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last section I want to talk about this Kingdom Leadership Habit and specifically

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I'd love to talk about Reset to Rest. Now those who've been to the School of

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Leadership and so on will say, oh we've seen that before. This is going to take it up

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quite a bit to a different level because I want to bring up the Kingdom element.

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But just to get everybody on the same page as to what we're talking about

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obviously one of the key scriptures here is from Matthew 11 28 which we

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quote almost every time we're together. And the reason is this might be one of

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the most helpful, this might be one of the most helpful Kingdom business

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scriptures. And I feel like I'm becoming the scripture. I really feel in my own, I

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think many of you might feel that already. Because here's what it is, we

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come to Him, all of us who are weary and burdened, if you're feeling you're

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pulling the big load and I will give you rest. So there's an exchange. Now it's

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not transactional, it's relational. So that doesn't mean that when I'm a bit of

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stress I go and find some peace. I go and find some rest. It means I cease from my

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own effort. I stand still. I stop in my heart. That. And you can't be, because

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rest activates your yoke. Because you cannot be in your yoke and be stressed.

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Where am I getting that from? Galatians 5 is a 20 or 25 that says we live by the

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Spirit let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Which infers that it's possible

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to live by the Spirit and not be in step with the Spirit. So then he says take my

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yoke. So okay let's join together. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. For I

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am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your soul. Your whole

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inner being. That word soul, psuche in the Greek literally means your whole inner

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life. It also means when you say I, when you refer to

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yourself, when you say I, the all of me, the all the inward me, that's your soul.

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Jesus will find rest for every aspect of your identity, every aspect of your

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being. And here comes the kicker. For my yoke, my partnership, is easy. It's

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effective and delightful. Highly effective, highly delightful. Upstairs

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and downstairs. And my burden is light. You will feel like that the part you're

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carrying, it'll feel a little bit like you're cheating. Like Lord really how

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much lighter can this feel you know? And it was because of that I meant to throw

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in the picture of the bull here which I might still do or maybe someone can pull

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up the picture of the two bulls that I shared with you before.

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Because what I want us to get from this is what the Lord is

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offering us is a modality, a lifestyle, a way of leading, a place to lead from, a

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place to stand, a place to be. Not a transaction to get to when we feel a

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little stressed or under pressure. Hey guys, seriously, stress, weariness, anxiety

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are completely unnecessary in the kingdom when so much rest and peace is

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available. Think about the massive rest and peace that's available. You have the

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Prince of Peace living in you. You know one of the dumbest things we can do is

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pray for peace. You have the Prince of Peace living in you. You get to practice

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his peace. You get to let his peace reign. You don't have to get any more. You have

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all the peace you could possibly need. It came free with the lover of your soul,

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with Jesus. So rest activates your yoke. So let's talk about what a kingdom

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routine looks like. As I said to you in the beginning, there's a prompt, there's a

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cue, that's the trigger or event that causes you to call up this routine.

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Something happens causes you to call a routine. We know this from basic habit

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training. We all know that part. Permission is what's my permission with

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the Father to do this. Remember we work of upstairs permission leads to

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downstairs bold action. Upstairs permission, you know, it's like well should

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I invest in that course? You know, you took the advice, you said I'm gonna

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invest in the inner circle. You got the permission, you took bold downstairs

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action. But imagine if you just got the permission, did nothing. Or worse, you went

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to go and take bold action without the permission. Part of the learning, no

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condemnation here. Alright, because you're all smiling like have done that, been

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there, done that. And then the practice is, this is the practice or the, you know,

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the routine part of it, the part that we want to make permanent. And in the

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kingdom you practice something until it's permanent. You have a new nature in

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Christ. You're not trying to get one. You have a new nature in Christ.

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Practicing this new thing because you are someone new.

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If anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation.

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The oldest past, the new has come.

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You're not practicing it to become someone,

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you're practicing it because you are someone in Jesus.

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This is a huge shift.

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You're at the top of the mountain,

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no need for mountain climbing gear.

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He put you there, it's a gift.

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And then the person who you're becoming,

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your true identity in Christ, your true nature.

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Okay, so let's apply to reset to rest.

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So that means when I'm stressed, worried,

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anxiety is trying to gain access to my life,

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what's the permission?

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The permission is Jesus saying,

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peace, I leave with you.

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My peace, I give you.

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I do not give you as the world gives.

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Do not let your heart be troubled.

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And do not be afraid, do not let.

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I love all the let and do not lets in the scripture.

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It's just like, no biggie, don't let it.

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And the reason you can do that

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is because your new nature in Christ

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has that level of self-control.

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Did you notice that self-control

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is connected to all the fruit of the spirit?

