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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Feast of Tabernacles IV
Publishing Date: 2011-01-30T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/feast-of-tabernacles-iv/

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We've been talking about the Feast of Tabernacles.

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And just to remind you again, Wayne, am I on?

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OK.

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The Feast of Tabernacles is basically,

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as we have said every week when we start,

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position of restful dependence in hostile territory.

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It's a position of restful dependence in hostile territory

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where a people are sustained purely

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by the indwelling presence.

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Yeah, I'll repeat it.

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Purely by the indwelling presence, by the overflow,

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by the fullness and the life of God.

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It's the purple one.

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So let me say that again.

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It's a position of restful dependence.

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The Feast of Tabernacles, again, for those who missed some of it,

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we move from Passover to Pentecost.

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And then we move on to the Feast of Tabernacles.

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Passover is deliverance.

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Pentecost is liberty.

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Feast of Tabernacles is rest.

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Most churches stay here or go as far as here,

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but very few enter here.

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And we don't want to stop here.

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We want to go all the way.

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So the Feast of Tabernacles is a position

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of restful dependence.

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The Feast of Tabernacles is a position

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of restful dependence in hostile territory.

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It's not like all the conditions are good.

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In hostile territory, where a people are sustained purely

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by the indwelling presence of God, by the overflow of God.

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Remember Jesus on the Feast of Tabernacles

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goes into the temple and says, out of you shall flow rivers

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of living water, by the overflow of God,

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by the fullness of Christ in you,

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or basically the fullness of the life of God in you.

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That's what the Feast of Tabernacles represents.

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And so this is the fourth or fifth part of the series

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on the Feast of Tabernacles.

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And today, last week we stopped at how

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we walk by the Spirit as being part of how we move into rest.

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This week, we'll talk about the life of another.

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And before we go, for once we'll have a closing

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song in this church today.

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We'll sing that song, the life of another.

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We'll be doing things traditionally today.

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So the life of another, another word for the life of another

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is Romans 8.2.

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Romans 8.2 says, for the spirit, for the law

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of the spirit of life in Christ has set me free.

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Romans 8.1 says, therefore Jacob,

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there is now no condemnation because you are in Christ.

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So that takes care of the first part.

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Therefore Jacob, therefore there is now no condemnation

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against you in Christ.

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And then it goes on to say, hey Jacob, but that's not it.

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Just not being condemned is not the whole story.

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This law of the spirit of life in Christ has set you free.

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So not only am I not condemned, but I'm brought into freedom.

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And I'm brought into freedom by this thing called

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the law of the spirit of life.

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And that's another fancy way of saying life of another.

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The law of the spirit of life, life of another,

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are kind of the same.

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And we'll explain how it works.

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Guys, do you know that the life of another

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is also an insurance term?

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At least in some countries, I believe,

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where you take out an insurance on the life of another

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so that you can cover all expenses

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on the death of that person.

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In a sense, that's what's happening here,

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where on the death of this person called Christ,

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all my expenses are covered.

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But I'm not talking only about my financial expenses.

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But the law of the spirit of life.

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Now let's go back to the law of the spirit of life.

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Guys, just like the law of aerodynamics

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does not revoke gravity but surpasses it,

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like let me put it this way.

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Because the law of aerodynamics exists

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doesn't mean that gravity no longer exists.

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Watch this.

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I'm flying now, but I still come down to the Earth.

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So the law of aerodynamics had me in the air

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for a fraction of a second.

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But gravity brought me down to Earth.

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So gravity is not revoked.

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But the law of aerodynamics has the ability

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to surpass gravity.

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This is why planes fly.

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Gravity.

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This is why planes fly.

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In the same way, the law of the spirit of life

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doesn't revoke sin, doesn't revoke death,

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doesn't revoke flesh yet.

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But in this present world, it has the power to surpass it.

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The law of the spirit of life does not revoke sin.

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Sin still exists.

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Does not revoke death.

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Death will exist and is the last enemy

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that will be taken care of.

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And does not revoke the flesh or the old way of living,

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which we talked about last week.

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But what it does is it surpasses the law of sin, the law of death,

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and the law of flesh.

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The crazy thing is this surpassing power now

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dwells in me through Christ.

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The law of the spirit of life in Christ.

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That's what it's called.

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I mean, Paul could have been a brilliant lawyer.

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He knew all the legalist terms, and yet he was not

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legalistic at all.

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But the law of the spirit of life in Christ,

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that's what it's called.

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I mean, Paul could have been a brilliant lawyer.

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He was not legalistic at all.

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What he's trying to say is, guys, in you now,

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because Christ lives in you, there is this new law at work.

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It's like, let's assume a child is born with this amazing ability

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to fly.

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All he has to do is flap his hands this way five times,

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and he begins to fly.

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Because in him dwells this amazing ability.

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And that's what's happened to us.

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Because of Christ in us now is this thing

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that operates called the law of the spirit of life in Christ.

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Because he lives in us, it's active.

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That allows us to surpass sin, surpass death, eventually,

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because we die.

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Remember what we said about death.

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Death is like this thing that happens

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for a micro fraction of a second.

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This life continues.

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Death is a micro fraction of a second

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where you shed this body.

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Death is like a string that goes around the corner into this room.

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For a second, you don't see me.

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For a micro fraction of a second, you don't see me.

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And during that time, I've just shed my body.

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That didn't happen, but that's what would have happened.

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And you come out with a brand new body.

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That's what death is.

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It's so not something that we need to be frightened of.

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Because it is this life that's going to continue.

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We're not going to get a new life after we die.

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The new life is already ours.

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This is a life that continues, which is why what we do with this life

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is what we will be rewarded for in the future.

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If it was a different life, God would not judge this life

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to give us rewards in the future.

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It's because we have eternal life that God is taking this life

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and saying, aha, how did he do with this?

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Because it is this life that continues into the future.

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It's the same life, man.

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Just imagine that.

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The law of the spirit of life in Christ

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is what I'm going to possess for the rest of my life.

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Imagine that.

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I'm not going to get a new life when I die.

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I got new life about 22 years ago.

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And it's staying.

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It's staying for the rest of my life.

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But yet, even though, guys, you and I have the fullness of Christ in us,

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many areas of our life are like an artificial limb.

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I know a lady who has an artificial limb.

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And you can see how the texture and the tone of the limb

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is exactly like the rest of the body.

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So from a distance, you won't be able to make out

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that she's got an artificial leg.

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But the strange thing about an artificial limb

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is it does not share the common life of the rest of the body.

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It does not feel pain when the rest of the body feels pain.

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It cannot feel elation when the rest of the body feels elation.

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Because it looks the same as the real thing,

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but it doesn't possess the common life of the rest of the body.

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And so you'll see an artificial leg continuously striving

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and trying to keep in step with the rest of the body,

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because it has no life.

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And this is sometimes how we live.

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We've got this amazing thing called the spirit of life in Christ in us.

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Yet many parts of our life are like artificial limbs.

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They haven't fully been grafted into the person of Christ.

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So there are some areas where we are flying around like eagles,

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and other areas where it's like this artificial limb that

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is trying to strive and keep up with what God is doing.

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It doesn't have to be like that.

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Everything that we do can come into unison

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where we live like the song says, out of the life of another.

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I don't know how long it will take for us to even grasp the idea of it,

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but I know that that's where we're going.

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Where this whole church will live by the life of another.

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It would be a shame if some of us did and some of us didn't.

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We've got to move as a whole body who understands what it

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is to live the life of another in every area.

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We'll talk more about that.

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Guys, let's go to I no longer live that part.

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One of the things we need to understand is that we really

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don't know how helplessly fallen we are.

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We have a pretty decent estimation of who we are as humans.

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You'll hear it on radio.

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He's a good person.

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I'm a good person.

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Are you spiritual?

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I may not be spiritual, but I'm a good person.

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Guys, we have no idea.

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Our understanding of our fallenness is incomplete.

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We somehow have a greater expectation of ourselves than we really should.

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Your fallenness and my fallenness, your corruption and my pollution,

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the distortion of the image of God is so drastic

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that anything that we attempt to do out of this human nature

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is actually like menstrual rags before God.

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If you want to get a picture of it.

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We're limited in our grasp of how helplessly fallen we are.

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So we still have some expectations of ourselves.

