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Hey hey hey beautiful family, hope you are doing great.

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I am pumped for our adventure tonight as we jump in, jump in deep into our Q&A session.

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So I just want to say massive love to you all.

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Very very exciting night tonight to have a Q&A, really pumped for that.

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Good to see that people are here and lined up and ready and excited for a great night.

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I definitely am.

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Ords, great to have Ords there.

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Just going to shout out if you are in there, say hello.

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Claire, great to see you.

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Just do a little thumbs up or a hello, that way I can see who is actually with us.

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Hi Claire, good to have you with us.

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Great to be here tonight, I am just a wee bit excited.

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Hi Ruby, I think we are going to have a phenomenal night.

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Let me, don't want to overheat here, I'll just turn this down.

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Oh Hagen, how you doing?

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Joe, great stuff guys, really good to have you all here.

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We are in for a great night.

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I'm just going to adjust this fella a tad, oh there we go.

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Tracy, good to see you.

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Dean, my man, great to have you.

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Monica, hello, hello, good to see you.

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So just do a thumbs up if you are here or a hello.

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Say hi to the other guys in the group as well.

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Very cool to all be here tonight and we are going to have a great time, which is awesome.

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We have got some, I think we have got a couple of real ripper questions coming already.

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Wilson, my man from India, Neil, great to have you, kia ora, kia ora, Neil, yep, very

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cool to have Neil with us and Wilson is one of our team based in India, who is just doing

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a great job over there, so lots of love to you Wilson, my man.

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We have seen a couple of good questions online, but why don't we just, well to start with

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let me tell you that if you ask a great question tonight, you will definitely get a great reward.

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So if you ask a great question tonight or any question will be considered a great question.

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I don't know if we will be able to get to all of them, we will see how we go, but if

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you have got a question, why don't you start firing those into the comments now, questions

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that you would like to explore.

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Now if actually, yeah, so just fire those down into the comments, I will see how we

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go on, I think if I can just, yeah, there we go, yep, I have got a little system here

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so I will be able to see all the comments coming, so chuck in the comments if you have

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got a question, otherwise there is a couple that have already been asked, so we can get

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into those, but if you do ask a question tonight, then I will definitely send you a, oh did

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Jesus sin, now there is a good question, what a ripper of a question, Hagen.

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So if you do have a question and you put it in there like Hagen has just done, also Hagen

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put your email address in there and I will shoot you a copy of my new book that is coming

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out, I will just send you a PDF of it, it is going to be in stores and things like that

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next month, so I am excited about that to be available all over the world, Amazon, Barnes

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and Noble, iTunes, all those good places.

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How can you move in the glory, Joe Dalton, oh my gosh, crikey, good stuff there Joe.

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What else have we got coming out there, I saw a really brilliant one, now I think that

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the one that I am thinking of earlier as well came from Greer, so anyone else got any other

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questions there, thank you Hagen for chucking your email address in there, I will shoot

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that to you later on, later tonight, we will get that to you.

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Anyone else got any questions, especially, I mean specifically what we want to get into

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tonight is questions relating to the teaching, questions relating to some of those big statements

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that I have made that Jesus came to reveal the Father, not change the Father, the cross

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didn't change God, the cross was never supposed to change God, the cross was about changing

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humanity, oh Neil, why does the Bible mention God was hating Esau and loving Jacob, oh wow,

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that is a ripper Neil, I love that question, that is very beautiful, so Neil's question

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is why does the Bible mention that God hated Esau but loved Jacob, wow, that's a good one.

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Good one, good stuff, yep.

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Now I really do want to try and narrow these questions in,

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so I'm gonna prioritize questions

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that are specifically connected

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with the training that we've done, okay?

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So if you ask a question that is not directly in line

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with the training that we've been covering,

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I may not answer that, okay?

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Because I'm gonna prioritize the questions that are coming

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that are in line with the training that we've had.

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Now Claire, I know I saw you were there.

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Claire, why don't you ask your question again?

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Will, great to have you there.

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Monica, how come so much of Christianity missed Sonship?

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Oh wow, that is a ripper, Monica.

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That's a ripper of a question.

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And actually that question has got a,

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that's a really loaded question.

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In the full 12-week school,

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I'm actually going to do an overview

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of the last 2,000 years of church,

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like Christian theology, and the who, the what,

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the where, the why, the when, and the how

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of how we actually got our mainstream gospel today,

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the main theological characters,

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the main theological conversations,

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and the main theological moments

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that actually shaped the gospel that we have today.

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So great question.

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I am going to, I'm gonna jump in.

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Feel free to keep firing those questions on

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as they, as you have them, as they come up.

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I am going to jump now to one of the questions

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that came earlier today.

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So let me just find this.

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Now Claire, Claire, I'd also love you

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to put your question down again in the comments

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because it was quite a long live

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and there was a couple of different things,

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so I'd love you to put your favorite one down.

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Your question's a bit vague, but what next?

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How do we press deeper into the Father?

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Okay, that's good stuff.

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And now the other question that we had come up

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that's right on point with where we were going.

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So some of these are great, great questions as well.

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We will keep an eye on that

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and work towards answering as many questions as we can,

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but especially questions that are specifically relevant

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to the training.

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So the question that we had,

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one of the questions that we had today is,

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was about what I said.

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I said that the cross,

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the focus of the cross is not forgiveness.

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The focus of the cross is freedom.

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How to answer cults regarding Father, Son,

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hang on, let me just check this question out.

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We've got some good questions coming out now.

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So righto, I'm gonna come back.

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I'm gonna come back to some of these questions as we go.

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We'll see how we get time,

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but I'm gonna launch in now with this great question

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that came out today.

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This great question.

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So I made this statement, Michael Cooper.

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Welcome my buddy, Michael.

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Great to have you here, brother Michael,

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and pumped to be seeing you soon for your 30th birthday.

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So great questions, everyone.

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Here's the question that we're gonna get into

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is I made the statement that the cross,

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the focus of the cross

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was not about accomplishing forgiveness.

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The focus of the cross was about accomplishing freedom.

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So I'm gonna explore that,

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especially in the context of Jesus.

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Just before he goes to the cross,

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I believe it's Matthew 26, 28.

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He says, this is my blood poured out

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for the forgiveness of sin.

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Hey Will, good to see you, man.

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This is my blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins

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that yet here I am making this bold claim

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that the focus of the cross

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was not to get people forgiven,

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but the focus of the cross was to get people set free.

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and let's explore a little bit of Christian's thoughts.

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Hi Margaret, good to see you.

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Let's just explore a little bit

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of how Christians view this whole concept.

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Let me make a statement.

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When Christians say, are you ready?

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Brace yourself.

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But when Christians say, Jesus paid the price

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for the forgiveness of my sins,

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we sound either simple or we sound brainwashed.

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Yes, yeah, no, that's right, we do.

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Actually, to people who are on the outside

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of our little group, if Christians say,

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Jesus paid the price for the forgiveness of my sins,

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we either sound simple or we sound brainwashed.

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I'm gonna make another statement on top of that.

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Jesus did not pay a price on the cross

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for you to be forgiven, okay?

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Jesus didn't pay a price for you to be forgiven,

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but Jesus.

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definitely paid a price for you to be free. Now there's a major distinction between those things.

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Yes, it is a little bit funny, Will, but I believed that for so long. I said that for so long. I don't

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know how many times I've said this before, but countless times I used to say, yeah, Jesus paid

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the price for the forgiveness of our sins or the forgiveness of my sins. Let's just look at that

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word forgiveness. First of all, the word forgiveness, now if, see there Michael, thanks for that comment

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mate. Let's just pick on Mike. Let's use Mike as an example. Say, for example, I go to Mike's house

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and I steal something from Michael and, you know, like, oh crikey there, I've done something wrong.

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So now Michael has the choice to decide whether or not he's going to forgive me. Say I stole his

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chocolate and I ate all his chocolate and I loved it and then Mike's like, oh my gosh, but then

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Michael decides to forgive me. He says, you know what Benji, I forgive you for doing that.

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He doesn't afterwards, because Michael understands what forgiveness means, he doesn't

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then afterwards come and say, hey, I know I forgave you for that chocolate, but can you

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please pay for it? No, because the meaning of the word forgiveness is always related to debt

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cancellation, okay. So we don't pay, no one pays a price to be forgiven. If you go into a store

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and you grab something and then someone else says, oh look, that guy's taken something and

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then they come in and they pay the price for it, you know, then that debt is, it's a paid

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debt versus, you know, so that someone's paid your tab versus if someone forgives my tab then there's

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no tab to pay, right. If the store owner forgives me, if he forgives that tab, then he actually

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cancels the debt as opposed to that debt being paid for. So I'm definitely saying, 100% adamantly

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saying that Jesus did not pay a price for us to be forgiven from sin, but Jesus definitely paid a

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price for us to be liberated, to be completely set free from sin. In fact, in John 8, 12 Jesus said,

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I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, and that's talking

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about a sinless life. Now Monica's got a question, was the sin to do with the wrong identity and

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Jesus came to reveal the union of the trinity? Yes, absolutely Monica, that's great, and there's

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depth to that question as well, so much depth to all of these questions. So right, let's look at how,

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let's look at this, even this statement that Jesus made in Matthew 28, 26, I think,

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this is my blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins. Now this is actually an amazing statement

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and the the word there for forgiveness is the Greek word, a thesis. They say a thesis, I don't

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know where you are in your world, say a thesis, because I have to teach on this stuff and I love

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teaching on this stuff, I use little things to help make these words more memorable.

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Ulrich, great to have you here from Germany, great, so good to see you checking in, a delight to have

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you with us. So I'm a little bit of a dodgy person in general and I find some of these Greek words a

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little bit humorous, but the word a thesis, it's more memorable to me because it sounds a little

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bit like a feces, which is, you can figure that out for yourself what that is, but a thesis,

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just the the memory hook that I've got for that is a feces, but a thesis, now that is a beautiful

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word. So the word translated forgiveness in Jesus' statement, this is my blood poured out for the

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forgiveness of sins, the word used there for forgiveness is the Greek word a thesis. Now this

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word is amazing, it's generally translated as forgiveness, nearly every time you see it,

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it's translated as forgiveness, but this word a thesis, to translate this word a thesis as simply

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forgiveness, is like just, like just the tiny little scratching the tip on the iceberg, beginning

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of the meaning of the word, and almost to translate it as forgiveness, is like just, oh it's, you're

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barely even catching the meaning of the word. Kirri, great to have you joining us as well,

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so a great way to jump in, we'll catch you soon then, we'll catch you soon then, Ulri, have a

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great night at church, love you, and yeah we'll see you soon. So this Greek word a thesis has a

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Hebrew counterpart, so if we want to get to the root meaning of what this a thesis word means,

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let's jump into the Hebrew and explore what the word in there, the root word, the root concept

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that a thesis is getting at is. So in, there's a book called the Septuagint, so the Septuagint

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of the Old Testament Scriptures. The Greeks were jealous that the Hebrews had this awesome

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book called the Old Covenant. They were jealous that they had the Torah and the Prophets and

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all the books of wisdom and they were like, oh we want one of those. So they translated

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it into Greek and that translation of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint. Now

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a great way to get a real clear understanding of what these Greek words and Hebrew words

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mean is to look at the Hebrew concept in the Old Testament and then see which Greek word

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they used to express the Hebrew concept. So you want to always start with the Hebrew concept

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and see how the Greek is trying to explain that Hebrew concept. So when they used the

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word Ephesus in the Septuagint, that word Ephesus was used to translate a Hebrew word.

