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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by becoming fully aware of our real lives in Christ.

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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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Okay so I'm really excited today because I'm going to be starting this episode by

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reading a chunk of scripture and of like always it's just pure treasure so I would just encourage

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you if you're able sit back relax close your eyes if you're able don't please close your

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eyes if you're driving and listening to this but just relax and soak in this treasure of

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scripture as I read Romans chapter 6 1 through 11 over you. What shall we say then? Are we to

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continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means. How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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Do you not know or are you not aware of the fact the truth that all of us who have been

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baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him

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by baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the

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father we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in death

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in a death like his we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

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We know we are aware of this that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body

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of sin might be brought to nothing so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin for one who

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has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ we believe we will also

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live with him. We know we are aware that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again.

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Death no longer has dominion over him for the death he died he died to sin once for all

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but the life he lives he lives to God. So you yes you must also consider yourselves

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dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. I told you it was treasure. I could leave it

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right there I should just end the episode right now. We've been talking this week about awareness

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tuning in to that real life that we have in Christ and according to scripture there is a you

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who died your old self your sinful nature was crucified with Christ and there is a you who is

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now alive to God in Christ. You are a new creation who has been raised with Christ.

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This is who you are. So the question that I would love for you to consider today is are you aware

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of who you are or are you only aware of who you used to be? Because dead is dead and God's

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intention for you is to turn your back and forget that old dead you and walk only in newness of life

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the newness of life that Romans 6 4 talks about. So when a thought comes today ask which self is

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talking? Does this thought sound like it came from my new self the new creation I am in Christ

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my real life the alive me or is this thought from my old dead self? If it's from the new you the new

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creation you are in Christ it will resonate with hope and goodness and joy and peace and a

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confidence in who God is for you. The old self always sounds negative and doubtful and fearful

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and uncertain and full of shame. Not every thought you have today has equal value. Some thoughts you

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might have today have no value at all the old you has nothing of value to say so don't give it any

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mind space today. Because new is well new you know we can be tempted to continue to go back and forth

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to that old self those old past

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patterns and those old mindsets, not because they have value, but just because they are

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familiar.

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It's just what we know.

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It's just what we've been aware of.

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But this back and forth, this going between old self-thoughts and new self-thoughts, that

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makes us double-minded, which James tells us makes us unstable in all of our ways because

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it keeps us at war within ourselves.

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So if you're struggling with that, no problem.

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It's just time to form some new habits and embrace your new normal.

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And you do that not by trying to kill what is already dead, because it's dead.

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It can't be more dead than it already is.

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You form those new habits by becoming fully aware of Christ in you.

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So moving forward in your day-to-day and in the coming days ahead, be focused only

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on exploring the new, true, real you in Jesus.

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Give your life in Christ your full awareness.

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Do not try to resurrect what Jesus buried just so you can try to die to self.

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Because if you could die to self by yourself, by your own efforts, Jesus would not have

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had to come.

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But he had to come.

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Because it was only Jesus who could kill your old, dead self once for all.

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The old you is dead, so don't give it another thought.

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Those familiar ways of thinking and seeing and speaking, they will all be replaced, not

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as you dwell on them, but as you keep moving forward in the newness of life by remaining

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fully aware of the life of Christ in you.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3.

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In Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus, because of Jesus.

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You are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.

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With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat

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on replay.