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Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by becoming fully convinced that we are fully loved.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.

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Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind you that God is

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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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In John chapter 15, verse 9, Jesus says,

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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

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Now abide in my love.

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This week as a posture community, we have been talking a lot about the new us, how the

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finished work on the cross means we died, okay?

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We are dead to sin, and we were raised with Christ with a new nature, alive to God.

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And so we've been exploring this new nature, this identity of Christ, and all of the implications

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of what that means for us today.

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You know, Jesus gave the Godhead their dream back, which was a perfect relationship with

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you.

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Through the finished work of the cross, Father God put us into Christ and Christ in us so

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that he could love us the same way he loves Jesus.

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Let that sink in for a moment because that is huge.

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You are loved exactly how Jesus is loved.

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Romans chapter 8, verse 1 says,

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There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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You know, the enemy, Satan, wants us to live fully condemned.

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But Father God wants us to live fully convinced.

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Convinced of what?

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That we are completely, unconditionally, radically loved by him the same way he loves Jesus.

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Skipping down in chapter 8, we hit verse 31, and it says,

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What then shall we say to these things?

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If God is for us, who can be against us?

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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with

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him graciously give us all things?

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Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?

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It is God who justifies.

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Who is to condemn?

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Christ Jesus is the one who died.

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More than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God.

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Who indeed is interceding for us.

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By the way, did you know that Jesus is on your prayer team?

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That's pretty cool.

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Verse 35 says,

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

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Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword

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or a global pandemic?

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That's not in there, but it's kind of implied.

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Verse 37.

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It says,

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No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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And then in verse 38, Paul writes,

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For I am sure, or in other words, I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor

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things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in

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all creation.

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Just in case you think of something later, anything else in all of creation will be able

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to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

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By the way, back to Jesus interceding for us.

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Did you know that Jesus is praying for you?

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Do you ever wonder what Jesus is praying for you right now?

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I know what he was praying for us in John 17 when he was talking to the father.

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He says in John 17, verse 20, it says,

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I do not ask for these things only, but also for those who will believe in me through their

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word that they may all be one, just as you, father, are in me and I in you, that they

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may also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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This is radical.

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Listen to this.

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The glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we

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are one, I in them, you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may

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know that you sent me.

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loved them, even as you loved me."

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Friend, this is who you are.

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Not because of anything you have done,

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but because who Jesus is for you.

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Today, when the enemy comes and tries to condemn you,

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shut him down with your confession of who Jesus is

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and your full conviction of how much you are loved by God.

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This is the new you.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26, 3.

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And in Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom,

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meaning complete wholeness.

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Nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus.

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Let's declare this together.

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Today, I am kept in perfect peace.

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With my whole heart, I trust the Lord.

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I am strong, I am victorious, I am whole.

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Remember, friend, you are a living testimony

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of Jesus' ultimate win.

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Not because of anything you did,

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but because of what he did for you.

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With every step you take today,

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you're putting Jesus' victory on display

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and Satan's defeat on replay.