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Now this is the concept that we want to get to the root of. The Hebrew word that Ephesus

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is trying to communicate is the Hebrew word for Jubilee or in Hebrew, Yubel, which means

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ram's horn. Why does it mean ram's horn? What's so exciting about ram's horn? Well, ram's

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horn or jubilee, sweet Monica, we'll catch you soon. So the Hebrew word, now this is

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what we want to really explore because this is phenomenal good stuff. The Hebrew word

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jubilee is amazing because jubilee is the greatest party word in the Old Testament.

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If there is a party word in Hebrew, in the whole Hebrew concept, in the whole Hebrew

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Old Testament, you look at all the feasts, you look at everything that's there, there

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is one feast, there is one event that is the ultimate, it's the party of all parties, it's

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the gloriousness of all gloriousness, it's the freedom of all freedom and it's this concept

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of jubilee. So every 50 years, alright, so this only happens every 50 years, they would

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have seven sets of seven years where everything would be normal, but then in the 50th year

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of the Hebrew calendar, it would be called the year of jubilee. Now that year of jubilee

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was amazing, everything kind of revolved around the year of jubilee. When they sold their

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property, the value of that property was determined by how close they were to the year of jubilee

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because what happened at jubilee is that jubilee, all the property that had been bought or sold

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got restored to the original owners, it got restored to the family, so it was a family

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inheritance that couldn't be lost because jubilee would always restore the inheritance.

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Not only that, but in the year of jubilee, all debts were cancelled. So this is, in one

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sense Ephesus does mean forgiveness, in the sense that it means debt cancellation. So

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say debt cancellation. When we think forgiveness, we've got to think debt cancellation, not

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debt payment. Debt payment has nothing to do with forgiveness, but Christians have welded

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the concept of Jesus paying for forgiveness and forgiveness together, and those are two

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concepts that can't coexist. Paying for forgiveness, it doesn't work because forgiveness literally

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means debt cancellation. So if a debt has been cancelled, it cannot be paid for. So

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to say that a debt that was forgiven was also paid for doesn't make any sense. So we need

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to stop saying that because we sound brainwashed and we sound simple. You can say, however,

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that freedom was paid for. Freedom can be paid for. A price can be paid for freedom,

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and Jesus definitely paid a price for freedom. He did not pay a price for forgiveness, and

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this gets more and more important as we explore the concepts. So what we have is, at the start

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of jubilee, it's just amazing. So it was called jubilee or ramstorm because all over Israel

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they would start blowing these ramstorms. I hope you like my ramstorm. That was quite

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a good ramstorm. I think that was quite a good ramstorm. Anyway, give me a thumbs up

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if you like my ramstorm, and maybe, just maybe, I might be able to do another ramstorm for

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you. So we've got ramstorms blowing all over Israel to symbolize that it's the year of

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jubilee. So the moment that the year of jubilee comes on board, boom, ramstorms are blowing

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all over the nation, and it is on. These ramstorms are blowing all over the country

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because, oh my gosh, get ready. Hey, thanks guys. A few people like my ramstorms. Yeah.

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So all over the country there's ramstorms blowing. It's all breaking out, and everyone's

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getting absolutely pumped because this is the ultimate freedom.

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Party of a lifetime. It's the party of a lifetime.

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If you get to celebrate one Jubilee in your lifetime, then you are doing great.

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It only happens every 50 years.

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So if you had debt to anyone, boom!

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All debts are cancelled. Cheers, Neal.

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But how good is that? Imagine that.

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You've got any debt right now, I'm sorry guys, it's the year of Jubilee.

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So all your creditors, I'm sorry guys, it's all cancelled.

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Now you've got to start rewiring your brain.

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you've got to start rewiring your brain and start welding forgiveness with debt cancellation

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as opposed to forgiveness worth debt payment.

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That's a false wiring. That's a false welding.

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So all the debts are cancelled. Then anyone who was a slave got set free.

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What's that? That's a restoration of identity.

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Okay, so all debts are cancelled, all identity is restored.

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And that's right, all the property gets back, all the inheritance is totally restored.

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So you've got all debts cancelled, all identity restored, all inheritance restored.

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And then everyone enters into the rest because they didn't even have to work for a whole year.

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Wow! Hey, great question, Robert, by the way. Great question.

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And like I said earlier, if we can get to those questions tonight, we will.

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And I will definitely prioritize the questions that are right on point

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with the questions that are specifically related to the training that we've covered so far.

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So we've got all debts are cancelled, all slaves go free.

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So all identity is restored, all the inheritance is restored. Yes!

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And not only is all inheritance restored, no one has to work for a year.

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Everyone gets to enter into the rest. Oh, how good is that?

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And because everyone's feeling rich, everyone's feeling restored,

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everyone's got their inheritance back and no one has to work for a year,

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you guessed it, the party of a lifetime is on.

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Ram's horns breaking out, party time, the party of your lifetime.

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It is going on. It is breaking out. It is exploding.

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The wildest party. This is like the too good to be true news.

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This is off the charts. This is like everyone's been waiting for this.

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No work for a year. Can you just think how cool that would be if you didn't have to work for a year?

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All your debts are cancelled. You're rich again.

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Your identity is restored. You were a slave and now you're back into your sonship.

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Oh my gosh, you've sold your property, but now all the family farms,

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all the family properties, all restored. Ah, yes.

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Ah, wow. So that is, oh my gosh, isn't that phenomenal?

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Boom. So that is Ephesus.

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forgiveness is only just the very beginning.

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He's saying, this is my blood poured out so that all debts,

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all debts will be seen to be cancelled.

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All debts will be understood like everyone's going to understood.

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Boom. All debts are cancelled.

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Everyone's going to understand that all identity is restored.

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Everyone's going to be able to enter into the rest,

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and everyone's going to be able to enter into the joy of the Lord

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and the greatest bliss party in world history.

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Woohoo. So, boom.

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Ah, yes. So how good is, how good is that? That's exciting.

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It's a real difficult word to say, eugelion.

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because it kind of sounds almost like eagle lion, but eugelion.

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if you go deep into the classical Greek, in Ephemai,

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it means to cancel and to set free.

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there's a liberation attached to that.

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this is my blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins,

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it's not, he's not saying, okay, Papa was so,

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you that blood has to be shed to appease him, okay. He's not saying that, he's not

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saying that the cross is about to change God. Now this is a major, major, major deal

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here because a lot of people have interpreted the cross as though somehow

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after the fall, like you know, like the fall, they've kind of misinterpreted the

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fall from the fall being the fall of humanity to the fall being the

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fall of the Trinity. Let me just say we explored this concept of the Trinity at

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the beginning, in the very first session, Divine Family, but the Trinity is an

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unbroken cycle of love and that love is a mature love that looks like radical,

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radical delight in you. You've always been the focus of the Trinity's delight.

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Humanity has been the focus of the Trinity's delight. We were conceived in

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that delight and their heart towards us has never changed. Some people

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think that at the fall, it's like the Trinity fell, like the fall changed

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God as opposed to the fall changing humanity. The fall didn't

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change God. The fall didn't change the Trinity. The fall caused humanity to go

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deeper and deeper into our shame, our self-condemnation, our self-hatred, our

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isolation and caused us to turn back, turn from the Father even more and

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run into our shame and isolation and disconnection and darkness. So the fall

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didn't change God and the cross didn't need to change God at all. The cross was

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never about changing God, just like Jesus was never about changing God and you

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don't ever see Jesus making any statements at all along the lines of

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I've come to change God. No, Jesus always says the exact opposite. I have come to

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reveal the Father. I haven't come to change the Father, I've come to reveal the

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Father. If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So that was what Jesus was

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all about. So basically, let's look at this again. A lot of people think

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that you can only get forgiven after the

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cross, until the cross people couldn't get forgiven, but that's not true.

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sacrifice of blood, but even that's not true because if you were too poor to be

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able to afford a blood sacrifice, you could just use some grain. There

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was plenty of times in the Old Testament when God said, actually if you just turn

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to me, I will forgive you. For example, 2 Chronicles 7 verse 14 says, if my people

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who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their

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wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal

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their land. So forgiveness didn't require bloodshed. I know that

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there's a verse in Hebrews that says without the shedding of blood, there is

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no forgiveness from sin. Also, there is the Greek word

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aphesis and that's another question and another story and another rabbit trail

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to go down on, but it is a beautiful trail for another day. Also, what we see

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is that because Jesus is always revealing the Father before the cross, Jesus has no

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issue whatsoever in forgiving people. So when we when we see Jesus, we see

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the authentication of the nature of God. So if someone says to you,

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God couldn't forgive sin before the cross, then you go, okay, let's just check

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that with Jesus because anything that you want to believe about the

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Father, anything that you want to believe about God, in order for that

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to be a valid belief, a valid perspective, you have to get that

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authenticated in the life of Jesus. If it's not endorsed, if it's not

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validated, if it's not authenticated in the life of Jesus, then it's not one of

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the natures, it's not one of the characteristics, it's not who God is. So

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if someone says to you, okay, God couldn't forgive sin, good questions

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coming out there by the way, really appreciate those. I'm going to try and

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smash this one out and then we'll jump in and have a few more. I'll try and keep

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my mind on point and try not to get lost in all the questions that have come out.

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Great questions. I'll finish this one and then, boom, we'll pick another

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one out of the mix. So if we have a belief about the Father, in order for

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that belief to be validated or authenticated, then we have to see that

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validated and authenticated in the life of Christ. So if someone says to you,

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look, God couldn't forgive people before the cross, then you've got to go, okay,

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right, let's see if that's validated, let's see if that's authenticated in

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Jesus, who is the exclusive revelation of God, who is the exclusive revelation of

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the Father.

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Father. So when you look at the life of Jesus, is there anywhere where Jesus forgives sin before the

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cross? And the answer we would all say is yes. If you think the answer is yes, then hit a yes.

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If you know a place where Jesus did forgive sin before the cross, why don't you shout that out?

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If you even know a story from the Old Testament where someone got forgiven from sin

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before the cross, why don't you just put that down or give a high five or like yes,

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amen. Totally. I agree. I've seen that. I understand that. Let's take, for example,

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the woman caught in adultery. This is a beautiful setup because all the religious aristocracy is

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anticipating Jesus to condemn this lady. They're expecting that he is going to condemn her because

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they think that's the nature of God. Now they've been, they've had a lot of religious training to

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bring them to that place. Yes. Yes. Clear. I totally agree. The woman caught in adultery.

