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We are in a series that is being kind of broken up.

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Pastor Igor is in a series that gets broken up,

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and I'm in a series that is kind of being broken up

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because of not always here.

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And like this year, since we don't have summer fest,

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it was the first summer in, I don't know, 15 years or whatever.

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We got to go on a summer vacation.

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And I told Mary on the way back, I said,

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I think I like the fall better.

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Not near so hot.

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But because of some of these different things,

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the series has been broken up.

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We've been in a series on our identity in Christ.

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Who are we? Who am I?

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What am I?

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Knowing who and what we are

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lays the foundation for the course of our life.

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I mean, even in the physical,

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if a person doesn't have their focus,

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their compass dialed in, it's like they just wander.

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And never really accomplish much of anything.

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They do this and they do that.

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They just wander because they don't know.

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They're not focused in. They're not dialed in.

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Once we know who we are,

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especially as Christians, who we are in Christ,

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and of course everything flows out of that as a Christian,

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that's called having a scriptural world view.

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For all of you who don't listen to the podcast,

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you're going, what does that mean?

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You got to go back and listen to the podcast.

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Everything flows from the foundation of Scripture

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and who we are in Christ.

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Whether you're a plumber, electrician,

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you're a stay-at-home mom, it makes no difference.

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Everything flows out of that.

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And once we understand who we are,

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now our purpose, our identity ties into our destination,

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where we're going, our rights, our authority,

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our privileges, our security in God.

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Everything starts making sense and starts getting revealed.

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Until that point, we struggle.

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It literally, if you go to Hebrews,

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let's go there just for a second.

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Can you jump off the PowerPoint and go to Hebrews?

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Let me find it and then I can tell you where to go.

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Hebrews chapter 6 verse 13.

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I was reading this week and this just popped off to me.

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6-13, I'll start back in chapter.

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I'll just give a brief running start on this.

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End of chapter 5, he's talking about people

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who should already be maturing in Christ,

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they should be teaching, they should understand things,

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but they're still babies, they're still on milk.

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Part of that is not knowing who you are.

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So you're not pursuing anything.

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Chapter 6, the beginning of it, he says,

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so let's get past the elementary stuff,

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the baby stage stuff, and let's move on into maturing.

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Let's move on into maturity.

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He ends that thought in verse 2

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with talking about understanding eternal judgment.

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That is one of the baby things we need to understand as Christians.

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It's an elementary principle that from my perspective,

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and that might be skewed a little bit

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because I don't see everything,

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but from my perspective the church has really dropped the ball on that.

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Because when you bring up the concept

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of there is an eternal hell,

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there's a place where people who are not believers,

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who are not living for God, are going to spend eternity.

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It brings up all kind of controversy in the church.

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Why don't know if God would really do that?

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And God is a loving God.

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And he understands, see, we don't even understand

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the basic scriptural concept

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of there is an eternal judgment coming.

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That's an elementary thing the writer to the Hebrew says.

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So he jumps off on that for a few verses

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talking about judgment and so forth.

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Then verse 9, chapter 6, he says,

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I'm confident you're not going to face that judgment.

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I'm confident, better things for you.

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Keep walking it out, keep your hope sure.

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And then in verse 13, we're going to start reading.

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I'm in the NIV.

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If you could bring up the NIV,

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it makes it a little easier to understand.

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When God made his promise to Abraham

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since there was no one greater for him to swear by,

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he swore by himself.

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So, you know, if you go to court or something,

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they'll have you put your hand on the Bible

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and swear that you're going to tell the truth.

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Because the Bible is considered a higher authority

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greater than you.

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Well, there is no greater authority than God.

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So he gave his word on the basis of who he is

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to Abraham, and he said, verse 14,

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I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.

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And so after waiting patiently,

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Abraham received what was promised.

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Let's read on. I'll come back to that statement.

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Men swear by someone greater than themselves.

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He talks about the oath, you know,

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to confirm and try to end the argument.

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So God did this on two things,

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his eternal existence and his unchanging nature,

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verse 17 and 18.

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Two unchangeable things he gave his word on,

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so it's impossible for him to lie

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because he'd have to cease to exist if he lied.

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And because of the foundational security

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in what he said, middle of verse 18,

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we who have fled to take hold of the hope

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offered to us may be greatly encouraged.

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So back up to verse number 15, 14.

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He's speaking to Abraham and he says,

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I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.

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He just told Abraham part of his identity.

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Who is Abraham?

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Well, now in reverse, he's the father of...

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he's the father of faith.

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He's the father of the nations.

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He's of the faith nations.

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Abraham is the father.

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But when God was talking to Abraham,

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he's saying, this is who you are.

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You are the one who will be blessed to have many descendants.

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When he had no descendants, no children at all yet.

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God said, this is who you are.

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Abraham struggled with that picture

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and got him in trouble with Hagar.

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If he had stuck with the picture, the statement,

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God said, I am the one who's blessed

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and will receive many descendants.

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If he had just stuck with that,

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we wouldn't have the mess in the world we have

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now with the Arab nations.

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That came from Hagar.

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So God was saying, this is who you are, Abraham.

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Abraham struggled with it.

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When you struggle with things, there's problems.

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Identity, okay?

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Then he takes it and applies it to us.

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Verse 18, God did this with Abraham

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and now he's going to apply it to us

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so that by two unchangeable things

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in which it is impossible for God to lie,

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we, not Abraham, we who have fled

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to take hold of the hope offered to us

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may be greatly encouraged.

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Well, what my question is, is who are you

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and what hope has been offered to you?

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Because Abraham knew. God told him.

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You know what? God's telling us, too.

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This is who you are.

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Here is my promise to you.

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Do we know what that is?

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Because that ties back into Ephesians 1,

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the first half of the chapter,

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where he's saying, I have a pre-planned destination,

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a pre-panned life for you.

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Do you know what yours is?

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Because without us knowing who we are in Christ,

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we will never know what he wants for us.

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Without knowing what he wants for us,

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it's hard to lay hold to the hope.

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We can't get a joyful, confident expectation

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about anything.

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And what happens if we don't have that?

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Verse 19, this hope acts as an anchor

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for the soul, firm and secure.

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It even enters into the sanctuary behind the curtain,

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which is that's entering into the holy places of God,

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the presence of God, the nearness of God.

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If we don't know who we are, two things get lost.

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We have no anchor for our soul.

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Mind will emotions.

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That's what the word soul means.

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Mind will emotions, reasoning, intellect, that world.

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If I don't know who I am, when things start hitting me,

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my mind starts going, oh, what's going on?

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I can't understand what's happening.

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Where is God?

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Is God supposed...

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And my emotions will stir up.

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I don't like this.

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I'm afraid.

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There's no anchor to hold me solid.

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Because I don't know who I am

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and what I'm supposed to be solid to.

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And what has God promised to me?

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Well, maybe we made the wrong decision last year.

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Maybe we should have done this.

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Maybe we should have done that.

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I don't know.

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It's not turning out well.

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And we just float all over the place in our mind

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and our emotions, which affects our will.

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We are not anchored down

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because we don't know who we are.

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It acts as an anchor.

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And when we don't have that anchor,

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not only does it affect our soul,

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which is more this physical realm we work in,

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but it affects how intimate we get with God.

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The inner sanctuary.

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We have got to know this is who I am in Christ,

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which are the general things we're talking about now.

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And then he will take that up a level

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because in Scripture,

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for instance, Abraham was blessed to be the one

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with many descendants.

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We know the story.

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Jesus came through Abraham's lineage

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and the whole thing.

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We know that.

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But he never said to any of us,

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Pastor Igor is going to be a pastor.

