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Hey guys, how's it going?

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I'm just getting this organized here, let me just, hey, hey, hey, what have we got here?

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Hey guys, I'm just going to wait for a couple of people to join, hey Janet, how's it going?

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Storm, how's it going?

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I'm just going to wait for a couple of people to join up and then we're going to get started

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on this session, it's going to be our first Kingdom Culture session, doing a whole unit

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on Kingdom Culture and it's going to be theological, it's going to be revelational, it's going

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to be super practical, pray it will be transformational, and can you guys hear me?

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Let me know if you can't hear me, I'll figure out my sound if you can't hear me, hello,

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hey, hey, yes, you can hear me, cool, okay, good, I'm glad the sound's working, I'm just

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going to give a couple of minutes for a few more people to join, cheers!

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Behind me is actually a film studio, I've been filming a prayer school today and I've

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just filmed five sessions, so, whoa, I feel like I've kind of run a marathon, I started

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at 5am this morning, set this thing up and of course there's no camera people, no videographers

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allowed in our house with the level 3 lockdown, so I've been the videographer and let me just

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see if I can tilt this, yeah, look at that, all this stuff everywhere, there's another

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camera over there, whoa, it's my living room and my film studio right now, so there you go,

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welcome, awesome guys, well, what I'm going to do is, Elise, hey, I'm just going to interact

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with you guys for a little bit longer, good to see you Elise, legend, I'm going to wave

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at you by pressing this wave button, yeah, cool, kia ora, yes, wow, well, hey, okay,

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let's get into this guys, today we're going to be talking about, I'm going to be sharing

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to you about Kingdom Culture and we're going to have our first Kingdom Culture session,

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these sessions are going to start, they're going to begin here on the embassy, kia ora,

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they're going to begin here on the embassy and I think we're going to do at least the

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first three, I'm going to do today, this session, then tomorrow and then on Wednesday I'm going

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to do a third session, on Wednesday night we're going to launch our new initiative which

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is the Online School of Sonship and we're really excited about that, so we're going

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to release the first part of this Kingdom Culture series here on the embassy and we're

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going to continue it on the School of Sonship, if you don't end up doing the School of Sonship

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this is still going to be awesome, each and every session is going to be a complete session

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in and of itself, so that's going to be pretty cool, and the first five sessions are what

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I would call the pillar sessions, so we've broken the Kingdom Culture unit into, we've

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defined one major pillar which is what I'm going to talk about today, four other pillars

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and then under those four pillars there are just a bazillion different sessions and we're

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trying to cover as much as we can around Kingdom Culture and not just about Kingdom Culture

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but how to walk in, establish and build Kingdom Culture in, through and from your lives, so

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I want to begin by something that I think is the most foundational aspect of Kingdom

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Culture, I want to talk about Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone, I want to talk about

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Jesus today and I want to talk about how Jesus practically actually is the cornerstone for

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a Kingdom Lifestyle or a Kingdom Culture and I think that's going to be pretty powerful,

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Let's get into this. I'm going to get my Bible. I've got my Bible here and I'm going to share

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some scriptures. I'm going to tell some stories. I'm going to share some thoughts, some ideas,

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some inspiration. And at the end of this, I'm going to share something really practical around

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what I do and what the Lord led me to do when things in my life just aren't lining up with

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what I know they should be. And I don't know if anyone else has experienced that. I'm pretty sure

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you probably all have. But there's been moments in my life, and sometimes they're more frequent

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than I would like, where it just seems that God is saying one thing, but what I'm experiencing

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in my life seems to be another thing. And I'm like, that's not cool. So what do you do in

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those kind of circumstances where things aren't just lining up with what you know to be the

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reality that God has designed for your life? Hey Margaret, good to see you. So here we go.

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We're going to begin with John chapter 1. So we're going to read a couple of scriptures.

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I think this is going to be quite beneficial for people. John chapter 1 says this.

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It says,

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the

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beginning with God, and all things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made

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that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And I'm just going to read the

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whole thing because it's so good. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not

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comprehend it. There was a man sent from God whose name is John. This man came for a witness

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to bear witness to the light that all through him might believe. And then we're going to skip down

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to... I mean the whole thing is just so good, but honestly it's dangerous for me to read this

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because I just go down so many different rabbit trails. But in verse 14 it says,

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And the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the

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only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Full of reality and full of the empowerment

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to live within that reality. Full of grace and truth. The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst

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us. It's as if God was saying, you know, listen I've spoken to you through the prophets. I've

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told you about who I am. I've told you about who you are. I've told you about what life is all about.