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So there she is, John chapter eight, she's brought out in front of Jesus. And we see here the nature

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of the father revealed. We see the nature of the father endorsed. We see the nature of the father

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validated and authenticated. And hey, cheers, Dean. So what we see there in John eight with

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the woman caught in adultery is we see that it is the nature of the father. It is the character of

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the father to effortlessly forgive sin before the cross. Now. Yeah. Good work. Yep. The woman at the

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well as well. So then let's look at the purpose of the cross. Okay. Let's look at the purpose

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then of the cross. The cross is about bringing freedom. Okay. People, when, when people think

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that God is the one that needs to be restored, then they think, uh, okay, then the cross is

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about forgiveness so that God can finally forgive us. No, we're looking at it wrong. We're looking

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at it back words. So let's step back and realize the cross is not trying to change God. The cross

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is not trying to get God free. Um, yeah, good stuff. Clear. Good. Um, good points coming out

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there guys. So the cross is not trying to set God free as though God had an issue. Uh, the cross is

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all about getting humanity free because guess who had the issue? Yes, you guessed it. Humanity.

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If you think it was humanity that had the issue, give a thumbs up. If you think it was God that

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had the issue, give a thumbs down. All right. Um, hey Gria. Good to have you signing in with us.

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Great to have you signing with us. Okay. So if you think it was God that had the, uh, if it was

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mankind, they had the issue, give a thumbs up. If you think it was God that had the issue, give a

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thumbs down. Okay. We're getting a few, a few thumbs up. Absolutely. It was humanity that had

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the issue. And if we go back to, um, uh, one of our earlier sessions, we looked at humanity's

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core issue. Humanity's core issue was that, uh, we had lost our identity. We lost our identity.

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Yes. Some good thumbs up there from Jared to the chairman, man. Um, so we lost our sense of

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identity. We lost the blueprint of our original design. We got caught up in, uh, in shame. We got

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caught up in this belief of inadequacy. So inadequacy, which comes from losing our identity,

436
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fueled all of humanity's issues. Inadequacy, which comes from losing our identity,

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fuels all of our condemnation, fuels all of our shame, fuels all of our self-hatred. Thanks for

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the thumbs up guys. Loving that feedback. It's cool. It kind of feels a little bit like, um,

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uh, I love just connecting with you as well. So thanks for those comments coming through. Um,

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humanity, uh, our, our sense of self-hatred, our shame, our condemnation, our inadequacy,

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our isolation, it's all fueled by one thing. And that one thing is, uh, inadequacy that comes from

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losing sight of our divine design, losing the blueprint of our original design. Cheers Dino.

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Now when we lose, uh, you know, in Genesis one, which we've already explored, it says that the

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far, you know, we were made in God's image. So when we lose the blueprint of our own,

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of our own divine design, we lose ourselves. And when we aren't exclusively defined by the Trinity,

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it creates a massive vacuum for us to be defined by anything else. So the moment we have these

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negative life experiences, all of these things come in, they start crashing in on us. Um, we

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get the, all these negative life experiences, and we start taking our identity from all the

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negative words people say about us. We start taking our identity from all of our failures.

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We start taking our identity from all of our trauma. We start taking our identity from all

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the evil, mean, nasty things we say about ourselves. So when we aren't exclusively

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defined by the Trinity, um, good, good point there. Clear. Love that. When we aren't exclusively

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defined by.

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The Trinity.

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We have this massive, open, wide vacuum for our identity that's just sucking truth, sucking

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definition of our identity in from any old place.

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So the moment we have a trauma, the moment someone rejects us, we go, oh I must be a

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reject.

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The moment we fail, oh I must be a failure.

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The moment someone says we're not enough, we must say, oh I'm inadequate.

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The moment someone says, you are a loser, we think, oh I'm a loser.

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The moment, then also the moment that we feel disconnected from God, we go, oh I must be

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disconnected, I must be unlovable, I mustn't be enough.

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All of this is being fueled by an identity crisis.

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So to get, for Jesus to get us set free, we have to discover our identity.

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So the cross, it's going to set us free because there's a revelation of our identity on the

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cross, alright?

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There's a revelation of our identity on the cross.

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And so where does this revelation of our identity really come from in the cross?

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The revelation of our identity always comes from one place, that's right, the one place

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that it comes from is, our true identity comes from the reality that we're exclusively defined

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by the Trinity.

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Hey, good to have you Greer, good points coming out there guys.

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So what we really need to get free is we need a fresh revelation of who the Father

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is.

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We need an authentic revelation of who the Father is and when we see the exclusive revelation

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of God in display in the life of Christ, then that exclusive revelation of the nature of

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God is what helps us, that's what becomes the solid ground for us in understanding who

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I am.

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That's what closes the door on all this, all these false understandings of our identity

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defining us.

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That's what stops the negative experiences and trauma and the negative words people say,

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that's what stops them from having any capacity to define us when we become fully persuaded

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that we're exclusively defined in the image of the Trinity.

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So Jesus is not on the cross trying to rescue God.

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Actually one of the funny things that I've seen in studying all this and people who propose

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and assert the concept that Jesus was on the cross pacifying an angry wrathful God,

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they would say that on the cross, here's what their statements would be, one of the guy's

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quotes is, the irony of the gospel is that God saves us from God.

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No, your video didn't freeze, that was me just going.

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How bizarre is that, that the irony of the gospel is that God saves us from God.

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Oh my gosh, if you've come to the conclusion that you think the whole irony of the gospel

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is that God saves us from God, oh wow, you have missed the boat mightily.

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God did not come to save us from God.

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And when you think the cross is just about achieving forgiveness so that God can forgive

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us because he was so angry and ticked off and full of wrath because of your sin that

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he just had to punish someone in order to be able to forgive, he had to punish, if that's

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what you think about God, if that's what you think about the gospel, then you missed the

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whole point and you think that Jesus came to save us from God.

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What?

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How bizarre.

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That would indicate that you think that God was the one that was changed at the fall.

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No, God wasn't changed at the fall.

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Humanity were the ones that were changed at the fall.

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It was humanity that needed to be saved.

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Jesus didn't come to save us from God.

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He came to save us from ourselves.

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How much better is that?

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Jesus came to save us from ourselves because we were the ones that had lost sight of the

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Father.

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We were the ones that lost sight of our own identity.

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And so if you're building all that up to the cross, hey guys, thanks so much for the feedback.

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When you're building that all up to the cross, what you're going to see on display on the

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cross is you're going to see a revelation of the Father.

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Now what you want to do as well with understanding this is you want to connect this all in with

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what Jesus said in John 8.

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The very same chapter of the woman caught in adultery, that is an amazing chapter.

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It's theme is all about condemnation and freedom from sin.

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It's the same chapter where Jesus says whoever sins is a slave to sin.

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It's the same chapter where he says he is a liar and the father of lies, talking about

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the devil.

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And it's also the same chapter that Jesus says in John 8.32, you will know the truth

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and the truth will set you free.

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So this is one of the most powerful themes in the whole New Testament.

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We can't take this too seriously.

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So we don't want to rush over this.

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We don't want to go over this real quickly.

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We want to camp on this and meditate on this concept for a little bit because what Jesus

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has just said.

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there is absolutely huge and phenomenal. Jesus said in John 8 32 then you will know the truth

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and the truth will set you free. So here's a guarantee for you all right this is like an

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absolute certifiable guarantee you can take this to the bank every single time if you know the

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truth it will set you free. If you're not free so like a little bit equation we can do that do with

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that is if you're not free uh it's because you don't know the truth. Now sometimes you might

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think well I know the truth but the greek word there for no is the greek word gnosko all right

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it's the greek word gnosko which doesn't mean just an intellectual headlock knowledge which

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you know in our education system and it's kind of focused around just get people to have a head

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knowledge but gnosko is almost like the greek counterpart of the hebrew word yada and the

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hebrew word yada it's an intimate experiential knowledge to see to hear to feel to touch to

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taste to smell so gnosko uh it's all about a deep understanding it's not just about a head

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knowledge it goes beyond just your conscious awareness. Nigel good to have you uh checking

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in with us my man great to see you buddy. So it's not just about a head knowledge

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it's not it goes deeper than just a conscious understanding goes into a subconscious

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understanding and an unconscious understanding. You know so often we're actually driven

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we're driven by these beliefs that are in our subconscious that we're not even aware of them

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but they're driving all of our feelings they're driving all of our emotions they're driving all

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of our behaviors because they're deep-seated beliefs at the core of our being that are

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actually fueling our feelings they're driving our feelings they're driving our emotions they're

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driving our behaviors and jesus says when you gnosko the truth it will set you free so that

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that means like totally free that means completely absolutely free that freedom

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thanks alicia appreciate that that freedom is a complete freedom to participate in the divine life

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so if you want to say that same thing another way if you want to look at that another way

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if you know the truth you will participate effortlessly in the divine life as your default

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setting all right if you could say that another way if you know the truth uh if you know the truth

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you'll never sin what yeah that's exactly what it means if you actually go back a few verses as well

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to john 8 verse 12 jesus says i am the light of the world whoever follows me will never walk in

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darkness but will have the light of life come on now that is epic we're gonna we're gonna uh we're

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going to spend a little bit of time here in john 8 12 then we're going to come back to john 8 32

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you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free and then we're going to go back to the cross

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so so track with me here okay we're going to go back a little bit in order that we can go forward

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in order we can see the cross in uh a light and understand how it is that the cross

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that on the cross jesus is paying a price to set us free from ourselves so if you go to john 8 12

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jesus says i am the light of the world and then listen he doesn't go anywhere he says i'm the light

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of the world and then he says whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but he didn't go

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anywhere he's still in the same place you say i'm the light of the world whoever follows me will

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never walk in darkness but will have the light of life clear loving that loving that um so he this

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is not about a geographical following of jesus all right jesus started john 8 12 by making an

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identity statement the identity statement that he makes is i am the light of the world whoa that's

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a big call how do you feel like you could say that i am the light of the world now when he's

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saying that he's like you know he's perfection he is the light of the world there's no darkness in

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him he's perfect there's nothing imperfect there's no imperfections in his identity whatsoever so it's

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an identity statement i am the light of the world and then he doesn't go anywhere and he says whoever

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follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life so the uh the never oh my

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gosh that is good um he's not talking about geographically following he's talking about

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following him in the way that he believes in the way that he thinks about his own identity

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then later on in matthew 5 48 he says uh you are the light of the world so we are the light of the

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world jesus is saying and making an identity statement i'm the light of the world and he says

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whoever follows me whoever thinks like me about their identity whoever realizes that they're

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exclusively defined by me whoever becomes fully persuaded not just consciously but deep deep deep

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into every part of our body soul and spirit becomes absolutely fully persuaded that's the

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renewed mind when every part of

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Your body, soul and spirit is absolutely, completely, fully persuaded that you're exclusively defined by the Trinity.

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That's what knowing the truth looks like. And when you know that truth, you will be completely free.

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And Jesus says, you will never walk in darkness, which means you will live an absolutely sinless life.

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You will live a sinless life. You will live a sinless life. You will live a sinless life.

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You will live a sinless life when you know who you are.

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Alright, so when you know who you are, you're guaranteed. Freedom is a guarantee.

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There's no ifs, buts or maybes. You can take freedom to the bank. You can cash that in.

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When you gnosco the truth, you will absolutely, 100%, every single time, be free from sin.

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You will never walk in darkness. And then the best bit is, you will have. You will have the light of life.

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Now that Greek word for have, you might think have sounds like an average word. It doesn't sound like anything special.

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But that word have is the Greek word echo. Whoa, echo. When you know who you are, you will echo.

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Hey, welcome, Jess. Good to have you here. When you know who you are, you will never walk in darkness.