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That's not in the Scripture.

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Well, who is Pastor Igor?

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You ask him.

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He said, well, he'd start with the basics.

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I'm a child of God.

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I'm saved.

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I'm the general things.

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But then when you go to Ephesians 1,

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that first part of it,

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where he's talking about the preplanned life

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he wants all of us to walk in,

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all of us have a different life to walk in.

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Pastor Igor would say,

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Ephesians 1, that first part of it,

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I'm a pastor.

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That's who I am.

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That anchors you down

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to a certain course in life.

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And if you'll stay anchored to what you know

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who you are in Christ.

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A lot of things that are temptations

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to wander off the path,

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you don't ever entertain them.

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Because it's not who I am.

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It's not what I'm supposed to be doing.

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So it anchors down your soul.

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Well, when you're anchored down in your soul,

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you're not questioning,

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I don't know if we should make that decision.

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I don't know if we should even be doing it.

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Maybe we shouldn't even be living in Minnesota.

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There's other parts of the nation

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that are a whole lot nicer to live in.

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I don't know what we're doing.

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So then when you go to God,

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we just go with a bunch of questions.

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Well, I don't know God.

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Tell me what you want me to do.

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Where are we supposed to go?

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And it stays so much in the realm of,

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I don't know,

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that intimacy.

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Pastor Eager calls it the secret place.

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Those times we get intimate with God

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and he starts sharing with us.

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And this is what you're going to do next.

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And this is how it's going to go.

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And this, because we're anchored into,

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yep, this is what you told me,

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and I'm going that direction, period.

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He will then be able to, in the intimate times,

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start bringing those together for us.

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If we're not anchored in,

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it affects our ability to even get into His presence.

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Because we'll walk into church not expecting revelation.

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We'll walk into church with a thousand questions,

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a little bit of bad attitude and disgruntle

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because I don't understand why my life's going like this.

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And it's hard to get anything from God that way.

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So, let's go back to what we're talking about here.

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Your homework.

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Who am I?

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What is my identity?

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That was the question we were supposed to be asking

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in this last couple, three weeks.

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In your prayer times, during the day,

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God, who am I?

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What is my identity in you?

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Who am I to you?

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How do you see me?

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I need to see your perspective of me.

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I need you to talk to me.

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Who am I?

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What is my identity?

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Show me my identity.

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Show me who I'm supposed to be.

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I won't ask for a raise of hands who did that.

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Because I came back from vacation

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and I don't want to be discouraged right away.

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But if you haven't done that,

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you need to do that because it comes out of...

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Ephesians 1, the last half of the chapter.

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First half of the chapter, Paul's saying,

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this is a fact.

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God, before the foundation of the world,

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pre-planned your time on this earth.

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He has a destination he wants to get you to.

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He's laid out how this thing is supposed to go.

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That's why it's called pre-destination.

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Here's where you're supposed to go in Christ.

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Here's what you're supposed to accomplish.

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This is what your life is supposed to do on earth.

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That's the first half of chapter 1.

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The second half of chapter 1 says,

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that's why I'm praying for you people.

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If you don't get wisdom and revelation

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on what I just said to you,

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that pre-planned here is how you're supposed to walk life out.

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If you don't get wisdom and revelation on that,

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you're going to be floundering all your life.

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So he took the last half of chapter 1

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and said, I am praying for you

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to get the wisdom, to get the revelation

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that you see what you're here for.

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Okay?

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That's as far as we got.

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So I don't know if it's because I've been out of the loop

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or whatever.

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But before service, Pastor Igor asked me,

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well, Mary asked me at home,

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she said, what do you got for the service?

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I said, I got nothing.

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And I don't like that.

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I do not like that.

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I like to walk into a service

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at least having and knowing what direction the wind's blowing.

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I may not know all the details,

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but we're kind of going that way.

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So before service, Pastor Igor asked me,

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he said, what do you got for the service?

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I got nothing.

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He says, I don't either.

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I thought, oh, great.

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So as I was coming in while you were doing praise and worship

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and stuff after I had greeted most everybody,

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as I'm coming in, I stopped at the back there

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and I stood there for quite a while saying, God,

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this is disconcerting to me.

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I don't like this.

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I want to know, what are we doing?

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Where are we going?

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What's the emphasis for today?

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Or we'll just shoot off into some direction

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that may not be you at all.

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And interestingly enough,

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stood there for five minutes, didn't get nothing.

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I thought, oh, I'm going to go in and sit down

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and let's see what happens.

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And as I'm walking up that wall,

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he said this to me.

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This is a pick them up and put them down day.

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This is how the bulk of human life is lived.

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That's when knowing who you are

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becomes extremely important.

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So let me explain that to you a little bit.

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Most of our 24 hours,

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we do not live in the manifest presence of God.

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To where it's just men, our hair are standing on end,

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and we can feel the presence of God just heavy on us.

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And how many of you live in that

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most of the 24 hours of your day you're awake?

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We don't. That's what's real.

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That's why those times when we get alone with God

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and get intimate with Him,

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and or those services where we're together

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and the Spirit of God just slams us,

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are so precious.

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And we're humans, we're fallen nature.

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If we lived in that continually,

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it would become whole home to us after a while.

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Oh, whatever.

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Whole home.

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It's like when we moved to Colorado.

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Man, the first three, four years,

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the mountains were like,

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oh man, they're beautiful.

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The sun's rising, there's snow on them,

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they're orange, then they turn away.

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And once we were there 15 years,

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what mountains?

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Oh yeah, that's right, there's mountains there.

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I've seen that before.

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That's human nature.

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It becomes whole home.

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Most of our 24-hour day,

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we are not under the heavy presence of God.

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What do we do?

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We do what He already told us to do.

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Pick them up, put them down, walk this thing out.

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I had an opportunity to save some money

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while we were on vacation.

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To do it would have been stealing.

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And it worked out that

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I had to go back

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and give them the money that was owed to them.

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Because I was past the point already.

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And it's like, just ignore it, it goes away.

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I mean, nobody knows. I'm in.

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You know what?

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The heavy presence of God never showed up.

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The heavy conviction of the Spirit.

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The, oh, my hair is standing on.

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I can just feel God in a tangible way.

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Nothing, nothing.

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Just nothing.

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But I went back and gave them the money.

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You know why?

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Because He already told me

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how to handle those kind of situations.

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He doesn't need to come on me with power

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to convince me I already know.

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Just pick them up, put them down,

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go back and do what you're supposed to do.

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That's how we live

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the greatest bulk of every day of our life.

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We've heard from them.

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We know what He's asked of us.

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He's not going to come back

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with His great presence

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and encourage us to do something

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we already know.

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Just pick them up and put them down.

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Be faithful. Do what He's asked you to do.

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That's where His last statement here.

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That's when knowing who you are

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becomes extremely important.

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Am I honest or am I a thief?

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Am I blessed or am I cursed?

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Am I healed or am I sick?

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You know, when you get that time

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during the day and it's like,

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I had one of those while we were gone.

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A lot of things happened while we were gone.

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But I had one of those while we were gone

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and God gave me a dream

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and showed me what was happening.

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But it was a physical thing

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that tried to get on me.

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And I told Mary, I said,

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I don't understand this.

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This makes no sense to me.

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What's happening?

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Is that in the other?

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Well, see, right then I needed to know who I was.

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If I didn't know who I was,

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now you get into questioning.

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Well, maybe I should go to the doctor,

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but we're on vacation and that's going to mess it in.

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And you start...

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There's no anchor for the soul.

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And it starts shooting all over.

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The mind, the emotions.

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I knew I'm not only a child of God,

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I'm a son of God who has been saved.

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All the promises are mine.

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This thing cannot rest here, cannot stay here.

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I got the sneaking hunch it's demonic.

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It's an attack,

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which means I need to know

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I have the authority to speak to it,

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command it to stop.

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See, who I am played huge into that moment.

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I'm blessed, I'm in communion with God,

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I'm in favor with God.

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I did not feel any great presence from God.

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Why would I?

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I already know everything I need to know to deal with this.

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So, Mary and I dealt with it.

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And interestingly enough, within an hour or two

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it just totally cleared up, just was gone.

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And she kept saying, is it gone?

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I said, yep, totally gone.

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You don't feel a thing.

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Don't feel a thing, it's just totally gone.

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Well, that night he gave me a dream.

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And yeah, it was a demonic attack

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and that's what was happening.

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And it was a real simple, quick dream

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and he just, here's what happened to you.

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Boom.

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That whole day I was dealing with this.

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Did I feel like the Holy Spirit

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walked into the room and just saturated?

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Oh, see, now I know I have my answer.

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Can you feel the presence of God in this camper?

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Oh man, now God showed up.

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So now I know I've felt nothing.

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You know why?

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Because we walk by faith, not by sight.

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You don't have to feel anything.

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He doesn't have to show up

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and get you all inspired again

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to believe.

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He told us, here's what I've given you,

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here's what I've promised you,

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here's what is yours, believe it.

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And this is how you respond to it.

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Watch what you say and what you do say,

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make very pointed and speak to it

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and command it to disappear and

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I know all that.

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That's because I have some inkling

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of what my identity is in Christ.

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Without that, I'd have ended up in the emergency room.

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Just that simple.

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Who we are in Christ

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steers the course of our life

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and don't confuse that with the times

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he comes to commune with you

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and instruct you and comfort you

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and encourage you.

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And we get those services where the presence

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of God is just heavy.

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Or you get those times where you're

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in your prayer time

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or you're in your devotion time

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and man, the Holy Spirit just shows up

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and it just gets heavy

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and the presence of God is there.

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Don't confuse those two.

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You don't need the heaviness of the Holy Spirit

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to walk in complete victory

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if you already know who you are.

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And I don't know why that's being emphasized.

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Maybe it's one of these things that some of you

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have become confused on

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and you're condemning yourself

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because I can go a whole week

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and it just feels like I never feel

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the presence of God at all. Do you have to?

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I mean, I love it.

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Don't get me wrong. I love it.

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But what about those days you feel nothing?

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You're just going to quit those days?

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Well, I don't feel anything today

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so I don't even know if I'm saved.

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Or you save by feelings or you save by faith?

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Because some days we just pick them up

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and we put them down according

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to what he already told us.

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We don't need new revelation.

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We already got the revelation.

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Now live it. Walk it out.

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So in the first message we looked

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at what man was created to be.

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We were created to rule and reign

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over everything that moves on this earth.

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Primarily at that point

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the biggest obstacle was Satan

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and a third of the angels

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who were living on earth.

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So God created Adam and Eve

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to deal with that.

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They dropped the ball.

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There was problems in humanity

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until Jesus came, the second Adam,

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and gave back to us

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all the authority

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to deal with Satan and demons

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and fallen angels.

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So he put us back where it started.

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Now rule it.

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You've got authority.

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I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

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I give you authority to trample on scorpions

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and serpents and over all the power

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of the enemy, physical, spiritual.

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And nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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Notice it says I give you power, authority

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to trample on.

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If you have someone taught you this

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or you learned it growing up,

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I heard it growing up until God said

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get that out of your vocabulary.

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And I've gotten it out now.

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It took a bit, but I've gotten it out.

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But if you've still got this in your vocabulary,

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please get this out of your vocabulary.

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Well, the enemy's been after us all day.

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The enemy is attacking us.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what to do with the enemy.

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You've already been told what to do with the enemy.

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I give you authority to trample on

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all the power of the enemy.

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Do what you've been given authority to do.

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You say, but the enemy's been chasing me.

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Why are you running?

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Who are you?

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I'm a sprinter today.

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I'm trying to get away from the devil.

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Well, stop running.

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You're going to get tired running

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because God's not empowering you to run.

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But if you turn around and say,

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wait a second, you come here.

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I rule over you.

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You come here.

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You stand right here.

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We're going to have a talk here right now.

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God will empower that.

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So remove that from your vocabulary, please.

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I'm a devil slayer.

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The devil hates to see me get out of bed in the morning.

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Start putting some of that stuff in your vocabulary.

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Throw your feet over the edge of the bed

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and say, devil, I'm up.

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Demons, I'm awake.

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Hello.

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Make them run.

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Well, what does Scripture say?

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Submit yourself to God.

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Resist them.

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And they will flee.

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It's not them chasing us.

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It's us chasing them.

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But we got to know who we are.

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That was our original design.

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That was message one.

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Message number two.

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What happened when we sinned?

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Well, we lost everything.

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God lost his plan with us.

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We lost everything with God.

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We lost it all.

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Number three, we went through

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the second half of Ephesians one.

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The first half is on podcasts.

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If you want to know our stance on predestination,

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pre-planned life, that whole thing,

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it's on the podcast early in the sessions.

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They're labeled so you can go back and get that.

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We didn't go back over that.

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But we went over Paul's prayer

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of our need for wisdom and revelation

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to know what our life is supposed to be.

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Because that was Paul's point.

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You have a life laid out by God.

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I am praying you see it.

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You understand it so you can live in it.

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So the next thing in line would be,

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well, who am I?

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How do I fit into this thing?

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So that's where we're going to pick up today.

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Ephesians chapter two.

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But God.

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So the first four verses we went over

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so I'll briefly go back over them.

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Paul does a magnificent job in chapter two

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of in a very concise, nutshell summary,

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laying out the identity of everybody in this place.

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The identity of everybody on earth

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if we will receive what Jesus gave for us.

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He does an excellent job.

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We won't go through it all the day.

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We're just going to get as far as we can.

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He absolutely answers this argument

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which has hit all of us

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when we're trying to receive something

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or get something from God.

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He absolutely lays this argument on its back

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and crucifies it.

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The thought of, well, why would God do something for you?

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Well, I'm believing for health.

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Well, why would God heal you?

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That thought all it has to do is run through our mind

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and if we don't have a good, solid answer for that,

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He crippled us.

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We're believing to get movement financially

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and the thought goes through our mind,

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well, why would God help you financially?

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Why would God help you with your marriage?

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Who are you that God would protect you?

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You know, anything in that vein,

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we've all had that question asked.

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Maybe many times.

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If we don't have a solid,

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the reason God will do it for me is because who I am.

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Oh, pride. Nope.

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A new creation in Christ. That's who I am.

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You got time? Let me tell you who I am.

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This is why God's going to do it for me.

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If we don't have that answer,

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we're paralyzed.

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We'll start questioning ourselves.

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Yeah, well, I would God do that for me.

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And now all kinds of thoughts start coming in like,

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yeah, I did this wrong and I did that wrong

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and oh man, I haven't gotten that done yet.

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And we start getting on the side of,

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yeah, He probably won't do it for me because,

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look at me.

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So as we go through these verses,

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Paul nails that really hard by the Holy Spirit.

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Keep asking yourself, who am I in these verses?

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How am I being described?

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Who am I? How am I being described in this?

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Verse number one, we'll briefly go through the first four

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because that's where we ended.

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And you, He made alive.

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So who am I in that verse?

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Alive. I am the person He made alive

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when at one time I was dead

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because of my trespasses and sins.