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But listen, now I'm just going to come and I myself am going to enflesh myself into human

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flesh, and I'm going to show you what I mean. That the Word became flesh. And what is the Word?

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What Word? What is the Word? Now first of all I want to say this. I love the Bible. I absolutely

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love the Bible. I think the Bible is amazing. The Scripture is amazing. But this is not the Word of

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God. Now these are the inspired Scriptures. All Scripture is God-breathed. All Scripture comes

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from God Himself. This is a God-inspired, you know, God inspired the authors of this Bible to

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write down the things that they wrote down straight from the heart of God. And I believe that all

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Scripture is God-breathed. All Scripture is God-inspired. But when the Bible talks about

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the Word of God, it's not actually talking about the Scripture. It's actually talking about Jesus

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Christ, who is the Word made flesh. It's talking about the Logos. One translator translated

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that Word in John 1.14, the Word Word. He translated it the Blueprint. So it could be read like this.

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The Blueprint. God's Blueprint became flesh and dwelt amongst us. God's Blueprint of what? And

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God's Word of what? God's Word around who He is. God's Word around who you are. And God's Word

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around what life is all about. And, you know, Jesus Christ is what God has to say about Himself.

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Jesus Christ is what God has to say about you and I, about the human race, about humanity.

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And Jesus Christ is what God has to say about life. Not just God saying it and giving it lip

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service, but God actually showing it and demonstrating it. The Gospel is a taste and

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see Gospel. It's not just a, hey, you do this Gospel. It's a Gospel where God has actually

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come and He's showing us the way in His own flesh, which is pretty amazing. So, you know,

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Jesus refers to Himself as both the Son of Man and the Son of God. He's the Son of God,

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which means He could say things like, when you've seen me, you've seen the Father.

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He could say things like, I am. He was crucified for making Himself easy.

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with God. And you know, Jesus Christ is fully God. Amen? Awesome. And let me just

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go to Philippians. Philippians says something amazing in the light of the

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fact that Jesus Christ is fully God, but He's also fully man. He's the Son of Man.

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So Jesus is not just what God has to say about Himself, but He's also what God has

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to say about you and I. He's also God's divine blueprint of what God imagined

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for what God imagined as the normal human life for every human. Jesus Christ

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is the blueprint from heaven that says, hey, this is what human life's meant to

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be like. Guys, you might be experiencing like this, you might be experiencing that,

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you might be experiencing this lack, or this lack, or that lack, or you might be

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experiencing something less than this, but this is actually the life that I

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imagined for you when I created you, and I'm actually through

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Jesus giving you empowerment to live that life now. And so Jesus Christ is not

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just what God has to say about Himself. He's not just a perfect representation

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of God. Jesus is not just what God is like, that is, He is what God is like, but

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Jesus Christ is also what you're like. And so let's read Philippians, oh and

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sorry, before I do that, let me just mention a couple of things. You know,

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Jesus said, you know, Hebrews, sorry, Hebrews says that Jesus is bringing

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many sons to glory. Romans says that He's the firstborn, Romans 8 says He's the

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firstborn amongst many brothers and sisters. When the disciples asked

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Jesus, how do you pray? He says, pray like this, our Father. He's saying, He's not, He

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didn't say my Father, He said our Father. In other words, the same way that God is

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my Father, and the same way that I am God's Son, you are God's child, and He is

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also your Father, in the exact same way. And so this is so cool that we have an

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invitation that we get to see modeled through the life of Jesus, to relate to

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God in the same way that Jesus relates to God, and as we follow Jesus, He brings us

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into the fulfillment of our sonship, and into the fulfillment of what it means to

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to be a child of God, and into the fulfillment of what God imagined our

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lives to be like when He first created us. And so, now let's skip to

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Philippians 2, and in Philippians 2, it says something really interesting

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regarding the fact that Jesus is fully God, and that He's also fully

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man at the same time. And I love all this stuff, by the way, but Philippians

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chapter 2, and in verse 5, it says this,

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of

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God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. In other words, Jesus is

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God. But He made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond

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servant, and coming in the likeness of men. In other words, Jesus is fully man,

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fully God, fully man. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself

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and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. And so, we

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have this scenario where Jesus Christ, being both fully God and fully man, even

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though He was fully God, and didn't consider it robbery to make Himself

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equal with God, He laid aside His divine rights as God, and took on the full

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expression and the full experience of what it means to be human, along with all

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the limitations and restrictions that come along with that, which there are far

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less than what we had previously been led to believe. And why would He do

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something like that? Because He didn't want to just receive a clap

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and an applause from mankind to say, Whoa, you're so cool, God. He actually wanted

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through His life, God was and still is, inviting us into the fullness of

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who He's made us to be. Jesus is the most normal human that has ever walked the

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planet. Jesus is an example of the normal Christian life. Of course, every human

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being is designed to be a follower of Jesus. God's desire is that every

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human being be a Christian. And therefore, with that in mind, Jesus is the most

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normal human that has ever walked the planet. Everything Jesus did, He didn't do

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as God, He did as a human being in relationship with God by the Holy Spirit.

