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#14807 - Victory Over Your Struggles - Galatians 2:20 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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  Welcome to the study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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  Taylor, recorded live at Calvary Church in Aurora, Co.
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  To learn more about the many resources available through a
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  visit us online at Calvary Co dot Church or download our free
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  Calvary Church app. Now here's Pastor Ed to take us
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  into our study. Amen.
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  Open your Bibles. Let's start in Second
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  Corinthians chapter 5. Second Corinthians chapter 5.
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  But we will be looking at a lot of verses today.
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  If you're taking notes or you're a note taker, this is your day.
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  We're going to be looking at a lot of truths throughout the
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  Scriptures and the title and the topic of my message today is
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  victory over your struggles. Victory over your struggles.
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  I know the room is filled with battles, and I know the room
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  today is filled with wrestlings. I know that the room is filled
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  with defeats. But I also know the room is
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  filled with victory. There is victory among us, even
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  though there's also struggle. And as a pastor, I hear it a
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  lot. I've heard it more and more over
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  the last six, 912 months. Hey, how you doing, brother?
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  How you doing, sister? I'm really struggling.
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  And their whole demeanor changes and their shoulders go down and
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  their hands hang down and their knees are weak.
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  It's just like what Paul wrote to the Hebrews.
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  Remember, he said when you see those with with arms hanging
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  down, go and strengthen them. Lift up their arms.
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  Or you see people with weak knees.
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  It's not unusual, but I do see a lot of it.
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  Because life is hard. It is very difficult.
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  Jesus put it this way. In this world you will have
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  tribulation and most believers stop right there.
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  Like that's the only thing Jesus said.
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  Oh yes, brother, I know tribulation, woe is me, it's so
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  hard. But Jesus didn't stop there.
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  Even in that thought, in this world you have tribulation.
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  But what does he say? Be of good cheer.
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  Why? Because I have overcome the
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  world, it's so common and so heavy for some of you that
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  you've started to take on that identity of living in defeat
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  your whole life. And that's all you talk about.
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  How hard it is, how difficult it is, how much defeat is in your
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  life, how you're struggling. And living in defeat puts you
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  closer to the edge of sin. Living in defeat puts you closer
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  to the edge of discouragement. Living in defeat most certainly
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  plunges you into a place, into a position, into a posture of not
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  enjoying your relationship with Jesus.
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  And today I want to help you with that.
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  Before we get there, I do believe it's important to say
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  I'm sorry that you're in a battle in your life right now.
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  It's hard, it can be hard. We certainly have our days and
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  our weeks and our months for sure, but your identity is not
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  in your struggle. Can I say that again?
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  That was an Amen moment. I'm going to prepare you again
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  for you. Ready.
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  Your identity is not in your struggle.
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  That is not who you are. Your identity is in the victory
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  of Jesus Christ. It is yours by faith.
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  Jesus Christ defeated sin and death and made a mockery of the
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  demonic realm. I'm watching today again.
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  I've been in ministry long enough where I see these false
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  things come in and out of the church and something is back
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  again. Where instead of taking
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  ownership for your life and walking in the victory of your
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  life, there is a whole new movement saying Oh no, no,
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  here's your problem. You need to be delivered.
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  A demon is to come into your life and you're controlled by
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  demons. Nonsense.
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  You are a believer in Jesus Christ.
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  You are filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Jesus made a mockery of the demonic realm.
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  You don't need to be delivered from demons.
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  You need to believe what God says about your life.
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  Once you begin to believe that, you'll begin to walk in the
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  victory that's yours. Surely the demonic realm is real
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  and it harasses and messes around believers.
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  But don't you think for a minute, in a minute that the
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  devil made you do anything? The devil doesn't make you do
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  anything. You choose to live the way that
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  you live. Do you know it's possible for
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  you to have a real hard situation in your life and still
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  be filled with the joy of the Lord?
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  To still enjoy Him? To have hope in your heart that
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  you will see Him one day? In Jesus you are safe and in
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  Jesus you are secure. You don't have to live a life of
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  struggle. That seems to be the answer that
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  keeps coming up in my ministry to so many where they're
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  beginning to talk about their struggles and struggles and I
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  just look them in the eye. Go, you know, you don't need to
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  struggle. You can walk in victory if you
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  like. No, you don't understand,
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  Pastor, You don't. No, no, I don't understand.
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  I don't know what exactly what you're trying to describe, but
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  I'm telling you right now, you can walk in victory and not live
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  your life struggling with the whole, all the rest of your
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  life. You don't have to be identified
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  by all the problems in your life.
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  Now, before we move forward in our study, I think it's
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  important to define struggle for a second.
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  Just so we understand, there are primarily two types of struggle,
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  one good, one not so good. So let me clarify what I'm
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  saying so you don't misunderstand me.
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  Let's start with the good story. Let me define for you in simple
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  terms what I think is a good use of the word struggling.
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  If you mean when you say struggle, if you mean this, then
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  we can understand you're in a good place #1 struggle can mean
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  that you're fighting the good fight of faith and you're
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  pressing in wanting to move forward in your walk with the
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  Lord. That's the good struggle.
