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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday, you guys, so excited for this morning.

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If you're new, which we have a lot of new people rolling in because we just had a live

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challenge.

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So lots of new ladies, new guys rolling in.

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And I just want to tell you that this is my favorite time of the week.

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I hope it becomes one of your favorite times of the week.

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But this is where as a community, we lean into what is the current prophetic reality.

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And today we're going to talk about that a little bit from scripture.

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We're going to talk about leaning into current prophetic realities in our own lives.

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Because there is a life that's going on all around you.

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And then there's a life that's going on all around you.

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So there's the things that you can see, there's the things that you can process with your

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human reasoning.

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And then there's an entire other reality that's happening outside of the dimension that you

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live in.

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In that other dimension that we call heaven, there are things that are happening.

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And guess what?

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You're in both dimensions.

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The moment that you receive Christ as your savior, the Bible says you were seated in

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heavenly places with him.

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And that everything that would come against him or you is under your feet, right?

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You are with him in heavenly places.

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And then also you're here in this dimension, in your rising up and sitting down and sleeping

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and waking and eating and drinking life.

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And so we're going to look at the book of Romans chapter eight.

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And the reason why we're going to do this today, I don't think that we've done this

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before, is because I woke up the other morning, in fact, it was Monday morning, had a late

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night, had jet lag coming from PST time zone, the Pacific time zone, back to central time

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zone, losing a couple hours.

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And I ended up waking up at after eight o'clock in the morning.

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Usually my alarm goes off and I'm up, but I woke up at 828 in the morning.

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And you know, 828 is one of my favorite scriptures in Romans and you guys all know it.

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You can quote it, you know, for we know that God works all things to the good of those

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that love him and are called according to his purpose.

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And so when I saw that, I knew that God was speaking to me.

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So all week long, I've been leaning into that.

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God, I know that you want to talk to your people about Romans 828 and working all things

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to their good.

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I know you want to talk about that, Lord, you know, so talk to me about it.

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And he said this morning when I woke up and started to prepare for this morning, like,

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you know, God, what are we going to dig into for Romans 828?

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And he said, well, Romans 828 is really good.

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He said, but what about the rest of Romans 8?

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And I'm like, well, yeah, it's really good too.

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And you guys, I think that it's one of the best.

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It's one of the best.

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The book of Romans chapter eight, and you know what Paul is saying to the Romans, but

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also all the beautiful nuances of what he is saying and confirming from the other books

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of the Bible.

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There's Exodus that he is referring to here.

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There's Genesis that he's referring to in Romans eight.

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He's referring to Proverbs.

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He's referring to Psalms.

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He's referring to so many prophecies and scriptures as he writes this letter to the

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Romans.

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And one of my favorite teachers of all time used to say, you can't just read the Bible.

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You got to read the Bible.

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You got to know the nuances.

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Don't be afraid to dig in.

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You guys, don't be afraid to read something in all the translations that are available.

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There might be one little nuance that God is trying to get through to you.

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Don't be scared.

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Be like, oh, I don't know if that translation is correct.

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Just believe that God can speak to you through all things.

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Through all things.

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Guess what?

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That translation is better than whatever magazine you're reading.

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That translation I guarantee is better than any show you're watching on TV.

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Right?

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It's going to get you closer to the Spirit of God than anything else that you would consume

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with your carnal mind.

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And so, yeah, there might be something that isn't in exact alignment with the original

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text or the original language that it was written in.

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But guess what?

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I believe that when we read the Bible, no matter what translation, with the Spirit of

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the truth, Holy Spirit, then we will find the truth.

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So invite Holy Spirit.

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to read the Bible with you, pray before you begin to read Scripture, ask Holy Spirit to

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guide you and lead you through the Word, to show you things, to highlight things to you,

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to speak to you.

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And we're going to do that this morning.

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Father God, we come before you and we love you so very much.

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And what we're about to read tells us that you love us so very much, that we are your

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dear children, and that we are heirs and joint heirs with Christ, and we need help believing

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that this morning.

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I'm asking that you would open our hearts and allow this seed to take root in our hearts

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and to grow and to bear fruit.

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Holy Spirit, we're asking you to come alongside us and open up our spiritual eyes to see and

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our spiritual hearts to receive, so that we truly can step into the understanding, but

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also the action of what it would look like to truly be God's children on earth.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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All right, so we're going to read, and the reason why I set that up with translations

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is that we're going to read from the Passion Translation.

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I don't study the Word from the Passion Translation.

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For those of you that have problem with it, just going to have to get over it for this

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morning.

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You are free to follow along in the NLT or the NIV or the ESJ, ESV, or the King James,

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if you think that that's the only true interpretation or translation.

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You are free to do it.

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I love you, and I bless you, and you can, all right, but here we go.

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Living by the power of the Holy Spirit is the title of chapter eight in this translation.

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So now the case is closed, you guys, we could just stop right there.

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We can stop right there, and we can go about our day and chew on that for the rest of the

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day, the rest of the week, the rest of the month, and still not fully grasp the idea

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of what God is telling us here through Paul.

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But think of it as a court case, and think of it as it's over.

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It's over.

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It's no longer ongoing.

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There's no longer any idea of who is going to be convicted, who's guilty, who's innocent.

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The case is closed.

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And if you look at that same first scripture over in the NIV translation, it says,

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therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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The case is closed.

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There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life union

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with Jesus, the anointed one.

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Woo, come on.

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For the law of the spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated

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us from the law of sin and death.

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For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish because the law was limited by

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the weakness of human nature.

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Guys, that's powerful.

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It's powerful.

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The law was weakened by the flesh.

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What the law couldn't do, God sent his only son in the likeness of us, in our likeness,

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in the same sinful flesh, but without sin to be an offering for us, to condemn sin in

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the flesh so that righteousness could come to all of us.

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It's powerful right there.

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Okay, let's keep going.

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God sent us his son in human form to identify with human weakness, clothed with humanity.

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And right there, you guys, it's the other scripture that says that we have a high priest

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that understands our frailties and our weaknesses because he lived in a body like ours.

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He understands the frailty of our form.

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God sent his son in human form to identify with human weakness, clothed with humanity.

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God's son gave his body to be the sin offering so that God could once and for all condemn

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the guilt and power of sin.

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So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the anointed

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one living his life in us.

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And we are free.

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Say, I am free.

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We are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy

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Spirit.

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You guys, what is that saying?

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It's saying that you are no longer a slave to sin.

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You are no longer a slave to the curse, that Jesus came and he closed the court case in

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heaven.

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There is now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.

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And we are all in Christ Jesus.

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We have put on Christ.

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When God looks at us, he doesn't see just us.

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He sees the blood of his son.

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He sees Christ.

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We are free now to do what?

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To walk after the Spirit.

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Before Jesus, you weren't free to walk after the spirit.

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You had to live in the curse, and the curse looks different on all of us.

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You guys, the curse looks different on you than it does on me.

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It looks different on your family than it did on my family.

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It affected you differently than it affected me.

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Please don't sit in judgment of other people's cursed state.

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Don't say, oh, well, my God, I can't believe that that person is out here changing their gender.

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I can't believe that that person is living this lifestyle.

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I can't believe that they're doing this or doing that.

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Watch the news, and you see someone who's, you know, getting in trouble and going to prison.

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Oh, my gosh, I would have never done that.

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Well, you weren't cursed the same way that they were cursed.

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The curse didn't look like that on you.

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One of my favorite teachers of all time, even though I never knew her in person, but I read all of her books,

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and God used her to disciple me in my early 20s, Corrie Ten Boom.

