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Hey, hey, hey, welcome to Life Redefined.

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I think we've probably connected briefly already, but if you haven't met me before, it's a real

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honor and a delight to meet you.

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A real privilege for us to connect and I really, really want to honor you for the amazing decision

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that you've made to jump on board and to be a part of this amazing adventure.

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I really am excited for all that the Trinity have in store to accomplish in your life and

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I really want to honor you.

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It really is an amazing decision, a powerful decision to place yourself, to position yourself

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in a place where you can grow.

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That is a powerful, powerful move, so I really want to honor that and honor you and great

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to see that people are checking in already.

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It's awesome to have a live crew with us.

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Lots of love to all of you.

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Great to see you popping in, see people there from all around the world.

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Say hi, guys, really, really honored to have you.

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Now, something really cool that I'm excited about is that we have already got 288 people

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signed up as a part of the Life Redefined Online Sonship Training Course, which is so

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We're going to wrap it up, we're going to close it at 6 p.m. New Zealand time and then

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we're going to transition from a closed group on this Facebook group to a secret group,

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which means no one else will be able to join in after that.

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If you know that there's people out there that are like, oh, yeah, I'm going to jump

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on that and they haven't signed up yet, they need to make sure they do that within the

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next three hours, because it's 6 p.m. New Zealand time, it's going to be closed.

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Oh, look at this, cool, great comments, great to have you guys connecting in from all over

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the place.

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It really is a delight and so, yeah, hi, guys, feel free just to chuck up a little post there,

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a little message there, say hello to other people, because other people are watching

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and maybe just shout out to them where you are watching from, because I'm sure everyone's

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excited to connect, because there's so many, oh, I'm just seeing these beautiful names

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of people who are hungry, hungry Jesus lovers who know that they're created for more and

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know that they're destined to impact nations and write history, so it's great to see so

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many wonderful people jumping on board.

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Massive love to all of you.

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Now, I want to introduce the topic today, it's a really exciting topic, one of my favourite

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topics of life, it's In the Beginning, Divine Family, so we're going to really uncover,

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unpack and explore what is the Trinity, what's the nature of the Trinity, who are the Trinity,

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we're going to explore that and that is really, really good, what is this concept called the

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Divine Dance, where did that come from and how does that impact our lives, so I'm going

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to jump into that pretty soon, but great seeing, yeah, just great seeing people saying hello

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and really do encourage you, put some comments down there so that people get to connect with

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everyone from all around the world, who knows, they might be in your part of the world, or

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they might be coming to your part of the world, which is a really, really special thing when

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you do a gathering like this of kingdom-minded, Jesus-loving people from all around the world,

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we get to meet the rest of the family all over the world, so yeah, chuck down where

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you're from, say hello to people and it's going to be just great to see lots of people

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connecting in and saying hello.

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Now, oh, beautiful, beautiful topic today, I'm going to jump into the adventure and I'm

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just checking this here as well, that's great, that's going live and yeah, once again, I

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just can't say enough how much of an honour that it is for me to be speaking with you,

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how much of an honour it is for me to have this platform to share a journey with you

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like this and to share from my journey, so I'm just going to introduce myself to you

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a little bit more, I feel like you get to connect with me and hear a bit of my heart

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and my story and who I am and then as we connect a little bit more, then we're going to go

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deep into this beautiful, beautiful journey and excited today to talk about divine family

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in the beginning. So for me in the beginning, in the beginning of Benji, well I was born at a very

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young age and I was actually born in Indonesia out in the jungle. My parents were missionaries

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with World Vision. They lived in Indonesia for eight years and they came back to New Zealand

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when I was two and not long after that they became pastors and so my life really revolved around

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church life, revolved around missions, revolved around Christian activities, revolved around all

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of these things. That was my life, that was my parents friends, that was our family friends,

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that was who we hung out with, that's who we did life with. Pretty much my world was wrapped up in

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church or missions or people wanting to do Jesus stuff. So that's basically all I knew and that's

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really good. It was such an awesome privilege really to grow up in that family. My family was

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such, my parents were awesome, they're still awesome, they're still some of my greatest supporters

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and one of the amazing things that I got as a real gift from my father and my mother, they

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were both really amazing at being really intentional about building connection and

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building relationship with God. They were always really, really intentional about that.

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So I loved that, it was awesome. I would wake up in the morning, didn't matter, pretty

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much if my dad was home and it was the morning time or if I woke up and went down the hallway, I

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would see the door to his office and a little beam of light coming out from under

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his office door because he was up praying, he was up, he'd have a cup of tea and his bible opening, be

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in the word, just seeking the Lord every day. So I really got that as a real gift and

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an impartation really, inheritance from my parents just to be able to go after the presence and

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just to go after God as a lifestyle. So that was awesome to see and

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something happened for me personally, even when I was young, before I was even a teenager,

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I was already having these reformational concepts, these questions, big kind of questions of the

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church. I would look at what we were doing, you know, like we spent all of our time studying Jesus.

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Jesus was like the topic of so much of what we did, you know, Sunday school,

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children's ministry, church, all these messages were about Jesus and he was this radically, radically

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supernatural Jesus and I thought it was really interesting because it seemed to me that what

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Jesus did was really effective, you know, when he was out raising the dead, when he was opening

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blind eyes, you know, seemed to be quite an effective strategy if the whole idea was to get

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people into church and get people saved. So even when I, before I was a teenager, as I was watching

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everything that's happening in church life, I was thinking, yeah, well, it probably makes

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sense. I think we would be more effective if we were operating like Jesus, you know,

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so where are the signs, the wonders and the miracles? And so even at that age, I was really

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questioning it and it kind of led to this journey of going, oh, wow, there's got to be

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more. And I guess that a lot of us in this generation are really thinking, man, there's

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got to be more than just Bible studies. There's got to be more than just going to church.

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It's got to be more than just going through the motions. It's got to be more than just, you know,

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just sitting in church. There's got to be more. And so that really started burning my heart. Yeah,

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there's got to be more. And I sort of kind of came to this place where I was like, I'm going to give

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this a real good go and I'm going to check it out. And if God's for real, then I'm all in.

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And so by the time I was 18, I'd kind of come to this conclusion, right, I'm going to check God

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out. I'm going to go wholeheartedly after and if I can see the reality, that's what I was thirsty

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for. And I think so many people now are just thirsty for reality and we're hungry for reality.

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We don't want to just, we don't want just to go through religion and motions without a tangible

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sense of reality. So we're just like, yeah, I've got to have reality. And that's what I was at.

