"EASTER SUNDAY - The Resurrection that Changed Everything"
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This program is brought to you in part by the partners and friends of Creflo Dollar Ministries. Coming up next on changing your world. Stay in sync with me. DON'T EAT OF THAT TREE OR IT'LL GET YOU OUT OF SYNC. DON'T EAT OF THAT TREE OR you won't get WHAT I'M GETTING.
STAY IN SYNC with me. All you need to know is me and what I got I'M GOING TO DOWNLOAD IT RIGHT TO YOU. YOU'LL GET THE SAME THING I GOT. BUT WHEN YOU GET OUT OF SYNC AND THEN THE ENEMY COMES IN TO TRY to take you down that way, GOD IS SAYING, "NO, BUT YOU CAN'T RECEIVE THAT."
WHAT'S SAYING GOD ain't getting on you no more because you out of sync. No matter where you are on your personal journey, the word of God can reach you. At work or simply needing to hear from the Lord, tune in to World Changers every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. or re-stream ((music playing)) at 2:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m.
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It's time we live a new life. Let us love shine bright in you. ((music playing)) We sleep by his grace, so we embrace your love today. We are changed. >> [singing] >> John 3:16 I'll read 16 through 19. Ooh, this is John's Let's let's let's read John 3:16 in the King James first.
Just John 3:16. He says, "For God so loved the world." You've heard that before. "That he gave his only begotten son." Oh, y'all see mine. "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." For God so loved the world. Did you hear that? God so LOVED THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE.
GOD AIN'T LOVING YOU CUZ YOU COME TO CHURCH AND THEY DON'T. GOD AIN'T LOVING YOU BECAUSE YOU PRAY AND THEY CUSS. GOD SAID, "I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD. I HAD I LOVE ALL OF HUMANITY." WHY WOULD HE LOVE ALL OF HUMANITY? BECAUSE ALL OF THEM CAME FROM HIM.
I DON'T THINK you understand. GLORY TO GOD. WHEN GOD MADE a man, he breathed his breath into that man. How can he forget him? He That's his breath that's in this man. And every man that walks around here AND YOU GOT BREATH IN YOUR LUNGS, IT IS HIS BREATH THAT YOU BREATHE.
He can't forget you cuz YOU BREATHING HIS BREATH. HALLELUJAH. He can't forget YOU. YOU BREATHING HIS BREATH. GLORY TO GOD. HE GOT TO GO SHUT THE HOW AM I GOING TO FORGET THAT'S MY BREATH THAT THEY'RE BREATHING. WHETHER THEY IN CHURCH OR IN A CLUB, THAT'S MINE. JUST LIKE YOUR CHILDREN HAVE YOUR BLOOD.
I DON'T CARE HOW CRAZY THEY ACT, THAT'S MINE. THEY GOT MY BLOOD. WELL, GOD'S SAYING THE SAME THING. THAT'S MINE. THEY GOT MY BREATH. THAT'S MY BREATH. THAT'S MY BREATH. >> ((cheering)) >> IT'S MY BREATH IN THEIR LUNGS. I KNOW SOME OF THE THEOLOGIANS WANT ME TO SEND THEM ALL TO HELL, BUT I GOT TO FIGURE WAY OUT.
THAT'S MY BREATH IN THEIR LUNGS. I'M STILL ATTACHED TO THEM. THEY STILL ATTACHED TO ME. I CAN'T LET THEM GO BECAUSE EVERY ONE OF THEM ECHOES MY PRESENCE. GLORY TO GOD. It's my breath. That's my breath in them. That's my breath in you. That's my breath [laughter] in you.
How you don't have no life without my breath. That's my breath. I can't be upset with humankind. I got I'm committed to the human race. That's my breath. That's my grandest grandest creation. They are my sons and my daughters. They are as much son to me as Jesus is to me.
That is my son. That is MY BREATH. MY PRESENCE STILL dwells in them. Whether they at church or at THE CLUB, MY PRESENCE STILL dwells in them. That's my breath. That's my breath. 16 through 19 same chapter in the uh Mirror Translation. I'm going to spend the rest of my life preaching the gospel of grace.
They can call me a heretic and they can say I'm on Mars or Venus. I don't care. I don't care. I've been in the kitchen cooking and it's been baking just what it says. This recipe works. I don't care. All right. Put your seat belts on now. The entire cosmos.
What's that mean? The entire world. And who's it referring to in this entire world? Everybody. He's not talking about the earth. He's talking about the entire human race. All of creation. Well, well, all of all of human human race. The entire cosmos is the object of God's affection.
And he is not about to abandon his creation. The gift of his son. See, Jesus was a gift to the cosmos. The gift of his son is for mankind to realize their origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth. Watch this. The gift of his son. The gift of his son.
