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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by believing what's true about you.

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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 John chapter 14 verse 20, Jesus said,

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On that day, you will realize that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you.

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Such good news.

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Hello, by the way.

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Happy new year.

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Happy 2022.

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It is so good to be back with you, my posture family.

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It's a little bit later in the year than I was originally anticipating coming back,

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but here we are.

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It was a bit of a rough start to the year for our family.

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Our health was really challenged the first part of this month.

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So we took some extra time to rest and reset before diving in to 2022.

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But don't let my messy bun fool you.

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We are alive.

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We are well and we are well able to take on this new year.

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You know, it is pretty discouraging to start the new year in what feels like a deficit.

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And I was reminded when things are hard, it's hard to believe what's true about you.

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But it was the perfect opportunity to practice living in perfect peace.

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And I'm actually very grateful for that opportunity,

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because what is the point of showing up here every week and only teaching theory?

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I just refuse to do that.

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I mean, it can be done.

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I can look up a scripture.

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I can get on here.

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I can share some inspirational fluff about it.

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I can say it could mean this and this is how you could apply it to this theoretical scenario.

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But the truth of God's word is not meant to be theorized.

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And it's not meant to just be taught.

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It is meant to be lived out, fully experienced in every aspect and in every arena of our lives.

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The good, the bad and the ugly.

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And I was reminded in the middle of the hard at the beginning of this year

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that the word of God does not stay on the page.

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It is alive.

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It is active.

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And it is not just speaking to us.

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The word lives in us.

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Jesus is the word of God.

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And Jesus is in us.

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And we are in him.

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So what does life in God look like when life isn't what we want it to look like?

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I know that I'm not the only one asking this question,

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because I actually got a lot of DMs over the holidays.

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And you guys were asking this question.

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You were sharing various scenarios and hardships that you were facing,

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but all had the same question.

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Lindsay, what does this life in God look like?

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What does walking in perfect peace look like when my life isn't anything

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what I want it to look like?

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When the circumstances that I'm facing do not line up

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with the promises that I find in God's word.

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And something that I am discovering and continuing to explore and practice

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is that life in God is not circumstantial.

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It's relational.

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Colossians 127 tells us that Christ in you is the hope of glory.

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And I think sometimes we're tempted to believe that our hope of glory

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is found in our ability to navigate life flawlessly,

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or to dodge hard circumstances, or to be able to understand

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and perfectly articulate the issues of the world.

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But life in God is not about merely resolving issues.

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It's about fully realizing your identity

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and walking in newness of life in every circumstance of life.

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It's not about discovering the answer to the question of

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why is this happening to me?

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No, it's actually about discovering the answer to the question,

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who am I while this is happening to me?

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Who am I really?

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What is true about me?

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In sickness and in facing loss or dealing with sin habits

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and family dysfunction, career disappointments, betrayal,

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a global pandemic, we want to know why.

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Why is this happening?

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I don't deserve this.

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I mean, actually, many of you who have DM'd me

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are tormented by the sense that you do think you deserve this.

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You're like, I think life is hard because I deserve this.

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And you know, there's a lot of people taking the airwaves right now,

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showing up in our feeds, showing up in our scroll,

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wanting us to know why it is they feel we deserve

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what it is that we're facing, you know?

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You deserve judgment and condemnation and shame, shame, shame, shame, shame.

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But you know what?

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It's not about what you do deserve.

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It's not about what you don't deserve.

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It's about what Jesus deserves.

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Because you don't.

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pay the price of sin and the people that are rattling on your feet didn't pay the price of

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sin. Jesus paid the price of sin and Jesus is going to get what he paid for. Jesus didn't pay

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the price so that he could dish out shame and judgment and condemnation on the earth. Actually,

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he already had that right and authority to do that before the cross, but he chose something

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different than condemnation. He chose the cross and Jesus willingly died as you so that you could

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be raised as him so that you could have the same relationship with the father that Jesus has.

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Romans 5, 18 through 19, Romans 6, 1 through 11, John 17, 20 through 23. I know we've talked about

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the scriptures before. As always, I will link those scriptures, not link, I'll put them in

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the description below the references so that you could find them and easily go and read them. Do

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not take my word for it. It's time that we give Jesus what he deserves. It's time that we start

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walking in this newness of life that he died for us to have. Romans 8, 17 says, we are now heirs of

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God and co-heirs with Christ. That's what's true about you. First John 4, 17 says, as Jesus is,

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so are we in this world. That's what's true about you. John 14, 20 that I read earlier, Jesus said,

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I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you. This is what's true about you. You are not

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just a son or a daughter of God. You are one with the son. You are one with the father. There's no

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distance. There's no separation. There's no waiting until heaven to experience the kingdom of God.

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There's no waiting to get it all right, to navigate life flawlessly in order to experience the kingdom

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of God. In fact, when Jesus was asked by the Pharisees, when is the kingdom of God coming?

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In Luke 17, what did Jesus say? Jesus didn't point to the sky. He didn't point to the end of your

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life. He didn't say when you die and go to heaven, you're going to experience the kingdom of God. No,

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Jesus said, behold, the kingdom of God is in you. Let me read Romans 8. Not the whole thing,

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though I would love to, you know, it's my favorite, but I'm going to read Romans 8

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verses 18 through verse 20. It says, I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing

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with the glory that will be revealed in us for creation, for the circumstances,

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weights and eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who

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subjected it in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought

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into freedom and glory of the children of God. That's you and me. What does life and God look

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like when life isn't what we want it to look like? As sons and daughters of God, we live in this

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world, so we're going to face some worldly things. Sickness, loss, sin habits, family dysfunction,

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career disappointments, betrayal, global pandemics, friendships destroyed because

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someone brought up a political issue at dinner and now we're totally mad at each other.

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Worldly stuff, very worldly things. We're going to face these things, but

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we experience these circumstances so that these circumstances can experience us.

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We face these circumstances so that these circumstances can come face to face with the glory

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in us. So whatever worldly thing you're facing today, it's not your bondage, you are its

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liberation. The Redeemer is in us and we are in this world, so we're going to redeem some things.

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We're going to find ourselves in circumstances that need redeeming. This is the life of an

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overcomer. We're going to overcome some things. We are more than conquerors, so we won't be

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conquered, but we will conquer. What does life in God look like when life isn't what we want it to

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look like? It's not for me to tell you specifics. I know we want the formula, we want the rules,

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we want the steps, just give me the steps and I'll do it, Lindsay, just tell me what to do,

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but we were not called to a formula, we were invited into a relationship.

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It's a relationship. This is for you to start talking about with God.

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Ask Him today, God, what are we redeeming together at this dinner?

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table, in this conference call, in this doctor's office, in this pandemic, in the

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year 2022, God what are we partnering with in together to redeem? And you know

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this is not a one-time conversation, it's a continuous one. It's not a quick fix,

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it's a process and it's a practice of trusting what's true. And what's true

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about you is Jesus.