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She says, there's no pit too deep or too dark that God cannot find us.

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Let's go on, you guys.

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I'm on verse 5.

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Those who are motivated by the flesh only pursue what benefits themselves.

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See, that doesn't look too scary or evil, does it?

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It's like, well, you know, people that are living in sin, they're doing drugs, and they're addicts, and they're fornicators.

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No.

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The Bible tells us right here that if you're living in your flesh, you're just selfish.

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Yeah, sometimes the curse looks like all those other things, but guess what?

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Those people are just trying to find some peace.

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Those people are just medicating themselves with sex and drugs and rock and roll, okay?

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Because they're hurting, and they're in pain, and that is the medication of choice.

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But the Bible tells us that being in your flesh is as simple as being selfish and going after things that only please the flesh.

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But those who live by the impulses of Holy Spirits are motivated to pursue spiritual realities.

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You guys, what are we doing here this morning?

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I told you that we were going to talk about current prophetic realities.

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They are motivated to pursue spiritual realities.

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There's 228 of us here that are following after the Spirit this morning because we're motivated to pursue spiritual realities.

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Isn't that exciting?

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And Jesus made that possible for us at the finished work of the cross.

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Otherwise, you would be doing some kind of selfish, crazy thing today because you would just be completely enslaved to your flesh.

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Love it, you guys.

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It's going to be so rich, so deep.

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You might have to listen to it more than once.

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I might have to listen to it more than once.

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So we're motivated to pursue spiritual realities.

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For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset controlled by the Spirit finds life and peace.

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That's when we walk after the flesh.

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I'm just quoting from another translation because I know this verse.

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When we walk after the flesh, it's death.

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But when we walk after the Spirit, it brings us life and peace.

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So good.

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I want to go back to 8.5 real quickly.

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What I just said about those who are motivated by the flesh only pursue what benefits them.

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But those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are motivated to pursue spiritual realities.

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In the actual Aramaic that that was written in, that verse, it actually says those who are in the flesh see only in the flesh.

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But those who are in the Spirit see God in the Spirit.

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Whoa, whoa.

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What's it saying there?

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It's saying that when you walk after your flesh, even though Jesus died to free you from the slavery of sin and your flesh,

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when we decide to walk after the flesh, when we don't walk after the Spirit, we're not seeing things the way they really are.

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And we're not seeing Him the way He really is.

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We have to ask God every day like we prayed this morning.

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Open the eyes of my heart.

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Let me see you in the Spirit.

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Let me walk after the Spirit today.

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And to quote another scripture so that I won't fulfill the works of the flesh.

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If I walk after the Spirit, I'm not going to fulfill the works of the flesh.

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And the works of the flesh, you guys, are just a bunch of, you know, orphan stuff.

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Hatred and lying and...

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patience, and it doesn't have to be terrible things, it can just be stuff that's not going

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to lead to good fruit in your lives or my life.

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Going back to verse six, for the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset controlled

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by the spirit finds life and peace.

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Verse seven, in fact, the mindset focused on the flesh fights God's plan and refuses

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to submit to his direction because it cannot.

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For no matter how hard they try, God finds no pleasure with those who are controlled

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by the flesh.

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But when the spirit of Christ empowers your life, you are not dominated by the flesh but

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by the spirit, and if you are not joined to the spirit of the anointed one, you are not

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of him.

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And in the Greek that this was written in, it's literally translated, if anyone is not

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joined to the spirit of Christ, they cannot be their true selves.

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Whoa.

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Remember the heart work?

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What's happening there?

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All these counterfeit identities, all these trauma-based identities that we're living

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in, we're not even aware of them when we walk after the flesh.

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We're reinforcing them when we walk after the flesh.

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But when we walk after the spirit, we will be our true selves.

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We'll be our true selves.

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When we live our lives joined to the spirit of Christ, the real us begins to emerge.

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Now Christ lives his life in you and even through your body, and even though your body

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may be dead because of the effects of sin, his life-giving spirit imparts life to you

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because you are fully accepted by God.

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Yes, God raised Jesus to life and since God's spirit of resurrection lives in you, he will

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also raise your dying body to life by the same spirit that breathes life into you.

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What is it?

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That's that scripture that says that the spirit of God, the spirit of resurrection lives in

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me and quickens me.

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So then beloved ones, the flesh has no claims on us at all and we have no further obligation

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to live in obedience to it.

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For when you live controlled by the flesh, it brings death.

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But if in the life, but if the life of the spirit puts to death the corrupt ways of the

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flesh, we then taste his abundant life.

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All right, so we're going to go on to verse 14 here.

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The nature, I'm sorry, the mature children of God are only those who are moved by the

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impulses of the Holy Spirit and you did not receive the spirit of religious duty leading

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you back into the fear of never being good enough, but you have received the spirit of

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full acceptance enfolding you into the family of God.

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You guys look at that.

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It says the mature children of God are only those who are moved by the impulses of the

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Holy Spirit and in the Greek it's very emphatic there.

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It says the mature children of God are those and only those who are moved by the impulses

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of the Holy Spirit.

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You guys say it again.

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The mature children of God are those and only those is what it says in the Greek who are

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moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit.

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What's that mean?

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That means that if people are being moved by something spiritual, if they're being moved

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by something supernatural, magical, but they're not children of God, guess who they're not

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being moved by?

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Holy Spirit.

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They're not being moved by Holy Spirit.

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They're being moved by spirit y'all, but they're not being moved by Holy Spirit because this

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scripture tells us that they are those and only those who are moved by the spirit of

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God and you did not receive the spirit of religious duty in other translations.

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You guys know the scripture to say, and you did not receive the spirit of bondage.

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You did not receive the spirit of bondage.

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I have the NIV open here.

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It's okay for us to go slow y'all, I know we go real fast a lot, but we got to get a

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hold of this because God wants to take us someplace today.

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For those who are led by the spirit of God are the children of God.

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The spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again.

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Rather the spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship and that is why you're

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able to cry Abba Father.

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Remember the other scripture that says we've not received the spirit of fear but of love

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and power and of a sound mind?

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You guys need to know that membership in the family of God, sonship, comes with membership

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benefits.

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A lot of us, we receive Jesus, but we're actually not walking in what he died to give us.

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And I just want to let you guys know it's not a one and done thing.

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It's not, oh, you met Jesus, everything's better now.

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No.

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He tells us we have to continue in his word like we are doing together today and that

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then we will fully know the truth and it will fully make us free.

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Because we've been set free, you guys, over 2,000 years ago on a bloody cross.

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That's finished.

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He said it is finished.

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But there are so many things that were given to us that day that we have not picked up

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at will call.

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We haven't picked them up at the will call of heaven.

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We're not walking in them.

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We're not living in them.

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There's such a mixture in the body of Christ right now, such a mixture, you guys, between

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the works of the flesh and the gifts of the spirit.

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It's a real problem.

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And I believe that God is purifying.

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First Peter 4.17 says that God's people, his children, his house has to go first when

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it comes to this purification, when it comes to this judgment of everything that's not

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kingdom in our lives.

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Because it says if we don't go first, there's no hope for anybody else.

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And I believe that we're seeing a First Peter 4.17 thing, wave, that's happening right now

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through the body of Christ.

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You guys have seen it, right?

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Things that are not truly born of God are starting to crumble and fall.

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Ministries, ideologies, it's happening, it's happening.

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And there's people that are caught up in the crosshairs of that.

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And Father, we pray today, Lord, that you would take them back to the rock from which

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they are hewn, that you would put their feet on that rock.

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Because you promised that on that rock, you would build your church and the gates of hell

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would not prevail against it.