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And as a result of this faulty line of thinking,

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we strive to please God with our natural life.

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And yet that was the very life that God put to death on the cross.

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So are they.

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You know what that means, guys?

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Everything that I do with this natural life of mine has to cease.

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Everything that came out of the old system,

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everything that was shaped by the dictates, the desires, the norms,

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and the values of the present age, no point offering any of that to God.

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No good in that.

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This was the life that God put to death on the cross.

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And when I take that life and try to do stuff, strive to offer God stuff.

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Guys, God's normal for a Christian is simply this.

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That's the first part.

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Embed this in your heads.

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That God's normal for a Christian is Galatians 2, 20, the first part.

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I no longer live.

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I mean, talk about positive confession.

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Why not?

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We never see this in this positive confession.

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It's like, God's normal for a Christian is God's normal for Christians.

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talk about positive confession. Why not? We never see this in those positive confession

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sheets that are handed to us, where we should stand in the front of the mirror every morning

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after we wake up and say, I no longer live. You never see that in positive confessions.

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Yeah, they talk, we say, I am this, I am that, I am that, but I'd suggest tomorrow morning

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stand in front of the mirror. Some of you do. Sorry. I was just thinking of the mirror,

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talking back and saying, yeah, right now the way you look. So stand in front of the mirror

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and say, I no longer live. Because that's God's normal for a Christian. I no longer

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live. And then the second part of it is, now it is Christ who lives this life for all.

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And in me. Try that, man. Try that. It's an amazing thing to even wrap our heads around.

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But this is the truth. I'm really enjoying this because it needs wrapping my spirit,

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my spirit knows it, but processing it and being able to shape my life around this. God's

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normal for a Christian is that a Christian no longer lives. Now it is Christ who lives

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this life for and in me. Oh, Christ who lives his life in me. Try this. Maybe I should try

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it tomorrow in front of the mirror. I no longer live, but this life, it is Christ who lives

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this life in me. Yeah. Sorry. I was just pretending. Guys, God didn't set us free from sin by helping

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the old me to do anything. How did he set me free from sin? He did it by entirely removing

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me from the scene of action. You know, what the church does is if Janet has a problem,

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they'll tell her how to strengthen herself herself. Janet do this and do that. And maybe

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you should try this and maybe you should try that. What did God do? God didn't come to

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rehabilitate. He moved that Janet out of the way. He dismissed her. He removed her out

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of the scene. If God wants to change me, I have to move out. Try, try understanding that.

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If God lives in me, someone has to leave. I have to move out. Jacob has to move out.

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Yeah, we'll get there. You're asking Matt's question before Matt can ask it. And then

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he'll ask you. Yeah. Guys, God said the blood deals with the sin. We know that. But it's

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a cross that dealt with the sinner. And at the cross, Jacob was terminated. I mean, if

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you ever make a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger called Terminator, it should be a whole different

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plot. On the cross, Jacob was terminated. On the cross, Jacob was terminated. The first

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Jacob, the cross terminated the first Jacob. And out of Christ's death has risen a new

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Jacob. And the only reason he lives is because Christ lives in him. This is not theory. Let

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me say that again. At the cross, the first Jacob was terminated. And through Christ's

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death and his resurrection has now arisen a new Jacob. And that Jacob has only one life.

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And that is the life of Christ in him. But the thing sometimes with Jacob the Christian

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is he tries to live out the natural life he possesses, trying to please God, trying to

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strive, trying to get things right. And God is saying, move out Jacob, move out. Leave

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that to me. I now live in you. I am your real life. Don't try doing that. I'm not going

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away from at the cross. You are up on a cross. Or I'm brought down from the cross. You are

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not a jester. You are no liar. Roomie. You are down in a room. Show the life you had

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ever lived. I

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I can't repeat that because I don't have it in my notes, so you'll have to listen to it. But it was it was it was like

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just right.

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That's where we are going. That's kind of half the answer to Sue's question. How do we go about this?

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It is so hard for us as Christians not to offer God anything out of our natural life.

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We're continuously trying to.

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And his response again to repeat what I said earlier is Jacob you can do

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you can offer me nothing from your natural life. You can do nothing for me from your natural life.

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Because your fallenness and your humanness is so

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putrid

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that there is nothing that I can receive.

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Your offering to me will be like Cain's offering.

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So let me

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do everything that I need to do in you so that you become who I want you to become.

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It's a seizing from my natural life guys.

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The issue today is not whether you have Christ living in you. That is settled. The issue is whether you've moved out.

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How do I move out? I move out by

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I always like the song that we sang. I wrote it in about

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I felt that we need to write a song with regard to what's happening in the church right now.

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The life of another and I was quite sure that the Lord was saying write it. So I actually had to put off the all-star game

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because I felt him saying right now if you write it, it'll be good.

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So I put it off and I grabbed my guitar and it took me three minutes.

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Okay, four minutes.

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And I'm saying to God as I'm writing him, man, you're so on today

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oh God, you're so on today and I literally felt God saying Jacob for once you're on.

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Because I was thinking to myself man, you're writing the song really fast. Four minutes, that's all it took you.

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It takes him less than that. It was me that was on today and I'm telling him he was on.

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But what I'm saying is it happened so fast

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that I knew that it had nothing to do with any exertion.

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The exertion of the natural mind and the natural strength in things of God is so much in our lives. Step back.

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Everything he does he will do. I will offer him nothing out of this natural life.

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Everything he will do and I will just make a right choice and step into what he's doing.

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Jesus didn't do anything out of his natural life. Let's take Jesus. It is so hard to find an earthly model.

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So let's take Jesus. He was an earthly model. Jesus did nothing out of his natural life.

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Nothing.

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Everything was what was directed. What he knew God wanted to do in him and through him. That's what he would do.

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I mean when he needed to pay taxes if the Lord told him to go catch a fish he would.

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Otherwise, he would receive help from

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women.

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When he needed to go from Jerusalem to Judea he would travel through Samaria

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which was absolutely unnecessary.

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But the Bible very clearly says that he must go through Samaria. He had to go through Samaria. Why?

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Because in his natural life it would have meant something else, but he did it this way.

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When Philip brought some Greeks to him who said we want to see Jesus, he didn't meet them.

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He didn't meet them. He sent them off without meeting them.

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Because he didn't work out of his natural life. He didn't work out of his natural inklings. He didn't work out of his natural

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emotions. He was emotional, but he didn't work out of it.

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It's a very different way of living. It's not a denial of who you are, but it is living out of working out of another life.

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Where you seize from everything else you do.

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Yeah.

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So we have to move from the average churchgoer because there is no average Christ.

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There is no average Christ.

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Yeah, but the reason I talked about that was to show you the ease with which things happen when we step into the

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life of Christ and don't bring things out through our natural life.

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It's a different way of operating, man.

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As we continue, guys, I wish I could say to you I've got this all together.

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I really don't.

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So to the extent I can explain it, I will. And then we'll keep exploring this.

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Listening and hearing is part of it, but it's a constant processing of the fact that I no longer live.

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Now it's Christ who lives this life.

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So when I begin to grasp that, I will even not worry about listening because at present we struggle with listening partly because

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we live and we listen to Christ.

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But when you come into a place where this is processed and you realize Christ is the only one who lives in you, you then begin to

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expect to hear just as you expect to think the thoughts that you think.

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We think thoughts naturally.

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A thought comes and we decide should we think of it now or think of it later?

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It's up to us.

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In the same way, when we begin to live only by the life of Christness, even hearing will become like that because I'm living by somebody

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else's life.

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So now it becomes very natural.

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It's just a natural thing to do.

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So we want to live in the same way that we live in the same way that we live in the same way that we live in the same way that we live

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in the same way.

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It's a natural thing to do.

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So we won't have to concentrate on hearing.

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There'll be a knowing inside you.

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Yeah, it'll be in natural knowing, a supernatural knowing.

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Yeah, see right now guys we're almost divided.

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There is a Jacob and there is a Jacob with Jesus.

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And I keep alternating between this on Good Days.

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I'm more Jacobjauses on Not Good Days.

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Which isn't a bad deal by the way, but the point is that because there's a division of

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Jacob and Jacob Jesus, what happens now is that when I want to hear, I have to become

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something else to hear.

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But if this is the only one that exists, it's very natural.

