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Okay, beautiful, beautiful people, family, how are you doing? I believe we are live now and it is an

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honor to be with you. So exciting what God is doing. So exciting hearing all the testimonies

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of how God is touching people's lives. And yes, so, so honored to be with you right now. So

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yeah, just as you come on board, let me welcome you. Let me give you a royal welcome and may

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the love of God fill you and flood you and consume you and burn in you. Let me,

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as we jump into this session, this session is going to be a really dynamic, wonderful,

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exciting session. So let me just start with this in this session. You're going to get

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just amazing baptisms in the love of God. We're going to go real deep. We're going to go real

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deep into the origins of the gospel, the dynamics of the gospel. I'm going to actually probably

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for you open up a can of worms of a lot of questions, a lot of like, whoa, what is this?

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But it's going to be really powerful. And the whole point is to empower you to step into the

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divine dance like never before. We're going to break the orphan curse and we're going to break

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the three big lies that produce the orphan curse in our life and in our lives and that have been

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producing the orphan curse in lives for generations, for over 1500 years. It's really, it's the whole

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story of humanity. We're breaking the curse of humanity, breaking the orphan curse. So

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let's pray. And let me start with a scripture that I'd really love to just read over you as

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we get into this, because the heart of this is all about being launched back into the divine

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dance. So if you've got your Bibles, you can turn with me. We're going to Ephesians

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3. I'm going to read it to you in the amplified version.

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And it's just beautiful. It's all about the divine dance. So

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here you go. I'm just going to start reading from verse 16. May he grant you out of the riches of his

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glory to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through his spirit in your inner self,

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indwelling your innermost being and personality so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

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and may you, having been deeply rooted and securely grounded in love, be fully capable of

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comprehending with all the saints, God's people, the width and the length and the height and the

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depth of his love, fully experiencing that amazing endless love and that you may come to know

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practically through personal experience, the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge

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without experience, that you may be filled up throughout your whole being to all the fullness

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of God so that you may have the richest measure, the richest experience of God's presence in your

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lives and be completely filled and flooded with God himself. Isn't that wild? This is so

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critical to the journey that we're going on because Paul is saying that your entire experience

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with God should be founded on being completely, radically, outrageously, supernaturally,

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powerfully baptized into his love, that you would be founded and grounded on your whole Christian

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experience, would be rooted and established in the supernatural experience of the wonder of God's

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limitless love for you and as that love infuses you, it would infuse every part of your being and

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the whole core of your being would be flooded with the richest measure of God's presence

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possible. Wow, that is the divine dance and Paul's heart here is that we would all be founded and

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grounded in the divine dance, that would be the beginning of our story, the middle of our story,

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the end of our story, that was Paul's hope, his declaration, his aspiration, his goal

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as he was preaching the gospel is that to bring people

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people into the divine dance and they'd be swallowed up in this radical,

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radical, supernatural experience of God's love.

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Wow! That there is the heart of the gospel that Paul preached,

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that Jesus preached. It's the core of the gospel.

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It's the beginning of the story.

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It's the middle of the story.

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It's the end of the story.

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It's Genesis 1.

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It's the desire.

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It's the reason God made us in his image so that we could participate

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equally as dance partners with the Trinity in the divine dance.

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Perfectly receiving divine love and giving perfect expressions of

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divine love.

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That, my friends, that is the heart of the gospel.

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So let us, let me pray.

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Let me pray for this baptism of love to fill you, to flood you,

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to overwhelm you, to undo you, and then we are going to jump

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into a wild, beautiful session.

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Oh, Abba Father.

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Whoa! King Jesus.

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Holy Spirit.

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You are perfection in every way.

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Wow! Your wonders know no end.

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Your glory is indescribable in its perfection.

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And I thank you that your desire for us is to be swallowed up in

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divine love, to be consumed in the divine dance, and to know

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every moment of every day, the wonder of fellowship with the

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Trinity in all its fullness, in all its wonder, in all its glory.

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And Papa, this divine dance, this baptism in love, I release it

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right now.

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May that baptism in divine love swallow you up like never before.

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May the fires of divine love go deeper, deeper, deeper.

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May the intensity of the fires of divine love be turned up like

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never before.

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May the flames of divine love consume your body and soul and spirit.

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May they consume your conscious mind, your subconscious mind, your

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unconscious mind.

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May they go into the deepest part of your being and infuse everything

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that you are, every fiber of your being, body and soul and spirit.

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May it be baptized and marinated and immersed and completely

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swallowed up and consumed in the wonders of this divine love.

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May the perversion of divine love break out in every part of your

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life. May the power of divine love manifest in every part of your

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life. May the wonders of divine love amaze you like never before.

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Whoa, in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Oh, wow.

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That is beautiful.

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How beautiful is this?

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You know, we've talked about, you know, like God search me, bend me

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on this journey that we've been going on.

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We've been saying, leave no stone unturned in me.

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We've talked about the renewed mind is an open heaven.

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And I tell you what, the best way to go on that journey is just to get

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undone by the fires of the love of God.

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He is an all-consuming flame.

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The very flame of the Lord is the flames of love.

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And as we receive an outpouring of his love into our hearts like never

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before, that all-consuming fires of his love consume everything that

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veil Christ in us so that Christ can be revealed.

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So beautiful.

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Well, fam, we're going to get into session five.

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Well done on journeying with me.

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This has been a powerful, powerful journey, and I'm sure that this

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is going to bring questions.

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So I've actually created a bonus session tomorrow.

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Our last session for the Open Heaven Intensive is 3 p.m.

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today, but I'm creating a bonus Zoom room conversation for tomorrow.

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You can jump and bring any questions.

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I'm sure this session is going to bring up a bunch of questions, but

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every great question has a great answer.

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And to just give context on this session, this is bringing truth

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to you that ended for me years of the orphan existence.

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So years of, you know, I was born in Indonesia in the jungle as a

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missionary kid.

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My parents came back to New Zealand when I was two and they became

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pastors.

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My first job was working for a church.

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I've been in Christian ministry pretty much my whole life.

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And so I've been saturated in religion and it hasn't always been

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helpful.

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In fact, it was in this context.

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I mean, even if you're not in religion,

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you're going to pick up the orphan lies somewhere.

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But the gospel became the my whole life was the gospel.

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But what I didn't realize is that there are lies

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that have been embedded in the gospel for over 1500 years

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that were producing orphan dysfunction and orphan curse in my life.

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So I hated myself.

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I struggled with sin.

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I struggled with shame.

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I struggled with inadequacy.

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I struggled with disconnection with God and getting connected with God.

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I struggled with all of this internal dysfunction and chaos

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pretty much most of my life.

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And I was like, ah, you know, isn't freedom supposed to look like something?

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The truth supposed to set us free, right?

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We're supposed to have freedom.

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But I didn't have freedom.

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I had dysfunction because that freedom is supposed to look like an open heaven.

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It's supposed to look like heaven on earth right here, right now.

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It's supposed to look like the divine dance.

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But for me, it was dysfunction.

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It was chaos.

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And so my heart really, really went after seeking it out.

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Like, how do we actually get free? What's the issue?

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So what I'm sharing with you now is a snippet, just a little like a little bit

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of over over well over a decade of intense research and study,

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you know, like over 10,000 hours in prayer.

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You know, I've just spent thousands of hours in prayer

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and in the woods seeking God, trying to get free.

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And what I'm sharing with you now has come out of that massive journey

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that that I've been on.

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So I'm excited to go deep in this with you.

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I'm actually going to put on a

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slideshow to start with.

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So give me a second here.

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I'm just going to share my screen.

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Let me share my screen with you and.

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Couple of things that we don't need here.

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Right. OK, so let me hit this for you.

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Oh, I'll break out of that for a second.

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This is the right thing, but let me get right to the start.

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OK, right. Oh, so we're going to jump into this.

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And I'm pretty sure you can see that.

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And as we get in, it's awesome to be with you.

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So let me know where you are joining from today.

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Let me know how you're doing.

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Let me know if there's anything that you have found of real value so far

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in the journey. I'd love to hear that.

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So let me just double check that this is working for us

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the way that it's supposed to.

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OK. Right, it is working.

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OK, so here we go.

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Where did our gospel come from?

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We're going to talk about stuff today that is breaking the curse,

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breaking the orphan curse.

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And we have to understand the context of our gospel.

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There's a lot of beautiful things about our gospel,

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but our gospel came from somewhere.

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It's been on a journey for centuries.

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And I want to share with you where it's actually come from

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and how we got the gospel that we've got today

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and the structural issues with it that are actually producing the orphan curse.

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OK, so here we go. Where did our gospel come from?

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Let's have a little journey into the history of the gospel,

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where it's come from.

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And just give a few snapshots here of the gospel.

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So an action. Righto.

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So we're going to go right back.

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I'm going to start with this little picture here you like.

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We'll start at 19A, the close, Lickfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

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So check out this little picture here.

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This is the cathedral in Lickfield.

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And here is an amazing statue of the seven fathers.

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So here's the seven fathers, a little bit more of a close up.

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You've got some people here.

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You may or may not know them.

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But on the left, you've got St.

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Augustine, St.

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Jerome, St.

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St. Athanasius and St.

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Basil. OK, so St.

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Athanasius and St.

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Augustine are really the two most influential

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father figures of church theology.

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OK, so this is three men.

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The two men, St.

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Augustine and St.

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Athanasius are two of the most influential men in history

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in the history of Christian theology.

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So we're going to realize that nearly everything we believe

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actually traces its way back to these two guys in one way or another.

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So that there is St.

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Augustine and this is St.

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Athanasius.

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There are two main men.

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And so to understand these, who these men are

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and influence their thoughts have had on history,

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we'd better go back a little bit further.

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OK, so let's go all the way back to the beginning where you'll know this guy.

