WEBVTT 00:00:02.320 --> 00:00:07.740 Before time had a name there was a garden a place 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:13.220 where heaven and earth walked as one This is 00:00:13.220 --> 00:00:17.780 the echoes of Eden Where we rediscover ancient 00:00:17.780 --> 00:00:27.640 roots and awaken to our eternal purpose Well, 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:31.429 hey guys and welcome back we are on week Five 00:00:31.429 --> 00:00:34.969 of the revelation of Christ in all we got one 00:00:34.969 --> 00:00:38.490 more week after this lesson And that will conclude 00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:41.630 this series and then we'll jump on to Whatever 00:00:41.630 --> 00:00:45.369 comes next So I want to talk about this week 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:49.270 the truth that Christ holds all things together 00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:51.590 And I like to say it this way if you look at 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:56.530 the word all in Greek all means all It is very 00:00:56.530 --> 00:01:00.149 simple all means all and so when I help kind 00:01:00.149 --> 00:01:02.990 of bring this back to reality a little bit. So 00:01:02.990 --> 00:01:05.709 up to this point we have talked about identity, 00:01:06.469 --> 00:01:09.489 we have talked about union, we have talked about 00:01:09.489 --> 00:01:12.750 separation, about darkness, about deception, 00:01:13.430 --> 00:01:16.849 but today we need to ground all this in something 00:01:16.849 --> 00:01:21.689 that's unavoidable which is existence itself. 00:01:22.609 --> 00:01:25.810 Because theology that doesn't explain existence 00:01:25.810 --> 00:01:31.200 eventually will collapse. If Christ now think 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.760 about what I'm saying if Christ is not truly 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:39.299 central not just spiritually but ontologically 00:01:39.299 --> 00:01:43.079 which simply means the nature of being uh existence 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.780 reality itself if he was to google this um but 00:01:46.780 --> 00:01:49.400 if Christ is not truly central then everything 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:54.840 that we've said so far falls apart so today I'm 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.780 going to ask a very simple question What is actually 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:03.280 holding reality together right now? I'll repeat 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.719 that. What is actually holding together reality 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:12.860 right now? Scripture makes an outrageous claim 00:02:12.860 --> 00:02:17.259 that not that Christ helps hold things together, 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.500 not that Christ influences creation, but that 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:26.900 Christ actively sustains existence. It is Christ 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:31.180 who was sustaining the very... Let me say it 00:02:31.180 --> 00:02:33.960 this way. It is Christ that is sustaining all 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.860 of the life that you see around you. It is Christ 00:02:36.860 --> 00:02:39.159 that is sustaining your life and my life and 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.120 the life of every individual that you meet. Their 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:46.580 life is being sustained by Christ. This is not 00:02:46.580 --> 00:02:49.379 past tense. It's not future tense. No, this is 00:02:49.379 --> 00:02:54.229 a present ongoing reality. This is not if you 00:02:54.229 --> 00:02:56.169 say the right prayer, this is not if you do the 00:02:56.169 --> 00:02:59.830 right steps, no. This is the present reality 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:04.409 of life itself. It is being held together by 00:03:04.409 --> 00:03:08.129 Christ. And this is not just metaphor, no, this 00:03:08.129 --> 00:03:12.189 is cosmology. And cosmology is simply, it's a 00:03:12.189 --> 00:03:15.250 scientific study of the origin, evolution, structure, 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:20.319 and ultimate fate of the entire universe. It's 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.560 a present ongoing reality. Christ is actively 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.659 holding all of your life together. Every breath 00:03:28.659 --> 00:03:32.379 you take is being sustained by the life of Christ. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:34.699 So let's look, we're going to spend some time 00:03:34.699 --> 00:03:39.120 in the book of Colossians for this video, this 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.840 teaching. So Paul says a few things in Colossians 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.800 chapter one. This will be the kind of the foundation 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.000 here. That all things were created through him. 00:03:49.129 --> 00:03:54.289 All things were created for him and in him all 00:03:54.289 --> 00:03:56.889 things are held together. I want to read some 00:03:56.889 --> 00:04:01.729 in Colossians 1 as we open this up. I'm just 00:04:01.729 --> 00:04:05.509 gonna start I believe probably in verse 13 just 00:04:05.509 --> 00:04:10.009 because I like that. Let me just skim through 00:04:10.009 --> 00:04:15.689 here really quick. Yeah, I think that's where 00:04:15.689 --> 00:04:16.930 we're gonna start. We're gonna just start at 00:04:16.930 --> 00:04:20.550 verse 13. I would encourage you to go read the 00:04:20.550 --> 00:04:22.589 entire book of Colossians. It's a very short 00:04:22.589 --> 00:04:26.370 book, but man there's so much stuff that's happening 00:04:26.370 --> 00:04:29.069 that Holy Spirit can teach you through the book 00:04:29.069 --> 00:04:31.350 of Colossians. So again I'm going to start at 00:04:31.350 --> 00:04:33.910 verse 13. I'm reading out of the Passion Translation. 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:37.430 It says this, He has rescued us completely from 00:04:37.430 --> 00:04:41.410 the tyrannical rule of darkness. Now listen to 00:04:41.410 --> 00:04:44.810 the language. He has rescued. This is past tense, 00:04:44.850 --> 00:04:47.829 means it's already done. As I said last week, 00:04:48.009 --> 00:04:50.250 before you were born, before you were even considered, 00:04:50.410 --> 00:04:52.569 before your great, great, great, great grandparents 00:04:52.569 --> 00:04:55.769 were considered, this was the truth of your life. 00:04:56.709 --> 00:04:59.850 And what I feel like my aim here and my goal 00:04:59.850 --> 00:05:02.629 here today and through the course of this teaching 00:05:02.629 --> 00:05:05.069 is to partner with Holy Spirit to hopefully. 