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Alright, so today we're going to be

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starting out talking about, like I said yesterday,

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basically this whole day is set aside to talk about the gospel.

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But the gospel, understanding the true

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gospel and the freedom that we get in that is what gives us the

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foundation to be able to understand what rest is and how we can move into it.

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Because if we actually truly fully understand and receive the gospel,

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we have everything that we need. We don't need anything else.

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And so that means that if we fully understand the

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gospel, we all automatically shift into rest

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without needing anybody to tell you how. Because it is

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in you, it's in all of us, we've already been given it, it is who we

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are. So we'll be explaining it. So what I do is I always

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lay this foundation of the gospel and what rest is

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and it's actually very, very simple.

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You can even describe what it is that I talk

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about in three sentences and then the rest of my coaching and the rest

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of my teaching and all of that is all about helping people

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understand how to reconcile what it is that we used to believe

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with what is actually true. So it's just helping us to basically

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unlearn and remove all of those filters and all of those layers.

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So it's not that rest is complicated. So we're not having however many

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hours of sessions. I think it's like 18 hours of sessions or something

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like that. We're not having all of that because it's complicated.

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It's extremely simple. You could say it in three sentences. But we make it complicated

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because the system that we're trying to leave is very complex.

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And I continually run up against this and other

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people just like I ran up against it in my own life.

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But what about this?

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And we constantly throw at it all of these reasons why it might

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not be true. So I spend the majority

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of the time trying to reconcile all of that for us. But it's actually

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extremely simple. And the reason why I want to say that, that's extremely freeing.

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So just know that this is not hard. There's nothing wrong

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with you. There's nothing broken.

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So we're just trying to remove

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the things that we have thought made life so

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difficult and complicated. So right now we're going to start

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with the fact that we are one with God.

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And God is the one who said this. So we're not saying that we're God.

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We're not saying that we're God the Father. We're not saying that we are

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higher than Jesus. Remember that we are one with

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Jesus. We're one body but He's the head. The head is still part of the body

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but it's higher than the body. So it always has preeminence.

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He's always gone before. He always

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initiates. Everything about God in His relationship with us

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always initiates. We just respond

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and it's very, very easy. We just receive but we do

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have to make ourselves vulnerable in order to be able to receive. And that's why it feels

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hard because we don't want to do it. But actually

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the relationship with God and developing that with Him

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is very, very easy. So

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in being one with God, the reason I like to start with this is

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that our very identity, the way that I

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describe it, is our very identity is the point at which

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our spirit connects with God's spirit. That's what

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makes each one of us one because we're all united in Christ

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but we're all unique. That point at which our

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personal spirit is united with God's spirit is what I

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so far, and I'm sure I'm going to learn more, but so far this is

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what I understand to be our actual identity.

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Another reason why you can't describe it. Our identity

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is not the fact that you like Mexican food and what

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you think your love language is and what your characteristics are or your

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personality or your opinions. That's not who it is that we are.

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That's how we choose to express who we are. But

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actually trying to define who somebody is is

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extremely difficult. It can only be, the only way that I've

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been able to discover it so far is I just have to sense it.

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So when I talk to people and they ask, so Ashley how are you able to go into

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such and such a situation that's normally very intimidating or whatever,

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how did you handle that? And I just tell them I shift into my identity. I remember

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who it is that I am. So can you articulate that

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for me? I'm like, no. It's just this place that you go into

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with the Lord and you suddenly know. I can't explain it to myself.

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I can't explain it to someone else. It's just this place of knowing and everything within you stills

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Because it's rest and you're in God and you just know everything's fine. Everything's okay

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You don't need it's like you don't need to know anything and yet, you know, everything it's very very fascinating

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And so that's the place of our identity

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Is that oneness and that union with the Lord?

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so we're gonna be walking through what it is that God has said about the fact that we're unified with him and

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And I do want to take this this moment to mention why I'm going back to such basics

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Because whenever we're going to be going into practice exercises where we're going to be trying to shift into rest

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You know like what we were doing yesterday trying to figure out. Okay, so why can't I?

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Why why am I not allowing Jesus close to me or I?

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You know, I this didn't work or this didn't happen or whatever when we're running up against hindrances or resistances within ourself

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We're needing to always go back to okay. There's some basic thing. I'm not agreeing with and

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Sometimes that's our union with God that we're not truly

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Understanding and agreeing with to the depth that he says that it is and there's some other basics

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We're going to be going through as well. That are the basics of why it is that we're resisting

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You know what it is that we're not believing or agreeing with about the Lord and why we're in a state of resistance

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So that's why we're starting out with these basics

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if we don't get these we can't shift into rest because these are these give us the the courage the

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permission and the authority

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That we that we understand that we have or how we understand that we've been given that authority in that

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Permission in order to shift into rest and it helps us shift into rest faster

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So we're these are the basics that we're always going to be going back to so even though maybe all all of today

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I won't be mentioning the word rest a lot this remember that the place of rest is in God

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So it's the same thing you say God you say rest

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It's kind of the same thing in the fact that that it's that it's that place

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So I just wanted to let you know, you know, you came to hear about how to enter his rest

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But I'm not using that word

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It's where I'm just using different words. I'm talking about God. I'm talking about union with him

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I'm talking about relationship

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But all of that is that is that place that place of that and being in him and abiding in him

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We're in a place of rest. So rest isn't something we do rest isn't something we get something rest is not something God gives us

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Rest is a place where we are and it's from that place

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Which is why I always talk about it with a capital letter meaning like when I write it

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Rest is a place from which we do

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Based on our union with the Lord our spirit and the Lord's Spirit

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United together and that spirit coming forth from a place of rest. We even fight from a place of rest

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Everything is done from a place of rest. So don't think that we have it. What about fighting? Do you hear another?

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Yeah, but yeah, but what about this? What about that even fighting battles warrior anything like that is done from a place of rest

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So if we could pull up Ephesians 1 3 through 14 and I might only be going

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reading verses 4 and 11

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If you would like to learn more go more in depth with with the father about

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Our identity read Ephesians Ephesians is a book that God focuses very heavily on on our identity

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Thank you, okay, so

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This is where it all started. I

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Did not know this and when I learned this it changed everything

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Because this helped me unite things even more before I just thought okay well

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But where did I ever start?