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Let's start with Jesus.

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Ta-da! This is a picture by Akiana.

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OK, so we start with Jesus.

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And then after Jesus, we've got his most trusted.

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disciple John, right? Yay, John, we love John. Well, John had a cool guy that he discipled. So,

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John lived 6 AD through to around 100 AD, okay? But he discipled a guy named Polycarp. And

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according to St. Jerome, John ordained Polycarp as the Bishop of Smyrna. There we go. This is

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Polycarp. Polycarp was burned at the stake. He was martyred, and the flames didn't burn him,

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but they stabbed him to death. That's pretty awesome. Polycarp was the man, okay? He was a

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real legend. And then here's Irenaeus. So, Irenaeus was born in the early...

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Hello. Sorry, mate. Irenaeus was born in the early 2nd century and died around 202 AD. As a young

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man, Irenaeus used to listen to Polycarp preach, and he was a Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, or that's

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Lyons now in France, okay? And then after him came Athanasius of Alexandria, okay? So,

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what I'm doing is I'm sharing with you the main guys that were in the church that were leading

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the church, okay? So, then came Athanasius, right? And Athanasius is a superstar of the gospel. So,

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296 to 373 AD, that is Athanasius, okay? And then after him, you have St. Augustine,

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okay? St. Augustine, he lived in... He was the Bishop of Hippo. So, Algeria, North Africa is

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where he lived. So, St. Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, 354 to 430 AD. So, these are you guys.

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Now, listen. St. Augustine was the most influential theologian in the history of the

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Western church and perhaps the whole world to date. Well, after his death, his teachings were

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key in the East-West schism. So, I'm going to talk about that in a moment. And he's the father

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of the Western church. So, you cannot underestimate how much influence he has on your psychology.

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He was held a hero in the West. In the East, he was respected for his contributions to the faith,

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but his theology was considered at best controversial and to many, heresy, okay?

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they respected him, but they were like, no, man, we're not down on what you're teaching. Because

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actually what happened is you've got all the other fathers. You've got John, Jesus, John,

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Polycarp, Irenaeus, Athanasius, they're all preaching the same gospel, right? And then

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Augustine comes in and he brings in a brand new gospel. Before Augustine, this was not the gospel,

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but Augustine brought in a whole new gospel and it caused major, major issues in the church,

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which actually took centuries to unfold. So, let's check it out. So, here was the points

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that St. Augustine brought in and what was disputed by the Eastern church. So, he brought

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in this concept of original sin. He redefined baptism. He talked about predestination and

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irresistible grace. He talked about no free will, especially in regard to salvation.

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points of St. Augustine's theology that the Eastern Orthodox church found controversial

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or heretical and never embraced as Orthodox. So, these are the points of

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Augustine's theology that the Eastern church struggled with. Original sin, redefining baptism,

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predestination, irresistible grace, no free will, especially in regard to salvation,

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conflict with the Nicene Creed regarding the definition of the Trinity. Everything, okay?

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Everything. So, this is polar opposite. So, you've got this guy, St. Augustine coming in

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and the Eastern church, which is the guys all the way back who are the main church,

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all of a sudden, Augustine comes out of nowhere, creates a new gospel. And these guys are like,

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every single point that's your main point, we think is craziness. It's heresy. We're not into

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that. That is crazy, right? They're like, we do not buy that. They honor him because he does stand

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for the church and he does a lot for the church. But they were like, no way, we are not into that.

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So, every single point that was his main points were rejected by the Eastern Orthodox church.

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That's a big deal to realize that there's this guy comes in out of nowhere, creates a brand new

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gospel. It becomes the mainstream thing in the Western church. And everyone who's preached the

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gospel before is like, no, man, none of that. We don't buy any of it. So, let's look at this.

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The Eastern Orthodox church never embraced Augustine's theology because it was completely

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detached from the theology of the early church fathers. The Eastern Orthodox church maintained

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the gospel as preached by the early church fathers, such as St. Clement of Alexandria

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and Athanasius and Polycarp and Irenaeus. They were like, we are not buying this, Augustine.

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But it seems as though the whole Western church came under the enchantment of Augustine. So much so

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that all of the core doctrine and theology of the Church Fathers was discarded and the whole

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Western Church began to follow Augustine as if under a trance and a whole new gospel began to

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emerge through Augustine's theology. Augustine has been called the great teacher of the Church

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and the doctor of grace because of his influence on the doctrines of the Church.

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His voice was so powerful that a simple Augustine Dixit, Augustine says,

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settled all arguments. I'd say it's a quote from Chuck Fisher, a theological historian.

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So Augustine's influence on the Western Church seems to have surpassed even Paul's influence

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because it is not the apostle Paul's theology that is found in the Western Church, it is

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Augustine's interpretation of Paul's theology. Okay, so I hope you're catching the fact that

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this is a big deal. So Augustine's Greek way of thinking meant that he believed that knowing God

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should be attained through intellectual knowledge as opposed to the Hebrew perspective of knowing

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God through intimate experience. This Greek mindset became the normal way of thinking

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in the Western Church and knowledge through intellect rather than intimate experience.

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So can you see how this is a collision, like a crazy space where, you know, Paul was all about

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baptizing people into the divine dance, the whole gospel, the early church fathers were all

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about baptizing people into the divine dance, into experience of God, into an encounter, into a

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living relationship, and Augustine's like, no, head knowledge is enough, right? Just knowing about God,

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you actually have to know who he is. Okay, so it gets wild. And Augustine lived a life of double

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standards and corruption, okay? He advocated violent persecution of people with different

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theological perspectives, especially a group called the Donatists. There was bloodshed, there

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was violence, and Augustine was like, this is how we should deal with anyone who disagrees with

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me, all right? Can you understand that that might be an issue? He bribed a pope, right? He was into

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bribery and corruption to get his own way, to get other people labeled heretics, okay? He was

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all about like, if anyone disagrees with me, I'm going to bribe a pope, I'm going to have a court,

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he had a trial against this one guy, he wasn't even, the guy didn't even turn up on,

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his name slips my mind just right now, but he had a trial without him even being there,

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he bribed the pope to have him declared a heretic, why? Because he couldn't stand anyone who had a

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different theological perspective to him. So anyone who had this, like the perspective of

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the early church fathers, he would discredit them, he would go to extreme lengths, he would persecute,

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okay? So he is a man of extreme double standards. He taught that, you know, people who got married

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were second-class citizens because he was celibate, and if you ever wonder why the church has

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struggled with sex and sexuality and thinking that sex is wrong or evil, well, he was a good

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proponent of the concept that sex is bad. So what happened is, you had, so over the next 500 years,

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this dynamic of the eastern church holding to the early church fathers and Athanasius and Irenaeus,

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and then the western church all coming under this trance of Augustine, it starts building up and

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building up and building up, and eventually it creates the east-west schism, and it's a complete

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split, right? They split the church here, so not many people talk about this, but this is the first

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split away from the western Catholic church, okay? So they split geographically,

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monetarily, politically, there was wars, so it's a complete split, and basically all the church

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doctrine of the early fathers got almost put to death, pretty close to put to death. That's the

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doctrine, basically, of the divine dance, right? Got put to death in the church, and Augustine's

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brand new gospel supplanted it and became the new mainstream gospel of the western church, okay? So

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that is what was going on. Beautiful thing is for the Celtic Christianity, is on the other side

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of the world, not influenced by Augustine's theology, okay? So Celtic Christianity through

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Saint Patrick is breaking out through the world, and when you've got people with Augustine's

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theology, right, you don't have the radical evangelism, you don't have the divine life,

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you don't have the ecstasies, you've got the saints and those that are in the

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Catholic church because it's the universal church, but they have to transcend Augustine's theology

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if they want the divine life. I hope that makes sense, let's boost on. So if we fast forward to 1517,

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we have the Protestant Reformation, right, where the Protestants break out, break away from the

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Catholic church, but this was primarily a reformation of systems, they didn't have a problem with the core

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theology of Augustine, right? So their issues were with systems, how things were worked out,

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and there was some theological stuff, but

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core theology of Augustine, which was the core theology of the Western Catholic, you know,

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the Catholic Church, they didn't have a problem with it. So they actually carried that out. So

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John Calvin and Martin Luther are all about Augustine. John Calvin wrote one book where

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he quoted Augustine 400 times. So, and here's the points. So Calvin came up with this thing

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called Tulip, right, which is just another way of paraphrasing Augustine's teaching,

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which is one, total depravity. So knowing that you are absolutely nasty, you're completely

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defiled and corrupt, also known as original sin, unconditional election. We'll just race

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through this because we'll talk about this again. But unconditional election, limited atonement,

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or unconditional election. This is also a predestination. Let me just quickly touch that.

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So it's a predestination basically. So not only are you, not only did God before the foundation

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of the world predestined who would be saved, he also predestined who wouldn't be saved. And so

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if you think about it in the way that they do things, you know, a tiny percentage of the world

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is predestined to be saved by God, but the vast majority of humanity is predestined,

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predesigned by God to suffer unspeakable, unending torment in hell where God himself

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is the one torturing them and taking pleasure, torturing them throughout eternity. All right.

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Now that right there is a major, major issue because that makes God look more like a demon

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than a loving father. All right. Let's put your hand up if you know that God's a loving father

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and he is not a demon, right? That is complete insanity that God predestined the majority of

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the world to suffer unending, unspeakable torment and torture at his own hand and that that would

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give him great delight and pleasure. That my friend is that, I don't want to disrespect, but

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that is like, that is psychotic. Okay. That is not okay. You can't be teaching your kids

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that God takes pleasure in tormenting people with unspeakable, unending torment that somehow

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gives him delight. That is not okay. We cannot have that in the church. Then limited atonement

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basically means that only a few people, you know, like the cross was not, you know, the atonement

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wasn't for, everyone was only for a few select people. Irresistible grace talks about how if

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God's decided that you're going to get saved, you can't escape it. And then perseverance of the

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saints is basically that if you're predestined to be saved, then there's nothing you can do.

