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Today we're going to take on a posture of peace by considering all the implications of what it

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means for you and I to be one with the Prince of Peace himself. Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.

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Posture is a podcast that serves a short audible fist bump to remind you that God is 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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Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 through 3 says this,

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If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is,

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seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things that are above,

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not on the things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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At the time that this episode is released, we will all have just finished celebrating

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Holy Week together as a global church where we celebrated the amazing, powerful, miraculous,

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life-changing, earth-shaking resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Together we have all focused our attention on the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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And so today, the day after Easter Sunday, I want to ask you a question.

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Did you also focus on your death and resurrection too?

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Because you also died and a new you was raised with Christ.

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You know, if we only focus on the fact that Christ died and was raised again without

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considering all the implications of what that means for our lives now, we'll have missed the point.

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Romans 6 11 says, consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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You know, this is not a basic message or a milk message or a beginner's message for anyone who's

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just been saved. No, your identity in Christ is the message of your life. None of us will

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ever move beyond it. We will mature and we will grow. And so will our understanding of our identity

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in Christ. We will gain a deeper revelation. But I guarantee you 60 years from now, I will still

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be focusing on this amazing truth. I'm dead to sin and alive to Christ. Otherwise,

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I'm going to be tempted to spend my whole life just trying to prop up my old dead self and waste

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so much time trying to fix myself instead of embracing the new me who has been made one

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with Christ. Think about the implications of you being one with the Prince of Peace himself.

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Like, what does that mean for you today? What does that mean for you in the midst of this pandemic?

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So this week as a posture community, we're going to focus on the new us, what it means to be dead

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to sin and alive in Christ, because now is the perfect time to learn your identity in Christ as

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a reality, not a concept. You know, when God looks at you, he sees Jesus. The question I want us to ask

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ourselves today is, do we actually believe what God believes about us? He's not double-minded

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about what took place on the cross. He's not moving between our old self and our new self. He is

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totally focused on the new us, and so should we. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah

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26 3, and in Hebrew it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus. Let's declare this together. Today I am kept in perfect peace

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with my whole heart. I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole. Remember, friend, you

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are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win, not because of anything you did, but because of what

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he did for you. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and

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Satan's defeat on replay.