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I am not dead anymore.

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I am alive.

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That's who I am.

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Dealing with the

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the trespasses and sins,

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I'm reading amplified so it's a little more wordy,

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trespasses and sins in which at one time

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you walked habitually.

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Okay, so I used to live in sin

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habitually.

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That means now

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who am I? I am not the person

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who lives in sin habitually.

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Because remember, He's talking past tense.

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You, He made alive.

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You were dead in trespasses and sins,

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but you're alive now.

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When you were dead in trespasses and sins,

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you walked in sin habitually.

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That means people who are alive

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can't live in sin habitually.

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Like a lifestyle.

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Can't do it. I'm not that person.

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I'm not going to do it.

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And sometimes it's as simple as a choice of

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I'm going to go back in line,

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I'm going to pay them the extra money

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that they didn't get from me the first time through

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because I'm not a thief.

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Not who I am.

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Just no angel singing,

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no great movement in my spirit.

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Just, wait a second.

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I'm alive in Christ.

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I am not going to live like I'm dead.

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I'm going to go back and pay the money.

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You were following the course

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in fashion of this world.

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See, that's how this world

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who's not in Christ lives.

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You were under the sway and tendency

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of this present age.

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Folks, I say it again.

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1 John chapter 2 verse 12 through 14,

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I believe it is.

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If it's big in the world,

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take a step or two back

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because it's probably not of God.

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That's right there.

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Just look it up.

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If it's big in the world,

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that's my taking those verses

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and OK, show me.

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Go to 1 John chapter 2

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if you would please on the screen.

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We will jump in at...

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Oh, I was wrong.

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It's verse 15 through 17.

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Do not love the world

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or anything in the world.

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If anyone loves the world,

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the love of the Father is not in him.

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For everything in the world

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and he lists the three big ones,

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craving to sinful man,

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the lust of the eyes,

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the boasting of what he has,

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lust of the flesh,

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lust of the eyes, pride of life,

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comes not from the Father,

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but from the world.

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The world and its desires pass away,

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but the man who does the will of God

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lives forever.

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I will stay alive.

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Remember Ephesians 2.

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I'm alive now.

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The man who does the will of God

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lives.

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Stay alive.

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How do you do that?

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Do not love the world

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or anything in the world

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because everything in the world

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has been touched by sin.

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So we have to watch

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what's going on in the world around us.

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And if the unsaved world

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thinks it's great,

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you better back up

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and take another really good look at it

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and ask God what he thinks of it.

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Because it's probably not of the Father.

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It's okay, I'll let the cat out of the bag.

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That verse is one of the reasons

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that verse 15 through 17

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is one of the reasons

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I am not big into fashion.

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Shocker, shocker, huh?

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I'm not big into fashion.

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You know why?

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Because it is an extremely

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worldly thing.

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And it's built around pride,

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fame and money.

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They change fashions

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every so many years.

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So you can go in and get all these new clothes

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when you haven't worn out the old ones.

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They're in perfect shape.

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But you have to stay in style.

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Why?

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Because what will all my unsaved friends think?

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That should be a clue right there.

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Back up, take a look at this.

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If the unsaved think this is very important,

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according to 1 John 2,

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you better be careful.

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It may not be God.

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I know I'm getting where we live now

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and that gets uncomfortable.

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It's trying to make you think a little bit.

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Go back to Ephesians.

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It's verse number two I'm looking at

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if you could... oh, there it is, thank you.

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In which at one time you walked in this sin habitually

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following the course and the fashion of this world.

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You were under the sway and the tendency

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of this present age.

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Are we listening to what this world is saying

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or are we listening to what God is saying?

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When we were dead in sin,

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we listened to what this world was saying.

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But now we're alive.

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Something should change here.

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Following the prince and the power of the air.

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Oh, are you telling me that the direction

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the world goes is demonic?

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No, I'm not telling you that.

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Paul told you that.

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You were following the course and fashion

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of this world under the sway

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of the tendency of this present age.

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I could list so many things

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that are coming out of that

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that we face on an everyday basis.

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But the fashion of this world,

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the tendency of this age we're living in

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is following the prince

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and the power of the air.

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So who's designing it?

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Satan.

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Still with me?

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You were obedient to and under the control

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of the demon spirit that still constantly

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works in the sons of disobedience.

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The careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving

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who go against the purposes of God.

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Is it possible to get demons through disobedience?

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You were obedient to

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and under the control of the demon spirit

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that still is working in people

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who live in disobedience.

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Can we pick up demons by disobeying?

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I believe we can.

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And when you're dead,

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you just follow what's popular in the world.

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And just load them up.

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Load what up? The spirits.

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Just load them up.

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You're in disobedience.

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You're doing what's popular in the world.

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And who's orchestrating that?

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The prince and the power of the air.

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That's what he's saying.

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This is what we used to be

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when we were dead.

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But now that we're alive,

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we don't live like that anymore.

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And he's going to make those points.

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So who am I in those verses?

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Well, I'm the person who does not

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walk in sin habitually.

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I'm the person who does not follow

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the sway and the tendency of this world.

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Well, you just like to be different.

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No, I'd like to be more godly.

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We were out of gathering.

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It was a small group, but we were out of gathering

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on vacation, a bunch of Christians

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listening to music that it's like,

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what are you doing?

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You can't listen to that

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and be alive and it doesn't affect you?

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It's talking about everything

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that is ungodly.

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And we're bopping our head

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and singing along.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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It's like you got two kinds of water

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coming out of your mouth.

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One says God and the other says devil.

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Which one are you?

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See, when you're alive,

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you back away from the sway

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of what's popular

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that is being orchestrated by the devil.

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Because you don't want to pick up demons.

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You say, well, I didn't feel the Lord tell me anything.

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He probably already had.

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And he was expecting you to pick them up

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and put them down.

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Because you already knew.

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Verse three.

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Among these, as well as

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you lived, once lived

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and conducted yourselves in the passions of our flesh,

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our behavior governed by the corrupt

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and sensual nature, old nature,

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we live in according to what we want.

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Obeying the impulses of the flesh,

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that's what we want.

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What is best for me,

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most comfortable for me makes me happy.

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And the thoughts of our mind

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or the cravings, the dictates

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of our senses and our dark imaginings

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would go with the fallen nature.

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We were then by nature

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children of God's wrath

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and heirs of his indignation

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like the rest of mankind.

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That's who we used to be.

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Who are we now?

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We don't conduct ourselves

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according to what our flesh wants

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or our old nature wants

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and we don't let our mind go down that direction

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because we are no longer

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children of God

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inheriting God's wrath.

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Everything has to flip

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once you're alive.

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But this is who we were.

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This is how we lived.

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Verse 4,

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but God.

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God stepped in, but God.

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And this is how we'd still be living,

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but God got involved.

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God who is so rich in his mercy

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because of and in order

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to satisfy the great and wonderful

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and intense love with which

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he loved us.

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Right out of the gates,

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Paul was saying, God got involved

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in our life and it had nothing to do

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with us.

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It had to do because he loved

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us.

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We didn't earn it. We weren't good enough

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for it.

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He loved us.

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Verse 5,

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even when we were

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dead,

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slain

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by our own shortcomings

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and trespasses.

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There was a period of time

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it was in the late 80s, early 90s.

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People were throwing,

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church people, God

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serving people, were throwing

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fits over whether you could

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die spiritually or not.

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Don't talk to me

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about this spiritual death thing.

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It's heresy.

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I haven't heard a lot about it

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recently, but this

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verse just keys my memory on it.