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Guys, this scripture always blows me away.

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First Corinthians 6 20.

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I have become one spirit with the Lord.

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I have become one spirit with the Lord.

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Is that drastic or what?

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I have become one spirit with the Lord.

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I think it's first Corinthians 6 20 I think.

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Yeah, it's one.

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There's no division.

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This is why the J.A., if he moves out, if my life becomes, I mean David didn't know

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what he was saying, but when he said, unite my being to worship you, O God, I would suggest

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to you that even though he didn't know what he was saying, it is when there is no such

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demarcation because this is natural.

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This is supernatural.

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James, you were going to say something.

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Yeah, it takes, unfortunately, because we don't always live in new clothes, we have

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to, we are aware of it.

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But yeah, but if we were always living in new clothes, then we wouldn't be aware of

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it.

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I mean, I remember when after driving a car for many years, I got the SUV three years

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ago, I drew up to where you put the key in the, to open the garage at our place and it

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was much higher man.

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Where I, when I turned on the volume for the radio, he'd blasted out because it was in

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the wrong place.

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So it's like that.

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We alternate so often between living as natural Christian Jacob and supernatural Jesus Jacob

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that we never get used to this one lifestyle.

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And I'm saying it is absolutely possible to live the life of another continuously.

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It is possible.

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Guys, you need to operate from this position.

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Lord, I am unable to do anything for you.

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That should be the first part of the statement.

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Lord, I'm unable as Jacob, the natural, the natural Jacob, I'm unable to do anything

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for you.

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I can try, I can strive.

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And you may even pat me on my head if I'm a child, like a baby Christian, but really,

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I'm unable to do anything for you.

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So I'm not even going to try.

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But I trust that you can do everything in me.

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But I trust that you can do everything in me.

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Can you imagine how easy the life of a Christian becomes?

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Well, Lord, I'm unable to do anything for you.

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But I trust that you can do everything in me.

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In me and with me.

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Yeah.

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I'm unable to do anything for you.

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I'm not even going to try from now on.

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I'm going to cease from all my exertions.

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All my exertion of mind and strength, I'm going to cease from.

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You want to do something, you do it in me and with me and I'll willingly do it.

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But I'm not going to do anything anymore for you.

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Sounds almost sacrilegious.

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If the worship isn't working, that's fine with me.

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Do whatever you want in me and it'll work.

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I'm not going to do anything for you.

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I'm not going to do one song or one guitar strum to make anything happen here.

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You got to do it.

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I'm preparing a sermon, it's not working out.

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I'm not going to do anything for you.

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If you want to do it, do anything in me and I'll do it.

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I'm not going to do anything for you in terms of how to do church.

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I don't know anyways and I'll have to get someone else's program to do it.

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But if you want to do anything, go ahead and do it.

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Questions?

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Isn't that going to be fun?

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This is living Christ's life where I'm living by the life of another.

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What he does, I do.

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I do nothing to help, aid, support, scaffold anything.

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This is the thing.

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We assume that we cannot be instantly there.

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Watchman tells of a story where there was a thief who used to steal chickens.

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He used to steal seven chickens a week.

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So he decided that he was going to reform himself.

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So here's how he decides to reform himself.

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He says, every week I'll steal one chicken less.

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So here is a thief who wants to reform himself.

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The way he goes about it is, in the first week he'll steal seven, next week he'll steal

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six.

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So what he could have stopped in one day, he took how many weeks to do?

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Okay, I thought it was six.

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Seven.

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Yeah, so seven weeks.

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That's how long it took him to do.

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Guys, I'm running ahead of myself but everything of the spirit has to be obtained, not attained.

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It has to be received.

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Everything of the spirit has to be obtained.

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So I move into this place called, this is who Christ is in me.

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And now that is where I start from.

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I'm not, unfortunately we made this into attaining.

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When it's obtaining, the difference between obtaining and attaining is attaining needs

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time, obtaining is immediate.

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So I start from this place of, we'll go over all this when I get there again, we start

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from this place of this is who I am.

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And I begin to process that in my mind.

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My spirit knows it well.

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For in my spirit I am fully renewed.

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So in my mind I start with the premise that this is who I am.

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And then I begin to walk.

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But that is who I will become.

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This is who I am.

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That's where we start.

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Go ahead, Elmer.

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You said surrender is surrendering.

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Yeah.

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And in a way surrender is also, the yielding to God is a moving out.

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Surrendering is not saying, I mean our way of surrendering is, oh Lord I give you myself.

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And God looks down and says move out then.

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Because I, that's what he's saying.

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If James says Jacob I give you my house, first thing I want is James, Sapna, Shanna and Sarah

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out of there.

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Because I am living with another four people in that house.

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I like my privacy.

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Is it easier to think Jesus is with me than thinking Jesus is the only one?

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Yeah.

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I'm glad.

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I was waiting to see how you would phrase it.

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Jesus is in me.

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Jesus is the only one in me.

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I'm not there either in reality.

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The old, meaning I have already.

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I no longer live.

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But Christ lives in me.

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At the cross guys, a new creation started.

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The old creation was terminated.

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So shouldn't it be Jacob on one side and Jesus on the other side?

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No I have become one spirit with the Lord.

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We moved out.

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Yeah in moving out.

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The natural Jacob moved out.

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Yeah.

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Natural Jacob moved out.

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Oh, thank God for that.

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Yeah.

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Our personalities will still be beautifully, uniquely crafted.

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Because God always works with stones, not with bricks.

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So we'll always be different.

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So because we're sinful beings still, is that why we will always alternate but since we're

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not as awesome?

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Because we will still.

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Yeah unfortunately the fact is we will still sin even though Jesus didn't because he loved

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his father.

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But we don't have to keep alternating and the frequency of sinning should go down like

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crazy.

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Where you will be able to stand and tell someone in the street or in the church, imitate me

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as I imitate Christ.

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This is not the realm of pastors by the way.

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Every one of us should be able to say, imitate me as I imitate Christ.

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James will go tell Sapna, imitate me as I imitate Christ.

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Banees will go to Wayne, imitate me as I imitate Christ.

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Yeah but telling makes it even harder because now you've got to put your money where your

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mouth is.

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Gosh, you announce it and you're done man.

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The easier way to do it is whenever I do right, follow me.

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To come and say to someone, I do right, follow me.

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Now you put yourself in a place where you will be.

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Therefore there is no condemnation and move on to the law of the spirit of life.

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We know that the law of condemnation was actually revoked, no longer exists and we

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move into the law of the spirit of life.

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Gravity will still sometimes cause us to hit the ground but we are horses with wings.

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We are horses with wings.

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Guys again I've said this before, the feast of tabernacles is basically seizing from your

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own works, seizing from your own works and resting on the work of another.

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What do I mean by work?

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By work I mean formulas.

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Seize from all formulas.

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Seize from all exertion of human strength and human wisdom.

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Let me remind you of that scripture in Ezekiel 44 17 where God says to his priests, you will

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wear linen turbans and linen loincloths so that you don't sweat or perspire when you

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serve me.

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Linen loincloths, the loins represent strength, the turban covers the head which represents

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your mind and God is saying when you come and minister before me as priest, which is

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our 24 7 job by the way, make sure that you don't perspire human wisdom and human strength.

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I want you to be wearing linen.

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Those guys had to wear it when they went to the temple but now we don't have to go to

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the temple because we are the temple and because there's no class called the Levites, we've

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all become priests.

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This is our constant place of being, no exertion of human wisdom or human strength.

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Works.

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Guys, David Cho once wrote a book called The Holy Spirit, My Senior Partner.

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Very often works as a result of you being the senior partner and the Holy Spirit being

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the junior partner.

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Works happens when I am the senior partner.

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Works is self-made, stubborn, self-preserving character in my life.

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Remember, who is self-preserving?

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An orphan who does not know his father.

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He'll always try to preserve and protect himself.

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We're not orphans.

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So what am I saying to you?

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Seize immediately from your works, Jacob, seize immediately from your works, Acts 29

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and let God deliver you if need be.

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I read the story of this little girl who was asked, how do you overcome temptation?

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And she says that in the beginning when I used to overcome temptation, when the devil

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comes knocking at my door, I'd go tell the devil, don't you come in, don't you come

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in in the name of Jesus Christ, don't you come in.

