Joyce Meyer - Self-Righteousness vs. God's Righteousness

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

Bible teacher Joyce Meyer shares timeless scriptural principles to show us how we can embrace the best God has for us each and every day of our lives.

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Joyce Meyer: Enjoying Everyday Life | Joyce Meyer - Self-Righteousness vs. God's Righteousness | July 12, 2026

>> joyce: i'm joyce meyer.
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I've seen god's power transform my own life,
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And he will do it for you.
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Ginger: hi everyone, i'm ginger stache.
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Welcome to "enjoying everyday life."
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Before we hear from joyce, and she is on her way,
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I want to share an email that just gripped all of our hearts.
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We received this message from our project grl medical van
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Team in india about a woman that they are helping.
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And it is such a reminder that behind the flashing neon
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Signs and crowded alleyways of the red light districts
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And the world of human trafficking
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Lies a reality really even far darker than most
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Of us can imagine.
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So, let me read this story.
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"sima boro, a 24-year-old from
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A village in assam, was betrayed
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By a man she trusted.
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Promising her a job in siliguri, he instead sold
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Her into a brothel.
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Now trapped, she lives under the control
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Of a woman who abuses her and takes every bit she earns.
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Sima is forced to beg for basic needs and endures both physical
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And emotional torment daily.
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'the customers want things i don't even understand,'
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She whispers.
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When we met her, sima was dangerously ill,
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Signaling severe anemia.
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After emergency treatment, her condition barely improved.
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On a follow up visit, she broke down,
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Revealing fresh bruises from another beating
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And asked to go home.
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Fear shadows her every step.
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She barely spoke, exhausted and starving.
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Yet she stayed with us for a short while before
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Returning to the brothel under the woman's watchful eye."
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You know, when you look in those eyes,
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You can see that cry for help.
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This is exactly why project girl exists.
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It's what it's all about.
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The horrible truth is that sima is still
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In that terrible situation.
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Yet, we are there for her.
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We will continue to be there as a lifeline for her anytime
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She can get to us until she is ready or can escape.
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You see, that's why these vans are so important.
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We are regularly going to where they are,
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Helping women like her throughout india.
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Our heart is to help girls find rescue, relief,
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And healing in christ.
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And we believe that sima's rescue is just
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Around the corner.
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God sees her and we want you to see her as we are
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In the midst of this with her.
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So, i ask you to join us all in prayer for sima
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And so many others like her.
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Please be praying for her right now and believing
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With us that god will do something amazing.
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Coming up next, the conclusion to joyce's
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Teaching on self righteousness versus god's righteousness.
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Joyce: that's what it means to be spiritual.
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You are very tuned-in to when the holy spirit shows you,
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You shouldn't be doing something and boy,
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You stop it right away.
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"you should set--" i'm gonna, i'm gonna start--
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"brethren, if any person is overtaken in misconduct
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Or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual
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Should set him right." "yes, i know that's
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What i should do!"
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: "and restore him--" [chuckling]
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"and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority
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And with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye
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On yourself, lest you also should be tempted."
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[chuckling] well, that's a little bit
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Of a different take than what we normally do.
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We're happy to tell 'em what's wrong with 'em
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And to set them right, but it may not
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Be with gentleness, and it may not be without
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A superior attitude.
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"bear (endure, carry) one another's burdens
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And troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill
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And observe perfectly the law of christ--" which
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Happens to be the law of love, "and complete what is lacking
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[in your obedience to it]." verse 3: "for if any person
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Thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend
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To shoulder another's load] when he is nobody
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[of superiority except in his own estimation]--"
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It'd be good for you to say about three times
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A day, at least, "father, i'm nothing without you.
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Apart from you, i can do nothing."
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I'll tell you pride is the easiest thing
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In the world to have and humility is the hardest
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Thing to have and maintain.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: if you wanna read something,
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They'll tear your life up, andrew murray wrote a little
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Book on humility.
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Man, the first time i read that it just ripped me apart.
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Because pride hides and will never tell you that it's pride.
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I tried selling a set of-- back when we used to have,
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Cassette tapes on pride, and nobody would buy them.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: a person who has pride is too proud to go buy
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A book on pride or a--
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: one of the best examples in the bible--
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Well, there's a couple, but one of 'em is luke 18.
