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See, see the gospel turns most of the ways we think one 80, like a lot of Christians using their face to get green lights, they call that favor. He's like, let the light be red. Most Christians are using their faith for nobody in the line at the grocery store. He said, get in the biggest one, see how, see how the gospel changes things. It's pretty true. So, wow. Hey, that first session you guys were here, right? When Todd was Sharon, I was pretty happy about that. I was like, that was really solid. I felt like we could have just all went home and just walked in love for the rest of our lives and stayed free. Just figured we'd could have been done. So we had this phrase for years where we were free to whoever would go first. The other one would always say, dude, you said everything there is to say, what am I I used to say to Todd, cause he'd always go over time and I'd say, you just taught everything Jesus ever told you, but that's how it felt this morning was that solid or what? See, you know, when you're hearing the gospel, when your heart's encouraging, it's bringing life. Grace is an empowerment. Grace, isn't an excuse slip. Grace is God's working ability on your behalf. You're saved by grace through faith. When you put faith in the truth and you trust what he said through what he did, grace comes to make that truth. Your reality, without you biting your lip to change. That's how grace works. That's you being with him and your heart starts to see, and you begin to get these knowings in your life where you just know Paul writes about it. John writes about it. You can look up into scripture, many places and you, you see a knowing and coming to know and we've come to know and believe it's all through your Bible. So it's just a real big deal. Uh, the strength of this morning, and I feel it in my heart. I'm just going to kind of camp there a little bit. I'm just glad you guys are here and you guys seem excited like, yeah, you really do. It's fun. Like I know Todd experiences is everywhere. He goes I'm I I'm a little more stealthy. I'm kinda, I don't advertise my schedule. I go into some smaller churches. If I advertise, we'd probably run into trouble. I wouldn't be able to do what I feel called to do, but everybody's always excited. And I'm thinking this message we're preaching it. It calls for change. Like it's, it's telling us who we are so we can live in what he paid for. So it's not like a bless you fill your vets and barn kind of message. It's like, get your heart transformed and live in the spirit and walk like Jesus walked. Amen. And yet people, yeah. People are like, yeah, like, like you just, yeah. And I'm like, this is awesome. So it just excites me. Cause that's kinda all we know to preach. Cause he changed when he changes your life, then you just share that message. Like, like I've never read my Bible to preach a sermon, but I never feel unprepared. Like I've never read my Bible to preach. I've always read my Bible to know him. And when you get to know him, then you live your life in him and then you have a lot to talk about. So it's never just theological. It's actually really real. And it has a grace and an anointing to impart into hearts. And if you preach what you see, it causes other eyes to go and see. So I'm excited about it. So I'm just going to preach something I've been living really for 23 years, you hear Todd saying, you know about no guilt, condemnation, shame. Some people have a hard time relating to that because they almost go through that all the time. And it's never a place for guilt, condemnation and shame in a born again, believers life. So even if you, even if you, even if you slip up, we're not talking about even perfection here and we're not making an excuse to just slip and fall. What we're saying is even if you do slip and fall into something, the fact that you care now, I don't think we make enough for this. We, a lot of people just think you should be broken and crying for two days to show you're serious. It never produces anything. Good. You camp there long enough. It'll it'll mess you up. The fact that you care about what you used to not care about means you've changed on the inside. Like you couldn't even be guilty, condemned or ashamed if you weren't alive inside, like those things they're perverse. There are perverse way of responding, but they wouldn't have nowhere to land. If you weren't pure on the inside, like if you didn't care, you wouldn't care. This isn't complicated. Like you couldn't be condemned if you didn't care, but condemnation's never the answer. So you've got to get ahold of truth and keep going after him. And truth makes you free. So I just want to encourage you that guilt, condemnation and shame are lies from the devil. There are three major tools of hell and they're never the kingdom of God, never the kingdom of God, God doesn't use them ever at any level. They're all anti finished works of the cross and they never produce life. You with me, I feel, I feel most stern in that only if I'm smiling, but I can't say it's serious enough. They're anti finished works of the cross. Go condemnation, shame. And I've pastored for a while. I've been a Christian for a little bit, then around a lot of folks. For a lot of times, there are three major things that seem to be in people's lives on a regular basis. And it doesn't ever have to be. You're never Adam hiding from God. Again,

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He took off the things that are made to try to cover his mouth. You can't cover yourself. He closed you in righteousness. You got to understand that you never do what Adam and Eve did in first, John two, it says brother and I write these things. So you do not sin. It doesn't say, but when you do it says, if you do, we ought to notice these words. Cause most of us are expecting to it. Doesn't say when you do, it says, if you do, that's pretty awesome. And he's not preaching perfection there. What, what you want to do is you want to let grace take you where it's possible to go. And if you believe things about yourself based on yourself, you might miss the grace that changes you like a few way. Human experience above the working power of God. You might stay the same and just have a confession. We have so lorded where we've all been. We don't do it on purpose. It's just, we believe what we've lived as who we are. And he's saying none of that is as anything to do with who you are. That's why he calls it all dead. That's why you have to die. If you're ever going to live in Christ, you have to die. So it takes away everything you've been. Why are we studying our human experience and past practice so heavily. Why are we following our own human experience when we're called to follow him? Why do we say stuff like, well, yeah, but you know how we, we yell, but nobody's gonna, but yeah, we're always, and we've kind of created a language through the way it's been in our life's experience. And Jesus through the cross is saying, what are you talking about? Like that's supposed to be everything dead. It should die in your language too. Like if you wake up and expect to fail, no wonder you fail because you think you're a failure. If you wake up and expect to sin, you think it's Holy to and humble to wake up and say, okay, look, we're all sinners. Thank God he considers us. I'll just do the best I can today that doesn't bring glory to God. That's why people are messing up all the time. What they think they are is what they produce. If you wake up and believe you're a son, your life will start looking like son ship. If you actually wake up and believe you're right in the sight of God, guilt and condemnation, shame, don't have a landing strip on your soul. It can never come in. Like if you understand you're clean and you're Holy and you're blameless in your above reproach. Not because we're arrogant and we're speaking vanity. Cause we read our Bibles,