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There's no, it's not even possible to backslide or whatever. So also knows once they've always

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there. So, and then you've got this other guy who's an important character who doesn't really

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jive with all of Augustine's stuff. So this is Jacobus Arminius and he lived from 1560 to 1609

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and he came out of Calvinism with this concept of Arminianism. And if you don't know what that is,

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the, well, we'll just say that pretty much every church now is in the Arminian category. If they're

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not, if they're not a Calvinistic, they're probably Arminian and they've take their roots back to the

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sky. So we're just trying to race through. So Greek Orthodox though, that's the early church. Now,

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because there was such a massive split, right? Because it was a split of, you know, geographical

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split, a financial split, there was wars, there was political split. The gospel of the early

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church fathers never really came back to the West for a long time until this guy, Karl Barth.

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Okay. In 1886 to 1960, oh sorry, 1986, that shouldn't, I should say 1986 to 1968, Karl Barth,

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who was regarded as one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century, actually started bringing

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the Eastern Orthodox beliefs back to the Western world. Yeah. So, and that is in the Eastern

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Orthodox Church, it's just called Orthodox, you know, it's just called theology, but we would,

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in the West, we kind of, it usually gets labeled Trinitarianism. So here's a quote from Karl Barth,

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he said, the best theology would need no advocates, it would prove itself. Okay. So skipping through,

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right, we're going to stop the screen share, and we're going to come back here. Okay. I hope that

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is just giving you a little bit of context. Okay. So what we're in right now is a massive

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reformation with something that was lost to the church, you know, 1500 years ago, where the early

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church fathers, the gospel they carried about the divine dance, when that was getting shut down by

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Augustine, we're now in reformation right now, where God is bringing back the divine dance,

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okay, he got us is going about the destruction of the orphan curse on humanity. Okay. So there are

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three massive lies that we have to address in this process. Okay. Three big lies.

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that produce the orphan curse. Okay, so the first one is having a false image of God. Okay,

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that's the first big lie. When you have a false image of who God is, it will cause you to just,

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like, it will warp your whole perspective of the world. Now, if you need a refresher on how

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they saw God, you know, in that perspective, here is that quote again that I shared yesterday from

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Jonathan Edwards about how, you know, this is a little snapshot of the image of God from the

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message Sin is in the Hands of an Angry God. Let me read this again. You catch a little bit of

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their revelation of the Father, their revelation of how nice God is. The God that holds you over

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the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you.

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That's another way of saying He hates you and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you

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burns like fire. He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire.

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He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in His sight. You are 10,000 times more abominable

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in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. Right now, this is crazy,

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but what we have to understand is that this way of thinking is really actually at the core

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of our history. You know, our gospel still has the smell of this, and our gospel still has

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some of the key beliefs in it. So what we're going to talk about is, you know, so the first

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slide that produces the orphan curse is a false image of God. So we have to address, and we're

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going to talk about that in the session, a false image of God, because Jesus, you know, His

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passion, His calling, His focus, His ministry was the revelation of the Father to actually restore

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an accurate image of God. Now, when you have a false image of God, it warps everything, okay?

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If you've got a false image of God, it warps, like, the entire way that you see the gospel. So

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we're going to address this false image of God. Then we're going to address a false identity,

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right? Because there's three things that we're going to address here. A false image of God,

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a false identity, right? A false understanding of our identity, and then also a, this,

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it's an interesting concept, but performance-based reality, okay? Say performance-based reality. These

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are the three things that we're going to hit, because these are the three, like, the three

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core things that produce the orphan curse in a person's life. A false image of God,

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a false understanding of your identity, and performance-based reality. If those three

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things are functioning in your life, you will not be able to participate in the divine life,

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in the divine dance, in the life that you were created for. You won't be able to participate

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in your birthrights. So, here's where I'm going to say, like, get ready, because I'm going to go

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for it on some reformational stuff. I'm going to call some questions, but all great questions have

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great answers, and I've wrestled with these, so I've got answers, because I've struggled through

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this, and, you know, like, this process of struggling through this, the beauty of it is

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that it put to death the orphan curse in my life. There's still journey, for sure. I'm still praying,

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God, take me beyond where I am, but something I can promise you is that this, what I'm sharing

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with you right now, will swallow up the orphan curse in the divine dance. You'll be able to,

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you know, these are the things that will empower you to step into effortless bliss, effortless

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ecstasy, effortless oneness and union. So, I'm going to say as well, like, a warning on this,

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you know, when people hear some of this stuff, because it conflicts and jars with our mainstream

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Christian theology, we sometimes go, ah, but let me ask you, do you think after what I've shared

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with you right now, that it's possible that there might still be some lies in our mainstream

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theology? You've seen the journey where the church has come from. You think it's possible, just maybe,

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just maybe, we might not have it all down yet, and God might still want to take us on a journey. God

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might have some greater revelation that he wants to deal with, and things that he wants to address

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in us. So, one of my friends, as he was hearing this for the first time, he went away, he was so

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angry that this night, we're doing several days, he's at one of our schools, and he just came back

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the next day, he'd been up all night, angry. He just wanted to punch me in the face, right? And so,

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this, he's just like, ah, because it was messing with him. It was just challenging his mindsets and

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his views that he'd grown up with his whole life in church, the same views that I had. So, these

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are the same things that I wrestled with. But then, right, the freedom of it, the life of it

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started coming, and it started swallowing up its orphan existence with the divine dance. So,

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he's very happy about it now, but at the time, he did want to punch me in the face.

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So, let's get into it. Okay, so false image of God, it's going to cause us to see the whole

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gospel story completely wrong, okay? If we want to, we have to start, right, when we want to,

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if we want to see the gospel story accurately.

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have to start with the divine dance, all right? But the Western Church doesn't start with the divine

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dance, okay? The Western Church starts with sin, separation, wrath, and judgment, okay? That's where

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they start the gospel story. And how do you see that? You see that because there's this classic,

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so an Arminian way of presenting the gospel is this. You've got the two cliffs, right? On one

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side is God and on the other side is humanity. Let me know if you've seen this presentation or

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if you've given this presentation. I've like seen it, given it, for sure. There's these two cliffs

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on one side there's God, on one side there's humanity, and then there's a great chasm of

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separation between. Some of the presentations have little flames down there, but then this

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cross comes, and ta-da, the cross bridges the gap of separation between humanity and God,

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and the little guy can walk across the crossbeams and, yay, get to the other side and have relationship

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with God. So the whole premise, right? Let me know if you think this is an issue. The whole premise

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of the Western gospel, the Arminian way of articulating it, is sin and separation, right?

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You are sinful and you are separated from God, and Jesus came to resolve that. He came to bridge

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the gap. He came as the solution to humanity's sin and separation. Without that, there's no way

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that man could get to God and have relationship with God, okay? Jesus is the bridge, and before

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he came, you couldn't, you know, Jesus coming was the thing that made it possible for you to have

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connection with God. The problem with that, right, and now this is not a small thing,

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the problem with that, when you say that, is that you have to forget the entire Old Testament.

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Think about this for a second.

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This is the premise, this is the foundation of the gospel in the Western church, that Jesus came

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as the solution to bridge the gap of fixed sin and bridge the gap of separation to God,

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and that's how it's preached all the time. But to preach that, to teach that, you have to forget

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the entire Old Testament, which was a story of extreme intimacy with God. Think about nearly

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every hero in the Old Testament, they have radical intimacy with God. Moses face-to-face, Isaiah

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sucked to heaven, Enoch walked with God 300 years, and then he was taken into heaven. Elijah is just

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taken into heaven. All the prophets who constantly hear from God and have amazing intimacy with God,

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David, Samuel, the list goes on, okay. So this is a major false foundation right there, saying that

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that's the issue, and saying that the reason Jesus came is to fix sin and separation. That's rubbish.

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I'm sorry, my friends, but that is not true, it's not helpful, and it comes from a false image of

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God, a false understanding of what the heart of God is. The heart of God is to bring you back

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into the divine dance. He wants you swallowed up in the divine love, He wants you swallowed up in

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divine love, He wants you in effortless bliss, He wants you in the bliss of sonship, He wants you in

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the ecstasy of oneness and union with Him. So if Jesus wasn't coming to deal with sin and separation,

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what was the real issue? What was Jesus coming to do? Now on this point, let me just say that Jesus,

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right, Jesus preached the gospel in all its entirety. We'll come back to that in a moment,

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but Jesus preached the gospel in all its entirety. But let's go back a little bit and go, well, what

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are the real issues, okay, what are the real issues that humanity had that Jesus came to fix?

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So if you want to look at the real issue, we go back to the fall, we go back to Genesis 3,

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and what you'll see in Genesis 3 is the fall, okay. Now the fall should give us an indication that

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the problem didn't start at the fall, right, the problem didn't start at the fall. Adam and Eve

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didn't all of a sudden have a problem at the fall. Adam and Eve were an exact, they were a typical

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picture of what it looks like when someone is living in the identity crisis of an orphan, okay.

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Adam and Eve were walking as orphans before the fall, and that's the only reason that

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they fell. So what is the orphan condition? Well, it's an identity crisis. Where does an identity

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crisis come from? Well, if you understand John 8, 32, that Jesus said, you will know the truth,

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and the truth will set you free, then what you understand is that everything has a root,

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every behavior has a root, and that root is either a truth or a lie. Truth will produce freedom,

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which looks like the divine dance, and a lie will produce dysfunction, all right, or an identity

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crisis. So identity crisis that we suffer, right, as humanity, an identity crisis comes from not

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knowing who we are, believing a lie about who we are, and we believe lies about who we are because

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we haven't got an accurate image of God, right. It's having an accurate image, an accurate

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revelation of the Father that gives us freedom.

