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So now we'll be talking about shifting into rest.

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I'm so excited.

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So I get very excited.

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I don't exaggerate, but I'm a very intense person.

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I'm a very, very expressive person.

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OK, so when you think of shifting into rest,

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let's think of ourselves like, you're

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going to remember this for forever when you hear this.

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Think of yourself like a balloon.

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That's what you are.

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You're a balloon.

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So it's going to make sense in just a second.

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So it's not a very pretty balloon,

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but hey, there's something.

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OK, so let's use this.

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So now let's imagine that balloon,

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which doesn't really make sense the way that I drew it.

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Let's do it this way.

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Understanding this, let's do that.

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Because that balloon, so you're a balloon,

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and let's imagine that in between the invisible

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and the visible realm, between the uncreated and the created,

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think of it kind of like an ocean,

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that this is that everything under this line,

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under the ocean waves, this is the ocean,

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and everything above it is the air and the sky.

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Well, if you're a balloon, what does that mean?

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It means that within you is the very essence

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and the very material and the very nature of what is outside.

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You're in spirit, and you are spirit.

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The same thing.

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You are in spirit.

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You are in God.

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What is in you is spirit as well.

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And so a balloon naturally floats on the water very,

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very effortlessly.

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It doesn't have to work to be a balloon.

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You're a balloon.

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So you are, what is in you is of the nature of the environment

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that you're in.

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It's the same material, the same substance, the same element.

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And however, this operates, the principles according

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to the way that this functions, this nature

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is the same nature that you have,

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and you operate according to that same nature as well.

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So Christ's nature is our nature, and vice versa.

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Now, this is, wherever the balloon is,

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is how we're going to represent where we believe

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that the seed of our identity is.

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So in the balloon, effortlessly in operating and believing

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that it, and understanding that it is spirit,

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effortlessly flows on top of the water.

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It doesn't have to try to float.

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It doesn't have to try to be what it is.

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You don't have to try to be who it is that God

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has declared you to be.

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You are that thing.

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So at this time, let me talk about the new man

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and the old man.

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We talked about this briefly before,

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but it's very important to emphasize at this point.

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God says that the old man, the old man here,

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that believed that, remember when we were separated from God

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and that our spirit was dead?

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There was the separation.

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There was this veil.

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And this was the old man.

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The old man being created was subject to corruption.

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It was subject to death.

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But God says that when he came and he removed the veil,

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that the seed of our identity is actually in our spirit.

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And it meant that now we are the new man.

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It meant that the old man died.

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The new man is what we now are.

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We are a brand new creation.

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And Paul admonishes the church.

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And he says, why, if the old man is dead,

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do you keep trying to resurrect him?

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Why do you keep acting like the old man

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if you're not the old man anymore?

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You don't have to act.

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You don't have to act like that.

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I'll just have to write myself a note real quick.

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You have not only permission to operate

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according to the new man, but that is who you are.

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And it is effortless.

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It is effortless to believe God.

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The new man always believes God.

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The new man has never sinned.

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The new man always believes God.

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So he believes God to the fullest extent, 100%.

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He receives all of God's word to its fullest extent.

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Naturally, effortlessly, it's never done anything else.

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The new man has never known fear.

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The new man has never rebelled against God.

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The new man is a new creation, brand new.

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It's our belief.

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That we are the old man that is causing us to make decisions and choices that result in sin.

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That result in this belief of separation. That's where sin comes in.

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It's this belief that we're actually still the old man and that we're operating according to it.

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The reason I wanted to belabor this point is we think that sin is easy. It's not.

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Sin is counter to your nature. Sin is very, very hard for you to do.

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What do you have to do in order to sin? You have to work.

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Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Doing.

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Instead of being, doing.

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In order to sin you have to work. You have to strive for it because it's not natural for you.

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If you think it's natural for you, well then you're going to do it.

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You think, oh my word, this is who it is that I am and it's really, really hard to be good.

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We have it backwards. We're making it hard for ourselves. We're believing the opposite.

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Sin is actually very difficult for us to do.

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We have to believe a lie in order to be able to do it.

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I wanted to free us from that. Sin is not natural for you. Sin is not easy.

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The reason that it feels easy is the fact that we believe that that's who we are.

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As soon as we stop believing it, it's very easy to not sin because it's not who we are.

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If we understand that we're in God and we're operating according to the tree of life, we abide in God.

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We just operate according to his character because that's our character and God never sins.

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The very essence of God's character is goodness and is love.

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That's what you're going to do. Very, very effortless.

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That is the nature of the balloon is holiness, is righteousness.

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Everything it is that God says that Christ is can be said of the balloon.

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Everything that Christ is is in you. It's of the same substance, the same essence.

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The balloon doesn't have to try to be itself. It just effortlessly floats on top of the water.

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It doesn't have to try to not sink.

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For a balloon to sink, that's very counter to its nature.

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It has to work hard in order to sink.

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In order to sink, what does the balloon have to do?

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It has to grab hold of a weight. In other words, a lie.

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An accusation against God's character. God's not that good.

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God's this good, but he's not this good.

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He's this good, but he's not this good. God's not that good.

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The more accusation that we hold against God, the more...

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We don't know it. We think that we're quoting scripture.

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What we don't realize is we're actually saying that we're limiting God's goodness.

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We believe that he's not as good as he says that he is.

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That's actually grabbing hold of a weight and a lie.

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When it does that, the balloon starts to sink.

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Right here, think of it again like the ocean.

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The further that a balloon sinks...

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In other words, if it grabs a hold of a certain type of weight, it'll go down to the soul level.

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In other words, it grabs a hold of a certain measure of accusation against God.

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It'll take it down to... Think of operating in the soul level.

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My identity is more down here. I believe that I'm abandoned and alone.

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I'm over earthly laws, but I'm still subject to needing spiritual laws in order to be able to heal,

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in order to be able to be healed from traumas, in order for God to bless me financially.

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I have to tithe, I have to reap, and I have to sow to follow all of these laws.

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Those laws are good laws, by the way, and they all work.

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I'm just saying if we think that we need them, we think that we're reliant on them in order to please God

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or in order for God to give us good gifts, which he says we don't need anything in order for him to give us good gifts

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because God gives abundantly because a gift is about the giver, not the receiver.

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It's about the nature of the giver.

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He gives abundantly, not because we're doing or not doing something.

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Very, very, very important.

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If the balloon grabs a hold of some accusation against God, he's going to sink to this level.

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He believes, okay, well, God's better than this, but he's not as good as this.

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I'm reliant on my knowledge of spiritual laws in order to heal, in order to get somewhere,

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in order to battle Satan, in order to be healed.

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to do whatever in order to be pleasing to him in my business.

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I have to do everything just right, et cetera.

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I have ties off of the gross and not the net, whatever

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loss we've come up with.

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And then if we grab a hold of a greater accusation against God,

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we sink further down.

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And we have to grab a hold of a heavier weight, heavier,

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greater accusation against God.

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And here's the point about this that I wanted to point out.

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Just like the ocean, the deeper you go in the ocean,

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the more pressure is placed on the object, right?

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It is a lot harder to live life down here believing

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that we're subject to the knowledge of earthly laws

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than it is if we believe here that we're here.

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The more accusation we have against God,

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the more oppressed life feels to live.

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So anyway, the very, very exciting thing about this

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is that if the balloon grabs a hold of a weight in order

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to sink, because it's not of the nature of the balloon.

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By the way, I do want to mention that the nature of the balloon

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doesn't change.

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Even if it's down here, it's still a balloon, right?

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So it doesn't matter if you're sinning.

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You're still spirit.

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You're still who it is that you are.

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You're still perfectly righteous.

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You're still perfectly holy, even if you just sinned.

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It doesn't change your nature that you did something,

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but it doesn't change who you are.

