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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by being dead to sin and alive to God.

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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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While it is a rainy Thursday night here in Georgia, yes, I am literally recording today's

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episode the night before.

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It's super casual here, I'm literally in sweats and yoga pants right now.

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You know, we started this week in episode 107, reading a chunk of scripture from Romans

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6.

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Romans 6, 3-11.

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And I just want to encourage you, read Romans 6, 3-11 today.

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It will set you free.

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So the reason I'm recording the night before, super casual, kind of last minute, is because

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Graham Cook and I are currently hosting this challenge on Facebook and today, Thursday,

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we talked about Romans 6 and specifically the ultimate permission given in verse 11.

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And I'm going to read that to you right now.

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It says in verse 11, so you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in

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Christ Jesus.

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And what Graham shared about that scripture was just too good not to share.

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So here's the clip from today.

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I love Romans 6-11.

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I quote it to myself all the time, you know, that God is just giving us permission to consider

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ourselves to be dead and then to learn the practice of being alive in Him.

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Because I think the thing is, if you still feel like, I've got all these problems and

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issues and so on, then you can't consider yourself to be dead.

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So it's hard to practice being alive because you're classically double-minded.

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So I've got this, so I can't be that.

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And I've got this going on, so God's going to be annoyed with me.

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And you're not going anywhere.

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You're just like going around in circles.

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But God is quite clear.

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He's saying, no, there is an end point here, which we accomplished for you on the cross.

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So you can consider yourself to be dead right now, even before we do anything.

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And what we're going to teach you is how to be alive to us.

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It's like the ultimate permission, you know, let's start here with God.

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He never starts at your beginning.

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He starts at His.

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So what you think is, that's the outcome I want to achieve.

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He just says, great, why don't we start with the outcome and just go on from there?

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Because everything between here and the outcome has already been resolved in Jesus, by Jesus.

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So let's start with the outcome.

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I want to be a new person.

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Let's start there.

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Let's start teaching you how to see new, think new, speak new.

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And let's just start to teach you that there's no struggle.

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There's no stress.

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There's no strain, because all that belongs to the old person.

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You're a new one.

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So you can just be like us right from the start.

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And that is like the most phenomenal thing about salvation.

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You know, we get saved once, but we get redeemed every day, you know, because we're walking

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with the Redeemer now.

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He lives in us.

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So every situation we're in is always about, well, let's redeem that.

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We don't need to think that, because this is a better thought.

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So if you take this thought that we're giving you, it will redeem that old thought.

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And I love that the process of redemption is just so unshakable in God's mind and heart.

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This is what we're doing.

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So we get to start with the outcome and process that.

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You know, we don't have to process from what we're not.

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We process from how He sees us.

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And I think that's beautiful.

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Isn't that amazing?

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We are being redeemed every day.

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You know, when we think about being with God, probably most of us have a history of coming

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to Him just as we are, with all of our issues and problems and dire circumstances.

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And often in that mode, we're too weighed down and overwhelmed by the burdens of life

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to see the truth.

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But think about this.

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God comes to us just as He is, unchanging in His true nature, with His perspectives,

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how He sees things, what He loves about us, and His purpose for today.

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Remember, God's primary purpose, Genesis 126, making us into His image and likeness.

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We share in God's nature.

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You come to God as He is, not as the old you.

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Being alive to God is about you connecting with Him and allowing His beauty and His nature

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to open up.

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overwhelm you with goodness and kindness and love and patience and gentleness.

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It's so good and freeing and peaceful to relax in Him and let His love wash away all the

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negatives, all the stress, and all the weariness that comes when we try to be someone for God

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rather than letting Him be someone 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.