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Today we're going to take on a posture of peace by thinking like a new creation.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind

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you that God is in everything. Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture

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of perfect peace. Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 says,

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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the new

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is here. This week as a posture community, we are leaning further into our awareness of the new us,

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our identity in Christ. And like I mentioned in episode 41, we will never outgrow this truth,

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no matter how long you have walked with God, whether it's two hours or 54 years, you will

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always be growing in your revelation of the new you. Ultimately, at the end of this week,

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I want us all to be believing what God believes about us, because if we did, we would never

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struggle with sin again. The Bible says several times over, you and I have died, our sinful nature

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was crucified with Christ, and we were resurrected with Christ with a new nature. Christ didn't just

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die for you, he died as you. Isaiah 53 lays it out so clearly, Jesus took on all of the punishment

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that we deserve, and not only that, he gave us his glorious identity so that we could carry

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his righteousness, his peace, and his joy from now on. Every form of sin and all of its residue

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as well, things like anxiety and panic and fear, self-hatred, despair, all the things that make

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life punishing, don't have any right to be in our lives anymore. Now, I don't know about you,

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but for me, I feel like I've spent most of my Christian life wanting to believe this,

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wanting to have faith in my new nature, yet still trusting more in my old nature. Why is that? How

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can we be new, yet still feel like we're constantly fighting off the old? It's because we have a

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memory, and for most of us, we're still thinking like a dead person. While we have stepped into our

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new nature through faith in Jesus Christ, we still have attachment to some old sin habits. You know,

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sin is a memory, it's a habit that we developed in our old nature when we were lost and without

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hope, and our accuser, Satan, tries desperately to keep us remembering what it was like to not be

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in a covenant relationship with God so that we live as if the memory of sin is still our current

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reality. Romans 12 says, do not be conformed to the pattern or the habits of this world,

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but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve

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what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will. So if you find yourself carrying

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your old nature habits into your new life today, it's time to think differently. It's time to

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unlearn what your old sinful nature taught you. You need to make some new memories as the new you,

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leaving behind what has been dead and buried, and taking on the mind of Christ so that you believe

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what he believes about you. You know, God is not dealing with our sin anymore,

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because Jesus already completely dealt with it through the cross. So God is only focused on

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leading our new selves into living every aspect of the fullness of Christ. Think about this,

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every circumstance you face is an opportunity for you to realize even more who Jesus is and who you

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are in him. So today, no matter what you're facing, remember this, you are new. You're a champion.

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You're an overcomer. You are more than a conqueror through him who loves you. And you have

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peace with God because you are now one with Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace himself.

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peace is found in Isaiah 26 3 and in Hebrew it is shalom shalom meaning

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complete wholeness nothing missing nothing broken this is who you are in

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Jesus let's declare this together today I am kept in perfect peace with my whole

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heart I trust the Lord I am strong I am victorious I am whole remember friend

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you are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win not because of anything you

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did but because of what he did for you with every step you take today you're

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putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay