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Today we're going to take a posture of peace by expecting gentleness from 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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Jesus told us in Matthew chapter 11 verses 29 and 30 he said take my yoke upon you and learn

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from me. I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find a rest for your souls.

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My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Did you know that God is relentlessly gentle with you?

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As a posture community we have been becoming well acquainted with the nature of God who he is

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and what he is like and before I understood you know who God was and what he was like

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crisis, conflict, hard situations would come and I would react to the chaos thinking

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in fear and anxiety oh I don't know what to do instead of responding to who God is

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and declaring no worries I know who I'm with. You know I used to think that the fruit of the

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spirit was a measuring stick for my performance. If the fruit was present in my life if there was

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peace and joy in my life I thought I must be doing well like I must be performing well.

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I somehow earned this and if the fruit you know seemed gone if people were not kind to me if life

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was not gentle I would think oh no I must have done something to deserve this and it was like

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I had so much more confidence in my ability to take myself out of Christ than I had in Christ's

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ability to keep me in him. My expectation was on me and not on him and one day in a very hard

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situation God said Linz do you know that I love you and I was like yes you're God you love me

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you love everyone and he said do you know that I always love you and I said yes it was a little

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bit more hesitant this time but yes and he said do you know that I'm always gentle with you

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and I thought always like even when I screw up even when I fail and I sensed him say in that moment

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I won't be who I am not we don't change God he changes us our behavior good or bad never makes

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him act outside of himself and and that was the day for me that I just stopped trying to talk

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God into my reality and I let him talk me into his reality and you may struggle with what I'm saying

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because you might think that what I'm saying is that God just lets us get away with things

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but what I'm saying is God makes a way for us to be transformed into his image and likeness always

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God is not fixated on who we have been because our old sinful nature it died with Christ and

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when you receive Jesus as your savior you're made totally new and alive to God and God is totally

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focused on the you who is alive the you who is in Jesus and God's gentleness towards us

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demonstrates his confidence in the finished work of Jesus you know there are days that I might not

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feel very confident in the finished work based on my performance or my behavior but God is always

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confident in his work and it's his gentleness towards us that opens our hearts and our minds

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to receiving all he came to give us his gentleness stirs a calm confidence in us and it just creates

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this atmosphere in our relationship with him of total trust where we are transformed by his nature

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towards us you can expect God to be gentle with you and that expectation will change you

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you'll gain a confidence you you won't be afraid to come to him you won't be anxious about stepping

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out in faith you won't panic when trials come or mistakes are made you won't lash out when others

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fail you you won't throw away your confidence Jesus told us what we can expect he said he told

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us in Matthew 11 like I read we can expect rest and gentleness and

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humility, a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light. And by the way, this

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is just a fun truth. Do you know that word easy, when Jesus is talking about

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his easy yoke, is the same word used for goodness or kindness in Romans 2 for

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that we talked about in episode 80? Go back and watch episode 80 with that in

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mind. Jesus is really, he is really this delightful. There's no condemnation in

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Jesus. There is freedom in Jesus. He is so confident in the work he has done for

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you and you can be confident to make his gentleness and all of his nature towards

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you your expectation today. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26

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3. In Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom, meaning complete wholeness. Nothing

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missing, nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus. You are a

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living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win. With every step you take today, you're

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putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.

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you