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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by being alive to God.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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So all this week as a posture community we have been talking about awareness.

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We've been talking about tuning into your real life, the true you who is in Christ.

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Just a quick reminder, a key scripture from this week has been Romans chapter 6 verse 11

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where it says, so you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God

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in Christ Jesus. And if you have been following along all this week then you know

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that also what's been happening is a live challenge with Graham Cook and we've been

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deep diving into this truth about awareness. And so today I'm going to share a clip from

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one of our live sessions and in this clip Graham and I are talking about how being alive to God

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means that all of your focus is towards Him in every circumstance of life and how when you are

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truly aware of who God is you become truly aware of who you are in Him.

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You know the Bible talks about you know crucifying the flesh and the way we crucify the flesh is by

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ignoring it, is by focusing on the new you not the old you. Whatever you focus on you give life to.

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The Bible never tells us to focus on the old life, it says God is making all things new.

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I give you permission, consider yourself to be dead, just be alive to me. If you're alive to me

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the very fact that you're alive to me means that the old man is dead because you're ignoring it,

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it doesn't play any part. We don't have to try and kill it every day, that's not what we're doing.

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We crucify it by ignoring it and by focusing on what God is really doing which is building up

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not the old, He's not fixing the old you, He's only dealing with the true you in Jesus and that's

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what Christ in you is, that's what He's holding open for you. Yeah but this is who you are.

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Okay so this is the next part of me that you're going to come into and enjoy with me. We're going

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to do it together. I'll be giving you myself here and you will be joining me in that thought,

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in that perception, in that language. You know so that's what I'm doing, I'm making you, I am,

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Jesus is in us in order to make us in His image and His likeness. So all of our situations are

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about that and when you know that and that God is happy about that and He's relentlessly joyful

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about bringing you into that space of being a new creation, then it's like the pressure

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can actually fall away from you because the peace of God rises up in you and Jesus said,

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you know, my peace I give you, not as the world gives, it's not situational peace,

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it's a lifestyle of peace that God is doing. He doesn't want you to learn peace when things are

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going bad. He wants you to learn peace as a lifestyle so that you have peace when things

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go bad and you don't get affected because your peace is greater and I think being aware

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of what we mean to God and being aware of ourselves as what our true nature is,

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is just as key as being aware of God. You have to be aware of this is my identity

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and religion will focus you on behavior. God says it's not about that, all that died on the cross,

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this is about identity in us, with us and so what we're learning is we must not allow our

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awareness of God to be smaller than the issues of life. So, we're not making God bigger,

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he's big enough. What we're doing is we're getting awareness of just how big it is.

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So, when I started learning that a number of years ago, I remember the Father saying to me,

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Graham, what would it take for you to believe that I'm unceasingly magnificent towards you?

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And so I said, that will be a whole different way of thinking.

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You just, okay, done.

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We'll do that.

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I will teach you how to think like I think.

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And as part of that, I'll also teach you

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the way I see your situation.

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And then I'm gonna give you a language

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that enables you to trust and have faith.

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So that's what we're doing.

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We agreed on that, that the plan, okay, let's do it.

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And it's been that way ever since.

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Learning about the majesty and the sovereignty

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of who God is.

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And it's, again, the order of things.

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When we are aware of the nature of God

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because we're being made in his image and likeness,

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then we become more aware of our true selves.

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Like that's the way in which things work in the kingdom.

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So often, religion wants us to focus on ourselves first,

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which is really the dead self.

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Fix yourself, do this, behave well,

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check this off your list,

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and then somehow that'll bring you closer to God.

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But when you're aware of who God really is,

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I mean, this is what we find in the story of number 13,

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the spies, the 10 spies were unaware

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or refused to believe who God said he was.

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So they didn't trust him to be a promise keeper.

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And therefore, they saw themselves as grasshoppers.

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And they saw themselves as grasshoppers

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in the eyes of their enemy.

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And they disregarded what God was able to do

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and what God said he would do.

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But the difference between Joshua and Caleb,

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same circumstance, they received the same promise

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that everyone else did.

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They knew who God was.

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They trusted in his nature.

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They were so aware of the nature of God

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that therefore they were aware of their identity in him.

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And they said, we are well able.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3.

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In Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom,

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meaning complete wholeness,

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nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus.

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You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win.

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With every step you take today,

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you're putting Jesus's victory on display

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and Satan's defeat on replay.