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So in other words at some point I was separated or I was created as something outside of him

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You know, we hear we hear that Adam, you know was created from the dust of the ground

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So we're thinking okay God looked at something outside of him. And so in other words, I'm hearing distance

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I'm hearing separation from my God from the very beginning which I didn't know about you does not make me feel comforted

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I've been united now

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But there was there was there's some aspect that I felt at the very core essence of my being at my creation point

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I was separated. I was created as separate in that Bob and that really bothered me. So and then I

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Did I was pointed to this? So looking at Ephesians 1 verse 4 for he chose us in

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Before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight and then in love Hebrew destined us

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You know, we were talking about love yesterday. So

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So I wanted to focus on the fact he looked inside himself before creation, before Adam

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was ever created from the dust of the ground.

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Before Adam was ever created from the dust of the ground, he looked within himself.

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He found us and he pulled us out.

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So the very essence of ourselves, the very essence of our DNA is of God himself.

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It's of the very DNA of God.

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Again, we're not saying that we're God.

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We are not saying that we're higher than Christ, but we are saying that we are born of his

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essence.

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We're born of his DNA.

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And that changed everything for me.

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I'm like, okay, so I'm actually of him, which is why it made sense when God said he restored,

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he redeemed, he reunited.

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It has to have happened before in order for it to be done again.

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And so he chose us out of himself and then separated us.

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Why?

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If he was going to just reunite us later, what's the point of separating us in the beginning?

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I mean, wouldn't you just like to just always stay together?

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You'd never have that separation.

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But here's a really, really special thing.

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With separating us, and then reuniting us, he's now able to have a relationship and union.

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Best of both worlds.

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So it's relationship within union, which is what we see represented when I'm pictured

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in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

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There are three, but they're one.

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They have the best of both worlds.

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They have relationship within union.

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If something wasn't ever taken out of you, separated as a separate identity, and then

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reunited, you don't have relationship.

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So it had to be separated, then reunited, and then now you have the relationship, but

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you also have all of the benefits that you always had of the union as well.

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It's really, really special and very important.

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So we see actually this picture, because I wasn't really sure about this.

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I thought, wouldn't it be nice?

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It would be really wonderful, but am I reading that verse correctly?

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And then I realized, excuse me, I realized that it is all throughout scripture.

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There's actually pictures when God created Adam, and then later on with Jesus as the

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second Adam, we see this union, separation, and reunion, and I didn't know that.

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I did not know that that's what it was saying.

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So if we go to, if we think about, if we think about Adam, that he was created from

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the dust of the ground, and then he was put into a, it was said that it is not good for

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man to be alone.

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So remember, this is a picture of what God had done with humanity, and so he put it as

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a type and shadow in creation on the earth, just like what we were talking about yesterday

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with physical intimacy, being a type and shadow that God uses to help us understand the type

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of intimacy that we can know that he has given to us to have with him, so that we can know,

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so that we can be guided as to trying to seek it, trying to understand what is this thing

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in me that desires for something, desires for a union, like, okay, there's that type

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and shadow, so that must mean, it's a type and shadow of something that exists in the

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spirit that I'm allowed to be a part of, and I'm invited to be a part of.

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So it's the same thing with, so God just has types and shadows over everything, and he

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did this union, this separation, and this reunion, pictured in both Adam and Jesus.

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So with Adam, he was put into a deep sleep, rest, because God always does everything.

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Adam went to sleep.

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God opened up his side, took out his DNA, took out his rib, and created Eve from Adam's

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DNA, which is why, when Adam woke up and looked at her, he could say, you are bone of my bone,

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flesh of my flesh.

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You are of my essence.

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You are of my DNA.

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So Eve was in Adam.

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She was taken out of Adam, so she was separated, and then it said, and then Adam then went

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on to say, for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to

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his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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So we see, so he's saying all of that at the same time.

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He's saying, you are bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, and for this reason, you

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know, a man will leave father and mother, and be reunited with his wife.

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So it is union, separation, and then reunion.

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We see this again in the second Adam.

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So Jesus redeemed all kinds of things, and then re-pictured for us all kinds of things

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that the first Adam went through, and we see how we, as the bride, were taken out of, and

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then reinserted back into Christ on the cross.

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Remember, when Jesus died, that his side was open.

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by a soldier's spear to make sure that he was dead.

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So it went up through his side, into his heart,

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and when it pulled out, it brought with it water and blood.

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And with that water and blood, excuse me,

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which I'll explain the significance of in just a second,

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with that side being opened, it was a symbol

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of the second Adam going through what the first Adam did

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and the fact that his bride, his church, was being born.

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Because you remember that we were able to be reunited

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back with Christ and reunited back with the Lord

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in fellowship and in restoration at Jesus' death,

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not his resurrection.

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His resurrection accomplished different purposes,

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but the ability to be reunited with the Lord

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came at his death.

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We know that because at his death, the veil was torn.

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Jesus was also put into a deep sleep

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when God opened his side and his bride was born.

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God always does everything.

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the one he'd been covenant with, to sleep

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so that God, the father, could birth a bride out of Jesus

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just like Eve was born as a bride out of Adam.

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throughout scripture now, in the verse,

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in those two pictures, that this is something

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that is very, it's a theme throughout scripture.

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One of the reasons we're talking about love

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and now oneness with the Lord is those are

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the two most important things to God.

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that that love is the aspect of God's character

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that he submits all the rest of his character to.

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is subject to his love.

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not from our earthly perspective of like,

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well, you know, why would you, you know?

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like God just treated so-and-so.

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in being one with God, he desires union.

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okay, this is a principle that God has,

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Pharisee, even Peter, is when one of them,

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or whoever, were, through their actions

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were creating separation between God and his people.

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even at Peter, remember where he said,

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get thee behind me, Satan?

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the things that Peter was saying could imply

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an aspect of separation and of something coming

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in between God and his people.

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even with his own disciples.

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and the fact that God desires us to be very vulnerable

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with him, to come to him, he takes it extremely seriously.

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Nothing can separate us from the Lord.

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and all of these things cannot separate us

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from the love of God.

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Separation, God takes extremely seriously

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because everything is, it's very,

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union is very, very important to him.

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Extremely important.

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More important than just, than anything.

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starting in verse 25.

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Okay, yeah, so husbands love your wives.

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just as Christ loved the church

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and gave himself up for her to make her holy,

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cleansing her by the washing of water through the word.

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out came blood, which pays for the covenant

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because the covenant's being made, a covenant of marriage.

