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Your New Identity Helps You Walk Free From Shame 09/10
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Creflo Dollar
I move by what I feel. I don't live by what I see because my God has made a way for me.
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Larry Warren
Hello, I'm Larry Warren, and I want to thank you for joining us on the Believer's Voice of Victory.
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Creflo Dollar
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Larry Warren
This week we have been sharing with you some of the messages from our New Jersey Victory campaign. And one of the guests that joined Brother Copeland at this event was Brother Creflo$. And today we're going to hear how you can live a life free of guilt and shame from your past. God's word tells us the day you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior is the day he became your true identity. Now let's join brother Creflo Dollar as he reveals how to live from your true identity and discover. Discover the absolute truth that there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Creflo Dollar
We're going to talk about recognizing our true identity, our Jesus identity, and then we need to figure out how to get in sync with that true identity. You know, we spend a lot of time talking about the actions of sinning, but we don't realize one of the places we miss the mark more than any other area of our life is we miss the mark where our identity is concerned. Our true identity and getting in sync with our true identity. Because when you're not in sync, when I say in sync, we've got to come into agreement with whom, who we really are. It just can't be something you say religiously or wear it on a T shirt. We've got to get in sync with our true identity. And it is something that we rehearse and practice every day. We recognize who we are. And when we begin to display things that don't line up with our true identity, we quickly remind ourselves, wait a minute, that's not me. All right? And so this is so very important that we get a hold of who we are and our true identity and learning how to. How to get in sync with our true identity. So I want to start in 2nd Corinthians, chapter 5 and verse 17. Now, notice he says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, all right, you're in Christ. So you made a decision one day to be in Christ. He says, he's a new creature. You're in Christ. You're a new creature. You're in Christ. You're a new creature. He says, old things are passed away, and behold, all things are become new. You're in Christ. You are a new creature. Now, listen to this out of this translation. He says, now in the light of your co inclusion in his death and resurrection. Now, please understand, you were included in he in his death. When he died, you died. When he was resurrected, you were resurrected. When he ascended on high, you ascended on high. When he was seated, you are seated with him. Are you listening to me? Now, in the light of your co inclusion in his death and resurrection, whoever you thought you were before in Christ, somebody say, I'm in Christ. In Christ, you are a brand new person. You're a brand new person. The old ways of seeing yourself, everyone else, are over. Now that you're in Christ, you're a brand new person. The old way of how you used to see yourself is over. But not only how you used to see yourself because you're a new person. It's also how you see other people. So you change because you don't see yourself like you see yourself. And you're not going to see other people like you used to see other people. You're going to see them with some more empathy. You're going to look at them through the, through the eyes of love. You're going to make room for the faults of others. You're not going to look at people so judgmental like you did before. You see yourself differently and now you look at others differently. And here's what I like. I like this last line. He says, acquaint yourself with the new. So you need, you need to get acquainted with the new you. You know, the old you. And you say, well, I've taken the old man out. Well, you could have fooled me. He says, you need to become acquainted with the new you, getting acquainted with the new you. And I'm telling you, that's going to take some rehearsing. That's going to take some practice getting acquainted with the new you. All right, let's, let's go, let's go to this next one. Now. So Ephesians, chapter 2 and 10, Ephesians 2 and 10. All right? In the King James, he says, for we are his workmanship. We're created in Christ, we're created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. All right? Now, the mirror says this. He says, we are engineered by his design. We are engineered by his design. Somebody said, where you get that from? Well, he made us in his image. He made us in his likeness. We are engineered by his design. He molded and manufactured us in Christ. Lord have mercy. We are his workmanship, his poetry. We are fully fit to do good equipment, to give attractive evidence of his likeness in Us in everything, with everything we do. We are now. We're in Christ. We are fully equipped. Fully equipped with everything we need to give an illustration and an example of his likeness. You absolutely sometimes forget who you are. You are fully equipped with. With everything you need to give an excellent illustration of his likeness. Jesus said, if you have seen the Father, you have seen me. We ought to be saying, if you've seen Jesus, glory to God, you've seen Me. And if you've seen me, you've seen Jesus, and if you've seen me, you've seen Jesus and you've seen the Father, because I'm fully equipped to give you a great illustration of what they're like. All right, let's. Let's move. Let's move a little. A little farther with this. Now let's go to Second Corinthians, chapter three and 18. Second Corinthians, chapter three and 18 dot I like to start off here with the Second Corinthians, three, 18. Here's what he says in the King James. I need to calm down. I got a ways to go. But we all with open face, beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, we're changed into the same image. From glory to glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord. Just by beholding him, we're changed in the same image. And this is done by