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That's how I used to resist temptation.

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Then she said, I learned and then nowadays when the devil comes knocking at my door,

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I turn to the Lord and said, Lord, could you just open the door?

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And so the Lord goes open the door and the devil says, sorry, wrong door, Annie, please.

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Go ahead.

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This is the first book I read this morning.

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I was reading from Romans 4 this morning.

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And it's an eminent passage.

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And it's part of the Bible.

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If Abraham, by what he did to God, God would forgive him.

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He would certainly have taken credit for it.

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But the story we're given is a God story, not an Abraham story.

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And Abraham answered him to what God had said.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I have a line here that kind of ties in with that.

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And it's basically what it says is victory does not depend on you since you have already

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died.

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Victory does not depend on you.

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Joan, can I have a hug?

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Yeah.

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I'm going to go ahead and say that.

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Victory does not depend on you.

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Joan, can I have a cup of hot water too?

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Victory does not depend on you because you've already died.

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I mean, imagine if I needed victory in my life the day after my dad died.

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What good would it be if I dragged his coffin with me wherever I went?

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Why are you dragging your dad's coffin with you?

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There are two of us.

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I need victory.

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No, he's dead.

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There's nothing he can do for you.

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Victory does not depend on you.

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Thanks.

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No, my dad was a nice looking guy.

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I'm just kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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So, victory does not depend on you.

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Victory doesn't depend on you.

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Yeah.

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Guys, yeah, so let me say that again.

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Victory does not depend upon you since you have already died.

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Just imagine, no more striving for victory.

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No more striving for victory.

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I live by the life of another.

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I have died.

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I don't have to fight for victory.

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Victory comes through the life of another who is already victorious.

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I enter into rest and I let him do what he wants to do in me in that situation where I need victory.

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It's getting a little ridiculous because it almost seems like this is too easy-peasy.

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You don't know how hard it is to enter into rest.

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Strive to enter into rest.

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You said, the secret code, you said, I let him.

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Yes.

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That's where we fight.

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Yeah.

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Strived.

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I kind of had that question later on, but as I would say to Matt, we'll get there in

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four minutes, but I'll get there immediately.

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How can we achieve this?

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Okay, Mariam, give me four minutes.

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Give me four minutes.

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Otherwise, he'll complain of this throughout.

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Okay.

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No, I'm not complaining.

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I'm just saying that.

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I'm just saying that.

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I'm just saying that.

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I'm just saying that.

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I'm just saying that.

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I'm just saying that.

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No, and then when you ask, I'll have to respond to you also.

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I'll get there, Mariam.

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So guys, now we come to the life I now live.

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The life I now live.

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That's the second part of Galatians 2.20.

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We think of Christian life as a life that is changed while God says Christian life is

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a life that is exchanged.

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You live by an exchanged life.

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You live by an exchanged life.

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Change somehow puts the onus on me.

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I've got to change.

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I've got to do better at this, better at this, better at this.

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You know, I was teaching this fullness of Christ somewhere and someone who had a problem

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with smoking came up to me and said, you know, I wanted to come and ask you to help me, to

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pray for me to get out of smoking.

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But now that I've heard this message, I think I'll just begin to live this other life.

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I'm sure I'm going to get through this.

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So I didn't pray for the person.

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If the person has the ability to process that, great.

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The life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God.

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I actually checked that, Vainal, I know the translation.

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Could be off or in.

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It's a, guys, it's a continual substitution.

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My weakness, my failure, my inadequacy for Christ's strength.

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So it's not that in my naturalness that I often revert to, there are no weaknesses,

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failures or inadequacies.

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My God, there is.

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But I keep substituting.

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This is why Paul could say with quite a lot of pizzazz actually that when I'm weak, then

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I'm strong.

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In my weakness, your strength is displayed because he got it.

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That it was a continuous exchange.

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It was a continuous exchange.

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What a relief it'll be where in the areas of your weakness, you no longer strive, but

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just release and rest in God to be able to change that around.

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And we talked about this last week.

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Remember who dwells in you when it comes to weaknesses and temptations, guys.

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You have living within you.

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The Holy Spirit who is in relentless, sometimes violent opposition to everything that is of

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the flesh.

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If you have living in you someone who is relentlessly opposing the things of the flesh, imagine

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what will happen when you let that person take over.

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Every time something comes, it's what the girl says.

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Jesus, could you please go open the door?

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And there is Jesus and he's in relentless opposition to everything that is of the flesh.

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That's one part.

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The second part is reckon yourself dead to sin.

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Know that the seduction of sin actually does not have any mastery over you.

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It's been broken.

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We talked about that last week.

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We applied practically by knowing that that's how it works, where now I don't have to fight

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the devil as a natural Christian.

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I rebuke you.

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I command you.

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I'm not saying don't use the words rebuke and command, but there's no striving.

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There's no shouting loud.

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There's no I got to pray some more.

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It is I know who dwells in me.

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I think that is the point.

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I think that is the point.

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I think that is the point.

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I think that is the point.

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I think that is the big thing with this teaching.

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It's almost like we didn't know that before.

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And when you get the teaching, you now know.

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So now there is, it's just not the big deal of the question.

00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:13.400
Yeah, it isn't the big deal.

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It was you just know who is in.

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And so now the confrontation with the devil come from this place of you are not coming

00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.360
against Jacob because Jacob has moved out.

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You are coming against the only one who lives in Jacob who is Christ.

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And I know who Christ is and the authority he has.

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And when I'm in sync with Christ, when I'm not divided as Jacob and Jacob Jesus, there

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is only one.

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My God, there is no confrontation.

00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:45.360
There's no battle.

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But if that was the case, then that person would never fall.

00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:51.360
Jesus never fell.

00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:54.320
It is possible, but for us humans...

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...the individual who is in that face.

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Yeah, the thing is I don't think anyone unfortunately ever reaches that face here on earth.

00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:06.320
Paul said, forgetting what is behind me, I keep reaching towards...

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Basically just living the old life.

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Going back, forth, back, forth.

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No, yeah.

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It's when you take yourself out of it.

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Guys, at the end of the day, what we are called to do is make righteous choices.

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A man of choice is a man of rest is a man of destiny.

00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:29.280
Righteous choices.

00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:30.280
So what about choices?

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Yes.

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A man of choice is a man of rest.

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Israel was at the brink of entering into rest.

00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:40.280
They made a choice.

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We will not go in there because they were afraid of giants.

00:48:46.240 --> 00:48:51.240
A man of choice is a man of rest is a man of destiny.

00:48:51.240 --> 00:48:55.240
Your destiny unfolds according to your choices, guys.

00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:57.240
Our choices are the seed we talked about.

00:48:57.240 --> 00:48:59.240
Remember, we got seed.

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We are carriers of seed with two destinations and two potential harvests.

00:49:05.240 --> 00:49:09.240
So to the flesh or so to the spirit.

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Accordingly, there will be a harvest.

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So a man of choices is a man of destiny and a man of rest.

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Obedience is the seed for rest.

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Righteous choices move us into a place of rest.

00:49:26.200 --> 00:49:30.200
Righteous choices bring us into the fulfillment of our destiny.

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Yes, like James is saying, we unfortunately will fall.

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To say otherwise is a denial of how life really will be.

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But here's the thing.

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I start from this present position that there is only one living in me called Christ.

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And now I begin to live it out.

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I have already obtained it.

00:49:50.160 --> 00:49:53.160
Everything in the spirit is obtained and received.

00:49:53.160 --> 00:49:58.160
This is why even in Jesus' talk about prayer, he says,

00:49:58.160 --> 00:50:01.160
Believe that you have received it.

00:50:01.160 --> 00:50:04.160
Everything in the spirit is obtained and received.

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Because the spirit is actually a present reality in my life.

00:50:10.120 --> 00:50:12.120
There is no more of the spirit I can get.

00:50:12.120 --> 00:50:15.120
The more I move out, the more the spirit has me.

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I mean, Paul probably got this down quite well.

00:50:36.120 --> 00:50:38.120
And yet there might have been others.

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I understand how guys like Job did this without the Spirit of God.

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I was thinking of that a few days ago.

00:50:46.080 --> 00:50:50.080
With the Spirit of God, I still do this flip-flop.

00:50:50.080 --> 00:50:53.080
How the heck did Job do it without the Spirit of God?