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us the blueprint for our own divine design. Jesus isn't just an example for us. He is an example

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of us. Jesus is an example of us. He came to reveal the Father. The issue that Adam and Eve

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had is despite the fact that God loved them so much, he created the garden for them, he put them

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in Eden, everything was perfect and beautiful and abundant. Despite all of that, they still had a

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misperception of who God was. So they walk as orphans before the fall, which is why they fell.

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Let me help you understand this. They, in one conversation, broke covenant, right? They broke

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covenant with God in one conversation with Satan. That would be the equivalent of if I was downtown

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and I saw a girl that I'd gone to school with and she came up to me, we started chatting,

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and then just that one conversation, I decided to leave my wife, leave my kids, break my covenant,

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and shack up with her and go into a life of adultery with her. Now, does that sound like

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I'd be in a healthy marriage? That doesn't happen in healthy marriages, right?

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That type of stuff happens when someone's already not happy in their marriage, okay? So here's the

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ultimate example for you. Here's the ultimate show for you and revelation for you of the fact

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that Adam and Eve walked as orphans before the fall, right? The fall was fruit of the fact that

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they were already living in an identity crisis. The fall wasn't when the problem started. Here's

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how you can see it perfectly. Genesis 3, we see that, and in Matthew 4, we see Jesus in temptation

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in the wilderness. Adam and Eve demonstrate what orphans look like. Jesus, in Matthew 4,

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is the exact opposite. It's a parallel moment, and He's demonstrating what sonship looks like.

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Jesus demonstrates that when we know who we are, when we're walking in our sonship, when we're

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walking in truth, when we're walking in a revelation of the Father and a revelation of our identity,

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what happens? Satan comes, and he gets what? A denial, okay? Satan comes again. What does he get?

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Another denial. Satan comes again. What? Another denial. And what does Jesus reveal to us and

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demonstrate to us? He demonstrates and reveals to us that when we're walking in our identity,

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when we're walking in sonship, we always walk in freedom. It's John 8, 12. Jesus said,

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whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, okay? He has said that darkness belongs to the

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orphan curse. It doesn't happen when you're walking in freedom. When you're walking in

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freedom, you are dancing all day long. So what was the issue? The issue is not sin and separation.

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Those are issues, but they're not the main issue. They are a symptom, not the cause. And the problem

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with the Western gospel is it's taken a symptom and made a misdiagnosis, thinking that the symptom

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is the root cause, when the symptom of sin and separation is just a symptom. The root cause is

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a misperception of the image of God, a false revelation of who God is, and a false understanding

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of our own identity that produces dysfunction and leads us into that world of darkness.

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All right, how are you going with that? Let me know how that's feeling. What's that stirring up?

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What's that raising up? So what's the solution? Okay, because remember, where does

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Jesus want to take everyone? Back to the divine dance. That's where he wants us to take us. So

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in John 17, 26, this is what Jesus said, I have made your name known to them, or your nature,

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or I've revealed you to them, and will continue to make you known, so that the love with which

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you have loved me may be in them, overwhelming their heart, and that I may be in them. That is

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the divine dance. That's what Jesus is talking about there. And he said, I've revealed you to

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them, and I will continue to reveal you to them, in order for what? In order that this radical,

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wild, outrageous love that we've known since before the foundation of time, this love that

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has swallowed up my heart, my body, my soul, my mind, my emotions, my entire being, this love

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that baptizes me and consumes me, may consume them. So Jesus came to reveal the Father.

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And what we have to understand about Jesus is that Jesus preached the gospel in its full

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entirety, the whole thing. Jesus preached the whole gospel, right? Matthew 4, 23, Jesus was

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going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the

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kingdom, and healing every kind of disease, and every kind of sickness among the people, right?

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So he was already preaching the gospel of the kingdom. He already had the whole gospel. This

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is really important. Not only that, in Matthew 24, 14, Jesus made a prophecy, a powerful prophecy.

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He said, and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony

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to all nations, and then the end will come. So understand this, Jesus preached the gospel in all

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its entirety. Jesus taught his disciples to preach the gospel in all its entirety. Jesus

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prophesied that the gospel that he preached and the gospel that he taught his disciples

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was the gospel that would be preached to the whole world and then the end will come.

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So why is that so important? It's so important because Jesus preached the entire gospel

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before the cross. Okay, think about that for a moment. Jesus preached the entire gospel,

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not part of it, the entire gospel before the cross. So if you want to understand the gospel,

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you don't look in the epistles, you don't look in Acts, you don't look in those places,

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you look at Jesus. If you want to understand the gospel, you look at Jesus because Jesus preached

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the whole gospel. The problem is people look at the cross to discover the gospel. Jesus preached

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the gospel before the cross. So what is the cross? The cross is not, you've got to hear me real

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carefully on this, the cross is not new information about the gospel because Jesus has already

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preached it in its entirety. He's already taught the gospel, the disciples the gospel in its

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entirety. He's already prophesied that that gospel that he's been preaching and teaching

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is the gospel that will go to the whole world. So the cross is not about new information being

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added to the gospel. The cross is about the greatest exclamation mark, the greatest underscore,

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the greatest emphasis, the greatest shout out, the greatest declaration of the gospel that he'd

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already been declaring. And what was that gospel? That gospel was the revelation of the Father and

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the cross is the single greatest revelation of the Father that humanity has ever had. See,

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in the context of perfection and Eden, Adam and Eve didn't get the whole nature of the Father.

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They still didn't get the revelation of the Father, despite his love being lavished on them,

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and even there in their dysfunction, in their beauty, in Eden, in the midst of all of that,

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they didn't catch a revelation of the Father. So God's like, I'm going to take this to a whole

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new level to reveal my nature. And so what is his nature? His nature is love. So he's like,

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I've got to take this to a whole new level to reveal love because they're not getting it now.

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What am I going to do to create the ultimate revelation of love for humanity? And look,

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the fullness of love. See, in Genesis, God's love for Adam and Eve was never tested.

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That was never tested. His love, the power of his love was never tested. It wasn't put on display.

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They could doubt it. They weren't sure. They could doubt it. I don't know. Does God really

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love us? They had room to doubt it. But God's like, okay, right, we're going to create the

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greatest revelation of my love that the world has ever and will ever see. And it's going to be the

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cross because it's only in the context of the full force of hatred that the full power of love

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can be revealed. So here's Jesus, God, the Father. Jesus, listen, Jesus came to reveal the Father,

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not change the Father. His whole life, Jesus said, I have revealed the Father. If you've seen me,

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you've seen the Father. I and the Father are one. I do only what I see the Father doing. Everything

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that Jesus has done is an exact mirror of the Father. If you've seen Jesus, you've seen the

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Father. I and the Father are one. Just before Jesus goes to the cross, he says, I and the

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Father are one. If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. All right. So

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he's spat on, he's mocked, he's publicly disgraced, he's falsely accused, he's whipped, he's beaten,

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he's mocked, he's flogged, he carries his own cross, he's crucified naked in front of them.

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And crucifixion was common for your bowels and your bladder to involuntarily purge. So he's covered

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in his own blood, most likely covered in his own feces and urine and naked, hanging in front of

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everyone with a fake crown on, put there to mock him. And here's everyone gathered around him saying,

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if God loves him, let God save him. So they're still mocking him. They're gathered around him

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in a circle mocking him, right? And what is happening is that this is the greatest revelation

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of love, the greatest revelation of the Father that humanity is ever hearing.

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You know, in those times they had this, the Romans, they liked a little bit of hygiene,

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right? So they would actually pay people to scrub their butts after they'd been to the toilet,

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they'd pay them to scrub their butts. And they had these sponges on sticks that would be soaked

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in wine vinegar. And they would pay these poor people to run around and scrub their butt

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afterwards with these sponges. And you know what? One of those, that's what was rubbed in Jesus'

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face when he was on the cross. Can you imagine that, having that rubbed in your face? At what

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point do you think your love would flinch? You know, when someone nails your first hands to the

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cross?

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would your love flinch at that point? Would you start raging? Would it be when they nailed your

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second hand? Would it be when they nailed your feet? Would it have been when they, when Judas

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first betrayed you? At what point would your lover flinched and stopped and withdrawn and held back?

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At what point would have you turned to like and raged out? You know, like, I tell you what,

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I don't know if I would, how I would be going after the first nail was put in my hand. That

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would bring, that would cause me to trigger, right? The second hand would cause me to trigger.

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If all of that failed, being stripped naked in front of everyone, I'm pretty sure that would

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cause me to trigger. Rubbing something gross like that in my face, that would cause me to trigger.

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But Jesus never once does his love flinch. Never once does his love flinch. You do not have to

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question whether the love of God is going to flinch for, over you. His love is unconditional.

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His love is unconditional. His love is never stopping, never relenting. His love will not

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flinch. It will not falter. It will not be restricted or minimized. His love is stuck

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on full volume for you. God, God created you because he didn't have one of you and he created

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you to be loved. And the ultimate calling on your life is to be perfectly loved. This is what the

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purpose of the divine dance is to smother you, saturate you, infuse you with divine love.

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This is the revelation that Jesus is bringing right now. The revelation of the father on the

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cross. Now, let me read to you because some people think that, oh, wasn't the father abandoning Jesus

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on the cross? Rubbish. Wasn't the wrath of God being poured out on Jesus on the cross? Listen,

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the Greek word for wrath is the word, you know, one of the main words for wrath is the word orge,

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all right? And it should not be translated as hatred. It shouldn't be interpreted the way

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it's being interpreted. It's translated by people who have an angry father, an angry God,

615
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as their picture of who God is. The Greek word orge is the root word for the word orgasm. Now,

616
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that is crazy, right? But was God pouring out his orge on Jesus on the cross? Listen, what the

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word orge cannot even be separated from love. Everything about God is love, even the wrath of

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God. And I'm not saying God doesn't have wrath, but I'm saying the definition of wrath is intense

619
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desire to the point of shaking, intensely reaching out to possess a thing to the point of shaking.