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One of them is peace.

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You're not trying to get those things,

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that is a description of your new nature in Christ.

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You're a participant of his divine nature.

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When you were born again, you became a kingdom being.

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You live in the kingdom, you're of the kingdom,

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and yes, you are in the world,

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but you live and exist in the kingdom realm.

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That's your realm.

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And so from that realm, the gift of self-control

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is I can stop the noise, I can stop the stress,

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I can say, like a police officer holding up their hand

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saying, stop, and I can usher in.

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Graham explains it like this.

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It's like being on the 20th story of the building

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and you're standing and you hit the button

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and then peace rises, the elevator rises to meet you.

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And there's just some real talk about this.

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Why do we have to practice?

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Well, we practice to let the peace of Christ rule.

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I call up his peace in me.

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I can do this because the prince of peace

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already lives in me.

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Peace is a ruling power.

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The prince of peace, let the peace of Christ rule.

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You know, the king doesn't rule when you remember

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and then not rule when you forget.

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It's not like you go to the king's domain,

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go to any country, and it's not like,

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well, you know, I'm English and I'm in Britain

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and now we have a king.

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But I forgot that King Charles was the king

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so he's not the king anymore.

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Right, it's not how it works in the kingdom either.

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He is the king.

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And the prince of peace rules in you.

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So what you're doing is you're learning

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to let the peace of Christ rule.

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What does that mean?

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That means the first time you practice it,

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peace of Christ, and then it lasts for like 30 seconds.

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So you practice it again, then it lasts for like two minutes.

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You keep practicing and what'll happen over time

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is it'll last longer and longer and longer.

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And then you'll wake up one day and go,

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you know it's been a whole week

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since I've had to practice my peace.

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So what you're doing is you're letting his peace,

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you're not manufacturing peace,

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you're not trying to feel more peaceful,

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you're not trying to do all the downstairs

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tweaking of your brain and your emotions

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to try to zen in, whatever.

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You know, we don't need all the,

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all the downstairs stuff that the world discovers

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are just shadows of upstairs truths.

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That's all they are.

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They're just the light shadows, the 5% version.

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And so what's happening when we come to that place

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of peace and rest, something extraordinary happens.

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I become, I am an untroubled and calm leader

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who lives in permanent peace.

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This is how you know you've become the verse.

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When you say, and others say around you,

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somebody said, I'm looking forward,

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my wife wants me to learn rest,

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or whatever it was one of you said.

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So I love that because that we become the calm,

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what if you were the untroubled,

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calm lead even in the midst of crisis?

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And stress and worry are unnecessary for me

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when so much rest and peace is available to me.

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Isn't that an extraordinary, you see nothing in the kingdom,

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God never starts with a negative.

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He's never working on your stress.

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He's never working on your anxiety.

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He's never working on the negative.

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He's only working on your peace.

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Because he replaces.

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It's like I turn on the light switch,

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so there's light in the room.

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I don't work, I don't suck the darkness out

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until there's light in the room.

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When I turn on the light switch,

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there's not like this two hour struggle

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as the light switch slowly pushes the light out

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and slowly forces the darkness out of the room.

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In other words, darkness exists in a vacuum.

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Evil exists in a vacuum.

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The old man, so Jesus said,

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let me make this super simple.

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I think when God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

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had a meeting in heaven about this.

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They said let's not try to fix them. Let's just kill them off

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And give them a new a new version of us. Let's give them a new being

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Let's make them a new creation. Let's make them a god-indwelled being a new species on planet earth

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a god-indwelled being

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Paul writes and says I write you because you're not merely human

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In other words, you can do all this stuff because you are not merely human when the scripture is telling you do this

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Don't do that. Let that don't let that it's simply explaining to you

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What your new nature is like in jesus?

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Now it doesn't mean that you're going to get it instantly, right?

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The process is of learning and the process of becoming but what you're doing is you're learning to walk out who you already are in christ

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This is a completely different way because now we take this from a very different viewpoint, right?

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Not sure why this my slides are going backwards now

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This is hilarious

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All right, well, we'll go without the slides for this part. So here's what we're doing is we know already from neuroscience

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That when you are peaceful and restful, you're most creative

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You have most clear thinking you're most productive

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You're most present in your relationships and you're most effective in your leadership

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So what the lord is inviting us into is a whole different way of being with him

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So he's saying to us. Hey, I want you

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I want you to be in a position where you are working with me

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In other words, you're walking out your new nature in jesus

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Notice i'm not trying to attain something i'm doing it because I am someone

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I love this stuff so much because what it says to us is that the lord is saying I am the prince of peace

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Your job is to let my peace reign

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And that is the game changer. That is the thing. I know for some of you

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You've really been practicing this listen. I wrote a whole book called wired

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You can see it behind me because I was trying to figure out why christians take so long to grow, you know

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20 years in church. Why do there's so little transformation?