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You're still the thing.

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So if all that a balloon did was grab a hold of a weight

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in order to sink, what is the only thing that it has to do?

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This, by the way, is unrest, accusation,

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separation against God.

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What is the only thing you have to do to shift into rest?

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Let go.

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That is all you have to do.

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You don't let go and then have a counteraction of swimming up.

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A balloon naturally rises.

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It's just a balloon.

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It just never stopped being itself.

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So as soon as it stopped letting go,

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as soon as it let go of something that was counter

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to its nature, because that weight is not

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of the nature of the balloon.

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As soon as it let go of this need

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that it felt that it had to something outside of itself,

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as soon as it let that go, it still

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continued to act like a balloon, and it naturally

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and effortlessly floated up.

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It didn't have to let go and then try to do something else.

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You don't have to, when Jesus told the,

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I know I'm using this example a lot,

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when Jesus told the woman who committed adultery to,

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he said, neither do I accuse you.

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Go and sin no more.

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He didn't tell her to do anything.

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He just said, stop.

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That's all I said to do.

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Just stop.

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You float, and you float to the top.

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Because we're, and then we're, and then

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we're completely at rest.

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So when you, that's all we have to do.

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When we have a lie and an accusation against God,

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we don't have to bemoan and wail and repent and feel,

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you don't have to feel sorry.

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You don't have to feel remorseful.

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I'm not saying that we don't feel sorry

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and we don't feel remorseful.

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That, you know, those are perfectly fine things.

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Because when we're in relationship with another being,

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we're gonna tell Lord, oh Lord, you know,

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I'm sorry I hurt you.

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But we don't have to feel this horrible grief

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and this horrible remorse.

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That is not payment.

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No payment is required.

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God has already paid for everything.

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All he told, he didn't tell the adulteress,

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go and make restitution.

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He didn't tell her, okay, go apologize to everybody.

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He didn't even tell her to feel bad.

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He said, just stop.

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He said, I don't, and before he even told her to stop,

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he said, I don't condemn you.

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So now that you're in a place of no condemnation,

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do you want to do that anymore?

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No.

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I promise, if any of y'all are wondering about that,

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once you shift yourself into no shame and no condemnation,

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you're like, I don't want to do that anymore.

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you realize who it is that you are,

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and then you start acting like that.

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is continuing to choose to let go

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of more and more accusations that we have,

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that we are holding onto about the Lord.

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to start to act according to our nature.

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you know how I talked about the fact

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that there's no counteraction.

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and then you're gonna naturally shift into,

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okay, Lord, here I am.

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I'm in your character.

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What is it that I would normally do?

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and then try to,

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yes, there is a process of maturing and all of that,

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but you're not having to.

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Do anything to get back into position.

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you know, like the prodigal son, being welcomed back in as if he never left.

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This is what the prodigal son did.

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He thought he was abandoned and alone, and he asked for all of his inheritance

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so that he could use it as tools to provide for and protect himself.

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And then the older brother actually did the same thing

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in the fact that he had everything.

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He was given everything by the Lord.

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He was given 100%, and he was part of his father's estate,

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but he never received it.

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He had all of it and never received it.

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So he didn't get to benefit from it.

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Father, why haven't you thrown a party for me before?

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Why haven't you given me your robe?

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Why haven't you killed the fatted calf for me?

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And the father's like, I don't understand.

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I did.

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It's all here.

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You can have it whenever you want.

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He didn't receive it.

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The prodigal son chose to receive it.

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It's all about receiving.

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and how much one person did or didn't do.

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You can't earn it.

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Everything from God has to be freely given

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and freely received.

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Everything in the spirit, everything in heaven,

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has to be freely given and freely received.

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Everything.

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You cannot work for any of it.

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You remember that this was symbolized with the Israelites

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and the fact that the priests would wear linen

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because it would keep them from sweating

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because sweat, which in Scripture symbolizes strife

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and working and earning,

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sweat could not enter the presence of God.

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So if we've worked for it, we can't have anything in spirit.

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We can only receive things of the spirit

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by simply receiving it.

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So everything has to be freely received.

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That is how you go from 36 to 60 to 100

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is to understand that there's nothing that you do

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that qualifies you

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and there's nothing that you do that disqualifies you.

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Everything.

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At this point, Jonathan, could you pull up Deuteronomy 2?

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I don't remember where it starts,

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and we're not going to read the full thing,

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but I just kind of want to point this out.

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Remember in that same, before we were talking,

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we were referencing Deuteronomy 4

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where Moses was talking to the second generation

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of the Israelites that had left Egypt

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and he was reiterating for them,

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hey, look, this is the history and the story

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of your ancestors, of your fathers,

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and he's urging them to make a different choice.

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So he goes through here.

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Thank you.

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So I recommend looking at Chapter 2.

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It's entirely too long for us to read,

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but I wanted to point out three things.

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So let's see here.

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Okay, look at verse 4.

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Give the people these orders.

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The Lord's talking to Moses.

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You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives,

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the descendants of Esau who live in Seir.

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They will be afraid of you, but be very careful.

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Do not provoke them to war,

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for I will not give you any of their land,

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not even enough to put your foot on.

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Then later on, it talks about if we could go down to,

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yeah, if we could go down to like 9 and 10 and all that,

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then God says the same thing about the Moabites in verse 9.

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Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war,

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for I will not give you any part of their land.

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By the way, the Moabites were descendants of Lot.

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Moab and Ammon.

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And so the Moabites and the Ammonites

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were of the descendants of Lot in the end.

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Esau was of the descendants of Isaac.

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So anyway, so these are relatives,

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but they are not the chosen.

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They're not the chosen firstborn.

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So they represent for us here the Gentiles.

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So he's talking about the fact that the,

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and we'll put it into current contemporary terms.

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He's saying that the sons of God do not have,

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so to speak, that the Christians or the Jews,

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we'll just keep it as the Jews, it's probably just easier

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and then you can make the connection,

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that the Jews are not allowed to have

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any of the Gentiles' land,

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even though that they're their brothers

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and that the Jews are the chosen ones

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because it mentions here,

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and it mentions this about all three,

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but we'll just talk about the Moabites.

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Looking at nine again, do not harass the Moabites

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or provoke them to war.

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I will not give you any part of their land.

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I have given R to the descendants of Lot as a possession.

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The Emites used to live there, a people strong and numerous

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and as tall as the Anakites.

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The Anakites were the giants that the Israelites

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encountered in Canaan and said were too large,

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and God said, no, no, no, we can go in

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and we can annihilate them.

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I've given you the land, I've given you victory,

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and he said, no, those Anakites are too,

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they're too tall, they're too large.

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We were grasshoppers in their sight, we can't do it.

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But the Moabites were not even given

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that same promise by God,

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and yet they believed that they could conquer the Anakites,

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which they did, so like the Anakites,

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they too were considered Raphaelites,

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but the Moabites called it Nehemiah.

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to just drive the point home.

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You can go and look at the chapter later,

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but what we just read about Moab,

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he mentions about the Ammonites,

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and he also mentions that about the Edomites,

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that all three of those people groups,

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it never mentions in there that God gave them a promise,

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but all three of these non-believers

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believed that the land could be theirs

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and that they could conquer the Anakites.

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It never says that God even gave them

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a promise that they could,

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and yet they believed that they could,

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they chose that it was theirs,

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and because they chose it, it says point-blank,

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God gave them the land.

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So God honored the fact that a non-believer

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believed that they could have something,

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believed that they could be given a gift,

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but the Israelites did not believe

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that they could be given that gift.

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The Israelites rejected this,

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they said, no, we can't,

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even though we've been given the promise by God

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that we can be assured of victory,

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we do not believe that we can defeat the Anakites.