00:05:05.989 --> 00:05:09.829 unveil who you are already in Christ. That there's 00:05:09.829 --> 00:05:12.589 no steps that you have to go and perform, there's 00:05:12.589 --> 00:05:16.670 no magical formula, there's no special steps 00:05:16.670 --> 00:05:19.410 that you have to take, a special saying, a prayer, 00:05:19.850 --> 00:05:23.129 none of that has to be done. This is you repenting 00:05:23.129 --> 00:05:27.629 of the word metanoeing and coming back to your 00:05:27.629 --> 00:05:30.769 senses, coming back to your original design which 00:05:30.769 --> 00:05:34.129 is only found and discovered in Christ. So he 00:05:34.129 --> 00:05:37.970 has rescued you completely so there's nothing 00:05:37.970 --> 00:05:40.470 that when I when I see the word completely he 00:05:40.470 --> 00:05:43.930 has rescued us completely mean there's no part 00:05:43.930 --> 00:05:46.889 that he left undone from the tyrannical rule 00:05:46.889 --> 00:05:50.889 of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom 00:05:50.889 --> 00:05:56.389 realm of his beloved son for in the Sun all here 00:05:56.389 --> 00:05:59.129 that getting here is that again excuse me here 00:05:59.129 --> 00:06:02.709 again is that word all means all in the Sun all 00:06:02.709 --> 00:06:07.110 of our sins are cancelled and we have the release 00:06:07.110 --> 00:06:12.290 of redemption through his very blood do you do 00:06:12.290 --> 00:06:16.230 you catch what this is saying all of your sins 00:06:16.230 --> 00:06:19.149 are cancelled when long before you took your 00:06:19.149 --> 00:06:22.829 first breath this is why i don't believe in beating 00:06:22.829 --> 00:06:25.329 people over the head about what they've done 00:06:25.329 --> 00:06:27.990 where they've been their past because i don't 00:06:27.990 --> 00:06:31.230 see it in the person of christ man if you go 00:06:31.230 --> 00:06:35.040 read the song of songs I was actually listening 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.060 to a podcast today and they were talking about 00:06:37.060 --> 00:06:40.240 this and I have felt the invitation from Holy 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.939 Spirit to read through this book each month this 00:06:43.939 --> 00:06:46.959 year. So the first eight days of every month 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.360 I spend a chapter in the Song of Songs and I 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.800 just want to open this up. In Song of Songs chapter 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:01.379 one in Verse five, it has the Shulamite and the 00:07:01.379 --> 00:07:03.360 shepherd king. So if you could understand that 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.720 you and I are the Shulamite, and of course the 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.800 shepherd king is Papa, the Shulamite says, I 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.420 know I am so unworthy, so in need. And the king 00:07:13.420 --> 00:07:19.000 says, yet you are so lovely. The Shulamite says, 00:07:19.139 --> 00:07:22.420 I feel as dark and dry as the desert tents of 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:26.360 the wandering nomads. And again, the king replies, 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:31.279 yet you are so lovely. What is happening here? 00:07:31.699 --> 00:07:37.079 Not once does the king address the negative outlook 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:41.379 the Shulamite has on herself. He speaks to the 00:07:41.379 --> 00:07:44.519 truth of her identity. And it's the same way 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:47.439 with Jesus. He doesn't beat you over the head. 00:07:47.779 --> 00:07:51.600 Why? Because here's the truth. Whatever sin that 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.740 you feel like you're trapped in, that's not the 00:07:53.740 --> 00:07:56.540 truth of who you are. That is the proof that 00:07:56.540 --> 00:08:02.120 darkness has a hold on your mindset. And as Damon 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:03.860 Thompson, I believe, said it, that means that 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:06.920 you've not been hit yet with the necessary degree 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:11.800 of light and of love. Now think about what I'm 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.399 saying. This is how the Shulamite begins to think, 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.120 I know I'm so unworthy, I feel so dark, and yet 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.259 the king says, yet you are so lovely. He doesn't 00:08:20.259 --> 00:08:22.100 even address, it's just like the prodigal son. 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.319 when he returns back to the father, he has this 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.480 line that is rehearsed about how horrible that 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.160 he's been. He's wasted all of his inheritance. 00:08:31.540 --> 00:08:33.620 And when he gets to the father, he doesn't even 00:08:33.620 --> 00:08:36.659 get to go through his rehearsal because the father 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:39.240 wants to hear nothing about it. No, the father 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.299 says, get my ring and a robe. My son has come 00:08:43.299 --> 00:08:46.559 back to his senses. My son has come back home. 00:08:48.100 --> 00:08:51.870 This is the truth. The truth is all of your sins 00:08:51.870 --> 00:08:56.190 have been dealt with. Jesus effectively dealt 00:08:56.190 --> 00:08:59.830 with your sin on the cross. When he declared 00:08:59.830 --> 00:09:04.250 to Telestah, it is finished, he was saying everything 00:09:04.250 --> 00:09:07.549 that needs to be done has been completed. Now 00:09:07.549 --> 00:09:10.750 what is happening in your life and my life is 00:09:10.750 --> 00:09:15.509 we are allowing Holy Spirit to... How can I say 00:09:15.509 --> 00:09:18.570 this? We're allowing Holy Spirit to express maybe 00:09:18.570 --> 00:09:22.409 that completeness, to unveil that completeness 00:09:22.409 --> 00:09:25.169 to us, to allow us to live from the finished 00:09:25.169 --> 00:09:27.669 work and not towards somewhere that we actually 00:09:27.669 --> 00:09:33.909 already are. Man, this stuff is good. Verse 15 00:09:33.909 --> 00:09:36.210 says, He is the divine portrait, the true likeness 00:09:36.210 --> 00:09:39.649 of the invisible God and the firstborn heir of 00:09:39.649 --> 00:09:43.669 all of creation. For in Him was created the universe 00:09:43.669 --> 00:09:46.269 of things both in heavenly realm and on the earth, 00:09:47.090 --> 00:09:50.509 and all that is seen and that is unseen. every 00:09:50.509 --> 00:09:52.429 seat of power realm of government principality 00:09:52.429 --> 00:09:55.830 authority it all exists through him and for his 00:09:55.830 --> 00:09:58.889 purpose and it goes on to say now everything 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:02.970 finds completion inside of him listen my friend 00:10:02.970 --> 00:10:05.350 you're not going to find your completeness anywhere 00:10:05.350 --> 00:10:08.470 else except for Christ I think I've said this 00:10:08.470 --> 00:10:10.549 earlier on in one of these other videos that 00:10:10.549 --> 00:10:13.629 you can certainly find a season of your life 00:10:13.629 --> 00:10:18.440 maybe where you can find some sort of makeshift 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.980 completeness, but at some point that's going 00:10:20.980 --> 00:10:26.129 to run out. The only place you're going to find 00:10:26.129 --> 00:10:29.210 your complete self is by staring into the eyes 00:10:29.210 --> 00:10:31.950 of Yeshua. That is the only place you will actually 00:10:31.950 --> 00:10:34.549 discover your identity. It won't be found in 00:10:34.549 --> 00:10:36.590 a people group. It won't be found in a bottle. 00:10:36.629 --> 00:10:38.610 It won't be found in drugs. It won't be found 00:10:38.610 --> 00:10:41.190 in success. It won't be found in money. It won't 00:10:41.190 --> 00:10:43.850 be found in new promotion. It's only gonna be, 00:10:43.889 --> 00:10:47.129 again, some of that stuff may hold you for a 00:10:47.129 --> 00:10:50.610 moment. It may satisfy you for a moment in time, 00:10:50.669 --> 00:10:53.980 a split second in time. but it will not sustain 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:57.240 you. Eventually this falls apart. And the only 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.960 thing that you're ever going to find to satisfy 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:04.399 you forever and ever is by staring into the eyes 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.799 of Yeshua and allowing Christ to identify you, 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:10.399 to become your very life, to realize that it 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.080 is Christ in you and you are in Christ. And that 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.419 is when in that day, when you understand this, 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.139 that life truly begins. In that day, this is 00:11:19.139 --> 00:11:21.379 not a future announcement of a day that's coming. 