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We read our Bibles

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And he said, this is where I've placed you through my finished work. If, if we would ever just get this, that, if he says I you

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Through the blood, then be forgiven period. Like period. If he says you're right in my side, I love you. Be love. Be right in his sight period. There is no yell, but there's no. Well I feel, but you don't know where I've been, but you don't know. My background is your raw relevant. He knows everything. And he came and he washed it all away. And I love the fact that you guys are so excited about this. You can talk so freely. I would talk this freely. If you weren't excited, I just would, people need this truth. It's his truth that makes free. And even if people say to me, like they said, do you ever get an hemispheres? Whether you feel resistance stuff. I said, I don't even pay attention to that stuff. Resistance. What's resistance. If Jesus paid attention to resistance, come on. He he's amazing then. And he just lived that life that he preached and he modeled it for us and he invited us in to follow him. And now he sits at the right hand. He's serious. Like he sits at the right hand of God, mediating on our behalf through the blood of Jesus. That's on the mercy seat. Like that's exciting. I want to look at that more than my ability to fail. I want grace to save me. I want grace to change me. Not enable me to stay the same. Change me. It's it's not, it's not. Grace is not grace. Boy. I really blew up on my spouse today. Thank God for his grace. Now his grace keeps you from blowing up his grace. Isn't there to excuse you. When you mess up, it's there to empower you. When you see truth, are you with me? Come on guys. We can live this life where he wouldn't call us to it. I found this in second Peter one, it's there and you know, what's cool. If I turn there, it's still there. You better get childlike with me. You better get simple or life's going to start speaking a little louder than truth in your soul. And all of a sudden you'll believe you're not free. All of a sudden you'll let something matter more over what matters most, all of a sudden you won't be seeking first. The kingdom you'll be seeking your own wellbeing, your own feelings, your own. Yeah. Be careful with that stuff. And then I found this in second, Peter, it says you have exceedingly you all. I, everybody, we have exceedingly great and precious promises by which meaning through these promises, we partake of his divine nature. What's he saying, I have a short through my word that you'll receive everything necessary to be transformed, to become one with me, divine nature, where I'm not just going give you a theology of positional, right? Standing. I'm going to put who I am on the inside of you through the person of Holy spirit, exceedingly great and precious promises by which you partake of his divine nature. Watch having escaped member out of darkness into light. Remember acts delivered from the power of Satan to the power of God, right by which, uh, you partake of his divine nature. Having escaped the corruption that's in the world through lust, the word lust. There has nothing to do with pornography. It has to do with self centered desire. So self centered desire and his divine nature are totally contrast it. You can't be a Christian for your sake, messed up, never work, no wonder people are miserable going to church. If they're a Christian for their sake, discouraged people show up for services all the time. And it's a dead giveaway that life is deciding who they are. Not the life in them. It doesn't mean they're evil. It doesn't mean they're hypocrites. It doesn't even mean they're mean or matter or bad. I'm not saying a bad thing. I'm saying we're destroyed for the lack of knowledge and in all your getting get understanding. I don't believe this impossible. I don't believe it's too big of a test for God. I believe there could be such a pouring out of truth on the earth that people could show up Sundays to gather together and really be excited to celebrate him together and stir each other and love and good works and break like a football huddle and just go back out from where they came and look a little more like him. And when they got there,

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Walking in with a sad face because you didn't get the rent paid or walking in with a sad face because of Solomon and give drawing attention to yourself for your countenance. And all of a sudden you're reduced to the highest grace you're receiving is that it seems like somebody cares. That's just this way, man. Get out of that rat race. Somebody cares. Yeah, you don't, you don't ever have to do that. The rent might not be paid, but you still woke up with the same purpose. Christ is still in you. He's still the hope of glory. Is this thing contingent on everything you're hoping to happen or is he just Lord come hell or high water? Do you shine? Do you walk like key walk? Do you follow him or do you just try out to him Kumar guys? Just, just if the gospel could do this little in your motives. Oh my goodness. Wouldn't it be amazing if people didn't know how to be discouraged and we actually believed it was possible. She, a lot of teachers won't tell you this publicity, that's over preaching. You're in denial, an extreme.