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and it's always paid in blood.

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because it's very important for him,

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identifying also, not just with the covenant,

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but with the fact that it was water,

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the fact that what's being birthed is his bride

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because it says that you cleanse her

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by the washing of water through the word

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to present her to himself as a radiant church

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without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish,

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but holy and blameless.

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you've already been described here

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without stain, wrinkle, any other blemish,

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holy and blameless.

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as their own bodies.

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He who loves his wife loves himself.

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but they fed and cared, they feed and care for their body,

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just as Christ does the church,

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for we are members of his body.

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and be united to his wife,

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and the two will become one flesh.

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So later on, we'll be talking about spirit, soul, and body.

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Spirit, you know, within us, spirit is spirit.

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It's not just our body, it's our soul and our body

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because our soul and our body were created.

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He's spirit.

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okay, well, when he took us out of him, we were created.

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but it's very, very different than the type of creation

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that happened with our soul and our body.

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it's talking about more than our mortal flesh.

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It's talking about our soul as well

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because that's also an aspect of creation.

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There's an essence of unity in not just the body

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that's symbolized in physical intimacy,

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but also in the soul,

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which is why when people divorce, it's traumatic.

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because it's more than the body.

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There's a covenant being made in the metaphysical

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and another aspect of the person.

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I'm gonna go ahead and throw this in now,

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even though we're gonna talk about it later.

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Think about spirit, soul, and body.

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so a man is spirit, soul, and body, he's one.

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His wife is spirit, soul, and body, she's one.

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in the fact that they're both believers,

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so they're one together, they're one in spirit already.

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So y'all are one with me in spirit.

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I mean, so we're all one in spirit in the Lord.

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they're one in soul.

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one of the reasons why it's so powerful

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and why things actually happen in the metaphysical

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and the spiritual realm when that happens

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in the physical realm?

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that isn't unified is finally unified.

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So you have spirit, soul, and body

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and the man being one.

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and being unified to herself,

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their spirits are unified, their soul is unified,

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and now their body is.

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You have six elements that are in complete union

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and that is extremely powerful.

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Six is a very important number to the Lord.

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But so this is a profound mystery,

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but I'm talking about Christ in the church.

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So we become completely one with him in all aspects.

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I'm talking about marriage,

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but he said this is a profound mystery.

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Why is it a mystery?

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It's a mystery because there's union,

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separation, and then reunion.

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Very important.

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And it was a mystery that God had put into time

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that he'd always intended us to be reunified with him.

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And he hid it within himself.

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And there's other aspects that we'll talk about

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that he also hid within himself.

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And that they were a mystery until it happened.

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And then so we understand through all of that

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that no one knew what God intended.

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Not even Satan.

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It was a mystery.

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And so then now it happened,

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it's like, okay, we were not expecting that.

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We're not expecting something born of God

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now being reunited with him.

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And being able to receive all of the,

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receive everything of who it is that God is.

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receive into themselves everything and it be of their very essence, everything it is that God is.

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So you have it in you. You were made from the fabric and the DNA of God.

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And so think of how we describe God. You know, he's fully righteous. He's fully holy.

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He knows all the things. He is,

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he's all wise. We actually have

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that in our very DNA.

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So this is not something that we're begging the Lord for and wanting so badly to be accepted and for and

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and to be accepted and

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allowed to participate in.

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It is of your nature and God is and we see all throughout all throughout not just scripture

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but also in nature itself. God's very serious about nature not being corrupted.

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He even protects things when like say for instance

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when when there's a

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DNA mutations, God makes like say for instance

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certain things like a horse and a donkey, you know have a mule, but a mule cannot reproduce.

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When there are certain mutations that happen in the DNA, God does not, God allows it to be infertile.

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It's like no this isn't, he takes he takes that kind of thing very seriously.

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It's like we're not going to keep that keep that going.

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So God of the universe allows himself to be made one

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with man.

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I mean, I don't know about y'all. I can't fathom that.

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I mean, why would the God of the universe want to be, you know, united with me?

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But here's something that I would recommend that we start transitioning into understanding. That can feel very overwhelming

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especially from the perspective of

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traditional Christian, a lot of it a lot of it very

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Calvinistic Lee influenced perspective that we are sinners

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saved by grace and

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you are no longer a sinner.

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You are not.

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Please don't ever identify yourself as a sinner again. You are a saint. You are in Christ.

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You are perfect and holy. The issue is we don't believe it. That's why we're not acting like it, but we are it.

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Um, let's look at Revelation, excuse me, 13.8 and

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know that

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that the that

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Excuse me, I knew what to do this time. I've got tea with honey in it. So I thought that'll hopefully

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lubricate the throat. My sister is a nurse. So anybody who needs anything, she's here. I'm volunteering your services, but

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she's all morning. She's been throwing things at me. I'm like, what is this? She's just take it. Well, what is this?

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Just take it. Here's water. Take it. Put this into your tongue. Write this on your feet. Do this today. So

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It's like, oh my word, where have you been for the past week and a half? I could have kind of gotten a leg up on this.

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but

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so the purpose for which we exist is

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relationship with God.

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That's why God took us out of him. Our purpose is not to accomplish something on this earth.

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We will be talking about what what our interaction with earth is supposed to is supposed to be about,

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why we're here, and the fact that we do have a purpose. Um, but

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our the purpose

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for our life is not

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creation.

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The purpose for our life, the purpose for our existence is what I mean, you know,

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the essence of art, because we were born a spirit before and before our soul and our body were created.

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We were born, we were, you know, created, taken out of Christ in order to have relationship with him.

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So you are relieved of

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feeling obligated that the core of your being, there's something that God is expecting you to do.

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If you, um, if you were supposed to live out your

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your destiny and your purpose for which you were created, because that is a lie.

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You were created for relationship with him. Everything that we do here on earth, all of our interactions with creation, are all supposed to guide

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the development, how our relationship with God is uniquely developing. That's why all of us have very different,

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it's one of the reasons, there's a lot of reasons, but that's one of the reasons why we all have very different lives.

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Very different lives, marry different people, we have different personalities, different characteristics, like different things, express ourselves differently.

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It's

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it's all to guide the development of our unique

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relationship with the Lord.

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So in looking at Revelation 13 8,

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it says,

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as that, yeah, all inhabitants of the earth

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will worship the beast.

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All his names have not been written

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in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb,

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who was slain from the creation of the world.