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It's got to be real. I can't just fake a church, you know, church existence. I've got to have the

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reality of the kingdom. I've got to have the reality of Jesus and signs, wonders and miracles

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were what to me gave authenticity to the gospel message. And because I hadn't seen, I basically

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saw none of it my whole life growing up. And so I said in my heart, I was about 18, I was like,

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right, I'm going to, I've got to see this. I've got to see signs, wonders and miracles. And so

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I started searching and it didn't take long to search online and things like that and see God

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was a God that was still doing miracles. I got some awesome training material from John Wimber,

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which rocked my world. I've got some really, really good training, content and books from

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Yoni Cho, which was like, wow, that's amazing. There was testimonies in there about limbs growing

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back and John

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Wimba had the craziest testimonies. I was like, wow, this is legit, you know, like God is

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Really doing stuff

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So I was so stoked to see that. I'm just checking something here now

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Just a little heads up to people there if for any reason the internet should cut out or anything like that should happen

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No worries. Just relax. It's gonna be okay. I will just

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Do another like I'll do a part two if there's any any type of technical difficulties and I disappear or cut out, you know

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No worries. It's alright. I'll just I'll just log back in and I'll chuck up a part two

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If that is you know, if that should happen, so anyway, I started getting hungry for it, but I didn't want to just live off

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I didn't want to just live off other people's revelation. You know, I didn't want to just live off

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They've seen miracles now I have this burning desire that I wanted to see it for myself

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I want to see it first hand through my own hand first hand through my own hands

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This is started this journey, but okay Lord, there's got to be more. I'm gonna go after it. I'm gonna go after

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What you have?

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What you've promised and you know, I spent years going after I spent years

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Seeking

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After God look it was like when I was 18. I made the decision, right?

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That's it. I'm going after it and I would I would do whatever you know, like John Wimber gave me some advice

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He said if there's something that you want from God, then he said sometimes it's okay not to be polite and it's okay

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Just to let raw hunger

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Sometimes it's okay just to let raw hunger lead you and raw hunger is not always

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Polite it's not always well thought out. It's not always a well articulated

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But this cry for more just wells up on the inside of us and I felt this cry for more

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Just coming out and so I'd be up early

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praying

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Seeking God I'd be out just after him after him after I'd sometimes have these

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Intense longing and desire to break up God

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There's got to be more and I would just go after it go after it and you know

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It was actually it took was like over five years

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It was over five years of pursuing God for the more of God before I actually saw a single miracle through my own hands

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And then it just broke out, you know

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I'm going to share more of the secrets more of the keys that I discovered that actually unlocked it

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Unlocked this world of the supernatural for me to see firsthand through my own hands signs wonders miracles

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God blasting lives and doing crazy amazing things

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I'm going to get into that and you know as we go through the adventure together, which is going to be great

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But one thing happened tonight first of all

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I had this massive season of discovering wanting to discover the authenticity of the gospel one discover

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the reality of the kingdom and I discovered that and actually after I discovered the power of God and the

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supernatural signs and wonders of and actually my journey being took it like a little bit of another turn and actually then I

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Actually beyond the miracles actually started go deeper and actually really discover more and more than nature

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of God the nature of the Trinity and

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one thing that was kind of separated Israel and Moses is that

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Israel knew the deeds of God

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But Moses knew the ways of God and sometimes when you really pursued God for the for the deep things

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you can go beyond just the signs wonders and miracles, which is like the

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exterior part of God and then boom just start going deeper and actually start

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Experiencing and discovering the true nature of God the glory of God what who he is what he's like how he

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Operates how he moves how he likes to transition how he likes to wow

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I likes to touch lives and you start discovering more and more the mind of God

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it's just that's going deeper than just the signs and the wonders and

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That was awesome and a massive part of my journey

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Then as I started to discover the nature of the father

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I started to get baptized in the love of the father. Now. This was a whole that's open up a whole new world

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for me to live and I

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Began what I'm going to speak about a lot, which is the journey from the orphan illusion

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into the bliss of sonship

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now when I use the terminology sonship I

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use it in a

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Gender-neutral way I use it as a generic way and non gender specific term

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Sonship just like men of the Bride of Christ

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Ladies are the sons of God. So when you're hearing me say

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Sonship, it's definitely all inclusive. Just if I was to speak about the Bride of Christ

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I'll be talking about the lads just as much as we'll be talking about the ladies

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so ladies, you're fully included in sonship and

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A lot of the translations when you actually read your Bible now a lot of the translations actually

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Change the word from sonship to sons and daughters, but the core the core

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Message of what God's communicating there is sonship. So I'm just

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I say sonship a lot and it's not a gender specific term.

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But I began this journey from the orphan illusion into the bliss of sonship and we're going

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to jump into that a whole bunch but I really am going to start zeroing in on today's topic

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But I hope that just starts to give you a little insight into myself and maybe just

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a few more things just to chuck out there.

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My journey really, what my father and my mother imparted to me was this ability to go after

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God in the secret place for myself, to find God for myself and that was just such a phenomenal

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phenomenal gift that my parents gave to me, the ability to seek God out in the secret

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place for myself.

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And so I've literally invested thousands and thousands of hours into just being in the

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presence, reading the words, seeking his face, praying in the spirit, going after him, having

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encounter after encounter after encounter after encounter and getting baptized in the

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love of the Trinity over and over and over again.

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Ah man, and it has, my world now is so different from the religious world that I knew.

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Just the going through the motions that I knew in the past to now, I've discovered this

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world where it's a lifestyle, it's a state of being, of being constantly immersed in

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the love of the Trinity, constantly surrounded in the oneness of the Trinity.

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Oh, just experiencing the delight of the Trinity, like it's never, I never feel distant.

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I can't remember the last time I ever thought that I was distant.

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Occasionally a feeling of distance will come, but then I just use the truth as a weapon

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to annihilate any feelings of distance and there are very, very few and far between that

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I would ever even feel distance, which is a completely different world to the world

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I experienced growing up in the world that I experienced for so many years, so many years

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of trying to get close to God and trying to pursue God and trying to draw near to God

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as though there was geographical distance, somehow separating us.

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I was trying to draw near to God, somehow trying to close the gap, but I could never

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close this gap because it was imaginary.

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I'm going to, we're going to explore that heaps more too, but let's, let's jump into

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In the beginning, divine family, I'm going to get some Bible happening for you as well

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and it's going to be beautiful.

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Let's start, let's start.

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I'm just going to jump into Genesis 1, 27, so I'll read that to you and you grab a drink

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of water and then we're going to go to, if you want to grab your Bibles, Genesis 1, 27

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and it's going to be beautiful.

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Actually, we'll start at verse 26.

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Genesis chapter 1, verse 26 to 27, let's check this out, then God said, let us make

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mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea

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and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the

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creatures that move along the ground.

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Verse 27, so God created mankind in his own image and the image of God, he created them

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male and female.

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He created them, bam, there we go.

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This is so glorious, so rich, opens up so much.

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It's so deep.

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Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so first of all, you see that that's the Trinity

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communicating to themselves, so when I say Trinity, that's the Father, the Son and the

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There's a good chance that I might use terminology that's new to you, there's a good chance that

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I might communicate concepts in a way that are kind of different to you, so if I do use

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language that you're not familiar with, feel free to chuck down in the comments later on

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just questions about what did that actually mean and we can try and clear up any confusion

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that people get in terms of language or definition, so feel free to chuck those down.