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Everybody's gonna have their moments, brother that thing's out of bounds. We're all this way. No, we've studied a fallen man. We've bought in and said, this is us. He told us to be born again, brand new creatures, put off the old, put on the new, come on. If he can change my mind, my eyes through changing my heart. He's surely changed my whole life. Wouldn't it be amazing to gather together with no discouragement in the room. And if somebody did show up that way, we'd sniff it out and encourage him and get that root out. That lie. What? Todd not Todd kept referring to our talk this morning. We were just talking about people being ministered crazy. They always think prayer is the answer. Prayer is very important. Make no mistake about it. But when you look at prayer on a personal level, it's usually prayers of committal, giving yourself intimacy, communion, communion, prayers of supplication and prayers for all the saints and for leaders in authority, the primary prayer we pray is needs driven. It's everything. I need everything. I want everything I fear. So we're feeling a certain way. And we say, I think I need prayer. Hey, can you pray? Can you just pray this thing off of me? It's not a thing. Praying a thing off of you. It's getting something out of your belief system. Stop and relating to the moment in the experience into the feeling too. Cause if you just live out of your feelings, you're just a feeling away from another day. So then we get reduced to believe in. If I don't feel different, I'm not free. So we keep going after the same kind of ministry. That's what Todd was trying to explain this morning. And all of a sudden we're doing the person in justice. We just need to tell people who they really are. You don't need prayer. Most of the time in those situations, like we think people you wake up in the morning, okay, watch you wake up in the morning. It happens to people. I've, I've gotten these phone calls over the years and I'm not making fun of anybody. I want to expose something. So you just never find yourself here. That alarm clocks bleeping, you were restless. It wasn't seeking Jesus. Like Todd woke up seven times. Some of us wrote a little, all of a sudden it was two 30 and you had to pee and you were like, Oh, now I'm up. And you laid there for 40 minutes trying to fight it off and ignore it. And now at 23 you finally get out of bed and you went to the bathroom and you got back and you looked at the clock and thought, Ooh, got a little more time before that alarm. And then at six o'clock

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Man, man, man, man,

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I really don't like that scene. I just like to be woken up by the Lord. But some people choose that road.

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I get it home. And then you torture yourself and you hit snooze. You torture yourself, you just feed your flesh. You just fuel your flesh for nine minutes. You get yourself to actually believe this is a good thing. Wait, nine minutes, nine minutes goes by me, me, me, me. And if you're really fleshy, you'll just hit it one more time.

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And then you finally, finally, finally muster up the ability to get out of bed and you're just heading to the bathroom. And all of a sudden you say, Oh man, Oh man, I feel like, Oh man, I felt, Oh, I know this feeling. I felt this way two weeks ago, it was the worst day of my life. I barely made it. And he said, I need prayer. It's amazing how we're getting. I need prayer. I need prayer. I need prayer. I need prayer. You probably don't. You probably need communion in relationship with Holy spirit. He's he's standing there waiting to be with you and you're calling your friend to get him. And he's like you're and he's right here. What, what, what is, what is I'm not being mean? I'm not being sarcastic. Don't leave. Watch, but not be me. When I said this way. It's just the way I hear it. What is so difficult about believing he's there and teaching your heart? That that's true. What's so difficult about just not calling anybody in that moment. Cause that's all feeling driven, man. If you're going to be feeling driven, I promise you feelings are never going to be good in your life. I'm full of feelings, but they're actually amazing. They don't hinder me. They're not at the cost of anybody. I'm passionate. I'm a raging. The half the time I have to tone down to communicate. I'm stealing all kinds of stuff, but it has nothing to do with lies, the limitation and pain and hurt and sorrow and despair. You okay? There's a salvation to all these things. There's a saving of your soul of your mind and your emotions to where you're living out of the true God, given motive in your life. And then everything that follows is in agreement to the wellspring inside called modus. If your motive is self centered, you're very feeling oriented. It's all about me. All about how I feel. Hold on. What needs to change for me to be okay? What about, who has to say what not to say what for me to be okay. But man, if you learn to Matthew 16 and deny yourself in Matthew six 33, seek ye first, the kingdom of God, everything about promotions begins to change because the motive in your life and the wellspring in your life is different. Now you're not waking up for you. You're waking up for his great name. You're waking up to bring glory to the one that we say we love. You're waking up to shine. You're

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Waking up to live in the spirit and walk in the spirit to commune with him and know him and let people know him because you do Bad. Motive would change how you respond on that morning. If you're seeking first, the kingdom of God, all of a sudden, Holy spirit, I appreciate you in my life, man, probably shouldn't have drank so much right before bed, huh? Felt like I had to get up there and I fought it off and you know the story, I didn't even sleep that much. And then it don't mean a thing. This thing's trying to tell me my day and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, two weeks ago, you are in the, and you're amazing. And God, I thank you. You're the lover of my soul. You the strength of my body. You're my all in all. And I appreciate it today. I ain't got nothing to prove to you. I have the joy of becoming and you're in my life, empowering me. And now you're heading to the bathroom. You're freshening up. You're in the shower. And next thing you know, you don't even remember what it was like when you got out of bed and you didn't call anybody for prayer. You just know him a little more than you did about 10

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There's a problem when we just keep reaching out this way and don't establish this because you become so dependent on this. And then if you're calling brother, so and so or sister. So and so if they're not sharp, they become the prayer warrior in the church. They, the one that prays you through, they're the one that reads your mail. And if they're not really walking in total fellowship, now their identity is based on what they're doing and everybody's leaning on them and they're useful and need full. I'm not saying it has to be messed up, but it can get messed up quick. People do it to me a lot. They don't do it much anymore. Cause I talk about it and people put everything on YouTube. So it's good. Cause people used to everywhere. I'd go to preach. People would just swore me, Hey, can you pray for me? He lay hands on me. Can you just, I don't know, just pray this thing off of me. Just pray. I got fear. I got this. I got that. I get this. I don't pray for a lot of that. I'll say, well, do you really believe it's prayer? Let me ask you, what does that have anything to do with what you really believe? What about this? And then I'll share a couple of trues based on what they're telling me and they go, huh? I think, I think we just got this idea. You know, Oh man, if they're walking with God, if they're walking with God, if she's walking with God, he just touched me.