00:50:56.080 --> 00:50:58.080
Go ahead, Anne.

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I was going to come up with a story and say something.

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And I didn't.

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And the Lord is talking to me.

00:51:07.040 --> 00:51:09.040
I was thinking of some of our spiritual studies

00:51:09.040 --> 00:51:11.040
who are going through hard times.

00:51:11.040 --> 00:51:13.040
And since then, I've been thinking again,

00:51:13.040 --> 00:51:16.040
you no longer live, but I live in you.

00:51:16.040 --> 00:51:19.040
But I want you to share it with them

00:51:19.040 --> 00:51:24.040
and tell them that they should know the concept

00:51:24.040 --> 00:51:26.040
that I live in them.

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And therefore, life is worth their living

00:51:28.040 --> 00:51:30.040
because they don't need to fear

00:51:30.040 --> 00:51:32.040
and they can't do whatever they want.

00:51:32.040 --> 00:51:34.040
Good. Good word. Good word.

00:51:34.040 --> 00:51:36.040
I'm glad you spoke it out.

00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.000
Anne sends us when she woke up in the morning

00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:44.000
that there are people who are going through hard times.

00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.000
And she was thinking about them.

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And the Lord said, Anne, you don't have to worry

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because I now live in you.

00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:53.000
And you live by my life.

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But you need to go and tell the ones

00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.000
that you think are going through a difficult time

00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.000
that this is the same with them.

00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.000
And therefore, even though they are in scary situations,

00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:03.000
they do not need to be afraid

00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.000
because of He who lives in us.

00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:07.960
Guys, please remember, we always talk about this.

00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:09.960
You've got to know and resonate

00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:11.960
and know it in your spirit.

00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:13.960
You've got to process it in your mind.

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:15.960
You've got to live it out.

00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:17.960
That's how it works.

00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:19.960
So if you don't understand it in one and a half hours,

00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:21.960
welcome to the club.

00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:23.960
Join me.

00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:25.960
But the idea is to keep enlarging on this.

00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:33.960
The exchanged life is on one hand

00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:36.920
passive in the sense that Christ lives in us.

00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:38.920
On the other hand, it's active because we have to make

00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:40.920
righteous choices.

00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:42.920
A man of choices is a man of rest is a man of destiny.

00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:44.920
Obedience brings us into rest.

00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:46.920
Guys, think of it, eh?

00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:48.920
I can't love the way

00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:50.920
God expects me to love.

00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:52.920
I can't be humble the way God expects me to be humble.

00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:54.920
I can't be gentle the way God expects me to be gentle.

00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:56.920
And yet,

00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:58.920
God commands me

00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:00.920
to be so because He expects this of me.

00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:02.920
Why can He expect that of me?

00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:05.880
Because He says, Jacob, I've given you the life of another

00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:07.880
who was loving and humble and gentle.

00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:09.880
That's why I demand of it of you.

00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:11.880
You can't. But now living in you is

00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:13.880
someone who can.

00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:15.880
So begin to live by His life.

00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:17.880
There's nothing God will demand of me

00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:19.880
that is impossible.

00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:23.880
When Roland Tann used to come here

00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:25.880
ages ago, and I'd tell him,

00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:27.880
man, I don't like that guy.

00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:29.880
And he'd come up with this

00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:30.840
terrible line,

00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:32.840
I loved that with the love of the Lord.

00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:34.840
And I used to think to myself, oh!

00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:38.840
But he was right.

00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:40.840
But he was right!

00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:48.840
That was way back.

00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:50.840
I have changed.

00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:54.840
Guys, the exchanged

00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:56.840
life means that I live

00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:58.840
by the life of the Son of God.

00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:00.840
The exchanged life means

00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:02.840
I live,

00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:04.840
just imagine,

00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:06.840
I live by the life

00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:08.840
of the Son of God.

00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:12.840
I live by the,

00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:14.840
I don't live by a little quantity of the Holy Spirit

00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.840
as some of us were taught.

00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:18.840
I live by the life

00:54:18.840 --> 00:54:20.840
of the Son of God.

00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:22.840
The Creator of all Heaven

00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:24.840
and Earth, the Son of God.

00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:26.840
I live by the life of the Son of God.

00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:28.840
I no longer live.

00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:30.840
I remember James once taking me in his

00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:32.840
Prius cab.

00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:34.840
And we were on

00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:36.840
number 4 road and he was showing me

00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:38.840
how you switch from gas to electric.

00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:40.840
And that car can just switch.

00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:42.840
And then run on electric.

00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:44.840
It's like that. I live by the

00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:46.840
electric life of

00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:48.840
the Son of God.

00:54:48.840 --> 00:54:50.840
I don't live on gas anymore.

00:54:56.840 --> 00:54:58.840
I feel like, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:00.840
we're talking here about approach.

00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:02.840
Our approach,

00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:04.840
that same thing going back to the story

00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:06.840
where the devil is knocking at the door

00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:08.840
and the usual approach is the girl doing

00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:10.840
and trying to tackle it. Now change the approach

00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:12.840
is let Jesus tackle it.

00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:14.840
Or like I said earlier,

00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:16.840
you are approaching God

00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:18.840
based on your circumstance.

00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:20.840
And this is the picture you're getting, and you're getting a distorted

00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:22.840
picture. Approach God first,

00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:24.840
change your approach, approach God first,

00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:26.840
and then see how you're approaching God.

00:55:26.840 --> 00:55:28.840
How I would

00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:30.840
perhaps work with what you said

00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:32.840
is this way. I cannot

00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:34.840
have an approach till I

00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:36.840
become a certain person.

00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:38.840
It is who I am that determines

00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:40.840
my approach. It is not my approach

00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:42.840
that determines what happens.

00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:44.840
It is who I am. I have to come into

00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:46.840
this understanding that

00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:48.840
Jesus and Jacob,

00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:50.840
that

00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:52.840
it is only Christ who lives in

00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:54.840
me. Once I become who I am,

00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:56.840
then my approach changes.

00:55:56.840 --> 00:55:58.840
Otherwise it's like band-aid.

00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:00.840
Because approaches have been,

00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:02.840
the church has been taught

00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:04.840
approaches for many years.

00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:06.840
I'm not saying what you're saying is wrong.

00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:08.840
I'm saying there's a step before that.

00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:10.840
One has to become who one is before

00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:12.840
he can do what he's supposed to do.

00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:14.840
Christianity today has become about

00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:16.840
doing what you're supposed to do without

00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:18.840
becoming who you're supposed to become.

00:56:18.840 --> 00:56:20.840
That is the sad, sad state

00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:22.840
of this thing. So this is why

00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:24.840
your spirit is fully renewed

00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:26.840
and knows the nature of God

00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:28.840
fully well there. You process

00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:30.840
it here now. What is the idea

00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:32.840
of teaching? The whole idea of

00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:34.840
teaching is to set up a system whereby

00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:36.840
truths can be now practiced

00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:38.840
after processing.

00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:40.840
That's why we have teachers.

00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:42.840
So that we can

00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:44.840
become who we are. And once we become

00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:46.840
who we are, we can

00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:48.840
do what we are supposed to do.

00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:52.840
A time should come

00:56:52.840 --> 00:56:54.840
when,

00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:56.840
I'm just picking on them,

00:56:56.840 --> 00:56:58.840
when Elmer and Anne's ministry

00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:00.840
should become redundant.

00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:04.840
That is their desire

00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:06.840
too.

00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:08.840
Because if we are camped at

00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:10.840
Pentecost and always need liberty,

00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:12.840
when will we enter into rest?

00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:14.840
Let them work with

00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:16.840
the next group of people

00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:18.840
that God brings in.

00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:20.840
But these people

00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:22.840
have to render them redundant.

00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:26.840
When I first went to India,

00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:28.840
Christy, the guy who hosts us there,

00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:30.840
said, Jacob is coming with two old missionaries.

00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:32.840
It was so funny.

00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:34.840
And then the next

00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:36.840
thing he emailed me and said,

00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:38.840
are they okay about climbing steps?

00:57:40.840 --> 00:57:42.840
Now, when I say redundant,

00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:44.840
I'm not talking about old.