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In 2008 in Wyoming, there's a guy, Ron Leeming Jr., and they're out hunting out,

621
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and a bear attacks them, right? Ron Sr. fires an arrow at the spear. They're out bow hunting,

622
00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:30.560
fires an arrow at the spear as it comes out running after it, gets his son, right? It's just tearing

623
00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:35.440
his son up. It's tearing his son up. And so the father, Ron, he runs after the spear and he attacks

624
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:38.800
it with a bow. The spear could have just turned around and cut him in half with one swipe, but

625
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:43.200
the father is thrashing the spear, thrashing him, thrashing it, thrashing it with his bow.

626
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What's that? That's orge. That's wrath. That's love expressed as wrath because wrath attacks

627
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anything that destroys something that you love, okay? And then this bear, it just wandered off,

628
00:52:55.520 --> 00:52:59.040
and that one arrow that he'd shot had actually gone right into its heart. The bear fell over and

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died, and the son survived. But wrath is an expression of love. It's not hatred. So Jesus

630
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was on the cross, right? But the wrath of the father wasn't being poured out. The father was

631
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being revealed, okay? So the father wasn't abandoning Jesus on the cross. Let's read Psalm

632
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22. What does Jesus say when he's on the cross? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Everyone's

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like, hasn't, didn't the father forsake him? Listen, let's think about this. My God, my God,

634
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why have you forsaken me? Let's look at Psalm 22. What does it start with? My God, my God,

635
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why have you forsaken me? What is that? Listen, Psalm 22 is a messianic psalm that was one of the

636
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most famous psalms in the entire of the Old Testament. It's one of the most famous things

637
00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:47.440
to the Israelites is Psalm 22. You had the regular psalms, and you had the messianic psalms, and the

638
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messianic psalms were the psalms that were like the most famous, the most popular, the most sung

639
00:53:52.640 --> 00:53:57.920
psalms, okay? So Psalm 22 starts with this. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

640
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Why are you so far from saving me, so far from that my anguish, my cries of anguish? So what

641
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Jesus is saying when he's on the cross, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? He's not saying,

642
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my God, my God, why have you forsaken me, as though he has now separated from the father,

643
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:17.680
as though the father could somehow be separated from him. He's saying Psalm 22. Check out Psalm

644
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22. Look at Psalm 22. It's like this. If I start singing this. Amazing. What's next? Grace, right?

645
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You finished it in your own head. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. You know that song, and that's

646
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exactly what it was like for the Israelites. So it took them to one place, Psalm 22. My God, my God,

647
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why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? So

648
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Jesus is feeling what it feels like to be separated. As much as you can feel separation, Jesus

649
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felt it, and he's dealing with his feelings, right? We've got to tell our feelings the truth.

650
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day but you do not answer by night but I find no rest yet you are enthroned as the holy one

651
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you are the one Israel praises and you our ancestors put their trust they trusted and you

652
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delivered them they cried to you they cried out and were saved and you they trusted and were put

653
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and were not put to shame but I am a worm and not a man scorned by everyone despised by the people

654
00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:27.920
all who see me mock me now you start watching this and start seeing how relevant this starts

655
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getting to the people who are standing at the cross all who see me mock me they hurl insults

656
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shaking their heads he trusts in the lord they say let the lord rescue him let him deliver him

657
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since he delights in him yet you brought me out of the womb you made me trust in you even

658
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at my mother's breast from birth I was cast on you from my mother's womb you have been my god

659
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do not be far from me trouble is near and there is no one to help many bulls surround me strong

660
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bulls of bastion encircle me roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against

661
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me I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint my heart has turned to wax it

662
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is melted within me my mouth is dried up like a pot shirt and my tongue sticks to the roof of my

663
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mouth excuse me one second dogs surround me a pack of villains encircles me they pierce my hands

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and my feet all my bones are on display people stare and gloat over me they divide my clothes

665
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among them and cast lots for my garment but you lord do not be far from me you are my strength

666
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come quickly to help me deliver me from the sword my precious life from the power of the dogs

667
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rescue me from the mouth of lions save me from the horn of wild oxen

668
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I will declare your name to my people in the assembly I will praise you you who fear the

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lord praise him all you descendants of Jacob honor him revere him all you descendants of Israel for

670
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he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one he has not hidden his face from him

671
00:57:11.520 --> 00:57:20.080
but has listened to his cry for help from you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly

672
00:57:20.080 --> 00:57:26.800
before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows I will pour the poor will eat and be satisfied

673
00:57:28.560 --> 00:57:34.480
listen listen to this guys listen what we're seeing and what we're hearing right now

674
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is describing exactly what's happening at the cross

675
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this is this is crazy um you know if we go back here a dog surround me a pack of villains encircles

676
00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:53.120
me they pierce my hands and my feet all my bones are on display people gloat uh people stare and

677
00:57:53.120 --> 00:57:57.920
gloat over me they divide my clothing among them and cast lots for my garment you know this psalm

678
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22 there's only one thing that this can be speaking about is speaking about the cross so

679
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jesus want to say my god my god why haven't you forsaken me he's saying psalm 22 and when he said

680
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psalm 22 it brought all of those people to that place in psalm 22 they all knew that song they

681
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knew it off by heart word for word so it brought all the people that were standing at that cross

682
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to psalm 22 and they realized oh my gosh we're standing in the fulfillment of one of the greatest

683
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messianic psalms but you lord do not be far from me you are my strength come quickly to help me

684
00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:32.160
deliver me from the sword my precious life from the power of the dogs rescue me from the mouths

685
00:58:32.160 --> 00:58:37.680
of lions save me from horn the horns of wild oxen and so he starts off in this place of

686
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disconnection but he finishes off like not based on feelings but based on reality and truth and

687
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starts getting crazy victorious i will declare your name to my people in the assembly i will

688
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praise you you who fear the lord praise him all your descendants of jacob honor him revere him

689
00:58:52.720 --> 00:58:58.080
all you descendants of israel for he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted

690
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one he has not hidden his face from him you hear that he has not despised or scorned the suffering

691
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of the afflicted one he has not hidden his face from him right he has not hidden his face from him

692
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but has listened to his cry for help this is crazy right everyone thinks that jesus was abandoned

693
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the wrath of god is poured out on jesus on the cross and that jesus is separated and god can't

694
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look on his sinfulness what would that say about you and your worst moment in your darkest hour

695
00:59:24.160 --> 00:59:29.600
could god not look on you in your darkness that's not what we see in the story of the lost son and

696
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the good father right in luke 15 we see the story of the good father the story of the good father is

697
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the ultimate parable about the gospel and what do we see there in a son's lostness and in his darkness

698
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we see a loving compassionate father running to the son who embraces the son listen at the fall

699
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god it's not like facebook right we say you might unfriend someone on facebook god didn't unfree

700
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like unfather humanity at the fall god was always our father god didn't unsan us at the fall right

701
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and we see

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See that in the story in Luke 15,

703
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the son was always as son as a son can be.

704
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The father was always as father as a father can be.

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And the son, though the son was lost,

706
01:00:11.040 --> 01:00:13.560
the father's heart didn't stop beating for him.

707
01:00:13.560 --> 01:00:15.160
The father's heart didn't stop loving him

708
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despite his lostness.

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It didn't matter how lost the son was,

710
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he was always a son.

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It didn't matter how lost the son was,

712
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the father remained a father.

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And God doesn't abandon you in your point of darkness.

714
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And he didn't abandon Jesus in his point of darkness.

715
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And this is where he says it right here.

716
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He has not despised or scorned the suffering

717
01:00:33.240 --> 01:00:34.800
of the afflicted one.

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He has not hidden his face from him,

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but has listened to his cry for help.

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From you comes the theme of my praise

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01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:41.640
and the great assembly.

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01:00:41.640 --> 01:00:44.560
Before those who fear you, I will fulfill my vows.

723
01:00:44.560 --> 01:00:47.200
The poor will eat and be satisfied.

724
01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:49.240
Those who seek the Lord will praise him.

725
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May your hearts live forever.

726
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:53.240
All the ends of the earth will remember

727
01:00:53.240 --> 01:00:54.080
and turn to the Lord.

728
01:00:54.080 --> 01:00:55.240
Now he starts getting wild,

729
01:00:55.240 --> 01:00:57.320
declaring this is gonna turn into global revival.

730
01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:00.280
Every part of the world is gonna start following him.

731
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He's starting to get real victorious.

732
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All the ends of the earth will remember

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and turn to the Lord.

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And all families of the nations will bow down before him.

735
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And for dominion belongs to the Lord

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and he rules over the nations.

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01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:15.040
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship.

738
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All who go down to the dust will kneel before him.

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01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:19.280
Those who cannot keep themselves alive.

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01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:20.400
Posterity will serve him.

741
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.520
Future generations will be told about the Lord.

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They will proclaim his righteousness,

743
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declaring to a people yet unborn,

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01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:27.720
he has done it.

745
01:01:27.720 --> 01:01:31.080
Or other translations, it is finished.

746
01:01:31.080 --> 01:01:33.760
So Jesus says two things out there.

747
01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:35.400
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

748
01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:36.440
And it is finished.

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01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:38.920
It's the first line and the last line of Psalm 22.

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So when he's saying, my God, my God,

751
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:41.840
why have you forsaken me?

752
01:01:41.840 --> 01:01:43.640
He's not saying, God, why have you forsaken me?

753
01:01:43.640 --> 01:01:47.160
He's saying, I am the Messiah.