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But if your belief system doesn't change, you'll be in the line. The next time a speaker rolls into town. Why? Because life will keep speaking louder than truth. And how you feel will sneak up on you. If you don't change what you see, you'll never change what you be. You isn't. The eye is the lamp of the body. If the eye is single to see through truth, to see through him, the eyes single, Hey look good is single. It's not wide view. Multiple choice yell, but well, you know, no, no, no. It's single. Single-wide just looks through truth. It looks through him. This stuff is so amazing. Like we've got to learn what it means. I'm gonna talk about it for a little bit. And we'll just talk about like these sessions when you, it wasn't the testimonies fun. Now look, there's always zero to power in love. And originally we're on a lot of, you've been to a power hub before, so it's not like don't ever put on a false sense of something, man. Let it be your life. Let it be who you are. Don't just let the moment they'll don't just put on a, you know, an outreach jacket. Now you got two people zealous with you. So we're going to win the city. You can put on a false sense of boldness false sense of ministry, identity, a false sense of a lot of things. When things are seemingly in the moment and they're they're intentional ministry, this is a simple stepping stone into how it can be in your life. And Todd clearly explained that this morning that you just pumped gas, we just use the lunchtime and dinnertime as a stepping stone into the things that are stirring.

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Yeah.

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But never, this is not a ministry thing. It's just, you're you're living in Jesus. So you love people. You recognize things and stuff and you're aware and you're alert and you just live this way. Yeah. So you're never looking for ministry. You're just living your life in Jesus. Yeah. And sometimes he highlights people and sometimes you just know they already matter. Anyway,

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You say, well, I didn't really feel led

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What it, this, have you ever heard that? Well, I wasn't feeling that brother. Well, the Bible already told you to go and as you go and Tom where's Tom Rutolo, he didn't mean the bathroom. Remember how he said that as you go, that was quick. That was funny. The girl was talking about in the bathroom and he said, well, as you go,

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No, as you go,

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We're just us guys are amazed by you women. How free you are. We're we need freedom that you have in the bathroom. We don't have that free man. We don't have that freedom in the bathroom. Do we like that? Like, let's go to the bathroom together.

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Like they got popery in there. It's like a living room in the bathroom. I, I had to go in and turn the light out at church in the ladies' bathroom. I walked in, I thought I walked into somebody. Who's like one room apartment. I was like, Oh. And I went, I was like, you should see me. I'm not joking. I was like,

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Wow,

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That decor. And popery the little chair and a cushiony. And I'm like,

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They hang out in here. Like they talk to the feet. Like you don't do that in a men's room. You get in, you get out and you look at the wall. It's what you do. Am I telling the truth? If you're a guy and you walk in a bathroom and you just look like this, this way, everybody goes up and they push in closer and there's key, right? The hallway up and down, nobody can go there. Like I think he's looking, dude, you want to mess people up? You just go in there and say, Hey guys, how's it going? So I went into a bathroom one time and they were all lined up and there was the little kids one I said, now wouldn't this just be like Jesus, to give me the little child. He said, unless you become like little they're like he's talking. And it's so funny. You got a urinal. Some of them have little walls. The ones that don't have walls, it's serious. And I am not telling the truth. You could be walking with your buddy into the men's room, talking as soon as you hit the door, the conversation stops. Am I telling the truth? Silent? You get in. You freeze. You stare at your block, a dope peak. And you get out of there. As soon as you get outside, you talk. I mean, we won't even go like this for the stalls. You know, you're walking, you're looking in cracks to see if you see a jacket or a foot or you're like, am I telling the truth? You ladies, I heard this. I heard that in the ladies room, the children are crawling. The stores go up the wrong set of legs. Your mommy's over there. It's amazing. We need your freedom ladies. One of these days, dude, we're going to be Todd. I'm going to say, Hey buddy, let's go to the bathroom. We're going to try it. I'm going to build up to it. This conference is going to give me free. Okay. That's why we come, man. Just for freedom. It's for freedom. That Christ made us free is for freedom. Not debate is for freedom, not anger, frustration, and argument is for freedom. So if your life and you know your life, if you would say your life, isn't free, then you probably don't need prayer. You probably need more truth. Cause freedom is truth. And the absence of freedom is the absence truth.

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The truth will make you free. It doesn't say ministry will make you free. Why do we always think we need more ministry? It's an absence of truth. If there's an absence of freedom. So what I'm not seeing is taken advantage of my life. So in all you're getting, get understanding. Yeah, come on. It's just simple. Okay. So here's the deal. This is what I want to really talk about. Todd was reading. Where were you reading this morning? Romans three. No, but you started in Romans three. Let's go there man. Romans three. Let's see what he was reading. I'm going to check in on Todd. Make sure he was reading the gospel.

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It's a good chapter.

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It's really good. No wonder you were in there. See, I color my Bible. So all this red is redemption. What I got through the blood, what I've become because of him, all this red, all this red, can you see all that red?

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It's beautiful. Blood red. I'm just going to start where it's red.

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It says in verse 21 of Romans three, but now the righteousness of God, apart from the law, apart from you earning, working for anything, see your whole life. You were, you were really only acknowledged when you did something wrong. Most of the time, even when you did right, you were expected to. So nothing was said. So you were definitely brought out in this thing when you did wrong. A lot of people weren't even affirmed in their doing right? Cause it was expected. We don't understand how subtle this stuff is. And when you did something wrong, you got hit for it. And it got exposed and you got yelled for bad. It, depending on what family you grew up in, but a lot of people can relate to what I'm saying. But the only time you really got acknowledged in your doing is when you miss something you were supposed to or expected to do. And when you did that thing, nothing was said, cause it was expected. So there's a training from the time you that you have to earn everything that you've got at SWAT people quickly feel inadequate, unworthy, not worth right? Unworthy, not worth this and can hardly receive the message. It sounds too good to be true because they know their life, but he knows your creative value, purpose and destiny. And he knows why he paid a high price.