The gift of his son was so that they can realize the origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth. So, he said, "I gave you Jesus so you can realize your origin. I gave you Jesus as a mirror so you can look at him and see yourself." Lord, have mercy.
Nicodemus said, "Lord, how can a man go back into his mother's womb and be born the second time?" AND JESUS NEVER NEVER ADDRESSED A SECOND BIRTH. He was only going to address a new birth. And he WAS TALKING ABOUT BEING BORN OF THE SPIRIT. AND WHATEVER IS THE FLESH IS FLESH.
WHATEVER IS SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. AND HE SAYS, "I GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF MY SON JESUS SO YOU SO I CAN HELP YOU TO REALIZE YOUR GENESIS. SO, TO HELP YOU TO REALIZE YOUR ORIGIN. YOUR ORIGIN IS SPIRIT. YOU THOUGHT THAT YOUR GENESIS WAS IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB.
YOUR GENESIS WAS IN HEAVEN FIRST. YOU HAD TO BE BORN FROM GOD FIRST AND THEN BE PUT IN THE WOMB. Just like in the beginning was the word and the word was with God AND THE WORD WAS GOD AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH, but the WORD WAS WITH GOD BEFORE THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND YOU AND I WERE WITH GOD BEFORE YOU AND I BECAME FLESH.
YOU GOT TO REALIZE THAT YOUR ORIGIN IS IN GOD. YOUR ORIGIN IS IN THE SPIRIT. For you to realize in him who mirrors their authentic birth. BEGOTTEN NOT OF FLESH, BUT of the Father. In this persuasion, the life of the ages echoes within the individual and it announces that the days of regret and sense of lostness are over.
God has no intention to condemn anyone. He sent his son not to the earth world to condemn you. He has no intentions of condemning anyone. Isn't that something? The church wanted The church wants it to condemn everyone. God says, "I have no intention of condemning anyone." He has sent his son not as a judge, but as a savior of THE WORLD.
THE COSMOS WAS RESCUED BECAUSE OF JESUS. FAITH AND NOT FLESH DEFINES WHO YOU ARE. In the persuasion of your authentic sonship, THERE IS NO SEPARATION OR REJECTION. FOR SOMEONE TO prefer not to embrace this is to remain under their own judgment sustained by their futile efforts to define themselves through their personal performance.
AND WE STILL TRYING TO DEFINE OURSELVES THROUGH OUR PERSONAL PERFORMANCE. I pray 3 hours a day. Oh, I fast every other week. Oh, I I got I got a list of good things that I do. You're still trying to define yourself through your personal performance instead of defining yourself through what Jesus has done through this reconciliation.
You hunting that that trophy and that certificate of appreciation and you're not You're just not satisfied with the fact that you wouldn't be where you are right now had Jesus not showed up to rescue the cosmos, the world. And you're still trying to define yourself through your personal performance.
You're still trying to say, "I'm good because God's good to me because I'm good. Oh, I'm going to heaven because I I keep this this this You You're still trying to define yourself through your personal performance. In their stubborn unbelief, they reject what is revealed and redeemed in the name of the Son begotten only of the Father and not of the flesh.
Watch this. And this is the crisis. All right, here it is. Here's the crisis. Here's the crisis that's in the earth today. You ready? Here's the crisis. The light is here right now, yet people are so addicted to their own darkness that they prefer a life of labors, annoyances, and hardships.
THE LIGHT IS HERE RIGHT NOW. JESUS HAS COME. ALL THAT HE'S DONE FOR YOU HAS COME, BUT YOU PREFER THROUGH YOUR PERFORMANCE, YOU PREFER A LIFE OF LABORS, >> [snorts] >> ANNOYANCES, AND HARDSHIPS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT RELIGION HAS TAUGHT ALL OF US. AND IT'S EMBEDDED IN OUR THINKING. AND all Jesus wants you to do is believe.
Oh, no, Brother Dollar. We got, you know, Jesus just ain't enough now. It's got TO BE JESUS PLUS 30-DAY FAST EVERY 2 YEARS. It's got TO BE JESUS PLUS AN HOUR of prayer. You don't recognize that once you get Jesus, all that stuff flows out of you. Once you get Jesus, you won't want to spend time with him.
Once you get Jesus and realize you're forgiven, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE HIM. YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE HIM. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE HIM. ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN AND THEN look at the STUFF YOU'VE BEEN FORGIVEN OF, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE HIM.
ALL RIGHT, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. You still on the bus? I am dismantling religion as we know it. Why? Cuz I did that and I did it aggressively and I did it and I went around 8 million miles around the earth and I preached this and I did it and I know it and I did it and I was like Paul, a Pharisee of Pharisees, and I did it and I'm telling you I ain't never going back there again.