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And so we declare that right now, Lord.

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And we thank you, God.

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We thank you, God, that you will restore.

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You guys, I want to let you know something about God.

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He doesn't expose, he's not an exposer.

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He's a revealer for healer.

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He's a revealing for healing kind of God.

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And anyone that's caught up in sin of any nature, God will reveal it, not for the purpose

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of exploitation, not for the purpose of exploiting that person or exposing that person, but for

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the purpose of that person being able to get healing if that's what they choose.

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It's important for us to understand that because I know that there's a lot of accusations happening

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in the earth right now against people.

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If we didn't receive the spirit, and I love, I like how this translation says this, because

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it kind of just hits it right out of the park.

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You did not receive the spirit of religious duty, leading you back into the fear of never

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being good enough.

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But you have received the spirit of full acceptance and folding you into the family of God.

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And you will never feel orphaned again, for as he rises up within us, our spirits join

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him in saying the words of tender affection, beloved father.

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And you guys know in the some other translations, it says Abba right there.

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I was producing a film festival for an Israeli man who did not have a good attitude.

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He had a bad attitude.

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He's obviously not a believer.

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And he wasn't even, you know, he wasn't even practicing Judaism.

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He wasn't even a practicing Jew.

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He was just an Israeli, kind of born into being a Jew, but didn't really understand

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what that meant.

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And so he was far from God is what I'm trying to say.

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And he had, you know, a potty mouth, and he had a bad attitude.

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And it was really difficult to work for him.

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And there were several times when I just wanted to walk out, walk away, just be like, I'm

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done with this.

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The day of the event that I was producing for him, his wife and son arrived.

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And his son was five years old.

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And I had not met his wife or his son yet.

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And his wife and his son had not seen him because he had come straight from Greece to

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Texas for this film festival.

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And he had been gone from home for a few weeks.

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And I heard a little voice running down the hall towards the office that I was in yelling,

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Abba, Abba, where are you Abba?

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Sweetest little voice that I've ever heard.

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And the door burst open

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and there was this little blonde munchkin standing there.

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He's like, Abba, where's my Abba?

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And Abba was my cantankerous boss

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who was standing behind me

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and I was standing in between him and this little son

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that saw him much differently than I did.

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And he ran and he jumped in his Abba's arms

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and I saw this man who was hard

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and kind of on the line of being mean,

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melt as this little boy snuggled into his arms.

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Abba, Abba, I love you Abba, I miss you Abba.

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And you guys, that was my first real life encounter

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with the word Abba.

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And I was like, wow, Abba, daddy.

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And that's what the scripture is saying.

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The scripture is saying that the curse

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which had us enslaved you guys

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and the law that was given to Moses

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to try to curb back sin,

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that also caused a different type of slavery.

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And this is why religion is not good enough.

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We have so many brothers and sisters

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that are living religious lives,

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but they're not alive to the spirit of God.

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They're living like orphans under a list of rules

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and regulations that cause them always to fear

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that they're never gonna be good enough.

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You guys have to understand,

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the Jews even to this day have like 610 rules

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that they have to follow every day

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in order to be found pleasing or good or righteous.

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This is what this is talking about.

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You have to remember, Paul was a Jew

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and he's talking about the spirit of religious duty

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leading you back into the fear of never being good enough.

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Paul says in a whole different scripture

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that if you decide that you're gonna be a rule follower,

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you're gonna be a law follower, okay?

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The mosaic law, if that is how you're gonna live,

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then you have to follow all of it

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and that it makes grace void in your life.

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You guys, you have to choose.

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You're either righteous by your own works

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or you're righteous because of the work of Christ,

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but you can't have both.

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You can't have both.

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And I'm just gonna tell you the better choice

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is your righteousness is of Christ

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because there's no way,

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there's no way that you can fulfill the law.

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You can't.

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You can't.

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And that people that cry to do it

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are always living in fear of never being good enough.

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I'm gonna say something even more shocking.

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In John 10, when Jesus says in that famous verse,

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John 10 10, the thief has come to steal and to kill

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and destroy, but I have come, that's him talking,

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that you might have life.

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Who has come?

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I have come.

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Who has come?

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I have come.

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Who is I?

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Jesus.

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I have come that you might have life

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and that now you might have it abundantly.

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You might have it overflowing.

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You might be fully alive.

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What did the beginning of Romans did say?

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It says, you're not fully alive.

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You're not your real self outside of the spirit.

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Jesus is saying, now not only is the curse gonna be broken,

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but the band-aid for the curse, the law, the thief

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is no longer going to be here either.

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And you're like, whoa, wait, what?

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Yeah, friends, religion is the thief in that scripture,

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not the devil.

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Go back and read the entire book of John 10.

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Don't just read that scripture.

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I'm like, oh yeah, that devil, he's trying to kill

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and steal and destroy.

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No, read the entire chapter.

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The entire chapter is about the bad shepherds.

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The entire chapter is about the religious people

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that were trying to put the people in bondage.

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All of it.

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That's the thief.

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That's why Jesus said,

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restore the joy of your salvation, y'all.

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That's why the Psalm has said that echoing Jesus

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who wasn't even here yet.

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Restore to me the joy of salvation.

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What is that?

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All that blood guiltness is off of you.

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All that shame is off of you.

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All that injustice is off of you.

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All the condemnation is off of you.

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You cannot enjoy salvation

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if you're still trying to receive it

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and achieve it in your own works and performance.

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There's no joy in that.

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It's like, okay.

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Hey, all right, today maybe I'm going to do okay.

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Yesterday was pretty bad,

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but today I think I'm going to be saved

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because today I'm going to do it all right.

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I'm going to cross every T and dot every I

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and it's going to be a good day.

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And then you get out in your car

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and someone cuts you off and you flip them the bird.

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You're like, well, today, tomorrow's going to be a good day.

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Tomorrow's going to be a better day than today.

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You guys, we have to understand that it's a good thing

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00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:31.320
that this is not based on our performance.

478
00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:33.840
I'm not saying that we will fully sin, we don't.

479
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But you know what?

480
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:37.120
The more and more and more and more and more and more

481
00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:39.440
that you receive what is being said right here,

482
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.920
the love of God that has received you

483
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:44.480
and called you his children,

484
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:45.840
because he is love.

485
00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:49.800
Your Abba, the more you receive how he sees you

486
00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:51.280
and how he loves you,

487
00:30:51.280 --> 00:30:53.680
the more that you'll be able to love yourself and others.

488
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.440
The more grace you'll have for yourself and others.

489
00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:58.160
One of the things that God said to me years ago

490
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.840
is he said, Jackie, whoever I am to you

491
00:31:00.840 --> 00:31:02.560
is who I will be through you.

492
00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.240
Whoever you let me be to you

493
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:10.940
is how you will represent me to others.

494
00:31:10.940 --> 00:31:12.840
If you let me be a loving father,

495
00:31:12.840 --> 00:31:16.500
then you will represent me as a loving father to others.

496
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.680
If I'm a tyrant, if I'm a hard master,

497
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.720
if I'm a hair splitter, if I'm a ledger keeper

498
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.520
full of your sins and your wrongdoings,

499
00:31:26.520 --> 00:31:28.560
you're gonna do the same thing with others.

500
00:31:28.560 --> 00:31:31.600
If you don't believe that I have unconditional love

501
00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:32.480
and grace for you,

502
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:34.680
then you will not have grace for anyone else.

503
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:36.800
And so friends, if you feel like you're hard on yourself

504
00:31:36.800 --> 00:31:38.760
and others, then you probably don't believe

505
00:31:38.760 --> 00:31:40.000
God truly loves you.