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Why is that?

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And then when I went through my own challenges, you all know my story

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It took me a full year to learn to live in peace and you say well

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That wasn't a very peaceful situation to learn to live in and I say I agree with you

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But you know from the lord's viewpoint is you can't practice peace

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If you're in a situation not very peaceful right now, man, I envy you because

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That is exactly what the lord is giving you

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So i'm just going to throw this back up here for the see if we can get our slides back to where they should be

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And it isn't okay, so what we're going to do is I want to I want to just say to you I want to share this with you

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God is giving you permission to let his peace reign

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When we come into that place of rest

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The yoke kicks in how do we know the yoke kicks in because there's an acceleration effect

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Imagine a small bull and a little bull trying to pull a huge load together

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I'm just going to pull up a little picture that can illustrate that for us quickly

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And in when we're thinking about that, uh, if somebody else can help me put that together or pull that picture up, that'd be great

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Do you do you have the picture of the bull the two bulls

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I will get it here in a second. So

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But visualize this for most of us. Maybe we were taught

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And this is entirely unnecessary this is that i'm out in the field i've got the load

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I'm trying to do the work for god that he told me to do and i'm pulling this load and the farmer standing

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On the side there with a little frown on his face watching me going. Yeah

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But what he's actually asking is let jesus is saying i'll come alongside you. So think of this mega huge bull

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cool thing though

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The holy spirit keeps you all in step and he's coaching and guiding and comforting as you go through that learning

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And the father's gone before you and prepared every good work for you to walk in and then we say the christian life is so hard

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It's not necessary to take that view

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this this

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What jesus is inviting us into his kingdom leaders is a completely different level

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That we get to function from rest. Honestly, if you're not in a state of rest take the day off and go and practice rest

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kingdom. This again, it's a relational thing that's coming straight out of the

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king because everything in the kingdom starts from rest. Your yoke is activated

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by it. And so when Jesus is saying, you know, the peace I give you is not like

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the world. Well, how does the world give peace? Well, when the downstairs stuff is

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going great, then I'll have peace. And so we say stuff like, I'll be so glad when

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this is over. And what we're that's about the worldliest thing we can say,

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because what we're saying is, I won't have joy until my circumstances give me

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permission. But what if the Lord is giving you permission to have joy now?

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strength, and you need strength to go through this process. Don't you need the

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strength now? I'd say you do. So when we look at who's giving the permission, are

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my circumstances giving me permission to be at peace? Well, when everything, guess

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what's going to happen? That's how the world gives peace. Jesus, that's not the

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peace I'm giving you. It's not a downstairs peace that where you're

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getting your permission from your circumstances. You're getting permission

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from me. And Paul put it this way, the peace of God, that peace which reassures

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our hearts, that peace transcends all understanding. Your brain doesn't

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understand. It's irrational. Your members of your team are saying it's irrational

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for you to be so at peace when all this is going on. We lost that big client.

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What's wrong with you? You know, because we use as markers. We have markers in

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the world. The marker is if I'm stressed, my stress and busyness is a marker of

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how seriously I'm taking my career. But in the kingdom, the marker is peace. How

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restful you are is your marker in the kingdom as to how seriously you're

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taking your calling. I don't know about you, but this stuff makes me super

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excited. I'm preaching myself happy. So here's the point, though, right? Is that

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because what's happening is that peace doesn't just transcend your mind. It also

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guards your heart and your mind in Jesus. Peace will guard your mind. You don't

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have to understand. Your mind is not the smartest part of you, as you know. Your

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spirit is far more capable than your intellect. Your intellect is a

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downstage faculty and it takes in it slow. So it's okay. It can be renewed and

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catch up. At some point, your mind will go and live where your heart is, which is

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fine. But your heart, your human spirit, can get revelation in a second. Take your

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mind 20 years to figure it out. That's okay. God wants you to enjoy your

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mind more. When your heart makes way for your mind, everything changes. And so in

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this case, your heart is bringing your mind to peace. So it can think and be

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creative and function and do what it needs to do and calm down. And the

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analogy we often use is heart, mind and will are like three five-year-olds in

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the household. Imagine if the five-year-olds run the household. Candy

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for breakfast. Yay! Because that's what five-year-olds do. So what if the adult

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in the room, your heart, your spirit man, the eternal part of you, steps in and says

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we're not doing that. It's called self-control. We're gonna have peace in

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the house now. There's gonna be peace. Okay mind, I get all the implications. You

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have to keep shouting at me. I got it. Calm down heart and your emotions just

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calm down and now I'm gonna worship the Lord. I'm gonna give thanks in all things.