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  So you know, you get hit, you fall down, you stumble, you have
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  to like, and you say, no, no, I'm struggling with this, but
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  I'm walking a victory pastor. I'm, I'm fighting the good fight
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  of faith. That's a good struggle.
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  But most of the time, that's actually not how the word is
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  being used. It's being used in well #2 the
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  negative side of struggle. The negative side of struggle
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  you can define as this. You're battling an ongoing sin
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  that you won't forsake. And you call that struggle.
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  Well, you know, Pastor, I'm just struggling with this addiction.
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  I know. But God's giving you the
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  victory. No, you don't understand.
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  I'm struggling with it. But God's giving you the
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  victory. You're already have victory.
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  All you need to do is believe God and forsake sin.
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  Well, you know, and, and it's interesting because as I'm
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  ministering, I really, I, I look back 25 years here.
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  I was eight years in the church that I came from.
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  I was in ministry there probably seven of those eight years.
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  To this day, I haven't had anyone come up after a service
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  call the radio program. Any I've never experienced this
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  where someone will come up and say, hey, pastor, I just want
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  to, you know, I'm struggling. Well, really, bro, what are you
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  struggling with? Well, you know, I'm just
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  struggling with robbing a bank. You know, I robbed one yesterday
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  and I just like so nervous and I saw there's a bank next door and
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  I'm just going to head over there because I'm struggling
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  with robbing a bank. Nobody struggles with robbing a
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  bank or I also, you know, I'm struggling, pastor, I, I just
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  struggle with punching people in the jaw.
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  OK, let me step back three steps.
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  All right, let's. What do you mean you're
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  struggling with people punching people in the jaw?
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  Nobody really struggles with that.
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  They struggle with things that they like and they choose and
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  they call that a struggle. That's not a struggle, friend.
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  That's not struggling. Remember, you are engaged in a
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  spiritual battle and most of the time it's a battle for the mind,
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  for what you believe. You can be sure that what you
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  believe will always 100% determine your behavior, which
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  helps me as a pastor minister to you because I don't know your
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  heart, I don't know your heart, I'll never know your heart.
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  But I can watch your behavior and I can work backwards from
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  your behavior and I can tell you what you believe.
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  No, pastor, you can't do, No, I can.
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  I really can. For example, if right now, in
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  this moment, the light started flashing from the fire alarms,
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  the noise started beeping through the room and you saw
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  smoke coming from that side of the building and you did not get
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  up and leave and exit the room, I can tell you, you don't
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  believe there's a real fire. You don't believe it.
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  You can see it, but you don't really believe it.
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  You go keep teaching, pastor. We'll make it through.
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  Don't worry. There's no real fire.
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  But I'm looking at it and I can see the flames and I believe,
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  and I say, let's go everybody out.
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  I can tell that I believe that alarm, that it says what it
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  means and means what it says. And the evidence of fire almost
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  99.9% of the time means there's a fire.
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  And when you value safety, you're going to run out.
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  I can see that in you. And if your life is described as
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  one long struggle, you're always struggling with the same sin,
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  always struggling. I can work backwards from that
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  behavior and I can come to the conclusion pretty close and
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  accurate, that you're choosing to live in a way where you
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  identify yourself by your failure and you've chosen not to
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  forsake your sin, which is a dangerous place to be.
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  You will never experience victory over your struggles
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  until you learn to have a godly sorrow over your sin.
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  Please, Church, don't call struggling.
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  Don't call choosing sin your struggle.
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  It's not. It's a lack of faith.
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  It's living in defeat. It's living your life and
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  unbelief. The battle is for your mind,
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  what you believe. There is something about your
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  life that you have not believed God.
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  You are not believing God for the victory that's yours.
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  And so the value of Bible study and learning is that as you
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  learn new truths, your life and your behavior changes.
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  That's why wrong doctrine and false teaching destroys lives.
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  What you need to do is respond in faith.
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  The Bible says that faith comes by hearing.
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  In what? Hearing by the word of God.
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  It builds your faith, strengthens you, adds to your
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  life so that when you believe God, you act on it and your
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  behavior follows your beliefs. I want you to consider a couple
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  things. It is impossible.
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  Consider this. It is impossible to struggle and
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  rest at the same time. It's impossible.
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  And remember Jesus invitation was to come unto him.
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  All you are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you
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  struggle. No, that's not his promise.
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  His promise is rest and rest comes through abiding in him,
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  drawing from Jesus, from his resources and his strength.
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  Not by might, not by our own power, but by his Spirit, says
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  the Lord. That's where strength lies.
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  You can't struggle and rest at the same time.
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  So some of your struggles, they exist because you don't have,
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  you don't believe God that he'll give you the rest that you're
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  looking for. Number 2, it's impossible, and I
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  know this is simple, but I need to say it out loud.
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  It's impossible to believe and not believe at the same time.
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  You have to choose one. You either choose rest or you
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  choose struggle. You either choose belief what
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  God says about you and live that way, or you choose unbelief.
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  But you can't have both at the same time.
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  Consider thirdly, it's impossible to walk in the
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  spirit. That's the strength of the Lord,
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  and to walk in the flesh, that's a strength of yourself at the
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  same time. You can't do both.
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  You and I must choose moment by moment.