00:11:21.610 --> 00:11:23.549 It's whatever day that you are waking up and 00:11:23.549 --> 00:11:29.169 realize this is where I already am. I am found 00:11:29.169 --> 00:11:32.590 and discovered inside of Christ and Christ resides 00:11:32.590 --> 00:11:37.529 in me. I am the temple of the Holy Ghost. Man, 00:11:37.710 --> 00:11:40.110 this stuff is, this gets really good, I'm telling 00:11:40.110 --> 00:11:45.019 you. Let's see, for God is satisfied, this is 00:11:45.019 --> 00:11:47.379 verse 19, for God is satisfied to have all his 00:11:47.379 --> 00:11:49.980 fullness dwelling in Christ, and by the blood 00:11:49.980 --> 00:11:51.919 of his cross, everything in heaven and earth, 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.460 and catch this, and by the blood of his cross, 00:11:54.620 --> 00:11:57.019 everything in heaven and earth is brought back 00:11:57.019 --> 00:12:00.259 to himself. My friend, you're included in everything. 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:04.600 back to its original intent, restored to innocence 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.220 again. So quit listening to the enemy run his 00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:12.179 mouth in your ear. You are innocent. You've been 00:12:12.179 --> 00:12:15.059 bought with a price. You are the righteousness 00:12:15.059 --> 00:12:20.039 of God. Even though you were once distant from 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.240 him, living in the shadows of your evil thoughts 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.500 and actions, he reconnected you back to himself. 00:12:26.180 --> 00:12:30.279 While you and I were lost out here, He reconnected 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.500 you back to Himself. And now there is nothing 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:36.500 between you and Father God, for He sees you as 00:12:36.500 --> 00:12:38.440 holy, flawless, and restored. And my friend, 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:41.240 if He sees you as holy, flawless, and restored, 00:12:41.659 --> 00:12:44.980 why would we choose to see ourself in any other 00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:48.820 fashion? End of chapter one says, there's a divine 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:51.179 mystery, a secret surprise that's being concealed 00:12:51.179 --> 00:12:54.179 from the world for generations, but now it's 00:12:54.179 --> 00:12:56.120 being revealed. And my friend, I think I can 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.440 say now it's being revealed, unfolded and manifested 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.960 for every holy believer to experience. Living 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:06.259 within you is the Christ who floods you with 00:13:06.259 --> 00:13:09.899 the expectation of glory. This mystery of Christ 00:13:09.899 --> 00:13:12.379 embedded within us becomes a heavenly treasure 00:13:12.379 --> 00:13:15.100 chest of hope Filled with the riches of glory 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:17.899 for his people and God wants everyone to know 00:13:17.899 --> 00:13:19.940 it my friend They're going to know it through 00:13:19.940 --> 00:13:23.580 you and I releasing that hope that is inside 00:13:23.580 --> 00:13:27.539 of us announcing to others around us that there's 00:13:27.539 --> 00:13:30.980 no special steps to get in you are already in 00:13:30.980 --> 00:13:33.519 you were already included in the party now just 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.259 come over here awaken metanoia awaken to your 00:13:37.259 --> 00:13:40.620 true identity discovered in Christ metanoia come 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:44.500 back to your senses and you join the party have 00:13:44.500 --> 00:13:47.500 the zoe life have the God kind of life that's 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:52.360 been given by Christ to you and to I man this 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.789 is good stuff So we see here again all things 00:13:55.789 --> 00:13:57.769 are created through him that created for him 00:13:57.769 --> 00:14:00.909 and he holds all things together Notice that 00:14:00.909 --> 00:14:03.230 Paul does not say that believers hold together 00:14:03.230 --> 00:14:06.570 in Christ Paul does not say that the redeemed 00:14:06.570 --> 00:14:09.750 hold together in Christ or held together in Christ 00:14:09.750 --> 00:14:13.690 He says no all things are held together inside 00:14:13.690 --> 00:14:17.330 of Christ if you remove Christ and reality Excuse 00:14:17.330 --> 00:14:22.509 me if you remove Christ and reality disintegrates 00:14:23.810 --> 00:14:26.850 Remove Christ and reality disintegrates. This 00:14:26.850 --> 00:14:29.590 means Christ is not merely the solution to sin. 00:14:29.789 --> 00:14:32.929 He is the very source of being and he has canceled 00:14:32.929 --> 00:14:36.370 every effect of sin. All you and I have to do 00:14:36.370 --> 00:14:38.669 is partner with Holy Spirit, begin to awaken 00:14:38.669 --> 00:14:41.710 to this truth, to this revelation that your sin 00:14:41.710 --> 00:14:46.210 has been dealt with. Listen, this is not about 00:14:46.210 --> 00:14:48.610 you trying to crucify your flesh. This is not 00:14:48.610 --> 00:14:51.269 about you trying to kill and defeat your sin. 00:14:51.710 --> 00:14:54.409 No, my friend, your sin has been defeated by 00:14:54.409 --> 00:14:57.470 Christ. When Jesus stretched forth his arms on 00:14:57.470 --> 00:15:00.009 that cross, it was not just Jesus giving up his 00:15:00.009 --> 00:15:03.450 life. No, what he was doing was crucifying Adam. 00:15:06.870 --> 00:15:09.309 Lord have mercy, if we would catch some of this. 00:15:11.190 --> 00:15:14.450 Every human being, now hear me very clearly. 00:15:14.669 --> 00:15:17.399 This is where I start getting in trouble. Every 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.379 human being, regardless of belief, regardless 00:15:20.379 --> 00:15:23.519 of morality, regardless of awareness, draws breath 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:27.440 because Christ sustains life. Do you know what 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.500 that means? That means when the Muslim breathes 00:15:29.500 --> 00:15:33.279 their breath, it is Christ sustaining their life. 