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So they received God's promise,

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but they received God's word,

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but they chose to not receive it,

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but the others actually believed that they could,

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and so to honor that, because God said,

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yes, I am that good, I am that good of a father,

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and I will give you the land to the point

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that the Jews are not even allowed to take,

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what did they say?

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Put a, take even a foot of it,

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which I thought was really fascinating

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because they're God's chosen,

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but he honors the fact that the non-believers

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believed more than the believers did.

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So that is why, we're gonna get into,

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hopefully it's not too touchy of a subject,

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but that is why a lot of non-believers

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are learning more things about the spirit realm

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and doing things than we are.

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They believe it, and we don't.

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If it's there, if it's there, you know, God gives us,

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God has created particular principles,

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and we're supposed to operate according to those principles,

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the scholarly principles, that character of who it is

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that he actually is, excuse me,

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and operating according to who it is that he actually,

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that he is, not trying to go around God

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and use his principles for their own selfish devices,

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you know, their own selfish interests or whatever,

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or making some kind of an agreement

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or a covenant with Satan himself

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or some other spirit being,

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like, you know, a demon, a fallen angel, you know, whatever.

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And that is how they're able to do a lot of these things.

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But why does it work?

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Why non-believers are out there healing.

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They're having huge conferences and healing

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because they believe that God gave it.

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Now, they may not call it God, they may not believe in God,

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but they believe that it's possible and it's happening.

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But we're not believing that it's possible.

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We're not believing that God has given it to us,

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even though God told us,

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point blank in the Bible, that it's ours and we can have it.

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We don't believe it.

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So remember, when we're in God,

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there is nothing to be threatened by out there.

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We don't want to be a part of anything

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that has some evil spirit.

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connected with it that is operating according to a source outside of God

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that is trying to operate according to the spirit of man or the spirit of the

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demonic or whatever we don't want to have any part of those but just because

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we don't want to have a part of the groups that are choosing those at their

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source from which they they use God's principles does not corrupt God's

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principles does not corrupt his original ones so what we just need to do is we

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need to ask the Lord Lord will you guide us back you know through through your

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word through your word in scripture through your word and you know in in my

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spirit and in my heart show me what the your original your original principles

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are the good things that I may stand in those because I'm watching the

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non-believers have the inheritance that you promised me we had they believed

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that they could have an inheritance and they got it and they weren't even

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promised it we were promised it and we're not choosing to be able to receive

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it so my point is not is not condemnation like well you know we

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should feel bad that's not my point my point is oh my word then it means that

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we have permission we have it and it's okay and we can pursue it we always

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pursue it in the Lord but we can pursue it remember we're not coming up with

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what do I want to do how do I want to live life I'm gonna be able to manifest

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that sounds really cool absolutely positively not what does God say but

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that we need to choose and if he talks about he talks about being able to lay

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hands on people and then being healed or whatever if he said it then we can

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believe it so we're not listening to secular teachers who are who are you

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know talking about trying to do things outside of using God as the source

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because that's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but when we operate

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according to who it is that God himself is we can operate in operating according

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to his character we can operate according to the principles that and he

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our own God and set in motion and it was our God who he would have performed

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miracles and even even the Egyptians remember performed some of the same

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00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:13.300
miracles that Moses was doing right that they can use those same those same

502
00:27:13.300 --> 00:27:18.780
spiritual laws so to speak that Moses was using but Moses was doing them in

503
00:27:18.780 --> 00:27:22.260
God and so he was doing them according to the tree of life and they're doing

504
00:27:22.260 --> 00:27:24.900
them according to the tree of knowledge of good and evil for examples of this

505
00:27:24.900 --> 00:27:30.940
this this discussion so that's why as they eventually win is they eventually

506
00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:36.420
went on Moses is because it was done in life it far surpassed that which

507
00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:41.620
eventually led to nothing but death right so anyway it does it does

508
00:27:41.620 --> 00:27:48.460
originate with our God there's nothing out there that Satan that Satan for

509
00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:55.500
simple explanation there's nothing out there that Satan created God created

510
00:27:55.500 --> 00:28:01.500
things he is he's amazing he births things Satan takes things that God

511
00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:08.180
originally created and then twists them so just because and there's a twisted

512
00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:11.820
version out there does not mean that's the only version doesn't mean that it's

513
00:28:11.820 --> 00:28:14.300
the original version so I just say all those things you know just take this

514
00:28:14.300 --> 00:28:20.980
before the Lord my point in telling you all that is to to to just to help us to

515
00:28:20.980 --> 00:28:27.140
start expand our expand our minds to read scripture what does God say and to

516
00:28:27.140 --> 00:28:31.180
believe it to its fullness and we can only operate in according to the measure

517
00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:34.820
we can only operate according to the measure of the fullness to which we're

518
00:28:34.820 --> 00:28:49.580
receiving that word okay now going back to oh well let me let me finish this

519
00:28:49.580 --> 00:28:56.860
really quick so your God gives good gifts to all of us simply because and

520
00:28:56.860 --> 00:29:00.020
this is very important in it and to understand in shifting out of unrest

521
00:29:00.020 --> 00:29:04.300
interest it's very important that we understand that we nothing that we do

522
00:29:04.300 --> 00:29:10.300
qualifies us and therefore nothing that we do disqualifies us our God gives

523
00:29:10.300 --> 00:29:17.180
abundantly to everyone he reigns on the good and the evil so therefore God reigns

524
00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:20.860
on people regardless of their behavior it's like oh well I'll rain on their

525
00:29:20.860 --> 00:29:24.340
crops and I'll rain on their crops it has absolutely nothing to do with what

526
00:29:24.340 --> 00:29:26.860
it is they do and whether or not they believe me whether or not that they've

527
00:29:26.860 --> 00:29:30.940
chosen me very very important so as we're learning to shift interest and

528
00:29:30.940 --> 00:29:34.660
we're learning to believe that God is who he says that he is it's important

529
00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:40.540
that we choose that to choose to understand that he gives an abundance

530
00:29:40.540 --> 00:29:45.580
because what a gift is all about the giver it's not about the receiver it's

531
00:29:45.580 --> 00:29:52.980
what the giver is trying to express of himself so God is going to give you good

532
00:29:52.980 --> 00:29:57.860
gifts and you can expect good gifts in your life in your spiritual life in your

533
00:29:57.860 --> 00:30:02.020
physical life in your in your soul life

534
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.520
If you're in the metaphysical, this is the metaphysical realm.

535
00:30:03.520 --> 00:30:06.480
So spiritual, metaphysical, physical.

536
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:08.480
In the metaphysical realm, in all of the realms,

537
00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:12.880
God can give and does give abundantly very good gifts

538
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:14.840
because it's who he is.

539
00:30:14.840 --> 00:30:18.400
And he wants to be allowed to be himself.

540
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:21.080
Remember that that's the best way to love someone,

541
00:30:21.080 --> 00:30:23.440
is to allow them to be who they are.

542
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:27.120
Instead of dictating to them, this is how I receive love.

543
00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:28.640
This is how I want to be loved.

544
00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.360
God, I want you to do this for me,

545
00:30:30.360 --> 00:30:31.280
and I want you to do this for me.

546
00:30:31.280 --> 00:30:32.520
Why aren't you doing this for me, God?

547
00:30:32.520 --> 00:30:33.640
You don't love me.

548
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:35.320
Because if you loved me, you would do these things.

549
00:30:35.320 --> 00:30:37.400
And God's like, no, I've created for you

550
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:38.300
for a relationship with me.

551
00:30:38.300 --> 00:30:40.400
I'm trying to show you who it is that I am.

552
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:43.520
Allow me to love you the way that I want to love you

553
00:30:43.520 --> 00:30:45.560
because I'm giving you me.