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And you will have, or the Greek word for have there, is the Greek word echo. And you will echo the light of life.

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Now the light of life, the Greek word life, is the word zoe. It's referring to the divine life.

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Jesus, here's how you can tell that Jesus is using the Greek word zoe to refer to the divine life.

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Because he says, I am the way, the truth, and the zoe. He says, I define zoe. I define the divine life.

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I define what that is. So he's saying, you will echo the divine life. It doesn't just mean echo.

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It could also mean to possess in your hand, or to wear as a garment. So you will wear, you will echo,

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you will carry in your hand, you will wear as a garment, and you will echo the divine life.

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And you will never walk in darkness when you know who you are. Come on, how good is that?

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Now this is all before the cross. Jesus is saying, this freedom to walk in the divine life is available for you right now.

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He was saying to his disciples, right now, right now, right now, before the cross, if you will follow me,

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if you will understand who you are, if you get fully persuaded of your identity, that you're exclusively defined in the image of the Trinity,

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you will never walk in darkness, never walk in darkness, you'll never sin.

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You'll never have that addiction issue. You'll never have that pornography issue.

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You'll never had that self-hatred. You'll never had that self-doubt.

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You'll never had that shame and condemnation. You'll never had that offense.

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You'll never had that bitterness. You'll never had that fear, stress, worry, anxiety.

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You'll never have any negative feelings. You won't have those negative emotions.

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You won't have those negative behaviors. You will never walk in darkness.

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Boom! Ah! Yes! Oh my gosh! You want that! You want that! You want that!

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Now that's what the gospel produces in your life when you get it.

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You will never walk in darkness and you will echo.

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You will wear as a garment. You will carry in your hand.

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You will possess for yourself the divine life, the divine state of being.

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And listen, it's not going to be something that you wake up in the morning

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and you have to strive to accomplish. It's not going to be something that you wake up in the morning,

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you have to pray in tongues for 14 hours, you have to read 82 chapters of the Bible,

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you have to do 14 backflips, and then you have to get down on your knees

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and say a silent prayer for 10 minutes before you can echo.

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No! No, no, no, no, no! The echo becomes your default setting.

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The echo becomes your brand new normal.

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When you gnosco the truth, when you know who you are,

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when you follow Jesus and thinking about yourself the same that He thinks about Himself,

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you will never walk in darkness. You will echo, echo, echo the divine life.

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It will be your normal. It will be your default setting.

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You will participate effortlessly and seamlessly in the fellowship of the Trinity as your normal.

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Every moment of every day when you gnosco the truth, you'll echo the divine life.

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Glorious, glorious, glorious.

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And it's so real. It's so true. It's been happening in my life.

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I've been tasting this fruit and there's nothing better in my whole Christian walk.

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I've never tasted anything better than discovering this.

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So let's fast forward a few verses.

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Hey Gabriel, good to see you. Love you. Love your face.

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If you fast forward from John 8, 12 to John 8, 32, boom! Ta-da!

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Jesus says again, reiterating the same thing,

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when you know the truth, the truth will set you free.

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So what will it set you free from and what will it set you free into?

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The truth will set you free from darkness.

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The truth will set you free from every false identity that you've ever lived out of.

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The truth will set you free from every false image of God that you've ever believed, that

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you've ever struggled with.

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It'll set you free from all of these things.

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You can take the truth to the bank, it will definitely set you free.

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Here's another dynamic that we need to pay some attention to.

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Another dynamic that we need to pay some attention to when it comes to Jesus' statement,

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you will know the truth and the truth will set you free, is that Jesus is revealing that

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the currency in the spiritual realm for freedom is truth.

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That's a massive concept right there.

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Kareem, great to have you with us.

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What a pleasure.

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Great to have you here, Kareem.

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Thanks for your comment.

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Great to see you there.

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Now this, right, this is phenomenal right now.

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This is huge.

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This concept right here is absolutely huge.

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So we're going to camp on this.

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We're going to take a moment on this.

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Before the cross, right, before the cross, Jesus declares, and guess what, Jesus defines

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reality, okay?

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So if you don't like this concept, then you're going to have to take it up with Jesus and

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ask him if he can rewrite reality for you.

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But Jesus defines reality before the cross, and Jesus says before the cross, Jesus says

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it's the truth that sets us free.

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So when it comes to spiritual, like the currency in the spiritual realm that will set a person

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free is knowing the truth, all right?

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Knowing the truth is what is going to set you free.

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So if the cross is about setting us free from sin, if the cross is about enabling us to

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step into, okay, so Joe questioned the currency in the spiritual realm.

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So the currency of freedom, let me say this again, let me, if I wasn't clear, let me say

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that this, in the spiritual realm, the currency for freedom is truth, okay?

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So if you want truth, the way that you, sorry, I just rewound, I hope that was okay for you,

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I just rewound, the currency for freedom in the spiritual realm is truth.

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Jesus said John 8, 32, if you know, when you know the truth, the truth will set you free.

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So what he's saying is, if you don't know the truth, you'll live in slavery to sin.

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But when you do know the truth, you will echo the divine life, okay?

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In that same chapter, John 8, he talks, Jesus talks about he who sins is a slave to sin.

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He is talking about those who don't understand their identity.

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Maybe actually I'll come back to this in a moment as well.

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So the currency for freedom is truth.

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So if you want to get free, the highway to freedom, you need some truth in your life.

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Something in your life is under the influence of a lie.

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Bill Johnson has a great quote, he says, any area of your life that's not overflowing

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with hope is under the influence of a lie.

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Absolutely true.

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So if there's any area where you want to get more freedom, what you need is you need truth.

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So what we're going to understand here is that anything, okay, if anything has the power

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to set us free, then the power that that thing carries is the power to reveal the truth.

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It has the power to display truth.

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It has the power to impart truth.

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It has the power to demonstrate truth.

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Okay, so if we want to get, if we want to understand the power of the cross, if we want

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to understand the power of the blood of Jesus that sets us free, that cleanses us from all

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sin, that cleanses our conscience, that leaves us completely free from sin, then we have

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to understand that the currency for freedom in the spiritual realm is truth.

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So if we want freedom, we need truth.

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Jesus wanted us to get free.

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So he came to set us free by revealing the truth.

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That's why his whole ministry was focused around revealing the father.

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And you're going to see that if you haven't caught that session yet, go back and see the

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session Jesus reveals the father because everything that Jesus is doing his whole life is revealing

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the father.

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Jesus is the glove.

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The father is the hand inside of the glove and everything that the trinity does is that

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they're dancing together, revealing the truth, revealing the truth, revealing the truth.

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As that truth is revealed and we catch that truth, it sets us free from false images of

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the father.

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It sets us free from false identities, which means that when it's set free from false identities,

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we discover who we are.

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We get set free from inadequacy.

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We get set free from lack.

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We get set free from fear, stress, worry, negative feelings, negative emotions, condemnation,

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shame, all of that stuff.

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Boom.

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It's a thing of the past.

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It's out the window and you are free.

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to echo the divine life. Boom. So yeah absolutely Dean you're right on point. That's why Romans 12

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2 says do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed and the greek word there

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is metamorphou be transfigured is what that greek word metamorphou means. So do not conform to the

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pattern of this world but be transfigured by the renewing of your mind because it's the mind it's

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our mind our conscious subconscious unconscious where we are captives where we are slaves where

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we are bound it's because of our minds but if we renew our minds or repent now repent does not mean

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do a 180 repent simply means change the way you think which is why Jesus was always on about

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repent change the way you think the kingdom of God is at hand. So what we have to start seeing

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when we look at the cross is we have to see okay the cross is not paying a price to satisfy the

728
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wrath of an angry God okay throw that one out the window if you think that the cross is paying

729
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the price to satisfy the wrath of an angry God you're going to come to the conclusion that the

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gospel the irony of the gospel is that God saves us from God now that's a backwards gospel when

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the conclusion of the gospel is that God saves us from God we got it backwards God doesn't save us

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from God God saves us from ourselves by revealing the truth. Let's go a little bit further into

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John 8 Jesus says whoever sins is a slave to sin Romans 3 verse 23 says for all have sinned and

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fall short of the glory of God okay all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God so let's even

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unpack what sin is a little bit here um so all have sinned now the word there for sin is actually

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um and uh the English word sin is an archery term that means to miss the mark which is an accurate

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translation of that Greek word there so sin is to miss the mark all right then we've got to ask if

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sin means to miss the mark what's the mark Romans 3 23 tells us for all have sinned for all have

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missed the mark and fallen short of the glory of God so what is the mark the mark is the glory of

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God that's the that's the mark that's what that's our identity now let me uh let me lock this in for

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you let me protect your identity let me secure your identity in John 17 verse 22 Jesus says I

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have given you the glory that the father gave me that you may be one as we are one I have given you

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the same glory that the father gave me that we may be one that you may be one as we are one now that

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is huge the Greek word for glory is the word doxa you could take that doxa word uh there to mean

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to mean value to mean definition to mean worth to mean substance and you could kind of catch that

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it's identity um absolutely clear it's about it's definitely about the choices that we make to

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believe that's it's all happens in our mind that's why it's all about the renewed mind so Jesus here

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in John 17 22 he protects our identity so that religion can't steal your identity so that your

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negative experiences can't steal your identity so that all the pain and the trauma that you've

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been through in your life can't steal your identity because Jesus says I have given them

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so this is kind of interesting as well it's a past tense statement about a future people saying

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that I have so it's past tense Jesus has already even before he said that I have given them the

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same glory now that Greek word there doxa it also means the fullness of the majesty the fullness of

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the majesty of the deity the full stature of the deity it's pretty extreme word but Jesus used it

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and he said I have given them the same glory the same doxa the same majesty the same uh glory that

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you gave me boom that's identity right there he's protected your identity forever and then uh using

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the word doxa so that you have the same identity as the father you have the same identity as Jesus

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that's the verse that you can hold on to to the fact that you're exclusively defined by the

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trinity awesome moniker I love it but when you grasp that right it's the same concept that Jesus

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is expressing here that he expresses in John 8 when you discover and remember it's not just a

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head knowledge you've got to gnosco this bad boy you've got to gnosco this truth you've got to get

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it into conscious subconscious unconscious and when it becomes when your whole body soul spirit

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becomes fully persuaded of this reality then you echo the divine life as your default setting

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and Jesus said in John 17 22 I have given them the same glory that the father gave me that they

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may be one as we are one so he's saying there as well when you grasp that your identity that

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you're exclusively defined by

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by the Trinity, it will position you, it will position your default setting to change from

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the participating in the illusion of separation and disconnection and isolation into discovering

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the present reality of your seamless inclusion, which is a present reality because Jesus said,

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I have already given them, all right?

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It's a past tense thing.

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It's a done and dusted.

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It's a present reality.

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You're already exclusively defined by the Trinity when you wake up to that present reality,

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when it possesses you, when it consumes you, you will realize that you're exclusively defined

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by the Trinity and you will realize that separation is an illusion and you will realize that you

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are exclusively defined by the Trinity, seamlessly one with the Trinity, incorporated in the

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life of the Trinity and you will echo the divine life.

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Now you will never walk in darkness and the truth will set you free, free to participate

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in the divine life as your default setting.

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So back to Romans 3.23, Romans 3.23 says, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory

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of God.