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:39.100 When the Hindu breathes their breath, it is Christ 00:15:39.100 --> 00:15:43.120 sustaining their life. When the member of the 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:47.549 LGBTQ plus whatever community Takes the breath 00:15:47.549 --> 00:15:50.970 it is it is it is it is Christ sustaining their 00:15:50.970 --> 00:15:54.070 life when the politician Takes their breath it 00:15:54.070 --> 00:15:58.690 is Christ Sustaining their life if Christ were 00:15:58.690 --> 00:16:01.870 not present in a person their sales would stop 00:16:01.870 --> 00:16:04.990 functioning their consciousness would cease and 00:16:04.990 --> 00:16:07.929 their existence would collapse why because Christ 00:16:07.929 --> 00:16:12.830 sustains all things Everything is in Christ and 00:16:12.830 --> 00:16:17.590 Christ is in all Life does not wait for belief 00:16:17.590 --> 00:16:23.269 to function. Belief awakens awareness. And it's 00:16:23.269 --> 00:16:29.690 Christ that sustains existence. Let me think 00:16:29.690 --> 00:16:32.470 about what I just said. Life does not wait for 00:16:32.470 --> 00:16:37.250 belief to function. Life keeps on going. This 00:16:37.250 --> 00:16:39.769 is why your belief does not make something true 00:16:39.769 --> 00:16:42.649 or untrue. Truth is truth regardless of your 00:16:42.649 --> 00:16:46.700 participation in it or not. But how much better 00:16:46.700 --> 00:16:51.139 is it to just participate in what is true? The 00:16:51.139 --> 00:16:54.519 truth is you are in this the truth is none of 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.460 this rests on you And listen my friend if you 00:16:57.460 --> 00:16:59.759 take what I'm saying you hear what well Chris 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:01.700 You're just giving people the license to sin 00:17:01.700 --> 00:17:04.000 number one. They don't need a license to do it. 00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:06.759 They're doing just fine without a license Number 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.819 two if that's the message that you hear that 00:17:08.819 --> 00:17:11.940 I'm not even speaking to you Because here's the 00:17:11.940 --> 00:17:13.599 truth and this is why I believe scripture says 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.940 the phrase let he that has an ear hear what the 00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:20.799 Spirit is saying Because you can hear this you 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.359 can hear here and not hear here Now think about 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.299 what I'm saying. You might hear it through this 00:17:27.299 --> 00:17:29.720 ear, but are you hearing it properly through 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:33.339 this ear? If you're just wanting to take this 00:17:33.339 --> 00:17:35.940 message and it's like Paul said now that we have 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:38.900 this grace message Should we go on sinning? Absolutely 00:17:38.900 --> 00:17:42.940 not Paul makes this statement if we sin does 00:17:42.940 --> 00:17:45.140 that mean that we could have a life free from 00:17:45.140 --> 00:17:49.660 it. I believe so That's just my thoughts listen 00:17:49.660 --> 00:17:51.440 listen you can believe what you want you can 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.019 think how you want I'm just trying to help you 00:17:54.019 --> 00:17:58.400 see the good news the gospel and This is my thought 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.680 this is the conversation of how the Holy Spirit 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.079 if I can take your gospel and make it better 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.079 than what you have is not the gospel I Like the 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:09.700 way Damon Thompson has put it If you take the 00:18:09.700 --> 00:18:14.480 gospel, think about it like this, if you were 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.740 to be taking a test, and some of you may not 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:18.839 like tests, I get it, I don't care for tests. 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.799 But if you're taking a test, it's like Jesus 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.519 is standing over your shoulder giving you the 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:27.579 answers. Now that's pretty good news, right? 00:18:28.339 --> 00:18:30.180 You're sitting there, you're doing the little 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:32.099 bubbles or circling or whatever you're doing, 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.160 and Jesus is right there giving you the answers 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:39.839 to the question. That's good news. But what's 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:42.000 better than that is when Jesus comes up to your 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.240 desk and asks you to get up and then he sits 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:48.160 down and takes a test for you. That my friend 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:57.400 is the gospel. Think about this. So here's where 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:02.400 the logic becomes unavoidable. And I think I 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.019 probably mentioned some of this last week but 00:19:04.019 --> 00:19:07.809 it bears mentioning again if christ were not 00:19:07.809 --> 00:19:13.549 in someone that person would have to be number 00:19:13.549 --> 00:19:16.390 one they'd have to be self -originating number 00:19:16.390 --> 00:19:19.230 two they would have to be self -sustaining and 00:19:19.230 --> 00:19:21.109 number three they'd have to be independent of 00:19:21.109 --> 00:19:25.670 god which would make them divine so there we 00:19:25.670 --> 00:19:28.410 have a problem but scripture is clear there is 00:19:28.410 --> 00:19:32.059 one source of life So that when we when we say 00:19:32.059 --> 00:19:35.039 when someone says that Christ is not in someone 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.740 we are unintentionally saying they exist apart 00:19:38.740 --> 00:19:43.819 from God and that's not biblical that is One 00:19:43.819 --> 00:19:46.380 of the terms I found here that is philosophical 00:19:46.380 --> 00:19:50.119 dualism is what that is It's definitely not biblical. 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:54.359 I know what I want to say this This was something 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:58.900 that Earlier on when I began to have this revelation 00:19:58.900 --> 00:20:02.319 man, Holy Spirit had a question or conversation 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:09.339 Surrounding I want to share it with you Because 00:20:09.339 --> 00:20:11.680 you may have the thought well Christ can't be 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.000 in somebody because they act a particular way 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.920 They're doing some particular activity that would 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:22.349 be considered sinful And this is, again, I can 00:20:22.349 --> 00:20:25.069 only share my revelation and how Holy Spirit 00:20:25.069 --> 00:20:28.950 gave it to me. I think about my children. All 00:20:28.950 --> 00:20:31.630 three of my children, they have half of my DNA 00:20:31.630 --> 00:20:37.849 and half of my mother's DNA. Now, if one of my 00:20:37.849 --> 00:20:42.789 children, heaven forbid, were to go and completely 00:20:42.789 --> 00:20:49.059 AWOL and act contrary to the nature that... their 00:20:49.059 --> 00:20:53.920 mom and I know them to be. Here's the question. 00:20:55.940 --> 00:21:00.920 Does them acting, does them acting apart from 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:07.400 their nature ever mean that my DNA is not in 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:13.380 them? Absolutely not. And it's the same way with 00:21:13.380 --> 00:21:15.700 Christ. Just because someone is acting out of 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:21.380 nature. acting in a way that does not reflect 00:21:21.380 --> 00:21:23.859 Christ. They're acting in what we would deem 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:28.559 a sinful way. In no way does that mean that Christ 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:32.079 is not in the individual. It means that they're 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:36.579 living in darkness. That's about as plain as 00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:39.720 I can make that. They are living in darkness. 