554
00:30:45.560 --> 00:30:47.480
If that's me, I will give it to you.

555
00:30:48.320 --> 00:30:50.600
So that is the type of relationship

556
00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:53.000
that we agreed upon in covenant with him

557
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.200
that we desire to join.

558
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:01.200
But so we have to understand that God gives and choose,

559
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.720
that God gives abundantly regardless

560
00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:08.160
of whether or not you're choosing him.

561
00:31:09.360 --> 00:31:13.480
Because the Moabites, the Ammonites,

562
00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.200
and the Edomites did not choose God,

563
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.640
and God gave to them abundantly.

564
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.220
So if you don't feel that God is giving,

565
00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:25.740
there's a lot of people that we know

566
00:31:25.740 --> 00:31:27.420
or that we hear about or whatever

567
00:31:27.420 --> 00:31:31.480
that the world would term as very evil and wicked people,

568
00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:32.740
doing evil and wicked things,

569
00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:36.340
and they are being blessed beyond measure.

570
00:31:36.340 --> 00:31:37.460
Now, it's all gonna lead to death

571
00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:38.940
because there's no life in it,

572
00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:42.980
but the thing is they get to have it

573
00:31:42.980 --> 00:31:45.140
because they don't know why not.

574
00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:47.020
But we come up with all of these reasons

575
00:31:47.020 --> 00:31:49.340
in our own life of why not.

576
00:31:50.340 --> 00:31:53.500
So release yourself from the why not

577
00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:55.940
and allow God even without you having,

578
00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:58.780
choose that even without you choosing him,

579
00:31:58.780 --> 00:32:02.340
because you believe that he is God,

580
00:32:02.340 --> 00:32:04.780
you believe that he is who he says that he is,

581
00:32:04.780 --> 00:32:07.420
that he is, that he's good and that he's loving

582
00:32:07.420 --> 00:32:09.220
and that the essence of his character

583
00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:12.540
is to give good things abundantly,

584
00:32:12.540 --> 00:32:16.220
you will receive good things abundantly

585
00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:18.440
even without choosing him.

586
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:22.640
Choose that first, choose that he is who he says that he is

587
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.960
even before you choose how much of himself

588
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.640
that you want to expose yourself to.

589
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:29.800
It's very, very important

590
00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:32.280
because God takes union very, very seriously.

591
00:32:32.280 --> 00:32:33.800
But we see here that God's like,

592
00:32:33.800 --> 00:32:37.820
no, I want you to choose that I choose to believe me.

593
00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:43.880
One, it probably the most famous,

594
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:49.600
yeah, famous, well-known of Chris Blackaby's sayings

595
00:32:49.600 --> 00:32:51.840
that people quote over and over and it changed my life.

596
00:32:51.840 --> 00:32:54.440
If I just repeat that one thing over and over,

597
00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:58.440
it's really helped me in my relationship with the Lord.

598
00:32:58.440 --> 00:32:59.960
If I'm struggling in my relationship with the Lord,

599
00:32:59.960 --> 00:33:01.240
I remind myself of this.

600
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:04.840
So the way that Chris words it is belief

601
00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:06.800
is God's love language.

602
00:33:06.800 --> 00:33:09.160
If you want to love God, you believe him.

603
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:10.640
Because how do you love someone?

604
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:11.780
You receive them.

605
00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:15.660
God is saying, I'm giving you my word.

606
00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:16.620
What does he require?

607
00:33:16.620 --> 00:33:18.300
He say, I want you to receive my word.

608
00:33:18.300 --> 00:33:19.820
What is receiving a word?

609
00:33:19.820 --> 00:33:21.900
Receiving is believing, that's how we receive.

610
00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:24.540
He gives, he wants us to receive.

611
00:33:24.540 --> 00:33:26.420
Word, how do we interact with word?

612
00:33:26.420 --> 00:33:27.600
How do we receive word?

613
00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:28.860
We believe it.

614
00:33:28.860 --> 00:33:30.980
So it all works together.

615
00:33:30.980 --> 00:33:34.540
That's why belief is God's love language.

616
00:33:34.540 --> 00:33:36.060
He says, I'm invisible.

617
00:33:36.060 --> 00:33:38.040
So the only thing I'm giving you is word.

618
00:33:38.040 --> 00:33:41.340
So how do I know, I want you, my lover, to receive me.

619
00:33:41.860 --> 00:33:44.460
So if I'm giving you word, how do you receive word?

620
00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:45.820
You believe it.

621
00:33:45.820 --> 00:33:48.780
That's why he likes to phrase it as,

622
00:33:48.780 --> 00:33:52.260
and I think it's a very, very poignant phrase,

623
00:33:52.260 --> 00:33:54.140
that belief is God's love language.

624
00:33:54.140 --> 00:33:56.620
And if I remember that in very, very difficult times,

625
00:33:56.620 --> 00:33:59.260
I'm like, then that's what I choose, God.

626
00:33:59.260 --> 00:34:00.660
I believe you.

627
00:34:00.660 --> 00:34:02.900
And I believe it, not because I feel it,

628
00:34:02.900 --> 00:34:05.260
I believe it because I choose it.

629
00:34:05.260 --> 00:34:06.620
We'll talk about that tomorrow.

630
00:34:06.620 --> 00:34:09.080
How to have faith without believing.

631
00:34:12.060 --> 00:34:14.860
But faith is actually a choice.

632
00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:18.219
So was there anything I wanted to say before I move on?

633
00:34:20.020 --> 00:34:24.380
Now, the,

634
00:34:27.420 --> 00:34:30.940
in, okay, so I talked,

635
00:34:30.940 --> 00:34:32.360
just mentioned this real quick.

636
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:34.780
So this, if we're down in the solar in the body,

637
00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:36.300
we're in a state of resistance.

638
00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:39.500
Because the balloon, its natural tendency is to be buoyant.

639
00:34:39.540 --> 00:34:42.540
So its natural tendency is to be tall,

640
00:34:42.540 --> 00:34:44.020
to float up or whatever,

641
00:34:44.020 --> 00:34:45.620
but this weight is pulling it down.

642
00:34:45.620 --> 00:34:47.980
So there's resistance.

643
00:34:47.980 --> 00:34:51.739
So if we're acting in resistance against our own nature,

644
00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:53.820
we're acting in resistance to the word of God,

645
00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:57.100
to who it is that he's declared us to be.

646
00:34:57.100 --> 00:35:00.260
So this area here is a state of resistance.

647
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.120
So I guess I'll write that.

648
00:35:07.120 --> 00:35:09.560
So now maybe you see a bit more about why

649
00:35:09.560 --> 00:35:11.240
I keep calling it resistance.

650
00:35:11.240 --> 00:35:13.800
It's not your nature, so we're fighting it.

651
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.400
We're constantly fighting who it is that we are.

652
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:19.840
And who it is that we are lines up with who God says that we

653
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.520
are, remember said, God's word.

654
00:35:22.520 --> 00:35:23.520
So it's resistance.

655
00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:27.600
And then this right here, this ocean line,

656
00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:29.680
kind of think of it like a division.

657
00:35:29.680 --> 00:35:32.160
We have to pass down through the water

658
00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:36.000
and then back out this water line when we come back up.

659
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:40.280
This, see this more like as the releasing.

660
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.520
The release, which is also known as the veil,

661
00:35:43.520 --> 00:35:48.640
which is also known as death.

662
00:35:48.640 --> 00:35:51.520
All death is is releasing.

663
00:35:51.520 --> 00:35:52.880
That's all it is.

664
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.280
God removed the sting of death.

665
00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:56.960
Why was death bad?

666
00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:00.680
Death was bad because there's lack on the other side.

667
00:36:00.680 --> 00:36:02.440
Because in life, that's why he says,

668
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:04.600
we came to give us life eternal.

