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Acceleration for Restoration: Revelation Must Become Embodiment · Grace and Glory Adorned

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Grace and Glory of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am Bethany Williams.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where you are invited into the more and depths of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where grace empowers informs you, and his glory is revealed for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not reaching for something distant.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are living from a reality already yours in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go any further into this series, A Celeration for Restoration, the new creation Spirit Man, I believe it is important for you all to understand something about the revelation that the Lord has been pouring out in this series.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I am going to really open up a kind of a conversation I had with the Lord and just share from Hit what His heart told me and what my heart is before we continue with the series.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so I am saying I'm calling this the revelation must become embodiment, which is tangible, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a tangible reality within us, and that's our reality before we'll ever see it fully materialize right here in the outside circumstances, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The outside world, the outside environment around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I just I feel the Spirit of the Lord so powerfully on this and in this room right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: His glory is very tangible, very thick, and I am just I'm so excited to just see what he has to pour out, and I pray that it blesses every one of you, that it stirs up a hunger and a thirst for the more of him, and just leads you to really start seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all things will be added to you, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this revelation wasn't just a nice encounter that I had with the Lord, this revelation that I'm pouring out about the new creation spirit man.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't like I just, you know, had this beautiful encounter, which which I did, and then I just like started performing it, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And now sharing it with you all.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I say performing because the ministry machine of the old wineskin that I call the institutional matrix of churchanity, and what I also call the Adam Church, which I shared more about this in the first two episodes, is built on performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: It chews up and spits out people to do a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's performance culture and not actually becoming a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because becoming is the father's way of operation in the kingdom, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to just draw a line in the sand and set the standard now that this revelation, what I'm pouring out, what I'm pouring out in grace and glory adorned, has never been just a nice encounter with the Lord, and then all of a sudden I'm on here and I'm you know sharing all of this, I'm pouring it all out, I'm teaching and all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: This has been years and years and years in the secret place, being outworked in my life first before he ever put a burden on me to then go out and share it with all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this the reason why is because revelation does not mean automatic interpretation, and revelations, revelation certainly does not mean automatic embodiment as far as the reality we live here in the world and on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the things the Lord has taught me over these years in the secret place is that his higher way, his perfect will is not simply to give us revelation so that we can go out and perform something with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: His higher way and perfect will is to bring interpretation through embodiment, meaning to become flesh, tangible through implementation that increases understanding and practical insight and application.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't just want us to have mental knowledge of the truth of his transcendent supremacy and his kingdom, which is his world, or just a theology about him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants his truth and realities to become the very substance, the very reality of who we are in him, what we are in him, and what we have in him to be outworked in and through our entire being on earth as it is in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is a difference between receiving a revelation of something and actually becoming an embodied reality, that having like possessing the tangible reality of the living scroll of what has been revealed.
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  SPEAKER_00: This revelation has been many years in the secret place, years of being trained, taught, reformed, refined, renewed, restored, transformed, and brought into greater depths of a surrender and a submission to the person of grace, who is the indwelling Christ by the Spirit of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, it has been costly, but the cost has been in becoming a carrier of it through embodiment and living out its tangible purpose, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: His tangible purpose as my own, his purpose is my purpose, which is exactly what Jesus had to come to even before he went to the cross, where he says, you know, but not my will, but yours be done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it has been, yes, intense at times, but oh, it's been so glorious and it's been so uh encompassing of his love.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's literally the only thing I have, it's the only thing I have to give any of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that all of the fullness of him, the truth of him, because he is the truth, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Becomes tangible inside you, becomes tangible inside you because you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I can get on here and I can do a podcast and I can teach you and I can preach and I'm anointed to do so by the glory and the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But until but if I don't like teach you, if I don't show you, if I don't pour out my heart that if it doesn't become tangible for you, then all of this is meaningless.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of it is meaningless if it doesn't actually become a tangible reality, an embodied reality, and a truth that governs your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would, I would, and I would, I just want to share my heart when I say this because I want you all to know, I want there to be like a line in the sand to for everybody to know that I would lose my life to find it in him again and again and again, however much it takes to empty me of my self-life, which is self-dependence, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: To have grace conquer my old man and strip everything of the me, myself and I that was formed outside of him, so that I can be completely filled with the reality and truth of Christ until he is all that remains as all in all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is what I my hope and prayer is for you all is that you get to a place where you really truly have a tangible, embodied reality of grace conquering you, the you, the old you, the self-life, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The self-dependence that the knowledge of good and evil brought into the knowledge of man, into the perception of man, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, as we continue further, I just wanted to just share my heart in that, and and I my hope and priority is is that you all of you have such a marking, tangible, embodied experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, like where you're gonna have to walk this out, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not gonna just be one moment, you can be marked in a moment, but walking out the outworking of that marking is a process, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna go through trials, you're gonna go through tribulations, persecution, affliction, adversity, all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But man oh man, your joy is gonna be complete in him if you just hold on to the hem of his garment, and you know that you know what, it doesn't matter what's going on around you, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because this is what the new creation, eternal life is all about, as it is written in Galatians 2.20, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: The process of continuing to lose our life is not just about chasing or striving to become perfect, and I need you guys to hear that, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not about becoming perfect, it's not to strive to be perfect or to be this like so-called, you know, perfect, check all the boxes as a Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather, this is a process that takes place in the privacy of the secret place where our outer man, which is our old man, is broken and crushed as we come into the judgment of the resurrection and ascension, which are the first fruits of the finished work of the cross, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the purpose of coming into the full reality of incarnate fellowship, which means made