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Two men went up into the temple to pray,
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One a pharisee, and the other a tax collector.
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Now, the pharisees were the most religious
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Of the religious, because they kept
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All the rules, but jesus said, "you're like white-washed tombs
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Full of dead men's bones." they looked good on the outside,
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But inside, they were critical and judgmental of other
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People who didn't keep all the rules like they did.
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And tax collectors on the other hand were
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Despised and hated because as a roman tax collector,
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I mean, like he was jewish, but he worked for the roman
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Government.
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And you had to collect the tax that rome wanted,
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But then you could tack on to it whatever you
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Wanted to tack on to it.
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And so, the tax collectors were despised and hated
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Because they robbed people.
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And boy, they sure didn't understand jesus because
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He had dinner with 'em and went to their houses,
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"well, how could you do that?" he said, "well, i didn't come
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For people that are well.
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I came for people that are sick."
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Amen?
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>> audience: amen.
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Joyce: now, i don't suggest that you continually hang
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Out with unbelievers and make them your best friends,
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But neither can you ignore them and because
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Of a religious attitude, shut them out of your life
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And not have anything to do with them because if we don't
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Ever give them another example, how are they ever gonna change?
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I remember what my dad said to dave when he finally did
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Repent and tell me that he was sorry for what
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He did to me when i was a kid, but he was 83 when he did.
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Took him that long.
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And i remember the day he repented.
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He looked at dave, and he said, "dave, most men in your position
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Would have killed me, but you've never done
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Anything but show me love." and see, when people
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Are sinners, they know they're sinners
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And they know that their behaviors' wrong.
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One of the reasons why they don't like you is because your
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Very presence convicts 'em.
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Amen?
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>> audience: amen.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: and when you love them and they know they
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Don't deserve your love, that's the thing that
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Finally breaks 'em down.
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So, we can't have this--
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: come on, you know what i'm talkin' about?
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We can't have this--
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: "you sinner, you."
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: so, here, we've got this pharisee and this tax
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Collector and they both went to the temple to pray.
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"the pharisee took his stand ostentatiously--"
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[chuckling] i guess that was kind of like--
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: not real sure, but that's what i imagine.
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And now, watch this, "and he began to pray thus
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Before and with himself." i love that.
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He wasn't praying to god.
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He was trying to pray a prayer that impressed him.
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And i have to be honest and say, i've caught myself
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Doing that sometimes when i'm praying in front of people,
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Trying to make sure my prayer is impressive and i'm not
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Even talking to god, i'm just trying
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To be impressive.
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And don't say you haven't done it, too.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: "god, i thank you that i'm not like the rest of men."
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[chuckling] well, i don't think
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I've ever prayed that but maybe i thought it.
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I don't know.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: "extortioners (robbers), swindlers
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[unrighteous in heart and life], adulterers."
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"and i really thank you that i'm not like
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This tax collector." now, he gives a list
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Of his good works.
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"i fast twice a week; and i give tithes
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Of all that i gain." you know, let's just say that
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You get up every morning at five and you pray four hours,
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You're an anointed intercessor and you meet somebody that,
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Maybe you go to lunch with a new christian.
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Of course, you wanna make sure they know
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How long you pray so you talk about your prayer life--
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Their prayer life.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: "well, how long do you pray in the morning?"
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"oh, 10 minutes!" and they're so excited.
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They're praying 10 minutes.
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That's like a new, man, exciting thing.
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And the pharisee's like, "10 minutes?
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Well, you gotta pray more than that."
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"well, how long do you pray?" "oh, four hours."
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: come on.
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"but the tax collector, [merely] standing at a distance,
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Would not even lift up his eyes to heaven,
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But kept striking his breast, saying, "o god,
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Be favorable (be gracious, be merciful) to me,
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I am an especially wicked sinner!"
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And jesus said, "i tell you, this man went down
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To his home justified (forgiven and made upright
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And in right standing with god), rather than the other man;
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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
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And he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: yeah!
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Come on.
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Now, jonah, he was an interesting character.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: god told him to go to nineveh and preach.
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And he was so self-righteous, he did not want to go preach
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To them because he thought they were too--
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They didn't deserve salvation.
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So, he didn't even wanna preach to 'em because
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He didn't want 'em to get saved.
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Now, that's-- see, now, if i'm not careful,
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I'll judge jonah.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: i'm already thinking, "how could you
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Possibly do that?"
