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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by being put in our place.

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Have you ever been put in your place by someone humiliated, criticized, rebuked?

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This is a very unconventional recording of posture by the way. If you can't tell it's

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just a late night here in my office and I'm here on my phone but I had to get on here and just

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just share a little bit with you guys. You know, I've been online a lot the last two years as I've

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run posture and you know when you're online a lot you get some criticism. I'm sure you know this

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even if you're just on here scrolling around and posting recipes like someone has something to say

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like there's too much sugar in that recipe it's not gluten-free. I don't know it just seems like

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it's the normal expectation that you're going to get criticized. You're going to get criticism.

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Someone has something to say about what you have to say right and usually there's some negative

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somethings in there and the comments that you receive and the direct messages that you might

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get here online and maybe that's what it's like for you in real life but the point is is it's

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become so normal that I think that if we're not careful we can project that type of relationship

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on God. We can think you know God's just up there ready to put me in my place when I screw up,

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ready to call me out when I make a mistake and what happens when we think that's how the father

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you know relates to us is we don't want to screw up right. We don't want to let him down. We

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definitely don't want to be put in our place by him and so it keeps us from doing anything of

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significance. We don't want to try because we don't want to fail and so we live small lives

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in tight places. We feel often displaced out of place not really sure what to do with the place

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and space that we're in and I just want to read some truth over you today if you're feeling that

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way. Galatians chapter 2 verse 20. This is what keeps me online guys. This is what keeps me coming

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on here. This truth says I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ

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who lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved

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me and gave himself up for me. Yes God is very eager to put you in your place and that place

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is in him through Christ. You are one with the father. You are in Jesus and Jesus is in you and

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that's a great place to be. That's a very freeing place to be. It's a full and abundant place to be.

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God is not up there waiting for you to screw it up so he can call you out when you get something

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incorrect. He is eager to call you up into your place as a son, as a daughter of the most high

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God. That is your true identity. That is your reality today right now no matter what space

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you find yourself in. I'm actually going to be talking more about this this week with my mentor

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Graham Cook. We're going to be running an online study. It's going to be live. It's starting on

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Wednesday and we are talking all about our primary place of engagement with God. What does

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this oneness with God look like? What does it mean for us in in this circumstance that we find

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ourselves in or in this year of 2021 that we find ourselves in with all that's going on in our world?

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So we're going to talk about that. If you're interested in joining that conversation you can

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I'll leave a link below you can click on that and find out all the details to register but I just

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want to encourage you today. You have a place and it's not a place of humiliation. It's not a place

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of criticism. It's not a place of punishment. This is the gospel. Christ died as you and you

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were raised as him. That is the life that you are living today.