flesh, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Made tangible fellowship with the truth that we have already been crucified with Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not we're being crucified with Christ, we already have been crucified with Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, before you were even born, this was and is the truth because it is an internal reality, not subject to time, space, and matter realms of creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we do have experiences here in the flesh of having fellowship with his crucifixion in the trials, the purpose is to strip, break, and crush our self-life, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Our old man or outer man, which I believe these experiences are for the purpose of personal experiential knowledge of being conquered by the person of grace through the finished work of the cross, because it increases our capacity to come into full agreement with the truth that it is already all finished in Him, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we begin to be renewed in our mind, which is what true repentance is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what true repentance is because it actually like repentance actually means to change your mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't change your mind in just one moment, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to continually choose to renew your mind as you walk out the changing of your mind, because your mind has to begin to catch up with the truth of the finished work, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: To possess the finished work tangibly in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: But alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: To reckon ourselves is to be dead to sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: To be dead to sin doesn't mean trying to die.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that is another trap from the pit of hell, is this trying to die message, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it doesn't say we we try to die, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It says we reckon ourselves to be dead, indeed, to sin means already done, and so it means to count and consider, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That reckon means to count and consider as reality the truth that you have already died to sin because your entangled union with the finished work of Christ, and that alone will preach.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just pray that you catch that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You catch it, you catch it, you begin to meditate on it, you begin to wash your mind with the truth that it's be only because of our entangled union with the finished work of Christ that we can begin to actually partake and have fellowship and actually start to have tangible possession of the truth of the finished work and have it begin to be outworked in our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't once again about being perfect, it is about surrendering to the outworking of putting on the new creation spirit man and taking off our self-life, which is once again it's our old life, it's our outer man.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will stumble and fall into old things in the process, but we acknowledge it by receiving even more grace, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we're sin abounds, grace abounds more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if anything you guys catch today, I want you to catch that what I've learned is that grace is the is the easy way, it's the better way, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not necessarily easy to our natural man, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But the spirit man is like, yes, yes and amen to grace, yes and amen to receiving more grace, because like it understands that it that grace is the answer, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That grace is what we need to overcome and to conquer what it is that we are facing, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because grace isn't just a message or a you know, just a substance, it's a person, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a person to receive more of, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it is grace that will cause our dead old man, which is the body of sin, to become more and more obsolete and irrelevant in our lives as we continue to put our faith in his grace to finish what he started, to put on our new creation spirit, man, is what it means in Galatians 2.20 when it says, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We live here in the flesh, not by our own faith, but by the faith of the Son of God, which is Jesus the Christ's own faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Jesus's, it's Christ's own faith, and it's the substance we have to mix with the with the actively believing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We got we gotta walk out our believing right in all the promises of the word of God, which is the person, priesthood, and pattern of Christ, who is the truth, and the truth is that he loved us by giving us himself as a covenant seal of entangled union with the covenant, the Godhead made with himself, that we are brought into its full inheritance and abundant benefits by grace through faith, and he gives us his own abundant life that we now live, move, and have our being being in and through the indwelling Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, did you just hear that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, go back if you need to and listen to that again because that is so powerful, and something that we need to catch on, like like a dog, you know, that like bites down on his toy and won't give it up when you try to take it from its mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in the fallen world, this is true, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in the passing away within the realms of time, space, and matter of the strengths, weaknesses, ignorance, ego, pride, unbelief, doubt, condemnation, and shame or guilt of the dead old man, this still remains as truth, as well as the body of sins, iniquity, and transgressions of the fallen nature that was conquered by the finished work of the cross, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even in the midst of the passing away of the present existence of systems and patterns of the evil, wicked, corrupt, and violent workers of iniquity in the fallen kingdom of fallen spirits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, listen to this, because just as it is written in first John four seventeen, as he is, so are we in this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: First John four seventeen says, as he is, not as he was, but as he is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This means we are invited to pursue with fervent, tenacious zeal a greater and deeper revelation, knowledge, perception, awareness, and embodied tangible reality of who he is now in his world, like present day, now in his world.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, even on our very best day, we cannot produce this fervent, tenacious zeal through our own strength, striving, or self-effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even the desire and ability to pursue him must first come through receiving grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want you guys to really catch that, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when when I say you know, pursue with fervent, tenacious zeal, I don't want people to get into this like religious like striving, and no, I rebuke that in the name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not how we do things, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: How we do things is by his grace and by his grace alone, because as grace abounds, as we begin to receive more and more grace, we actually have more and more power to do the very things that he commands us to do, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is by receiving grace that we are empowered to behold him, engage with him, and come into a greater and deeper revelation of who he is now, present day, renewing our minds to the truth of him and him in us as the truth, because that is our reality in this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as he is, so are we in this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to take some time to emphasize on what exactly is the purpose of experiential knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when the scripture talks about knowledge, the deeper meaning isn't about mental or intellectual knowledge, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is talking about an intimate and personal knowledge that comes through experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: God places the father places a great value on having an intimate, personal, and private relationship with us through experiencing him, experiencing his love, life, light, and the eternal and the eternal reality of his world now and present day, right now, in our lives, here in the world and on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He loves to immerse us into the full reality of him and him in us as the truth that governs our reality on earth as it is in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is actually what baptism is all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the Bible talks about baptism, it's a full immersive experience that testifies and represents a new identity and a higher reality we are invited to live from in the right here, in the right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is written in Romans 6, chapter verses 3 through 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death, therefore we are buried with him through baptism into death.