It left me doubting, it left me shameful, it left me in guilt, it left me in condemnation. And I was the guy on the pulpit wondering, man, am I going to make it? And sure, everybody comes against you when you're not saying what they say. Well, I went to seminary school.
Well, that don't mean nothing. That means you just went and got an organized way of teaching religion. I may fumble around in Greek and Hebrew cuz I don't speak it, but I know how to go and study it and figure it out. All right, we on the bus?
You ready? All right, this is going to be radical. You You sure you're ready for this? Uh, here we go. Here we go. You finna get ready to go around the world. CARLOS SAID, "AH, [screaming] LOOK WHAT CARLOS SAID. AH, THAT MAN AND MAN, I can't stand him. I hate him."
You better learn how to love me. Whether you agree with me or not, you better learn how to love me. I've had people who have unfriended me because they don't agree with what I'm talking about. I'm just saying, "Listen, bro, if I give you a recipe about oatmeal cookies, you ain't got to believe me.
Go in the kitchen and cook it." See, I've been cooking this for some years before I even decided to preach it. I already know it. I got the evidence of it. I got the I got the the the final product out the oven. All right, here we go.
Sin is not the stuff you do. Sin is being out of sync with your true identity and thus missing out on your sonship. We have We always focus on on the fruit stuff and never dig down to the root stuff. We take the cheaper for the deeper. So, let's go back to the garden for a moment.
Hey, Adam and Eve, don't eat of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil because the day you eat of it, you will surely die or you'll be separated from me. They ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and all of a sudden they became conscious of sin AND INSTEAD OF FELLOWSHIPPING WITH GOD, THEY HID themselves because they realized that they were naked.
BUT THE BIBLE SAID IN CHAPTER TWO, they were naked BUT UNASHAMED. BUT AFTER THEY ATE OF THE TREE, THEY WERE naked and full of shame and hid themselves and clothed THEMSELVES WITH FIG LEAVES BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THAT GOD NO LONGER SEES them as he saw them, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS GOD IS STILL SEEING THEM THE SAME WAY.
THEY NOW seeing themselves differently. Why? Because when they entered into that situation, it caused them to get out of sync with God. Do you Do you understand when you take your iPhone and you got a laptop and you want to sync your laptop with your iPhone? So, wherever your laptop is getting, your iPhone will get.
If your laptop get a email, your iPhone will get that same email. So, when we're in SYNC WITH GOD, WHATEVER GOD'S GOT, YOU GET. >> ((cheering)) >> BUT WHEN YOU GET OUT OF SYNC WITH GOD, GOD GOT SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU'RE OUT OF SYNC WITH HIM, YOU'RE NOT GETTING WHAT HE GOT.
SO, GOD'S SHOWING UP IN THE GARDEN TO FIND OUT, "HEY, Y'ALL, WHERE Y'ALL AT?" BUT YOU'RE OUT OF SYNC HIDING FROM HIM, LOOKING FOR FIG LEAVES TO COVER YOURSELF. SO, THE ULTIMATE ROOT OF YOUR SINFUL BEHAVIOR IS GETTING OUT OF SYNC WITH GOD. YOU'RE OUT OF SYNC WITH GOD.
PEOPLE IN THE CLUBS ARE OUT OF SYNC WITH GOD AND SOME PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH ARE OUT OF SYNC WITH GOD. AND THE SIN IS YOU'RE OUT OF SYNC WITH GOD AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS TO GET YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU NEED TO GET YOUR IDENTITY, YOUR SYNC YOU NEED TO SYNC YOUR IDENTITY WITH HIS IDENTITY.
YOU NEED TO SYNC YOUR IDENTITY with Jesus' identity. We live in Galatians 3 2:20. We live by the faith OF THE SON OF GOD. IN HIM WE LIVE, in him we breathe, in him we have our being. Adam and Eve, I just want y'all to know me. I just want y'all to know me.
Stay in sync WITH ME. DON'T EAT OF THAT TREE OR IT'LL GET YOU OUT OF SYNC. DON'T EAT OF THAT TREE OR YOU WON'T GET WHAT I'M GETTING. STAY IN SYNC WITH ME. ALL YOU NEED TO know is me and what I got, I'M GOING TO DOWNLOAD IT RIGHT TO YOU.
YOU'LL GET THE SAME THING I GOT. BUT WHEN YOU GET OUT OF SYNC AND THEN THE ENEMY COMES IN TO TRY TO TAKE YOU DOWN that way, GOD IS SAYING, "NO, BUT YOU CAN'T RECEIVE THAT. WHAT'S ON GOD AIN'T GETTING on you no more because you're out of sync."