506
00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.120
You don't believe that God has mercy and grace for you.

507
00:31:46.040 --> 00:31:47.540
You somehow have gotten the idea

508
00:31:47.540 --> 00:31:50.240
that you have to get it all right all the time.

509
00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:53.040
And I would love for you to lay that down this morning

510
00:31:53.040 --> 00:31:55.200
because it's holding you back from life in the spirit.

511
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.320
It's holding you back from the big abundant life

512
00:31:57.320 --> 00:32:00.880
that Jesus was talking about in John 10, 10.

513
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:01.880
All right, you guys.

514
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:04.160
So the mature children of God are only those

515
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:06.920
who are moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit.

516
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.640
And you did not receive the spirit of religious duty,

517
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.240
leading you back into the fear of never being good enough,

518
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.640
but you have received the spirit of full acceptance

519
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:17.880
and folding you into the family of God.

520
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:19.900
And you will never feel orphaned

521
00:32:19.900 --> 00:32:21.740
for as he rises up within us,

522
00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:24.560
our spirits will join him in saying the words

523
00:32:24.560 --> 00:32:27.240
of tender affection, beloved father.

524
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:31.200
For the Holy Spirit makes God's fatherhood real to us

525
00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:34.040
as he whispers into our innermost being,

526
00:32:34.040 --> 00:32:36.680
you are God's beloved child.

527
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.360
And since we are his true children,

528
00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:42.680
we qualify to share all his treasures

529
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.880
for indeed we are heirs of God himself.

530
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:47.600
And since we are joined to Christ,

531
00:32:47.600 --> 00:32:52.360
we also inherit all that he is and all that he has.

532
00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:56.920
Turn the page.

533
00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.920
We will experience being co-glorified with him,

534
00:33:01.800 --> 00:33:05.600
provided that we accept his sufferings as our own.

535
00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:06.900
You guys, you've heard this scripture

536
00:33:06.900 --> 00:33:09.280
in a lot of different translations, I bet.

537
00:33:09.280 --> 00:33:12.680
And it talks about that if we suffer with Christ,

538
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:14.380
we'll be glorified with Christ.

539
00:33:15.260 --> 00:33:17.400
But that's not the full story here.

540
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:19.120
I want you to see it in this translation

541
00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:22.200
because this is actually in the Aramic,

542
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:24.020
this is how it would read.

543
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:26.660
Okay?

544
00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:29.280
Accepting the feelings of pain that he had,

545
00:33:29.280 --> 00:33:32.400
accepting the experiences that he had on the cross

546
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:34.560
by implications, his sufferings.

547
00:33:34.560 --> 00:33:36.520
I want you to look there and understand

548
00:33:36.520 --> 00:33:39.240
the scripture is really saying that you will,

549
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:41.160
you are seated with Christ in heavenly places.

550
00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:43.920
You are heirs and joint heirs with Christ.

551
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.020
Everything that God has, he gave to his son.

552
00:33:46.020 --> 00:33:51.020
And now you are a co-heir of all of the treasures of heaven

553
00:33:51.300 --> 00:33:54.040
provided that what?

554
00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:57.060
Because I know we read that scripture the other way

555
00:33:57.060 --> 00:34:00.060
and we're like, oh yeah, like if I can suffer with Christ

556
00:34:00.060 --> 00:34:02.780
and someday I'll be allowed to be glorified with him.

557
00:34:02.780 --> 00:34:06.500
No friends, Jesus has already suffered and been glorified.

558
00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:07.900
It's past tense.

559
00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:12.239
That's not future.

560
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:13.780
He's not gonna be glorified in the future.

561
00:34:13.780 --> 00:34:15.120
He's already been glorified.

562
00:34:15.120 --> 00:34:17.120
He resurrected, he was glorified.

563
00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:22.120
This scripture is saying that you can have all this stuff

564
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:26.440
if you accept his sufferings.

565
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:27.880
It literally says as your own.

566
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:28.760
What's that mean?

567
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:32.800
That means that he died for you and as you on the cross.

568
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.800
If you wanna walk in the glory of God on earth

569
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.679
and even be glorified and even be the glory of God,

570
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:42.920
you're like what, the glory of God?

571
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.600
Yeah, the Bible says the glory of the father

572
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:46.800
is his children.

573
00:34:48.520 --> 00:34:50.639
So the next time you try to dumb yourself down

574
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:53.440
with a religious mindset of diminishing yourself

575
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:56.040
and saying, oh, well, I can't be too great.

576
00:34:56.040 --> 00:34:57.139
I can't be too good.

577
00:34:57.139 --> 00:35:00.040
I can't be too talented because I might steal God's glory.

578
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.160
You are God's glory.

579
00:35:05.160 --> 00:35:07.080
And when you do good works,

580
00:35:07.080 --> 00:35:09.940
people will glorify your father in heaven.

581
00:35:13.720 --> 00:35:15.440
You can't steal his glory, friends.

582
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.960
That's a religious idea.

583
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:18.280
You are God's glory.

584
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.200
And you can only be his glory

585
00:35:21.200 --> 00:35:26.000
if you accept the truth that Jesus died to give it to you.

586
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:30.320
That you're not having to cut yourself and kill yourself

587
00:35:31.240 --> 00:35:33.440
to try to get it because he already did it,

588
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:35.320
not just for you, but as you.

589
00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.120
This scripture is saying you can only have these things

590
00:35:38.120 --> 00:35:42.000
if you accept that his sufferings were your own.

591
00:35:44.080 --> 00:35:45.920
Now, does that mean there's no suffering in this life?

592
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.360
Yeah, but friends, the suffering in this life

593
00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:50.960
has nothing to do with being glorified with Christ.

594
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.460
The suffering that happens in this life

595
00:35:52.460 --> 00:35:55.080
is because we're surrounded by a fallen world

596
00:35:55.080 --> 00:35:57.080
that still thinks it's under the curse.

597
00:36:02.420 --> 00:36:04.520
I want you to say this to yourself.

598
00:36:04.520 --> 00:36:07.240
God does not bring suffering on me.

599
00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:12.660
God does not test me with suffering.

600
00:36:12.660 --> 00:36:15.280
He does not give me suffering.

601
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.100
This scripture is not talking about,

602
00:36:17.100 --> 00:36:20.760
well, if I suffer, then I'll become more and more like Jesus

603
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:23.100
and then I'll get to be glorified with him.

604
00:36:23.100 --> 00:36:26.100
No, you guys, the suffering that happened already happened.

605
00:36:28.820 --> 00:36:31.460
He nailed to that tree all of your infirmities.

606
00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:34.180
The Bible says, past, present, and future.

607
00:36:34.180 --> 00:36:36.060
He died for you and as you.

608
00:36:36.060 --> 00:36:38.180
The Bible says by one man's disobedience,

609
00:36:38.180 --> 00:36:40.820
sin entered the earth, but by one man's obedience,

610
00:36:40.820 --> 00:36:43.760
Jesus, we have all become righteous.

611
00:36:46.660 --> 00:36:49.780
Righteous, not degrees of righteousness,

612
00:36:49.780 --> 00:36:52.960
not future righteousness, righteous right now.

613
00:36:54.100 --> 00:36:59.100
Right now, do you realize that if we understand

614
00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:03.820
that he suffered and died for us and as us,

615
00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:05.480
we can be glorified right now?

