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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by seeing clearly.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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I know we talked in the last couple episodes about not seeing or not going by what we see

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but going by what God said. We're continuing that conversation today because there is

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some seeing that is gifted to us as sons of God. So that's what we're going to be talking about.

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John chapter 16, Jesus is having a conversation with his disciples and he says,

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a little while and you will see me no longer and again a little while and you will see me.

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So some of his disciples said to one another, what is this that he says to us a little while

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and you will not see me and again a little while and you will see me and because I go to my father.

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What does he mean by a little while? We do not know what he is talking about.

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So Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him about this so he said to them, is this what you're

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asking yourselves? What I meant by saying a little while and you will not see me and again

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a little while and you will see me? Truly truly I say to you, you will weep and lament but the world

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will rejoice. You will be sorrowful but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is giving

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birth she has sorrow because her hour has come but when she has delivered the baby she no longer

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remembers the anguish for the joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you

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will sorrow now but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice and no one will take that joy

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from you. In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly truly I say to you, whatever you ask of the

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father in my name he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you

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will receive that your joy may be full. And then we're going to bounce down into verse 33, a scripture

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many of us know very well here in the posture community. Jesus says, I have said these things to

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you that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation but take heart I have overcome

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the world. I love that scripture and promise. I love this conversation that Jesus has with his

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disciples. I'm actually captivated by it and by that turning your sorrow into joy piece. You know

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there's so much here but Jesus is giving them a heads up about what is going to take place through

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his death and he says you won't see me and then you will see me. I'm sure you caught that because

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it was said several times but this is not just a matter of you're not going to see me because I'm

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dying and then you will see me because I'm coming back. He's actually telling them something much

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greater. Jesus is saying here when I come back you are going to really see me. You're going to

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wake up to something. You are going to become aware of who I am and what I have done and you

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are going to know about you are going to experience our inseparable union. Jesus is saying I am going

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to be to you who I have always been but you're going to recognize me and in recognizing me you're

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going to recognize yourself. You're going to become aware that you are a new creation, that you are a

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son of God. Now this redemptive power that Jesus demonstrates through his death and resurrection,

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this power that conquered the death, hell, and the grave, this authority that turns sorrow into joy,

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it lives in you and it lives in me because he lives in us. Just as we talked about in last

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week's episode in John 14, Jesus is setting a new expectation here through his finished work. He is

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modeling the new norm. As sons of God, the world does not happen to us. We happen to the world.

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Now in Romans 8, it speaks about this. It speaks about living the life as sons of God,

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living from the spirit. And I'm just going to read a portion of this but in verse 18 it says,

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Paul wrote this to the Romans, it says, I consider that the sufferings of this present time

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are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with

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eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. That's you and me. For the creation was

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to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the

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creation itself will be set free from its bondage of decay and brought into

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freedom and glory of the children of God. Creation, this world, is longing for the

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glory in us to be revealed. Through our circumstances, good, bad, or ugly, we are

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entering into every aspect of creation and being Jesus's victory on display.

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This is the life of an overcomer. Remember Colossians 2.10 says we have

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been brought to fullness, so in every circumstance, fullness is your starting

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point. This is very key. You are not starting from scratch. You're not

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starting again. You're not finishing what Jesus started, because what he did was a

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finished work. You can't add or take away from what Jesus did. What we are doing

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as sons of God is we are saying yes to the invitation to live a life rested in

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his finished work, and we're living it out in every season and in every

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circumstance that we face. And we're doing this by choosing what he said, not

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necessarily what we see. But when we choose what he said, we do see something.

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We see things differently. We see them accurately. We see who Jesus is. We see

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who God is, and we see who we are becoming in him. Now Paul prayed a very

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special prayer for the Ephesians in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 18, and I want

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to pray this over you today. He prayed for new eyes for them. He says,

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I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may

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know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious

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inheritance and his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who

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believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he

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raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly

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realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that

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is evoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to

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come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over

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everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills

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everything in every way. You are full of Jesus today, and my prayer for you today

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is that as you choose what he said, you will see this truth clearly.