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Today, we're gonna take on a posture of peace

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by setting our minds and our expectations

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on what God is doing in the world right now.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.

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Posture is a podcast that serves a short, audible fist bump

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to remind you that God is in everything.

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Together, we're gonna be emboldened

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to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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In John chapter 20, verses 19 through 22,

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it says, on the evening of that day,

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now that day was the day

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when the empty tomb was discovered.

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It was the day that Jesus had risen from the dead.

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It says, the doors being locked where the disciples were

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for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and he stood among them.

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And he said, peace be with you.

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And then he showed them the wounds in his hands

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and in his side, and he said,

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and the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

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And Jesus said to them again, peace be with you.

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And he told them, just as the father has sent me,

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I am now sending you.

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And then he breathed on them and said,

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receive the Holy Spirit.

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I come back to this moment in our history often,

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especially when I feel like my expectations

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have been blown.

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When hopelessness is trying to creep in

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and I'm tempted to stop expecting God's goodness

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in my life because of disappointments

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or circumstances that I'm facing,

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or broken relationships, all of those types of things.

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When I'm facing those kinds of days,

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I come back to this moment.

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This moment in John chapter 20 was days

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after Jesus had been arrested and brutally murdered.

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And his disciples were absolutely devastated,

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as you can imagine.

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And here's what I find so interesting

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because I used to think that the disciples

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did what they did, you know,

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abandoned Jesus when he was arrested in the garden,

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scatter amongst themselves, you know,

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Peter denying even knowing him,

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and then them locking themselves away.

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I thought all of that happened

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because they were blindsided.

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They were so caught off guard by Jesus's death.

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However, when Jesus was arrested in the garden,

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they were so caught off guard by Jesus's death

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that they were so caught off guard

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by Jesus's death.

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However, Jesus told the disciples

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he would be killed and raised again.

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In Mark chapter eight, we can read that story

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starting in verse 31.

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It says,

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and Jesus began to teach them that the son of man

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must suffer many things,

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and that he would be rejected by the elders

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and the chief priest and the scribes and be killed.

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And after three days, he would rise again.

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And he said this plainly.

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So it says in verse 32, he said this plainly.

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This was not a parable.

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This was not a metaphor.

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This was not a riddle to be misunderstood.

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He told them exactly what was going to happen.

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And Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him.

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And it says in verse 33,

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Jesus saw the disciples and he rebuked Peter.

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And he said,

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get behind me, Satan,

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for you are not setting your mind on the things of God,

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but on the things of man.

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Perhaps, perhaps,

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the crucifixion wasn't devastating to the disciples

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because they didn't know it was coming.

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Perhaps it was so devastating

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because it wasn't what they had wanted.

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It wasn't the dream.

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They wanted,

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they had been expecting a Messiah who would rise,

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become an earthly king and set them free

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from the oppression of Roman rule.

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They were dreaming of something reminiscent

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of what their nation and their people had experienced

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in the past with past earthly kings.

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They had wanted a king who would fight for them,

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rise in power and reestablish a kingdom on earth

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that would be a hub of salvation for their people.

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But instead of recreating some past breakthrough,

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Jesus was actually establishing

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a much more glorious future.

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He was a king who would die for them,

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serve them in total humility

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and establish his heavenly kingdom here on earth

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that would bring salvation to all people.

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The disciples understandably wanted rescue,

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but Jesus was offering them a resurrected life

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and permanent residence in him.

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What Colossians says is a life hidden in Christ,

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sharing his victory, his power, his peace and his presence.

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So the disciples locked away in that room,

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hopeless, grieved, so disappointed.

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They could not see.

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today. They didn't know that over 2,000 years later there would be a global church that you

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and I are part of, all proclaiming allegiance to a risen King Jesus. They were not expecting

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that billions of us right now all over the world would know their story. What to them seemed the

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end of their story, we now call actually the beginning of our story. They didn't see that

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today all over the world the kingdom of God would be rapidly advancing through many nations,

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many tribes, many tongues. I know today we're all locked away right now with this coronavirus still

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prevalent and we're possibly feeling confined and constricted as we're still quarantined.

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My prayer for you today is that you allow yourself to anticipate what Jesus is doing

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in the midst of this trouble. Jesus didn't hold on information from us. He told us in John 16.33

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that we would face trouble in this world, but he also told us to be courageous because he has

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overcome the world. Whatever trouble you're facing today, and I know it's not light stuff,

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some of us are facing things in our personal lives that honestly make the global pandemic

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the least of our worries, but Jesus still has overcome even that that's happening in your life

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and he is not going to leave you out of the victory lap. If you are wrestling with blown

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expectations, if you're facing circumstances that were not the dream, I want you to know first of all

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you're not alone in feeling that. I have been there too, but standing on the testimony of Jesus in my

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life and his resurrection and his breakthrough, I want to infuse you with a fresh expectation today

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based on the testimony we find in John chapter 20. Jesus is going to come straight through the

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doors that fear and blown expectations have tried to lock you behind. He's going to give you his

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peace. He's going to show off the impossible made possible. He has commissioned you to a victorious

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life and he has breathed his very spirit into you. You are not alone. You are not without hope and

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your future is still glorious. Can you see it? My prayer for you today is that you anticipate

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with everything in you the power of a resurrected king. The promise of perfect peace is found in

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Isaiah 26 3 and in Hebrew it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing,

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nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus. Let's declare this together. Today I am kept in

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perfect peace with my whole heart. I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole.

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Remember friend, you are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win, not because of anything you

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did, but because of what he did for you. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory

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on display and Satan's defeat on replay.