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  SPEAKER_00: That just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: For if we have been united together in the likeness of his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Friends, brothers, and sisters, you need to understand that that last part was literally solidifying that the regime that we are under has completely changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like sin is not the regime that we are we are not under anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when you struggle with sin or you fall back into the you know the old habits of your body of sin, it doesn't matter because or I should paraphrase that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean it does matter, but it doesn't it doesn't change what where you what government, what authority, what name you're under.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he we do need to receive more grace when we sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole point, right?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like when we do sin, when we do struggle to sin, when we are you know walking things out with the Lord, the actual answer is to receive more grace, because it's grace that will conquer what remains or what is the dross of the old body of sin, still trying, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Still trying to have an influence in our life, still trying to have a say, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Still trying to control us or any of those things, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So our old man, our fallen nature of the body of sin, was baptized into the death of Christ and was buried with him in that baptism.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just how a baby is in the water in the womb, our born-again identity as a new creation spirit man is conceived in the baptism of Christ finished work, and when we rise up from the baptism of death, we are resurrected into the newness of life of our new creation, spirit, man's identity, and reality, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, really, as I said, I believe in the last two episodes, so I don't remember if it was episode one or two, but I said our soul and our body are catching up, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're catching up to the truth of the finished work.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've already been fully glorified, right?
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: We've already been baptized into the death of Christ, and we've already been, you know, we're we're we're in the likeness of his resurrection, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And even his ascension.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just that our mind and our body are catching up, which is what renewing the mind is all about, and that's how we're actually transformed, is by the renewing, renewing of the mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're transformed in the tangible reality of our world, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: What we are experiencing, how we're living and moving, and having our being in the earth and or on the earth and in the world, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because of being renewed to the truth that it's really already finished, and so we're just we're bringing that finished work, right?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're allowing that finished work to be outworked and come and begin to catch our soul, our mind, right, and our body up to the glorification, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's already finished in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is why Jesus said in John chapter 3, verses 3 through 5, To be born again, you must be born of water and spirit, and the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: The water is the baptism of the conception or the conception of the incorruptible seed of Christ's finished work, and the spirit is the glory of the Father that raised him from the dead.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: This is how we are born again into a new creation spirit man, and we are then able to see, taste, smell, hear, feel, feel, perceive, know, become aware of, to be sure of, and understand the kingdom of God, which is the world of the Godhead.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the secret place of the Most High God, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when we are born again, we have direct access to the full immersive experience and embodied tangible reality of the truth revealed in 1 John 4 17, where it says, As he is, so are we in this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so as I close out this podcast, just as I encouraged you in part two of Acceleration for Restoration, the New Creation Spirit Man series, I want to encourage you once again to take time with the Lord in the secret place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask him these questions and follow his leading on what to do next.
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  SPEAKER_00: I encourage you all to allow the Holy Spirit to continue to open up the eyes of your understanding and lead you into a greater and deeper revelation, experiential knowledge, and embodied tangible reality of the truth of who Christ is, who he is in you, and who you've become in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: So uh number one, question number one Lord, where in my life am I still living from the belief patterns, mindsets, and self-dependence of my old man?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Rather than reckoning myself dead to that old body of sin and alive unto you through through the finished work of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then question two Lord, where have I received revelation and knowledge of your truth, but have not yet allowed that revelation to become my own personal experiential knowledge and embodied tangible reality?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then question three Holy Spirit, what do you want to reveal to me about who Christ is now, who he is in me, and who I have already become in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go boldly into the throne room to reason and ponder with him and meditate on his living word, for it says or for it, for it is written, for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will see you next time.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is King, love you all, and God bless.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to Grace and Glory Adorned.
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  SPEAKER_00: May His grace form you and His glory be revealed through you.