is brought to you in part by the partners and friends of Crelo Dollar Ministries. >> Coming up next on Changing Your World. God’s righteousness is given to us as a gift. And like any gift, you have to decide to receive it. Like any gift, you have to decide this is this is not something earned. This is not something deserved.
This is something received. >> It’s time. >> I need you to know who you are. >> The Radical Women’s Conference, March [music] 19th and 20th. Two days that will shift your destiny with guest speakers Octavia Roberts, Chryslyn McNair, Charardai Orur, Alyssa Warell, and Creflo Dollar with musical guests Jordan G. Welch and Kiara Sheer.
Register today at tappydoll.org. This is your world. So let’s vow to make it [music] a better place. Let every heart that needs to know your love [singing] is here to stay. It’s time we live a new life. Let us love shine bright in you by [music] his grace. We embrace your love today. We are changed. [singing] >> If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30 through31.
I’m going to read out of the NLT. Each year I try my best to make sure that I do a series on righteousness because it is the foundation I believe to living this grace life and to living by grace understanding righteousness. And so for the next couple of weeks, we’re going to to stay in this series. And uh then after this series, hopefully we’ll be talking about, you know, I believe you have to have a relationship in order to live this life.
And we’ll be talking about practically how do you develop it, you know. So we’re going to talk today talk we’re going to look at understanding the foundation of righteousness. understanding the foundation of righteousness because even when I said that some of you may have, you know, been thinking, well, you know, what what’s the big deal about righteousness? You know, it’s the foundation to to this grace life and and and how how does that work? What does that look like? Well, let’s check this out.
1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 30 and 31 in NLT. He says, “God has united God has united you with Christ Jesus.” Now, now God united us with Christ Jesus for our benefit. God made him Jesus to be wisdom itself. So Jesus is wisdom. >> All right? He doesn’t have it. He is for God has made Jesus to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God.
Christ made us right with God. You didn’t become right with God through your own performance. >> You are right with God. Your stance right now before God is his responsibility. He made you right with God. He made us pure and watch this holy. He you ask, “Well, am I holy?” He made you holy. >> You your stance with God.