669
00:36:04.600 --> 00:36:06.000
That's the opposite of death where

670
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:07.040
there's lack on the other side.

671
00:36:07.040 --> 00:36:08.620
There's nothingness on the other side.

672
00:36:08.620 --> 00:36:10.920
The sting that was in death was lack.

673
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:13.720
Because after you have death, it means you have nothing.

674
00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:15.280
But God said, no, no, no, there's

675
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.480
no more nothing on the other side of death.

676
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:18.880
That's the sting that was removed.

677
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.960
So when we still go through what we'll call death,

678
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:26.040
even though Jesus didn't acknowledge death,

679
00:36:26.040 --> 00:36:28.840
he did not like to acknowledge death when he was talking.

680
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.880
But for, it's a quick example of how to kind of see this.

681
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.960
There's an element in which if we have,

682
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.280
in Christ there's no more, there's no death.

683
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:39.720
We don't have to go through death.

684
00:36:39.720 --> 00:36:42.400
But if we have grabbed a hold of a weight

685
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.400
and we now believe we are different than who God says

686
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:48.160
that we are, in order to let that,

687
00:36:48.160 --> 00:36:50.520
we have to go through a process of releasing.

688
00:36:50.520 --> 00:36:51.400
It's very easy.

689
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.080
We don't have to do anything.

690
00:36:53.080 --> 00:36:56.560
We just have to stop whatever it is that we're doing.

691
00:36:56.560 --> 00:36:58.000
That is the release.

692
00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:59.880
That is passing through the veil.

693
00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:01.800
That is death and it's instant.

694
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:05.040
You can shift into rest in an instant.

695
00:37:05.040 --> 00:37:06.660
That veil is not very big.

696
00:37:06.660 --> 00:37:08.840
It's just this little transition.

697
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:10.880
All it represents is a transition.

698
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.760
It's not a place that you are.

699
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:14.680
You're in the ocean or you're in the air,

700
00:37:14.680 --> 00:37:16.560
but you're not in the waterline.

701
00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:18.360
You're just, you go through it.

702
00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:20.400
It's just like, it's just the division.

703
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:21.640
Death is the same thing.

704
00:37:21.640 --> 00:37:24.280
It has no substance to it, nothing.

705
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:26.440
It's simply a marker of a transition

706
00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:29.100
and all the transition is you're letting go.

707
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:32.540
You don't let go and then go through death.

708
00:37:32.540 --> 00:37:34.080
No, that is the death.

709
00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:35.360
That's why it hurts.

710
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:38.760
So we don't want to let go.

711
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:40.160
So when you're going through a struggle,

712
00:37:40.160 --> 00:37:41.760
when you're going through pain,

713
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:46.240
that is God triggering you, inviting you to let go.

714
00:37:46.240 --> 00:37:48.120
And we're saying no.

715
00:37:48.120 --> 00:37:49.640
And we're holding onto it.

716
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.080
Because we're fighting and why is there a struggle?

717
00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:53.400
We're fighting our own nature.

718
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.120
We're wanting to let go, but we're not letting go.

719
00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:57.320
We're wanting to let go, but we're not letting go.

720
00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.080
We're wanting to let go because it is who we are.

721
00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:01.040
So it's our spirit and soul fighting.

722
00:38:01.040 --> 00:38:02.720
We see this in Jesus.

723
00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:04.880
So Jesus, you know, is an example to us.

724
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:06.880
Jesus had to overcome his own body

725
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.460
in order to prove to us that we could do it.

726
00:38:09.460 --> 00:38:12.160
So Jesus had to overcome himself.

727
00:38:12.160 --> 00:38:15.080
Now, overcome his own flesh, it said.

728
00:38:15.080 --> 00:38:17.760
Understand, Jesus never sinned,

729
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:20.880
but he still had a body that was subject to,

730
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:24.240
he was born into a body that was subject to corruption.

731
00:38:24.240 --> 00:38:26.120
And we know that he suffered

732
00:38:26.120 --> 00:38:28.000
and we know that he struggled through his life

733
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.840
because it says he learned obedience

734
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:32.400
by the things that he suffered.

735
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:33.760
Then in the Garden of Gethsemane,

736
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:37.160
he was struggling so much that the capillaries,

737
00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:38.420
you know, right underneath his skin,

738
00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:42.080
right next to his sweat glands, in very extreme stress,

739
00:38:42.080 --> 00:38:44.720
they will burst and you will sweat blood.

740
00:38:44.720 --> 00:38:48.240
He was under that much stress of the struggle,

741
00:38:48.240 --> 00:38:50.840
but he always made the right decision.

742
00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:53.440
But there was still a war in spirit and soul.

743
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:54.320
How do we know that?

744
00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:55.560
He said it.

745
00:38:55.560 --> 00:38:57.680
Remember, he went to the disciples.

746
00:38:57.680 --> 00:38:59.560
And there's a lot of times that people think

747
00:38:59.560 --> 00:39:01.160
that he was talking to the disciples.

748
00:39:01.160 --> 00:39:02.680
I believe he was talking about himself.

749
00:39:02.680 --> 00:39:05.520
He said, you know, he was urging them, you know,

750
00:39:05.520 --> 00:39:07.720
please stay awake and please pray for me

751
00:39:07.720 --> 00:39:11.020
because he said, the spirit is willing.

752
00:39:11.020 --> 00:39:14.180
My spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak.

753
00:39:14.180 --> 00:39:16.060
We keep thinking we're saying, well, my goodness,

754
00:39:16.060 --> 00:39:17.500
you know, I know you wanna stay awake,

755
00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:19.820
but I know your body's weak and you wanna go to sleep.

756
00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:21.620
He's not talking about the disciples.

757
00:39:21.620 --> 00:39:22.540
He's talking about himself.

758
00:39:22.540 --> 00:39:23.640
That's why he needs prayer.

759
00:39:23.640 --> 00:39:25.180
He needs to be stood with.

760
00:39:25.180 --> 00:39:29.660
He said, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

761
00:39:29.660 --> 00:39:32.940
God came down as our example saying, you know,

762
00:39:32.940 --> 00:39:36.300
I never sinned, but I lived a life proving to you

763
00:39:36.300 --> 00:39:38.180
that you can overcome.

764
00:39:38.180 --> 00:39:39.980
He overcame his own body.

765
00:39:39.980 --> 00:39:41.460
He overcame his own soul,

766
00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:43.220
always making the right decision,

767
00:39:43.220 --> 00:39:46.540
never choosing to act in belief

768
00:39:46.540 --> 00:39:49.620
that he was separated from God, and he overcame.

769
00:39:49.620 --> 00:39:51.460
He brought everything into alignment.

770
00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:54.500
So when he died and rose again, he had a spiritual body

771
00:39:54.500 --> 00:39:56.820
because everything was now finally in alignment.

772
00:39:56.820 --> 00:40:00.020
That's why his body still had the scars.

773
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.120
It's the same body, but it was spiritualized because it overcame, and everything was finally

774
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:08.120
in alignment.

775
00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:10.500
But he had to overcome.

776
00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:17.160
He had to bring everything into alignment, and his soul was struggling.

777
00:40:17.160 --> 00:40:28.760
So it's not that Jesus was sinning, but it's the fact that his soul, being born of creation,

778
00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.920
still was subject to corruption.

779
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:33.000
And it had to be overcome.

780
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:34.760
It had to be given life.

781
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:36.760
Remember the invisible redeems the visible.

782
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:39.760
So I'm going to point that out.

783
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:43.760
There was something else I was going to say about that.

784
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:45.760
I don't know if there was.

785
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:46.760
Where was I going with that?

786
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.760
Oh, and then, yeah, and then receiving.