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So his sacrifice, remember, his death,

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the birthing of the bride, all of that,

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he was slain, he was sacrificed

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before the creation of the world.

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God takes union with us so seriously

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that he separated us from himself before creation,

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and then he sacrificed in order to ensure

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the provision for us to be reunited with him,

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no matter what, before he even created the world,

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before he created Adam, before our souls and our body,

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you know, our flesh were created.

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Union is that important to God,

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that as soon as he separated,

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he ensured of the reunification,

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because that was the whole point with union.

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The whole point is relationship within union.

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Now if we could go to 1 Corinthians 6, 17.

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I love this one.

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And we're belaboring this,

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we're going over multiple places in scripture

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so that you can be assured for you,

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in your spirit and in your heart,

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you take this before the Lord,

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Lord, am I unified with you?

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Lord, did I come out of you?

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You seek that in your own spirit with the Lord

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because it's the only thing

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that's gonna transform your life.

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Hearing about it and making, oh, well, I don't know,

516
00:31:44.300 --> 00:31:45.740
sounds like that might be a logical way

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to explain that verse, you know, it's not going to work.

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It's not going to work when your child is sick in ICU.

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So you really have to get this between you and the Lord.

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And so I'm going through multiple scripture references

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so that you can have,

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so that I can just kind of like hand you

523
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all of these examples,

524
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and there's more examples than this,

525
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but all of these examples that can give you,

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because the Bible is kind of like an anchor

527
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for a lot of people.

528
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You do know that most of the people in the world,

529
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most Christians in the world have never read the Bible.

530
00:32:22.760 --> 00:32:23.840
Most of the Christians in the world

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do not have access to the Bible.

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Having the Bible, reading it, understanding what's in it

533
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is not required to have a relationship with the Lord.

534
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This is a tool that we're using.

535
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It's very holy, so I'm not denying its value.

536
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I'm just saying that God doesn't allow anything,

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anything, even the Bible, to come between us and him.

538
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If we don't ever want to use this as a stumbling block

539
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or as the thing that we're holding up

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to create separation between us and the Lord.

541
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But I'm just mentioning this

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because we all have been trained so long,

543
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okay, what does the Bible say?

544
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What does the Bible say?

545
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:02.020
What does the Bible say?

546
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That's all good, and that's fine.

547
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There's nothing wrong with that.

548
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I'm saying that that's why I'm focusing so much

549
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on all of this scripture is,

550
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okay, what are we used to looking at

551
00:33:10.380 --> 00:33:12.520
in order to prove something to ourselves?

552
00:33:12.520 --> 00:33:15.940
So we're kind of baby-stepping our way into this.

553
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What is a known that we're used to hanging onto?

554
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And then let's prove it there,

555
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and then it's more easy for us to have faith

556
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when we don't see it in scripture.

557
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I'm not saying it's contradictory to scripture.

558
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I'm not saying that God tells us something,

559
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or we hear something that's contradictory to scripture.

560
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I'm just saying we can't find it,

561
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and we're frustrated because we're like,

562
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well, I'm not a Bible scholar.

563
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I don't know, is it in scripture somewhere,

564
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and I'm just not seeing it?

565
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So in other words, there's this absence.

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I don't want us to be afraid.

567
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God does not want us to be afraid of him

568
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because of an absence,

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feeling that we have an absence of,

570
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again, that we're holding this between us,

571
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and here I'm like, God, I don't see proof.

572
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So we're not supposed to look for proof

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in order to have faith,

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and sometimes our idea of proof

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isn't something physical we see.

576
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We're requiring to see in the Bible before we believe God,

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and God won't allow that at all.

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But I am using this because it is very important

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to us to understand that God has repeated this

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throughout scripture, and he's written it down for us.

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He has given us examples in nature for us

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to be able to see, to know for sure

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that this really, truly, to drive this home for us,

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that we really, truly have a right to believe this,

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and he desires it because he desires union with us

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above everything.

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He desires union with us more than he desires you

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having a particular destiny here on earth

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and accomplishing it or whatever.

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And so whoever is reunited,

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whoever is united with the Lord

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is one with him in spirit.

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So now we're gonna be going into how one are we?

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What does that actually mean?

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So being one with him, sometimes we kind of think,

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okay, well, we're living.

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together. You know, like a husband and wife. You know, we have the same house, we have

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the same bank account, we do everything together. But it's more than that. We're one with him

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in spirit. One. So we'll go through some examples of how extreme this actually is.

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So now we're going to go to my favorite passage about the oneness with Christ that we can

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claim in scripture, and that's Galatians 3, 15 through 29. Okay, so every time I read

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this I get very excited. Okay, in 15, so brothers and sisters, let me make an example from,

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let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human

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covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. Okay, so the promises

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were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say and to seeds, meaning many people,

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but and to your seed, meaning one person, who is Christ. So they have, if we didn't

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get it, he is spelling it out. He's saying it's not seeds, meaning many people, but seed,

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as in one, and then he identifies who Abraham's seed is. He said that Abraham's seed is Christ.

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Then it just goes on talking about 430 years later, talking about the covenant.

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So let's look then down at verse, I think it's 25, no it's not 25, what's the other one?

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Okay, so in Christ you were all children of God through faith. For all of you who were

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baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ. Verse 28, there is neither Jew nor Gentile,

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neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you were all one in Christ Jesus.

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Again, no separation. Everything that we use here on earth to separate us, God's saying,

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God's identifying all of those things. He's like all of the things that you've created in your

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complex worldly system as separation. He's like, he's getting rid of all of those. He said it

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doesn't have anything to do with race. It doesn't have anything to do with, what would that be

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referred to, is like kind of like a type of relationship that you have of a servant and a

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master, and there's no separation like what we think of between male and female. There is

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absolutely none. None of that exists in Christ. You are all one in Christ Jesus. Okay, so we all

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get that. We're all one. We've all been taught that. Okay, we're all one in spirit. How one are

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we? If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. So he's

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already identified that scripture did not say, and to seeds meaning many, but and to seed meaning

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one, which is Christ. And then later in verse 29, he says, and you are that seed. You were that one

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with Christ. It's not seeds plural as in it's you and Christ. And you're just, you're just hanging

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out together and you're really, really close. So remember, I no longer live, but Christ lives within

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me. So my spirit is Christ's spirit. We're that unified. Our spirits are not, you know, kind of

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just entangled and just kind of really close together. And we have it, we have a possibility of

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and a threat that something we or Satan or somebody does can possibly separate us. You can't

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separate something that's one. It's just, it's just one being. So we're that unified with Christ.