SO, HE'S TRYING TO GET YOU BACK IN SYNC. BUT WE KEEP MAJORING ON ALL THE FRUIT. THAT'S AN APPLE, that's an orange, that's a plum over there, that's this, that's it. The Bible says, "I am the vine. You ain't nothing but a branch." What's responsible for the fruit, the vine or the branch?
The vine. What took y'all so long? The branch can't make nothing. In fact, IF YOU CUT THE BRANCH OFF, IT DIES BECAUSE THE LIFE OF THE BRANCH COMES FROM THE VINE. THE FRUIT OF THE THAT'S on the branch come from THE VINE. EVERYTHING COME FROM THE VINE. YOU AIN'T NOTHING BUT A BRANCH.
YOU ARE THE BRANCH, HE IS THE VINE. YOU DON'T MAKE NOTHING, YOU JUST GET THE DOWNLOAD. YOU JUST YOU'RE IN SYNC WITH THE WITH THE ROOTS AND WHATEVER COMES OUT OF THE ROOTS, IT'S GOING TO COME ON THE ON THE ON THE ON THE BRANCH. TURN TO YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY, "HELLO, BRANCH."
TURN TO THE OTHER SIDE AND SAY, "YOU AIN'T NEVER GOING TO BE THE VINE." AND JESUS SHOWED UP IN A PHYSICAL BODY IN SYNC WITH GOD. AND ALL JESUS KEPT TALKING ABOUT I DO WHATEVER THE FATHER want me to do. Look at God doing the will of the Father.
Even when he got in the Garden of Gethsemane and the trouble came. Just cuz you in sync don't mean the trouble ain't going to come. Jesus was in the garden and IT WAS SO SO SO SO ROUGH. HE STARTED SWEATING BLOOD. HE SAID, "FATHER, CAN'T WE FIND ANOTHER WAY TO DO THIS?"
And then and then and then and then he began he realized I'm in sync WITH GOD AND AND AND AND AND AND THE GARDEN TEMPTATION TRIED TO TRIED TO TAKE HIM OUT OF SYNC. HE SAID, "NO, I'M IN SYNC WITH GOD." "NO, LORD, NOT MY WILL, BUT LET YOUR WILL BE DONE.
HALLELUJAH." AND BECAUSE HE STAYED IN SYNC WITH GOD, WHEN HE DIED ON THAT CROSS AND WENT TO HELL FOR 3 DAY BECAUSE HE WAS SYNCED IN GOD, HELL CAN'T SEPARATE GLORY TO GOD, IT CAN'T SEPARATE THE CAN'T SEPARATE THE WHAT'S THE THING? WHAT'S THE THE WHAT'S THE THING THAT YOU get in eternity?
Nananana. You can't STOP THE SIGNAL. I'LL TELL YOU THAT HELL CAN'T SEPARATE THE SIGNAL. YOU CAN GO DEEP IN WHATEVER TROUBLE YOU WANT TO GO IN, BUT NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, THE SIGNAL WILL REACH YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE IN SYNC WITH GOD. YOU'RE IN SYNC WITH HIM AND THEN ON THE THIRD DAY, BECAUSE HE WAS IN SYNC WITH GOD, GOD RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD.
I'M TELLING YOU THE WORD THE WORD THE CONCLUSION OF A WHOLE MATTER IS HOW CAN WE GET HUMANITY back in sync? >> ((applause)) >> AND THAT AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN IF YOU KEEP TELLING EVERYBODY THEY'RE GOING TO HELL BY 12. When you see somebody in sin, they're out of sync.
When you in sin, you out of sync. I don't want to tell y'all like y'all sinless. When you in sin, all everybody ain't got it. Everybody here on Easter morning got a issue. And every issue should be an indication that I must be out of sync. So I fast trying to get back in sync.
And I pray getting in sync. And I come to church and learn getting in sync. And I and I worship with my community of believer getting in sync. That's why you just can't hang out with everybody cuz some of these people taking y'all you you Some of ((cheering)) these Some of these people Some of these Some of these people taking y'all way way out of out of sync talking about what the Lord told them way out of sync.
Here Here's Here's the main point. Here's the main point. The resurrection was heaven's loud and clear announcement, you are no longer guilty. You are justified. It wasn't the beginning of reconciliation, it was the revelation of a reconciliation that had already taken place in Christ. God doesn't look at the world through the lens of judgment.
He looks through the empty tomb ((music playing)) Jesus stepped out of. And when he rose, he raised the world into a new status. Forgiven, loved, and included. If you feel like you need to perform to be accepted or like you're always falling short, that's ((music playing)) not grace. Grace doesn't apply pressure.
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