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Even when we were

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dead

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because of our sins,

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there's people

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millions of them

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living in Minnesota

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who are spiritually

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dead.

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They're physically alive.

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They're still doing their job

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and paying their mortgage and

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they're still physically alive.

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But they

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are dead. We were dead.

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There is such a thing as

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spiritually being separated

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from the life of God

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having no communion, no intimacy,

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no exchange.

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He's there, we're here

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total separated, that's called

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spiritual death.

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You don't physically die

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but you're spiritually disconnected.

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He says we were that.

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He made us alive.

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Okay, born again.

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He brought that spirit from

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death, gave it new birth,

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made us alive.

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Again, who am I?

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I'm alive. I'm alive.

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I'm alive.

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And you're going to find in Christ.

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It shows up a lot here.

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In Christ, I am alive.

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What does that mean?

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He made us alive

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together in fellowship

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and in union

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with Christ.

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So to be alive

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means to have

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fellowship with Christ

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and to be in union,

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be in connection, be walking it out

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with Christ.

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That's what it means to be alive.

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So who am I?

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I'm somebody who

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if I don't have fellowship with Christ

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right now I'm going to have to go after it

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because when you're alive

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there's two points he brings up.

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He made us alive together

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in fellowship

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and in union.

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What's the difference between fellowship and union?

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Fellowship is us

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exchanging thoughts, ideas, feelings

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just being

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together.

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Union is

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we're hooked and going

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in the same direction.

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We're united.

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Who am I?

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I'm someone

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who has fellowship with God

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and I'm someone who's going

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in the same direction Jesus is going.

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That's why Peter says

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and the people who are

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perishing look at you and they think it's odd

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why don't you do what they're doing?

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Well

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because I'm alive in Christ.

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I have fellowship

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with Him. That's where I get my revelation.

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That's where I get my understanding. He shows me out of the word

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what I need to know and I have

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decided to be united

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or in union with Him. I'm going in the same direction

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He's going.

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So if it's going the wrong direction

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I'm not going with.

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That's who you are.

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That covers intimacy

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and sanctification

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right there.

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Who are you?

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You're someone who's intimate with Christ.

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Why? Because you're alive.

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Well, I don't know if I'm that intimate.

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Well, work on it. It'll get better.

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I don't know if I do everything God wants me to do.

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Well, work on it. Ask Him to help you.

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It'll get better.

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That's who we are.

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We are people who fellowship that word

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I believe that's

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Koinonia, which is the

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the intimate exchange

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kind of relationship.

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You are the people

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who have an intimate exchange

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with Christ

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and you're walking in unity

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union with Him.

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Yeah, I better not bring... I had a good example

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across my mind. I thought I better not bring that up

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because you never know who's watching.

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So let's move on.

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He gave us

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the very life of Christ

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Himself

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the same new life

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with which He quickened

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or brought Him back to life

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for it's by grace, His favor

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and mercy

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that we do not deserve

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that you're saved.

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So in other words,

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being saved

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gives us the very

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life of Christ

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the life that raised

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Jesus from the dead.

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So who am I? Who are you?

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Just in that verse, who are you?

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I'm a person

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who has fellowship with Jesus.

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I am in unity with Jesus

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and the very life

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that raised Jesus from the dead

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right here.

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That's who I am.

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That's who He recreated

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us to be.

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And He'll mention that a little later

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but I'll just throw it in now. That's who He

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made us to be. You say

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but I don't feel like I'm any of these things.

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That's okay.

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You're still breathing.

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You're still here.

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God, help me.

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Jesus, help me.

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Holy Spirit, help me to have fellowship

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here. Help me to get

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to a new level of exchange

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with my God.

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Lord, help me to get

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in unity with you.

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I'm alive now.

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I want this life to grow

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and produce in me.

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It's okay. We don't have to...

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This isn't an all or nothing. This is a life

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growing experience.

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So if you're feeling like, well, I don't

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feel like I'm there at all.

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That's okay.

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Let's go there.

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That's what's available

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because from God's side

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that's who He sees who we are.

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Well, you know, half of them are alive.

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The other half, I don't see

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them that way.

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Once we're in Christ,

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God sees us all alive,

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capable of fellowship and unity

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with Him. Why?

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Because

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second line from the bottom, left

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side, you are

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saved.

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You are saved.

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Delivered from judgment

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and made partakers of Christ

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salvation.

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That is the definition of sanctification

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or holiness

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to be separated

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from something

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and set apart

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to something.

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When we're saved,

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we're made alive,

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we're brought back from the dead,

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we are being separated

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from the kingdom of darkness

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and translated into the kingdom

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of His dear Son

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taken from and put

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into.

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That should show up in our life

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and how we live.

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Amen.

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That's God's design.

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If

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this switch is not

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showing up,

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I question our salvation.

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Because

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when you are saved, you're

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delivered from one

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and given the other.

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Someone

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who gets saved,

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born again, claims to have

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this new life,

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but nothing.

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I mean, you track them for five years.

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Nothing changes

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in how they live, how they think,

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how they're approaching life.

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Nothing changes in their relationship

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between them and God. It's not growing.

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It's just...

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I question they got saved.

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Because something that is alive

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grows.

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If it's not growing, I question

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if it's alive.

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And he started

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with by saying

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he made you alive. Let's hit a couple more

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and we're done for this morning.

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Verse 6

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And he raised us up together with him

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and made us sit down together

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giving us joint seating

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with him in the heavenly sphere

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by virtue

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of our being in Christ Jesus.

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Now, have you seen a pattern here?

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In Christ. In Christ.

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In Christ. The only way we get

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this stuff is we have to be in Christ.

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The Messiah. The anointed one

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as it says there in the verse.

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So he raised us up together

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with him.

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Made us sit together

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seated with him in the heavenly sphere.

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See, now this is one of those things

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that when Jesus came

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and restored and fixed

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he not only fixed

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and restored what Adam and Eve

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intentionally were supposed to live in

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but he took it way beyond.

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Adam and Eve were never

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given those two promises

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as far as I understand.

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They were never raised

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up together with him

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and we will talk about that a bit

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and they were not given

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the authority of joint seating

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in the heavenly world.

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Not just the earthly ruling and reigning

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but joint seating

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in the heavenly world.

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They were not given that.

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So raised up together

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with Christ.

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What was Jesus raised up from?

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Talk to me.

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Death.

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The grave?

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So death.

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Hell and the grave.

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You ever stop and think about that?

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Isn't death and the grave the same thing?

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Why did they break it out?

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No, they're not the same thing.

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Jesus

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took on our sins for us

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which caused him to be separated

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from the father, spiritual death.

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Jesus died

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spiritually.

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It's a saying. Jesus died spiritually.

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He was separated from God.

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He went to hell

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and he was raised up

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from death, from the separation

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from God.

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From hell,

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he came back out of hell.

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We find that numerous places in New Testament.

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And the grave. That's his body.

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Okay?

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So he was raised up.

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What else was he raised up?

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What else happened

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when he was raised up?

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Oh, you scholars, jump in here.

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Look at that.

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When he was raised up,

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he was given a

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new body.

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What else did he get?

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Ours is coming.

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What else happened

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when he was raised up?

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He took a position.

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What was that position?

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Position of power.

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Scripture explains that as he was

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seated

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at the right hand of the Father.

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Okay, so there's a number

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of things that when he was

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raised up

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happened.

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We have been raised

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up together

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with him.

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So spiritual

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death has been affected.

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Hell

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and being there, going there,

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has been affected.

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The grave or death in the body

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has been affected.

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Our rulership position

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has been affected.

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And we could keep on listening

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to be raised up together

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with Christ.