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  This is a big issue for the frustrations you live with as a
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  believer. You're so frustrated with your
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  life that you're so frustrated with your experience as a
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  Christian. This is one of the roots right
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  here. You are attempting to live in
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  two worlds that when you're trying to live in both worlds,
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  you're not living in either. You're living in a life of
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  unbelief. The truth is, is that we have
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  been identified with Christ's life by faith.
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  You are one with Christ, in unity with him.
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  That has already happened as a born again believer.
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  It happened the second, the millisecond that you were saved.
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  You immediately identify with the power and the presence and
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  the person of Jesus Christ. The holiest Holy Spirit immersed
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  us in Jesus and now the life of Jesus Christ is my life.
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  Listen to this Romans chapter 6, verse 5.
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  It says, For if we have been united together in the likeness
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  of his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his
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  resurrection. Knowing this, this is an
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  important phrase, Romans 65 and six, that the old man was
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  crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away
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  with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
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  That's a truth that you can live with right now.
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  You are no longer a slave to sin.
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  None of you in Christ are slaves to sin.
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  But I love this phrase. The old man, the old man, that
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  means something changed when you were born again.
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  Something changed that all of a sudden now you have an old man,
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  an old woman, and then new man and a new woman.
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  Old not in age, but old as in past.
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  That's the word here, not age past.
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  I have the fortunate, it's fortunate for me that none of
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  you, with the exception of Marie, maybe Henry and Maria,
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  ever knew the old Ed. None of you met him.
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  You're never going to meet him. You don't want to know why?
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  Because he's dead. The old Ed is dead.
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  You'll never meet him. Even if you got glimpses of
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  weakness in my life or failure in my life, you will neither
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  Have you ever met the old Ed? And by the way, you might be
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  happy about that, but I'm happy I didn't meet you either.
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  As the old man and the old woman, we were bad, bad in
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  rebellion against God. Because of that, we need to
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  learn to live in the newness of life using really simple terms
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  here. If the old Ed was bad, the new
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  Ed is good. If the old Ed was very bad, then
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  the new Ed in Christ is very good, and I can believe that by
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  faith. It's the work of God in me, not
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  my own efforts, not my own energy.
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  In Colossians chapter 3 and verses one through 4 it says, if
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  then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which
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  are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of
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  God. Set your mind, set your mind on
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  the things above, not on the things of earth, for you died.
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  Now obviously you're alive physically here.
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  So this is not a physical death, this is a spiritual death.
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  You died, some of you, you need to accept that by faith and have
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  like a memorial service for your old person and just say goodbye
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  to them. They have no control over you
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  anymore. You are not limited to your own
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  resources, your own personality, the way you were raised, all
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  your bad habits. You are a new creation in
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  Christ, as we'll see in a moment.
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  You are a new person. You died.
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  And now the life that you live, Colossians says, is hidden with
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  Christ in God, so that when Christ, our life appears, you
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  also appear with him in glory. Say this with great force and
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  great fullness. Do you believe that Jesus Christ
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  is coming again? Yes.
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  Do you believe you're a new creation in Christ?
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  Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't, but I want you to
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  have that same confidence just as much as you believe in the
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  second coming of Jesus Christ, that truth is equal to the truth
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  that you're a new creation in Christ today.
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  I want to help you see that. Turn over to 2nd Corinthians
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  chapter 5 with me, Second Corinthians chapter 5, Four
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  things I want to share with you today that will help you see the
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  victory is already yours. You don't need to work for it.
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  No energy or effort, it's already yours.
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  By faith, I want to teach you that you have much more victory
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  in your life than you've ever experienced.
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  And the way to to get it and to enjoy it is by faith, Born again
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  believer, you have been given the gift of victory.
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  It is a gift to be received, not something to work for or to
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  earn. Just as grace as a gift, so is
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  victory and you can walk in the newness of life and his power no
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  longer in your own strength. It's so glorious.
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  Listen to what John says in first John five.
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  He says this in verse 4. Whatever is born of God
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  overcomes the world. Are you born of God today church
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  then you can overcome. It's already happened.
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  You overcome all that comes your way.
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  How it says this is the victory that's overcome the world, even
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  our faith. What you believe is very
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  important. Who you believe in is very, very
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  important. That you and I would know the
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  Lord personally #1 you've been, you are a new creation.
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  Second Corinthians chapter 5 notice verse 17.
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  This is truth being read over you right now.
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  You can receive it, it is yours. This scripture is true for every
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  man, woman and child that is born again.
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  Verse 17. Therefore, if anyone is in
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  Christ, are you in Christ, then you are a new creation.
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  All things have passed away. Behold, all things have become
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  new. You know what the problem is and
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  there are many problems we'll address in our Bible study
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  today, but many believers are living like they're not saved,
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  like you're born again. Experience didn't mean anything
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  like it was just something that you went through kind of
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  religiously, but it and conveyed nothing to you in changing your
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  life. That's not what the Bible
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  teaches. The work of Jesus Christ in our
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  lives is so glorious. You are literally right now, in
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  the moment I'm speaking, a new creation, a new person.
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  All things have passed away. All things have become new.
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  This is the work of Jesus in you.
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  What no program could do for you.