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: well, jonah, it says, chapter 1 verse 1, "the word
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Of the lord came to jonah, 'arise and go to nineveh,
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That great city, and proclaim against it,
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For their wickedness has come up before me.'
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But jonah rose up to flee to tarshish."
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Now, if you look on a map, tarshish is the exact opposite
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Direction from nineveh.
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Have you ever gone the exact opposite direction of what
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God told you to go?
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[chuckling] and actually, it says that,
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That he "went down to joppa and found a ship going
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To tarshish [the most remote of the phoenician trading
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Places then known]." so, he didn't just go
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In the opposite direction.
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He went as far away in the opposite direction
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As he could possibly go.
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"i'm not gonna go preach to those people!
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I don't like 'em.
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They're sinners.
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And i don't think they deserve for me to preach to them.
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They might change and get right with you."
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: well, we know his story;
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He had to get thrown off the boat,
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The whale swallowed him and when he's in the belly
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Of the whale with the seaweed hanging all over him and--
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[chuckling] he repented.
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You know sometimes when we're judging other people
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The bible says be careful when you judge others because
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It may come back on you.
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Sometimes when we get in a big enough mess,
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We get willing to repent and realize that our
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Actions are wrong.
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I remember one time when i was first doing
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My home bible studies.
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I hosted a bible study every week in my home for five years.
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And about 25 or 30 people came and that's where
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I kind of practiced ministry.
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And there was a woman that came that got pregnant
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And she felt bad a lot during her pregnancy,
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So she didn't come to the bible study very often.
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And man, i so remember me and a couple of the other
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Ladies judging her, "well, you know, if she wanted,
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If she really wanted to, she could come.
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She could believe god for healing
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And she could get here." but not one of us ever
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Offered to go help her.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: we didn't offer to clean her house
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Or to cook her a meal.
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We just had our opinion.
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Well, few years after that, i got pregnant with
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My son who's now 45 and with my other three,
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I didn't even know enough to pray, but boy,
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This one i'm praying for a good pregnancy
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And to feel good, and i was sick.
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Man, for three months i could hardly lift my head up off
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The couch and i just didn't understand it because now
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I'm a woman of great faith.
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Come on.
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[chuckling]
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: and i'm praying and praying, "what's wrong."
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And god kept taking me to matthew 7, "judge not,
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Lest you be judged." and i didn't have any idea
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Why he kept taking me to that place.
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[laughing] and then finally,
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He showed me that i had opened the door for the enemy when
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I judged her, and what i judged her for came back on me.
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And as soon as i repented, i mean, i immediately got well.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: so, not sayin' this about you,
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But maybe, when you're havin' trouble you need to ask god
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If you're reaping on somethin' you've sowed in the past.
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Come on, now, don't look too happy because
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I'm preaching good.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: anybody have any conviction about
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Being self-righteous, just a little bit, maybe?
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I don't wanna think, you know, that i'm just preaching
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To no purpose here.
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>> [audience laughing]
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Joyce: "oh, lord jesus, help me.
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I don't wanna be self-righteous.
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I only want the righteousness which you give."
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Maybe paul had a tendency to be a little self-righteous
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And that's why he prayed this prayer.
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'cause paul was a pharisee of pharisees.
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Romans 3:21-24-- what is true righteousness?
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"but now the righteousness of god has been revealed
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And independently, altogether apart
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From the law--" or let's just say good works,
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"although it is attested by the law and the prophets,
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Namely, the righteousness of god which comes by believing
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With personal trust and confident reliance
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On jesus christ (the messiah).
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[and it is meant] for all who believe.
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There is a no distinction." the only way that
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We can be right with god is through believing in jesus.
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That's so hard to sink in, isn't it?
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"you mean to tell me i don't have to do right to be right?"
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Well, see here's the thing, god never asks us to produce
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Anything that he doesn't give us first.
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For example, "the love of god has been shed abroad in our
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Hearts by the holy ghost." so, we love him because
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He first loved us.
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We can only love god because he put love in us,
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And i can only love you because he put love in me.
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Okay.
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So, he wants us to behave right, but we can't behave right unless
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He first gives us righteousness.
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Ah-ha.
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See?
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The light bulb went on.
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So, he gives us right standing with him as a gift.
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It's a free gift that we receive by putting our faith in jesus.
