Self-Effort vs. Redeemed Effort

Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar

World Changers Church International

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Under the covenant of grace, we no longer need to depend on our own efforts to earn God's approval like the people had to do under the law. Because of our belief in Jesus and in His finished works, God has already approved of us and declared us righteous. All that remains for us to do now is to respond to what has already been done. The new covenant calls for the effort to stay rooted in grace when everything around us tries to pull us back into performance. Living under grace doesn't mean the absence of labor, but laboring to remain at rest when the devil tries to distract us with the world's doubts, fears, and anxieties.

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0:00.0	You've been tested, but the test didn't crush you.
0:05.0	It refined you.
0:08.0	Now it's time to awaken the warrior within.
0:11.0	The radical awakening from the ashes is here,
0:15.0	a powerful women's conference designed to awaken your spirit.
0:19.0	From the ashes, we rise. Visit taffy dollar.org and register now.
0:29.8	Hello, I'm Creflo Dala, and this is the Creflodala Ministries podcast. I want to thank you for
0:36.2	joining us today, and I sincerely hope this word
0:39.5	encourages you, builds your faith, and above all else, helps you to understand grace and empowers
0:46.3	you to change. Enjoy the message. If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Hebrews
0:52.2	chapter 10 and verse 14, and we're going to continue part
0:56.8	two of self-effort versus redeemed effort self-effort versus redeemed effort now let me do a
1:08.6	little brief preview of what we talked about last week to kind of catch everybody
1:13.8	up where we are. Under the old covenant, under the old covenant of the law, self-effort was the
1:21.3	means to try to become righteous. So under the old covenant, it required your self-effort to try to get God to do. In other words, under the old covenant, it required your self effort to try to get God to do. In other words,
1:31.1	under the old covenant, you had to be good, that's your self effort, trying to get God to be good to you.
1:37.7	So the law said, do this and live. Blessings were conditional under the old covenant,
1:45.3	and it was based on your performance.
1:47.6	If you performed well under the old covenant,
1:50.3	then God would bless you well in the old covenant.
1:52.4	So under the old covenant, it worked like this.
1:54.4	You had to do something to earn something.
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