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  What no psychotherapist could do for you.
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  What no self help book or television show or YouTube
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  channel could do. What no false religion, no what
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  what no effort and energy of humanity could ever do for you,
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  God did for you by sending a son, Jesus Christ to the earth
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  to live, die and rise again for the forgiveness of your sins.
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  What man couldn't do, God did. Where there was no way, God made
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  a way. You're a new creation.
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  You could never do this for yourself.
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  Never. I'm very familiar with all of
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  these self help books before because before I got saved.
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  I knew something was wrong with me and I just figured, hey,
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  those guys are successful. They must be telling.
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  They're going to tell me. And I'd read all these books and
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  I'd do everything they said. Put your post it notes around
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  the house and put it right there on the mirror.
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  You're a good person and put it over here.
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  Be kind. And all of these and none of it
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  worked. It had no power.
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  You want to know why? Because self help books have one
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  fundamental flaw. Are you ready?
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  Can't help yourself? It's impossible.
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  The biggest problem with self help books is the word self.
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  If you ever want to have the kind of help and gain the kind
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  of help that you really need, you need to die to yourself and
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  live to Christ. What these things could never do
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  for you, God has done for you and is doing for you as you live
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  by faith. Here's the problem.
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  Yet another so few followers of Jesus believe this.
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  Perhaps some of you. So you live as if you're not new
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  in Christ. You live in a perpetual state of
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  defeat and struggle, especially over those things that you
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  refuse to give up. Some of you have been raised in
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  such a way. Could have been the home you
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  were raised in. It could have been a religious
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  system, but you've been raised in such a way where you believe
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  in order to experience peace, in order to experience victory, in
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  order to experience anything that God has for you, you have
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  to work and you have to work really hard.
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  And if you have a little bit of, if you've made a little mistake
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  or you have a little bit of God's peace, you got to keep
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  working hard, hard, hard to get that peace and keep working,
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  keep working. But you come to the conclusion
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  that there's nothing, there's no work.
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  You can't work enough. You're never satisfied.
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  And you project that on the God like he's never satisfied.
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  And it's simply a falsehood. It's a lie like the lie in the
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  Garden of Eden. You are believing a lie about
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  your own life. You remember God as the the
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  devil came to Eve in the garden. She believed the lie.
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  Her husband believed the lie plunged all of humanity into
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  sin. And what was the lie?
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  That God didn't tell them the truth, but He did.
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  He told them exactly what they needed to know and they chose
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  not to believe it. And here you are believing that
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  the work is all on you and that if you just are good enough or a
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  little bit better, then you'll see a little bit more victory.
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  And if you just try hard and put the notes up there and get 1000
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  accountability partners and take 60,000 courses, maybe one day
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  when God is going, whoa, wait, wait a minute, why are you going
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  all these places and not coming to me?
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  I've given you the victory already.
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  You would rather go to a book in unbelief and you would rather go
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  to a friend in unbelief, and you would rather run to and fro in
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  unbelief, living in a perpetual state instead of just forsaking
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  sin and resting in Christ. The victory is already yours.
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  Some of you, you do, many of you do believe this truth.
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  And because you believe the truth about God, you behave
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  accordingly and you're living your life in the newness.
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  You're living a new life. It's pretty fascinating.
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  I mean, every as we're studying the doctrine of grace through
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  the book of Galatians, it's just so encouraging to me because I
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  have to face my past. It has to come up constantly
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  sharing my testimony, sharing what God has done, thinking
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  about Marie and I coming up on another wedding anniversary, and
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  just thinking about the miracle of our marriage, the miracle of
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  our home, the miracle that we're even alive.
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  I have to face these things. But the miracles all come with
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  the pain and the difficulty. I can't do anything about that.
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  I mean, I wish I could undo it, but I can't.
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  But instead of beating myself up and instead of walking in guilt
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  and shame and condemnation because the Bible tells me not
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  to do that, you know what the Bible tells me?
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  There is therefore now no condemnation for those that are
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  in Christ. I claim that's mine.
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  That's true. I believe it.
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  And so when I look back on our past and go, yes, it's horrible,
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  but look what God has done. And this is a perpetual state of
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  struggle for some of you, because I'll ask you how, how
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  are things going? Well, you know, I had victory
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  for a while and then I fell again and, and I'm like, what do
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  you mean you fell again? Why is that the place that
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  you're going to take me? Why don't you take me to the 30
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  years you've been walking with the Lord?
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  Why don't you take me to the, the, the 40 days that you were
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  strong? How about the three days you
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  fasted and prayed? How about the time that God used
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  you? Why do you always take me to
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  defeat? And I'll tell you why, because
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  you're living in defeat and forgetting about the goodness of
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  God. You are measuring your life by
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  your own good works or bad works, when that's not the
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  measurement of God, The measurement of God over your
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  life. And mine is his grace.
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  And he draws us with what cords of love, desiring us to serve
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  with him. Serve him and and enjoy Him, not
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  with grudging hearts, but with joyful hearts.
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  You're a new creation. There's true that we do wrestle
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  with the flesh, but there's great victory in the Spirit.
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  It's true. The old man shows up sometimes.