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Seems so totally unfair, but god is god and he can
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Do what he wants to.
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And the bible says that he chooses to view
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Us as righteous.
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Then when we realize what he's done for us and we see
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What he wants us to do, we try our best to do it because
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Of what he's done for us, not to get him to do
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Something for us.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: to me, trying to get people to understand
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Who they are in christ, is one of the most missing
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Messages in a large majority of churches.
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So many times, people go to church and they're
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Just told what to do, "do this.
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Do this.
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Don't do that.
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Do this.
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Don't do that." but they're never told "how."
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And we need to be taught who we are in christ and that
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Righteousness comes only through faith in jesus.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: and then, when you have that righteousness--
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I probably have said a million times in my life,
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"i am the righteousness of god in christ,"
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Because it was very hard for me to believe.
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And when you see something in the word,
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But you have a very difficult time believing it,
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The only way you can ever believe it is to get
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The information to become revelation.
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See, i'm giving you information today, but in mark 4, it says,
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"the measure of thought and study that you give
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To the truth that you hear is the measure of virtue
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And knowledge that will come back to you again."
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So, i'm giving you information and for some of you,
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It may become revelation because you've already
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Had some information along these lines.
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And so, now, today, it's just all coming
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Together and you're like-- like i heard that one
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Person over there say, "oh!" and that's kinda
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What revelation is.
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It's like, "oh!
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Yeah." but you know, we have to,
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We have to put in a little effort.
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But now, if you take some things that i've said and you
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Go home and you study this; look up every scripture you
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Can find on righteousness, look up what the bible says
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About self-righteousness, look up what the bible
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Says about what it means to be in christ,
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And you study that, and you study it and you
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Study it 'til it becomes part of every cell in your being.
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And you see, i know that i know that i know that
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I know that i am right with god.
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That's why when god convicts me of wrong
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Behavior it doesn't bother me, doesn't bother me at all because
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I know who i am.
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And you know, actually, in hebrews 5:13-6:1:
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It tells you very plainly that people cannot be corrected
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If they don't know who they are in christ,
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Because if you don't know who you are,
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Then anytime somebody tries to correct you,
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It offends you.
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But if you know who you are, and you know who
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You belong to, and you know that
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You're loved and-- you're not free till
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You have nothing to prove.
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Come on.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: but if you have nothing to prove then you're
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Glad when god or even somebody else corrects you,
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If they do it with a spirit of humility,
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Because that doesn't devalue you.
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Now, if you go home and you put a little effort into this,
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Now maybe with my effort and your effort,
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You can come out with a victory.
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>> [audience applauding]
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Joyce: and another thing we do that causes
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Us a lot of problems, i think, is we have so much
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Available to us that we jumped from subject
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To subject to subject to subject to subject
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And we never stick with any one thing long enough
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For it to become a revelation.
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You'll go to church tomorrow and hear something different.
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And you can watch me monday morning and hear
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Something different.
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And then tuesday morning i'll preach something
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Different than that.
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And wednesday something different than that.
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And so, i'm suggesting to you that if you need
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A revelation in this area that you stick with it,
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Until it becomes revelation to you.
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[♪♪]
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>> joyce: well, we're all getting older every day,
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But you know what?
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Age is just a number. old is a mindset.
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I wish that someone would've told me when i was 20 or 30,
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The things that i'm trying to tell you now.
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You see, early on,
00:23:55.824 --> 00:23:56.958
My mode was to get as much
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Done as i possibly could.
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Nobody was gonna tell me,
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"you can't handle life."
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Until one day i was forced
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To slow down and rest.
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This go-go mentality was
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Not sustainable.
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And it was taking a toll on my body and threatening
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How many years i had left.
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That's why i'm happy to share with you
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What i've learned in my book,
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“how to age without
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Getting old.” i share with you some things
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That i've gone through personally, and the things
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I believe i could've done that would've helped
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Me to avoid some of those painful experiences.
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Older folks, you know more.
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And we all say, “oh, if i could just
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Be young again and know what i know now.”
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>> [audience applauding]
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>> joyce: now, you know this isn't just a book
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For someone that is 65 or 70 years old.
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I wanna share with you practical ways to live
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This incredible life that god has given us,
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At all ages.
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Getting older.
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Latter years.
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Joyce Meyer - Self-Righteousness vs. God's Righteousness

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

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