Today we are going to take a posture of peace by being dead to sin and alive to God.
Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.
Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
While it is a rainy Thursday night here in Georgia, yes, I am literally recording today's
episode the night before.
It's super casual here, I'm literally in sweats and yoga pants right now.
You know, we started this week in episode 107, reading a chunk of scripture from Romans
6.
Romans 6, 3-11.
And I just want to encourage you, read Romans 6, 3-11 today.
It will set you free.
So the reason I'm recording the night before, super casual, kind of last minute, is because
Graham Cook and I are currently hosting this challenge on Facebook and today, Thursday,
we talked about Romans 6 and specifically the ultimate permission given in verse 11.
And I'm going to read that to you right now.
It says in verse 11, so you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in
Christ Jesus.
And what Graham shared about that scripture was just too good not to share.
So here's the clip from today.
I love Romans 6-11.
I quote it to myself all the time, you know, that God is just giving us permission to consider
ourselves to be dead and then to learn the practice of being alive in Him.
Because I think the thing is, if you still feel like, I've got all these problems and
issues and so on, then you can't consider yourself to be dead.
So it's hard to practice being alive because you're classically double-minded.
So I've got this, so I can't be that.
And I've got this going on, so God's going to be annoyed with me.
And you're not going anywhere.
You're just like going around in circles.
But God is quite clear.
He's saying, no, there is an end point here, which we accomplished for you on the cross.
So you can consider yourself to be dead right now, even before we do anything.
And what we're going to teach you is how to be alive to us.
It's like the ultimate permission, you know, let's start here with God.
He never starts at your beginning.
He starts at His.
So what you think is, that's the outcome I want to achieve.
He just says, great, why don't we start with the outcome and just go on from there?
Because everything between here and the outcome has already been resolved in Jesus, by Jesus.
So let's start with the outcome.
I want to be a new person.
Let's start there.
Let's start teaching you how to see new, think new, speak new.
And let's just start to teach you that there's no struggle.
There's no stress.
There's no strain, because all that belongs to the old person.
You're a new one.
So you can just be like us right from the start.
And that is like the most phenomenal thing about salvation.
You know, we get saved once, but we get redeemed every day, you know, because we're walking
with the Redeemer now.
He lives in us.
So every situation we're in is always about, well, let's redeem that.
We don't need to think that, because this is a better thought.
So if you take this thought that we're giving you, it will redeem that old thought.
And I love that the process of redemption is just so unshakable in God's mind and heart.
This is what we're doing.
So we get to start with the outcome and process that.
You know, we don't have to process from what we're not.
We process from how He sees us.
And I think that's beautiful.
Isn't that amazing?
We are being redeemed every day.
You know, when we think about being with God, probably most of us have a history of coming
to Him just as we are, with all of our issues and problems and dire circumstances.
And often in that mode, we're too weighed down and overwhelmed by the burdens of life
to see the truth.
But think about this.
God comes to us just as He is, unchanging in His true nature, with His perspectives,
how He sees things, what He loves about us, and His purpose for today.
Remember, God's primary purpose, Genesis 126, making us into His image and likeness.
We share in God's nature.
You come to God as He is, not as the old you.
Being alive to God is about you connecting with Him and allowing His beauty and His nature
to open up.
overwhelm you with goodness and kindness and love and patience and gentleness.
It's so good and freeing and peaceful to relax in Him and let His love wash away all the
negatives, all the stress, and all the weariness that comes when we try to be someone for God
rather than letting Him be someone in you.
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3.
In Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.
This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus.
You are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.
With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat
on replay.