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And he raised us up together

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with him.

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So everything

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of the kingdom of darkness

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that Jesus went to pay for.

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Sickness, disease,

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death,

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poverty.

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Poverty is not financial.

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Poverty is life.

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You can have all the money in the world

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and be a poor man.

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Poverty covers

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every area of life

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that we're supposed to be succeeding in

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and we're supposed to be making progress in.

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You can't just do the American...

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the American tendency of

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oh, they got lots of money.

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They're really doing well in life.

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Money is not

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the determining factor of how

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well someone is doing.

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You know where that comes from?

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Lucifer

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and it's a design.

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It's a sway of the world's

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system.

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And we have Christians chasing it

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like it were betrothed

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from God.

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If I can just

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earn more money!

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How about

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be alive

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and get in unity with Christ?

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Oh, I might be poor then.

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Well, that's not

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scriptural, so now you're

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showing me that that's not true.

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You don't know that.

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But let's say it was.

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Paul said,

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I know how to have lots.

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I know how to be abased.

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Have very little.

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But this thing I do know.

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I'm going to pursue

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getting to know him

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and consider everything else

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rubbish.

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In comparison

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to knowing him.

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There is how God thinks.

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But the tendency

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the sway of the world

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goes a whole different direction.

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And it sneaks in,

59:44.290 --> 59:45.670
gets into our thinking.

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We start living our life by it.

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Planning our life by it.

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And what profit of a man

59:50.590 --> 59:52.810
if he gains the whole world?

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What good is it going to do

59:54.150 --> 59:56.410
Elon Musk to be a multi-trillionaire

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if this SpaceX thing goes the way

59:57.990 --> 59:59.190
it's supposed to go and they're predicting?

59:59.810 --> 01:00:01.410
It's going to be a multi-trillionaire.

01:00:01.990 --> 01:00:03.570
What good is it going to do the man

01:00:03.570 --> 01:00:04.630
if he ends up in hell?

01:00:07.330 --> 01:00:07.730
Zipple.

01:00:09.570 --> 01:00:09.970
Zipple.

01:00:09.970 --> 01:00:12.770
The few measly years

01:00:12.770 --> 01:00:14.010
he lives on this earth.

01:00:14.270 --> 01:00:15.190
You know, there does come a point.

01:00:15.330 --> 01:00:16.790
You can't spend it all.

01:00:18.470 --> 01:00:19.570
So I have more.

01:00:21.050 --> 01:00:22.830
I mean, you just can't.

01:00:22.830 --> 01:00:23.710
You can't spend it all.

01:00:24.170 --> 01:00:26.130
You can buy islands, you can buy nations,

01:00:26.290 --> 01:00:26.910
you can buy...

01:00:26.910 --> 01:00:28.650
And it's still a big pile there.

01:00:28.790 --> 01:00:29.690
You can't spend it all.

01:00:31.590 --> 01:00:33.050
Why do you need more?

01:00:34.150 --> 01:00:35.670
But the tendency

01:00:35.670 --> 01:00:38.130
the sway of the world system is

01:00:38.130 --> 01:00:40.450
I will be happy and successful

01:00:40.450 --> 01:00:42.550
the more and the more

01:00:42.550 --> 01:00:44.310
and the more I can get.

01:00:44.590 --> 01:00:45.730
This is demonic.

01:00:46.010 --> 01:00:46.990
This is not God.

01:00:48.930 --> 01:00:50.410
Well, does God want us poor?

01:00:50.650 --> 01:00:51.690
Well, you don't know your word.

01:00:53.410 --> 01:00:54.750
No, God wants us

01:00:54.750 --> 01:00:56.910
obedient and in union with him

01:00:56.910 --> 01:00:58.270
so he can bless us.

01:01:02.250 --> 01:01:03.490
And with blessing

01:01:03.490 --> 01:01:04.990
comes all kinds of things

01:01:04.990 --> 01:01:06.470
including finances.

01:01:07.650 --> 01:01:09.590
But we get sucked in on this

01:01:10.470 --> 01:01:12.590
he was raised up

01:01:12.590 --> 01:01:14.410
above all of this

01:01:14.410 --> 01:01:15.470
worldly stuff.

01:01:16.230 --> 01:01:17.930
We have been raised

01:01:17.930 --> 01:01:19.710
up together with him.

01:01:21.230 --> 01:01:22.330
So who am I?

01:01:22.610 --> 01:01:23.790
And you can say the same thing.

01:01:23.910 --> 01:01:24.750
Who am I in this?

01:01:25.770 --> 01:01:27.510
I'm the one who's now alive.

01:01:28.970 --> 01:01:30.030
I've been raised

01:01:30.030 --> 01:01:31.510
above everything

01:01:31.510 --> 01:01:34.050
the demonic realm or Satan can throw at me.

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Because see, I've been raised

01:01:36.530 --> 01:01:37.570
up together with him.

01:01:37.570 --> 01:01:39.650
Well, is Jesus above anything

01:01:39.650 --> 01:01:41.650
and everything that Satan can throw at him?

01:01:43.350 --> 01:01:45.190
John says, as he is

01:01:45.870 --> 01:01:47.690
so are we in this world.

01:01:48.270 --> 01:01:50.050
There's Paul's way of saying it.

01:01:50.470 --> 01:01:52.290
We've been raised up above it all.

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So who am I?

01:01:53.690 --> 01:01:54.750
I'm above this stuff.

01:01:54.870 --> 01:01:57.150
Well, what if this stuff is trying to happen in my life?

01:01:58.550 --> 01:02:00.170
We should push back.

01:02:01.790 --> 01:02:04.090
Uh-uh. No, no, no, no.

01:02:04.610 --> 01:02:05.790
I'm above this.

01:02:06.430 --> 01:02:07.730
That's who I am.

01:02:08.430 --> 01:02:09.370
In Christ.

01:02:09.850 --> 01:02:11.250
Not I, but in Christ.

01:02:11.550 --> 01:02:12.310
That's who I am.

01:02:13.750 --> 01:02:14.410
And anything

01:02:15.550 --> 01:02:17.350
that Jesus died to overcome

01:02:17.350 --> 01:02:19.250
and was raised up above

01:02:19.610 --> 01:02:20.750
we are there with him.

01:02:21.170 --> 01:02:23.170
And number two, we are made to sit together

01:02:23.790 --> 01:02:25.750
giving us joint seating

01:02:25.750 --> 01:02:26.570
with him

01:02:26.570 --> 01:02:30.190
in the heavenly sphere.

01:02:32.150 --> 01:02:33.850
One of the things that was given

01:02:33.850 --> 01:02:35.110
to him is

01:02:35.110 --> 01:02:37.430
he's above all power, all rule,

01:02:37.550 --> 01:02:38.130
all authority.

01:02:38.990 --> 01:02:41.510
Chapter one, verse 21 through 23

01:02:42.190 --> 01:02:44.390
Paul said, you got to understand this.

01:02:47.610 --> 01:02:48.890
Go back to

01:02:49.870 --> 01:02:50.430
chapter

01:02:51.110 --> 01:02:53.450
one on the screen if you would please

01:02:53.450 --> 01:02:55.490
and then we'll close off with this.

01:03:02.680 --> 01:03:04.120
Okay, verse 17.

01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:07.020
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:07.780
the Father

01:03:07.780 --> 01:03:09.420
may give you the Spirit.

01:03:09.560 --> 01:03:11.620
That's the Holy Spirit, capital S

01:03:11.620 --> 01:03:13.700
of wisdom and revelation.

01:03:14.120 --> 01:03:15.620
So you may know him better

01:03:16.780 --> 01:03:18.860
and I pray verse 18.