00:21:41.529 --> 00:21:43.950 and they need to wake up come back to their senses 00:21:43.950 --> 00:21:46.069 come back to their original design and live from 00:21:46.069 --> 00:21:49.569 that point which I believe helps when you and 00:21:49.569 --> 00:21:54.049 I begin to to live in that light and reflect 00:21:54.049 --> 00:21:57.009 that light and shine that light and allow Christ 00:21:57.009 --> 00:22:01.269 to shine through us to light up their darkness 00:22:01.269 --> 00:22:04.410 and to help them see hey there's a better way 00:22:04.410 --> 00:22:08.250 that's just that's a freebie I won't charge you 00:22:08.250 --> 00:22:12.819 anything for that But that's just something that 00:22:12.819 --> 00:22:15.099 me and Holy Spirit had that conversation about 00:22:15.099 --> 00:22:17.440 looking at my own children and realizing that 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:22.240 half my DNA is in my daughters and my son. And 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.420 if they were to act outside of their nature, 00:22:24.819 --> 00:22:29.859 there's no way does my DNA just leave them. No, 00:22:30.019 --> 00:22:33.200 they will always be my children. Regardless of 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.200 how they want to act or behave, it does not change 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.559 the truth of who they are. They are my children, 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:43.920 they have my DNA inside them. Just something 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:46.940 to, that's just something to think about. Because 00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:49.859 I think the same applies to when you have Christ 00:22:49.859 --> 00:22:57.539 in all. It's the same message. Anyhow, let me 00:22:57.539 --> 00:23:00.940 move on, find me where I'm at in my notes. So 00:23:00.940 --> 00:23:02.859 let's look at Colossians chapter two. This one 00:23:02.859 --> 00:23:08.299 I wanna read. I wanna read verses nine through 00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:15.019 15, but I think I want to back up a little bit 00:23:15.019 --> 00:23:19.839 further. Let me read verse six first. It says, 00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:21.839 in the same way you received Jesus, our Lord 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:24.539 and Messiah by faith, continue your journey of 00:23:24.539 --> 00:23:28.079 faith, progressing further into your union with 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:31.420 Him. your spiritual roots go deeply into his 00:23:31.420 --> 00:23:34.160 life as you continually, as you are continually 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.200 infused with strength, encouraged in every way. 00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:41.339 Now let me skip over to verse nine again, I'm 00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:47.359 gonna read probably nine through 15. So for he 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:49.980 is, and he being Jesus is the complete fullness 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:54.460 of deity living in human form and our own completeness. 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:58.880 Our own completeness is now found in Him. We 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:02.039 are completely filled with God as Christ's fullness 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:04.460 overflows within us. He is the head of every 00:24:04.460 --> 00:24:07.319 kingdom and authority in the universe. Through 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.480 our union with Him, we have experienced circumcision 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.079 of part. Now again, stop and ask the questions. 00:24:15.460 --> 00:24:19.700 How did you get into union with Him? and this 00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:21.619 this is again why I like to mess with people 00:24:21.619 --> 00:24:24.200 because if you can point to a prayer that you 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:27.460 prayed or an altar that you went to or some steps 00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:30.720 that you performed to join into union with him 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.039 we are now back to workspace salvation no my 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.299 friend this is a free gift and all you and i 00:24:37.299 --> 00:24:39.700 have to do we like to throw around the word repent 00:24:39.700 --> 00:24:42.099 but let's understand what the word repent actually 00:24:42.099 --> 00:24:46.180 means we all need to metanoia and come back to 00:24:46.180 --> 00:24:49.299 our senses So through our union with him, your 00:24:49.299 --> 00:24:53.220 union is right now. Wake into it, live from it. 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:56.500 We have experienced circumcision of heart. All 00:24:56.500 --> 00:24:58.900 of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away 00:24:58.900 --> 00:25:02.859 and is now extinct because of what Christ the 00:25:02.859 --> 00:25:07.099 Anointed One has accomplished for us. So all 00:25:07.099 --> 00:25:11.109 of the guilt. The power of sin has been cut away 00:25:11.109 --> 00:25:14.289 and is now extinct because of what Christ the 00:25:14.289 --> 00:25:16.789 Anointed One has accomplished for us. So the 00:25:16.789 --> 00:25:20.049 only power that sin and guilt gets is the power 00:25:20.049 --> 00:25:23.549 that you and I relinquish to them. You cut them 00:25:23.549 --> 00:25:27.089 off and it stops it. I'm telling you this is 00:25:27.089 --> 00:25:30.349 more simple than we understand them. We have 00:25:30.349 --> 00:25:34.410 complicated it. For we have been buried with 00:25:34.410 --> 00:25:37.230 him into his death. Again, this happened before 00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:39.990 you breathed your first breath, before you were 00:25:39.990 --> 00:25:42.829 conceived in your mother's womb. We have been 00:25:42.829 --> 00:25:45.750 buried with him into his death. Our baptism into 00:25:45.750 --> 00:25:48.049 death also means we were raised with him and 00:25:48.049 --> 00:25:50.609 we believed in God's resurrection power. The 00:25:50.609 --> 00:25:53.269 power that raised him from death's realm, the 00:25:53.269 --> 00:25:56.950 realm of death, describes our former state. For 00:25:56.950 --> 00:26:02.059 we were held in sin's grasp. But now we've been 00:26:02.059 --> 00:26:05.039 resurrected out of that realm of death Never 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:08.299 to return for we are forever alive and forgiven 00:26:08.299 --> 00:26:11.220 of all of our sins This is not about you asking 00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:14.970 for forgiveness This is you living in an identity 00:26:14.970 --> 00:26:18.430 that you are forgiven. Listen, your identity 00:26:18.430 --> 00:26:22.730 is forgiven. The truth is Christ. Go back and 00:26:22.730 --> 00:26:25.250 read the gospels when Jesus would forgive people. 00:26:25.670 --> 00:26:28.470 Not one time do you see them asking for forgiveness. 