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Later on, we can check out some of those questions, but it starts off with the Trinity, so this

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is the thing about this, before the foundation of the world, before anything's created, before

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there's anything, before creation ever began, before the foundation of the world

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Before time, in the beginning was God, and God is a trinity.

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What does that trinity look like?

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What is that trinity all about?

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What is the nature of the trinity?

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So there's been different words used to try and capture the essence or the heartbeat of

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One of them is a Greek word, and the Greek word that's used to try and describe the fellowship

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of the trinity is perichoresis, perichoresis.

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Now that's a long word, perichoresis.

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Peri kind of means to go up and down, and choresis is to do with choreography.

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down and around and in and out, and it really helps paint a picture for us of the seamless

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So what really is happening?

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This is so important for us to set the scene, the whole story of creation, the whole story

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of humanity, the whole story of God's relationship and journey with humanity, we have to really

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start at the beginning, and the beginning began before the foundation of the world.

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So in the beginning was God, and God has always been the trinity, the Father, the Son,

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and the Holy Spirit.

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And how did the trinity operate, how do they move, what's their nature, it's so critical

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that we understand the nature of the trinity, because the nature of the trinity is the blueprint

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for our own divine design.

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So if we are confused about the nature of the trinity, then we'll always be confused

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about our own identity.

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It's not possible for us to discover who we are until we discover and become fully persuaded

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of the nature and the character of who the trinity are.

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When we look at the trinity, it's like looking in a mirror, it's like, wow, there I am, because

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in their image, in their likeness, we were made.

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In Genesis, God establishes this principle of the seed, so after their own kind, everything

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produces after its own kind.

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So, you know, if you get a seed for a watermelon, that watermelon will produce watermelons,

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and those watermelons will produce watermelons, and the seed will produce after its own kind.

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And if you get elephants, and an elephant breeds, you get elephants.

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And elephants beget elephants, and they beget elephants, they beget elephants, and so on.

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You have it through their lineage, it's their seed, their DNA, the root of where they come

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Where they trace their whakapapa, or that's a New Zealand Maori word for genealogy, where

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we trace our genealogy back to determines our kind.

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And wow, one of the most phenomenal privileges of being human is that we trace our genealogy

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back to the Trinity.

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The word Genesis is such a fitting title, you know, it means origins, this is the origins

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of our beginning, this is the origins of our identity, this is the origins of who we

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are, where we came from.

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So our origin is the Trinity, our origin isn't monkeys.

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If you got taught that in school, that you're descended from monkeys, they struck out big

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time, and they're missing out on so much, because you are not descended from monkeys,

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you are descended from the Trinity.

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Humanity, always, every single human that's ever walked the earth, traces their lineage

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back to the Trinity, which is great news.

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Not descended from monkeys, you are made in the image of the Trinity.

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So here's a cool thing, even when Paul starts writing the book of Romans, and the book of

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Romans is one of the most phenomenal books as far as an articulation of the gospel, a

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comprehensive unpackaging of what the gospel is, what the good news really is.

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Paul does an amazing job there, and in Romans chapter 1, verse 20, he says something awesome.

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I'm going to pull that up for you as well, just going to read that out to you now.

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Romans, Romans chapter 1, verse 20, Paul says,

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Romans chapter 1, verse 20, if you've got your Bibles, if you're chucking along with

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your Bibles, I would encourage you to get your Bibles and to bring those out, because

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we're going to check out a fair few Bible verses as we go through.

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So Romans chapter 1, verse 20, it says,

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For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, His eternal powers, have

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and divine nature have been clearly seen being understood for from what has been

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made so that people are without excuse so this is this is so cool about when it

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comes to wanting to discover God is that creation reveals the divine nature this

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is amazing because how good is creation that if you go somewhere that's been

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polluted and kind of corrupted and you know like mankind has kind of ruined the

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natural environment or if you live in a place you know in a city perhaps where

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there's a lot of pollution and things like that you might not get out amongst

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creation every day but for me personally I live in it I live in a small town

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surrounded by mountains one of the most glorious beautiful places on the planet

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and every day I go out there's mountains there's rivers there's lakes and they

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are screaming they're just screaming out shouting out just this cry that reveals

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the divine nature it's just such beauty such perfection from the from the massive

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of the cosmos to the minute of cell structures and things like that

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everything is perfect everything is perfect everything is just perfectly

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designed and one of the things that creation reveals reveals about the

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Trinity is their perfection the creation just declares that that the divine

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nature is absolutely perfect in every way any way that you look at God slice

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dice and intersect or dissect God any way that you look at him you are going

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to discover when you truly discover God that he is perfect and the Trinity is

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perfect in absolutely every way now this is a bit this is a big journey for a lot

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of us because how many of us have been confused about the nature of God how

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many of us have been like oh my gosh I picked up a distorted image of God from

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religion or I picked up a distorted image of God from my father who was like

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this and so I assume that God was like this and this honestly this is our

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number one core issue we're going to go into this in the next session but our

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number one core issue for humanity is that we have lost sight of the image of

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God of who God is but when we look at creation creation reveals the divine

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nature and oh my gosh the divine nature is glorious and for us it's absolutely

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critical if we want to go on this adventure into sunshine we have got to

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discover the perfection of the Trinity because as we discover the perfection of

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the Trinity that we are going to begin our own beautiful journey into sunshine

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at an accelerated rate cool so perichoresis let me just articulate this

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concept again perichoresis is it refers to the divine dance it refers to the

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Trinity you know they're seamlessly one they're dancing they're moving around

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they're in and they're out they're seamlessly one together and here's what

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they're doing you know like the core dynamic of who the Trinity is and what's

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happening in the Trinity is an unbroken cycle of divine love the Father and the

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Son pour out divine love perfectly on the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit

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receives divine love perfectly and the Holy Spirit and Jesus the Son give

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perfect expression of divine love to the Father and then the Father and the

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Spirit pour out perfect divine love onto the Son and what you have is this

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unbroken cycle of divine love where each member of the fellowship of the

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Trinity is perfectly receiving and giving perfect expression to the divine

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perfect expression of divine love so it's this perfect unbroken cycle of

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divine love that they fellowship in effortlessly now the Trinity they're not

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trying real hard they're not struggling they're not striving to try and receive

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love from each other it's their default setting it's then it's their normal it's

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just like they wake up like you know might wake up there we go how we're

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gonna start the day and the Trinity boom they start the day not that they

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necessarily need to sleep but they start the day effortlessly receiving love from

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one another there's no striving to receive love there's no struggling to

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receive love that's their constant moment-by-moment state of being it's

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constantly immersed in love constantly baptized in love constantly receiving

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divine love and constantly expressing divine love right we still there hope

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we're still there give me a thumbs up

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if we're still live I think we're still live give me a thumbs up if we're still