the Spirit of the Lord. Now look at this. In this verse, in this translation. Now we all with new understanding see ourselves in him as in a mirror. I see myself in him like I see myself in a mirror, which means I am or should be a reflection of Him. But you let the world and religion scare you out of holding on to the fact that. That you are a reflection of Him. And just like you see yourself in the mirror every morning, he says we should see ourselves every day. Like we, looking into a mirror, see ourselves in Him. And when we look at him, we should see ourselves. When we. When we see Jesus, we should say, oh, that's me. So practically speaking here in this verse, our identity is the image of Christ. And when we see Him, Watch this. We see ourselves. When we see him, we see ourselves. Go to First John, chapter 4, and verse 17. When we see him, we see ourselves. Oh, my gosh. This is what I'm saying. You got to practice this. You got to rehearse this. You got to tell yourself this. Every time you do something that doesn't line up with that design, you just say, that's not me. That's not me. You let the devil and Yourself know that's not me. Look at verse 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness, confidence in the day of judgment. Because as he is, so are we in this world. And notice that's not past tense. That's present tense. Notice that's President. As he is, so are we in this world. That's not the future. That, that, that. That's present identity. That's our present identity. As he is, so are we. That's our present identity in Christ. Our identity is righteous in Christ. Our identity is innocence. In Christ is loved. We're empowered, we're complete in. In this union with God that is our identity. First John well, 4, 17. The mirror says this. He says so now in our awakening to our joint inclusion in this love union. Everything is perfect. Its completeness is not compromise and contradiction. Our confidence, our confident conversation echoes this fellowship even in the face of crisis. Because as he is, so are we in this world. Our lives are mirrored in him. There it is again. Our lives are mirrored in him. We are as blameless in this life as Jesus is my God. We are as blameless in this life as Jesus is. Please understand, I am the righteousness of God, not because what I did to become righteous, but I am righteous because of what Jesus did to become righteous. Jesus is my righteousness, and so I'm righteous because of Jesus. My righteousness is a gift. It is not something I deserve. It is a gift that has been given to me. Glory to God. And so, likewise, we've got to learn how to receive the gift. This perfect love union is the source of our confidence. Whenever we face the scrutiny of contradiction, he says that so as he is, so are we in this world. Our lives are mirrored in him. We are as blameless. We are as blameless in this life as Jesus is. I'm as blameless. I'm as blameless as Jesus is. Part of what righteousness is, is it's a man that accepts righteousness as if he's never sinned. But that's hard on a lot of. A lot of folks because they just. They just can't. Can't get that. All right, now. Y' all ready? Y' all got all that right now? Now, now. My identity. I should now live from my true identity. I should live from my true identity in my job. So everything about our life as Christians flows out of this true identity. Shame, guilt and condemnation comes. But that's not you anymore. And if you'll quit hiding, you'll defeat shame. So like Adam and Eve, they sinned and they wouldn't hid themselves. I follow me now. They went and hid themselves. And most people think, well, God has changed his mind. Adam and Eve thought it. They hid themselves because they thought God had changed his mind about how he. How he saw them. But God never changed his mind about how he saw them. The problem was Adam and Eve changed their mind about how they saw themselves. Are you listening to what I'm saying? There's got to be something about this identity, ladies and gentlemen, that moves Satan to make it the first line of attack. He attacked Adam and Eve in the garden over their identity because if they knew who they were, they wouldn't have to hear this thing about, you know, God just, you know, wants you to know the difference between good and evil if they knew who they really were. And then he had the mitigated gall to try that same thing on Jesus. Jesus led into the wilderness to be tempted. 40 days, 40 night, hungry, and the devil shows up. Old Slew foot, he shows up and he says, now watch this. If thou be, he know exactly who he was. But he. He wants to make sure he knows who he is. If thou be. If you're really the son of God, turn these stones and in the bread. Now, I love Jesus. Check him out. Check him out. This is my boy. Check him out. Now, Jesus said, now wait a minute. I can turn the stone into bread. That ain't no problem. But I'm not going to turn the stone into bread just to prove to you who I am, because I already know who I am. I don't need to turn no stone into bread to be convinced about who I am. I know who I am, and you know who I am. It's always an attack on your identity, and you've got to remember who you are. I am the mirror image. Oh, the devil can't stand it scares him. I mirror the image of Jesus. Jesus is what God thinks about me. Y' all didn't get that? When God thinks about you, he settles it. Jesus is what I think about you. Well, I don't know. I think God thinks I'm a bad person. I think God thinks I'm no good. No, no, no, no, no, no. Here's what God thinks about you. He thinks about. When he thinks about you, he thinks about Jesus. How do you think that God can get over you and just throw you away and not have nothing to do with you? When he created you, he. He can't get over the fact that every time you breathe, that's his breath. He can't get over the fact that the blood that's running warmly in your veins, he can't get over that. This is what I'm talking about. I'm talking about, all right, you go to work, or let's say fear knocks on the door. All right? Normally you would. You would get fearful. You listen to the news, you hear all the things going on, you would get fearful. You have to speak to yourself and say, no, that's not me anymore. I don't get fearful when bad news is being broadcast. I have a spirit of love and a spirit of power and a sound mind. You