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That is the extent of being one spirit. It's not two things that you think of as like a, and then

632
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call it a collect. It's not like two things put together in a container and then you just call it

633
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one thing. And because, and that one thing just means the collection of it. No, it's like, think

634
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of like M&Ms. Like there's lots of M&Ms in there, right? But then you think of, but then we would

635
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call it a bag. So well, it's a bag of M&Ms. But we know inside, okay, yeah, but they're all separate.

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That is not what we're talking about. So seed is not the word bag. Seed is the word M&M.

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It's one, one thing. So it's not referring to a, it's not a word that's referring to the

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collection of the two. It's talking about the fact that no, the, there is no two anymore. It's just,

639
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it's just singular. And then last verse we're going to look at here is John 4.

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1420. So again, to what extent are we unified? To what extent? On this day you

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will realize that I, you know Jesus talking, that I am in my Father and you

642
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are in me and I am in you. So we're very used to talking about the fact, okay well

643
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we're one is the body of Christ and then there's Jesus. Okay well now we've

644
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reunified ourselves with understanding, okay no, we're all one and we're, you

645
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know, we no longer live but Christ lives within us. We are one spirit. We are one

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seed. But then there's God the Father. Jesus is in God the Father and God the

647
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Father is in Jesus. So you are one with God the Father. You're one with the Holy

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Spirit. You're one with Christ. You're one with God the Father. This is all in

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Scripture. So you can, again, you're not God. We're not saying that we're

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God but we're that unified into Christ. We're one with Christ but he always has

651
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the preeminence. So there is no threat of separation and you can't separate, you

652
00:41:18.640 --> 00:41:24.760
know, what is one. That means you are so unified. Remember that you're one

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00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:33.480
spirit with Christ. One seed. Therefore you, whatever Christ's nature is,

654
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:41.960
is your nature. You're not a sinner who goes into situations and is

655
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:47.560
trying, has to work so hard to figure out how to handle it correctly.

656
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Which laws that you need to remember and follow and obey in order to be

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appropriate, in order to be, you know, loved, in order to be accepted, in order

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00:41:56.360 --> 00:42:02.960
to be right, in order to be, you know, whatever. If God is that thing, you are

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that thing. And you walk into every situation like that. If it's God's nature,

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it's yours because we're all one. We are part, and don't be shocked when I say

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this because we understand from everything that we've talked through,

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we're one with the Trinity. We're part of the Trinity because Christ is in the

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Trinity and we're in Christ. So we are that. We're that one. And from that flows,

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from that essence of union flows everything else that

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we're going to be talking about. That is, that's absolutely foundational. And God

666
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said that not only, it's not something that he said, hey, you know, I'll

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just give you this. Hey, you know, we'll just do this. No, he said that is the

668
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most important thing to me. It's union. It's not you pleasing me, doing things

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right, you know, all of that. It's union. Union is connected with, within the

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union is love. So when you have the Trinity that comes together or the fact

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that God, when we want to get close with God, we have to, it has to be in love or

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we're not being close. We're not being intimate. So it's, when, remember I talked

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about there's a relationship within union. The thing that allows, that

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flows in that relationship, the thing that creates the relationship is a flow

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in between every like entity, so to speak, you know, Christ, you know, God,

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the Father, us, whatever, is love. And it's like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna phrase it

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this way just to kind of give us a picture. Think of the fact that the way

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that we enter, the way that we interact in the Spirit is in spirit. And that's,

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that's this force, so to speak. I'm just using some words to kind of give us a,

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I'm not saying these are all perfectly theologically correct. I'm just trying to

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give us an idea to move us from a known all the way to this, this unknown that we

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don't have a, have a grid for. I think, you know, it's, think of it kind of like

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this force that's, that this essence of us that is, is flowing between all of us.

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And in that is love. That's the only, that's the thing that unifies us is love.

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So you can't separate union, when we talk about us and the Lord, the thing, the

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things that you always have to talk about together are union, relationship, and love.

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If one of those is missing, then the others don't exist. Union with God only

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comes through love, because it's almost like this, this, like this force, this

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bond that, that brings everything together. It's more and deeper than that,

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but I don't know how to articulate that even to myself. It's just something I

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sense in the Spirit. So, sorry, that's something I don't have words for, but you

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can just seek your Father about it yourself. But it's that union.

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And that love and that relationship,

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it's very important to the Lord above everything else.

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So if ever you find yourself in a place

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where you're struggling, you're feeling condemned,

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you're struggling, even shifting into rest,

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or you're struggling with some, I don't know, issue,

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or you feel like you just sinned,

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and you just did something,

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or you want something more of the Lord,

702
00:45:21.160 --> 00:45:22.680
and no matter how much you seek it,

703
00:45:22.680 --> 00:45:24.880
you can't get there, you can't get a breakthrough,

704
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:27.040
the first thing that I'm gonna be talking about

705
00:45:27.040 --> 00:45:28.120
about shifting into rest,

706
00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:32.920
the very first thing is choose union first.

707
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.480
Choose love, relationship, and union first.

708
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:39.000
From that, everything else will flow.

709
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.720
There's a teacher that I listen to,

710
00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:48.200
and that is something that he said that the Lord told him,

711
00:45:48.200 --> 00:45:52.000
is that he said, out of union with me, all else must flow.

712
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.020
In fact, from that phrase,

713
00:45:56.860 --> 00:46:01.860
the Lord birthed his ministry.

714
00:46:04.060 --> 00:46:06.380
It's from that single phrase that the Lord told him,

715
00:46:06.380 --> 00:46:08.940
out of union with me, all else must flow.

716
00:46:08.940 --> 00:46:10.620
And then it set him on this journey

717
00:46:10.620 --> 00:46:12.500
and this trajectory to understand, okay,

718
00:46:12.500 --> 00:46:15.300
what does that mean, and where are we going from here?

719
00:46:16.500 --> 00:46:19.540
But yeah, out of union, that's why it's so important.

720
00:46:19.540 --> 00:46:23.540
We can't do anything expecting to try to get to that union.

721
00:46:23.580 --> 00:46:26.500
We have to scrap everything, reckless abandon,

722
00:46:26.500 --> 00:46:29.300
go back in the most critical and dire moments,

723
00:46:29.300 --> 00:46:30.740
and go back to union,

724
00:46:31.620 --> 00:46:34.620
and in union is that love and that relationship.