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He walked on water as a human, in relationship, filled with and flowing in

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the Holy Spirit. He raised the dead as a human being, like you and I.

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but in relationship and filled with and flowing in the Holy Spirit.

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He multiplied bread. He caused money to come out of fish.

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He did all those things that He did as a human being in relation.

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Now, He is fully God, but He had put that aside for the moment that He was trying to express to us

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what it's like to be human and what He intends for the human life to be like.

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And He did that as a human being, and He lived His entire human life as a human,

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but in connection with God, filled with and flowing in the Spirit, which is pretty awesome.

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Jesus is, in fact, really a divine invitation from the Father Himself.

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You know, Jesus said to Himself, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

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No one comes to the Father except by me.

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He's the way to the Father. He's the truth of the Father, and He is the life.

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He came, you know, we beheld His glory full of grace and truth.

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Full of grace being the empowerment from God to do something that you couldn't do

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before you received the empowerment, and truth being the reality that God says.

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The reality from God's perspective.

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So Jesus Christ is both reality from God's perspective and the empowerment

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to come into the reality that is the reality of God's perspective.

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And so, He is the way, He is the truth, and He is the life, and no man comes to the Father except by Him.

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What is also true is that He is the way, He is the truth, and He is the life,

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and no man comes to who they have been designed to be except through Him.

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He's the way to two places. He's the way to the Father, but when you come to the Father,

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the Father then takes you to yourself.

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And in connection with the Father, you find yourself because you have been hidden with Christ in God.

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And when Christ who is your life appears, you too will appear with Him in glory.

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And whereas Christ now, He is in glory.

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And as we come, and as we follow Jesus, and as He leads us to the Father,

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when we come to the Father, we find that in that space of the Father, we have actually been hidden.

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In other words, the true blueprint of who you are, the reality of who you are as a son or a daughter of God,

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has been hidden in God with Christ.

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And so when you come with Christ into that space, there you are, and you find yourself in that space.

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Jesus Christ leads you to the Father, and the Father unveils you to yourself.

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This is an amazing thing.

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He unveils what life is always meant to be like. He unveils to you the normal human life.

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He unveils to you and leads you into the space where you can begin to fully outwork the life that He designed for you when He created you.

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Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone, and the alignment comes before the assignment.

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That we've all been designed for an assignment.

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We all have a mission on earth. We all have a purpose on earth.

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But before we engage in that mission, before we engage in that purpose,

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God brings us into alignment with who we are so that we can engage in that.

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And when we're asking the question, what is kingdom like, and what is kingdom culture like?

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Kingdom culture is like Jesus.

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And if we're asking the question, what does it look like to live a kingdom culture kind of life?

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What does my life look like when it's fully kingdomized?

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Well, in a simple answer, you could say this.

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It looks like Jesus, and anything less than Jesus is less than what God has designed for you.

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Sharama kasanda. Ho ho hoa.

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So I think of things like, I think of the Mount of Transfiguration.

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I've just been filming for a school of prayer that we're going to unleash in the near future.

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And part of what I was sharing in one of my sessions in the school of prayer is,

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you know, I think it's in Matthew 17, the Mount of Transfiguration.

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And I love when Jesus takes the three, Peter, John and James.

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He takes him up the Mount of Transfiguration and they get a glimpse into Jesus' secret place,

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Jesus' personal devotional time with the Father.

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And, you know, the glory of God is emanating through Jesus' skin.

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You know, the cloud is there, they see Elijah, they see Moses, the Father's voice is there.

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It is, it is, I mean, I read that and think, oh, if Jesus is the example of the normal Christian life,

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then that means this is the normal, this is the type and the quality of devotional time

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that I've been invited to have with the Father.

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This is what my secret place is meant to look like.

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I'm so excited. Lord, I RSVP to that invitation. Yes, I'm coming.

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I want my prayer life to look like that.

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And then I see things like I see the multiplication of food.

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Man, how cool would it be to go to some of the places on the earth?

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and it's just millions of people who just have very little

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and have a lot of lack and not much food

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and there's a lot of hunger and there's a lot of poverty in this place

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and how cool it would be to go to that place

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and just to just to bring food and to just multiply food like Jesus did.