754
01:01:47.160 --> 01:01:48.000
Look at this.

755
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:48.840
I am the Messiah.

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01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:52.120
I'm fulfilling the single greatest messianic Psalm

757
01:01:52.120 --> 01:01:55.920
and prophecy in the whole of the Torah.

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01:01:56.720 --> 01:01:57.560
This is wild.

759
01:01:57.560 --> 01:02:00.680
I hope you are loving this, right?

760
01:02:00.680 --> 01:02:02.880
So Jesus didn't come as a sacrifice

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01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:04.720
to appease the wrath of God.

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He came as a revelation of the Father

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01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:10.000
that when you see him, you will see the Father.

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And when you see the Father,

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you will discover who you really are

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01:02:13.640 --> 01:02:15.960
because Jesus isn't just an example for you.

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01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:17.640
He's an example of you.

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01:02:17.640 --> 01:02:19.360
We were made in the image of God

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and Jesus demonstrates what that looks like,

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01:02:23.160 --> 01:02:27.960
what it looks like to be made in the image of God.

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All right.

772
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So that's powerful.

773
01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:32.880
We're running out of time, guys.

774
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So I'm gonna fast forward some things real quick here.

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01:02:36.040 --> 01:02:39.280
Let me know if you can handle a little bit more of this.

776
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:40.840
Okay, so that's the first point.

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You're made in the image.

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01:02:43.160 --> 01:02:45.480
Jesus came to reveal the Father.

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01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:49.040
Our first big lie that produces the orphan curse

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01:02:49.040 --> 01:02:53.040
is a false understanding of who God is.

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01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:57.000
The second thing is a false understanding of who we are.

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Let me tell you a story.

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01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:02.040
Psalm 139 verse 14 says,

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I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.

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01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:05.680
You'll know that, right?

786
01:03:05.680 --> 01:03:06.760
I was reading that one day

787
01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:09.320
and I had this argument with God, right?

788
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:11.320
Where I said to him,

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01:03:12.560 --> 01:03:14.200
isn't it a bit proud to go around?

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01:03:14.200 --> 01:03:15.600
You're like, if I got a t-shirt made that said,

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01:03:15.600 --> 01:03:17.680
I'm wonderful, I went around wearing that.

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01:03:17.680 --> 01:03:18.840
Wouldn't that be proud?

793
01:03:18.840 --> 01:03:20.320
I know that all my Christian friends would say

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01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:22.440
that was pride and that there was all sorts of,

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01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:24.720
there's a lot of things wrong with that, right?

796
01:03:24.720 --> 01:03:27.000
But he said to me, where's the real pride issue?

797
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.920
Is the real pride issue in believing that you're wonderful

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01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:33.120
or is the real pride issue in refusing to agree with me?

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01:03:33.120 --> 01:03:34.840
And it's in that moment that he spoke to me

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01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:37.960
and he said, humility is simply to agree with God.

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01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:41.600
Now, if God says you're wonderful, you are wonderful.

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01:03:41.600 --> 01:03:43.920
And humility is simply to agree with God

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01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:46.000
and pride is to disagree with God.

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01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:47.640
So if God says you're wonderful,

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01:03:47.640 --> 01:03:48.960
if God says you're perfect,

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01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:53.440
then pride is to disagree with who he says you are.

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01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:55.000
So being made in the image of God,

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01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:57.560
you can't get more perfect than that, my friend.

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01:03:57.560 --> 01:04:01.320
2 Corinthians 5, 21 says that you are the righteousness

810
01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:02.520
of God in Christ Jesus.

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You can't get more perfect than that.

812
01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:08.360
How much sinful nature does the righteousness of God have?

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01:04:11.480 --> 01:04:15.000
So let me look at John 17, 22 with you.

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01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:17.600
John 17, 22.

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So here's the thing, right?

816
01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:24.680
You can tell that you have an identity issue

817
01:04:24.680 --> 01:04:26.880
that will produce the curse of sonship in your life

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01:04:26.880 --> 01:04:30.240
if you believe that you are less than perfect in any way,

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01:04:30.240 --> 01:04:31.080
right?

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You are perfect.

821
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Now, let me share with you a little bit more

822
01:04:35.680 --> 01:04:38.600
on how that works, but you are perfect, my friend.

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01:04:38.600 --> 01:04:42.360
And if you are not fully persuaded

824
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:44.600
that you're exclusively defined by God,

825
01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:47.520
that you are exclusively defined by the Trinity,

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01:04:47.520 --> 01:04:50.960
it will produce the orphan curse in you.

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01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:53.000
In John 17, 22, Jesus said,

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I have given them the same glory that the father gave me

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01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:01.480
that they may be one as we are.

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01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.120
are one. What is that? So first of all, that they may be one as we are one. That's the divine dance,

831
01:05:05.120 --> 01:05:09.680
right? Jesus is giving us a secret here, a key to stepping into the divine dance, to stepping

832
01:05:09.680 --> 01:05:14.880
into the bliss of sonship, to stepping into the ecstasy of oneness and seamless unity.

833
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:22.880
I've given them the same glory that the Father gave me, that they may be one as we are one.

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That word in the group, glory, is the word doxa. Now, some amazing things here. He's speaking

835
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about you and I, and he said, I have. So past tense, right? In the past, he said,

836
01:05:33.120 --> 01:05:37.840
this is a present reality. This is truth. This is reality right now. Jesus is saying that this

837
01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:43.760
is reality right now, but just all the way back then, Jesus is saying, this is the truth about

838
01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:49.760
your identity. I have given you the same glory, the same doxa, or the same identity that the

839
01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:56.080
Father gave me. What's that? That's Genesis in action, Genesis 2, 26, that you've been made in

840
01:05:56.080 --> 01:06:01.200
the image of God. So the word doxa there is a really interesting word, okay? So first of all,

841
01:06:01.200 --> 01:06:08.560
here we go. I've given them the same glory that the Father gave me. So that is perfection. That's

842
01:06:08.560 --> 01:06:13.440
who you are. You're exclusively defined by God. Nothing else can ever steal your identity from

843
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:18.320
you. You're exclusively defined in the image of God. No failures you've been through, no words

844
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:24.080
spoken against you, no sin, no trauma, no abuse, nothing that's been affected on you. None of the

845
01:06:24.080 --> 01:06:29.440
lies that have ever come upon you, none of them have any authority to redefine what God has

846
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:35.760
exclusively defined in his image. And what he's said is that you are exclusively made in the image

847
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:42.000
of his glory. If we take that word doxa, I've given them the same doxa that the Father gave me,

848
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:47.600
that they may be one as we are one, right? So the key to walking in the divine dance, the key to

849
01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:52.640
living in the divine dance is understanding your doxa, your glory. The key to understanding your

850
01:06:52.640 --> 01:06:57.040
glory is getting an accurate revelation of the Father. That's why Jesus didn't come, Jesus dealt

851
01:06:57.040 --> 01:07:02.160
with sin and separation as a symptom, right? But the core issue of humanity was we lost sight of

852
01:07:02.160 --> 01:07:07.120
the Father. So his main focus, his main ministry, that's why the cross is not about changing God,

853
01:07:07.120 --> 01:07:14.640
but revealing God. The core focus is to, of Jesus' whole ministry, his whole mission,

854
01:07:14.640 --> 01:07:21.920
for God so loved the world, he sent his only son, right? So why? God was already crazy in love with

855
01:07:21.920 --> 01:07:27.200
you. That's why it was his crazy, outrageous love that sent Jesus into the world, right? And Jesus

856
01:07:27.200 --> 01:07:32.560
came to reveal that crazy, outrageous love, that his longing to have you sucked back up into the

857
01:07:32.560 --> 01:07:38.320
divine dances. Jesus came to reveal that love of the Father in Luke 15, who he hasn't unfathered

858
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:43.120
you, he hasn't unsunned you, you're as son as a son can be, you're as loved as love can be,

859
01:07:43.120 --> 01:07:47.360
the Father is after you with a burning heart. And Jesus came to reveal that love of the Father so

860
01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:52.160
that as you see the wonder of who the Father is, as you see that the Father is love, as you see

861
01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:57.680
the most beautiful revelation of who God is that you've ever seen, you could at the same moment

862
01:07:57.680 --> 01:08:02.960
have a revelation of the blueprint of your own divine design, that in that moment you could

863
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:08.720
see your own identity. Jesus is the fusion of humanity and divinity, and when we see the Father

864
01:08:08.720 --> 01:08:14.400
fully revealed in Jesus, we fully see who we really are, we see our own glory, we see our own

865
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:20.800
doxa in that moment. Now, John 17, 22, I have given them the same glory that the Father gave

866
01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:25.680
me because that's a key. Revelation of the Father is a key to the divine life, revelation of your

867
01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:30.800
own perfection is a key to your own divine life, and that will release you into the divine dance.

868
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:35.840
But Romans 3, 23 is probably going through some people's minds. For all have sinned and fallen

869
01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:43.359
short of the glory of God. What does that mean? So, first of all, sin is an archery term, okay?

870
01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:48.319
To sin is to miss the mark. You look at an English, Greek, Hebrew, always means to miss the mark. So,

871
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:52.160
if to sin means to miss the mark, it means that there is a mark. So, what is the mark?

872
01:08:52.800 --> 01:08:59.359
So, here's the mark. For all have sinned, for all have missed the mark, for all have sinned and fallen

873
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:05.520
short of the glory of God. What is that glory? That's the Greek word doxa again, okay? For all

874
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:10.479
have sinned, for all have missed the mark of the doxa. What is the doxa? That's your own identity,

875
01:09:10.479 --> 01:09:15.279
and so you could say this again. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. You

876
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:22.479
could say it like this. For all have missed the mark and lived outside of their own identity, okay?