00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:46.840
I'm talking about having

00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:48.840
them render redundant

00:57:48.840 --> 00:57:50.840
in terms of having to minister

00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:52.840
to a people because

00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:54.840
they have begun to move from Pentecost

00:57:54.840 --> 00:57:56.840
towards Tabernacles, from a place of

00:57:56.840 --> 00:57:58.840
always requiring liberty

00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:00.840
to a place of rest,

00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:02.840
where you need liberty.

00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:04.840
But it's not like you'll park your car in the garage

00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:06.840
forever.

00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:08.840
Yeah.

00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:12.840
Christ's meekness

00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:14.840
now becomes my meekness.

00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:18.840
I have to understand this,

00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:20.840
that Christ's meekness

00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:22.840
is now my meekness.

00:58:24.840 --> 00:58:26.840
Christ's holiness becomes my holiness.

00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:30.840
I love this next one.

00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:32.840
His intimacy and fellowship

00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:34.840
with the Lord,

00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:36.840
his father, becomes my intimacy

00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:38.840
and fellowship with God.

00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:40.840
I operate on the same basis

00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:42.840
because it is Christ that lives in me.

00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:44.840
I just love that idea.

00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:46.840
I feel quite nice about

00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:48.840
the father even now.

00:58:48.840 --> 00:58:50.840
But then we are talking about another level

00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:52.840
where can you imagine the mornings

00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:54.840
Christ spent walking the mountains

00:58:54.840 --> 00:58:56.840
talking to his father?

00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:58.840
God knows what kind of a conversation that was.

00:58:58.840 --> 00:59:00.840
I mean, Joshua hung out by the

00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:02.840
door of the tent to listen to the

00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:04.840
conversation with God and he was awestruck.

00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:06.840
Imagine hanging out listening to

00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:08.840
Jesus talk with his father.

00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:10.840
But that is where I can

00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:12.840
head because I am already that.

00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:16.840
The life of another.

00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:18.840
It is marvelous, man.

00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:24.840
Why he didn't leave the tent after he was

00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:26.840
in Moses' lap?

00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:28.840
Why he didn't?

00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:30.840
Because the presence of God was in the tent.

00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:32.840
Yeah, because the glory would fade slowly.

00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:34.840
It was not like a light switch.

00:59:34.840 --> 00:59:36.840
So he would wait there because Moses had

00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:38.840
that glory on his face for days.

00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:40.840
So that could be one of his reasons.

00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:42.840
I am just hazarding a guess.

00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:44.840
From now on, guys,

00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:46.840
there is no sin too great for me to overcome.

00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:48.840
No temptation too great for me to withstand

00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:50.840
because is there any sin or temptation

00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:52.840
too great for Christ to overcome?

00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:54.840
Hehehehe!

00:59:56.840 --> 00:59:58.840
I am not saying that

00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:00.840
there is no sin or temptation

01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:02.840
that is too great for me to overcome.

01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:04.840
Why? Because is there any sin or temptation

01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:06.840
too great for Christ to overcome?

01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:10.840
Like I said last week,

01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:12.840
all this time I thought when God says

01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:14.840
there is no temptation that has overtaken you

01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:16.840
that is not common to man, but with every

01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:18.840
temptation there is a way out, I thought it is

01:00:18.840 --> 01:00:20.840
this escape hatch that must be somewhere.

01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:22.840
No, no, no, the escape

01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:24.840
is this person called Christ.

01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:26.840
Now we come to that question that

01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:28.840
Matt started whining about.

01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:30.840
So how do we achieve this?

01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:32.840
We have already mentioned it, but I will just

01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:34.840
recap it. We achieve this through three

01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:36.840
main ways.

01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:38.840
One, how do we get to this place where

01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:40.840
the Lord is in the middle of the world

01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:42.840
and the Lord is in the middle of the world?

01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:44.840
The first is the place where

01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:46.840
the Lord is in the middle of the world.

01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:48.840
The second is the place where

01:00:48.840 --> 01:00:50.840
the Lord is in the middle of the world.

01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:52.840
The third is the place where

01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:54.840
the Lord is in the middle of the world.

01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:56.840
So how do we get to this place where

01:00:56.840 --> 01:00:58.840
Christ becomes the life that I live by,

01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:00.840
the life of another?

01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:02.840
One, and you will have to flesh this out.

01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:04.840
Move out!

01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:08.840
Two,

01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:10.840
seize from your works.

01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:14.840
We will just pitch tent here for a few minutes.

01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:18.840
Three,

01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:20.840
obtain or receive who you already are.

01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:32.840
So,

01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:34.840
just to explain that, when I say

01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:36.840
how do we get to this place,

01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:38.840
move out means Jacob has to understand

01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:40.840
that Jacob can't keep

01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:42.840
flip-flopping between his natural

01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:44.840
humanness out of which he wants to

01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:46.840
do things for God, tries,

01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:48.840
no, no, no. He is going to

01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:50.840
not keep flip-flopping that way.

01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:52.840
He is going to come into a place

01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:54.840
of understanding that

01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:56.840
there is only one life he possesses and that is

01:01:56.840 --> 01:01:58.840
the life of the Son of God.

01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:00.840
That is all he possesses.

01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:02.840
And that he is not going to try to

01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:04.840
exert his human wisdom, his human strength,

01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:06.840
his natural Jacobness

01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:08.840
to please God.

01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:10.840
He will never be able to do it.

01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:12.840
It is worse than the offering Cain gave.

01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:14.840
To live out of this one life,

01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:16.840
so the natural Jacob that tries

01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:18.840
to please God is going to move out.

01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:22.840
Secondly, I am going to seize from

01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:24.840
works as a continuation of the first point.

01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:26.840
Where works,

01:02:26.840 --> 01:02:28.840
where I am the senior

01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:30.840
partner, where there are formulas,

01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:32.840
where there is human wisdom or human

01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:34.840
strength required to go through stuff,

01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:36.840
I am going to step back from all that.

01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:38.840
I am going to let go.

01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:40.840
There is not going to be self-preservation,

01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:42.840
self-preservation, self-control,

01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:44.840
self-exaltation,

01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:46.840
self-preservation, control,

01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:48.840
self-preservation, self-exaltation,

01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:50.840
self-presence, everything is going to go.

01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:52.840
You will have to...

01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:54.840
There has to be a nakedness

01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:56.840
about the natural Jacob so that

01:02:56.840 --> 01:02:58.840
the supernatural Jesus in him can be seen.

01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:00.840
Because I am a jar

01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:02.840
of clay in whom rests a treasure.

01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:04.840
And if there are cracks,

01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:06.840
the treasure will show.

01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:08.840
The veil of flesh has to thin down to a point

01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:10.840
where the one behind the curtain

01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:12.840
is seen in visible splendour.

01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:18.840
So that requires

01:03:18.840 --> 01:03:20.840
John the Baptist style.

01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.840
I must decrease so that he can

01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:24.840
increase.

01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:28.840
It is in this context that Paul says

01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:30.840
even though I am perplexed,

01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:32.840
I am not completely undone.

01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:34.840
I may be this, but I am not that.

01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:36.840
I am pressed in from every side.

01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:40.840
All that just brought even to the greater forefront

01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:44.840
who Christ was in him.

01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:46.840
Which is why he says that

01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:48.840
we are going through

01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:50.840
these hard times, but Christ is being

01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:52.840
made more alive. Imagine that!

01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.840
Do you see why Paul is saying that?

01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:56.840
That in our suffering,

01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:58.840
in our bodies being subjected to

01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:00.840
what they are being subjected,

01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:02.840
in our bodies going towards death,

01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:04.840
the life of Christ is being more and more

01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:06.840
evident, released.

01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:18.840
I could sit down for you, but that won't help you, Mariana.

01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:22.840
I feel bad.

01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:24.840
Gosh, I guess my mom did this too, right?

01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:30.840
I'll have to be nicer to her.

01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:32.840
I'll have to be nicer to her.

01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:34.840
This life is obtained, not attained.

01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:36.840
We already said that.

01:04:38.840 --> 01:04:40.840
All things pertaining to the Holy Spirit

01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:42.840
are obtained.

01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:44.840
All that which is related to victory

01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:46.840
must be received.

01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:56.840
Guys,

01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:58.840
holiness movements

01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:00.840
are not just about

01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:02.840
holiness.