787
00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:54.640
So up here, you know, in the spirit, once you shift from resistance into releasing,

788
00:40:54.640 --> 00:40:58.440
now you're at a place where you can receive.

789
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:05.640
This is known as being at rest, being in a place of rest.

790
00:41:05.640 --> 00:41:06.800
Receiving is rest.

791
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.880
There's nothing left to do.

792
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.240
Open-handed, and you let it come, but it's vulnerable, because you have to be open, and

793
00:41:13.240 --> 00:41:15.240
you're no longer in control.

794
00:41:15.240 --> 00:41:19.320
Okay, so I wanted to point this out.

795
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:24.680
I asked my sister, because she came from Dallas, where my parents are, and so I have all my

796
00:41:24.680 --> 00:41:28.320
stuff in storage at their house, and I was like, hi, I worked with her and my dad, okay,

797
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:29.320
can you bring that sign?

798
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:35.800
So this is a sign that this has been my favorite Bible verse for I don't know how long, probably

799
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:42.160
at least since I was in high school, maybe younger, because you know from me giving y'all

800
00:41:42.160 --> 00:41:50.960
my testimony that I felt under so much oppression, so much bondage, life was just hard, and I

801
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:56.160
didn't know the word I was looking for, but now I know the word I was, what I was wanting

802
00:41:56.160 --> 00:41:57.160
was rest.

803
00:41:57.160 --> 00:41:58.960
My soul was longing for rest.

804
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.840
Why did I want to, why did I yearn for rest?

805
00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:03.800
Because my spirit knew what it was.

806
00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:07.880
It knew what to yearn for, because it was familiar with it.

807
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.640
It is who it is that I was, and I wasn't operating according to who it is that I was, so I was

808
00:42:12.640 --> 00:42:14.720
yearning for something that I was made for.

809
00:42:14.720 --> 00:42:18.480
I was yearning for who it is that I actually am to be made manifest.

810
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:23.200
My soul wasn't allowing myself to have access to my spirit, and because it was afraid of

811
00:42:23.200 --> 00:42:28.160
it, because my spirit is in agreement with God, and my soul is afraid of God, so I was

812
00:42:28.160 --> 00:42:30.280
afraid of my own spirit.

813
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:35.800
I don't feel safe with my own spirit, so anyway, I've always loved this verse because I could

814
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:38.200
just feel peace in it.

815
00:42:38.200 --> 00:42:43.200
I felt like instead of all of those scripture verses that gave me commandments of things

816
00:42:43.200 --> 00:42:47.160
that I had to do and let me know how far I was failing and what it is that I hadn't been

817
00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:49.960
doing that I should be doing, and oh my goodness, there's a new commandment I didn't know even

818
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:56.600
existed, and should I be following all of the Israelite feasts, and should I be taking

819
00:42:56.600 --> 00:43:04.760
this and should I be taking that, and in this verse, be still and know that I am God.

820
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:10.480
My God was giving me permission to stop and not have to do anything.

821
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:15.320
Problem is, I couldn't reconcile that with the rest of how I interpreted scripture, but

822
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:17.800
I loved it, and it was this thing that I would just hold on to.

823
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.480
So my mom had this sign, and I told mom, oh my mom, mom, I just love that verse, that

824
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.120
is such a cool sign, that's my favorite verse, and so very typical of my mom, she's like,

825
00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:30.120
oh, well then it's yours, you have it, she always does that.

826
00:43:30.120 --> 00:43:34.960
Anytime you tell mom that you like something, you have to be very careful when you tell

827
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.880
her that because she's just like, oh, well then it's yours, you have it, so she gave

828
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:43.200
me this sign many years ago, and I've absolutely loved it, out of getting rid of 90, 95% of

829
00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:45.520
my things, I kept this.

830
00:43:45.520 --> 00:43:54.040
What I didn't know is something that this was saying that my spirit knew and was being

831
00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:59.040
drawn to, and that's why I always felt at peace when I read it.

832
00:43:59.040 --> 00:44:09.000
Be still, in Hebrew, be still means to let go, to release.

833
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:15.400
Let go and release, let go and release, and know that I am God.

834
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:22.440
Union, relationship, receiving of his word, full belief in what it is that he said.

835
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:28.640
That's what the scripture is saying, be still, and know that I am God, release, let go, and

836
00:44:28.640 --> 00:44:29.640
know that I am God.

837
00:44:29.640 --> 00:44:37.720
I had no idea that that's what it meant until maybe two weeks ago, maybe a week ago, maybe

838
00:44:37.720 --> 00:44:40.720
a week ago, I was like, no wonder.

839
00:44:40.720 --> 00:44:46.360
The Lord, that's why my spirit yearned and longed for that.

840
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.120
God knew he would call me to speak this type of message.

841
00:44:49.120 --> 00:44:52.880
I didn't know this until about, I don't know, a year, year and a half ago.

842
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:56.040
I didn't know it, but I've loved this since high school.

843
00:44:56.040 --> 00:44:59.960
There's a reason why my spirit loved this verse.

844
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.000
and longed for it because it was planted in me

845
00:45:05.640 --> 00:45:07.080
by the Lord, be still.

846
00:45:07.080 --> 00:45:10.240
So we have permission, instruction by God.

847
00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:15.240
This is an invitation, release, let go,

848
00:45:15.780 --> 00:45:16.660
and know that I am God.

849
00:45:16.660 --> 00:45:19.560
You have permission from God to let go.

850
00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:21.240
You don't have to do anything else.

851
00:45:21.240 --> 00:45:22.320
He just says let go.

852
00:45:27.520 --> 00:45:29.960
Okay, and then you'll notice that the perspective

853
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:34.560
from which I teach is actually the removal

854
00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:36.040
of things from our lives.

855
00:45:36.040 --> 00:45:38.700
The letting go, not the adding.

856
00:45:38.700 --> 00:45:40.400
Because you already are everything,

857
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:42.440
you already have everything.

858
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:44.360
So whenever I'm talking about things,

859
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.400
we're talking, whenever we're talking about

860
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:48.080
what it is that we're doing here

861
00:45:48.080 --> 00:45:50.280
and for the rest of this conference,

862
00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:54.300
we're unveiling, we're making ourselves more vulnerable,

863
00:45:54.300 --> 00:45:56.160
we're uncovering, we've covered ourselves

864
00:45:56.160 --> 00:45:57.440
with all of these figleas.

865
00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.440
I have to know this, I have to know this

866
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:00.880
in order to protect myself.

867
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:03.680
I have to know this business strategy.

868
00:46:03.680 --> 00:46:05.920
I have to understand this about relationships.

869
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:07.800
I have to understand these financial laws.

870
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:09.720
I have to understand this aspect about

871
00:46:09.720 --> 00:46:12.760
how the medical field works.

872
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:14.920
I have to know all this stuff in order to protect myself

873
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:16.120
and my family and all of that.

874
00:46:16.120 --> 00:46:19.560
Otherwise, I'm subject to destruction

875
00:46:19.560 --> 00:46:24.560
and the Lord will not save me and will not provide for me.

876
00:46:25.520 --> 00:46:29.400
We are removing all of that stuff

877
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:31.240
because there's nothing wrong with you.

878
00:46:31.240 --> 00:46:33.000
Nothing needs to be added to you,

879
00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:35.000
you don't need to change.

880
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:37.560
You need to stop being all of these things

881
00:46:37.560 --> 00:46:38.960
that you thought you had to be

882
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.560
and stop doing all these things you thought you had to do.

883
00:46:42.560 --> 00:46:45.480
It's just stop, it's just letting go.

884
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:47.560
That's all that it is.

885
00:46:47.560 --> 00:46:51.160
So remember that I'm going back to,

886
00:46:51.160 --> 00:46:54.840
the last thing I want to touch on is,

887
00:46:56.120 --> 00:46:57.640
if you're talking about that,

888
00:46:57.640 --> 00:46:59.320
the new man and the old man again.

