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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by tuning into our real lives.

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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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All last week we talked about making a lens change. Choosing to view ourselves,

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our circumstances, the world around us, through the lens of God himself, his nature,

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his ways, his perspective. Instead of the alternative which is viewing God through

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the lens of all that may be happening to us and around us. So an example of that is,

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you know, when you choose to view God through the lens of your circumstances,

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you might be deceived into believing that bad things are happening in the world right now

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because God is angry with us and he's punishing us. But when the nature of God is your greatest

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reality, then you know and you trust that he has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation

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through our Lord Jesus Christ. That's 1 Thessalonians 5.9 by the way. And with that

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awareness, you can then partner with his nature and see the world through a redemptive,

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restorative lens and be empowered to bring hope and solution. Your freedom in Christ,

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it's not confined to just what you have been freed from. Your freedom in Christ

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must be seen in light of who you are now free to become. Everything about this nature of freedom

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is learning how to live with a constant and consistent awareness of the life of Christ in you.

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It is wrong. We would say in the southern United States, it ain't right. It is wrong as a Christian

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to look at this broken world and be consumed by how its brokenness is affecting you.

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You know, to live your life obsessed with this question of, you know, what is all this

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brokenness going to mean for me in my future? No. Instead, you have been empowered and equipped

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to live out the answer to this question. What does my life in Christ mean for this broken world?

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You know, what is now possible because I'm present and the presence of God is in me.

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Colossians chapter two, verses nine and 10, it says, for in Christ, all the fullness of the

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Godhead lives and bodily form. And in Christ, you have been brought to fullness. Are you even aware

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of just how full a life of fullness in Christ really is? One page over in Colossians chapter

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three, verse three, it says, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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You died. Your old sinful nature is dead and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

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And this is such good news because it means your real life is not hidden in a place. You can't find

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it. It's with Christ and Christ lives in you and he's always with you and he's never going to leave

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you or forsake you. So you and I, we can never lose our real life in Christ, but we can lose

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our awareness of it. And this often happens when we become more enamored by or more

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overwhelmed by what is happening around us than by the one who is living within us.

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God has offered us his unchanging self so that we too can become unchanging in our nature

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and character, no matter what is occurring. Genesis one 26, God's primary purpose is to

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make you into his image and likeness. You are being made into his image and likeness. You're

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not being made into the likeness of a broken world. You're not being made into the likeness

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of your political party, not the likeness of your favorite girl boss or social media influencer,

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not the likeness of your pastor.

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however wonderful he or she may be.

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You're not being made into the likeness of your parents,

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however wonderful or chaotic

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your relationship with them may be.

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You are not made in the image and likeness

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of your family's generational dysfunction.

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You're not made in the likeness of your worldview,

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not in the likeness of your mistakes

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or your accomplishments, and praise the Lord,

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you and I have not been made into the likeness

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of other people's opinions of us.

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God is making you and me into his image and likeness.

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And if you have surrendered your life to Jesus,

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and I hope you have, your real life is in Jesus.

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Why would you ever wanna settle

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for a lesser identity than that?

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Don't.

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We will adhere most to whatever identity

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we choose to be most aware of,

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most tuned into.

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The life that we choose to tune into every day,

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either our old, dead, sinful selves,

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or our new life in Christ,

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whichever life we choose to tune into,

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that determines whether we are going to live

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more than conquerors,

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or whether we're going to live conquered

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by negative circumstances or vain pursuits.

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What we choose to live aware of,

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who we choose to live aware of,

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is a very big deal.

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So that's why this week, starting on Wednesday,

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my friend and mentor, Graham Cook and I,

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we are tackling this,

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because we have both been so radically transformed

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by tuning into our real lives in Christ,

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and we wanna share it with you.

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We wanna share what we've learned,

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we wanna share what we practice,

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and we wanna share how you can cultivate

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a lifestyle of sensitivity and awareness

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to the presence of God in your daily life,

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because it will not only just transform you,

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it'll transform the world around you.

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And so we're doing this

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by hosting a three-day live challenge.

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It's like an equipping,

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and it's happening in a private Facebook group

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starting this Wednesday, October 27th, the year 2020,

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just in case you're watching this a year from now.

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And I'm gonna put the registration link

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with all the details in the description of this episode.

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I hope you can join us,

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because, because,

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you haven't been placed into this world

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to be broken by it.

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You have been born into this world

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for such a time as this,

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to bring kingdom hope and kingdom solutions.

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And it starts with an awareness

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of the life you have in Christ.

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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.

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And I'm gonna put the registration link

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with all the details in the description of this episode.

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I hope you can join us,

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because, because,

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you haven't been placed into this world

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to be broken by it.

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And it starts with an awareness of the life you have in Christ.

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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,