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Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by exploring the kind of life

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that being completely loved launches us into.

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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 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 Romans chapter 6, verses 6 through 11, it says,

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Now, if we have died with Christ,

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we believe that we will also live with him.

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We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again.

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Death no longer has dominion over him, for the death he died, he died to sin once for all.

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But the life he lives, he lives to God.

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So, you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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There is only one you.

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The you who is alive to God and dead to sin.

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Jesus did this.

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He didn't just die for you, he died as you.

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And it was a finished work, done in complete love.

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There is nothing that you can do to finish his finished work.

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So, we're not living lives performing to get a relationship with God.

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We're not working to earn his love or his approval because we already have it all.

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Because of the work of Jesus.

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Okay, so what are we doing?

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Because if Jesus did all the work, then what is our work?

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Doesn't James 2 say,

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When you become aware that you are completely loved,

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fully alive to God, and totally dead to sin, you live differently.

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You're no longer wasting time wrestling with condemnation and shame,

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staying small and stuck in sin or under the weight of accusation.

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You're not striving to get a better position with God

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because you know you are placed securely in Christ.

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The power of sin has been brought to nothing in your life.

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It has been broken over you.

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So, the question to ask now is,

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Who am I free to be?

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What kind of living has this complete love launched me into?

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Everything in God is a gift.

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We don't earn gifts, we receive them, right?

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So, I can't earn freedom, I receive it.

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I can't earn peace, I receive it.

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I can't earn salvation, I receive it.

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I can't earn joy, I receive it.

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I can't earn righteousness, I receive it.

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The gift is God and all he is in you.

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1 Corinthians 2.12 says,

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We have not received the spirit of the world,

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but the spirit who is from God,

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so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

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So now, I'm free to live in peace and joy.

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I'm free to have a high capacity and unshakable confidence

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in the work that I put my hands to

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because it's all founded in my being completely loved

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and fully accepted by God.

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I'm free to receive innovations from heaven.

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You know, my spirit of excellence is not driven by

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Facebook likes or perfectionism or somebody else's approval.

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No, instead it's driven by my partnership with the Holy Spirit.

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And let me tell you, when you accept

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how completely God accepts you and loves you and approves of you,

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people will matter, but it won't matter what they think.

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My performance, my work, my productivity

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is not birthed in striving to win God's approval or affirmation.

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Instead, it's all simply my relational response to who God is for me.

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You can't keep from living this way

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when you're so focused on receiving all of his good and perfect gifts.

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This life is exciting because let me tell you,

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there is ground to take in every sphere of influence in this world.

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There are movements to be led.

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There are people to serve.

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But we will burn ourselves out doing those things

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if we think

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I think those are the kind of things that make God love us.

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God is permanently passionate about you.

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There is no coming and going of his love or presence.

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He is in you to stay.

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So today, fill up on your awareness of how full his love already is for you.

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If you find yourself contending with condemnation today or struggling with sin, read Romans

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6 and receive the truth.

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There is newness of life for you to walk in today.

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You have been totally set free.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.

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And in Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, 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.

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I am victorious.

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I am whole.

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Remember, friend, you are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.

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Not 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 and Satan's defeat

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on replay.