616
00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:11.620
That we can walk as sons and daughters of God on this earth,

617
00:37:11.620 --> 00:37:15.120
performing good works, not based on our performance,

618
00:37:15.120 --> 00:37:17.980
but on his, on the finished work of the cross,

619
00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:20.380
and that we could get deeper and deeper and deeper

620
00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:24.700
our roots into his love so that we can be fruitful

621
00:37:24.700 --> 00:37:27.940
and prosper and so other people can see

622
00:37:29.260 --> 00:37:30.700
that we have a God in heaven.

623
00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:43.680
818, I'm convinced that any suffering will endure.

624
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:48.180
Any suffering that we do endure is less than nothing

625
00:37:48.220 --> 00:37:51.100
compared to the magnitude of glory

626
00:37:51.100 --> 00:37:53.860
that is about to be unveiled within us.

627
00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:56.280
So any suffering y'all that you go through on this earth,

628
00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:57.900
and there is suffering and Jesus told us,

629
00:37:57.900 --> 00:37:59.340
hey, you know, there's gonna be suffering here.

630
00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:01.740
There's gonna be trials, there's gonna be tribulation.

631
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:05.060
And then he said, because I'm sending it to you

632
00:38:05.060 --> 00:38:07.080
because you know, I gotta get you strong

633
00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:08.180
and I wanna make you better.

634
00:38:08.180 --> 00:38:10.620
And so there's gonna be suffering and trial and tribulation.

635
00:38:10.620 --> 00:38:11.620
So just get ready for it

636
00:38:11.620 --> 00:38:12.940
because I'm gonna give it to you.

637
00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:16.040
I choose my most strong warriors,

638
00:38:16.040 --> 00:38:17.760
you know, to test them with suffering.

639
00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:20.080
No, that's not what he said.

640
00:38:20.080 --> 00:38:24.220
What he said is there will be trial and tribulation.

641
00:38:24.220 --> 00:38:25.560
There will be suffering.

642
00:38:25.560 --> 00:38:28.000
There will be those things in the world.

643
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:29.800
He said, but be of good cheer

644
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:31.400
because I've overcome the world.

645
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.400
This scripture in a different translation says

646
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:41.960
the sufferings of this present time

647
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:44.320
are not even worthy to be compared

648
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.720
to the glory that's being revealed within us.

649
00:38:48.240 --> 00:38:51.280
These little tiny trials and tribulations,

650
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:53.640
Jesus already overcame those on the cross.

651
00:38:53.640 --> 00:38:55.320
They're not coming from him.

652
00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:58.240
They're coming from a dying world

653
00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:03.240
that we've been commissioned to resurrect

654
00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:06.640
because the resurrection power of God lives within us.

655
00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:08.060
We already read the scripture.

656
00:39:08.060 --> 00:39:09.880
The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead

657
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:12.460
dwells within you and quickens your mortal body.

658
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:15.240
Come on, you guys.

659
00:39:15.240 --> 00:39:17.520
It's such a lot of truth

660
00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:19.120
and it's hard to take it all in,

661
00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:22.200
but Holy Spirit, help us to take it in.

662
00:39:22.200 --> 00:39:23.840
I'm convinced that any suffering we endure

663
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:26.440
is less than nothing compared to the magnitude of glory

664
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:28.600
that is about to be unveiled within us.

665
00:39:28.600 --> 00:39:32.080
The entire universe is standing on its tiptoes,

666
00:39:32.080 --> 00:39:33.880
yearning to see the unveiling

667
00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:36.100
of God's glorious sons and daughters.

668
00:39:37.560 --> 00:39:38.600
What does that mean, you guys?

669
00:39:38.600 --> 00:39:40.240
Another translation that says that

670
00:39:40.240 --> 00:39:41.880
the earth is groaning and prevailing,

671
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:44.860
waiting for the revealing of God's sons and daughters.

672
00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:47.360
It means it's time for us to show up on the scene.

673
00:39:48.520 --> 00:39:51.160
The curse has been broken over us

674
00:39:51.160 --> 00:39:52.820
and so we are the curse breakers.

675
00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:57.600
God did not free you from the curse

676
00:39:57.600 --> 00:40:00.240
for you to just enjoy being free from the curse.

677
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:09.680
He freed you from the curse so that you could go free others from the curse.

678
00:40:09.680 --> 00:40:14.640
For against His will, the universe itself has had to endure the empty futility resulting

679
00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:17.060
from the consequences of human sin.

680
00:40:17.060 --> 00:40:23.280
But now with eager expectation, all creation longs for freedom from its slavery to decay

681
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:29.080
and to experience with us the wonderful freedom coming to God's children when they are glorified.

682
00:40:29.080 --> 00:40:34.640
To this day, we are aware of the universal agony and groaning of creation as if it were

683
00:40:34.640 --> 00:40:38.220
the contractions of labor for childbirth.

684
00:40:38.220 --> 00:40:40.280
And it's not just creation.

685
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:47.320
We who have already experienced the first fruits of the Spirit also inwardly groan as

686
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:54.000
we passionately long to experience our full status as God's sons and daughters, including

687
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.600
our physical bodies being transformed.

688
00:40:57.600 --> 00:41:00.920
For this is the hope of our salvation.

689
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:06.360
It's saying that we've received a taste, you guys, we've received the first fruits by experiencing

690
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.920
the new birth experience through Christ and being filled with the Holy Spirit.

691
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:13.600
We're having a taste of that resurrection power.

692
00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:16.980
We're having a taste of what it's like to be fully glorified.

693
00:41:16.980 --> 00:41:22.800
But these bodies that we're in, we're not taking these to heaven.

694
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:25.800
Our physical bodies will be fully transformed.

695
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:28.060
That will complete our transformation.

696
00:41:28.060 --> 00:41:31.960
Right now we have a mental, a spiritual, and emotional transformation.

697
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:36.680
And I believe if we follow the laws of God, even though this body is not going to heaven

698
00:41:36.680 --> 00:41:41.040
and it's not eternal, I believe we can live in good health on earth.

699
00:41:41.040 --> 00:41:45.840
I believe that we can live in vibrant health on earth, even though this body is going to

700
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:47.720
go to the dust.

701
00:41:47.720 --> 00:41:51.040
But hope means that we must trust and wait for what is still unseen.

702
00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:54.000
For why would we need to hope for something we already have?

703
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.360
So because our hope is set on what is yet to be seen, we patiently keep on waiting for

704
00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:00.800
its fulfillment.

705
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:06.000
And in a similar way, the Holy Spirit takes hold of us in our human frailty to empower

706
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.080
us in our weaknesses.

707
00:42:08.080 --> 00:42:13.160
For example, at times we don't even know how to pray or know the best things to ask for,

708
00:42:13.160 --> 00:42:19.280
but the Holy Spirit rises up within us to super intercede on our behalf, pleading to

709
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.160
God with emotional sighs too deep for words.

710
00:42:22.160 --> 00:42:28.440
I want you to take a look that there's three different groanings in this little passage

711
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:29.440
right here.

712
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.560
You find three groanings.

713
00:42:31.560 --> 00:42:36.320
Creation is groaning to see the glorious freedom of God's children come.

714
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.560
We're groaning to experience the fullness of our status as God's children.

715
00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:45.360
And the Holy Spirit is groaning within us to complete our destiny, for our destiny to

716
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:46.360
be fulfilled.

717
00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:50.720
And for those of you that have ever experienced any kind of prevailing in the spirit where

718
00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:55.880
you're crying and you feel like you're giving birth and you're groaning, I want you to raise

719
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.840
your hand if you've ever experienced that.

720
00:42:58.840 --> 00:42:59.840
Raise them up.

721
00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:00.840
Little avatar hands.