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Yeah.

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She, he wants to pull you out of that place and put his life in you and give you something brand new. So what Todd was saying this morning, I just applaud it over and over. I was like, that was so solid. Like you can't add anything to it. It was that solid. So, so I just want to expound on this word righteousness. Cause you mentioned it. So I'll just take my session and teach out what that actually means. Because see, you have to start where Jesus finished or you'll never run. Well, I'm going to say that again. If you don't start, if your starting point, isn't where he finished, then you're not on that right. Just road. You're going to, you're going to try to earn something he already did. You're going to try to measure up to something. He already measured you in. You're going to try to work hard to prove something that he already said through his cross. Like he already said, watch this before you did one thing in the Lord at all, through his blood and through his resurrection, you already said your life is worthy of this. It has nothing to do with what you did. It has to do with what you're created for. He knows our created value. He knows what he purchased. He didn't just buy it. See one of the biggest stumbling blocks honestly. And we made it the most awesome message is that it's all about going to heaven. It's actually become one of the biggest stumbling blocks that isn't the priority of the cross is to put new life inside of you. It's to transform you to cause old things to die and put new things in you. We've made the whole goal of the cross to take me to heaven instead of having coming into me and living the life he intended from the beginning. So we're really distracted because we actually think we pray this prayer to go to heaven, but I'm the way I am. And probably always going to be that way and hopefully I'll shape up or brush up. It's disastrous. It's such a lie on the night I got saved. It had nothing to do with going to heaven. I wasn't shunning hell and gaining heaven. I was dying to the lie. I was living daily so I can live every day for the rest of my life in a truth.

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Wow.

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And of course I'm going to live forever. That's a benefit on one with the eternal one. He's never going to leave me for sake. Mere change his mind about me and he ain't never going to die. So I'm going to live with him forever. That's a good deal. But that's, if that's all your motivation is life's going to catch up with you. People are going to hurt you and break your heart and then you'll sell cheap when you're not for sale. And you'll say, well, what do you expect if you went through that brother where you don't know how that was, you don't know what I've been through. We don't know what they did to me. We don't what it was like. If you'd ever hear Jesus saying that you might have an excuse, but you ain't never heard Jesus talk like that. You ain't never saw Jesus in mopey mood, like mopey mode, just sitting on the Mount of olives.

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Rubbing his fingers through his beer.

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How do you know he had a beard? Cause I have one we're we're one. I'm just kidding. Oh, somebody's going to crucify me for that. Okay. You know, there's people just waiting for you to say something they don't agree with. There are people that do not know the Lord. Do you understand that? Jesus talked to people for years and he's the truth. And they killed him for what he said. That's scary. There was never anybody more right than Jesus. And they were so sure he was wrong. They killed him. Why is it any different today? Scary. Could you picture Jesus sitting on the Mount of olives and he's just bombed and Peter comes walking up. What is it, Lord. Hey, are you okay? I don't know Peter, but Lord, I've never quite seen you. Well, I've been thinking, you know, Peter, I'm just going to share my heart with you, man. I'm doing always just saying I'm going to come good. I'm good. I'm good. You know, I feel like I'm supposed to be, cause I'm supposed to be the example, but the truth is man, these people, I mean the more good I do the worst, they treat me the more truth I share. The more they call it lies. I mean I raised Lazarus and now they want to kill me there. Just so twisted. I don't, they don't appreciate me. I feel so unloved. I mean, I don't even know if I want to go face them today. They're going to come in, throng me again. And they're going to listen and then God, I don't even know why he does this Lord. I don't know why you let me hear their thoughts. Their on a cool, like, I mean, I don't even really appreciate the gifting at this point because I can hardly handle all these things they're thinking, but you want to be in my shoes, Peter and see how I feel. You're doing good. And they call it bad. You're doing right now. They call it wrong. After a while a guy can only take so much. So Peter, I think the best thing you can do is just put your hand on my head and pray, man, just pray. And then John comes walking up. John premiere. No, don't share a word. You're not laying on me today. I am laying on you please. John, just hold me, John. Just hold me. Don't say anything. Just holding. That'd be so weird so that chapter's not in your Bible. Yay. And he said we're to follow him. Not that. So watch this. He never taught us that. So where did we learn it?

Speaker 2: 38:36

He never taught us this, this example that we're all laughing at because we can relate to the way we'd all be feeling if we were in his shoes in that day. But he never taught us that. And he's the good teacher. And he said, let no one on earth. Be your teacher. You have one teacher. He's the Christ. So if he never taught us that word, we learn everything we say, we know, sounds like we ought to put off the old and put on the new sounds like wield a die to everything that ever was. So we can live to the truth of who he is. Sounds like our lives we're called to be transformed. Sounds like it's more than a confession in a position. We take seated in heavenly places with Christ, Jesus, woo. Maybe it's living every day in him and living by the spirit. Maybe it's not a confession of position. Maybe it's where you're at in the surf. Maybe you're in the world, but you're not of that world. Maybe every day you will wake up by the mercies of God. You present yourselves, a living sacrifice acceptable unto him. It's your reasonable service of worship. And you are not conformed to this world, but transformed because you think like you never thought before. Yeah, I bet that's Christianity.