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So to sin, right, what is it to sin?

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To sin, hey, good to have you guys here, good seeing people checking in, to sin is to do

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anything, to live outside of your glory, to sin is to live a life less in any way than

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living in the fullness of your doxa, okay, so any time that you live outside of the full

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manifestation of the glory of God in your day to day life, any time that you, any time

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that you live less than the full manifestation of the glory in your life, that's what sin

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is, okay, so sinning is any time, any moment of the day when you echo anything less than

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the full manifestation of the divine nature, when your echo is anything less than that

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dance of the Trinity, when your echo is anything less than the fullness of the divine life,

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that's what it means to sin, alright, so we shouldn't really necessarily be pointing to

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all those people outside of the church and saying, hey, you're sinning because, well,

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we've kind of all, you know, like, that's why Jesus is like, anyone who hasn't sinned,

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cast the first stone, you know, when he's saying that to the ladies and everyone's like,

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oh, flip, let's go home, because everyone realized, yep, they had sinned, so, also,

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on that note, really important to just highlight and emphasize this concept again, is that

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when it comes to your identity and your behavior, God makes a distinction, alright, he doesn't

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say that you're defined by your behavior, he says that your definition, your identity

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comes from him, alright, and when you discover that your definition, your identity comes

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from him, your behavior changes, because we behave according to what we believe, so if

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you believe you're a sinner, boom, you will sin, you'll never be free from sin, this is

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why when my whole life I could never get free from sin when I lived in church, I could never

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get anywhere near getting free from sin when I lived in church, because I always, it was

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so funny, check this out for a quote, I read this in one of the things I wrote recently,

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I read it again, I was like, oh, man, that's good, but religion demands perfection, but

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prophesies failure, ah, religion demands perfection, but prophesies failure, religion says you've

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got to keep all these rules, blah, blah, blah, all of these rules, you've got to keep all

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of these rules, but it simultaneously prophesies failure by saying, oh, yeah, you're a sinner,

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you've got a sinful nature and you're going to sin over and over again, well, guess what?

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You behave according to what you believe, so if you believe you've got a sinful nature,

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boom, you're going to manifest that all day long, you don't have a sinful nature, the

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sinful nature is an illusion, it's a phantom and it's only powerful if you believe you

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have one, if you don't believe you have a sinful nature, then it has no power, sinful

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nature and separation are an illusion, so if you believe you've got a sinful nature,

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you're going to have to do mortal combat with that every day, you'll struggle, you'll

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find yourself wrestling with this, oh my gosh, I'm struggling with sin, boom, and ultimately

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you'll crash and you will not echo the divine life, okay, so you're designed to echo the

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divine life, right, let's bring this all back now to the cross, the cross is not about forgiveness,

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it's not about getting people forgiven as though God couldn't forgive before, we've

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seen that Jesus demonstrated the nature of the father before the cross where he could

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set people free, forgive people effortlessly before the cross, also Jesus has made the

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statement in John 8, 32 that the truth, you will know the truth and the truth will set

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you free, so this principle is true before the cross, okay, we've got to get that in

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our heads, thanks for the good feedback in the comments guys, I love it, I really appreciate

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it, it makes me feel connected to you guys, it's so different to preaching to a camera

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than it is preaching to a crowd and if you've seen me preach to the crowd, I love being

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silly and bouncing off you guys. So I love your love your interaction. It is awesome.

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So it's really important we grasp this concept this principle that even before the cross

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it was always the truth that had the power to set people free. Jesus aim in in this whole

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endeavor was to set humanity free free from our sinful free from our sinful behavior by revealing

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our identity and he revealed our identity by revealing the father. Okay so remember we talked

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about this sin is always a fruit. Okay come on Dean appreciate that. Sin is always a fruit that

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is produced by a root and the root that produces sin in our lives is an identity issue caused by

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a false understanding of who the father is. So Jesus main focus of what he came to do is he came

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to set us free so that we could participate in the divine life. That's what they wanted right from

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the beginning the trinity wanted us to dance with them to participate with them in this unbroken

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cycle of divine love because you have always been you have always been you have always been

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the focus of the trinity's delight. You have always been the focus of the trinity's delight

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that what happened at the fall is that you got disconnected from the dance and they loved you

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like crazy and they never stopped loving you. You were conceived in that delight and they want you

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in that delight and humanity disconnected ourselves because of our false image of God and

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our false image of ourselves we disconnected ourselves at the fall. There was no issue with

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the trinity they didn't have this emotional breakdown a spiritual meltdown a crazy metaphysical

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breakdown and everything went to chaos in the trinity. No the trinity was always delighting you

846
01:06:48.560 --> 01:06:55.040
the trinity was always dancing and living in radical delight and ah beautiful beautiful trinity

847
01:06:55.040 --> 01:07:04.720
living it up all the time. So um trinity is doing that uh trinity is living it up and

848
01:07:04.720 --> 01:07:09.520
and you were designed to participate in the divine life and so they're like yeah come and participate

849
01:07:09.520 --> 01:07:13.280
in the divine life we got disconnected they're like right let's sort the issue out. Now the issue

850
01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:18.320
is not sin the issue is false image of God false image of our identity and the truth will

851
01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:22.640
set us free. So if we get truth and we discover who we are boom we will echo the divine life we'll

852
01:07:22.640 --> 01:07:30.320
participate in seamless union with the trinity. Yes that is going to be sweetness. Okay so

853
01:07:32.160 --> 01:07:37.360
when it gets to the cross that's the purpose of the cross to reveal who you are because what you

854
01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:41.440
see Jesus revealing is you see you see Jesus revealing the nature of love that he never

855
01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:48.000
love never withdraws love always presses on uh love never takes offense I mean that's the

856
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:52.720
ultimate definition love love on the in the uh on the cross it's the ultimate revelation of the

857
01:07:52.720 --> 01:07:59.760
father it's the ultimate revelation of who you truly are you are love. Okay so that's how the

858
01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:05.360
cross sets us free and that's the difference between um the cross being about freedom

859
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:10.400
and the cross and not uh not being focused about accomplishing forgiveness the cross did not

860
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:15.520
accomplish uh forgiveness the cross released a revelation of truth and that truth has the power

861
01:08:15.520 --> 01:08:20.399
to set you free because the cross has a revelation of the father that will set you free and the cross

862
01:08:20.399 --> 01:08:25.840
has a revelation of the true identity of who you are the cross has a revelation of the extreme

863
01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:31.439
extravagant outrageous love of the trinity for you and that longing for you to come back and

864
01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:38.960
dance in the dance boom. I hope that was good chicken for you um there's still more depth to

865
01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:43.920
all of that that was a huge massive deep question I wanted to do it justice so I hope that's done it

866
01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:49.920
justice uh give me a thumbs up if you think that's uh I've had a pretty good punt at that one um

867
01:08:53.120 --> 01:09:00.240
uh oh hang on Gabriel I'm just trying to read this how do you leap across the giant gap of

868
01:09:00.240 --> 01:09:06.880
being unoffendable like the trinity or how do you become unoffendable like the trinity uh well does

869
01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:12.000
anyone else want to have a guess at chuck some answers out there how do we become unoffendable

870
01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:17.279
just like the trinity how is it that we can become love ourselves really good question

871
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:21.520
really good question there Gabriel anyone else want to have a crack at answering that

872
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:29.600
how can we come to this place where we ourselves become love I really uh I really like that

873
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:35.840
Gabriel anyone want to guess I'm just going to say it's pretty simple it's it's again it's this

874
01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:40.880
whole process of the renewed mind it's this whole process of when we discover

875
01:09:42.240 --> 01:09:45.040
yep beautiful clear when we discover who we are

876
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:54.560
when we discover who we are it's the renewed mind so Gabriel again it's just it's always

877
01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:59.680
comes back to the renewed mind over and over and over it comes back to the renewed mind

878
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:03.500
Renewed mind is what produces the transformation in us.

879
01:10:03.500 --> 01:10:07.400
Yeah, Alicia, there is some hard work involved in renewing our minds

880
01:10:07.400 --> 01:10:10.700
because we've got to confront every lie inside of us

881
01:10:10.700 --> 01:10:16.400
that is actually perpetuating our disconnection from love.

882
01:10:16.400 --> 01:10:19.300
Remember, mature sonship looks like...

883
01:10:19.300 --> 01:10:21.100
Here's what mature sonship looks like.

884
01:10:21.100 --> 01:10:25.100
Mature sonship looks like the ability to receive divine love perfectly

885
01:10:25.100 --> 01:10:28.100
and the ability to give perfect expression to divine love.

886
01:10:28.100 --> 01:10:34.300
So, the orphan illusion looks like the inability to receive God's love

887
01:10:34.300 --> 01:10:37.700
and the inability to express divine love.

888
01:10:37.700 --> 01:10:41.400
So, anytime that we fail to express divine love,

889
01:10:41.400 --> 01:10:43.300
there's a disconnection in us somewhere

890
01:10:43.300 --> 01:10:45.900
and those disconnections are always produced by lies.

891
01:10:45.900 --> 01:10:49.400
So, yeah, it's time for us to go deeper in the love baptism.

892
01:10:49.400 --> 01:10:52.300
It's time for us to go deeper in the renewing of our mind.

893
01:10:52.300 --> 01:10:55.200
And ultimately...

894
01:10:55.200 --> 01:10:57.200
Yeah, thanks, Dean.

895
01:10:57.300 --> 01:11:00.100
Ultimately, it's always the truth that sets us free.

896
01:11:00.100 --> 01:11:03.600
So, it's the truth that empowers us to echo the divine life.

897
01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:06.700
And Jesus demonstrated for us our true identity.

898
01:11:06.700 --> 01:11:09.200
He demonstrated for us the true nature of the Father.

899
01:11:09.200 --> 01:11:14.200
He demonstrated on the cross what it looks like to echo...

900
01:11:14.200 --> 01:11:19.000
He demonstrated for us what it looks like to echo the divine life on the cross.

901
01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:21.000
And it looks like...

902
01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:23.200
It looks like love.

903
01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:24.600
Come on, great stuff there, Claire.

904
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:25.600
Great stuff there, Dean.

905
01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:27.800
Great words. Appreciate sharing those things.

906
01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.300
So, yeah, it's the process of becoming love.

907
01:11:30.300 --> 01:11:33.200
And the process of becoming love is the process of the renewed mind.

908
01:11:33.200 --> 01:11:36.200
And when we see Him as He is, we become like Him.

909
01:11:36.200 --> 01:11:39.400
So, really, so much of it is fueled out of a journey of intimacy.

910
01:11:39.400 --> 01:11:43.700
When you dance with the Trinity and you see who they are and you see who you are,

911
01:11:43.700 --> 01:11:45.600
it's this beautiful revelation of truth.

912
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:48.700
And you don't necessarily have to get more and more introspective

913
01:11:48.700 --> 01:11:50.900
in the attempts of, like, keep looking into yourself.

914
01:11:50.900 --> 01:11:52.800
You're not the answer. You're not the solution.

915
01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:55.200
It's not about looking for lies in yourself.

916
01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:59.200
It's about looking into His eyes, looking into their gaze,

917
01:11:59.200 --> 01:12:03.000
devoting yourself to seek their face, spending time in the Word,

918
01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:07.000
spending time in the presence, spending time soaking in the love.

