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Today we are going to take a posture of peace with our new view.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you 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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Second Corinthians chapter 5 verses 15 through 17 says,

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And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him

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who died for them and was raised again.

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So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.

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Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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

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is here.

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I was stopped in my tracks as I re-read this portion of scripture this week, specifically

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verse 16 where it says,

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From now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.

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No one, including ourselves.

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Any label, any definition that we have for ourselves outside of Christ, no longer relevant.

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It's not who we are.

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We have a new reality, a new view.

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And I want to talk about this new view today.

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By the way, I really enjoyed reading through your comments on last week's episode.

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I asked for you to share how you were letting your identity in Christ, what's true about

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you, challenge your circumstances.

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Instead of the other way around, which is to let your circumstances challenge your identity.

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Instead of allowing what's happening to you or happening around you make you question

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who you are in Christ, your union with him.

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Letting that union put into question the circumstances.

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So I'm just going to read two of the comments.

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Cindy on Instagram said,

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I'm going to replace my insecurities with his perfect love.

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I love that exchange, by the way.

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And she said, I'm going to become secure in God's love for me and in me.

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And then Susie on YouTube said,

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I'm practicing not feeling defensive in an uncomfortable conversation.

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I'm practicing sitting back, knowing Jesus is in me and loves me and asking him for his

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thoughts and feelings and words.

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I love that.

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You know, I used to get so stuck in my difficult, hard, negative circumstances because I always

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wanted to know why.

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Why is this happening to me?

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And in trying to pursue an answer to that question, I would get so tangled up in the

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facts of the circumstance instead of engaging with the truth, engaging with Jesus and who

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I am in him.

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The better question and the one that got me unstuck is who am I while this is happening

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to me?

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How does the nature, the authority, the power of Jesus manifest in me and through me in

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this circumstance or in this place I find myself in or in this moment of history that

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I'm living in?

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And what's so cool is you're not left alone to try to figure out the answer to that question

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all by yourself, because we are in relationship with the three father, son, and Holy Spirit.

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So there's always some exciting conversation and discovery to be had in that relationship.

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His primary purpose found in Genesis 1 26 is to make us in his image and likeness.

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Now when Jesus came to earth to take on our likeness as a human, he proved that even though

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he had difficult circumstances, they did not have him.

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He was never bound up by negative circumstances.

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He was never defined by them and he was never, ever limited by them.

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And this is such good news because about what we talked about last week, the Bible says

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when you choose Jesus as Lord, what is true about Jesus becomes true about you.

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When you read the Bible, it's hard to miss this truth.

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Paul speaks about our oneness in Christ several times over in his letters, like in here in

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2 Corinthians that I just read.

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Also in Colossians, you know I love Colossians where he writes in chapter 1 verse 27, Christ

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in you, the hope of glory.

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Colossians 3 verses 1 through 3, you have been raised with Christ.

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Set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

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Set your mind on things above.

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on earthly things, not that worldly point of view, for you died and your life is now

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hidden with Christ in God.

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Where Jesus is, you already are, and where you are, he is.

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You do not have to be bound up by, defined by, or limited by your circumstances.

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Nothing is keeping you from Christ.

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You are in Christ in every circumstance.

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His death, his resurrection, it was not about giving you a ticket to heaven so that you

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could one day live with him after surviving this obstacle course we call life and striving

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through hellish circumstances here on earth, no.

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It was about giving you himself so that you could live one with him now, and it could

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be on earth as it is in heaven.

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First John 417, one of my favorite scriptures, as he is, so are you in this world.

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If it's true about Jesus, it's true about you.

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So what happened when Jesus experienced circumstances of life that we all face?

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Because he definitely didn't dodge them, he didn't bypass them, he experienced temptations

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and loss and grief, weariness, betrayal.

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He came face to face with sickness and conflict and perversion, religious manipulation, political

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tyranny, all of it.

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And never once did he let any of those circumstances, what was happening around him or happening

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to him, change his mind about what was true about him, his identity.

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In fact, the truth about him changed the circumstances.

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This is the life that we now live.

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Galatians 2.20 Paul writes, it's no longer I who live, but Christ in me.

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We are new creations in Christ.

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In verse 18 of 2 Corinthians 5 says, all of this is from God, who reconciled us to himself

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through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, that God was reconciling the

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world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them.

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And he was committed to the message of reconciliation.

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We are therefore Christ ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

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We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

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God made in him, Jesus, who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him, Jesus, we might

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become the righteousness of God.

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It's all from God.

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In fact, this, the words for reconciliation, reconcile here in scripture, the Greek there,

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the original meaning, it means exchange.

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It's an exchange that's already taken place because all of this is from God.

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It happened through Christ's death and resurrection.

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You don't have to see yourself from a mere worldly point of view anymore.

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You've been given a new view, a new identity.

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And when you practice walking in this identity as a new creation, you're being who you've

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already become because of who Christ already is in you.

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Jesus said in John 14, he said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father.

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Jesus's oneness with the Father, that was that ministry and message that was constantly

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flowing from his life.

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Now here's a new view for you.

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The ministry and message of reconciliation flowing from your life today is this.

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If you've seen me, you've seen Jesus.

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If you've seen me, you've seen Jesus.