722
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:06.160
I want to see all the avatar hands where you're praying and even you guys, you don't know

723
00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:07.280
what childbirth feels like.

724
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.120
A lot of you ladies don't know what it feels like.

725
00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:14.240
You've never had a physical child, but you feel like this is what this feels like.

726
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:19.560
The spirit is groaning within you.

727
00:43:19.560 --> 00:43:22.120
It's birthing something, you guys.

728
00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:26.720
Look at all those hands birthing something because we don't know what to say.

729
00:43:26.720 --> 00:43:30.200
We don't even know half the time what's going on.

730
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We don't know what's going on, but the spirit does.

731
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And that's why this is so important that you walk after the spirit, that you make way for

732
00:43:37.120 --> 00:43:42.520
the spirit, that if you have your prayer language, you pray in the spirit.

733
00:43:42.520 --> 00:43:46.240
Allow the spirit to intercede for you.

734
00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:47.520
This is the gift that you've been given.

735
00:43:47.520 --> 00:43:52.920
Jesus said to his disciples, I have to go, but I'll send another and he'll not just live

736
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:53.920
with you.

737
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:57.320
He'll live in you.

738
00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:58.320
Really important, you guys.

739
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:04.000
Sighs that are too deep for words.

740
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.440
Okay.

741
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:10.120
God the searcher of the heart knows fully our longings, yet he also understands the

742
00:44:10.120 --> 00:44:14.880
desires of the spirit because the Holy Spirit passionately pleads before God for us, his

743
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.760
holy ones in perfect harmony with God's plan and our destiny.

744
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:21.960
You guys, we want things.

745
00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:29.320
God knows our longings, but when we give way to the spirit in prayer, what will happen

746
00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:36.480
is an agreement will happen between us and our destiny and God's plan for us.

747
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:37.480
It's important.

748
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:41.760
So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together.

749
00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:45.280
So here's the scripture that I woke up to the morning, Romans 8, 28.

750
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So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit

751
00:44:50.240 --> 00:44:53.800
into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our lives.

752
00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:59.640
For we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his design purpose, guys.

753
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.880
Every detail of our lives, like a beautiful tapestry, are being woven together, bringing

754
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:07.880
good, bringing good.

755
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:13.240
I know that you don't know how in the world that one little thread, that one situation,

756
00:45:13.240 --> 00:45:18.200
that era of your life, how it could ever be good, but God's saying, I can weave it together

757
00:45:18.200 --> 00:45:22.960
with other ingredients, with other situations, with other eras in your life, and you'll look

758
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:28.480
back and say, blessed be God.

759
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:32.400
He took this detail, and he made it good.

760
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:36.320
He knew all about us before we were born, and he destined us from the beginning to share

761
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:38.160
the likeness of his son.

762
00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:43.560
This means the son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become

763
00:45:43.560 --> 00:45:45.240
just like him.

764
00:45:45.240 --> 00:45:50.200
Having determined our destiny ahead of time, he called us to himself and transferred his

765
00:45:50.200 --> 00:45:55.080
perfect righteousness to everyone he called, and those who possess his perfect righteousness,

766
00:45:55.080 --> 00:45:57.040
he co-glorified with his son.

767
00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:03.560
Because we are called, we are chosen, we are justified, and we are glorified.

768
00:46:03.560 --> 00:46:04.760
So what does this all mean?

769
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If God has determined to stand with us, tell me, who then could ever stand against us?

770
00:46:11.640 --> 00:46:16.080
For God has proved by his love, by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift of his

771
00:46:16.080 --> 00:46:21.960
son, and since God freely offered him up as a sacrifice for us all, he certainly won't

772
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:29.040
withhold from us any other good thing.

773
00:46:29.040 --> 00:46:34.160
Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his?

774
00:46:34.160 --> 00:46:40.560
God himself is the judge who has issued his final verdict over them, not guilty.

775
00:46:40.560 --> 00:46:42.720
So who is left to condemn us?

776
00:46:42.720 --> 00:46:47.600
Certainly not Jesus, the anointed one, for he gave his life for us, and even more than

777
00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:53.960
He has conquered death and is now risen, exalted and enthroned by God at his right hand.

778
00:46:53.960 --> 00:47:01.200
So how could he possibly condemn us since he is continually praying for our triumph?

779
00:47:01.200 --> 00:47:02.320
You guys, take that in.

780
00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:04.200
He is your intercessor.

781
00:47:04.200 --> 00:47:05.800
He is your lead intercessor.

782
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:07.560
He is your head intercessor.

783
00:47:07.560 --> 00:47:09.440
He is your advocate.

784
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:10.440
He is your high priest.

785
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:15.400
Remember what the high priest did back in Moses' tabernacle?

786
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:21.640
He risked his life to go into the holies of holies to sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat.

787
00:47:21.640 --> 00:47:26.320
Jesus is your high priest, and the Bible says you have a high priest that understands your

788
00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:28.600
frailties and your weaknesses in your flesh.

789
00:47:28.600 --> 00:47:29.880
He has grace for you.

790
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:32.160
He has mercy for you.

791
00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:34.080
He is interceding for you.

792
00:47:34.080 --> 00:47:40.200
The Spirit, you guys, two-thirds of the community of heaven, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Son

793
00:47:40.200 --> 00:47:43.960
and Holy Spirit are continually interceding for us.

794
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:45.280
What?

795
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:53.800
It says here, how can Jesus condemn you when he is continually praying for your triumph?

796
00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.760
Who could ever separate us from the endless love of God's anointed one?

797
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:03.160
Absolutely no one.

798
00:48:03.160 --> 00:48:07.120
For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love towards us.

799
00:48:07.120 --> 00:48:12.520
Troubles, pressures, problems are unable to come between us and heaven's love.

800
00:48:12.560 --> 00:48:15.960
What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats?

801
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:16.960
No.

802
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:22.200
For they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love, even though it is written, as all day

803
00:48:22.200 --> 00:48:26.080
long we face death threats for your sake, God, we are considered to be nothing more

804
00:48:26.080 --> 00:48:27.720
than sheep to be slaughtered.

805
00:48:27.720 --> 00:48:31.560
And of course, that's about the persecution of God's holy ones on the earth.

806
00:48:31.560 --> 00:48:36.840
That's spiritual warfare.

807
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:42.560
And of course, back in these days, when Paul was writing this, the early church was being

808
00:48:42.560 --> 00:48:45.520
gathered up and executed.

809
00:48:45.520 --> 00:48:48.520
You know that, right?

810
00:48:48.520 --> 00:48:54.280
Guys, that particular passage of scripture is really important to me, because even though

811
00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:58.760
I never saw my mom pray when I was a child, and she didn't really seem to know God, and

812
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:04.320
I had a lot of questions because I had a lot of fear, at nighttime especially, and I'd

813
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:08.400
yell for my mom to come in my room, and I'd ask her, Mom, is God real?

814
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:10.360
What happens when we die?

815
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:13.280
My mom really didn't have a lot of answers for me.

816
00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:17.320
But she did teach us some spiritual songs.

817
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:21.840
And one of those songs is based on this passage of scripture about nothing being able to separate

818
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:24.240
us from the love of God.

819
00:49:24.240 --> 00:49:29.600
And she taught it to us, and it was a funny song, and it was a rhyming song, and me and

820
00:49:29.600 --> 00:49:33.400
my brother, who's 18 months older than me, we would sing it as fast as we could.

821
00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:37.600
And that was the game, like who could sing it the fastest?

822
00:49:37.600 --> 00:49:43.360
And because we were singing it, it got embedded into our memory, but neither one of us knew

823
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:44.360
that it was scripture.