Speaker 4: 40:02

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 40:04

So second Peter one says you have great precious promises by which you partake of his divine nature. Having escaped the corruption that's in the world through lust. So what Jesus wants to do through the cross is put his life inside of you and his spirit inside of you. His ways inside of you, his motives inside of you, his heart inside of you. He doesn't want you to just pray for the sick. He wants you to take on his heart and nature. We say your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, right? How can we be done it? So we say no cancer in heaven, no cancer on earth. And we get revved up to pray against cancer because we have a dead giveaway that this ain't in heaven. It shouldn't be on earth and faith rises. And it's true. You go ahead and do that, right? But why is it always have to do with the power of God? Why isn't it always about the heart of God? There's no animosity in heaven. There's no jealousy. There's no hurt and brokenness. There's no regret. There's no despair in heaven. See, we've let life teach us who we are. And he said, no, I'm going to show you who you are now follow me. So you can only find your identity through him. Anything else was going to be alive. So you short, you can only find the truth about you through the truth. And he has a name. Yeah, come on. We were taught a language. We were taught emotions. You, you didn't, you God did not give us the emotions we grew up with that stopped putting that on him. Well, God gave us emotions. No he didn't.

Speaker 5: 41:34

Adam gave you those emotions. They got all twisted up through separation from God and Adam became self-centered. He was love a minute ago. Now he's cut off from loving, in need of love and he's self centered and he can't even take responsibility. He's blaming God. He's blaming the woman. It's the first effect of sin. Adam, did you eat the tree? I forbid Judy was the woman you gave me. He couldn't say yes, but what he did say is if you, when the gave me the woman, I probably wouldn't ate the tree. You guys deal with it, but don't look at me. Self defense, self protecting self justification. Me, me, me, South, South, South, come on. You can't be a Christian for you. You can't be a Christian from blessing. You can't be a Christian for wellbeing and that's not being taught in the church. Actually it's being taught. That's why you're a Christian for him to fill all your vats and barns. And then the people who they work it out for that way are discouraged and wonder why God's failing them. And they can't have a relationship because they have a genie who ain't grant no wishes. I am not a Christian for full vats and Barnes. I am a Christian to become the man he paid for that. He intended from the beginning and anything less is unacceptable because he purchased a sin. Grace will take us there. Yeah, come on. And if the way I'm thinking, the way I'm believing, the way I'm responding to others, isn't producing life. Then I'm not following him. If I'm just hurting and taken back and self centered and conscious of myself and lowest steamed and all about me, I'm missing something. Cause I'm to seek ye first, the kingdom of God. Yeah. That means you wake up every day and think about how your life can bring him glory, how your life can rightly represent his name without striving, without pushing and shoving, just in relationship, becoming that thing he paid for through the person of Holy spirit and all of a sudden, your motives come into agreement and he aligns your eye to what he sees. And next thing you know, you're just living your life in Christ. Yeah. Come on. If we would focus there and Sunday, even though there's good folks trying to be good, that's a mistake. Enjoy being his wake up and be his wake up and already be loved. Wake up and be as favorite. Even though I am, you can claim it if you want be as favorites. Yeah. Cool. Wonder if Christians who get out of bed and stand up in the morning and they know they gotta go to work and the boss has been acting out of control and their he's been unfair and irrational and sometimes still tipsy from the night before. And wonder if none of that would bother you. And he'd see it as an honor to have the sphere of influence and step into the middle of all that and just shine

Speaker 4: 44:48

Instead of God, I thought you loved me. Why didn't you change my body

Speaker 5: 44:51

Bye now. And if I have to work with Billy Young, without alcohol in his breath, I don't know what I've done wrong to deserve this Helen judgment. You need to get me a new job.

Speaker 4: 44:58

God ain't even hearing your prayer because it ain't prayer.

Speaker 5: 45:10

Those words are coming out of your mouth and ain't even getting near the drywall. The ceiling, the drop.

Speaker 4: 45:18

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 45:23

I put in for other applications and I haven't got one phone call God, what have I done to deserve this? You need to show me favor. I can show you scriptures where I found favor in your sight. And if you'd be really listening,

Speaker 4: 45:34

Forgave you, I wrote you in the book alive. I don't remember your sins anymore. I replaced your old nature with my nature. How about putting it on[inaudible]

Speaker 5: 45:53

Trouble? This is just a simple gospel soul about change. Anything that allows you to complain is alive from him. Satan would love to keep you believing you have rights when you already died to yourself, how can you deny yourself and be driven by so many rights? Well, I feel well, I think, well, that hurt. Well, they shouldn't have, well, how come will you, how do you deny yourself? And all those things keep living. Just how you feel have anything to do with it. What you believe should Trump, how you feel in time. She'd just overtake it and bring the thing into alignment. You get tempted to feel sorry for yourself. You're a little warning. Trap. Hell itself.

Speaker 4: 46:43

Good. Your picture.

Speaker 5: 46:44

Just feeling sorry for himself.

Speaker 4: 46:49

What's your matter, Lord. Oh,

Speaker 5: 46:51

Well I got to carry this cross now. I mean, I've done nothing wrong. I mean, Barabis killed a man. I raised the dead he's causing conspiracy. I'm trying to make peace here. Something's confused, but I'll do it anyway, but it's not fair.

Speaker 4: 47:10

Could you picture Jesus

Speaker 5: 47:11

On the cross in an analytical whirlwind moment of human reasoning?