00:26:28.650 --> 00:26:31.349 No, he was giving forgiveness and calling them 00:26:31.349 --> 00:26:34.869 forgiven as a means of identity. Because if you 00:26:34.869 --> 00:26:37.589 could ever understand the truth that you are 00:26:37.589 --> 00:26:41.049 forgiven, maybe you could learn to forgive yourself 00:26:41.049 --> 00:26:44.369 and live. from the truth that you are in union 00:26:44.369 --> 00:26:48.890 you are one with Christ right now and what happens 00:26:48.890 --> 00:26:51.849 when you begin to believe like believe that and 00:26:51.849 --> 00:26:55.769 begin to walk in that measure of faith and in 00:26:55.769 --> 00:27:00.230 that kind of let me say it this way Zoe the God 00:27:00.230 --> 00:27:03.309 kind of life. What happens when you begin to 00:27:03.309 --> 00:27:07.009 realize that I am forgiven, I am redeemed right 00:27:07.009 --> 00:27:10.109 now, there is nothing special I have to do, I've 00:27:10.109 --> 00:27:12.609 already been included in everything that Christ 00:27:12.609 --> 00:27:16.329 did, sin has lost its grip on me, guilt and shame 00:27:16.329 --> 00:27:19.690 have no authority in my life. And you begin to 00:27:19.690 --> 00:27:24.190 live in such a freedom that your whole life begins 00:27:24.190 --> 00:27:27.970 to glow and release a glory and a light to everyone 00:27:27.970 --> 00:27:32.970 that you come in contact with. I gotta calm down 00:27:32.970 --> 00:27:44.549 just a little bit. Calm down just a little bit. 00:27:45.509 --> 00:27:52.619 Where was I at? This room of death can't heal, 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.259 but we've never been resurrected. Oh, yeah, we 00:27:56.259 --> 00:27:58.240 are never to return for we are forever alive 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.500 and forgiven of all our sins. He canceled out 00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:03.619 every legal violation we had on our record in 00:28:03.619 --> 00:28:07.259 the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. 00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:16.259 He erased it all. Again, all means all. And again, 00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:20.400 I know this is crazy to think about, but this 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:23.480 was written before you ever made your first sin, 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:27.240 before you ever even thought about sinning. This 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.859 was written in that moment. He erased it all, 00:28:31.339 --> 00:28:34.119 our sins, our stained soul. He deleted it all. 00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:39.660 They cannot be retrieved. Everything that we 00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:43.740 once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross 00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:47.220 and nailed permanently there as a public display 00:28:47.220 --> 00:28:52.769 of cancellation. Then Jesus made a public spectacle 00:28:52.769 --> 00:28:55.650 of all the powers and principalities of darkness 00:28:55.650 --> 00:28:58.809 Stripping away from them every weapon and all 00:28:58.809 --> 00:29:01.269 their spiritual authority and power to accuse 00:29:01.269 --> 00:29:04.329 us and by the power of the cross Jesus led them 00:29:04.329 --> 00:29:07.430 around as prisoners in a possession of triumph 00:29:07.430 --> 00:29:11.430 He was not their prisoner They were his go back 00:29:11.430 --> 00:29:14.170 up a little bit and says everything we once were 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:20.019 in Adam The old Adam's self has been placed onto 00:29:20.019 --> 00:29:24.680 his cross and nailed permanently there as a public 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:26.880 display of cancellation. But you know what we 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.880 have been taught is that we need to crucify our 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.299 flesh every single day. Let me help free you 00:29:33.299 --> 00:29:36.960 from that religious nonsense, my friend. Adam 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:40.720 this plainly says Adam was placed onto his cross 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.039 and nailed permanently there on the cross so 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.319 quit Resurrecting a dead man. The Adam self has 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.519 been nailed permanently to the cross. There is 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:55.829 nothing left for you to crucify that Adam old 00:29:55.829 --> 00:29:59.750 flesh nature has been effectively crucified by 00:29:59.750 --> 00:30:02.529 the finished work of christ and it is now like 00:30:02.529 --> 00:30:05.670 paul said it is no longer i who live but it is 00:30:05.670 --> 00:30:08.349 christ who lives in me do we understand that 00:30:08.349 --> 00:30:11.329 paul hits such a level of freedom that he begins 00:30:11.329 --> 00:30:14.670 to look at a group of people and declare i have 00:30:14.670 --> 00:30:17.289 wronged none of you now let me remind you that 00:30:17.289 --> 00:30:21.170 paul was saw and he was he would he was hunting 00:30:21.170 --> 00:30:24.490 followers of christ he was hunting Christians 00:30:24.490 --> 00:30:27.049 and having them killed why because he believed 00:30:27.049 --> 00:30:30.849 in the law He has so much passion in the law 00:30:30.849 --> 00:30:34.509 that he was willing to stand for it not understanding 00:30:34.509 --> 00:30:38.890 that the law Was pointing to Christ Christ was 00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:41.829 the fulfillment of this law Paul was trying to 00:30:41.829 --> 00:30:44.730 protect it So he was killing followers of Christ 00:30:44.730 --> 00:30:47.670 He was killing Christians and then when he has 00:30:47.670 --> 00:30:51.569 his conversion from Saul to Paul He begins to 00:30:51.569 --> 00:30:53.329 stand up in front of a group of people, look 00:30:53.329 --> 00:30:55.789 out on them. I would have to believe that he 00:30:55.789 --> 00:30:57.809 probably killed some of their family members. 00:30:58.150 --> 00:31:01.470 And he begins to say, I have wronged none of 00:31:01.470 --> 00:31:04.210 you. How do I believe that he was able to do 00:31:04.210 --> 00:31:08.130 that? Because he believed what this verse actually 00:31:08.130 --> 00:31:12.400 says when he says, that Adam was nailed permanently 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:16.039 there on the cross. That man is dead. He has 00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:19.079 been dealt with. My sin has been erased. I am 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.559 forgiven. I am a new creation in Christ. This 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:29.900 is who I am now with my identity. Dear Jesus, 00:31:29.900 --> 00:31:35.839 help me. Paul now takes this cosmic truth and 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:39.700 applies it to humanity in Christ. Because it's 00:31:39.700 --> 00:31:43.779 in Christ that all fullness dwells bodily Accusation 00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:48.480 is completely canceled powers are disarmed shame 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.539 is stripped and triumph is public Man, that's 00:31:53.539 --> 00:31:59.460 good news. This is good news He stripped them 00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:01.779 away from every weapon and all their spiritual 00:32:01.779 --> 00:32:05.869 authority and power to accuse us again What power 00:32:05.869 --> 00:32:08.829 does the accuser have except for the power that 00:32:08.829 --> 00:32:12.369 you and I relinquish to him? Stop giving away 00:32:12.369 --> 00:32:17.529 that power and be identified in His word be identified 00:32:17.529 --> 00:32:20.670 in the life of Christ, be identified by the Holy 00:32:20.670 --> 00:32:23.609 Spirit. Let this thing come alive to you and 00:32:23.609 --> 00:32:26.089 speak to the truth of your being that you are 00:32:26.089 --> 00:32:28.730 found, you are sealed in Christ, you are found 00:32:28.730 --> 00:32:31.910 in Christ, you were found in Christ. Long before 00:32:31.910 --> 00:32:35.210 you were lost in Adam, the accuser gets no voice 00:32:35.210 --> 00:32:39.200 in your life. Listen, all this right here, all 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:41.920 fullness dwells bodily, accusations cancel, powers 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.779 disarm, shame is stripped, triumph is public. 