have to speak to yourself. Everything I do in this Christian life, I do it from that true identity, from that Jesus identity. Even when I pray, even when I pray, if I pray from my true identity, I'm not trying to reach heaven and begging God to try to do something for me. In my true identity, I'm seated with him. I am complete in him. I am seated with him. Oh, glory to God. I'm seated with him in heavenly places. Some of y' all still wonder if you're gonna go to heaven, how you think you gonna miss heaven when you're sitting there? You gotta seat. I am seated with him in heavenly places. Glory to God. I'm seated with him in heavenly place. I am complete. I am righteous. I am forgiven. I am seated with him. I was buried with him. I was resurrected with him. I was raised with him. I am seated with him. Why am I hollering and screaming trying to reach heaven? All right, now watch this. Because everything that I'll ever need has already been finished. It's called the finished works of Jesus. My righteousness is finished. All right, I'm going somewhere now. Stay with me. My righteousness is finished. My redemption is finished. My sanctification is finished. It's finished. My holiness is finished. Listen, holiness is not a behavior. Holiness is a person. Oh, that's tripping some of y' all out. And that's the problem. You've been you. Jesus said it's finished. And you still trying to be holy. Telling you I'm holy just like I'm righteous. Mm, yeah, well, you know. You know. You know, you just gotta behave right? You just be what he says you are, and the behavior will follow suit. Your problem is, is you keep trying to perfect what's already perfect. Jesus has been made unto me righteousness, redemption, sanctification, which is holiness, perfection. And that's fine. That's my true identity. I am righteous now. Yeah, but you didn't look so righteous last night. I'm righteous now. See, that's the battle. The battle is, will you allow what you did last night, him shaming you for what you did last night, to step down from who you are? I'm righteous. What did you do to become righteous? You received it. That's all right. What did you do to be redeemed? Please tell me the part you played, bubba. What did you do to be holy and sanctified? Well, you don't look holy to me. Well, you need to look hard enough. Cause I am holy. See, when you're serious about living from your identity, you're not going to shame me out of my identity. You're not going to condemn me out of my identity. That's the whole battle. The battle is the storm is going to come to try to see if it can get you out of. Of your identity. All right, all right, all right. So I'm there now. Now I need the Holy Ghost to give me the proper articulation now. Now. So. So everything flows from my. My Jesus identity. Everything flows from my true identity. And I study more and I learn more and more about who I am. But I suddenly right now, I am a mirror image of him. You gotta understand, God has already seen the end and he told you about it at the beginning. And you questioning what he's already seen that you ain't seen. Be careful about who you think gonna be in heaven and who ain't gonna be in heaven. You just better be glad you there already. Well, he ain't going to heaven. He killed somebody. So did Moses and Paul and who else? David. So if the murderers can make it in, I think y' all gonna be all right. You have to now rest in your true identity. Okay, follow me now. Ah, let me give you a couple more words so you can really embrace what I'm saying. You have to rest in this true identity. You have to remain in alignment with this true identity.
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Kenneth Copeland Ministries Announcer
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Kenneth Copeland Ministries Prayer Minister
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Kenneth Copeland Ministries Announcer
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Larry Warren
I want to let you know today that God loves you. No matter what you've done, where you've been, or what you've been through, there is nothing that will stop God's love for you. He sent Jesus to destroy the one thing that separated you from him. And that one thing was sin through death. He paid the price for your sin and went to hell in your place. Then he rose from the dead, filled with the life of God, and he destroyed the power of sin so you could live free from guilt and shame. Right now, Jesus wants to share the freedom of this new life with you today. And there's nothing standing between you and God right now. All you have to do is receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you can walk free from condemnation today. So will you pray this with me, Lord Jesus? You said, let's reason together, so now I do. You said, even if my sins are scarlet, you will make them white as snow. I confess my sins. I receive my cleansing and I declare you as my Lord. I am born again. Amen. Glory to God. You have been born again and I'm saying welcome to your new life in the family of God. Jesus has become your true identity right now, and you are a child of God and he has made you a joint heir with Jesus so you can receive every blessings he's planned for you. Kenneth and Gloria Copeland want to help you get a deeper understanding of your new identity in Jesus and how to develop a close relationship with God, your Heavenly Father. They have a gift for you called the Salvation Package, and there's a small book called He Did it all for your and two brochures that will help you take your first steps into this marvelous new life in God's family. To request your free copy of the Salvation Package, please Visit our website, kcm.org or you can call our prayer line Salvation Package. Our licensed prayer ministers will be so excited to hear that you've come into the family of God and they want to rejoice with you and have the opportunity to pray in faith with you over any issues in your life. KCM has prayer ministers and all their officers around the world, so give them a call and let them help you receive God's goodness in your life. Thank you for joining us. Until next time, this is Brother Larry reminding you God loves you, we sure love you, and Jesus is Lord.
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Creflo Dollar
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