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that that is the normal Christian life.

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Jesus is the most normal anything less than Jesus is abnormal

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and we're all becoming normal.

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and you can look at every aspect of life and you can find it in Christ

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and there's so many aspects to his life that just get me so excited

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and I feel such a tug from the Father and such an invitation from heaven

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to step into the more and to step into the higher experiences

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of what it means to walk with God and know God and follow Jesus

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and be the person that God has called me to be

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in the kingdom living a kingdom life

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there have been times where my circumstances

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and my experiences, you know, don't line up

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or haven't lined up with what I see in the life of Jesus.

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when you pray for someone and they don't get healed

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because Jesus never prayed for someone and they didn't get healed.

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and I'll share that in a second

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but there's many aspects of my life where I look and I think

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man, I know what your reality is God.

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I know what you're calling me to God.

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I know what kingdom culture looks like God.

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I can see it in Jesus and I refuse to take my eyes off of you Jesus.

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I'm following you Jesus.

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and when things maybe happen that are disappointing

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which is what happens when there's distance between you

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and where you've been appointed to be or who you've been appointed to be.

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the standard that God has set for you

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or the life and the quality of life that you know that God has invited you to live

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and you see that obviously in Jesus

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and what you consider to be possible at the standard

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and define my reality to me?

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and I encourage you don't do that.

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Disappointing things happen to me

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but regardless of the level of disappointment

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we are not disciples of our disappointment.

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and many people that proclaim to follow Jesus

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and they are following Jesus to the best of their ability

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actually following their circumstances and their experiences

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and they are being discipled by those things

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instead of being discipled by Jesus.

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disappointments, my experiences, even if they're good or if they're bad. I'm not a

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disciple of my experiences and I'm not a disciple of my external circumstances.

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I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. My experiences are not the way, the truth,

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and the life. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. And if I'm wanting

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to live a kingdom culture life, then I must sever my attachment from my

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experiences and from my circumstances, where that attachment is causing me to

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actually follow those things and be shaped and defined by those things above

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and beyond being defined by Jesus Christ Himself and what God has to say. I want

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the Word of God, as I defined it in the beginning of this teaching, to be my

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definition, to be my definer. I don't want to be defined by anything else.

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The Bible says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So what that, you know,

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one of the implications that that makes is this, is that your experience of

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reality is not necessarily reality. Your experience, but this is true, your

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experience of reality is solid evidence of what you believe to be real. And we're

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all in this process, as we follow Jesus, of changing what we believe. That's why

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Jesus' first message was, repent, change the way you think, for the kingdom of

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heaven is at hand. Sorry, I've lost my thought for a second. Coming back to me.

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It's coming back to me. Oh man, I hate it when that happens, when you lose your

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thought. In the editing of this, can you just edit out this part? Someone remind

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me in a comment what I was saying. Good to see you all, by the way.

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Oh man, I can't believe it. So, I've just completely lost track of what I was saying.

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That is so funny. Elise, you're laughing at me. Thank you so much. Thank you for

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that encouragement, Miryama. I honestly can't remember what I was saying though.

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Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. That's right. Thank you. Thank you so

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much. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So, your experience of reality is not

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necessarily reality, but it's what you believe reality to be. And if you believe

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reality to be something different to what God believes is real, then your experience

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of reality will be less than what God has assigned and defined and intended for

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your life. And so, the clear solution to that is to change your perspective of

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reality to come into alignment with God's perspective of reality. And where

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do you find God's perspective of reality? You find God's perspective of reality in

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Jesus. And so now, let me read to you the scripture that I often read whenever I'm

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feeling discouraged or whenever it feels like my life is just not matching up with

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what God is saying and with what I see in the life of Jesus. It's in Hebrews. You

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can turn that, if you like. It's in Hebrews chapter 2. And I'm going to read

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this to you in a little bit of thoroughness because I think it's just

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very, very good. And we'll start in...oh man, it's so good. We'll start in verse 5. And in

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verse 5 it says,

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What is man? Everyone say man. Come on, man. That one word is majorly pivotal in the

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scripture. What is man? That you, with a capital Y, talking about God. What is man?

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That you, God, are mindful of him. Or the son of man, not with a capital S or a

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capital M, talking about you and I. Or the son of man, that you take care of him with

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a little h, not a capital H. You have made him a little lower than the angels.

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God. You have made Him a little lower than God, Him with a small m, talking about you and me,

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talking about man. You have made mankind a little lower than God and you have crowned Him, humanity,

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mankind, with glory and honor and set Him, mankind, you and I, over the works of your hands.

