.
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Those of you who live godly shall suffer persecution,
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In this world you will have tribulation, challenges are
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Going to come.
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You need to prepare for challenges, like in the natural,
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Some people prepare for a hurricane that's on its way.
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Challenges are going to come, but when challenges come, only
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The house built on the rock will stand, and let me say this,
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Jesus is the rock, okay?
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All of the foundations are sinking or shifting or sinking
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Or shifting sand.
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Jesus is the rock, our whole life and our grace life has to
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Be built and sustained and settled on jesus, who is the
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Rock, jesus.
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You know you can go in some churches and never hear the name
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Of jesus mentioned.
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All kinds of wonderful principles, but never hear the
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Name of jesus mentioned, as if those principles you came up
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With are better without jesus, that house is gonna fall.
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I don't care how awesome the principles you heard, but if
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It's not on jesus.
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Let me show you something, go to matthew chapter 16, and let's
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Start at verse 13.
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I'm gonna try to go through this, we may get stuck here,
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I don't know, but i'm good.
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All right, now, i want you to just follow me as i take you
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Through these few verses here, "jesus is the rock,"
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Say that out loud with me.
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So my righteousness is on that foundation, my righteousness is
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That foundation of jesus, "jesus the righteous who made me
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Righteous," that's my foundation, all right?
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So you know the enemy is gonna always be trying to attack that
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Foundation of your righteousness.
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All right, now watch this, this is so cool,
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"when jesus came into the coast of caesarea philippi,
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He asked his disciples, saying,
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'whom do men say that i the son of man am?'"
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This is interesting, jesus said, he said, "who do they say i am?"
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Not because he needed their validation.
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He's like, "who do they think i am?"
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And he goes, verse 14, "they said, 'some say that thou art
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John the baptist: some say you're elias; some say you're
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Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'
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He said unto them, 'but whom say ye that i am?'"
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"you've been with me, who do you think i am?"
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And now watch this very carefully, "and simon peter
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Answered and said, 'thou art the christ, the son of the
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Living god.'"
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Now, you said what are you doing that for, you think he just
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Said that?
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It came out of his mouth before his brain could gain concept of
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What came out of his mouth.
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What he said came out of his mouth, came straight from god
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Out of his mouth, how do you know that?
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Well, look at this, next verse.
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"and jesus answered and said," now wait a minute, go back to
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Verse 16, "simon peter answered," we know the question,
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"who do you think i am?"
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"thou art the christ, the son of the living god."
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And watch this, next verse, "and jesus answered," all right, what
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He answered, what what was it, what was he answering?
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We know the question, first of all, but then it comes in verse
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17, "and jesus answered," what was he answering?
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He was answering simon's surprise, "thou art the christ,
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The son of the living god," what's that?
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And jesus answered, "what did i just say?"
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And jesus answered, somebody said, "how can you say that?"
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I'm gonna show you, we know jesus answered, he
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Answered something.
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I mean, he just didn't go get an answer, he's just like me coming
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Up to you and say, "yeah, tomorrow at 5 o'clock."
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Like i ain't saying nothing to you, what you talking about?
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"yeah, next week," he looked like something going on with
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Him, "and jesus answered and said unto him,
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'blessed art thou, simon bar-jona:'"
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Now he's talking to simon, he's talking to peter,
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But he wasn't known as peter then, he was known as
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Simon bar-jona or the son of jonah, "for flesh and blood have
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Not revealed it unto thee."
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So i'm gonna tell you what just happened when out of your mouths
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Flowed, "thou art the christ, the son of the living god," that
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Didn't come from you, that didn't come from the acrobats of
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Your mind.
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That didn't come from sunday school quarterlies, what just
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Came out of your mouth wasn't revealed by flesh and blood or
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Your intellectual part, it didn't come out of that, it came
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From the father who revealed it unto you.
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He said, "this was by my father which is in heaven."
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You got revelation of who he was from heaven, heaven said, you
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Think he's just a prophet, you think he's jeremiah, you think
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He's all these folks, but i'm telling you who he is, he is the
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Christ, the son of the living god.
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And peter said, "oh, where did that come from?"
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Male announcer: do you know who you are?
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It's a question the world often struggles with, but god's word
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Provides the answer for his children.
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In creflo dollar's two message series, "understanding the
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Foundation of righteousness," you can uncover the foundation
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On which to build your life
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So that your identity is secure.
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Creflo: when you go before god and pray, i want you to go
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Before god as if sin never existed.
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Stand in the presence of the father without any sense of
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Fear, without any sense of guilt, without any sense
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Of shame.
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Understanding righteousness causes us to reign in life.
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Your behavior has no choice but to line up with your identity.
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Do not let go of your
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Foundation of righteousness.
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Creflo Dollar - Understanding The Foundation Of Righteousness

August 20, 2025 | S25 E202 | 28:55

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