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live yep there we go thumbs up we're still live I can see all those thumbs up

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cool good to have you beautiful peeps oh it's an explosion of thumbs and high

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fives that's great right did you like that concept you like that definition of

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the Trinity of perichoresis like wow this is our this is who God is this is

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the nature of God seamlessly one the default setting is to be seamlessly one

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smooshed together seamlessly one and perfectly receiving and perfectly

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expressing divine love as a perpetual moment-by-moment state of being

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constantly receiving constantly expressing constantly immersed in divine

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love wow now that's great news because that's the image of the Trinity that's

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who the Trinity is that's the nature of the Trinity and guess what that's their

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kind that's like their DNA that's their seed and we have been made in their image in

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their likeness to bear their image to bear their kind bear their seed so guess what

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when we discover who we are we get positioned to also step into this place

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of effortless seamless divine union and an effortless seamless receiving and

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expressing of divine love as our brand new normal as our brand new state of

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being as a default setting now you can see my computer in the background now my

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computer has default settings that's just how it's going to operate how it's

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going to run once the default settings are in place you don't have to go and

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change it around doesn't have you don't have to have go through a big process to

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get something to happen it just happens automatically now this is one of the

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major things that we want to explore on this journey is we want to change your

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default settings well and that can easily be done that's what repentance is

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about that's what the renewed mind is about it's about changing our default

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settings to enable us to come back into divine design and your divine design is

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that you were created in the image of the Trinity to be able to participate

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effortlessly seamlessly wonderfully gloriously in the fellowship of the

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Trinity as a moment-by-moment state of being which is awesome so I just we're

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going to jump in as well like the beginning is so amazing one of the

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greatest revelations that you can ever find in the Bible about the nature of

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our Father in heaven is in Genesis in Genesis we see this phenomenal

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phenomenal revelation of the nature of our Father in heaven so check it out the

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first thing that they do when they when they're creating a place to a contact a

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context for humanity to live is they call it Eden and it's kind of just

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worthy to note that it's not the garden of Eden it's the garden in Eden the

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whole land the whole area that whole place that the Trinity created was

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called Eden now that's a dead giveaway right there of the character of your

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Father in heaven or the nature of the Trinity is that Eden it means it means

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delight or a paradise and so you were created to live in the context of

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delight you were created to live and to have relationship and fellowship and

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communion with the Trinity in a place of delight in a place of paradise now they

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didn't there was no conditions on this when when the Trinity created Adam and

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Eve they didn't say right your identity is conditional you've got to jump

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through these religious hoops right here here's all the rules no you know they

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were just unconditionally created for intimacy and they were created to be

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unconditionally loved there was no conditions on being loved there was no

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conditions on intimacy there was no conditions on the identity they were

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created to be loved before the foundation of the world the Trinity had

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this this concept inside in their head they're like oh my gosh this is what

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we're going to do we're going to create humanity and to you know just to get an

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idea of their nature their heart what was going on what they were looking for

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what they had intended for humanity is they created a place called Eden for us

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a place of delight and this is like one of the most amazing things here is that

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the ultimate calling on on Adam and Eve was just to be children and the Trinity

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without you know they're going to be the parents so this is like

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We've got to get this in our minds as well, like our ultimate calling is simply to be loved.

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Before we do anything else, before we try to be anything else, our ultimate calling

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is to be loved. And I'm not just a little bit loved, I'm talking outrageously,

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extravagantly, supernaturally, wonderfully, mightily, powerfully loved by the Trinity.

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That's what you and I were created for. That was what the Trinity always had in mind. Their heart

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towards us is a heart of delight. If you haven't realized it yet, the Trinity, the Father, the Son

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and the Holy Spirit are outrageously, radically, unconditionally delighted in you. Now that is

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so massive. It's not a love with strings on. It's not an identity with strings on. It's not intimacy

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with strings on. This is simply who you were created to be before the foundation of the world.

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You have got one of God's best ideas. Before the foundation of the world, God had this crazy idea

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and that amazing, crazy, outrageous idea was you. And He created you because He didn't have

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one of you. And He created you because He didn't have one of you, so that He could

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pour out unconditional love on you, so that you could know who you are. And not just that,

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but the Trinity always desired that humanity would seamlessly participate in the divine family,

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that humanity would seamlessly participate in this fellowship of the Trinity. But how often,

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how often have we made love conditional? And this is a crazy thing about love, right?

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I don't know about you, but I don't know what your biological family, I don't know what that was like.

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Now, the moment we say biological family, so many of us have triggers, have like, oh my gosh,

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biological family, because there's so much chaos in our family lives. The amount of abuse that

425
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goes on, the amount of trauma that takes place, the amount of destruction and damage that takes

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place in our lives in the context of family is outrageous. There's so much that happens there.

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And we get so many of our paradigms, so many of our concepts of what is normal, what is real,

428
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get twisted and skewed and messed up in our own families. So sometimes when you hear,

429
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you know, you hear someone talking about divine family, you're like, whoa, I'm not into family,

430
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because families where I had so much chaos, so many issues, so many challenges in families. But

431
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no, no, no, no, not in divine family. So one of the major issues that we have is that

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everywhere we go, we learn this concept of, we learn this concept of performance-based acceptance.

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And for a lot of people, they learn it in their family. Like if you do this, this, this, and this,

434
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you're going to be accepted. But if you do this, this is where you cross the line. That's it.

435
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That's over. If you step over this line, there's no coming back from that. You know, like all the

436
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acceptance or love, it's going to drop off. And if you don't learn that in your family,

437
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:21.760
how about you try and go to, go to your school. And I mean, kids are amazing at drilling into us

438
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performance-based acceptance. If you do this, I'll be your best friend. If you don't do this,

439
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I won't be your best friend. I've got a five-year-old, a three-year-old and a one-year-old.

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And the one-year-old doesn't really say this at all. But the five-year-old and three-year-old

441
00:38:35.200 --> 00:38:38.720
sometimes have these conversations like, if you do this, I'll be your best friend.

442
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And you know, if you don't learn performance-based acceptance in your family or at school,

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which I'd be surprised if you haven't, then go to church or go to a sports group or go to your

444
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workplace or just interact with other people. And you soon start to discover that there is this

445
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concept of performance-based acceptance, performance-based acceptance. And there's a

446
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price tag on love. Now, this is a crazy thing because what we've ended up doing, because this

447
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happens not just in our families, in our churches, in our school environments, in our workplaces,

448
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:22.320
in our sports groups. This happens absolutely everywhere. Everywhere we go, we see performance-

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based acceptance. And so we transfer this concept of performance-based acceptance into

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our romantic relationships as well, into those relationships that you have with, maybe you're

451
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married or maybe you've got a boyfriend or a girlfriend or maybe you're, I don't know what

452
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:49.600
your status is, but we transfer these concepts. Hey, Peter, I see all these awesome people jumping

453
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on. So good to have you all. We saw all these crazy demonstrations of performance-based acceptance

454
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in our lives and we transfer them.