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You have put all things in subjection under His feet. Whoa, whoa, hang on. Now, when it says His

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feet, it still doesn't have a capital H. It's still got a small h. It's talking about your

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feet and my feet. All things have been put in subjection under our feet, the people of God.

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This is amazing. You have put all, it doesn't even say some, it doesn't even say 99% of things,

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it doesn't even say 99.9% of things, it doesn't even say almost everything has been put under

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your feet. It says all, A-L-L, all things, everything, barring nothing, everything has

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been put under your feet and everything has been put under subjection to you.

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of your life right there. You have utter, absolute, complete and all authority given to you.

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And there it is right there, the Word made flesh. God's told us about it and not just that, He's

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showing us it in His own life, in the life of Jesus. So this is pretty exciting. I'm going to

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get my clap on. So I'm encouraged. I hope you're encouraged. Until you come across one of those

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circumstances where it doesn't line up. And then you think, hang on a second, did the writer of

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Hebrews know what he was talking about? Did Hebrews 2, was Hebrews 2 meant to be in the book

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of Hebrews? Because this doesn't seem to be lining up. And you get to make that choice that everyone

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gets to make, as are my circumstances going to define me? Or is Jesus going to define me?

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He with a capital H, God, in that God put all in subjection under Him, small h, you.

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He left, God left, nothing that is not put under Him, you, you and me.

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is he's saying, hey, all things have been put under you, but you don't yet see the fulfillment

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of that reality in your life yet. In other words, the truth is, the reality is that all things you

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do truly, actually, really, wonderfully have all authority, but you haven't seen the outworking of

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that yet. That hasn't come to its fulfillment yet. And there are still some things that you look at,

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and you think, that's not under my feet yet. What do you do then? Well, here it is.

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He says, but, I love it when the Bible puts a but in there, but we see Jesus,

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who was made a little lower than Elohim. He's relating back to the Son of Man.

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For the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God,

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might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all, sorry,

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for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, and bringing many sons to glory,

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to make the captain of their salvation, perfect through suffering.

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for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.

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Wow! Your older brother, Jesus Christ, your high priest, Jesus Christ, your divine blueprint,

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Jesus Christ, God made flesh, the Word of God, what God has to say about Himself,

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about you and I, and about what it looks like to live a kingdom life, to live a normal human life,

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is right there. And He says, hey, everything has been given to you. All things have been put under

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your feet. You have all authority, but I'll tell you what, man, that's not always...

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It's not always going to be your experience, but it will remain always your reality.

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rising to the degree you believe in the reality that God says about you.

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And that's why it's so important when things don't line up, when things don't seem to be

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making sense in your life, it's so important to go straight back to the prayer closet,

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to go straight back into the place of beholding God, beholding Jesus, to go straight back

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into that place of prayer and worship and praise and adoration and just go, God, show

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me your face.

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Jesus, show me your face.

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Show me your life.

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Show me your reality.

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Show me who you are.

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I want to sit and I want to behold you.

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at the life of Jesus again and to be redefined.

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Every time you feel knocked to the side, coming back into alignment looks like looking at

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And so that's really what I want to share for Kingdom Culture Session 1.

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The first and the absolute primary pillar of Kingdom Culture is this, is that Jesus

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Christ is the Word of God.

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The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld His glory.

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What is the Kingdom like?

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The Kingdom is like Jesus.

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What is the King like?

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The King is like Jesus.

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What are the sons and daughters of the King like?

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They're also like Jesus.

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Every time you have a question mark, go to Jesus.

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Jesus is the way, not our way.

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Jesus is the way.

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He's the truth and He's the life, period.

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And so I hope that helps, guys.

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I hope that rings true.

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Again, Benji or Joseph or whoever the editing guys are in this, feel free to edit that part

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And also tonight we're going to be going live, myself, Benji and Joseph are going to be going

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live at, I think, 8.30, so that's going to be pretty fun.

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We're just going to be having a kōrero, having a yarn about this, having a conversation

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about this session and about this topic of Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone and

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how that's kind of outworked in our lives.

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We might share some more personal stories in that time, so that'd be pretty cool.

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And then tomorrow, at some point, probably around lunchtime, I'll be going live with

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Kingdom Culture part two, pillar two, and that's going to be super exciting and encouraging

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and fun.

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And maybe I'll write some more notes so I don't lose my place in that.

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Just kidding.

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Well, I might actually write some more notes.

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And yeah, so God bless you.

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Guys are awesome.

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Legends.

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Thanks for tuning in, guys.

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Thank you for tuning in.

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So good.

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Hopefully, I'll see you tomorrow around the same time-ish.

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Bless you.