919
01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:10.000
It's like fixing your eyes upon Jesus.

920
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:14.000
And all of that journey of intimacy is going to go...

921
01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:17.200
It's going to produce so much transformation on the inside of you

922
01:12:17.200 --> 01:12:19.500
when you have an encounter and you see His face.

923
01:12:19.500 --> 01:12:24.100
And you see for yourself the nature of God as He wraps His arms around you,

924
01:12:24.100 --> 01:12:28.400
as He takes you deep into His embrace, as you come face-to-face with Him,

925
01:12:28.400 --> 01:12:31.800
as you have experiences in Heaven, as you have experiences in the Word,

926
01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:35.300
as you have experiences as you're praying and seeking the Lord,

927
01:12:35.300 --> 01:12:40.100
then, boom, as we see Him, we become like Him.

928
01:12:40.100 --> 01:12:41.100
Great stuff.

929
01:12:41.100 --> 01:12:44.900
Hey, let's chuck out some other questions there.

930
01:12:44.900 --> 01:12:47.300
Anyone who's got a question right there.

931
01:12:47.300 --> 01:12:51.000
Hey, appreciate that, Claire. Thank you that you're loving that.

932
01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:53.600
Ah, basically turn off Netflix.

933
01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:56.400
Well, there is a season for everything.

934
01:12:56.400 --> 01:12:59.800
A season for everything, Gabriel.

935
01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:03.100
But if turning off Netflix is what it takes for you to see Him face-to-face,

936
01:13:03.100 --> 01:13:08.200
then that would be a good concept.

937
01:13:08.200 --> 01:13:12.000
Right, chuck out there anyone else who's got a question right on point.

938
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:14.300
I want to focus, prioritize questions right on point

939
01:13:14.300 --> 01:13:18.400
with this whole concept of Jesus revealing the Father,

940
01:13:18.400 --> 01:13:25.200
the divine dance, the orphan illusion, separation is an illusion.

941
01:13:25.200 --> 01:13:27.300
Oh, yeah, great stuff.

942
01:13:27.300 --> 01:13:30.200
Good word there, Dean. Mate, I loved your live as well, Dean.

943
01:13:30.200 --> 01:13:33.800
It's really primo stuff, man. Just really awesome stuff.

944
01:13:33.800 --> 01:13:35.800
Loving all the good stuff that you're bringing out.

945
01:13:35.800 --> 01:13:39.600
You're really adding a lot of value. So cheers for that, Dean.

946
01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:45.100
Now, let's score some other questions.

947
01:13:45.100 --> 01:13:46.700
Who's got another question? Pump it out.

948
01:13:46.700 --> 01:13:50.600
Otherwise, I'm going to check back through some of the older comments.

949
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:54.800
Just trying to figure out how to pull all those up.

950
01:13:54.800 --> 01:14:04.300
But I'm creating a moment now. If awareness is important and...

951
01:14:04.300 --> 01:14:07.700
Ah, ha ha. Okay, sweet.

952
01:14:07.700 --> 01:14:11.300
Yeah, good point there. Good question there, Claire.

953
01:14:11.400 --> 01:14:16.600
And good question there, Joe.

954
01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:19.800
And yeah, totally. Yeah, totally.

955
01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:22.600
The answer really is a love baptism.

956
01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:25.200
Actually, Paul nails it in Ephesians 3.

957
01:14:25.200 --> 01:14:31.500
Let me pull this verse up for you in Ephesians 3.

958
01:14:31.500 --> 01:14:36.900
Check this out for a verse in Ephesians 3 for like an apostolic prayer.

959
01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:40.000
So, Paul...

960
01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:47.000
Let's jump into this on Ephesians 3 there,

961
01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:50.700
on this concept of what you guys are bringing up now.

962
01:14:50.700 --> 01:14:52.500
Ephesians 3, 17 to 19.

963
01:14:52.500 --> 01:14:54.600
I'm going to read this to you from the Amplified translation.

964
01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:55.500
It says,

965
01:14:55.500 --> 01:15:00.000
May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down...

966
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.080
by and make His permanent home in your hearts.

967
01:15:04.080 --> 01:15:11.840
May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have the power

968
01:15:11.840 --> 01:15:18.200
and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted people, the

969
01:15:18.200 --> 01:15:26.120
experience of that love which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you

970
01:15:26.120 --> 01:15:34.480
may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of Christ

971
01:15:34.480 --> 01:15:39.680
which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled through

972
01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:48.120
all your being unto all the fullness of God and have the richest measure of the divine

973
01:15:48.120 --> 01:15:53.960
presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself.

974
01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:54.960
Wow!

975
01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:55.960
Come on!

976
01:15:55.960 --> 01:15:58.720
Now, how's that for some good theology, right?

977
01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:02.920
Most people would say that Paul was the ultimate theologian.

978
01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:08.400
He was the ultimate theologian and from Paul's perspective here in Ephesians 3 verse 17 to

979
01:16:08.400 --> 01:16:17.040
19, and I read that to you from the Amplified Classic Version, Paul is saying that, look,

980
01:16:17.040 --> 01:16:19.800
check this out from the ultimate theologian in world history.

981
01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:24.240
You want to found, we'll read it again because this is just phenomenal.

982
01:16:24.240 --> 01:16:29.960
May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down, abide, make His permanent home

983
01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:31.240
in your hearts.

984
01:16:31.240 --> 01:16:35.800
May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love.

985
01:16:35.800 --> 01:16:42.560
Okay, so he's making the point that we are called to be founded on love.

986
01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:47.800
Our whole Christian experience, our whole journey with the Trinity, everything about

987
01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:52.080
this whole story, everything about this whole adventure, everything about this great quest

988
01:16:52.080 --> 01:16:54.720
is supposed to be founded on something.

989
01:16:54.720 --> 01:17:00.800
And the foundation that our whole Jesus relationship, our whole adventure is supposed to be founded

990
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:04.400
on is supposed to be founded on love.

991
01:17:04.400 --> 01:17:05.720
Now let's check this love out.

992
01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:07.440
What type of foundation should it be?

993
01:17:07.440 --> 01:17:08.440
We want to see this.

994
01:17:08.440 --> 01:17:14.800
In Ephesians 3, this is Paul's apostolic prayer for you and I.

995
01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:16.880
May you be rooted deep in love.

996
01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:17.880
Boom!

997
01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:18.880
That's your life.

998
01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:22.000
May your whole story, may your whole journey, may your whole moment by moment, may your

999
01:17:22.120 --> 01:17:27.280
tomorrow, may your yesterday, may your today, may it be rooted deep in love and founded

1000
01:17:27.280 --> 01:17:35.400
securely on love, that you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with

1001
01:17:35.400 --> 01:17:42.240
all the saints, God's devoted people, the experience of that love.

1002
01:17:42.240 --> 01:17:46.960
That you may be strong to grasp the experience of that love.

1003
01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:51.680
And what is the breadth and height and depth of it?

1004
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:55.200
Come on, he's saying that this has got to be founded, your whole experience with God,

1005
01:17:55.200 --> 01:18:00.720
your whole relationship, all your theology, all your action, all of everything that's

1006
01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:05.880
coming out of you, everything that your life is about is supposed to be founded on a radical,

1007
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:10.200
radical baptism in the love of God that's high and deep and wide.

1008
01:18:10.200 --> 01:18:13.040
And what else did he say about it?

1009
01:18:13.040 --> 01:18:18.920
That you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves.

1010
01:18:18.920 --> 01:18:27.560
So it's not just a metaphorical, it's not just a mental, theological, theoretical, possible

1011
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:28.560
experience of love.

1012
01:18:28.560 --> 01:18:33.760
This is a real, supernatural, tangible experience of love.

1013
01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:39.680
And not just a little trickle, no, this is a real, supernatural, tangible, practical

1014
01:18:39.680 --> 01:18:46.640
experiential baptism in the supernatural, divine love of the Trinity that would be your

1015
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:50.960
moment by moment, that would be your foundation, that would be your firm setting.

1016
01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:53.520
This is what Paul wants them to found their lives on.

1017
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:58.200
He wants people to discover the supernatural baptism into the love of God and let your

1018
01:18:58.200 --> 01:19:04.120
experience, let your journey, let it all be founded on the supernatural baptism in the

1019
01:19:04.120 --> 01:19:05.120
love of God.

1020
01:19:05.120 --> 01:19:09.080
So if we haven't made that the main point, if we haven't made that the main destination,

1021
01:19:09.080 --> 01:19:13.320
if we haven't said to people, look, this is the focus, the focus of all this church and

1022
01:19:13.320 --> 01:19:19.080
everything is, we want to see you baptized into the love of the Trinity, baptized into

1023
01:19:19.080 --> 01:19:25.480
the depths, the heights, the widths of the supernatural, tangible, manifested, fiery,

1024
01:19:25.480 --> 01:19:26.480
fiery love of the Trinity.

1025
01:19:26.480 --> 01:19:28.840
We want to see you baptized into delight.

1026
01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.120
We want to see you baptized into bliss.

1027
01:19:31.120 --> 01:19:35.920
We want to see you baptized into ecstasy so that every part of your being, body, soul

1028
01:19:35.920 --> 01:19:40.320
and spirit is completely immersed in the love of the Trinity.

1029
01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:44.360
This is what Paul's saying is the whole point of where we're supposed to be, where we're

1030
01:19:44.360 --> 01:19:47.680
supposed to go, what we're called to, where we're called to bring people.

1031
01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:52.200
We're not called to bring people into fear and disconnection and religious condemnation

1032
01:19:52.200 --> 01:19:54.680
and shame and guilt and self-hatred.

1033
01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:59.160
We're called to bring people into a baptism in the love of the Trinity that their whole

1034
01:19:59.160 --> 01:20:00.000
being could be found.

1035
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.360
founded on that. So even as we're doing evangelism, what's the whole point?

1036
01:20:03.360 --> 01:20:07.320
Reveal the Father from the very beginning. That's not like Christian elite.

1037
01:20:07.320 --> 01:20:12.280
That's the very beginning. Let every part of our message be about baptizing

1038
01:20:12.280 --> 01:20:18.040
everyone in this divine love. Let the whole message, let the whole focus be

1039
01:20:18.040 --> 01:20:22.800
about introducing people to this baptism of love. Introducing people to this

1040
01:20:22.800 --> 01:20:26.600
Father. Revealing the Father. Revealing the Trinity. Revealing that love that

1041
01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:34.920
BOOM! Just baptizes, saturates. Oh come on, let's finish reading this verse.

1042
01:20:34.920 --> 01:20:38.960
That you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the

1043
01:20:38.960 --> 01:20:44.320
love of Christ which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience. That you

1044
01:20:44.320 --> 01:20:50.600
may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God. May have

1045
01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:55.120
the richest measure of the divine presence and become a body wholly filled

1046
01:20:55.120 --> 01:21:02.960
and flooded with God. Oh juicy, glorious, beautiful. Even, I mean, even the Great

1047
01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:07.480
Commission, right? Let's re-look at, re-assess the Great Commission. Matthew 28

1048
01:21:07.480 --> 01:21:12.440
Jesus says, go therefore and make disciples of all nations. Hey Tenille, hey

1049
01:21:12.440 --> 01:21:15.880
it's great to have a few others checking in. I love having you guys jumping on

1050
01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:23.240
board. So the Great Commission, therefore go and baptize all nations. So he doesn't

1051
01:21:23.240 --> 01:21:28.080
say, he says, go and make disciples of all nations. So one point there is that he's

1052
01:21:28.080 --> 01:21:32.160
not saying make disciples in nations. He wants us to disciple entire nations.