824
00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:48.120
I don't even know if my mom knew it was scripture.

825
00:49:48.120 --> 00:49:53.660
But I will tell you that when my brother was 21 years old, and he fell off a mountain in

826
00:49:53.660 --> 00:49:58.620
Colorado where he had been a snowboard instructor, and he was hurling down to his death.

827
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.740
to his certain death.

828
00:50:03.680 --> 00:50:07.740
This song popped in his head and he began to sing it

829
00:50:07.740 --> 00:50:10.320
and he was supernaturally and miraculously saved

830
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.780
by a tree coming out of the side of the mountain.

831
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:18.000
I am persuaded to believe that nothing could ever separate us

832
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:19.660
from the wonderful love of God.

833
00:50:19.660 --> 00:50:22.420
Up above, he will send you if you let it dwell within you

834
00:50:22.420 --> 00:50:24.420
along the simple world you trod.

835
00:50:24.420 --> 00:50:27.100
Neither height nor depth nor principalities,

836
00:50:27.100 --> 00:50:28.720
things present or things to come.

837
00:50:28.720 --> 00:50:31.680
Though the devil hate us, he can never separate us

838
00:50:31.680 --> 00:50:33.240
from the wonderful love of God.

839
00:50:41.600 --> 00:50:43.660
This scripture has power, my friends.

840
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:47.260
Nothing can separate you from God's love.

841
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.400
You are heirs and joint heirs with Christ

842
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.040
and everything that God has to offer belongs to you,

843
00:50:55.040 --> 00:50:58.520
not later when you get to heaven, right?

844
00:50:58.880 --> 00:50:59.720
Now.

845
00:51:01.640 --> 00:51:02.480
Right now.

846
00:51:03.680 --> 00:51:07.520
His peace, his joy, his presence right now.

847
00:51:07.520 --> 00:51:09.960
Yeah, there's some things that this body

848
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:11.800
isn't gonna be able to experience

849
00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:13.960
until we get our transfigured body.

850
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:15.600
Like I'd like to walk through some walls.

851
00:51:15.600 --> 00:51:16.840
Maybe you can do that.

852
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:19.080
I'm not sure, but Jesus did that

853
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:23.640
when he got out of his fleshly body.

854
00:51:23.640 --> 00:51:26.840
You know, I'd like to be over in Spain in two minutes.

855
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:27.760
That'd be great.

856
00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:32.280
And there are some people that experience miracles

857
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:37.280
like that on earth, like Philip, he was here one minute,

858
00:51:38.680 --> 00:51:40.320
the next minute he was over there.

859
00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:45.720
The bottom line is, friends, is that we have access.

860
00:51:45.720 --> 00:51:49.520
We have full access because the finished work of the cross

861
00:51:49.520 --> 00:51:54.520
to what it looks like to be a child of God.

862
00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:58.080
We have that, but we have to grow in it.

863
00:51:58.080 --> 00:51:59.680
A lot of us don't know what that looks like

864
00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:04.200
on our own lives, and we're not fully utilizing

865
00:52:04.200 --> 00:52:07.800
the benefits of membership of this family.

866
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:09.760
You guys, I have a business credit card

867
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:13.480
and I can't even tell you what the membership benefits are.

868
00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:15.280
I know that there's lots of benefits

869
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:16.840
that I'm not using right now.

870
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:20.280
Lots of things like discounts on rent,

871
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:25.480
or just all kinds of things that I get access to

872
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.480
if I use that card, but I haven't taken the time

873
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:35.480
to sit down and study the pamphlets

874
00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:36.520
that they sent me in the mail

875
00:52:36.520 --> 00:52:38.320
that talk about all those things.

876
00:52:40.720 --> 00:52:44.720
And you're never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,

877
00:52:44.720 --> 00:52:48.320
ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,

878
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:52.640
and you're never, ever fully gonna understand

879
00:52:52.640 --> 00:52:55.720
what Jesus' death on the cross means to your life

880
00:52:55.720 --> 00:52:58.480
right now on earth, not someday in heaven.

881
00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.080
All of us know that he died so that we can live.

882
00:53:01.080 --> 00:53:03.440
All of us know that because he died,

883
00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:06.160
we now can live forever in heaven

884
00:53:06.160 --> 00:53:07.960
if we make him our Lord and Savior,

885
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:10.200
but you guys, it's so much more than that.

886
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.720
It's so much more than that.

887
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:17.120
Jesus didn't die to get you in heaven someday.

888
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:20.880
He died to get heaven in you here on earth now,

889
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:24.240
and that is why the Bible says, pray this.

890
00:53:24.240 --> 00:53:26.160
When his disciples asked him how to pray,

891
00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:27.360
remember, these are praying people.

892
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:28.200
These are Jews.

893
00:53:28.200 --> 00:53:29.360
They have all kinds of prayers.

894
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:31.720
They have prayers for their prayers,

895
00:53:31.720 --> 00:53:32.560
and they're like, okay,

896
00:53:32.560 --> 00:53:34.120
which prayer is the most important, Jesus?

897
00:53:34.120 --> 00:53:35.960
Because we're figuring that now that you're here,

898
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:38.200
Meshuach, Messiah, that you're gonna deliver us

899
00:53:38.200 --> 00:53:40.680
from all these hours and hours of prayers.

900
00:53:40.680 --> 00:53:41.600
You feel them, right?

901
00:53:41.600 --> 00:53:43.520
That's what they're really saying.

902
00:53:43.520 --> 00:53:45.200
What's the most important prayer?

903
00:53:46.120 --> 00:53:48.280
And that is when he began to speak

904
00:53:48.280 --> 00:53:49.640
what we call the Lord's Prayer.

905
00:53:49.640 --> 00:53:51.760
Our Father who art in heaven,

906
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.280
our Father, our Abba, hallowed be thy name.

907
00:53:56.240 --> 00:53:59.080
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done

908
00:53:59.080 --> 00:54:01.840
on earth as it already is in heaven.

909
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:03.000
Heart stop right there.

910
00:54:06.240 --> 00:54:10.480
Let your will be done on earth as it already is in heaven.

911
00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:16.320
You guys, we are here still on earth

912
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:18.640
so that we can bring heaven to earth.

913
00:54:19.600 --> 00:54:23.240
We can be heaven's agents on earth.

914
00:54:23.240 --> 00:54:24.720
God can show himself strong.

915
00:54:24.720 --> 00:54:26.320
The Bible says he's looking to and fro.

916
00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:27.760
It's in the book of Chronicles.

917
00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.920
Every day, looking for someone to show himself

918
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:33.560
strong through on earth.

919
00:54:33.680 --> 00:54:34.520
On earth.

920
00:54:37.680 --> 00:54:40.880
I think it's Jeremiah that says

921
00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:45.200
he's watching over his word carefully to perform it.

922
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:47.320
What's his word?

923
00:54:48.520 --> 00:54:50.280
It's not just his spoken word, his Rhema word,

924
00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:52.600
his Logos word, but it's also Jesus.

925
00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:55.640
The word was with God and the word became flesh

926
00:54:55.640 --> 00:54:57.680
and dwelt among us.

927
00:54:57.680 --> 00:54:59.200
And where is that word now?

928
00:54:59.200 --> 00:55:00.040
It's in you.

929
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.480
Jesus is living his life in you.

930
00:55:05.120 --> 00:55:07.000
All of the investment of heaven

931
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.800
that's been put inside of you at your day of salvation,

932
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:15.700
God is looking to make interest on.

933
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:19.840
He's looking every day to see

934
00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:24.360
if what's been invested in you can be cast in,

935
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:27.800
if what's invested in you can be multiplied.