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I, listen, downstairs you'd be insane to consider trials with joy. Only insane

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people would do that. But in the kingdom, it's the most normal thing to do.

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Consider it pure joy when you encounter various trials. Why? Because you know

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you're being upgraded. You know you're stepping into more. You're being

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made into his image and likeness. That was his goal right from Genesis 1 26. Let

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us make man in our own image and likeness. So here's a couple practical

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things I found as a leader. You know you're going through your day. You start

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in rest and then just wake up and you're three four hours into your day. You're

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all agitated or like and you're frustrated. You're getting anxious and

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you're going hang on a second. So I just do a quick peace audit. Hang on a second

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where did I drop that thing? I left it. It's like leaving your cell phone in

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somewhere. It fell out of your pocket in the car and you can look under the seat.

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Ah there it is. And sometimes you go oh it was that conversation I had with so

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and so. Don't blame them. Just you get to take a minute. Let peace reign. About a

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year of practicing this my peace started to become permanent. And I've

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shared the story many times when we were at Catalyst and we interviewed Graham

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Cook. And the interviewer I was doing the interview said hey Graham rumor has it

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you haven't been worried or anxious about anything for 23 years. That can't

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be true. Come on real talk now Graham. Talk to us you know anytime.

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He said, no, really, I had an encounter with a Prince of Peace and he never left.

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Now, when he explained that later on, you learn that it took him a while to get it going.

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He called up the elevator and it stayed for two minutes and left.

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And I want to say that because we have permission.

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Kingdom learning is slow learning.

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This idea that we have to hear it once and go, just have it, is just not the kingdom.

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You're going to hear this 50 times.

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Some of you have been hearing this same talk from Brilliant or me or whoever in the

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branding bar. How many times?

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You know, 10 times, 15 times and you still go, yeah, that sounds cool.

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I've got to be there. Right.

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Because nobody said, oh, I got that nailed.

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Right. OK, so here's what happens when we take on his yoke.

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Suddenly we switch modes where we're not driven by discipline, we're driven by

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delight because our delight leads to discipline.

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But when you're trying to drive by discipline and spiritual disciplines and

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disciplines and disciplines, you can do that.

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That's a tough, tough way around.

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That's 40 years in the desert journey.

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Or you can do the quick way, which is you start in God's delighting you.

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You know, when we know how we stand with him, he delights in you.

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He adores you.

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He's given you the ultimate permission.

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Consider yourself dead to sin and alive to me.

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We don't need to be working on the corpse in the grave because that's gross.

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And you don't have to call it up or shout at the old man for not whatever.

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That's ridiculous.

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Why talk to dead people?

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Talk to the new man.

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God is never he's only ever working on the new.

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So people one guy said told me, well, the Lord just sat down.

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He just read me the right act.

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And for like an hour, I just wrote down everything he told me is wrong.

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I said it must be in the pizza because that wasn't the Lord.

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Because to do that, you'd have to violate what Jesus did for you.

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Because all that was wrong with you was put on the cross.

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And he gave you a new nature, his nature.

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He knows you don't have it.

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He knows you're going to drop the ball.

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leader. It means that when our team is anxious and stressed about something going

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on the business, we're the calmest person in the room.

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Why? Because we know in whom we've believed.

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That means there is a there's a king in the room.

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I just partnered with him in rest.

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Romans 15, 13, I'll end with this now,

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may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing

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that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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So what I love for us is that if we can learn this simple routine,

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that when something happens, when we have a moment, when, you know,

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we're tempted to be under stress or whatever,

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we need to switch modalities permanently, develop the lifestyle of rest and peace.

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This is on offer from Jesus.

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All the promises of your calling, all the provision,

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all the favor of heaven is attracted to Jesus in you.

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You have his favor, you have his peace, you have his joy, you have his.

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People say, well, I'm not a patient person.

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Good news.

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That person died.

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And the new person, which is Christ in you, no longer I that live,

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but Christ who lives in me, that means that when the old person's dead

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and you're alive to your new nature in Jesus, you feel most alive.

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You're the best leader you can be.

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You're the best spouse you can be.

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You're the best parent you can be.

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You step into the realm of the kingdom and the kingdom is a vast place.

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So what we don't have to do,

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what's completely unnecessary is that stress is just part of business life.

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Sure, if you're a downstairs person and that's all you got, I get it.

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But you're not.

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You're not merely human.

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You're a God-indwelled being.

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And the three greatest geniuses of the universe have taken up residence in you.