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Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by being completely overwhelmed.

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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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In Exodus 33, y'all, I'm just gonna warn you,

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I am so astonished by what happens in Exodus 33, I will never get over it.

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And that might come across in this episode.

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In Exodus 33, in verse 18, there's this encounter that Moses has with God that is just

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mind-blowing to me.

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Moses asks the Lord, he says, please show me your glory.

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And God answers him and says, I will make all of my goodness pass before you.

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But he tells Moses, he says, you're not going to be able to see my face because

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no one can see me and live.

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So the Lord puts Moses in the cleft of a rock and he covers him with his hand and his

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glory passes by and then he removes his hand so that Moses can see the back of him, get

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a glimpse, but he can't see his face.

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When Moses asked to see the glory of God, God says, I will make all of my goodness

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pass before you.

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And the goodness of God was going to be so overwhelming that Moses's human frame would

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not be able to survive it.

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Even with just a glimpse, like Moses gets just a glimpse of God's goodness, if you

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read later in the story, it says that after he gets a glimpse of God's goodness, Moses's

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face shines so brightly that no one can ignore it.

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No one can ignore it.

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Like the evidence of Moses's encounter with God's goodness is so overwhelming.

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He had to wear a veil in public.

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Okay, here's why I'm so incredibly astonished by this.

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This encounter, which is amazing and overwhelming, is an Old Testament encounter.

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This happened when the presence of God was only an event for humans, only a visitation.

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But because of Jesus, you and I, we now have God's presence in us permanently.

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We're not having to go to a mountain to visit God or go to a temple to encounter his presence.

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Jesus moved us away from that visitational relationship that Old Covenant people had

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to experience, and he moved us into a habitational one with God.

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So when I was rereading Exodus 33, I sensed the Lord asked me,

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Linds, when was the last time you expected to encounter my goodness in such a way that

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you would be overwhelmed?

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I had to think about that.

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I don't know if I had an answer for him in that moment.

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I go back to Moses's encounter, and I'm like, what does this tell me about God's goodness?

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It tells us that God's goodness is so powerful, so glorious, that it's beyond our capacity to

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contain unless we become a new creation that was designed for the fullness of goodness.

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You see, because of Jesus, wonderful, magnificent Jesus, you and I have a divine advantage that

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Moses didn't have.

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We are new creations in Christ, and our lives are all about living in the fullness of God's glory

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and the fullness of his goodness.

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Paul writes about God's glory in 2 Corinthians 3, verse 18.

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He says, but we all with unveiled face beholding the glory of God are being transformed into the

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same image from glory to glory.

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For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

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Paul's saying, in Christ, the veil, the separation between God and man has been removed.

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It's been taken away.

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And now we get to see the glorious goodness of God, and when we see it, we're being transformed

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into the same image, ever increasing from glory to glory.

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Did you realize that every day you should be overwhelmed?

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And not overwhelmed by circumstances or by crisis, not overwhelmed by shame or feelings

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of powerlessness or, you know, hopelessness.

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No, we get to be overwhelmed by the goodness of God.

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We get to choose what we're going to be overwhelmed by, because goodness is always present.

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It's always a possibility.

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We're in a joyful process every day of learning how to recognize God's goodness and respond

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to it.

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And when we see our lives from God's perspective, his goodness

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is the most outstanding and obvious thing. It's like you won't even be able

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to miss it. The gospel of Jesus, the good news of Jesus, it's so astonishing, it's so

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magnificent, it's so overwhelmingly good that when you connect with it it's like

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you're going to need your God-given imagination to experience its fullness

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and its depths because there's no experience here on earth to compare it

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to. There's nothing similar on earth that even comes close and so when

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we try to fit God into our standards, our box of human understanding, our

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human experience, it just can't be done. When we try to do that, when we

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try to fit him in our box, we just get stuck living a frustrated, guarded life

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believing that goodness is just an ideal, not a lifestyle, but because of Jesus

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you and I can expect even greater encounters than what Moses experienced.

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We can be in a continual encounter because goodness is now always present

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in us and with us. We have been planted here to be a display of God's glory, to

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be a display of his goodness, to live a lifestyle that says on earth as it is in

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heaven, to experience every day the same reality on earth that heaven is enjoying.

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That is what Jesus came to give us, that is what Jesus died for, to show us what

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the kingdom is like. He didn't come to tease us with it, he came to invite us

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into it and Jesus said whoever believes will do the same works that I have been

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doing and will do even greater things. So let's use our God-given imagination to

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explore the depths of his glory and goodness today. God's glory is in his

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unending goodness. They are one in the same. God wants you to encounter his

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goodness. So what does that mean for you today? What does that mean for a pandemic?

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What does that mean for racism? What does that mean for the impossible

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circumstances that you may be facing in your personal life today? Here's what it

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means. It means that the plans that the enemy sent to take you out don't stand a

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chance. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. In Hebrew it is

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shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken. This is

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who you are in Jesus because of Jesus. You are a living testimony of Jesus's

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ultimate win. With every step you take today you're putting Jesus's victory on

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display and Satan's defeat on replay.