936
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:32.600
Guys, I just heard a story the other day

937
00:55:32.600 --> 00:55:35.200
about the Lord's Prayer that was so powerful.

938
00:55:35.200 --> 00:55:37.920
This guy was saying that he's this English guy

939
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:40.680
and I have to admit, I started listening to him

940
00:55:40.680 --> 00:55:41.920
because I loved his voice.

941
00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:43.740
I love the sound of English people talking

942
00:55:43.740 --> 00:55:46.800
and I'm just listening to him telling the story.

943
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:48.640
But long story short,

944
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:52.640
they had neighbors that really loved him and his wife

945
00:55:52.640 --> 00:55:55.420
and the lady that lived next door, the neighbor,

946
00:55:55.420 --> 00:55:58.660
she had a stroke and her family told him and his wife

947
00:55:58.660 --> 00:56:00.700
that she was brain dead and that they were gonna

948
00:56:00.700 --> 00:56:02.940
pull the plug at the end of the week.

949
00:56:02.940 --> 00:56:05.820
And he asked if him and his wife could go and see her

950
00:56:05.820 --> 00:56:08.460
and they said, of course, she loved you guys.

951
00:56:08.460 --> 00:56:09.420
And you know what she called them?

952
00:56:09.420 --> 00:56:11.520
She called them the neighbors from heaven.

953
00:56:13.340 --> 00:56:15.060
Heaven invading earth friends.

954
00:56:15.060 --> 00:56:16.180
And he didn't say any of this.

955
00:56:16.180 --> 00:56:17.640
And when I first heard him talking,

956
00:56:17.640 --> 00:56:19.540
I thought maybe he was a comedian.

957
00:56:19.540 --> 00:56:21.140
He didn't sound like a preacher

958
00:56:21.140 --> 00:56:23.740
and he definitely wasn't going to pay his last respects

959
00:56:23.740 --> 00:56:27.220
to his neighbor to see anything supernatural happen.

960
00:56:27.220 --> 00:56:29.300
In fact, he said, let's go see her,

961
00:56:29.300 --> 00:56:32.660
and then off she goes, off she goes to heaven.

962
00:56:32.660 --> 00:56:35.280
So him and his wife went and they circled her bed

963
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.980
and they held hands and they both held one of her hands

964
00:56:37.980 --> 00:56:40.140
and they just said, hey, we're here, Thurley,

965
00:56:40.140 --> 00:56:41.580
whatever her name is,

966
00:56:41.580 --> 00:56:43.380
we're just gonna pray the Lord's prayer

967
00:56:43.380 --> 00:56:47.060
and then off you go to heaven, you're free to go.

968
00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:49.860
And they prayed.

969
00:56:49.860 --> 00:56:51.740
And then when they got to that line,

970
00:56:51.740 --> 00:56:54.980
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, she woke up.

971
00:56:58.180 --> 00:57:02.020
She woke up and the hospital was an hour from their house

972
00:57:02.020 --> 00:57:04.780
and they went back home and they saw her husband.

973
00:57:04.780 --> 00:57:07.020
They said, he said, well, how did it go?

974
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And they said, you know, she's awake.

975
00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:11.300
And he's like, no, she's not.

976
00:57:11.300 --> 00:57:14.340
And he's like, yeah, they're like, yeah, yeah, she is.

977
00:57:14.340 --> 00:57:17.040
And he's like, no, no, she's not.

978
00:57:17.040 --> 00:57:19.300
But then she was home by the end of the week.

979
00:57:22.060 --> 00:57:24.580
You guys, we are connected to,

980
00:57:24.580 --> 00:57:28.420
and we are members of a family

981
00:57:29.660 --> 00:57:33.340
that has been created to show this world,

982
00:57:33.340 --> 00:57:35.780
you have been sealed, you have been marked,

983
00:57:35.780 --> 00:57:39.020
you have been chosen, you have been justified,

984
00:57:39.020 --> 00:57:42.260
you have been glorified to give this world

985
00:57:43.940 --> 00:57:48.940
a representation of what's going on in heaven.

986
00:57:49.620 --> 00:57:52.620
So Father, we ask Lord that you would help us right now,

987
00:57:52.620 --> 00:57:56.740
that you would help us to understand how deep your love goes,

988
00:57:56.740 --> 00:57:58.060
that you would help us to understand

989
00:57:58.060 --> 00:58:01.740
what Jesus really did for us on that cross.

990
00:58:01.740 --> 00:58:04.100
It's not about someday, it's about this day.

991
00:58:04.100 --> 00:58:06.220
It's about now, Lord, and we're asking

992
00:58:06.220 --> 00:58:09.060
that you would quicken us, that you would quicken our spirits,

993
00:58:09.060 --> 00:58:11.660
that they would come into agreement with the idea

994
00:58:11.660 --> 00:58:14.420
that we are your dear children,

995
00:58:14.420 --> 00:58:16.420
that we are your dear children,

996
00:58:16.580 --> 00:58:19.260
that we are your dear children,

997
00:58:19.260 --> 00:58:23.380
and as your children, you are happy to bless us.

998
00:58:24.980 --> 00:58:28.260
Every good and perfect gift comes down from you, Abba,

999
00:58:28.260 --> 00:58:29.500
the Father of lights,

1000
00:58:31.060 --> 00:58:33.660
and that we just need to ask and receive,

1001
00:58:33.660 --> 00:58:35.860
and the Spirit will help us to ask

1002
00:58:35.860 --> 00:58:39.580
according to your perfect will for our lives, which is good.

1003
00:58:39.580 --> 00:58:42.820
Your plans are good, your hope is good.

1004
00:58:42.860 --> 00:58:47.860
Your idea of us, it is to bless us, it is to prosper us.

1005
00:58:48.780 --> 00:58:51.820
Even as our soul prospers, it's to prosper us.

1006
00:58:51.820 --> 00:58:56.500
You have given us the power to prosper in this earth,

1007
00:58:57.380 --> 00:59:00.300
and nothing that has come against us,

1008
00:59:00.300 --> 00:59:04.380
like this scripture tells us, can defeat us.

1009
00:59:04.380 --> 00:59:09.380
In fact, it will be used as an ingredient to bless us,

1010
00:59:09.380 --> 00:59:11.300
Romans 8, 28, and so Lord,

1011
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we come into agreement with that today.

1012
00:59:13.460 --> 00:59:16.140
We say that we want nothing less than this,

1013
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so be it, in Jesus' name, amen.

1014
00:59:20.260 --> 00:59:24.140
Friends, I really want to challenge you to read Romans 8,

1015
00:59:24.140 --> 00:59:27.300
to read it and read it again and read it again

1016
00:59:27.300 --> 00:59:29.220
and read it again and read it again

1017
00:59:29.220 --> 00:59:31.740
until it begins to permeate your heart,

1018
00:59:31.740 --> 00:59:33.540
until it begins to give fruit in your life.

1019
00:59:33.540 --> 00:59:35.100
I will do it too.

1020
00:59:35.100 --> 00:59:39.020
Romans 8, Romans 8, read it, every single verse,

1021
00:59:39.020 --> 00:59:42.020
dwell on it, meditate on it, chew on it

1022
00:59:42.020 --> 00:59:44.700
until it brings you life in the spirit,

1023
00:59:44.700 --> 00:59:47.260
breakthrough in areas where you've been stuck

1024
00:59:47.260 --> 00:59:52.260
and you living powerfully as God's child in the earth.

1025
00:59:52.740 --> 00:59:54.340
I love y'all, I'll see you soon.