455
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to our romantic relationships as well and marriages it's a major issue and so

456
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love gets distorted because we've actually started to call performance

457
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based acceptance love right you do this this this and this and then I'll accept

458
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you and then it'll be okay and then I will do this for you and so what we've

459
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ended up doing without realizing it is we've actually taken this concept of

460
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performance-based acceptance have called performance-based acceptance love

461
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and it's not so then when God comes along and says to us hey I love you we

462
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don't actually hear him actually saying hey I love you we hear Oh God wants

463
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performance-based acceptance Oh God wants to God wants me to do all these

464
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things and man that is religion religion is a system rigged to fail religion it's

465
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going to tell you that righteousness has a price tag now self-righteousness

466
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has a price tag but self-righteousness won't won't do you any favors at the end

467
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of the day you don't want self-righteousness self-righteousness

468
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comes from doing everything right yourself you don't want that type of

469
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righteousness you want a righteousness that is by faith from first to last

470
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which is not your faith it's God's faith now we don't oh this is so outrageous

471
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it's God's faith God's the one that said that you're the righteousness of God in

472
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Christ Jesus and so our righteousness self-righteousness based on works based

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on doing a lot and it's really connected in with this whole concept of

474
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performance-based acceptance but when God has a concept of love it is totally

475
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different God's concept of love is absolutely unconditional no strings

476
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attached yep that means you could be a radical scallywag you could be a big

477
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bad scallywag and God's love for you will not will not diminish it will not

478
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flinch it will not withdraw it will not drop in any way Isaiah actually has this

479
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crazy crazy word I'll put the verse in the comments later but he says all of

480
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our righteousness is as filthy rags to you now this is a crazy thing and I

481
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don't even know how this got in the Bible someone should have vetted what

482
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Isaiah was actually writing because this is like I was like what how can that be

483
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in the Bible but it says all of our righteous acts are as filthy rags to you

484
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now all these unrighteous or all these righteous acts that's self-righteousness

485
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that's all the stuff that we do to attain righteousness and our self it's

486
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all the things that we do to try and earn God's love through our own striving

487
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we're doing all these things to try and earn God's love the reason we do all

488
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these things to try and earn God's love is because we haven't realized that his

489
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love is unconditional the love of the Trinity is unconditional just like Adam

490
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and Eve they didn't do anything to be loved they were simply created to be

491
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loved and you and I have simply been created to be loved and the ultimate

492
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calling on our lives is to discover and experience and work in the bliss of

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knowing that this love of the Trinity is not conditional just like Adam and Eve

494
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we were simply created for it we were created to be loved there's nothing we

495
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ever had to do to earn his love because his love is unconditional in nature his

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love is not performance-based acceptance so all of our righteous acts have become

497
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as filthy rags to you so the crazy concept now this is this is gnarly this

498
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is why I'm saying I don't know how it could even possibly be in the Bible but

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the terminology there in the Hebrew for filthy rags is actually used menstrual

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cloths now that's a that's a big crazy thing like oh my gosh but if you check

501
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it out if you look in the Hebrew the Hebrew writing there for filthy rags is

502
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actually used menstrual cloths which is I'm like oh my gosh that's nasty stuff

503
00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:08.080
I was I why did you put that how did that even get in the Bible but it's like

504
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what why is that what is this concept of self-righteousness like make God so

505
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disgusted that he would use it he would compare it to like if we were to

506
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paraphrase that it's like God saying all your performance-based acceptance all of

507
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your attempts to try and earn my love are as pleasing to me as a handful of

508
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:33.760
used tampons which is just gross crazy language but that's the language that

509
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the Bible uses so why is it so crazy to God and so disgusting to God that we

510
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would try and earn his love it's because his love is unconditional in the moment

511
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that we put a price tag on love it's not love that's why God's love is always

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going to be unconditional because the moment we put a price tag on love it is

513
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no longer love and there's an ancient profession where there's a price tag

514
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Put on a perversion of love and that price tag that's put on the perversion of love, you know, we

515
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We kind of do that with God

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unwittingly without realizing as we spend all that time performing performing performing trying to earn his love trying to do just enough to be

517
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Loved by him and he's like guys stop stop stop. It's not that he doesn't want us to perform. Well

518
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Here's what he's saying. He's saying

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You just loved

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You were created to be loved you were created to be outrageously

521
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extravagantly wonderfully

522
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Supernaturally outrageously loved and then from that place of knowing that you're already as loved as love can be

523
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From that place then then perform then excel then thrive then live your best life

524
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Then be phenomenal then be the best that you can be from that place of knowing that just because you were created

525
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That was that was more than enough of an excuse for God to be like I am outrageously outrageously outrageously

526
00:45:57.680 --> 00:46:02.680
Infatuated over the top of the charts in love with you. He created you

527
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Because he didn't have one of you and he wanted one of you and the Trinity

528
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Their longing their hearts desires that you would participate with them in this divine dance in this divine dance of

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Perichoresis

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Where you discover your place in the dance and you have a place in the dance

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And that's why you were created

532
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You were created to partner with the Trinity to have your place in the divine dance

533
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It's like this there's a place for you. There's a space for you in the divine dance

534
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There's a place for you to have the same type of perichoresis fellowship with the Trinity where you experience

535
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Seamless union where you experience what it's like to have divine love filling you flooding you flowing through you on a

536
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moment by moment

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Basis as a perpetual state of being as a lifestyle as your state of being when you receive

538
00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:06.280
Divine love perfectly and when you give perfect expression to divine love as a moment by moment state of being

539
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Now that just coincidentally that's my definition of what sonship is sonship is the ability

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You want to hear this? This is an awesome

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Sonship is the ability to receive divine love perfectly and to give perfect expression to divine love

542
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That's what mature sonship looks like when we are walking in our sonship. That's what our lives look like

543
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That's how you can tell someone's maturing and their understanding of their identity of who we are

544
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We become a

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manifestation of love

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Love fills every part of who we are love floods every part of our being every

547
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Reflex of who we are becomes love every time someone hates us every time the world attacks us every time

548
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Persecution comes against us and cuts us. We bleed love as a reflex

549
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That's the the intention of the Trinity is to include you in this perichoresis that you participate in this divine dance that you find

550
00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:08.280
your place in the divine dance and realize that you were created to be

551
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unconditionally outrageously

552
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extravagantly loved by the Trinity

553
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That's why they created Adam and Eve for them to participate in the divine dance and to realize that they were always always

554
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Always loved they were predestined to love

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Now something else that I really love about Genesis about the story in Genesis in Genesis

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Chapter 2 verse 8 it says and and God planted a garden

557
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For Adam, how awesome is that?