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.779 This is not potential language. I know this is 00:32:47.779 --> 00:32:49.940 an announcement. This is announcement language. 00:32:50.500 --> 00:32:53.140 Nothing in this passage is waiting for activation. 00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:56.599 It is describing, Paul was describing in Colossians 00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:59.900 2 here, it is this, he is describing what has 00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:04.299 been accomplished, what is true right now. Listen 00:33:04.299 --> 00:33:06.519 we live in a I live in America if you're watching 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:10.900 this in America. We are a free nation You do 00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:13.599 not have to go out and fight every day for your 00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:16.480 freedom If we don't do that in this great nation 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:19.240 of America, then why do we do it in the spiritual 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.359 realm? When we have more freedom in the spiritual 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:26.519 than we do in any any way a nation can give us 00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:31.440 Thank You Holy Ghost for that revelation Understand 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:34.700 this is canceled accusation It's not managed 00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:37.359 guilt. No, this is canceled accusation. Notice 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.500 what Paul says was removed, the handwritten record 00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:45.079 of accusation. It's not behavior. It's not people. 00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:49.359 It's not humility. No, he's removing accusation. 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.859 He's removing guilt. He's removing shame because 00:33:52.859 --> 00:33:56.819 accusation, not sin, is what sustains separation. 00:33:59.410 --> 00:34:02.789 listening to the voice of the accuser to accuse 00:34:02.789 --> 00:34:05.009 you of this, that, and the other is what will 00:34:05.009 --> 00:34:09.030 try to begin to sustain separation in your life. 00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:13.610 But once you remove accusation, once you remove 00:34:13.610 --> 00:34:16.269 the guilt and the shame, that lie collapses. 00:34:17.050 --> 00:34:19.650 And you understand, no, your life is hidden in 00:34:19.650 --> 00:34:22.989 Christ. This is about union with your Father. 00:34:23.289 --> 00:34:26.389 You are one with the Trinity. You have been invited, 00:34:26.710 --> 00:34:29.110 as Baxter Krueger says it, you've been invited 00:34:29.110 --> 00:34:31.530 into the circle dance of Father, Son, and Spirit. 00:34:31.670 --> 00:34:36.130 It's perichoresis. Man, if you would ever catch 00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:38.769 this revelation, not only does it change you, 00:34:39.010 --> 00:34:40.949 it will begin to open your eyes and you will 00:34:40.949 --> 00:34:42.929 see all the world around you through the lens 00:34:42.929 --> 00:34:46.829 of Christ. You will begin to see as heaven sees. 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.219 all those you come in contact with and then you 00:34:49.219 --> 00:34:51.840 will begin to understand that the person who's 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.000 acting in a what would you would call a sinful 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.460 way is nothing but living in darkness and they 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:02.820 need your light this and the problem was never 00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:06.760 presence the problem was never god's absence 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.699 it was never christ distance it was never heaven 00:35:09.699 --> 00:35:12.320 being closed off from somebody no the problem 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:16.829 was always a false perception Again, go back 00:35:16.829 --> 00:35:19.750 to Colossians, I believe it's in Colossians 1, 00:35:20.409 --> 00:35:22.630 different translation says that you were alienated 00:35:22.630 --> 00:35:30.090 in your minds. This is what got in the way. You 00:35:30.090 --> 00:35:34.130 and I had a wrong perception. I've spent 20 plus 00:35:34.130 --> 00:35:40.030 years, 30 years living from a wrong perception. 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.300 wrong perspective thinking that I was separated 00:35:43.300 --> 00:35:45.699 I had to find my way back to God know the truth 00:35:45.699 --> 00:35:48.539 of the gospel and this is the scandal of grace 00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:53.280 is that he smuggled himself into humanity and 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:55.639 blew it up from the inside out he's the one that 00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:03.639 came back to us he was not satisfied you believe 00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:08.079 that you were separated That's why I know I mentioned 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:10.980 it last week That's why he sunk into the darkest 00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:14.059 the most delusional state of mankind and begin 00:36:14.059 --> 00:36:16.860 to use the phrase my god my god Why have you 00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:20.300 forsaken me? To go back that deep and rescue 00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:23.119 that mindset to help you realize that there was 00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:25.900 never separation on his end You are the ones 00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:28.199 that were delusional and then he ends within 00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:35.449 my into your hands. I commit my spirit alienated 00:36:35.449 --> 00:36:39.650 in their minds you were not alienated in God 00:36:39.650 --> 00:36:42.650 you was not alienated in Christ and you was not 00:36:42.650 --> 00:36:46.429 alienated in being no you were alienated inside 00:36:46.429 --> 00:36:51.289 of your own mind we were on the delusional side 00:36:51.289 --> 00:37:03.340 oh let me see I'm going to try to begin to wrap 00:37:03.340 --> 00:37:09.179 this up a little bit. So while this doesn't automatically 00:37:09.179 --> 00:37:11.159 fix behavior, this is where people get nervous. 00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:13.719 If this is true, why do people live in darkness? 00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:17.179 Because truth doesn't override consciousness. 00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:21.260 It goes back to what I said. Your belief in something 00:37:21.260 --> 00:37:24.500 does not make it true or untrue. Truth is truth 00:37:24.500 --> 00:37:26.980 regardless of your participation, of your belief, 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:31.530 of any of that. Truth is still truth. Truth is 00:37:31.530 --> 00:37:39.769 inviting us light doesn't force itself it reveals 00:37:39.769 --> 00:37:44.969 union does not eliminate blindness no it exposes 00:37:44.969 --> 00:37:50.530 it so this whole thing this awakening this um 00:37:50.530 --> 00:37:53.210 metanoeing i guess you could even say it's a 00:37:53.210 --> 00:37:57.210 process it's you coming back to your design coming 00:37:57.210 --> 00:38:00.130 back to your original creation, your original 00:38:00.130 --> 00:38:04.449 blueprints that is found only in Christ. It's 00:38:04.449 --> 00:38:07.389 a journey my friend. It's allowing Holy Spirit 00:38:07.389 --> 00:38:10.289 to do what the Holy Spirit does best and that 00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:12.929 is the transformative work inside of you and 00:38:12.929 --> 00:38:16.989 I. It's the Holy Spirit that produces the fruit. 