01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:20.520
The eyes of your heart

01:03:20.520 --> 01:03:22.120
open up. Your inside

01:03:22.460 --> 01:03:23.780
sees this

01:03:23.780 --> 01:03:26.220
of what he's called you to

01:03:26.220 --> 01:03:27.640
the riches

01:03:27.640 --> 01:03:29.940
of his glorious inheritance

01:03:29.940 --> 01:03:31.180
in us.

01:03:32.060 --> 01:03:32.760
The saints.

01:03:33.680 --> 01:03:34.240
Verse 19.

01:03:34.240 --> 01:03:36.720
And his incomparable great

01:03:36.720 --> 01:03:37.960
power to us.

01:03:38.300 --> 01:03:40.320
That's what he's praying. We get it.

01:03:40.440 --> 01:03:41.400
We see it.

01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:44.000
The power, verse 20,

01:03:44.140 --> 01:03:46.360
which he exerted in Christ when he raised

01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:48.200
him from the dead, seeded him

01:03:48.200 --> 01:03:50.100
at the right hand in heavenly realms

01:03:50.100 --> 01:03:52.020
above all rule,

01:03:52.420 --> 01:03:54.320
all authority, all power

01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:56.360
and all dominion and every

01:03:56.360 --> 01:03:58.200
title that can be

01:03:58.200 --> 01:04:00.480
given. Not only in the world

01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:01.960
we're living in, but in

01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:02.640
eternity.

01:04:04.100 --> 01:04:05.480
That's who we are.

01:04:07.080 --> 01:04:07.940
That's what

01:04:07.940 --> 01:04:09.740
Paul's saying. You gotta

01:04:09.740 --> 01:04:11.960
see it. You've gotta

01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:14.040
get it. If you don't

01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:15.760
see this, you're gonna live

01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:17.800
short. Chapter 2

01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:19.900
verse number 6. We've been given

01:04:19.900 --> 01:04:21.720
joint seeding with him.

01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:23.700
He described his

01:04:23.700 --> 01:04:25.500
position in chapter 1, verse

01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:27.880
21 through 23. That's us now.

01:04:30.730 --> 01:04:32.190
That's us. That's me.

01:04:32.190 --> 01:04:32.690
That's you.

01:04:34.830 --> 01:04:36.050
We are

01:04:36.050 --> 01:04:38.010
seeded in

01:04:38.010 --> 01:04:39.970
heavenly realms

01:04:39.970 --> 01:04:41.670
far above

01:04:42.190 --> 01:04:43.530
all rule

01:04:44.970 --> 01:04:46.410
and all

01:04:46.410 --> 01:04:47.230
authority.

01:04:49.810 --> 01:04:50.610
See, that's

01:04:50.610 --> 01:04:52.170
that. Yeah, I don't have

01:04:52.170 --> 01:04:54.650
time. All power,

01:04:55.350 --> 01:04:56.430
all dominion

01:04:56.430 --> 01:04:58.090
and every title that

01:04:58.090 --> 01:05:00.390
can be given. Anything

01:05:00.390 --> 01:05:01.930
that has a name

01:05:03.210 --> 01:05:04.390
that tries to

01:05:04.390 --> 01:05:06.450
come against us or that tries to stop us

01:05:06.450 --> 01:05:08.550
or influence, we should rule

01:05:08.550 --> 01:05:09.170
over it.

01:05:10.470 --> 01:05:12.670
Anything that has a name.

01:05:13.330 --> 01:05:14.410
Well, I have a spinal

01:05:14.410 --> 01:05:16.890
problem. It's called blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:05:17.090 --> 01:05:18.390
Well, get the doctor to write that

01:05:18.390 --> 01:05:20.290
down, take it home, put it on

01:05:20.290 --> 01:05:21.950
your fridge and say, you will kneel.

01:05:23.370 --> 01:05:24.570
I have authority

01:05:24.570 --> 01:05:26.110
over you. You got a name.

01:05:27.250 --> 01:05:28.410
I am seeded

01:05:28.410 --> 01:05:30.210
in heavenly realms. I have dominion

01:05:30.210 --> 01:05:31.730
over you. I am alive.

01:05:32.190 --> 01:05:33.590
You will not rule me.

01:05:33.910 --> 01:05:35.550
You will not reign over me.

01:05:35.790 --> 01:05:37.750
I am in

01:05:38.340 --> 01:05:39.990
Christ, which means I'm

01:05:39.990 --> 01:05:42.210
above you. Get off

01:05:42.210 --> 01:05:42.550
of me.

01:05:45.290 --> 01:05:46.370
If we

01:05:46.370 --> 01:05:47.930
don't know that or believe

01:05:47.930 --> 01:05:50.410
that, we end up

01:05:50.410 --> 01:05:51.670
kneeling to that name.

01:05:53.090 --> 01:05:54.330
Oh, you know, the doctor

01:05:54.330 --> 01:05:56.150
said, I've got blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:05:57.230 --> 01:05:58.230
Well, give it away.

01:06:00.390 --> 01:06:01.030
I mean,

01:06:01.030 --> 01:06:02.290
you've got it, but get rid

01:06:02.290 --> 01:06:02.610
of it.

01:06:04.350 --> 01:06:06.190
Well, he said, I'll have it

01:06:06.190 --> 01:06:08.190
for life. You don't

01:06:08.190 --> 01:06:09.190
know who you are, do you?

01:06:10.710 --> 01:06:12.070
You have no clue.

01:06:12.970 --> 01:06:14.070
The same way

01:06:14.070 --> 01:06:16.050
that stuff would not get on

01:06:16.050 --> 01:06:16.450
Jesus,

01:06:18.450 --> 01:06:20.230
it shouldn't be getting on us.

01:06:21.770 --> 01:06:22.290
Because

01:06:22.290 --> 01:06:24.110
we've been raised up with him.

01:06:25.090 --> 01:06:26.090
Given the same

01:06:26.090 --> 01:06:27.370
authority, given the same

01:06:27.370 --> 01:06:29.130
seeding, we just

01:06:29.130 --> 01:06:30.730
don't know our rights.

01:06:34.260 --> 01:06:35.140
We don't know

01:06:35.140 --> 01:06:37.240
our authority. We don't

01:06:37.240 --> 01:06:38.100
know the privileges

01:06:39.020 --> 01:06:40.720
of being in Christ.

01:06:43.160 --> 01:06:43.640
We

01:06:43.640 --> 01:06:44.520
don't know who we are.

01:06:46.940 --> 01:06:47.700
Well, I know

01:06:47.700 --> 01:06:48.840
a lot of Christians who

01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:50.940
struggle with this area of their life.

01:06:51.540 --> 01:06:52.520
Yeah, they don't know who they are.

01:06:54.180 --> 01:06:54.620
And

01:06:55.140 --> 01:06:56.340
it's always good to learn

01:06:56.340 --> 01:06:58.120
this stuff before the fire starts

01:06:58.120 --> 01:07:00.380
burning. You know, I have a saying,

01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:02.000
it's better to put the fire suit on before

01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:02.700
you're in the fire.

01:07:06.540 --> 01:07:07.940
It's better to know

01:07:07.940 --> 01:07:09.800
who we are before

01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:12.020
it lights up around

01:07:12.020 --> 01:07:12.420
us.

01:07:14.160 --> 01:07:16.040
So we can deal with it

01:07:16.700 --> 01:07:17.800
and squelch it

01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:20.080
versus it lights up around us

01:07:20.080 --> 01:07:22.040
and we go, what am I going to do with this? This is going to destroy

01:07:22.040 --> 01:07:23.880
everything. Well, have you ever heard

01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:25.520
that God can do it? I've never heard that.