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  It kind of scares us at times where, you know, maybe you were
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  a person that had a big problem in your past with anger and God
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  delivered you from it. You are not that angry person
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  anymore. But then you did get angry and
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  it scares you. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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  wait a minute. What happened?
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  Who's this guy? And this is where the Bible says
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  in Romans you're to recommend the old man dead.
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  You see now as a believer, when those things come in our lives,
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  we have a remedy and that is repentance.
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  We have a remedy. We can actually go to the person
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  now, and we want to, we can go to the person and say this.
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  These are powerful words. You might want to write them
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  down. You ready?
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  And we write these down. These are powerful words that
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  will take you on the path of victory.
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  You ready? You look someone in the eye and
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  you say, will you forgive me? That's victory right there.
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  The enemy has no power over you in the flesh.
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  No power when you walk in the newness of life.
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  In Romans chapter 6 and verse 7 it says for he who has died has
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  been freed from sin. I want you to believe that you
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  have been freed from the power of sin over your life.
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  It is not that you will become sinless, not until we meet Jesus
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  face to face, But you will sin less, a whole lot less, as you
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  walk in the newness of life by faith.
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  Again, another problem. You ready?
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  I could already hear it in the room.
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  I can already. Nobody's saying it out loud, but
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  I can read your minds and I can hear it online.
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  I can hear it in someone's car. I can hear it.
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  But Pastor, it doesn't feel that way.
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  Oh, now we're getting somewhere. It doesn't feel that way.
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  You got a big battle with your feelings.
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  I do too. I am a very emotional person.
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  When I feel something high and exciting, I'm all man.
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  I feel it deep. I enjoy.
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  I love celebrations, I love to be excited.
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  I feel it deep. There's no halfway for me, which
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  also means when I hurt, I feel it deep.
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  When I'm sad, I need to watch out for depression.
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  It's just part of our makeup. I'm grateful that the Bible says
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  that I get to follow Jesus by faith and not by feelings.
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  Because here's the problem with feelings.
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  You ready? Here's the problem.
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  You know this. I, I'm going to say it to you,
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  but you already know it. Feelings are real.
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  Some of us feel them really, really deep.
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  But feelings don't always tell us the truth about the
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  situation. And we need to choose to match
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  those feelings of failure, those feelings of fear, those feelings
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  of never getting victory, all of the things that are lies against
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  the truth of God's Word. We need to learn to match those
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  feelings with faith. For example, some of you, you
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  are not loving your wives as Christ loved the church.
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  I just can't do it. Pastor, you just don't know who
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  I'm married. I'm struggling with loving my
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  wife. No, you're not struggling.
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  You're choosing not to love your wife.
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  Well, pastor, I'm just struggling with submitting.
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  I don't, I don't know why I'm changing my I just want to
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  lighten it up a little bit. It's a heavy time but some of
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  the wives here I don't want to submit.
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  I don't. I'm having a hard time just
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  struggling with submitting to my husband as under the Lord.
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  Not really your feelings. You might have been heard.
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  You might also fear abandonment. There's a lot of feelings that
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  go in in our marriages. But I do know this, if by faith
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  I trust God, I can love my wife self sacrificially.
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  I don't need a self help book for that.
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  I have the Lord who will teach me to be the man that I need to
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  be so that my wife will blossom and be the woman that God
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  intended her to be, That God has put me in her life to help her,
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  to help her grow. She didn't.
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  She's not in my life to serve me.
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  I'm in her life to serve her. That's what the Bible says.
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  If I believe that, then it won't be a struggle for me.
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  The struggle might be to die to myself.
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  There's what might be a lot of struggles, but it won't be to
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  love my wife as Christ loved the church.
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  Why? Because I know what love is from
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  Christ who died for me. And ladies, as hard as it may be
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  for you to submit to your husband right now in this season
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  of your life, you can look back to a very difficult marriage
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  when it becomes when it was between Abraham and Sarai.
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  And she had a faith in God that was so great that she was able
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  to submit to Abraham, to Abram in such a way where she honored
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  God. How?
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  By faith, it wasn't the behavior of her husband.
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  As a matter of fact, the behavior of her husband was the
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  exact opposite of what you would expect from a godly man.
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  What motivated and moved her? It was God and His faithfulness
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  in her life, and she accessed that.
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  By faith, I know the feelings are real.
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  I live in them myself. I know that in discouragement,
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  it's very easy to throw yourself a pity party and you know, you
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  invite people to the pity party. Guess who shows up other pity
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  party people. It's kind of a very difficult
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  place to be, but I thank God for the men and women that would
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  speak truth in my life because pain in my life has actually and
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  feelings will do this. I'll just give you the
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  perspective from my life, but you can fill it in for yours.
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  Like feelings will cause me to doubt the truthfulness of God.
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  And one of the doctrines, the one of the, one of the
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  characteristics of the nature of God is his sovereignty.
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  And let me tell you something right now, we all love the
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  sovereignty of God when it works in our favor.
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  Oh God, you gave me this job. Oh God, I thank you for this.
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  Oh God, you're, you're so sovereign in my life.
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  I trust you in my life. And then pain hits.
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  Oh no, I don't like sovereignty. Something's wrong here because
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  I've interpreted sovereignty is only good for me, but the
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  sovereignty is only good for God and what He's doing.