01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:04.840
Holiness movements and doing movements

01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:06.840
will collapse under their own weight, guys.

01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:10.840
Christ is our holiness.

01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:12.840
Being holy is a fruit of that holiness.

01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:20.840
So, if ever there is a

01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:22.840
holiness movement in this church, flee!

01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:26.840
Holiness movement is saying,

01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:28.840
how come you're wearing pants?

01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:30.840
And you've cut your hair short?

01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:36.840
Where we impose

01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:38.840
standards of holiness?

01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:40.840
No, that's not what the holiness movement was.

01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:42.840
That was just plain legalism.

01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:44.840
The holiness movement was an emphasis

01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:46.840
on walking

01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:48.840
in holiness. And what it did

01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:50.840
is it put

01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:52.840
what I did with you was not the

01:05:52.840 --> 01:05:54.840
holiness movement. It was much better than that.

01:05:54.840 --> 01:05:56.840
What the holiness movement

01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:58.840
did was it put such a heavy emphasis

01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:00.840
on being holy

01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:02.840
that it forgot that

01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:04.840
your holiness is because of Christ.

01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:06.840
And the

01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:08.840
focus shifted on the

01:06:08.840 --> 01:06:10.840
acts of holiness

01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:12.840
which should be the fruit of who Christ is in you.

01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:14.840
This is why we have to

01:06:14.840 --> 01:06:16.840
remember. Become who you are and you will

01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:18.840
do what you're supposed to do.

01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:22.840
What happened to the holiness movement is

01:06:22.840 --> 01:06:24.840
they said, do this because you are Christian

01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:26.840
but they didn't show

01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:28.840
or teach that

01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:30.840
it's an output of who you are.

01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:32.840
So it became so much pressure.

01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:36.840
It ended up with people being holy

01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:38.840
for two hours in church but very unholy

01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:40.840
at home for 22 hours.

01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:42.840
Guys, for those

01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:44.840
that are married,

01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:46.840
your holiness and stand before

01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:48.840
God is seen in how

01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:50.840
you keep your marriage

01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:52.840
bed sacred.

01:06:52.840 --> 01:06:54.840
It is there that a man's

01:06:56.840 --> 01:06:58.840
holiness is shown.

01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:00.840
I'm not just talking about

01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:04.840
the act of sex.

01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:06.840
It's in the thoughts

01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:08.840
that go.

01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:10.840
That is one place where

01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:12.840
the ones who are married need to check.

01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:14.840
Okay, I can live holy here,

01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:16.840
here and here but when I am with my

01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:18.840
spouse in bed,

01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:20.840
the whole idea of keeping the marriage bed

01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:22.840
sacred was not some kind of a ritual

01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:24.840
that we had to do before

01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:26.840
couples married

01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:28.840
people at sex. It was a whole idea of

01:07:28.840 --> 01:07:30.840
keeping the marriage bed holy was

01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:32.840
a thing of how do I approach this?

01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:34.840
Because that is one place where a lot of unholiness

01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:36.840
happens. If not,

01:07:36.840 --> 01:07:38.840
necessarily in what is demanded or the act

01:07:38.840 --> 01:07:40.840
in terms of the thinking.

01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:42.840
Which no one can see.

01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:44.840
Keep that in mind.

01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:46.840
Just on the side.

01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:48.840
Yeah.

01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:50.840
Yeah.

01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:52.840
Yeah.

01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:54.840
Yeah.

01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:56.840
Yeah, absolutely.

01:07:56.840 --> 01:07:58.840
You don't need to.

01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:00.840
You become your identity

01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:02.840
is Christ.

01:08:02.840 --> 01:08:04.840
That's why we sing that song.

01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:06.840
You are my father.

01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:08.840
You are my father.

01:08:08.840 --> 01:08:10.840
In you I find my identity.

01:08:10.840 --> 01:08:12.840
So in him, then I find my identity.

01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:14.840
This is why I sing that song.

01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:16.840
I find my identity.

01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:18.840
This is why I can become more

01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:20.840
and more transparent as

01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:22.840
I come into this recognition that Christ

01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:24.840
is the one who lives in me.

01:08:24.840 --> 01:08:26.840
Because now there is less and less to hide.

01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:28.840
Unless I am really living two lives.

01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:34.840
Your personality, yes.

01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:36.840
And that God treasures.

01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:38.840
My God, he made you a certain way.

01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:40.840
If this world was full of Jacobs,

01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:42.840
it would be such a lovely place to live.

01:08:42.840 --> 01:08:44.840
If this world was full of Jacobs,

01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:46.840
there would be no baby.

01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:48.840
Of all the things you could come in the middle of,

01:08:48.840 --> 01:08:50.840
such a profound message.

01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:54.840
Moving on.

01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:56.840
That didn't get taped, right?

01:08:56.840 --> 01:08:58.840
My mum would have a fit with that one, man.

01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.840
I am not going to lie.

01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:04.840
I am not going to lie.

01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:06.840
I am not going to lie.

01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:08.840
Moving on.

01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:14.840
Oh, be quiet. Moving on.

01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:18.840
If the sun has set you free, we come to the last bit.

01:09:20.840 --> 01:09:22.840
If the sun has set you free.

01:09:22.840 --> 01:09:24.840
Guys,

01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:26.840
whenever you are a slave

01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:28.840
people who are being set free,

01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:30.840
there are a few steps and I got this from

01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:34.840
the writings of a person who has written

01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:36.840
extensively on this.

01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:38.840
Whenever a slave

01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:40.840
people are set free, the first thing

01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:42.840
that has to happen is they need to know

01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:44.840
about the

01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:46.840
proclamation of freedom.

01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:48.840
The first step is they need to know

01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:52.840
the proclamation of the freedom.

01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:02.840
So let's assume

01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:04.840
that we are a slave people

01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:08.840
and we just got emancipated

01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:10.840
and it was signed in Ottawa.

01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:14.840
And we in Vancouver

01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:16.840
have no idea of it.

01:10:16.840 --> 01:10:18.840
It has to be first proclaimed so that we

01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:20.840
hear it.

01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:22.840
And this is what is done

01:10:22.840 --> 01:10:24.840
in Romans 8, 2, where it says

01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:26.840
the law of sin and death,

01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:28.840
the law of the spirit of life

01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:30.840
in Christ has

01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:32.840
set us free.

01:10:32.840 --> 01:10:34.840
That was the proclamation.

01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:36.840
Guys, hear ye, hear ye.

01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:40.840
Out had gone a law called the law of the spirit

01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:42.840
of life in Christ and

01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:44.840
now the dhau has been set free.

01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:48.840
And you have to go, yeah, yeah.

01:10:54.840 --> 01:10:56.840
Oh, hear here, sorry.

01:10:56.840 --> 01:10:58.840
And so first you know about the proclamation.

01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:00.840
The second thing that had to happen

01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:02.840
is once you know the proclamation

01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:04.840
you have to believe it.

01:11:10.840 --> 01:11:12.840
Reckon it to be so.

01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:16.840
Romans 6, 11, likewise, reckon yourself

01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:18.840
dead to Christ,

01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:20.840
sorry, reckon yourself dead.

01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:22.840
Reckon yourself

01:11:22.840 --> 01:11:24.840
dead indeed unto sin.

01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:26.840
Yes.

01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:28.840
But alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord.

01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:30.840
So they had to believe it was true.

01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:32.840
Romans 6, 11.

01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:34.840
I've got the scriptures on top of your page.

01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:36.840
So that's the second part.

01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:38.840
You have to believe it.

01:11:38.840 --> 01:11:40.840
I'm writing this down because this is exactly

01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:42.840
what we need to do with what

01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:44.840
we have been talking about and what we'll

01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:46.840
be talking about.

01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:48.840
Thirdly,

01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:50.840
once they believe it was true,

01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:52.840
you have to believe it is

01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:54.840
true.

01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:56.840
It's not enough to believe it. You have to believe that it is actually true.

01:11:56.840 --> 01:11:58.840
If it doesn't resonate with you,

01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:00.840
you will not follow it.

01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:04.840
By the way, Chris

01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:06.840
has organized a dinner for us immediately after

01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:08.840
the meeting.

01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:10.840
That doesn't resonate

01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:12.840
true with you, right?