Speaker 4: 47:16

You're a bunch of idiot. Look what you've done to me. You haven't seen by now. You will never see nothing but good. And this is the best you can do to

Speaker 2: 47:30

Open up your eyes. You bunch of fools, we don't understand his language in the world. We grew up in. It makes an amazing talk show. He's a victim and we're villains, but nobody wins in that scenario because the victim stayed victims and the villains stay villains. But in the gospel we get born again and he comes with righteous judgment to swallow up all the wrong and give new identity to everyone involved. So this is what he says when he's on the cross, forgive them father they're blind and deceived and they don't know who they are, but we know we know from the beginning and if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me and it would be awesome. Then if he would just look out into our eyes through that kind of teaching, where you piece all together and speak to our hearts and we could hear Jesus on the cross saying stuff like this, I know who you are, people. And you're worth every Stripe on my back. You're worth every blow to my head. I've known you all from the beginning. We've been there from the beginning, me and the father, and we've known you. We know why you're here and we know who you are and you're worth this price. Don't shy away. Draw unto me. Take it, take it and run. Well, let heaven come inside of you. Let my spirit come inside of you. You were not made for you. You were not made for the flesh you were made for my kingdom. And you were made for my glory and you were made for my great name. Don't be amazed that I would hang here and die. Of course I would. It is worse than all. You're worth it off. Cause I know who you are in the, and I know who I am in you. So rise up and belief don't believe your feelings. Don't believe the world don't believe your former page. Believe me says the Lord one. That be cool.

Speaker 4: 49:14

[inaudible]

Speaker 2: 49:15

That's what the gospel says.

Speaker 4: 49:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 49:19

See the gospel. Isn't something to argue over. It's a life to become. And if you don't catch that, you'll get caught up in the arguments. It's not about sitting over coffee and debating your belief system. It's about walking in love towards the people all around you. Come on, be real with me. We've walked into settings. Wondering if anybody noticed, wonder if anybody greet us? When I know people left churches that I ain't going back here, it wasn't too loving. And I say, it should have been. You were there. You missed your calling. We're always waiting for what somebody can do for us instead of how he can make us more like him. You Whitney, come on, we can live this thing, man. I know this. I didn't live the past life that Todd lived, but I lived in myself in such a terrible way. I personally believe I was as selfish as any man that ever walked the earth. It's okay for me to have that belief. It's not condemnation. It's sobering. I saw the wretchedness of selfishness in my life and the reason I got saved that night, I didn't ever want to live another day for me because I saw it was an absolute zero. And I cried. I was, I was horrified when I saw

Speaker 3: 50:28

Those selfish state of my heart. And I realized I was living at the expense of everyone in my life because it was all about me. I had zero capacity to love in selfishness. I had zero capacity to be sincere and genuinely care. I said, what I needed to say I did what I needed to do. But the ultimate result was for me. And it was the most horrific sight I ever had on June 9th of 1995. And I just cried and cried and said, my life is pitiful. It is one big empty, nothing. I can't live another day. That's right. I kept saying the Lord, I have to be the most selfish man on the earth. I kept saying that over and over. And I believed it. I still do. I'm glad I believed it because you know what? He did. He one 80 that thing. So what I gave him, he took it and then gave me what was from the beginning. All of a sudden I realized I died to live. I didn't ask Jesus into my heart. I didn't. If I die tonight, if I hit a tree, when I leave the meeting, are you ready? Where will you go? That isn't how I got saved. Holy spirit, let me see in my heart. And there was no denial allowed. And it was the most horrifying sight of my life. The state of my heart. I didn't want to be that one more day. And I said, and he said, and that's a big deal. A really big watch. This. I was, I was separated from my wife for five months. We weren't communicating. I was already at an attorney and I was celebrating divorce. I already had plans to move in with a girl, eight years younger than me and just start a fresh seed, my lash and right in the middle of all that Jesus came. I was celebrating that I was separated. I said to my wife, good. I'm glad you're finally there with me so we can move on. What did I waste? 13 years of my life with you for arrogant, vanity twisted, deception all at her expense. Yeah. Just think what that does to a woman talking like that. But for those 13 years on your nights off, you wanted her to go to bed with you. You wanted to have a marriage relationship you wanted to. Yeah. And then when it all falls apart, that ad that ass 30 minutes. After my born again, my wife came to mind. It took 30 minutes because I was so overwhelmed by him. You have no idea. I was running around at work in the aisle, back and forth. I know I was pulling my hair. I was jumping. I was freaking out. I was going you real, you real. She was really real

Speaker 4: 53:46

[inaudible]

Speaker 3: 53:47

I was freaking out and he left me there with him. Nobody came in, nobody disturbed that moment. He just left me freak out. I'll never forget it. I had to work. I said, I got to work. Which real? I get a case. You're so real. I put my case down. It was just, I was freaking out 30 minutes in you say you're still freaking out, brother. No, I calm down just enough to communicate.