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  I don't know what He's doing Am I?
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  I don't know why I don't know. But I do know God and I know His
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  feelings. They will take me away from
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  faith. I would rather trust my
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  untrustworthy feelings than a trustworthy God, and that's
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  something you need to hear today.
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  It is not OK to replace faith with your feelings.
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  And I would just add to that that you can feel really hard
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  and really deep and still have faith in God.
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  At the same time, you can trust God with what you're feeling
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  right now. But here's what you can't do,
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  church. This is the pathway of victory.
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  This is what you can't do. You can't use your feelings as
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  an excuse to sin against God. You will pay the price for that.
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  And it's actually not your feelings anymore.
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  It's actually your choices. You guys with me #2 Galatians
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  chapter 2, verse 20. Galatians chapter 2.
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  Not only are you a new creation, but as a new creation, you have
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  a new life, new life. This is so fascinating, so
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  glorious. It's so powerful when we think
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  about what God has done for us, what we could never do for
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  ourselves. Galatians chapter 2 verse 20.
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  We looked at this last time I have been crucified with Christ.
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  And by the way, I want to just walk through this real quickly
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  with you circle the word crucified.
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  It is not referring to the physical death that Jesus
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  experienced in your life. What I mean by that is none of
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  us died on a cross. None of us is hung on a Roman
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  cross. None of us experienced the
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  torturous death of Christ. So when we have been crucified,
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  it is identifying with the crucifixion of Christ.
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  And so if you want to understand this word, you can circle it and
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  you can write the word next to it.
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  Rendered inoperative your old man.
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  You, you, when you were crucified, you rendered
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  inoperative the reality of your old man.
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  You can entertain him, you can bring him back, but you have
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  been in The Who you were is not who you are, which is so good.
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  So I've been crucified with Christ.
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  It's no longer I who live. Christ lives in me and the life
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  which I now live in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of
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  God. Why?
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  Because he loved me and He gave himself for me.
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  When you and I were born again, we were born to live a new life
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  with new power, new strength, new everything.
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  We're no longer our old selves. We reckon the old man dead.
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  We live in new life. We we render inoperable,
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  inoperative. The old man doesn't have any
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  control over us. We are now under new ownership
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  in Jesus, and the victorious Christian life is nothing less
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  than the life of Christ being lived through the child of God.
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  Let me repeat that the victorious Christian life is
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  nothing less than the life of Christ being lived through the
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  child of God. Any behavior that is not
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  dependent upon Him living His life through US comes from our
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  flesh. Let me define this.
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  We'll get into a deeper when we go farther along in Galatians,
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  verse by verse, but let me define this word flesh.
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  Obviously there's a use of the word flesh in the Bible that
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  refers to your skin. It refers to your human body,
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  and that is the physical definition.
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  There is a spiritual definition as well.
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  I'm going to give you 2 thoughts with what it means to live apart
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  from the resources of Christ, to live in your own strength.
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  So when you think of the word flesh, I want you to think #1
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  your old sinful habit patterns. When the flesh rises up, it is
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  your response to something that didn't come from God.
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  So, for example, of some of us, we got saved later in life.
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  So what that means is we have years and years and years of bad
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  sinful habits. Those weren't quickly broken
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  because we have a new nature, but we have an old brain.
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  Anybody have an old brand to give me an Amen?
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  You still think the same way. God is transforming your brain.
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  He's transforming your mind. We are in with the process of
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  the Bible says, of sanctification.
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  We're becoming more and more like Christ, which means we're
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  going to sin a whole lot less. But we are not complete yet.
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  We have not experienced glorification.
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  We don't have our new bodies yet.
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  So when you think of the flesh, it's just old sinful habits.
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  They don't control you because the old man died, but they're a
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  part of you. You got to reject them.
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  Another way to think of the flesh is to think of it in such
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  a way where you are leaning on yourself, leaning on yourself.
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  When you think of the flesh, you're really refusing all that
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  God has for you and choosing to live in your own wisdom, your
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  own strength, your own bank account, your own everything,
• 37:19
  which those of you, your own good works, those of you that do
• 37:22
  this, you know exactly how limited your resources are.
• 37:26
  They run out so quickly. You wake up in the morning and
• 37:29
  you read that book. So you put a sticky note up
• 37:32
  there on your on your mirror. You're going to be, I'm going to
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  be a good, you're a good person, Ed.
• 37:37
  I know. And you know, you just talk to
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  each other in the mirror. I'm going to be good today.
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  And then you get to work and she's still there.
• 37:44
  Uh huh. What happened to the sticky
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  note? You were a good person in the
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  mirror, but now you're being tested.
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  You're not going to be able to pass the test in your own
• 37:53
  strength. You have to die to yourself and
• 37:56
  say, look, give me the strength to love this person for you.
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  Doesn't matter what I think, doesn't matter how selfish I am.
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  It doesn't matter how upset I am.
• 38:03
  None of those things matter because I'm on the earth for
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  you, God. So I need your strength.
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  You're agape. Which leads us to #3 you have
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  new victories. New victories.
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  Second Corinthians chapter 2 now verse 14 Second Timothy chapter
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  2 now verse 14 you haven't. You're a new creation with a new
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  life that leads to new victories.