558
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You just he's just he's in this place in Eden is the context of delight

559
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And this is the context that God wants to have a relationship with you

560
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He wants you to realize that he is absolutely outrageously completely unconditionally off the charts over the moon

561
00:48:53.600 --> 00:48:55.600
Delighted in you

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Every moment of every day now

563
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This was a big concept for a lot of people to get their heads around what God's not angry with me

564
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No, God's not mad at you. God is mad about you

565
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God is not mad at you. God is mad about you

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He's delighted in you from the very beginning you were conceived in the context of delight

567
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The Trinity had this idea this context this this this concept of who you could be

568
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Imagined who you would be and you were conceived in delight regardless of your earthly parents regardless of the how your earthly

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Biological conception took place before that before the foundation of the world you were conceived in delight

570
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You were the delight of the Trinity and you were brought forth in delight. And so

571
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The father loves the father. He goes out and he prepares a garden for Adam. It's just awesome

572
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He plants a garden for Adam and then he brings Adam to this garden in the place of delight and he's like tada

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and this garden is

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Awesome, and it's wonderful and it's beautiful. And so you just see that the

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The nature of the father in that, how tender the father is, I just found one of the greatest

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revelations of the father for me in this Genesis story where the father creates a garden, he

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creates Adam perfectly in his image. He didn't create Adam as a servant, as a slave, he created

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him in the Trinity made humanity to bear their image and their likeness. They have done the

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craziest, craziest thing. I don't think many of us would have done that, but they did that.

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It's so outrageous. They created us exclusively to find us in their image.

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Wow. For humanity to forever bear the truth, the reality that we were made in the image of God. Now

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that is wild. And then after that, God brings, you know, like God brings Adam, he puts him in

583
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this garden. It's just amazing. And he's like, oh, wow. He's taking care of every need. He's

584
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being so gentle. He's being so tender. He's being so thoughtful. He's being extravagant. Everything

585
00:50:56.960 --> 00:51:01.760
is actually over the top, you know, like there's way more given than, uh, than you would think

586
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:06.240
needed to be given. But the father is being extravagant in his expression of love. The

587
00:51:06.240 --> 00:51:11.440
Trinity is being extravagant in their expression of love. And then the father's like, oh, but

588
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:17.360
there's no, uh, there's no, uh, lady for Adam. He's like, oh my gosh, we need a lady. We need a

589
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:21.440
lady in this conversation. We need a lady in this dance. It's going to be perfect for Adam.

590
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He created Adam, uh, to have a longing and a desire for Eve. And then he created Eve to fully

591
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:35.280
satisfy the longing and the desire so that, you know, Adam could live with the desires of his

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heart. I love some 37, four delight yourself in the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your

593
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heart. And he wants to satisfy your desires. He wants to give you, uh, answer your desires with

594
00:51:45.600 --> 00:51:50.960
great, beautiful things. And so he does that with Eve. And it's like, wow, at this point in the

595
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story in Genesis, the father, uh, the Trinity have demonstrated such extravagant love. They've

596
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created the truth that Adam and Eve created humanity in the context of Eden, created humanity

597
00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:09.920
for extravagant delight, just to be unconditionally love. And this is one thing like take this away.

598
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The ultimate calling on your life is to be perfectly loved. The ultimate calling on your

599
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:20.960
life is to be perfectly loved extract, not just a little bit of love. So let's just think about

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this for a moment. If your life experience so far is less than you, if you know, if you don't know

601
00:52:30.080 --> 00:52:39.760
as your normal, a life of outrageous, extravagant, supernatural love from the Trinity, then I've got

602
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:44.240
good news for you. An upgrade is on its way and upgrade is on its way because this is what you

603
00:52:44.240 --> 00:52:48.560
were designed for it. We're going to, over these 14 days, lay the foundation for you to actually

604
00:52:48.560 --> 00:52:54.080
step into that because you can actually step into that. And this is what my whole life revolves

605
00:52:54.080 --> 00:52:58.960
around is actually empowering people to step into the divine dance, empowering people to step into

606
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:04.400
this reality where, you know, I've worked with, uh, so many people who've been through extreme

607
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:09.360
trauma. Um, they've been raised in brothels. They've been beaten by their parents. They've

608
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:14.560
been through extreme trauma. They've got the physical scars on their body still from the

609
00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:21.440
beatings of their own, uh, parents, or they've had a one, one young lady face to face. Her own father

610
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:28.400
said, no, nobody could ever love someone like you. I'm like, what? Um, and so many that have

611
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:33.440
experienced abuse in their own families and so many people who've lived in chaos and their normals,

612
00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:38.960
uh, their normals are filled with a love deficit. There's this massive love deficit,

613
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but I've got great news for you in this adventure, in this journey, we are going to lay the

614
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:49.840
foundations for your normal to change around love. You don't have to live with a love deficit.

615
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:55.040
You can live in a love baptism. You can live in a love overflow. That's what you were created for.

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00:53:55.040 --> 00:53:59.600
That's what you were destined for. Uh, that's what the divine life is all about. That's what

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you're invited into. Perichoresis, uh, dancing with the trinity, sharing the divine dance is not

618
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just, uh, like this impacts every single part of your life because being included in the fellowship

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of the trinity and dancing with the trinity, and it includes, uh, experiencing their life,

620
00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:26.720
the divine life as your normal. It includes experiencing the divine life as your default

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setting, how you go through every life, every day of your life, actually participating in the

622
00:54:31.680 --> 00:54:37.040
divine life. All the emotions of the trinity become your emotions, the ecstasy, the bliss,

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the awe, the wonder, the delight that becomes your normal becomes your brand new normal as you step

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into this. And that's where we're going on this, uh, this adventure, which I'm so excited about.

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I'm going to give you, uh, another, another bit of, um, uh, scripture here.

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Uh, we're going to jump into one of the most beautiful, uh,

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is in the Bible, John chapter 17 and looking at verse 20 through to verse 26, so here we

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go, John chapter 17, if you've got your Bibles, grab this out, John chapter 17 verse 20 to

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26, my prayer is not for them alone, I pray also for those who will believe in me through

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their message, that all of them may be one father, just as you are in me and I am in

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you.

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May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you are in me and I am in you,

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he's describing perichoresis, he's describing the divine dance, may they also, now this

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is you, this is your part, this is your inclusion in the dance, may they also be in us so that

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the world may believe that you have sent me, I have given them the glory that you gave

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me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me, so that they may be

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brought to complete unity, that's like perfect union, so that humanity might come into this

638
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place of perfect union, so that you personally could come into this place of perfect union,

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perfect union with the Trinity, then the world will know that you sent me and have loved

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them even as you have loved me.

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Now how wild is this?

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This was the deal breaker for me in my life journey, in my struggle, my personal battle

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with performance based acceptance, this is the deal breaker for me, it was right here

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in John 17 verse 23, because when I first realized this, I was like, what?

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This is not possible, it's not possible that the Father could love me the way that, just

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the same way that he loved Jesus, because in my head, I had picked this up through everything

647
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that I've been through in life, I picked it up, performance based acceptance, which meant

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Jesus, he was perfect, his performance was perfect, so he got 10 out of 10 love from

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the Father.