877
01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:28.160
That it's not saying that you're not perfect, and it's not saying that you're not

878
01:09:28.160 --> 01:09:33.840
glorious. What it is saying is that anytime you live outside of who you are, that is sin, right?

879
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:38.160
You missed the mark. Anytime you live outside of the divine dance, you're missing the mark. Anytime

880
01:09:38.160 --> 01:09:42.160
you live outside of the revelation of your own perfection, you're missing the mark, all right?

881
01:09:42.160 --> 01:09:46.880
Anytime you miss the mark, it's going to produce dysfunction and chaos. You're called to live in

882
01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:52.479
the mark, and the mark is you're exclusively defined by God. Now, let me share with you one

883
01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:58.800
of the ways that broke the mindset that wouldn't allow me to participate in that, is what I didn't

884
01:09:58.800 --> 01:09:59.680
realize is that...

885
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:05.000
God does not weld performance and identity together, okay?

886
01:10:06.320 --> 01:10:07.960
For God, in God's mind,

887
01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:10.880
identity and performance are totally separate,

888
01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:15.880
but the church has in a dysfunctional way

889
01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:20.000
that produces no life welded performance

890
01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.640
and identity together, all right?

891
01:10:22.640 --> 01:10:27.560
So this moves now into the third point, okay,

892
01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:29.800
of what produces the orphan curse.

893
01:10:30.480 --> 01:10:32.360
First of all, is a false image of God.

894
01:10:32.360 --> 01:10:34.600
Second is a false image of our own identity.

895
01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:38.000
And thirdly, is performance-based reality, okay?

896
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.600
These are the things that produce the orphan curse in us.

897
01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:42.560
So performance-based reality

898
01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:45.440
is what we're gonna go into now, okay?

899
01:10:45.440 --> 01:10:48.720
Because this is one of the major, major, major issues

900
01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:50.000
of the church right now,

901
01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:53.200
not the church of 1500 years ago, right now.

902
01:10:53.200 --> 01:10:56.040
This is one of the biggest problems in the church right now

903
01:10:56.040 --> 01:10:58.520
is performance-based reality.

904
01:10:58.520 --> 01:10:59.840
In John 14, six, Jesus said,

905
01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:02.280
I am the way, the truth, and the life.

906
01:11:02.280 --> 01:11:03.120
Revelation says,

907
01:11:03.120 --> 01:11:04.760
Jesus was the land that was slain

908
01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:06.600
before the foundation of the world.

909
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:10.720
Truth is not something that your behavior makes true, okay?

910
01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:13.240
The truth is the truth before you believe it.

911
01:11:13.240 --> 01:11:14.360
Whether you believe the truth

912
01:11:14.360 --> 01:11:15.720
or you don't believe the truth,

913
01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:18.280
the truth remains the same because Jesus is the truth.

914
01:11:18.280 --> 01:11:19.880
The truth is not just a doctrine.

915
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:20.800
The truth is a person.

916
01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:22.920
The truth is something that is set in stone.

917
01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:25.360
The truth, and your believing the truth

918
01:11:25.360 --> 01:11:27.640
or not believing the truth doesn't make it true.

919
01:11:27.640 --> 01:11:31.000
It just makes it powerful in your life to set you free

920
01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:33.520
and liberate you into the divine dance.

921
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:36.480
If you don't believe the truth, there will be no freedom

922
01:11:36.480 --> 01:11:38.520
because the truth, it doesn't just say the truth.

923
01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:40.200
Jesus didn't say that the truth will set you free.

924
01:11:40.200 --> 01:11:43.440
He said, John 8, 32, then you will know the truth.

925
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:48.240
And that means to have an intimate experiential knowledge

926
01:11:48.240 --> 01:11:49.400
with the truth, right?

927
01:11:49.400 --> 01:11:50.800
Then you will know the truth

928
01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:52.120
and the truth will set you free.

929
01:11:52.120 --> 01:11:53.200
Just because something's true

930
01:11:53.200 --> 01:11:55.320
doesn't set anyone free, right?

931
01:11:55.320 --> 01:11:57.040
You can have people that are totally bound,

932
01:11:57.440 --> 01:12:00.040
but is Jesus still the revelation of the father?

933
01:12:00.040 --> 01:12:01.600
Yes, that doesn't set anyone free

934
01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:04.040
until they have intimate experiential knowledge

935
01:12:04.040 --> 01:12:04.880
with that truth.

936
01:12:04.880 --> 01:12:07.640
And when you ingrain that truth into your being,

937
01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:09.560
that truth will set you free.

938
01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:11.240
So it's not the existence of truth.

939
01:12:11.240 --> 01:12:13.640
The existence of truth doesn't set anyone free.

940
01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:17.640
It's your intimate experiential knowledge of the truth

941
01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:19.920
that will produce freedom in your life.

942
01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:21.360
So what we have to understand is truth

943
01:12:21.360 --> 01:12:24.400
is a present reality, say that with me.

944
01:12:24.400 --> 01:12:26.680
Truth is present reality.

945
01:12:27.320 --> 01:12:28.240
You can't make truth, truth.

946
01:12:28.240 --> 01:12:30.840
Truth is a present reality, okay?

947
01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:33.320
The truth is a truth before we believe it.

948
01:12:33.320 --> 01:12:35.520
That's the same thing about your identity.

949
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:40.160
You believing who you are in Christ does not make it true.

950
01:12:40.160 --> 01:12:42.760
It makes it powerful and it liberates you

951
01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:44.440
to participate in the divine life.

952
01:12:44.440 --> 01:12:47.560
But who you are, you were always made in the image of God.

953
01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:51.480
John 17, 22, Jesus said over 2000 years ago

954
01:12:51.480 --> 01:12:55.200
that he's given you the same glory, okay?

955
01:12:55.200 --> 01:12:57.120
God said from the very beginning

956
01:12:57.120 --> 01:12:58.960
that he made you in his image.

957
01:13:00.160 --> 01:13:01.000
Sorry.

958
01:13:03.240 --> 01:13:08.240
So let's talk about present performance-based reality.

959
01:13:08.680 --> 01:13:11.160
See, I didn't realize that this was true.

960
01:13:11.160 --> 01:13:13.880
I thought my acceptance from God

961
01:13:13.880 --> 01:13:15.360
was dependent on my performance.

962
01:13:15.360 --> 01:13:17.840
I thought that my identity was dependent on my performance.

963
01:13:17.840 --> 01:13:19.720
I thought that intimacy with God

964
01:13:19.720 --> 01:13:22.000
was dependent on my performance, right?

965
01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:24.080
Not just dependent on the truth.

966
01:13:24.200 --> 01:13:26.280
So what I've done and what the church has done

967
01:13:26.280 --> 01:13:30.200
is it has welded performance to reality.

968
01:13:30.200 --> 01:13:34.560
And there's a thing, a crazy thing in the church

969
01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:36.840
which I call performance-based reality.

970
01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:38.280
So performance-based acceptance.

971
01:13:38.280 --> 01:13:39.840
Now, I struggle with this so much

972
01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:42.640
because I just thought that I was unworthy.

973
01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:44.040
I thought the way that it worked

974
01:13:44.040 --> 01:13:46.640
was Jesus behaved perfectly.

975
01:13:46.640 --> 01:13:48.960
So he got 10 out of 10 love, okay?

976
01:13:49.960 --> 01:13:51.760
And I didn't behave perfectly

977
01:13:51.760 --> 01:13:53.920
and my behavior would have been less

978
01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:55.120
than a one out of 10 on the scale.

979
01:13:55.120 --> 01:13:57.000
So I just got the scraps of love,

980
01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:58.800
maybe a one out of 10 or less.

981
01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:01.560
You relate to that?

982
01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:05.160
Thinking that you're unworthy of being loved by the father

983
01:14:05.160 --> 01:14:07.880
just the same as he loves Jesus, right?

984
01:14:07.880 --> 01:14:09.040
Well, fortunately for me,

985
01:14:09.040 --> 01:14:10.840
I'm forgetting what that feels like

986
01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:12.200
because that was terrible.

987
01:14:12.200 --> 01:14:14.600
I thought I was unworthy because,

988
01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:16.680
and my unworthiness came from this belief

989
01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:18.760
where I attached performance,

990
01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:20.440
my performance to my acceptance.

991
01:14:20.440 --> 01:14:21.640
That is not true.

992
01:14:22.520 --> 01:14:25.240
You, right now, there is nothing about your performance

993
01:14:25.240 --> 01:14:27.440
that could get God to love you more.

994
01:14:27.440 --> 01:14:29.800
You're as loved as love can be right now.

995
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:33.840
The father in Luke 15, he loved the son on full volume.

996
01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:37.520
God's love for you has always been stuck on full volume.

997
01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:38.920
It was John 3, 16,

998
01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:40.360
for God so loved the world.

999
01:14:40.360 --> 01:14:41.840
He loved you before the fountain,

1000
01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:44.160
before God so loved the world.

1001
01:14:44.160 --> 01:14:45.560
He loved you in your darkness.

1002
01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:47.240
He loved you in your chaos.

1003
01:14:47.240 --> 01:14:49.400
You know, when we were the enemies of God,

1004
01:14:49.400 --> 01:14:51.120
God loved us, right?

1005
01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:53.120
This is the crazy beautiful thing is

1006
01:14:53.120 --> 01:14:55.640
there is nothing about your acceptance

1007
01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:57.480
or the love of God that is performance-based.

1008
01:14:57.480 --> 01:14:58.760
It's a present reality.

1009
01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:00.160
Right now, you're as loved.

