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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by receiving and I mean by fully embracing

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the identity of love. Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you

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

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Okay, before we dive into today's episode, I want to give a quick family announcement,

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and I'm sharing this here just in case you're not on my email list and you may have missed

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the announcement that went out yesterday. So March is birth month for baby girl Van Zyl.

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It's hard to believe she's going to be here in four-ish weeks. And as I prepare for maternity

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leave, Posture is going to be moving to one weekly episode starting Monday, March 1st.

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So starting next week, new episodes will be released every Monday. And coming soon,

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you are going to get to meet some awesome Kingdom Messengers who I've invited to guest

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host some future Posture episodes. Now I want to tell you I have been personally emboldened

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by these Kingdom Messengers and their incredible messages, and I cannot wait to introduce them to

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you. So only exciting things ahead for us. By the way, the best way to stay in touch with me,

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to be the first to know about updates like these, Posture news, upcoming Kingdom Messenger

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workshops that we are wanting to run in the summer, all you have to do is go to posture.today

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to join my email list. Super simple, super easy, and that's the best way to kind of be the first

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to know about these types of announcements. Okay, so let's dive into today's episode. So we have been

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talking about love for a long time now, and here's the thing about love. Because again, we can become

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so familiar with the world's imperfect demonstrations and definitions of love, and I think

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that sometimes we can become jaded and cynical, maybe tempted at times to think that love is

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fragile or weak, not really practical, doesn't really get results. Maybe you think that I'm

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proposing that we live a life of passivity towards the hard issues in this world,

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but we have to remember this. God is love, and God is none of those things. He's not fragile,

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he's not weak, he's not passive. The Bible says God is all-powerful. So I want to encourage you

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to never become cynical about the power of love. The call to live in love is not a call for

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peacekeeping, it's a call for peacemaking. Jesus is our peacemaker. Because of Jesus, we have peace

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with God, the Bible says, and we have a kingdom identity that is rooted in love that empowers us

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to walk in peace and be peacemakers in this world. Now, I want to take you to a moment in scripture

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where I just think it illustrates so profoundly what an identity of love looks like. So in John

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13, chapter 3, it says, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,

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and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer

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garments and taking a towel, tied it around his waist, and he began to wash the disciples' feet

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and to wipe them from the towel that was wrapped around him. When Jesus, fully knowing who he was,

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the power and the fullness of his kingdom identity, what did he do with that realization?

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He didn't burn with rage. He didn't become passive. He didn't exalt himself or demand

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that he be seen or served. He washed feet, a servant's task. This, by the way, happened

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on the night that Jesus would be betrayed, denied, and led to the cross. On that night,

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Jesus says, still in chapter 13, in verses 34 and 35, he tells his disciples,

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a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another just as I have loved you.

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You also are to love one another. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples,

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if you have love for one another. He knew he would be betrayed by Judas,

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a friend and a follower. He knew Peter was going to deny him, not once, not twice, but three times.

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He knew he was going to be unjustly murdered.

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He knew who he was in the kingdom of God, and what does he do?

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He washes feet, he serves communion, and he gives of himself.

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He says, love one another just as much as I have loved you.

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And he knew that by giving us himself, we would receive an identity where we would be

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empowered to do what he said.

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Now remember 1 John 4, I know we spent a lot of time there, 1 John 4 it says, in verse

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16, so we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

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God is love, and whoever abides, lives in love, abides in God, and God abides in him.

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By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment,

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because as he is, so are we in this world.

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This is such good news, this is freeing news, because this isn't a standard that we must

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strive to achieve, this is an identity that we have been given to freely receive.

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This is who you are, full of love himself.

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So no matter what comes across your day, your weekend, your month, your year, I want you

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to remember, you are empowered to live in radical love.