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Me, I thought in comparison to Jesus, my performance was less than a 1 out of 10, like far, far

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below a 1 out of 10, and so my assumption was that because Jesus' performance was 10

652
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out of 10, and my performance was less than a 1 out of 10, all I was worthy of was the

653
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scraps of love, and Jesus was worthy of perfect love, and I was worthy of the scraps of love,

654
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but that is not what Jesus talked about, because Jesus talked about this concept of divine

655
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family, this concept of unconditional love, that we would know that the Father loves us,

656
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the Trinity loves us, the Father loves us, with the exact same love that they have for

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Jesus, and that blew my mind, and that was like the verse that absolutely destroyed performance

658
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based acceptance in my life, it just destroyed performance based acceptance, because I realized,

659
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oh my gosh, oh my gosh, he loves me, with the exact same measure of love that he loves

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Jesus, which is this outrageous, massive, unconditional, extreme, phenomenal, unconditional

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love, the same love that he has for Jesus, he has for you and me, it's unconditional,

662
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it's perfect, it's unflinching, it's unrelenting, it's extravagant, it's off the charts, and

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there's nothing you could do to earn it, there's nothing you could ever do to be righteous

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enough in your own strength to be self-righteous to try and earn it, God would be like, yuck,

665
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you're putting a price tag on love, it's like you're comparing me to a prostitute, it's

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like, no way, I don't do performance based acceptance, he says, I just do love, God is

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not in the business of performance based acceptance, he's in the business of love, and there's

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no price tag on love, because the moment love has a price tag, it is no longer love, the

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moment love has a price tag, it is no longer love, and the Father just says, you know what,

670
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boom, it's unconditional love is how I roll, it's who I am, it's my nature, and this unconditional

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love is the love that I have for you, and it goes on, it just gets better and better,

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verse 24, Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my

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glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world,

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now this is awesome as well, because Jesus just said that we would know that the Father

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has loved us in exactly the same way that he loved him, and now he's saying that, Jesus

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is now saying that he was loved by the Father before the creation of the world, in other

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words, he's also saying that you and I, we have been loved by the Father before the creation

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by the Father before the creation of the world. There has never been a moment in

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our existence where we have not been fully, perfectly, extravagantly,

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outrageously loved by the Trinity. That is always who we've been. We've always

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been the Beloved. There hasn't been a moment in history when we haven't been

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the Beloved. You and I have always been the Beloved from before the foundation

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of the world. There hasn't been a day, there hasn't been an hour, even in the

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midst of your greatest trauma, even in the midst of your greatest rejection,

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even in the midst of your greatest betrayal, there hasn't been a second,

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there hasn't been a millisecond, there hasn't been a moment where you haven't

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been perfectly, outrageously, extravagantly, wonderfully loved by the

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Trinity. They have loved you every moment of your life and they still love you

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right now with this massive, perfect, unconditional love and they still long

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to have you brought into the perichoresis, brought into the divine

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dance, where you participate with them in the divine dance as your state of being.

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Verse 25 says, Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you

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and they that you are, I know you and they know that you have sent me. And this

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is amazing. Verse 26, we're going to cover this again and again on this adventure.

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Jesus says, I have revealed you to them. He's talking about the Father. He said, I

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have revealed you to them. Now this is massive about the call of Jesus. This is

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one of the number one things that Jesus did. But he says here, I have

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revealed you to them and I will continue to reveal you to them in order that the

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love that you have for me may be in them and may be felt in their hearts. Now

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there is an unconditional, experiential, supernatural, everlasting, eternal love

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that has never flinched since before creation and it is totally

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unconditional. It's the same love that the Father has for his son Jesus. Now I

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think, oh my gosh, the love that the Father has for Jesus, it's massive, it's

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extravagant, it's huge. That is some serious love and then I could never have

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comprehended or imagined that he would love me with that same degree of love,

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with that same measure of love, with that same unconditional love. It just blew my

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mind and rocked my world that the Father loves me with exactly the same divine

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love that he has for the Son. And he has that same love for every one of us and

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he wants us to be flooded with it, immersed with it, baptized with it on a

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moment-by-moment basis. I'm just checking if, yeah, I think we're going to, I think

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we're going to wrap up, wrap up about here for today. Just a few recaps

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for you on today. Perichoresis, it's the divine dance, it's seamless union,

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seamless participation. It's, oh wow, and it's out of perichoresis, out of this

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place of the Trinity, having this extreme love and this divine dance, it's out of

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that place of the divine dance that the Trinity created humanity. And the divine

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dance, perichoresis, the sound of it, it's like if there was a sound to perichoresis,

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if there was a sound, it would be the sound of delight. That's, when you take

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love to its extreme, if you take love to, you know, on an extreme tangent of where

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love goes, when you really, really love someone, it turns into delight. So the

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sound of perichoresis, the sound of the Trinity, the sound of the divine dance is

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the sound of delight. And then you see delight, it's like Eden is a, they're

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attempting to reproduce perichoresis in Eden because Eden means delight as well.

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And actually the foundation of the Trinity, I mean, the Trinity itself, the

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divine dance, the fellowship of the Trinity, now it's the foundation of heaven.

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It's the atmosphere of heaven. It's the heartbeat of heaven. This is, it's

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literally, you know, everything in heaven is built on, flows from, overflows from

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perichoresis, flows out of the divine dance. So everything that you're going to

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find in heaven, it's just saturated in the sound of delight. It's immersed in

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the sound of delight. It comes out of the sound of delight, or the sound, the sound of

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Eden. Eden, delight, paradise, that's what the Trinity sounds like. That's what

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perichoresis sounds like. That's what it looks like. It's this overflow of the

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divine dance, an overflow of delight, an overflow of paradise, an overflow of perfection.

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So perichoresis is really what the atmosphere of heaven is founded on.

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The heartbeat of heaven, now when we're called to bring heaven to earth, I'll chuck this

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in here as kind of a close, as a close for us as we kind of bring this in for a landing

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for today, but perichoresis is the blueprint for what heaven looks like.

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If you want to experience heaven, you really want to experience perichoresis, you want

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to experience what it's like to step into this place of relationship, of perfect relationship

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where it's an unbroken cycle of divine love where each person is absolutely, outrageously,

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unconditionally delighted in the other and it's an unbroken cycle of divine love and

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that's what actually bringing heaven to earth looks like.

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Bringing heaven to earth is far more than just signs, wonders and miracles, bringing

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heaven to earth is extending the fellowship of the trinity, expanding perichoresis, expanding

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that into our world and so sunshine is the ability to receive divine love perfectly

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01:06:01.720 --> 01:06:04.200
and give perfect expression to divine love.

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That's where you go when you mature in your sunshine.