01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:14.840
That's exactly what I mean. It is not enough to

01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:16.840
believe it. It has to

01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:18.840
you have to believe

01:12:18.840 --> 01:12:20.840
it is true.

01:12:24.840 --> 01:12:26.840
Father,

01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:28.840
I just thank you

01:12:28.840 --> 01:12:30.840
for Mary Ann Abba.

01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:32.840
I just

01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:34.840
bless you, Father. I just speak into

01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:36.840
a life right now.

01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:38.840
I just speak into a life right now.

01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:40.840
What do you want to say, Father?

01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:42.840
Father, I just

01:12:42.840 --> 01:12:44.840
thank you that

01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:46.840
blessed are those

01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:48.840
that hunger and thirst,

01:12:48.840 --> 01:12:50.840
for they shall be fed.

01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:52.840
And you are speaking it over with this woman,

01:12:52.840 --> 01:12:54.840
Mary Ann Abba.

01:12:54.840 --> 01:12:56.840
Not many know it, not many see it.

01:12:56.840 --> 01:12:58.840
But my God, you have seen

01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:00.840
it. And you are saying

01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:02.840
that you have

01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:04.840
chosen well and it is going to come

01:13:04.840 --> 01:13:06.840
to pass.

01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:08.840
You have hidden it well

01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:10.840
too, but I have seen.

01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:12.840
So I am bringing you

01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:14.840
out of the winepress.

01:13:16.840 --> 01:13:18.840
And I will satisfy your hunger

01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:20.840
and thirst

01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:22.840
to a point where it will

01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:24.840
ooze out of you as wine

01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:26.840
oozes out of the grape.

01:13:28.840 --> 01:13:30.840
It won't be trodden over

01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:32.840
harshly.

01:13:32.840 --> 01:13:34.840
I will be the one who squeezes it out of you.

01:13:34.840 --> 01:13:36.840
And people will drink of it.

01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:38.840
You are a fruitful

01:13:38.840 --> 01:13:40.840
wine, says God. You are a fruitful

01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:42.840
wine.

01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:48.840
So I thank you, Father, for this planting of yours.

01:13:48.840 --> 01:13:50.840
The days ahead are good

01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:52.840
and rich.

01:13:52.840 --> 01:13:54.840
I pray that such an appetite

01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:56.840
begins to develop in her

01:13:56.840 --> 01:13:58.840
for not just the reading of the

01:13:58.840 --> 01:14:00.840
word, but for the breaking of the word,

01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:02.840
where husband and wife sit together

01:14:02.840 --> 01:14:04.840
and break the word and suck out

01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:06.840
the marrow inside the word.

01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:08.840
This is the season I inaugurate

01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:10.840
in her life right now.

01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:14.840
For a day is coming when your children

01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:16.840
and your husband shall rise and call you

01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:18.840
blessed. And I speak that upon you right now

01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:20.840
in Jesus' name.

01:14:22.840 --> 01:14:24.840
Bless you, Father.

01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:26.840
Bless you, Abba. Caleb liked that word.

01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:28.840
Wasn't he sleeping?

01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:34.840
That happens to people.

01:14:34.840 --> 01:14:36.840
Third,

01:14:36.840 --> 01:14:38.840
once you believe that it is

01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:40.840
true, you have

01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:42.840
to claim that freedom.

01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:44.840
You have

01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:46.840
to claim

01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:48.840
that

01:14:48.840 --> 01:14:50.840
freedom.

01:14:52.840 --> 01:14:54.840
And how do you claim

01:14:54.840 --> 01:14:56.840
that freedom? You have to show it. Pack your bags.

01:14:58.840 --> 01:15:00.840
Move out.

01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:06.840
Because if we were suddenly,

01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:08.840
we receive this proclamation, and we say

01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:10.840
it's true, it's true, it's true. And then

01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:12.840
the next thing we have to do is take off those

01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:14.840
darn shackles and throw them by the side

01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:16.840
and do a few steps and then

01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:18.840
begin to pack our bags and leave. Because we are

01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:20.840
moving out. We are moving out.

01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:24.840
So that's the third step.

01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:26.840
Fourth,

01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:32.840
and that's why it says in Galatians

01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:34.840
5.13, you've been called

01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:36.840
to liberty.

01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:38.840
Pack your bags.

01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:40.840
Don't use this liberty to go

01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:42.840
back into the flesh. But

01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:44.840
pack your bags and by love, begin to serve

01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:46.840
one another. Not as slaves anymore,

01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:48.840
but as free people.

01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:50.840
Pack your bags. Don't go back into the

01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:52.840
old way. Fourthly,

01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:54.840
refuse to be a slave.

01:15:54.840 --> 01:15:56.840
Refuse to be a slave now.

01:15:56.840 --> 01:15:58.840
You've just been set free. Refuse to be a slave

01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:00.840
again. Refuse

01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:02.840
to be a

01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:04.840
slave again.

01:16:06.840 --> 01:16:08.840
Refuse to be a slave again.

01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:10.840
It's in Galatians 5.1,

01:16:10.840 --> 01:16:12.840
Stand fast therefore, in the

01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:14.840
liberty wherein Christ has made us

01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:16.840
free, and be not entangled

01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:18.840
again with a yoke of bondage.

01:16:18.840 --> 01:16:20.840
This life of

01:16:20.840 --> 01:16:22.840
another that God is opening

01:16:22.840 --> 01:16:24.840
up for us

01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:26.840
is a life that has to be

01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:28.840
entered into as a people. I'm

01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:30.840
not interested in Elmer entering

01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:32.840
this. I don't want

01:16:32.840 --> 01:16:34.840
just Elmer to enter it. I want

01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:36.840
all of us to enter it.

01:16:36.840 --> 01:16:38.840
We are always going to work as

01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:40.840
a people, guys. God is

01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:42.840
interested in doing this as a people,

01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:44.840
not with individuals.

01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:46.840
Individuals make up a people, but He's

01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:48.840
always looking at a people.

01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:50.840
So, refuse to be a slave again.

01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:56.840
Stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ

01:16:56.840 --> 01:16:58.840
is drawing us, drawing us into the life

01:16:58.840 --> 01:17:00.840
of another so that we don't keep going

01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:02.840
back into our natural, human

01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:04.840
fallenness to do things

01:17:04.840 --> 01:17:06.840
for Him, to try and please Him, to strive.

01:17:06.840 --> 01:17:08.840
Because what will happen is

01:17:08.840 --> 01:17:10.840
always remember, you'll be an artificial

01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:12.840
limb that looks like the real thing,

01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:14.840
but doesn't share in the common

01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:16.840
life of the body,

01:17:16.840 --> 01:17:18.840
that cannot feel pain or elation,

01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:20.840
that is always trying to keep in step

01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:22.840
because it is not a natural part

01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:24.840
of life. When there is this one life

01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:26.840
called Christ, out of whom all

01:17:26.840 --> 01:17:28.840
of me shall draw.

01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:32.840
And lastly,

01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:34.840
count on the power,

01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:36.840
count

01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:38.840
on the power

01:17:40.840 --> 01:17:42.840
of

01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:44.840
the emancipator

01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:46.840
or the one who set you free,

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count on the power of the emancipator

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or the one who has brought you this freedom,

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meaning Christ, to stand behind you,

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to stand behind you.

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Basically, to

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hold you up.

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This is why in John 8.36

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it says,

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If the Son,

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Jacob,

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If the Son

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has set you free,

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you are

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free indeed.

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You are free indeed.

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You are free indeed.

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You are free indeed.

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You are free indeed.

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He set you free from your natural

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human fallenness, from sin,

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from death, from the

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old flesh way

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of living its norms, dictates and values

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and He's brought you into a place

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where you can live the life of another.

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And if the Son has set you free, then know

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that you are free indeed and He'll do everything

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in His power to help you

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walk in that freedom. You have the

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Spirit of God living in you.

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You're going to walk in

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the line of sight of the Spirit

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within earshot of the Spirit's whisper,

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within the pleasure

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or the frown of the Spirit's

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demeanor to you as you walk.

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You will show behavior

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that is

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in accordance with who lives

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within you.

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They will know that someone lives within you because

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you have a different behavior

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and you will

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always cultivate

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things that are of God. You will

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sow into the seasons of God, you will sow into the

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things of the Spirit and you will sow out of you

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the fruit that is already in you.