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Today, we're going to take on a posture of peace by resting in the unchanging nature of God.

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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. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 8 says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and

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forever. Circumstances change, people change, seasons change. Basically, everything in our

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lives changes, but Jesus does not change. And as we continue refining our focus this week on

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the new us, our new nature in Christ, it is so important that we become completely convinced

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of Jesus's nature, of who Jesus is, because who he is is who we are now.

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First John chapter 4 verses 15 through 17 says whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God,

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God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us.

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God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected

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among us in this, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is,

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so are we in this world. Remember Colossians 3 says for you have died and your life is hidden

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with Christ and God. This is not a once we get to heaven kind of promise. This is for today.

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And Jesus isn't changing his mind about you. He is fully convinced about what he did on the cross,

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about how you and him were raised together, about how he sees you now. He is fully convinced about

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how he feels about you, and he is never going back on his intention, his primary purpose of

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making you like him. Genesis 1 26 says let us make man in our image. That was the plan all along.

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And now because of Jesus we have his righteousness, his peace, his joy, his spirit, his power, his

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victory, and all of his glorious characteristics. And you know what? This also means that you and I

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can be as unchanging as him. Not tossed around by the circumstances in our lives, or the suffering

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we face, or other people's opinion about us, or even sin. We can always be at peace and at rest

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like Jesus. But we will only become like Jesus if we first have an unchanging belief about his

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nature. You know we live in a world where things are constantly changing and position is gained by

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performance. You know we earn so then we can gain. But the kingdom of God is opposite to the world.

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You and I have already been given a position in Christ. The Bible says he is in us and we are in

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him. And it's his presence in our life that never leaves or forsakes us. It's his presence that

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empowers us to perform, to walk in every single promise. There was no ritual or work that could

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save you in the first place. So there is no work now that can empower you to become like Christ.

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There is only Christ. His finished work on the cross. So today the wrong question to ask is,

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what must I do to become more like Christ? Because of what Christ already did on the cross,

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the question we should ask ourselves today is, what must we believe and keep believing in order

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to walk in the fullness of Christ? The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. And in

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

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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,

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you are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win.

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because of anything you did, but because of what he did for you.

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With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display

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and Satan's defeat on replay.