889
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:04.960
The new man, it's of his nature to do all of these things.

890
00:47:07.640 --> 00:47:10.640
The Sermon on the Mount describes who we are.

891
00:47:10.640 --> 00:47:14.960
The Ten Commandments describes who you are and how you act.

892
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:16.800
It doesn't tell you something you need to do

893
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:17.920
that you're not doing.

894
00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:21.080
You know, same thing with all of the commandments

895
00:47:21.080 --> 00:47:22.280
all throughout the New Testament.

896
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:25.760
They're describing who it is that you are.

897
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:29.360
The old man is not of his nature

898
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.360
and he has to try to do all those things.

899
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:35.600
So if you find yourself trying,

900
00:47:36.600 --> 00:47:41.240
that's in the belief that you are the old man.

901
00:47:41.240 --> 00:47:43.480
Stop trying.

902
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:47.960
That's a very, very big key in shifting interest.

903
00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:50.280
And I just had to learn that

904
00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.120
in my own experience, in my own life.

905
00:47:52.120 --> 00:47:56.600
That's how I would realize, okay, wait, I'm trying.

906
00:47:56.600 --> 00:48:00.680
Okay, that's not, that means something's off somewhere.

907
00:48:00.680 --> 00:48:03.080
Okay, Lord, how do I stop?

908
00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:04.960
How do I do such and such instead?

909
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:07.680
And he began to show me, Ashley, stop trying.

910
00:48:07.680 --> 00:48:08.520
Just stop trying.

911
00:48:08.520 --> 00:48:09.920
And I thought, oh my goodness, no,

912
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:11.800
because my default, if I don't try,

913
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:13.600
that's the only way I'm gonna do something good.

914
00:48:13.600 --> 00:48:15.920
It's the only way, it's the way that I've been taught

915
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:17.800
that is the only way that I'm gonna be successful.

916
00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:19.560
Work hard.

917
00:48:19.560 --> 00:48:22.800
We value hard work in this world.

918
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.520
And it's rewarded.

919
00:48:25.560 --> 00:48:28.600
So if you work hard, if you do these things,

920
00:48:28.600 --> 00:48:30.320
you're rewarded.

921
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:31.600
And so we thought, okay, well then that's

922
00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:33.320
what it is that I'm supposed to do.

923
00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:35.000
Anyway, so,

924
00:48:38.680 --> 00:48:40.160
it's important that we,

925
00:48:42.600 --> 00:48:45.000
excuse me, just a second.

926
00:48:49.080 --> 00:48:52.760
So we don't have to, we don't have to try.

927
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:54.560
That can be something that you can use

928
00:48:54.560 --> 00:48:58.640
to kind of give yourself a bit of an anchor

929
00:48:58.640 --> 00:49:00.360
of, okay, what's going on here?

930
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:02.760
Am I at rest, am I not in rest?

931
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.320
Or, okay, I'm in unrest and I know that

932
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.000
and I can feel that, what do I need to do?

933
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.080
Wait a minute, I'm trying.

934
00:49:11.160 --> 00:49:14.560
I'm actually trying, either internally,

935
00:49:14.560 --> 00:49:17.440
having emotion that feels like it's trying,

936
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:18.880
or I'm physically trying.

937
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:23.680
Whatever it is, I'm trying and I need to stop trying.

938
00:49:23.680 --> 00:49:26.240
And that will help you shift into rest.

939
00:49:26.240 --> 00:49:28.320
So it's a very, very weird thing that I'm telling you,

940
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:29.680
but it is a really big key for me

941
00:49:29.680 --> 00:49:31.160
that actually really works.

942
00:49:33.080 --> 00:49:35.880
Okay, so we're gonna close for the evening.

943
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:38.600
We'll meet at nine o'clock tomorrow.

944
00:49:38.640 --> 00:49:40.400
We'll be talking about, actually,

945
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:42.920
the practical tools to shift into rest,

946
00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:44.880
those six things that I talked about.

947
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.520
And these are things that I just learned on my own walk

948
00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:52.520
and I guarantee at least one of them

949
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:55.400
will always work for you.

950
00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:57.320
You just have to pick which one in that moment,

951
00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.840
but one will always work.

952
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.000
So, yeah, we're going to meet at 9 o'clock in the morning.

953
00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:11.000
We're going to be talking about practical tools of shifting into rest, then some other things.

954
00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:13.000
Let's see, I think, what else are we talking about?

955
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:18.000
I don't know. Some other things. I'll let it be a surprise.

956
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.000
I've got to think about the order that I want to do it in.

957
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:23.000
I think that we'll be talking about, oh, no, I do know this.

958
00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.000
We're going to be talking about how to operate in the spirit.

959
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.000
So, once we're shifted up here, how to begin to live from there,

960
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:36.000
so we can bring our soul and our body into agreement with the fact that we are who God says that we are.

961
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:39.000
We're in agreement with our spirit so that everything comes into alignment.

962
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:46.000
And when everything comes into alignment, it means that we have released creation from frustration.

963
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:49.000
Because, remember, creation is groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

964
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:54.000
It is subjected to frustration, including our own soul and our own body, because it also is creation.

965
00:50:54.000 --> 00:51:01.000
So, we are given, remember, heaven is the Lord's, earth was given to man.

966
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:04.000
Creation was given to man to have dominion over.

967
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:09.000
And so we are called to, as the first thing to release from frustration,

968
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:13.000
the first aspect of creation to release from frustration is ourselves.

969
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.000
Once we have it, we can now then give it.

970
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.000
Once we have freedom, we can now give freedom to the rest of creation.

971
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.000
We can't give creation freedom if we don't have it.

972
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:26.000
So, we are called to overcome ourselves first.

973
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:30.000
Move ourselves into freedom by coming into alignment and agreement with who it is that God says that we are.

974
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.000
Then we can release that into the rest of creation.

975
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:44.000
But, anyway, so tomorrow what we're going to be talking about is how to begin to operate from this place.

976
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.000
So, how do you operate in business?

977
00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:56.000
How do you operate in, I don't remember if we're getting to relationships tomorrow or not, but we are talking about business.

978
00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:03.000
We're talking about how to, how do you just make, not make decisions, that's on Sunday,

979
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:09.000
but like just how to live and journey in flow with the spirit.

980
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:14.000
We're so used to living according to structure, rules, and strategies, and formulas.

981
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:17.000
Okay, so actually we're not supposed to do that.

982
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.000
So, now I have this void.

983
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.000
What do we do instead?

984
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:22.000
So, we'll be talking about that.

985
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:23.000
What do you do instead?

986
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.000
What does life look like instead?

987
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:28.000
What does flow in your life look like instead?

988
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:34.000
So, we'll be talking about how to operate out of the spirit in various areas of our lives.

989
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:38.000
And, I don't remember what else we're talking about.

990
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:43.000
Oh, healing the soul effortlessly through the spirit.

991
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:44.000
We're going to talk about that tomorrow.

992
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:48.000
But, right before we go, I want to play a song for us.

993
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:52.000
And, I would just invite y'all to just receive this.

994
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.000
You know, just listen to it.

995
00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:03.000
And, you know, in light of what it is that we talked about and the fact that we are called to come into agreement with who it is that God says that we are.

996
00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:05.000
We already are the thing.

997
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.000
Our soul needs to agree with it and choose it.

998
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:12.000
And, then our body will follow wherever our soul goes because it receives its instruction from our soul.

999
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.000
We have to choose that God is who he says that he is.

1000
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:18.000
That he is our protection, our provision, our identity.

1001
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:21.000
That he is love.

1002
00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.000
That we can fully expect to be liked.