725
00:46:34.620 --> 00:46:36.780
And that is how we can then handle

726
00:46:36.780 --> 00:46:39.260
all of these difficult things that are coming,

727
00:46:39.260 --> 00:46:41.460
that we're struggling with, et cetera.

728
00:46:42.460 --> 00:46:44.760
Life, honestly, is not difficult.

729
00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:47.700
It's our interaction with it that makes it difficult.

730
00:46:47.700 --> 00:46:51.420
It doesn't mean, just like I talked about rest yesterday,

731
00:46:51.420 --> 00:46:54.940
rest is not the absence of unpleasant circumstances.

732
00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:57.440
We're still gonna go through unpleasant circumstances.

733
00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:58.780
I go through them all the time.

734
00:46:58.780 --> 00:47:02.640
Some of them are still very extreme.

735
00:47:02.640 --> 00:47:05.300
Jesus lived a perfect life,

736
00:47:05.300 --> 00:47:08.240
meaning that he always lived in rest, right?

737
00:47:08.240 --> 00:47:10.740
And yet, look what happened to him.

738
00:47:10.740 --> 00:47:12.440
It doesn't mean that we're not gonna go

739
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:14.220
through unpleasant circumstances.

740
00:47:14.220 --> 00:47:16.340
That's not what makes life hard,

741
00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:18.620
and I can attest to the fact because I live it.

742
00:47:18.620 --> 00:47:22.900
What makes it hard and difficult is my reaction to it.

743
00:47:22.900 --> 00:47:27.860
As soon as we, and this is so exciting and so powerful,

744
00:47:27.860 --> 00:47:30.620
that what you can,

745
00:47:32.140 --> 00:47:35.540
what changes everything is my reaction to it.

746
00:47:35.540 --> 00:47:38.100
So if I'm in a very unpleasant circumstance,

747
00:47:38.100 --> 00:47:39.500
and by that it might be internal,

748
00:47:39.500 --> 00:47:41.580
it might be some major relationship issue

749
00:47:41.580 --> 00:47:42.860
that I'm going through,

750
00:47:42.860 --> 00:47:47.340
it might even be a struggle that I'm having

751
00:47:47.340 --> 00:47:48.260
between me and the Lord,

752
00:47:48.900 --> 00:47:50.540
something that I'm struggling to, I don't know,

753
00:47:50.540 --> 00:47:52.740
get or move into or whatever,

754
00:47:52.740 --> 00:47:57.340
and I have discovered that everything can continue

755
00:47:57.340 --> 00:47:59.900
to be chaotic around me,

756
00:47:59.900 --> 00:48:02.220
as long as when I,

757
00:48:02.220 --> 00:48:04.900
because me shifting into rest

758
00:48:04.900 --> 00:48:08.180
completely neutralizes its power over me.

759
00:48:08.180 --> 00:48:10.180
It's still going on.

760
00:48:10.180 --> 00:48:12.060
It hasn't changed.

761
00:48:12.060 --> 00:48:14.600
That person is still verbally abusing me.

762
00:48:15.560 --> 00:48:18.760
You know, I've been in multiple different types

763
00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:21.440
of abusive situations,

764
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:23.360
emotional abuse, verbal abuse, whatever.

765
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:25.800
Thankfully I've not experienced physical,

766
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.480
but I've experienced the other,

767
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:30.560
and I'm telling you, if you shift into that place,

768
00:48:30.560 --> 00:48:32.640
everyone can continue to do it,

769
00:48:32.640 --> 00:48:36.200
but it neutralizes its power.

770
00:48:36.200 --> 00:48:39.960
So I just wanna clarify that understanding

771
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:42.680
how to live in rest is not going to,

772
00:48:42.680 --> 00:48:44.840
is not going to,

773
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:48.320
we don't do it in order to change our circumstances.

774
00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:50.460
A lot of our circumstances will change,

775
00:48:50.460 --> 00:48:51.840
but we're gonna be talking about,

776
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:53.840
but we have to intentionally,

777
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:57.280
we intentionally tell creation from a place of rest

778
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:58.840
how it needs to operate,

779
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:00.960
but that doesn't always mean,

780
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:02.520
because creation has a free will,

781
00:49:02.520 --> 00:49:03.800
whether it's another person's soul,

782
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:05.160
or it's an animal, or it's a circumstance,

783
00:49:05.160 --> 00:49:06.200
it has a free will to choose

784
00:49:06.200 --> 00:49:08.080
how it wants to respond to a son of God.

785
00:49:08.080 --> 00:49:10.400
So just because we're in rest,

786
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:14.280
we can neutralize its power over us,

787
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:15.640
but it doesn't necessarily mean

788
00:49:15.640 --> 00:49:17.960
that all of the circumstances are gonna change.

789
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:19.080
Just need to clarify that,

790
00:49:19.080 --> 00:49:20.400
because otherwise people are just like,

791
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:22.720
well, actually, these situations are still going on.

792
00:49:22.720 --> 00:49:27.720
Yep, Jesus was killed, very, very brutally.

793
00:49:28.080 --> 00:49:30.720
So rest is very different from the absence

794
00:49:30.720 --> 00:49:32.160
of unpleasant circumstances.

795
00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:34.880
Okay, so right before we break,

796
00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:38.640
I wanted to mention just this exercise.

797
00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:45.200
And I'll let you do it by yourselves really quick,

798
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:48.720
just so that you'll have the practice of doing this.

799
00:49:48.720 --> 00:49:50.120
You don't have to do it this way.

800
00:49:50.120 --> 00:49:55.120
This is just the phraseology that actually worked with me.

801
00:49:56.240 --> 00:50:00.160
So whenever I'm about to go into meditation,

802
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.520
circumstances, or whatever, where I'm triggered. And I'm like, okay, I'm

803
00:50:07.520 --> 00:50:11.200
about to have such-and-such a conversation with so-and-so, or so-and-so

804
00:50:11.200 --> 00:50:16.640
is talking at me in this way, or I'm about to need to make a decision, and I'm

805
00:50:16.640 --> 00:50:20.760
feeling very unsure about myself.