00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:19.869 It's the Holy Spirit that produces transformation. 00:38:20.690 --> 00:38:27.829 All we have to do is learn how to yield. Listen, 00:38:27.929 --> 00:38:30.309 we are not recruiters. This is not about joining 00:38:30.309 --> 00:38:32.989 the military, going out and doing a recruitment 00:38:32.989 --> 00:38:36.929 program. No, we are revealers of this is where 00:38:36.929 --> 00:38:40.389 you already are. This is where you belong. You 00:38:40.389 --> 00:38:43.710 are one with Christ right now. You have been 00:38:43.710 --> 00:38:46.170 freed. Listen, shame and guilt does not get a 00:38:46.170 --> 00:38:48.510 voice in your life unless you give it to them. 00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:51.139 You don't have to live under that pressure. You 00:38:51.139 --> 00:38:53.539 don't have to live under condemnation. You don't 00:38:53.539 --> 00:38:56.019 have to live under religious bondage any longer. 00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:59.760 No, you can come to the free work. You can come 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:03.139 to the free life. I don't want to say that. You 00:39:03.139 --> 00:39:06.619 can come to the free life of Christ. You can 00:39:06.619 --> 00:39:09.420 come and discover the zoe life. There we go. 00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:14.599 We don't wreck it. We don't bring Christ into 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:18.360 situations. No, we recognize Christ is already 00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:22.039 present This is the fascinating part that wherever 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:25.059 you and I go we get to carry the kingdom with 00:39:25.059 --> 00:39:28.440 us My friend a guy that I'm learning under right 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.400 now dub Alexander he likes that he says it this 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:34.659 way and I'll probably butcher it but I Want to 00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:36.800 try to get it, right? He likes to say this, he 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.380 says, when you show up on the scene for an individual, 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:41.500 maybe it's a family member or a friend, whatever, 00:39:41.900 --> 00:39:44.480 when you show up on the scene, everything just 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:48.420 shifted in their favor. Why? Because you carry 00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:53.440 the kingdom of heaven with you. You're an ambassador. 00:39:56.480 --> 00:40:00.840 He likes to say you're an ambadasador. What you 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:05.780 think about that one? I like that. But we recognize 00:40:05.780 --> 00:40:08.420 Christ is already present and here's the thing 00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:10.760 when when you and I sons and daughters begin 00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:14.300 to walk in awareness The environment begins to 00:40:14.300 --> 00:40:19.079 align Not because that we're powerful but because 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:25.920 truth in its very nature carries authority From 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:32.619 Genesis to right now God breathes life into humanity 00:40:33.929 --> 00:40:38.369 that breath my friend has never been revoked. 00:40:40.210 --> 00:40:43.489 Every breath is testimony that you are sustained 00:40:43.489 --> 00:40:51.349 by God. Every single breath you take is sustained 00:40:51.349 --> 00:40:59.929 by God. Existence itself is grace. Man this stuff 00:40:59.929 --> 00:41:04.659 is good. Colossians 3 .1, Christ's resurrection 00:41:04.659 --> 00:41:12.139 is your resurrection too. This reading, your 00:41:12.139 --> 00:41:16.280 life is hidden away in God in Christ and as Christ 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:19.400 himself is seen for who he really is, who you 00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:21.519 really are will also be revealed for you are 00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:30.909 now one with him in his glory. Let me encourage 00:41:30.909 --> 00:41:37.789 you with this as we close. This is Colossians 00:41:37.789 --> 00:41:43.090 3, the latter part of verses 7 and 8. It says, 00:41:43.389 --> 00:41:48.030 lay aside your old Adam's self with its masquerade 00:41:48.030 --> 00:41:54.190 and its disguise, for you have acquired new creation. 00:41:54.930 --> 00:41:58.510 New creation life which is continually being 00:41:58.510 --> 00:42:01.809 renewed into the likeness of the one who created 00:42:01.809 --> 00:42:09.650 you giving you the full revelation of God My 00:42:09.650 --> 00:42:14.449 friend I challenge you go Go read Colossians 00:42:14.449 --> 00:42:18.769 this this this book is life -changing If you 00:42:18.769 --> 00:42:24.539 allow it to get inside of you i want you to think 00:42:24.539 --> 00:42:28.880 about this as we close number one i like i like 00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:32.539 to end right there lay aside your old Adam self 00:42:32.539 --> 00:42:36.179 with this masquerade in disguise you can listen 00:42:36.179 --> 00:42:39.380 you are free i know what it is to wear the mask 00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:46.699 you are free to lay the mask down and just i 00:42:46.699 --> 00:42:52.800 hear you holy spirit and just be just be what 00:42:53.019 --> 00:42:59.179 What am I supposed to be? No, just be. Not just 00:42:59.179 --> 00:43:06.380 go do, no just be. Take that mask off and just 00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:19.679 be. You've acquired new creation life. You have 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.880 acquired new creation life. My friend, you are 00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:30.920 a new creation right now. Christ is your source. 00:43:32.340 --> 00:43:38.820 Christ is your sustainer. Stop believing in living 00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:46.400 by separation, but live by union. Every single 00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.199 breath you take, Should remind you that you are 00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:55.559 held together in him Regardless of what you're 00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:58.039 facing regardless of what you're dealing with 00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:03.980 your life is held together by him and He's bigger 00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:06.599 than this mountain. He's bigger than this present 00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:14.639 circumstance We got one more week my friend If 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.340 Christ holds all things together then who is 00:44:17.340 --> 00:44:21.039 Paul? talking to when he calls people saints. 00:44:23.300 --> 00:44:27.179 That's what we'll talk about next week. Take 00:44:27.179 --> 00:44:31.059 this, let it sink in. Again, lay aside the at 00:44:31.059 --> 00:44:34.599 -himself, lay aside the masquerade, lay down 00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.059 the masks, lay down the pretending, and just 00:44:38.059 --> 00:44:41.320 be. Until next week, my friend. Be blessed.