1003
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:27.000
And, we can fully expect to receive comfort when we enter him.

1004
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:29.000
So, just listen.

1005
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:31.000
I recommend, listen to this song.

1006
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:38.000
Just allow it to kind of, I don't know, just, how would I explain that?

1007
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:40.000
Just kind of fill you.

1008
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:43.000
Allow it to move, allow it to move through you.

1009
00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:50.000
Kind of, sort of, in the aspect of a prayer.

1010
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.000
You're going to hear her talking.

1011
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.000
And, her talking to the Lord.

1012
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:59.000
And, so, allow yourself.

1013
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:04.000
Don't engage so much with it that you're like, okay, Lord, I'm declaring this.

1014
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.000
And, I'm declaring this.

1015
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000
Because, at least where it feels like work.

1016
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.000
Like, oh, I need to do this.

1017
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.000
God, I love you so much.

1018
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.000
I'm going to commit.

1019
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:18.000
You're at a point where we're still wanting to receive.

1020
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:24.000
So, allow, understand that what she's going to talk about is the natural posture of your heart.

1021
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:26.000
It's the natural posture of your spirit.

1022
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:28.000
So, just receive it.

1023
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:30.000
Just listen to it.

1024
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:37.000
Allow your spirit and soul to shift you effortlessly in your relationship with the Lord.

1025
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.000
Without you consciously like, oh, my goodness, Lord, I'm so sorry.

1026
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:41.000
Yes, I do commit to that.

1027
00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:43.000
If you want to do that, that's fine.

1028
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:45.000
Just make sure that there's no work in it.

1029
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:48.000
Make sure that there's no desperation in it.

1030
00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:53.000
Desperation comes as a result of feeling like one is under threat.

1031
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.000
Which is in denial of who it is that God says that we are.

1032
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.000
So, enjoy this song.

1033
00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:00.000
This one has ministered very greatly.

1034
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.800
you to me and I really like it.

1035
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.120
So I hope you do too and I hope you all sleep really well

1036
00:55:04.120 --> 00:55:05.520
and I'll see y'all tomorrow.

1037
00:55:14.040 --> 00:55:17.480
♪ I come out of agreement ♪

1038
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:22.480
♪ With the lie that you have left me on my own ♪

1039
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:26.440
♪ Oh, I am not alone ♪

1040
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.960
♪ I come out of agreement ♪

1041
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:34.960
♪ With the worry and the fear I've come to know ♪

1042
00:55:35.120 --> 00:55:39.720
♪ No, they won't have a hold on me ♪

1043
00:55:39.720 --> 00:55:42.680
♪ Protect me ♪

1044
00:55:42.680 --> 00:55:47.680
♪ You'd never, never, never let me go ♪

1045
00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:53.800
♪ You said you wouldn't leave me and you won't ♪

1046
00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:58.480
♪ You're right by my side ♪

1047
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:03.480
♪ Protect me ♪

1048
00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:07.440
♪ I come into agreement ♪

1049
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:12.440
♪ With the truth that you are who you say you are ♪

1050
00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:16.400
♪ I can trust your heart ♪

1051
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.880
♪ I come into agreement ♪

1052
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:24.880
♪ With what heaven has declared over my life ♪

1053
00:56:25.240 --> 00:56:29.680
♪ Cause I know that you'll fight for me ♪

1054
00:56:29.680 --> 00:56:32.600
♪ Protect me ♪

1055
00:56:32.600 --> 00:56:37.600
♪ You'd never, never, never let me go ♪

1056
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:43.720
♪ You said you wouldn't leave me and you won't ♪

1057
00:56:43.720 --> 00:56:48.400
♪ You're right by my side ♪

1058
00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:51.440
♪ Protector ♪

1059
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:56.440
♪ You hide me in the shadow of your wings ♪

1060
00:56:57.520 --> 00:57:02.520
♪ Your presence is my peace, my covering ♪

1061
00:57:02.520 --> 00:57:07.240
♪ My song in the night ♪

1062
00:57:07.240 --> 00:57:12.240
♪ Protector, ooh ooh ♪

1063
00:57:13.240 --> 00:57:18.240
♪ Protector ♪

1064
00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:24.520
♪ No weapon, no worry will prosper against me ♪

1065
00:57:25.640 --> 00:57:30.640
♪ No darkness, no evil will tease or torment me ♪

1066
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:36.880
♪ No weapon, no worry will prosper against me ♪

1067
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:42.880
♪ No darkness, no evil will tease or torment me ♪

1068
00:57:44.240 --> 00:57:49.240
♪ Oh power, dominion, to what name is given? ♪

1069
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:55.400
♪ My fortress, my freedom, my refuge, my Jesus ♪

1070
00:57:56.720 --> 00:58:01.720
♪ Oh power, dominion, to what name is given? ♪

1071
00:58:02.720 --> 00:58:07.720
♪ My fortress, my freedom, my refuge, my Jesus ♪

1072
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:17.280
♪ Protector, you would never, never, never let me go ♪

1073
00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:26.440
♪ You said you wouldn't leave me and you won't ♪

1074
00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:30.960
♪ You're right by my side ♪

1075
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:36.280
♪ Protector, you hide me in the shadow of your wings ♪

1076
00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:45.400
♪ Your presence is my peace, my covering, my song in the night ♪

1077
00:58:50.040 --> 00:58:55.040
♪ Protector, oh, Protector, I believe in you, oh, oh, oh ♪

1078
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:06.280
♪ I believe in you, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

1079
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:11.400
♪ You are who you say you are ♪

1080
00:59:11.600 --> 00:59:16.600
♪ You never ever leave, you never ever leave, no ♪

1081
00:59:19.240 --> 00:59:23.880
♪ Let the faith rise up in us tonight ♪

1082
00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:27.320
♪ Let the faith rise up in us tonight ♪

1083
00:59:27.600 --> 00:59:32.600
♪ Fear is broken off as fear falls away as worry is silenced ♪

1084
00:59:35.120 --> 00:59:40.120
♪ At the sound of your name tonight, Jesus, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

1085
00:59:52.120 --> 00:59:57.120
♪ No weapon, no worry will prosper against you, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

1086
00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:03.320
♪ No darkness, no fear, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

1087
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.600
♪ No evil will tease or torment me ♪

1088
01:00:04.600 --> 01:00:09.600
♪ No weapon, no worry will prosper against me ♪

1089
01:00:10.820 --> 01:00:15.820
♪ No darkness, no evil will tease or torment me ♪

1090
01:00:17.060 --> 01:00:22.060
♪ All power, dominion to one name is given ♪

1091
01:00:23.300 --> 01:00:28.300
♪ My fortress, my freedom, my refuge, my Jesus ♪

1092
01:00:28.380 --> 01:00:33.380
♪ Jesus, all power, dominion to one name is given ♪

1093
01:00:35.820 --> 01:00:40.820
♪ My fortress, my freedom, my refuge, my Jesus ♪

1094
01:00:45.260 --> 01:00:50.260
♪ Protector, you never, never, never let me go ♪

1095
01:00:50.260 --> 01:00:54.420
♪ You never, never, never, never let me go ♪

1096
01:00:54.420 --> 01:00:59.260
♪ You said you wouldn't leave me and you won't ♪

1097
01:00:59.260 --> 01:01:03.920
♪ You're right by my side ♪

1098
01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:08.920
♪ Protector, you hide me in the shadow of your wings ♪

1099
01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:17.980
♪ Your presence is my peace, my covering ♪

1100
01:01:17.980 --> 01:01:22.980
♪ My song in the night, protector, protector, protector ♪

1101
01:01:22.980 --> 01:01:42.980
♪ Protector, oh, protector, oh, protector, oh. ♪

1102
01:01:42.980 --> 01:01:44.980
Thank you.