01:07:25.720 --> 01:07:27.400
And now we first have to

01:07:27.900 --> 01:07:30.100
figure out how to get a hold

01:07:30.100 --> 01:07:32.180
of the fire department. Tell them who we are

01:07:32.180 --> 01:07:33.060
and where we live

01:07:34.740 --> 01:07:35.560
before they come.

01:07:35.980 --> 01:07:37.420
Your house is going to be burned down.

01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:41.740
You're wasting precious time. What's the fire

01:07:41.740 --> 01:07:43.020
is burning? You better put it out.

01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:45.740
You're wasting precious time. Well, I don't know

01:07:45.740 --> 01:07:48.180
how to do it. That's

01:07:48.180 --> 01:07:48.640
on us.

01:07:50.040 --> 01:07:51.200
We don't know who we are.

01:07:52.500 --> 01:07:53.540
We don't know the rights

01:07:53.540 --> 01:07:54.620
of the authorities we have.

01:07:56.020 --> 01:07:57.040
It's good to learn them

01:07:57.040 --> 01:07:59.040
early. So when the fire starts

01:07:59.040 --> 01:08:00.660
burning, we don't have

01:08:00.660 --> 01:08:02.600
to do a crammed

01:08:02.600 --> 01:08:04.320
course. Hopefully

01:08:05.180 --> 01:08:06.560
learn what we need to learn.

01:08:07.200 --> 01:08:08.940
How to turn the fire hose on.

01:08:09.120 --> 01:08:10.620
How to hook it up to the fire engine.

01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:11.340
How to, you know,

01:08:12.520 --> 01:08:14.060
how to get two, three people on there.

01:08:14.120 --> 01:08:15.980
So when we pull that lever, it's not going.

01:08:18.080 --> 01:08:18.640
This

01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:20.160
is all stuff you learn before

01:08:20.160 --> 01:08:21.900
you go fight fires, right?

01:08:23.500 --> 01:08:24.060
Christians

01:08:24.060 --> 01:08:25.480
need to learn who we are

01:08:25.980 --> 01:08:27.780
before the fire starts. The attack

01:08:27.780 --> 01:08:29.640
comes before the fire starts burning.

01:08:30.700 --> 01:08:32.020
That's what we're trying to do

01:08:32.020 --> 01:08:33.460
now in a very

01:08:33.980 --> 01:08:35.640
simple, succinct form

01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:37.400
of

01:08:38.200 --> 01:08:39.240
who am I?

01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:43.600
Once we

01:08:43.600 --> 01:08:44.600
know who we are,

01:08:45.400 --> 01:08:46.700
I can guarantee you this,

01:08:47.160 --> 01:08:48.580
we'll quit living the way we're

01:08:48.580 --> 01:08:50.660
living. Right now

01:08:50.660 --> 01:08:52.680
if we don't know who we are, the way you're living right now,

01:08:52.940 --> 01:08:54.440
once you know who you are, that's all

01:08:54.440 --> 01:08:55.000
going to change.

01:08:56.840 --> 01:08:58.640
All going to change. For the better,

01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:00.120
but it's all going to change.

01:09:01.100 --> 01:09:02.620
It's that way because we're

01:09:02.620 --> 01:09:04.600
still conditioned

01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:05.320
to the

01:09:06.500 --> 01:09:08.560
world system and the way the world calls

01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:09.560
it, what the world says.

01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:12.460
But see, I'm alive. I'm alive in

01:09:12.460 --> 01:09:13.080
Christ.

01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:16.280
He calls it way different

01:09:16.280 --> 01:09:17.300
than the world calls it.

01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:20.520
I have to know who I am in him

01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:22.660
because what he calls, I call.

01:09:24.400 --> 01:09:26.060
What he says, I say.

01:09:26.780 --> 01:09:28.440
What he expects, I expect.

01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:33.560
Give me that fire hose. I'll shut this

01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:35.540
thing down right now. How

01:09:35.540 --> 01:09:37.240
dare that dirty devil

01:09:37.240 --> 01:09:38.820
try to start a fire in my backyard?

01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:41.380
I'm going to shut this fire down, then I'm

01:09:41.380 --> 01:09:42.000
going devil hunting.

01:09:44.900 --> 01:09:46.060
We're not doing this.

01:09:47.340 --> 01:09:49.260
How can you do that? Who do you think

01:09:49.260 --> 01:09:51.200
you are? Ah, there is

01:09:51.200 --> 01:09:52.000
the question.

01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:55.100
Once we know that, it changes

01:09:55.100 --> 01:09:56.100
everything. So Lord,

01:09:58.380 --> 01:09:59.460
as you called it,

01:09:59.540 --> 01:10:00.920
this is a pick them up and put them down

01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:03.220
morning. We need to, my people

01:10:03.220 --> 01:10:04.980
perish for lack of knowledge. Lord,

01:10:05.080 --> 01:10:07.080
we're trying by your spirit to see

01:10:07.080 --> 01:10:08.740
Paul's prayer over us.

01:10:08.740 --> 01:10:11.120
That we gain the revelation.

01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:13.280
We gain the wisdom.

01:10:13.660 --> 01:10:14.890
We gain the understanding

01:10:15.340 --> 01:10:17.100
to see this

01:10:17.100 --> 01:10:18.740
magnificent creation

01:10:19.340 --> 01:10:21.040
God has made us

01:10:21.040 --> 01:10:22.020
all into.

01:10:23.580 --> 01:10:25.060
We live way

01:10:25.060 --> 01:10:27.020
short of what you've

01:10:27.020 --> 01:10:29.120
given to us because we don't know

01:10:29.120 --> 01:10:31.040
we're supposed to be living different.

01:10:31.260 --> 01:10:32.820
We think this is who we are.

01:10:33.200 --> 01:10:34.860
And God's saying that ain't who you are.

01:10:35.180 --> 01:10:36.700
Help us see

01:10:36.700 --> 01:10:37.480
this.

01:10:38.480 --> 01:10:40.460
It's going to take divine revelation.

01:10:40.900 --> 01:10:42.460
It's going to take divine

01:10:42.460 --> 01:10:44.620
influence by your spirit

01:10:44.620 --> 01:10:46.220
to open our eyes

01:10:46.220 --> 01:10:48.800
of our heart, of our minds

01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:50.720
to be able to wrap

01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:52.500
ourselves around this and say

01:10:52.500 --> 01:10:54.480
that's who I am.

01:10:55.620 --> 01:10:57.480
And everything in my

01:10:57.480 --> 01:10:58.420
life will conform

01:10:58.420 --> 01:11:00.740
to that because that's

01:11:00.740 --> 01:11:02.880
who I am. I'm asking

01:11:02.880 --> 01:11:04.500
again, like we asked in the last

01:11:04.500 --> 01:11:06.480
message, I'm asking again for all

01:11:06.480 --> 01:11:08.060
of us and I believe we're in agreement.

01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:10.200
Open our eyes

01:11:10.200 --> 01:11:11.660
to see who we are.

01:11:12.580 --> 01:11:13.860
Help me

01:11:14.860 --> 01:11:16.140
understand this

01:11:16.140 --> 01:11:18.360
more and more to

01:11:18.360 --> 01:11:20.380
greater and greater depths in

01:11:20.380 --> 01:11:22.500
Jesus' name. Amen.

01:11:23.080 --> 01:11:24.340
Amen. Be blessed.

01:11:24.520 --> 01:11:25.220
Have an awesome Sunday.