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When I say upgrade your normal in 14 days, that's what I'm talking about, it's about

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an upgrade in your capacity to receive love and an upgrade in your capacity to express

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01:06:16.120 --> 01:06:21.280
love which will upgrade your capacity to bring heaven to earth because bringing heaven to

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earth is not about numbers, it's about quality, bringing heaven to earth is not about having

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a massive building, about having a massive church, about having massive numbers, it's

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not even about having massive numbers of miracles, bringing heaven to earth is about quality.

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If we want to build authentic expressions of heaven on earth, then the calling for us

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is to reproduce an authentic expression of perichoresis, it's to extend the fellowship

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01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:50.800
of the trinity.

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Now my definition of the orphan illusion is the inability to receive divine love and the

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inability to give perfect expression to divine love.

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So for us if we want to grow in our capacity to bring heaven to earth, then we need to

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grow in our capacity to receive divine love and express divine love and participate in

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01:07:12.120 --> 01:07:17.040
the divine dance because this is what the trinity has been always about from the very

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beginning.

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It's this divine dance of delight, of perichoresis, of unconditional love, it's the sound of heaven,

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it's the atmosphere of heaven, it's just this phenomenal, phenomenal dance with the trinity

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and our job like bringing heaven to earth is it starts by learning to participate in

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the dance, it starts by learning to receive divine love, it starts by learning how to

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01:07:41.520 --> 01:07:48.240
get baptized and immersed and filled and saturated with heaven and so it's actually

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01:07:48.240 --> 01:07:54.280
impossible when we've got these orphan mindsets that restrict our ability to receive divine

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01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:59.160
love and restrict our ability to express divine love, it's actually impossible for us to bring

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heaven to earth.

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So if we want to bring heaven to earth, then we need a viral outbreak of sonship because

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sons, they just overflow heaven, it's their default setting, heaven is their default setting,

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01:08:11.240 --> 01:08:17.399
paradise, Eden, it's their default setting and they effortlessly bring the atmosphere

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01:08:17.399 --> 01:08:22.359
of heaven, effortlessly bring the atmosphere of heaven and the atmosphere of the perichoresis,

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01:08:22.359 --> 01:08:28.040
the atmosphere of the trinity, the atmosphere of divine love, the atmosphere of perichoresis

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01:08:28.040 --> 01:08:33.439
comes with sons everywhere they go as a default setting effortlessly without any striving,

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without any struggle, it just effortlessly flows because it's their default setting.

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So I want to pray for us and just kind of bring things to a close for today but I'm

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excited, we're going to go on this journey, you're going to get upgraded in your ability

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to participate in the divine dance as a moment by moment state of being.

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Wow, Trinity, I thank you so much for every single person that's here, I thank you for

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every person that's hearing these words, I thank you for every person that's a part of

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01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:17.760
this adventure and Trinity, I thank you for just a massive revelation, a massive mindset

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01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:25.080
shift when people think about who you are, even right now I declare that there are changes

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taking place in people's paradigms, see even right now people have had these false images

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01:09:30.240 --> 01:09:35.720
of who God is, these false images of God that have said no, because of this experience I've

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01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:40.439
taken this understanding of who God is and we've got these false images of who you are

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01:09:40.439 --> 01:09:46.479
but right now Trinity, I thank you that you're releasing baptisms in your love, I thank you

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that you're releasing radical love encounters, I thank you that even right now I can see

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01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:55.280
a picture of this glory just flowing into people's rooms right now, I just declare that

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the glory of God is just moving right through this camera, right into your life.

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01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.000
room right into your world right where you are right now right into your space

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01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:09.080
the glory of God is flowing into that place and there is a glory that's

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01:10:09.080 --> 01:10:14.760
saturated in love it's a baptism in the Father's love and so I declare in the

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01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:20.680
name of Jesus a fresh wave of baptisms and the supernatural love of the Father

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I declare the power of Romans 5 5 but the love of God has been poured out into

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01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:29.920
our hearts through the Holy Spirit so Holy Spirit I thank you right now for

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01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:37.040
pouring out pouring out pouring out pouring out a supernatural baptism in

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01:10:37.040 --> 01:10:41.000
the love of the Trinity for releasing the atmosphere of heaven into people's

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01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:45.160
hearts I think you that right now you're breaking off performance-based acceptance

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01:10:45.160 --> 01:10:49.880
I think you're releasing a revelation of unconditional love I think

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01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:54.080
you're releasing a revelation for people right now that they are worthy to be

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01:10:54.080 --> 01:10:59.560
loved by you worthy to be loved extravagantly passionately outrageously

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01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:05.040
unconditionally because they were simply created to be loved whoa Holy

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Spirit flow right now through this camera through this microphone flow all

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over the world and just begin to touch people's hearts with a fresh baptism

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Lord and delight the Lord just baptized people of fresh in this revelation that

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you are the delight they are the delight of your heart they are the focus of your

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01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:32.960
delight pour it out in Jesus name Holy Spirit more and more and more and more

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01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:37.360
and soften our hearts as we go on this journey as soften our hearts and prepare

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our hearts to be receive a fresh this radical radical radical baptism and the

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love of the Father that changes everything and changes us and changes

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everything about us forever and empowers us to step into our sonship and empowers

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01:11:52.920 --> 01:11:58.600
us to dance with you in this fellowship of perichoresis this fellowship of the

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Trinity as we dance with you seamlessly and effortlessly in Jesus name wow

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amen beautiful hey well massive love to you all I look forward to catching up

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with you again very soon the next live you'll see it soon you'll get an event

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notification but it is on Wednesday at 8 p.m. New Zealand time look forward to

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catching you there and let's let's chuck out some some thoughts as well put down

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some comments I would love to just get from you why don't you put down in the

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comments how a percentage of how loved you feel as your normal what do you

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think your normal is as far as how loved you feel just put that down in the

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comments like 80 or 20 or 30 or a hundred how loved do you feel as your

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default setting we want to see people strike make massive growth in how loved

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they feel and so why don't you chuck that in the comments how loved do you

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01:13:00.120 --> 01:13:05.640
feel as your normal are you a 10 20 30 percent 40 percent 50 percent are you

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just Florida you feel a hundred percent loved all the time would love to hear

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that and we'll catch you very soon if you do have questions I'll I'll have a

828
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crack at answering some of those questions over the next day or so as

829
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:22.520
well but love you and we'll catch you all very soon delighted and honored to

830
01:13:22.520 --> 01:13:27.080
be on this adventure with you oh that's right remember as well two hours two

831
01:13:27.080 --> 01:13:30.640
hours to closing just under two hours so if you've got any friends who want to

832
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:35.440
jump on this adventure with us two hours to closing because 6 p.m. New Zealand

833
01:13:35.440 --> 01:13:39.040
time will shut this down so if there's anyone else that wants to jump on board

834
01:13:39.040 --> 01:13:45.640
boom let them know let them know it is on it's time to it's time to sign up

835
01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:49.240
right now because there's less than two hours and we're shutting it up love you

836
01:13:49.240 --> 01:13:53.120
very much catch you very soon bye bye