1053
01:21:32.160 --> 01:21:36.360
Disciple cities. Disciple nations. And then he gets to this point, baptizing

1054
01:21:36.360 --> 01:21:41.080
them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is the Great

1055
01:21:41.080 --> 01:21:45.640
Commission. The Great Commission is to actually baptize nations, to disciple

1056
01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:51.880
nations, and to baptize nations into the name. So now the word name, we've got to

1057
01:21:51.880 --> 01:21:56.800
understand that in the Hebrew concept, name is nature. Name is nature. Name is

1058
01:21:56.800 --> 01:22:02.360
nature. Name is nature. So for Jesus to say, baptize, go therefore and make disciples of

1059
01:22:02.360 --> 01:22:06.680
all nations, not make disciples in nations, it's make disciples of all

1060
01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:10.880
nations. Make disciples of cities. Make disciples of nations. Go therefore and

1061
01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:16.480
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name. Now the name, that

1062
01:22:16.480 --> 01:22:20.480
word should mean nature. We should perceive that to mean nature. Baptizing

1063
01:22:20.480 --> 01:22:25.720
them in the nature of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Now if you're

1064
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:30.880
going to baptize nations into the nature of the Father, the Son, and the Holy

1065
01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:35.800
Spirit, you are going to baptize nations into the most extreme, extravagant,

1066
01:22:35.800 --> 01:22:42.200
outrageous, wonderful, glorious baptism of love and bliss and ecstasy that you

1067
01:22:42.200 --> 01:22:46.840
could ever imagine. So even the Great Commission and Paul, they resonate. Paul

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says make your foundation a baptism into the love of the Trinity and Jesus says

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the whole, the message, the purpose, what I'm sending you out to do is to baptize

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nations into the love of the Trinity. Wow! Go therefore and make disciples of all

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nations, baptizing them in the name or baptizing them in the nature of the

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Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yeah! Come on, it's not just about, oh it's not

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about actually, it's not actually about a water baptism. It's about baptizing us

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into the nature of the Trinity. If you think that is about a water baptism, then

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you'll just do powerless religious cycles of going through, going through

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01:23:24.040 --> 01:23:28.280
the motions, going through the traditions, if you don't also include with it a

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baptism into the nature of the Trinity, which is a radical love baptism, which is

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the church's void of this love baptism. The church has lost the love baptism. So

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if we want to see the power of water baptism, the power of water baptism is

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supercharged by a baptism into the love of the Trinity, a baptism into the divine

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01:23:50.120 --> 01:23:55.400
life, a baptism into the bliss, the awe, the wonder, the ecstasy, this delight of

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the Trinity, a baptism into the dance of the Trinity. That's what has raw power to

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change nations, to transform lives. When everything about our journey, it starts

1084
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and ends and finishes on this place of we are the beloved and you right now

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sitting right where you're sitting, standing, lying, wherever you are, you are.

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And there's one thing that I actually felt the Lord saying that He wanted to

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say the most, He wanted to communicate the most tonight, and it's such a basic

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thing, but it will revolutionize world history when we get it. And He just, I

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just felt on the heart of the Trinity tonight is just to say to you right

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where you are, you are the focus of their delight. So right now the Trinity has

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01:24:37.320 --> 01:24:42.320
their eyes on you. The Trinity has their eyes on you and their focus as they're

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looking at you right now, their eyes as they're gazing on you right now,

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their focus is delight. Their eyes are infused with delight. You are the delight

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of the Trinity. Boom! Hey, hope that was valuable for you. Just give a thumbs up

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if you liked that. I know I

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I just got gloriously juiced up from that, let me know how good was that, have you had

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a good time?

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Now I'm sure that there's way more questions and yeah Jesus went on to teach them and say

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that I've commanded you not to teach them, yeah great, yeah that's great Dean, Dean's

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just added that Jesus commanded him to go on and teach them everything that I have commanded

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you and he gave us the instruction to love one another as he has loved us, boom, oh my

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gosh, hey so massive love to all you guys, such a delight, woohoo thanks to Neil, I did

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01:25:41.360 --> 01:25:48.160
have fun preaching right then, yeah they'll know we are Christians by our love, come on,

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01:25:48.160 --> 01:25:53.920
whoa now isn't that a cool distinguishing mark, what an authentication that we got the

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message, when we get the message you're going to leak love, cheers Nigel, thanks guys for

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01:25:58.300 --> 01:26:03.180
all your comments, when you actually catch the gospel that Jesus came to bring you are

1107
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definitely going to leak love all over the place, you're not just going to leak it, you're

1108
01:26:07.340 --> 01:26:10.940
not just going to drip it, you're going to become a living, moving, breathing, walking

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baptism in the love of the Trinity, whoa, boom, so hey let me say as well to you tonight

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like I am just so blown away by the power of the cross to be the ultimate revelation

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01:26:27.880 --> 01:26:35.400
of the nature of God, I'm so blown away, hey thanks Dino, love you man, I'm so blown away

1112
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by the capacity of the cross to reveal the true nature of our identity, whoa, it's so

1113
01:26:42.760 --> 01:26:48.680
phenomenal, the cross is so powerful but the power of the cross, just want you to catch

1114
01:26:48.680 --> 01:26:53.740
the power of the cross is in the revelation that the cross communicates, there's a revelation

1115
01:26:53.740 --> 01:26:57.740
that the cross is communicating and that revelation can boom right now cut to your heart and set

1116
01:26:57.740 --> 01:27:02.300
you free, there's a revelation in the blood of Jesus and the blood of Jesus is powerful

1117
01:27:02.300 --> 01:27:09.100
to cleanse us from all sin and remember sin is living out of the false identities, living

1118
01:27:09.100 --> 01:27:14.300
from that place, the blood of Jesus is powerful to cleanse us from that, the blood of Jesus

1119
01:27:14.500 --> 01:27:21.180
is powerful to cleanse us from sinful identities, from a sin stained conscience by bringing

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a revelation that you are not a sinner, by bringing a revelation that you are exclusively

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01:27:26.020 --> 01:27:29.920
defined by the Trinity and when you catch that revelation, that the blood carries, catch

1122
01:27:29.920 --> 01:27:33.780
that revelation that the cross carries, the cross carries a revelation and that's what

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01:27:33.780 --> 01:27:38.320
gives it power to set you free, the blood carries a revelation and that's what gives

1124
01:27:38.320 --> 01:27:42.140
it power to set you free, so if you want to experience the power of the cross, if you

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01:27:42.140 --> 01:27:46.720
want to experience the power of the blood, you want to meditate on the blood and meditate

1126
01:27:46.720 --> 01:27:50.520
on the revelation that the blood communicates, meditate on the revelation that the cross

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01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:54.600
communicates and ultimately when you get it, you won't come to the conclusion that God

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saves us from God, no, ridiculous, throw that one out, boom, gone, you will come to the

1129
01:28:00.480 --> 01:28:08.520
revelation that the cross sets us free from ourselves, from our false identities and ultimately

1130
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that will position you to dance, that will position you to live in the delight of the

1131
01:28:13.740 --> 01:28:20.540
Trinity as a moment by moment, a moment by moment existence, as you get that truth that

1132
01:28:20.540 --> 01:28:26.700
will reset all your default settings, how cool is that, John 8, 12, I am the light of

1133
01:28:26.700 --> 01:28:29.940
the world, whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life,

1134
01:28:29.940 --> 01:28:35.060
you will actually start to become an echo, you will wear as a garment, you will carry

1135
01:28:35.060 --> 01:28:40.160
and possess in your hand the divine life and that's what you are designed to do, that's

1136
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what you are called to do is to echo, to carry the divine life as a garment, to echo the

1137
01:28:45.200 --> 01:28:49.800
divine life, to possess the divine life in your hand so that everywhere you go, you are

1138
01:28:49.800 --> 01:28:55.720
an echo of the divine life which is what Jesus was, an echo of the divine life and because

1139
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he was an echo of the divine life, everywhere he went, he revealed the father and when we

1140
01:29:00.100 --> 01:29:07.100
become echoes of the divine life, everywhere we go, we will reveal the father, beautiful

1141
01:29:07.420 --> 01:29:14.420
stuff guys, hey great stuff, really love that, I am going to pray for us in a minute but

1142
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I just want to let you know as well that I am going to do a little bit of a schedule

1143
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change, I will give you an update about that, I am going to do the next couple of lives,

1144
01:29:24.900 --> 01:29:29.100
I am going to do them at night rather than during the day, so in the next couple of lives

1145
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they are going to be at night and I am going to update that in the book, in the group,

1146
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also you really want to catch this, you really want to stay tuned for this moment, this week

1147
01:29:42.700 --> 01:29:49.700
on Friday, on Friday I am going to give you all the details about if you want to pursue

1148
01:29:50.900 --> 01:29:57.900
going further into the 12 week school of sonship and I want to really encourage you to really

1149
01:29:57.900 --> 01:30:05.220
have a, really think about joining the group, I am going to give you all the details about

1150
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:05.720
me on that full school because one thing that I've learned as I've been journeying

1151
01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:09.240
with people, cheers guys, cheers Joe, cheers Will, thanks for that

1152
01:30:09.240 --> 01:30:13.720
encouragement, love that. One thing that I've learned is that I've had countless

1153
01:30:13.720 --> 01:30:18.840
questions and I've been on a journey for over a decade questioning, wrestling with

1154
01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:23.280
the theology, pressing into the present, seeking God for revelation, fasting,

1155
01:30:23.280 --> 01:30:27.680
investing myself, countless hours of study and writing and meditating on it

1156
01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:31.800
and just sucking on and asking questions and wrestling with God over and over and

1157
01:30:31.800 --> 01:30:36.320
over again and one thing that I know that happens and when we have all of our

1158
01:30:36.320 --> 01:30:39.840
schools and our training events, the place that we see the deepest

1159
01:30:39.840 --> 01:30:44.240
transformation is our school, our sonship program where people actually have time

1160
01:30:44.240 --> 01:30:48.120
to meditate on this and wrestle with this and journey with this in a

1161
01:30:48.120 --> 01:30:52.400
community so I really want to encourage you, my thoughts would be that you

1162
01:30:52.400 --> 01:30:56.080
would have way more questions and I can only scrape the surface tonight but we're

1163
01:30:57.080 --> 01:31:01.120
just going to go real deep in that, we're going to go deep into the history of

1164
01:31:01.120 --> 01:31:05.600
Christian theology, where that came from, we're going to go deeper into this stuff,

1165
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we're going to get deeper into love baptisms, we're going to go into supernatural

1166
01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:12.760
lifestyle, we're going to go into building community so stay tuned

1167
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because I'm going to give you updates on how you can be a part of that and I

1168
01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:20.800
don't want anyone who wants to be in there, I don't want anyone to miss out, I