806
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:36.840
Appreciate y'all being patient. I go through this, so I always shift

807
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:40.840
myself back into my identity, and sometimes I need a tool. So yesterday,

808
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:46.880
before I started teaching, I did this. I was standing up here, and

809
00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:50.000
probably just looked like I was looking at my computer screen, but I was shifting

810
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:53.080
back into my identity. In other words, reminding myself, because it's so easy

811
00:50:53.080 --> 00:50:57.360
for me to be triggered to get out of it. You know, I've been trained so long, I have

812
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.880
all of these temptations, these fears of the Lord, you know, of intimacy and all of

813
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:05.760
that, and so I would keep trying to push out of myself. I was like, nope, who

814
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:11.120
does God say that I am? And so I've learned to do it sometimes, not every

815
00:51:11.120 --> 00:51:14.320
time, but sometimes I've learned to shift into my identity without going through

816
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:20.080
this exercise. But this exercise is what I used, kind of gave me a tool. Remember

817
00:51:20.080 --> 00:51:22.920
how we were talking about steam, and then changing the form down at ice, and

818
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:26.600
something we can grab ahold of? That's what we're doing here, is we're

819
00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:30.680
actually taking something that we can grab ahold of and use, and kind of like

820
00:51:30.680 --> 00:51:35.720
as a leverage for our soul, kind of giving ourselves a bit of a bit of a bit

821
00:51:35.720 --> 00:51:40.400
of help. And I would talk myself through this, and I would figure out, okay, this

822
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:44.200
is how it feels to shift into my identity. And so then once I began to

823
00:51:44.200 --> 00:51:48.720
identify what that feels like, in other words, in my spirit, I don't even need the

824
00:51:48.720 --> 00:51:52.920
tool, and I can just shift myself there. But these tools help you get there, and

825
00:51:53.120 --> 00:51:56.680
there are some times when I feel especially, when I'm especially struggling

826
00:51:56.680 --> 00:52:01.080
in my faith, or I'm especially struggling, feeling intimidated, or whatever, I'll

827
00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:05.800
still use this tool. So it's not that, oh well, you know, I progress now, I don't do

828
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:10.000
it. No, it just depends, you know, on the on the time and circumstance. So what I

829
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:16.240
did is, for whatever reason, I always imagine God the Father here. I don't know

830
00:52:16.240 --> 00:52:21.720
why, but I do. You might sense him in your spirit somewhere else. But I

831
00:52:21.720 --> 00:52:26.520
always sense him here, which I love, because it means he's beside me. And then

832
00:52:26.520 --> 00:52:29.960
for whatever reason, I always see Jesus out here, probably because I'm always

833
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:34.800
interacting, I interact with him a lot. And when he talks to me, he's always

834
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:43.480
out here somewhere. And so I tell Jesus, I remember, okay, I remember

835
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:47.600
the fact that God says that I'm one with him, the fact that I'm his bride, that he

836
00:52:47.640 --> 00:52:52.480
desires me, that I'm one with him. And so from that place, like a husband and wife

837
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:56.440
getting together at the altar and making a marriage vow, each one has to

838
00:52:56.440 --> 00:53:01.840
voluntarily, of their own free will, speak the vow in authority. So the

839
00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:06.760
husband always speaks first, right? He always makes the vow first. The wife, when

840
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:10.920
it's her turn, you know, the lady who's getting married, they're not husband and

841
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:18.600
wife yet, but when they do that, she is not repeating his words back to him. She

842
00:53:18.600 --> 00:53:22.440
is making her own vow and her own authority of her own free will. And that

843
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:27.240
is how I need to talk to Jesus. He told me all of these things I'm about to tell

844
00:53:27.240 --> 00:53:32.480
him, but I have to own it for myself and choose of my own free will, because we

845
00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:36.360
can only love by free will, otherwise it's not love. We can only give ourselves

846
00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:40.960
by our free will, and God will not violate free will. It's another thing

847
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:45.800
that's very big with the Lord. Love, relationship, union, and free will. God

848
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:50.360
always respects our free will, and he calls us to respect each other's free

849
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.000
will. We'll be talking a lot about that later when we talk about our

850
00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:57.640
interactions with other people, how to interact with them, especially

851
00:53:57.640 --> 00:54:03.440
somebody who's very, very difficult when interacting with them, so we're not

852
00:54:03.520 --> 00:54:08.880
trying to manipulate them. Manipulation is a violation of

853
00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:12.160
somebody's free will. God takes that extremely seriously. God of the

854
00:54:12.160 --> 00:54:16.700
universe doesn't even do that to us, so we definitely don't have a right to do

855
00:54:16.700 --> 00:54:22.440
it to our children, our spouses, you know, whoever else. But anyway, so my own free

856
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:26.320
will, I have to talk to the Lord. So Jesus, God always initiates everything first.

857
00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:31.220
Jesus told me all of these things. He made me this vow, so I'm now

858
00:54:31.220 --> 00:54:34.940
repeating it back to him, my own free will. I'm owning all of that, and I'm

859
00:54:34.940 --> 00:54:38.340
telling God, this is what I'm—this is who it is that I am that I'm giving to you.

860
00:54:38.340 --> 00:54:43.220
So I tell Jesus, okay, Jesus, because remember, I'm doing this exercise

861
00:54:43.220 --> 00:54:49.020
because I'm trying to remind myself of my identity, and I tell Jesus, okay, Jesus, I

862
00:54:49.020 --> 00:54:54.740
believe I was taken out of you, and I believe that I was put back into you.

863
00:54:54.740 --> 00:55:01.980
Again, I speak this with authority. I'm not commanding. This isn't—

864
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.080
or spiritual warfare, so don't get hard about it.

865
00:55:04.080 --> 00:55:04.920
It's authority.

866
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:06.600
Choose, center yourself in your free will.

867
00:55:06.600 --> 00:55:08.360
This is something that I am owning.

868
00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:11.960
So God, you know, Jesus, I believe I was taken out of you,

869
00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:14.520
and I believe I've been reinserted back into you.

870
00:55:14.520 --> 00:55:19.240
And I abide in you, and you abide in me,

871
00:55:19.240 --> 00:55:22.680
and we abide in the Father, and the Father abides in us.

872
00:55:22.680 --> 00:55:25.420
Therefore, I am always about my Father's business.

873
00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:28.720
And that's how I taught myself through it.

874
00:55:28.720 --> 00:55:31.280
Because I'm trying to remind myself

875
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:33.520
of what it is that he said,

876
00:55:33.520 --> 00:55:35.700
and I'm choosing to stand in an authority

877
00:55:35.700 --> 00:55:38.680
that I don't even believe it is that I have yet.