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  Here in verse 14 it says Second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14.
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  Now thanks be to God who always circle that word always leads us
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  in triumph or victory in Christ and through US diffuses the
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  fragrance of his knowledge in every place Church as born again
• 38:52
  men, women and children, we are always LED in victory always.
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  Which means this is not a passive.
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  This is not a passive choice that we it just doesn't happen
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  to us. If someone's leading us, what do
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  we need to respond with? We need to follow if he's
• 39:13
  leading us and I follow the lead of Christ because it's
• 39:18
  counterintuitive, isn't it? When you're hurt, you experience
• 39:21
  pain. The counterintuitive leading of
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  Jesus says forgive them. I'm not going to forgive them.
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  Well then don't experience victory.
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  It's your choice. Be in the flesh.
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  You know, not only am I not going to forgive them, oh, I'm
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  going to get vengeance. Oh, come on, man.
• 39:36
  Where did that come from then? Come from the Lord didn't come
• 39:39
  from His Word. That's not an act of faith.
• 39:41
  That's your flesh. That's your old simple habits.
• 39:44
  That's how you used to handle things.
• 39:46
  And how did that work out for you?
• 39:48
  It brought you to the end of yourself.
• 39:49
  Do you want to be brought to the end of yourself again?
• 39:52
  Then go ahead and rebel against God.
• 39:54
  But you want victory. Just follow Jesus, he said.
• 39:58
  Forgive him, love him, serve him, take care of them, be
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  generous, on and on. It's so powerful.
• 40:05
  I need to follow Him. Romans chapter 6, verse 13,
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  don't present your members as instruments of unrighteousness
• 40:12
  to sin, but present yourselves to God as being a lie from the
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  dead and your members as instruments of righteousness.
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  The sin has a way. This sin has a way of dragging a
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  person down to the point where they're consistently living in
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  disobedience and then they call that struggling.
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  That's not struggling, it's disobedience.
• 40:34
  You're believing the lie and you're living in unbelief.
• 40:38
  Hearts are becoming conformed to this world and faith is being
• 40:42
  ripped off. We all have to deal with the
• 40:45
  world and stumbling sins, every single one of us.
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  But thanks be to God, our encourager, the enemy's not
• 40:51
  wanting to deceive and destroy, but thanks to be to our God,
• 40:55
  because He always leads us in victory.
• 40:56
  Once we start following Him, we know we have the victory.
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  One of the simple ways you can do that is just what whenever
• 41:04
  you're faced with temptation, what you and immediately you
• 41:07
  begin praying, you're already following the Lord.
• 41:09
  Lord, you see me, You see what I'm feeling you're like because
• 41:13
  again, I'm not naive in many ways and there are people even
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  listening to me right now that are planning their sin.
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  That's not struggle. It's disobedience.
• 41:29
  And so just call it what it is. Can you imagine if you started
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  calling things what they are, how much you would change?
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  Hey, brother, how you doing? Oh, I'm struggling.
• 41:36
  OK. Don't use that anymore.
• 41:37
  How you doing, brother? I'm just planning my sin, going
• 41:42
  to rob a bank tomorrow, you know, whatever it's like.
• 41:45
  Really. Yeah.
• 41:46
  This is something like struggling.
• 41:47
  And then all of a sudden, if you share the truth, you start
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  hearing what am I doing? This is not me.
• 41:54
  What am I? Why am I thinking like this?
• 41:55
  Why am I even? I mean the reality of victory
• 41:59
  being yours is right here. He always leads us in victory.
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  This is a picture of the Roman parade of triumph.
• 42:06
  After a general would run a win, a victory, he would come and
• 42:09
  have a massive parade and his sons would follow him, sharing
• 42:13
  in the victory. And the picture here is Jesus
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  going to and fro throughout the whole world in his victory
• 42:19
  parade, and we get to follow him wherever he goes.
• 42:23
  There's victory. Jesus is not merely giving us
• 42:26
  victory, Church. He is our victory.
• 42:31
  He is our strength. We fight not for victory, but
• 42:35
  from victory. And quite frankly, we don't even
• 42:37
  need to fight. We just need to rest and he does
• 42:42
  what we cannot do. Psalm 98 verse one sing to the
• 42:45
  Lord a new song for he has done marvelous things.
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  His right hand and his holy arm have gained him the victory.
• 42:52
  Proverbs 2131 The horse is prepared for the day of battle,
• 42:57
  but deliverance is from the Lord.
• 42:59
  First Corinthians 1557. Thanks be to God, who gives us
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  the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 43:06
  Romans chapter 8 verse 37. Yet in all these things we are
• 43:12
  more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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  Shall I go on? I don't need to.
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  I've given you enough. You can look the rest up
• 43:19
  yourself. Powerful choose of the victory
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  that so whatever is born of God overcomes the world and this is
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  the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
• 43:32
  You guys, I taught you that earlier.
• 43:33
  Did you not remember it? This is what overcomes the
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  world, even our faith. So you need to leave here.
• 43:39
  Believe in God today, which leads us to #4 not only are we
• 43:43
  new creations with a new life, with new victories, but we have
• 43:47
  a new power source. Remember what Jesus said, Acts
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  chapter one, verse 8 to that group of the early church.