1169
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would love everyone to be on board so if you're keen, stay tuned because I want to

1170
01:31:25.280 --> 01:31:29.600
make a way for everyone who is keen to be on board and I really really really

1171
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want to highly recommend this journey, it was priceless to keep

1172
01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:37.960
continuing the journey with family so get thinking about that, I would love to

1173
01:31:37.960 --> 01:31:41.600
have you on board and I'm excited, very very excited to announce some really

1174
01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:47.160
cool things going forward with that and I'm actually going to be, I'll give you

1175
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more announcements and more information on this but in the next week I'm

1176
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actually going to give out $14,000, that's right $14,000, $14,970

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worth of scholarships to participate in the online School of Sonships so keep

1178
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your ears tuned, stay, watch for those notices as those come out and I want to

1179
01:32:07.880 --> 01:32:13.560
pray for us now for just a fresh love baptism so I want to pray an apostolic

1180
01:32:13.560 --> 01:32:16.080
prayer over you, one that I've already prayed but wherever you are I just want to

1181
01:32:16.080 --> 01:32:20.960
encourage you, hey you were not created to live in a love deficit, you were

1182
01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:25.600
created to live with a love baptism every moment of every day so how about

1183
01:32:25.600 --> 01:32:31.080
you get comfortable right where you are, get comfortable right where you are and

1184
01:32:31.080 --> 01:32:36.840
start just getting in a place of however you receive best, I want to read

1185
01:32:36.840 --> 01:32:42.160
this over you and just release, release a bit of a love impartation for you right

1186
01:32:42.160 --> 01:32:49.960
where you are, so come on, thanks for those comments guys, love you so much

1187
01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:59.240
Matthew, sorry Ephesians 3 17 to 19 one more time, may Christ through your faith

1188
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actually dwell, settle down, abide, make us permanent home in your hearts, may you

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be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have the

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power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted

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01:33:21.080 --> 01:33:28.920
people, the experience of that love, what is the breadth and length and height and

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01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:34.880
depth of it, that you may really come to know practically through experience for

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01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:44.240
yourselves the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere experience, which far

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01:33:44.240 --> 01:33:48.880
surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled, I just

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01:33:48.880 --> 01:33:52.640
pray this as well, that the anointing that's on these apostolic

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01:33:52.640 --> 01:33:57.080
words, that the power of this anointing will begin to

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flow in you, begin to flow in your room, begin to flow in your house, begin to

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01:34:01.360 --> 01:34:05.640
flow in your car, begin to flow right through your body, your soul, your spirit,

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right through you, I just pray that right now, that the anointing and the

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power that's on these words, that the fire that's on these words, as these

1201
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:17.040
words were birthed in the heart of the Father and there's a power on them,

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01:34:17.040 --> 01:34:20.440
there's a fire on them, there's an anointing on them, and let's release that,

1203
01:34:20.440 --> 01:34:25.960
oh wow, right now let's release that power, release that fire, release that

1204
01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:30.800
anointing, that divine enabling, just begin to come crashing down over

1205
01:34:30.800 --> 01:34:35.000
you and in you and through you, let's release that love baptism, I just see

1206
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that actually right now, I can just see in the spirit, this love baptism

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circling around people, there are people right now who are hearing my voice

1208
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and there is an encounter with the Trinity going on right now,

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there is a deep encounter, the love of the Trinity is just circling around you,

1210
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I can see it, I can see this love of the Trinity circling around people and just

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01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:59.560
inviting them back into the divine dance, including them, baptizing them, washing

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them.

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are pouring over them, filling them, flooding them, consuming them, immersing them in this

1214
01:35:05.300 --> 01:35:13.220
divine love, that you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves

1215
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the love of Christ, which far surpasses knowledge without experience, that you may be filled,

1216
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that you may be filled, that you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness

1217
01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:35.040
of God, and may have the richest measure of the divine presence and become a body wholly

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01:35:35.040 --> 01:35:38.040
filled and flooded with God himself.

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Wow, so I just declare right now a filling in the name of Yeshua Messiah, a filling,

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a baptism, a filling, an overflow, an impartation, a release of the fiery, fiery love of the

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Trinity right now, that that delight of the Trinity would just baptize people.

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And I just prophesy right now, I actually see, I see in people's minds it's like these

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old tracts, these old, you used to play all these tracts, and they're just getting removed,

1224
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these tracts of condemnation, these tracts of rejection, these tracts of being unlovable,

1225
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all these tracts that your mind just plays over and over, well right now I declare that

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they're being removed, they're being taken away, that you're being set free from those

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01:36:17.360 --> 01:36:21.760
right now, and there's a new tract going in, that you are the delight of the Trinity, you

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are the focus of their delight.

1229
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It's the sound of, it's the sound of Matthew 3, 17, and a voice from heaven said, this

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is my son, marked by my love, the focus of my delight, whoa, you are his son, marked

1231
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by his love, you are the focus of his delight, whoa, I just release that over you right now,

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whoa, I release that over you right now, release over you Romans 5, 8, and hope, so God demonstrates

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01:36:52.760 --> 01:36:59.600
his own love for us in this, that while we're still sinners, Christ died for us.

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I release over you Romans 8 right now, Romans 8, 35 to 39, who shall ever separate us from

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Christ's love?

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Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation or calamity and distress or persecution or

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hunger or destitution or peril or sword, even as it is written, for your sake we are put

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to death all the day long.

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We are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter, yet amid all these things we are

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more than conquerors through Christ and gain a surpassing victory through him who loved

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us, for I am persuaded beyond doubt, for I am persuaded beyond doubt, I am sure that

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neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening, nor things

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01:37:43.080 --> 01:37:48.640
to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be

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able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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I just release that unseparable love, I just release that love that finds you, I release

1246
01:37:59.680 --> 01:38:03.720
that love right now, I just declare that the love of the Father is tracking you down.

1247
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I just see some people, you've been lost, you've been far from this love, but I just

1248
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declare right now that you can't be separated from this love, you can't get away from this

1249
01:38:11.760 --> 01:38:16.560
love, the Father is chasing you down, his love is chasing you down, he is chasing you

1250
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down with delight, you've lived in condemnation, and shame, and brokenness, and darkness, and

1251
01:38:21.320 --> 01:38:26.560
oppression, and depression, but the love of the Father is chasing you down right now to

1252
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fill you, to flood you, to baptize you, release supernatural encounters with the extravagant

1253
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love of the Father right now, a baptism in the love of the Trinity right now in Jesus

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name.

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Whoa, whoa, I just declare over you, Zephaniah 3, 17, the Lord your God is with you, he is

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mighty to save, he will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he

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will rejoice over you with singing.

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Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, oh my gosh, thank you, thank you, thank

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you, Papa, thank you, Papa, wow, Papa, I just thank you so much for your presence and your

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01:39:11.680 --> 01:39:18.320
spirit right now just going deep, deep, deep in people's hearts, I see actually right now

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that the chimney is just removing thorns, it's happening on mass, it's not just for

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one person, but the love of the Trinity, it's such an atmosphere, I can feel it, I can feel

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an atmosphere of the presence, I can feel an atmosphere of the tangible glory of God,

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tangible all around me right now, I see the hand of the Father just reaching into people's

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hearts and removing these thorns, removing these wounds, removing this brokenness, removing

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all this pain and darkness and bitterness and wounding, and I just declare it right

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now over your life, that he is removing and he's healing, he's restoring betrayal, he's

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removing and he's healing, he's restoring bitterness and offense.

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I see Him really tenderly and gently coming and actually nursing people and gently tenderly

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caring for and healing those that have been damaged by rejection.

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I declare that today is your day of freedom, that His love is coming close, He's going

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to heal you, He's going to restore you, He's going to bring freedom, He's going to set

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you free.

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What I just see is I see the breath of God just breathing life on you.

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I see the breath of God breathing life on you and I believe that there's tangible power

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on that.

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I believe that there's a supernatural power on that word, that that's not just some word

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from my imagination but I believe that that is a word from God for people right now, that

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He is breathing on you right now.

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I actually think some people are going to begin to experience the breath of God physically

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blowing over them like a wind blowing over you.

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This happens so often, it's like a supernatural wind comes and blows.

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I see a picture of the breath of God breathing over people right now and I see them just

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getting healed, healed, healed, healed, healed, healed, healed.

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Not just hearts but bodies and so I prophesy over you right now, there's an atmosphere

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for healing, the presence of God is near, the presence of God is present for healing,

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the presence of God is present for healing.

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So I declare release right now of miraculous healings.

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For Claire who's asked for prayer, I declare healing of your heart right now, in Jesus

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name.

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And I see beautiful, beautiful healing taking place as the Father just breathes over you.

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So as we come to a close, I just declare the breath of God, the breath, the Ruah, the life,

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that release of His breath, that release of His life, that release of the source of life,

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the origin of life is coming into your world and bringing Shalom, coming into your world

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and bringing restoration, coming into your world and bringing freedom and healing in

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Jesus name.

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Whoa, whoa, amen, amen.

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Hey, we'll love you guys so much, I just pray that over and over and over and over and over

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and over and over and over you just get saturated in His love, that it'll track you down in

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your sleep, in your wake, while you're showering, while you're eating, while you're working.

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I just pray that the love of the Trinity will track you down and you will be baptized

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in the love of the Trinity, and I pray that that will reset your default setting so that

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it won't just be an encounter, but it'll be your brand new normal.

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Love you, and we'll see you soon, excited to share this journey with you, excited to

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go deeper and deeper and deeper, and really, really, really want to encourage you, do consider

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joining me for the full 12-week school, I want to go deeper with you guys in this and

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see people radically, radically transformed, stepping into the bliss of sonship, stepping

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into effortless union with the Trinity, stepping into participation in the divine life.

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So thanks everyone for being with us, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you,

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and can't wait to see just radical baptisms of the love of the Father, and just hearing

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the Lord just speaking to me right now as well, and this is not the end, if you're having

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an encounter right now, the Lord just says this is not the end, and there's some people

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that right now, right where you are, you just need to stay in that place, because he's going

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to go deeper, I'm excited to hear the testimonies, but he's going to go deeper, there's others

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of you just going to start getting hit by baptisms in the love of God, that it's just

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like, whoa, this is uncommon, I haven't experienced this before, but some of you are about to

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start getting blindsided by love, love is going to blindside you, love is going to come

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and just like, boom, you haven't experienced this before, but love is going to blindside

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you, like at dinner tonight, I was eating my dinner, and then boom, blindsided by love,

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and Alicia who's watching was having dinner with me, and she's like, oh, you look a little

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bit strange, and I was like, yeah, I was having a little love baptism there, having my dinner,

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and I just declare that that's going to happen to you, you're going to get tracked down,

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you're going to get pursued, you're going to get overwhelmed, you're going to get overcome,

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you're going to get swallowed up in the love of the Trinity, you're going to get baptized

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in the love of the Trinity, oh, boom, amen, love you, see you real soon, and have an amazing

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time, night, day, morning, wherever you are in the world, catch you soon, and please,

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please, please, don't forget to do lives, I'd love some more 60 second lives, so jump

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on, share how this has been impacting you, share the testimonies of healings and restorations

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and love encounters that are coming out, we want to celebrate with you, we want to share

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this journey together, love you, see you soon, boom.