1010
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:05.280
love can be. It's the same with identity. Your identity is not performance-based, okay? We've

1011
01:15:05.280 --> 01:15:09.600
welded performance and identity together, thinking they're the same thing. That's why we think that

1012
01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:14.320
if we sin, we are a sinner. That's not true. God says you're the righteousness of God in Christ

1013
01:15:14.320 --> 01:15:19.360
Jesus, whether you're sinning or not. We sin and then we take, you know, the reason that we're

1014
01:15:19.360 --> 01:15:23.440
sinning is because we don't believe that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Because

1015
01:15:23.440 --> 01:15:30.720
every fruit has a root, okay? And the fruit of sinful behavior is the root of believing that

1016
01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:35.040
you're not perfect, believing that you're not exclusively defined in the image of God. So when

1017
01:15:35.040 --> 01:15:39.280
you discover that you're perfect, guess what starts happening? You start getting free. When

1018
01:15:39.280 --> 01:15:44.000
you start becoming fully persuaded that you're exclusively defined by the glory of God, oh my

1019
01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:49.280
gosh, it starts getting really, really easy to participate in the divine dance. But the problem

1020
01:15:49.280 --> 01:15:55.120
is the church has welded performance and identity. So you think, oh, I sinned, I'm a sinner. Rubbish!

1021
01:15:55.120 --> 01:16:02.160
That's not true. It doesn't matter, right? And on that whole thing, so it uses that

1022
01:16:02.720 --> 01:16:07.520
concept that if you sin, this mindset, if you sin, you're a sinner to justify the lie that you

1023
01:16:07.520 --> 01:16:13.280
have a sinful nature. You do not have a sinful nature, all right? The sinful nature is an illusion.

1024
01:16:13.280 --> 01:16:17.760
Even if you look at Colossians 2, Romans 6, everything that it does say about the sinful

1025
01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:22.320
nature is that it's been cut off, that it's been circumcised, buried in the grave, and you've been

1026
01:16:22.320 --> 01:16:27.520
resurrected to newness of life. There's nothing in the New Testament that actually says that you have

1027
01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:32.000
a sinful nature. That's not what it says. It says that anything that you thought was a sinful nature,

1028
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:36.640
anything that you thought was a lie about your identity, it has been cut off, circumcised,

1029
01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:41.520
buried in the graves, and you've been separated from that illusion into the reality, the present

1030
01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:46.720
based reality, that you are the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus, okay? Now this produced

1031
01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:51.040
spiritual schizophrenia in me growing up because one day someone would say I have a sinful nature,

1032
01:16:51.040 --> 01:16:54.320
then they'd say I've got on the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus. I had a spiritual,

1033
01:16:54.320 --> 01:16:59.760
I was like a spiritual schizophrenic. I didn't know my identity. The truth is you're exclusively

1034
01:16:59.760 --> 01:17:05.760
defined in the image of God. It's not dependent on your behavior at all, okay? But what happens

1035
01:17:05.760 --> 01:17:11.520
is when you start believing it, it starts getting powerful, all right? And your behavior starts

1036
01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:16.640
changing. We start believing and being fully persuaded you're exclusively defined by the

1037
01:17:16.640 --> 01:17:21.920
trinity and that you are as, you know, you are defined by the glory of God. What happens is you

1038
01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:27.920
start breaking out into radical, radical, radical levels of freedom, and John 17, 22 is fulfilling

1039
01:17:27.920 --> 01:17:34.720
you. I have given them the same glory the Father gave me, that they may be one as we are one, and

1040
01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:40.080
you effortlessly participate in the divine dance. It's swallowed up by divine love. The third thing,

1041
01:17:40.080 --> 01:17:45.120
the third performance-based lie is performance-based intimacy. All right, now let me tell you again,

1042
01:17:45.120 --> 01:17:50.640
this is a lie. There is no such thing as performance-based intimacy. Let me give you

1043
01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:56.320
a beautiful scripture for this, and then we're going to be coming close to wrapping up. This

1044
01:17:56.320 --> 01:18:02.640
is in Acts 17, 27 to 28, and it's a total flip of the lid of how Paul used to preach the gospel

1045
01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:08.560
versus how people preach the gospel today in the Western church, okay? This is how the Eastern

1046
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:13.280
Orthodox would preach the gospel. This is the Trinitarian message of the gospel. This is the

1047
01:18:13.280 --> 01:18:18.960
gospel of the early church fathers. This is the gospel of Paul. So Acts 17, Paul is in the Arapagos

1048
01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:25.280
in Athens, and he's preaching to all these Greeks who they are sin-loving, demon-worshiping,

1049
01:18:27.200 --> 01:18:36.720
totally immoral, pagan, unrepentant sinners who have never heard the gospel, okay? So as far as

1050
01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:41.200
what the Western church would say, you know, you can be far from God. These guys were as far away

1051
01:18:41.200 --> 01:18:46.960
from God as the Western church would say you could get, okay? But this is what Paul says to

1052
01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:52.320
people who the church nowadays would say they're far from God. This is what Paul says in Acts 17, 27.

1053
01:18:52.320 --> 01:18:57.360
He's preaching the gospel to them. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out

1054
01:18:57.360 --> 01:19:08.080
for him and find him, though he is not far from any of us, for in him we live and we move and we

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have our being. As some of your own poets have said, we are his children. And this is a declaration

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of present reality. Say present reality for me because Paul's, the way Paul preached the gospel

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is he preached the gospel as though it is present reality, okay? Present reality. Now,

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there's a process that goes through, okay? So present reality. He speaks to these people as

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present reality. He says, look, you're as son as son can be. You're as loved as love can be. Even

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he says, look, for in him we live and move and have our being. That's talking about

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oneness with God. That's talking about divine union. That's the divine dance. He said you're

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already in the divine dance. That's what he's saying here. If you understand what he's saying,

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you're already as innocent can be. You're already as loved as love can be. He's already as father

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as a father can be, and you're already as a son as a son can be, okay? Now, believe

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the daughters as well. Sonship is just a, you know, it's a non-generic term. It's not about

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gender. Okay. It's just about your identity in Christ. Okay. So,

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but listen what Jesus said about the truth. So this is the truth, what Paul's saying about these

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people, but it's not powerful. It's not that this is the truth about them, but it hasn't changed

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their lives. They didn't even know it. They've never even heard that. And Jesus said, you will

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know, you'll have intimate experience, your knowledge of the truth and the truth will set

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you free. But the truth is the truth before you believe it. So Paul, his declaration of the gospel

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to them is a declaration of present reality. He prophesies over them, right? This is the world.

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This is the people that are sinners. This is the dodgiest people. This is the craziest people. This

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is the people that hate God. This is the people that are far away. So you imagine those people in

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your world. And this is what Paul says about them. He says, he is not far from any of us,

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for in him, we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, we are his

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offspring, or we are his children. He is our father. We are his children.

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Okay. And so some of them actually believe him. And what do they have? They have a

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born again experience, or it's actually a born from above experience. They have an awakening

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as Paul speaks the truth that's already true. They have an awakening to a present reality

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that's already true about them. Boom. They wake up to this blissful new reality. Like, whoa,

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some of them didn't believe and nothing changed for them. Some of them believed,

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responded to Paul's declaration of their identity, Paul's declaration of the fact that they are

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already one with God. Now, at Western Christianity starts off, you're a sinner and you're separated

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from God. That is the exact opposite of the gospel that Paul preached. Paul preached,

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you are a son right now. You're as loved as love can be. You're as one as one can be. You're as

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in as in can be. You're as loved as love can be. Come on and join the divine dance party.

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That was Paul's gospel, right? And when people believe that they're like, whoa, and they got,

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they had an awakening into the divine dance. When we preach, you're inadequate, you're a sinner,

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you're separate from God. Then what happens when people respond to God and they come to a

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relationship with God, they have these massive, they come into a closed heaven, right? That gospel

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produces a closed heaven where they think that they've got, they're born into an identity crisis.

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They're born into disconnection, right? Whereas Paul's gospel, the declaration of present reality,

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you're born into an open heaven, okay? So when you declare this over people and they get born,

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they have this born from above, born from heaven, this awakening, this revelation,

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they have an awakening into the divine dance. How wild is that? Well, fam, that's as far as

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we're going to go for right now. We're going to go deeper in our next session.

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And in our next session, we're going to talk about how we can actually launch into this,

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actually, like, what can we do to start putting things in place? Because this goes

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deep. How can you practically get this outworked in your life? And how can the word become flesh

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in you? I hope that this has been a real blessing for you. And let me pray, and we'll wrap up. Let

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me pray this Ephesians 3 over you again from the amplified version. So here we go. Let me pray this

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as we wrap up. And this is Paul again, right? This is his heart. This is what he was birthing people

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into. And remember, we're going to have a question and answer session tomorrow at 3pm New Zealand

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time. So you can bring your questions to that. Massive love to you all. Ephesians 3.16 for you.

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May he grant you out of the riches of his glory to be strengthened and spiritually energized with

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power through his spirit in your inner self, indwelling your innermost being and personality

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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And may you, having been deeply rude and

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securely grounded in love, be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints, God's people,

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the width and length and height and depth of his love, fully experiencing that amazing endless love,

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and that you may come to know practically through personal experience, the love of Christ, which far

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surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled throughout your being to all the

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fullness of God, so that you may have the richest measure of God's presence in your lives, completely

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filled and flooded with God himself. Amen. Papa, thank you for this time. We thank you for every

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person here. And I thank you for an awakening into an open heaven for every person here. I thank you

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for awakening, Lord, an awakening that births us into the wonders, the beauty, the ecstasy

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of divine love. I thank you for an awakening that births us into seamless union. I thank you for an

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awakening that births us into that level of intimacy with you that the saints of old knew.

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Thank you, Papa, for an awakening that takes us into a realm beyond what we've ever known

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or walked in before.

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Awakening, awakening, awakening, Papa, in your beautiful name.

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Amen.

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Love you, fam.

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Plenty more to come.

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Bless you, and we'll see you in the next session, 3 p.m. New Zealand time.

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