878
00:55:38.680 --> 00:55:40.760
So, and until the end of the process,

879
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:43.320
then I'm like, okay, maybe I really did have, you know,

880
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.920
that authority to be able to say that.

881
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:47.520
So that's called faith.

882
00:55:47.520 --> 00:55:49.680
We're stepping out on something that is that God said,

883
00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:50.680
when we're not having proof,

884
00:55:50.680 --> 00:55:53.200
even proof of our own feelings.

885
00:55:53.200 --> 00:55:55.160
So I, that's what I do.

886
00:55:55.160 --> 00:55:56.340
I go through that.

887
00:55:56.340 --> 00:55:59.700
Y'all can say, if something else works for y'all,

888
00:55:59.700 --> 00:56:00.640
y'all can say that.

889
00:56:00.640 --> 00:56:01.940
That works for me.

890
00:56:01.940 --> 00:56:05.240
Sometimes, depending on my day,

891
00:56:06.340 --> 00:56:09.740
I might have to say it six times

892
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:13.620
in order to shift myself, in order to remember.

893
00:56:13.620 --> 00:56:17.560
Because it's not, you're not trying to convince yourself,

894
00:56:17.560 --> 00:56:19.700
you're trying to choose.

895
00:56:19.700 --> 00:56:23.220
You're trying to find that place of intention in you.

896
00:56:23.220 --> 00:56:25.460
It's a really big topic we're gonna talk about on Sunday.

897
00:56:25.460 --> 00:56:26.300
It's so very big.

898
00:56:27.140 --> 00:56:27.980
I wish we could talk about it earlier,

899
00:56:27.980 --> 00:56:28.800
but it's not gonna make sense

900
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:29.640
unless we talk about it later.

901
00:56:29.640 --> 00:56:30.700
But it is so very important.

902
00:56:30.700 --> 00:56:32.820
Everything that we do has to go,

903
00:56:32.820 --> 00:56:36.020
we have to do it with an intention, with a choosing.

904
00:56:36.020 --> 00:56:39.140
My own free will, this is what it is that I have decided,

905
00:56:39.140 --> 00:56:41.580
and I am sending it forward into the spirit,

906
00:56:41.580 --> 00:56:43.900
and into the metaphysical,

907
00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:46.060
which will eventually manifest into the visible.

908
00:56:46.060 --> 00:56:47.260
And that's, and we can,

909
00:56:47.260 --> 00:56:50.060
that's why we can speak things, actually, into existence.

910
00:56:50.060 --> 00:56:52.700
You know, we know that our words are very powerful.

911
00:56:52.740 --> 00:56:56.460
So, I'm trying to shift myself back into that identity.

912
00:56:56.460 --> 00:56:57.740
And so I just go through that.

913
00:56:57.740 --> 00:56:59.500
So I'll go through it one more time.

914
00:57:00.580 --> 00:57:01.980
And again, if this doesn't work for you,

915
00:57:01.980 --> 00:57:03.740
and something else does, do that.

916
00:57:03.740 --> 00:57:06.140
But you're trying to find that place of identity within you,

917
00:57:06.140 --> 00:57:07.360
and identify that.

918
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:09.380
So eventually, you can get rid of the tool,

919
00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:10.620
and you won't even need it.

920
00:57:10.620 --> 00:57:13.700
And you just shift yourself into choosing that you are

921
00:57:13.700 --> 00:57:14.860
who God says that you are.

922
00:57:14.860 --> 00:57:17.460
So I tell Christ, Christ, I believe that I was,

923
00:57:17.460 --> 00:57:19.380
I mean, I talked to him.

924
00:57:19.380 --> 00:57:20.820
Nothing else is around.

925
00:57:20.820 --> 00:57:22.320
That's what I'm doing right now.

926
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:24.680
I'll just go through it, as if y'all aren't here.

927
00:57:24.680 --> 00:57:26.440
So, excuse me.

928
00:57:28.560 --> 00:57:32.360
Christ, I believe that I was taken out of you,

929
00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:35.760
and I have been reinserted back into you.

930
00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:40.320
And I abide in you, and you abide in me.

931
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:44.000
And we abide in the Father, as the Father abides in us.

932
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.460
And therefore, I am always about my Father's business.

933
00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:49.160
And I shift.

934
00:57:50.220 --> 00:57:52.100
And so once you find that place,

935
00:57:53.060 --> 00:57:56.820
once you shift, and once you get very familiar

936
00:57:56.820 --> 00:57:58.740
with that place of intention,

937
00:57:58.740 --> 00:58:01.540
you can do that, like I said, without doing the tool.

938
00:58:01.540 --> 00:58:04.540
And in a moment, which is what actually I did yesterday,

939
00:58:04.540 --> 00:58:06.860
I could just shift into it, and just remember,

940
00:58:06.860 --> 00:58:09.020
okay, I'm out of alignment somewhere.

941
00:58:09.020 --> 00:58:11.580
There's some concern, there's some thing

942
00:58:11.580 --> 00:58:13.980
that I'm not believing about me and the Lord,

943
00:58:13.980 --> 00:58:16.380
not believing something that God says is true.

944
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And I shift.

945
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So, I would just ask that y'all can,

946
00:58:21.420 --> 00:58:23.340
you can say it out loud if you want to.

947
00:58:23.340 --> 00:58:24.900
You can just say it to yourself.

948
00:58:24.900 --> 00:58:27.140
You can close your eyes, keep your eyes open.

949
00:58:27.140 --> 00:58:30.060
Jester, not Jester, do whatever you want.

950
00:58:30.060 --> 00:58:34.060
But I recommend going through this for just a bit,

951
00:58:34.060 --> 00:58:37.660
and for probably just about two minutes or so.

952
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And what you're looking for is you're looking for,

953
00:58:42.260 --> 00:58:44.500
you're making a very intentional choice.

954
00:58:44.500 --> 00:58:46.780
God, this is me in my own free will,

955
00:58:46.780 --> 00:58:49.740
and in my authority, I'm making a vow to you.

956
00:58:49.740 --> 00:58:50.940
And you're choosing that you believe

957
00:58:50.940 --> 00:58:53.200
that God is who he says that you are.

958
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968
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975
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976
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977
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978
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979
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980
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981
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