• 43:53
  Remember what he said? He says, don't you leave
• 43:56
  Jerusalem, You wait. The Holy Spirit's going to what
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  come upon you and give you power.
• 44:04
  The Greek word there is Dunamas. We get our English word dynamic.
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  It's going to be an unexplainable power.
• 44:10
  It's going to be a transformative power.
• 44:13
  Power to overcome, power to walk by faith, power to live the life
• 44:16
  that only Jesus desires because he dwells.
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  Don't you leave Jerusalem. You have new power.
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  There's a new power. You don't have to lean on your
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  own understanding. That's why a person even today
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  that is born again in this room in just a few moments has as
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  much power as the Saint that's been walking with the Lord for
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  50 years. The same power, the same
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  victory, the same new identity, Everything's the same.
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  What they don't have is all this baggage that we carry as
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  Christians. Well, you know, I heard this and
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  I watched this and I just read your Bible and pray Good Lord
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  will give you strength and wisdom on how to live your life.
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  Trust Him with your life. Live for Him.
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  The victory is already ours when you're struggling, whatever the
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  well, however you define it, claim the victory.
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  You can claim victory. It's yours.
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  This isn't, you know, I'm claiming victory because I'm
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  going to demand from God. God says take what I'm giving
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  you, take it, it's yours. Walk away with it.
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  Can you imagine giving your kids like giving them the you had to
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  go through? I remember years ago we were
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  going all over the place to get our kids the toys that they want
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  and they're sold out everywhere. And we did whatever we could,
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  paid double, put it under the tree.
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  Go. I don't want that.
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  What? Whose kid are you?
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  Your mom's kid? I'm sure.
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  No, you're your dad's kid. You can say either one.
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  But when you struggle, you claim that victory.
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  You're a new creation with new life, new victories, new power,
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  and it's impossible to struggle and rest at the same time.
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  It's impossible to believe and not believe at the same time.
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  It's impossible to walk in the Spirit and walk in the flesh at
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  the same time. You must choose moment by
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  moment. It's time today to choose right
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  now as the Lord speaking to you. So Father, I pray as we go
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  through this word together that you would have your way with us
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  as a church, that you would reveal the victory of even the
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  struggles that walked in the room today that are happening in
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  a car somewhere throughout Denver.
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  And maybe this is heard later on around the country, like you are
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  ministering your word, watching online, catching a video as we
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  send this to a friend, that there's victory, there's
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  victory, there's victory. And it's not found in self help.
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  It's in it's found in self sacrifice, dying to self
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  following you Jesus where there's victory and today is the
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  church is praying. If you're here and you've never
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  received the forgiveness of your sins, we want you to settle that
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  right now. Today you would say, pastor, I
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  need to be born again. I want to be in a right
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  relationship with God. If that's you, would you just
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  stand to your feet? I want to pray with you right
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  here in this room that today you choose to follow Christ.
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  This is for new believers here. This is for someone that's never
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  done it. God bless you.
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  Who else would say that's me? Today is the day and we don't
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  want to leave here without that invitation.
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  God bless you on the side over here without that invitation to
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  follow Jesus. The Bible says that Jesus Christ
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  died for your sins according to the Scriptures and that he rose
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  again from the dead. God bless you in the back
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  according to the Scriptures. Do you know the Scriptures, the
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  Bible, this book here I have it also says that we've all sinned.
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  You've sinned. I've sinned.
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  The idea of sin is that we failed.
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  We have failed our Creator, but God has opened our eyes because
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  in that failure, the Bible says that the wages of our sin will
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  lead to death, eternal death. Painful.
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  There's a whole list of things I could share there, but the gift
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  of God is eternal life. God is offering you the
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  forgiveness of your sins today, eternal life.
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  Just take the gift. Who else would say that's me?
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  I want to wait for you. So there's going to be a great
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  outpouring of the Holy Spirit that I want you to be a part of
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  what God's doing in our church. I want you to be a part of what
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  God wants to do in your home. I want you to be a part of today
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  is the day newness of life. Everything I shared today could
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  be yours by faith. The Bible says that if you
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  confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your
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  heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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  Go ahead bro, Go lay hands on her.
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  There's pastors and leaders are here to be close so you know
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  that you're not alone. And we'll also help follow up
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  with you because you, we're with you for the long haul.
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  We're with you for your family, for your kid.
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  We're with you in your desire to follow him.
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  We are with you to serve alongside of you to see your
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  life change. So talk to God here.
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  You could say something like this.
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  God, I ask you to forgive me of all of my sins.
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  I received the gift of salvation that you offered to me today.
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  I choose to follow you with my life because I believe you in my
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  heart that you love me and want me and have chosen me.
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  I turn away from my sins today and choose to follow you with my
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  life in Jesus name, Amen. We pray that you've been
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  encouraged by this Bible study delivered live from the
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  sanctuary of Calvary Church for prayer.
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  Call us at 87730 Grace that's 877-304-7223.
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  live stream services, visit us online at Calvary Co dot Church
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  or download our free Calvary Church app.
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  Be blessed as you worship Jesus this week.