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Creflo Dollar - Understanding The Foundation Of Righteousness

March 9, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - Understanding The Foundation Of Righteousness
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Understanding The Foundation Of Righteousness | March 9, 2026
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  • Creflo dollar: god's righteousness is given to us as
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  • A gift.
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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,
  • 00:16:25.330 --> 00:16:29.234
  • 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.
  • 00:17:55.787 --> 00:17:59.057
  • 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?
  • 00:18:06.999 --> 00:18:11.570
  • 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
  • 00:18:38.163 --> 00:18:40.199
  • 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
  • 00:18:48.006 --> 00:18:52.177
  • It's not on jesus.
  • 00:18:52.177 --> 00:18:54.846
  • 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,"
  • 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:19.071
  • Say that out loud with me.
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  • So my righteousness is on that foundation, my righteousness is
  • 00:19:21.773 --> 00:19:26.078
  • That foundation of jesus, "jesus the righteous who made me
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  • Righteous," that's my foundation, all right?
  • 00:19:29.548 --> 00:19:31.683
  • So you know the enemy is gonna always be trying to attack that
  • 00:19:31.683 --> 00:19:36.088
  • Foundation of your righteousness.
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  • All right, now watch this, this is so cool,
  • 00:19:38.257 --> 00:19:41.526
  • "when jesus came into the coast of caesarea philippi,
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  • He asked his disciples, saying,
  • 00:19:46.398 --> 00:19:49.201
  • '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?"
  • 00:19:57.109 --> 00:20:01.079
  • Not because he needed their validation.
  • 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:04.583
  • He's like, "who do they think i am?"
  • 00:20:04.583 --> 00:20:08.787
  • And he goes, verse 14, "they said, 'some say that thou art
  • 00:20:08.787 --> 00:20:13.959
  • John the baptist: some say you're elias; some say you're
  • 00:20:13.959 --> 00:20:19.097
  • Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'
  • 00:20:19.097 --> 00:20:24.836
  • He said unto them, 'but whom say ye that i am?'"
  • 00:20:24.836 --> 00:20:32.044
  • "you've been with me, who do you think i am?"
  • 00:20:32.044 --> 00:20:36.048
  • And now watch this very carefully, "and simon peter
  • 00:20:36.048 --> 00:20:39.918
  • Answered and said, 'thou art the christ, the son of the
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  • Living god.'"
  • 00:20:46.291 --> 00:20:49.795
  • Now, you said what are you doing that for, you think he just
  • 00:20:49.795 --> 00:20:52.731
  • Said that?
  • 00:20:52.731 --> 00:20:54.099
  • It came out of his mouth before his brain could gain concept of
  • 00:20:54.099 --> 00:20:59.137
  • What came out of his mouth.
  • 00:20:59.137 --> 00:21:00.972
  • 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?
  • 00:21:04.376 --> 00:21:07.346
  • Well, look at this, next verse.
  • 00:21:07.346 --> 00:21:09.481
  • "and jesus answered and said," now wait a minute, go back to
  • 00:21:09.481 --> 00:21:15.454
  • Verse 16, "simon peter answered," we know the question,
  • 00:21:15.454 --> 00:21:20.659
  • "who do you think i am?"
  • 00:21:20.659 --> 00:21:22.627
  • "thou art the christ, the son of the living god."
  • 00:21:22.627 --> 00:21:25.430
  • And watch this, next verse, "and jesus answered," all right, what
  • 00:21:25.430 --> 00:21:28.500
  • He answered, what what was it, what was he answering?
  • 00:21:28.500 --> 00:21:35.273
  • 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?
  • 00:21:37.809 --> 00:21:40.412
  • He was answering simon's surprise, "thou art the christ,
  • 00:21:40.412 --> 00:21:45.117
  • The son of the living god," what's that?
  • 00:21:45.117 --> 00:21:48.153
  • And jesus answered, "what did i just say?"
  • 00:21:48.153 --> 00:21:50.989
  • And jesus answered, somebody said, "how can you say that?"
  • 00:21:50.989 --> 00:21:53.925
  • I'm gonna show you, we know jesus answered, he
  • 00:21:53.925 --> 00:21:56.628
  • Answered something.
  • 00:21:56.628 --> 00:22:00.332
  • I mean, he just didn't go get an answer, he's just like me coming
  • 00:22:00.332 --> 00:22:02.701
  • Up to you and say, "yeah, tomorrow at 5 o'clock."
  • 00:22:02.701 --> 00:22:06.838
  • Like i ain't saying nothing to you, what you talking about?
  • 00:22:06.838 --> 00:22:08.373
  • "yeah, next week," he looked like something going on with
  • 00:22:08.373 --> 00:22:13.612
  • Him, "and jesus answered and said unto him,
  • 00:22:13.612 --> 00:22:19.751
  • 'blessed art thou, simon bar-jona:'"
  • 00:22:19.751 --> 00:22:25.390
  • Now he's talking to simon, he's talking to peter,
  • 00:22:25.390 --> 00:22:29.795
  • But he wasn't known as peter then, he was known as
  • 00:22:29.795 --> 00:22:33.298
  • Simon bar-jona or the son of jonah, "for flesh and blood have
  • 00:22:33.298 --> 00:22:42.274
  • Not revealed it unto thee."
  • 00:22:42.274 --> 00:22:45.444
  • So i'm gonna tell you what just happened when out of your mouths
  • 00:22:45.444 --> 00:22:49.514
  • Flowed, "thou art the christ, the son of the living god," that
  • 00:22:49.514 --> 00:22:53.452
  • Didn't come from you, that didn't come from the acrobats of
  • 00:22:53.452 --> 00:22:57.756
  • Your mind.
  • 00:22:57.756 --> 00:22:59.090
  • That didn't come from sunday school quarterlies, what just
  • 00:22:59.090 --> 00:23:01.860
  • Came out of your mouth wasn't revealed by flesh and blood or
  • 00:23:01.860 --> 00:23:06.264
  • Your intellectual part, it didn't come out of that, it came
  • 00:23:06.264 --> 00:23:10.435
  • From the father who revealed it unto you.
  • 00:23:10.435 --> 00:23:14.573
  • He said, "this was by my father which is in heaven."
  • 00:23:14.573 --> 00:23:19.277
  • You got revelation of who he was from heaven, heaven said, you
  • 00:23:19.277 --> 00:23:24.616
  • Think he's just a prophet, you think he's jeremiah, you think
  • 00:23:24.616 --> 00:23:27.986
  • He's all these folks, but i'm telling you who he is, he is the
  • 00:23:27.986 --> 00:23:31.456
  • Christ, the son of the living god.
  • 00:23:31.456 --> 00:23:34.359
  • And peter said, "oh, where did that come from?"
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  • Thank you, lord, for saving me, amen."
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  • Well, if you prayed that prayer with me,
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