Speaker 4: 54:13

[inaudible]

Speaker 3: 54:14

That's about all I've done. But 30 minutes in, I thought of my wife. I would have told you, I hated her before work. I thought of my wife and I went, Oh my goodness. She's such a peacemaker. She's tried so hard. She's just took this thing silently. Oh my goodness. I ran her out of gas. I pushed her over the edge. She has tried so hard. She has been so good to me. What happened? My eye changed when light came into me, when I died to self, I couldn't see through me anymore. All of a sudden I'm looking through the spirit of God and all of a sudden, for the first time in my life, I knew I loved. I was like, Oh, and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to hug her, the more I thought about it, the more I cried, the more I wanted to tell her, I'm sorry. All of a sudden I was blind, but no, see it was amazing. No, my wife wasn't having this kind of encounter. My wife was sitting at home with a 26 year old that used to have Harleys pull up at her driveway. Multiple Harleys they'd stay all weekend. I was, I used to call her a biker chick kind of degrade or get cynical. It was just cause I didn't have a Harley. I was jealous. I was listening. I had a heart. I remember being degenerate like that. I remember her. She would come out and do her garden and her wet flowers on purpose. She'd wear the stringers bikini. She couldn't, she'd put her butt to the road and she'd pull her weeds. And I remember looking out my garage going, Oh my goodness. She was my wife's counselor, teaching my wife, how to live and have fun and make the most of the moment. So while I'm getting delivered, she's at home hurt by me because I outweighed her revelation of Jesus. I outweighed the love. So she's smoking a joint. It's the craziest story. My wife, if you knew my wife, it's nine violence sitting there smoking, passing a Doobie, Jackie, you know my wife, she's sitting there smoking pot and they got a little mixed drink on the picnic table. She's she's sitting there talking and she says, it'd be just like my husband to come home when these days and say, I found a Lord when she said that she told me all this later. Cause she was so wound when she said that, while she's saying that I'm at work getting absolutely undone by Jesus. So guess what? Guess what a little counselor said. She said, well, don't you listen and don't you ever go back? You know how men are? They don't even realize they lost a good thing until they lost a good thing. Don't you ever reduce yourself and go back. You make him pay. You make him live without you now. And she's like, yeah, I ring the phone. I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm just God, there wasn't insecurity it. Wasn't please come back to me. I just rang the phone. I said, Hey, she said, what do you want? I said, I'm not even sure. I'm just overwhelmed. I said, Kim, it's amazing. God is so real. And she went click. We were trying to live in the same house. So we didn't blow our little bit of finances. So when we divorced there wasn't nothing. So we were sleeping in separate rooms, but we wouldn't talk. It was horrible. Put your children in that. And so, because your hearts are hard, it's not even about anymore. Who's right and wrong. It's just, your hearts are hard. You've allowed each other to decide each other. So you can't sell me cheap anymore. Nobody's going to talk me out of this thing. I've been saved too long. I've seen too much as a pastor, we're letting a person decide who we are and how we are in the trouble is their name's not Jesus. So we're making people, Lord singing. He's Lord and proven. He's not. We're letting what we've been through. Matter more than what he's been through. We're drawing identity from stuff instead of him. And we're saying, well, you would, you wouldn't be talking like that. If you lived in my home, brother, see you're already snared. And in your mind, your home is a justifiable circumstances to not pursue his image and walk in the spirit. So your tomorrow is going to always be yesterday until you find that to change. You don't know what they put me through. Well, wonder if Jesus had that beef? I wonder if the cross time came and he said, Nope, enough is enough. You have no idea what they put me through. See if you can't find it in his life, don't give permission for it in your life. And if you didn't learn it from him, then you didn't learn it at all. Are you with me?

Speaker 4: 59:47

Yeah,

Speaker 3: 59:49

Because I went home that night and she's quiet. Timid. She's always in a room with a door closed. She, we ain't talking. And that night when I walked in, she was waiting for me in the living room. And that is not my wife. My wife is timid quiet. I don't even know where the button was, but she had, I think her claws were that long. She was like, what if I wasn't born again? A couple hours ago? I would have probably been very scared. I walked in and she told me how much of a fool I was. Why? Cause she's hurt. She doesn't understand. You're a food and Mueller, if you think you're going to pull this, you're just trying to get the family to side with you to come out, smelling like a Rose. And Nicky looked like the witch. Do you see what's happening? It's all about ourselves. Isn't it. It's all about how we appear to others all about what everybody thinks. So all of a sudden you're a cat in a corner and I'm standing there and I'm like, I feel so sorry. I want to tell her, but she's going to call my eyes out. If I try to say, I'm sorry, and I didn't feel like I needed to right then I was like, now is the time. I'm just thinking, God, you're real. Whoa. And she's talking and I couldn't wait to go talk to the Lord in my bedroom. And I just said, look, I understand, you know, um, you know, sorry, the best I can say, but I just took off. I went to the bedrooms. I remember days being in my bedroom, just praying. I would just come out to go to work. I remember one day I come to the door, opened the door and she was standing right outside the door. Cause he was listening. I'm not dishing them. A wife. I'm showing you what pain can do to a woman that she's amazing. My wife, she, I watched her fellowship with God every day. My wife's doing so good. She has a heart for people. She cries. When somebody calls me and says something, she says, what's going on? And I'll tell this. She'll just start crying and she'll just go pray. She's just the sweetest thing. And she's minister. And just some ladies that she used to work with, staying in touch, doing visit stuff. My wife's a very good girl, but man, back then she didn't know what she sees. Now. All she saw was the wretched husband. She was married to. So she let where I wasn't decide where she was. So every day she was a product of my dysfunction and now I'm changed and she's mad because you have to make up for it. We think, well, I'll never forget what you put me through. If God took that initiative where all

Speaker 4: 1:02:19

See you, see,

Speaker 3: 1:02:20

We did not get this language from the Lord. This thing is all about becoming love and being changed. But she was standing outside my door and it was, I still remembered. It's a great testimony. Did she share how things can change and how you can respond? Because here's the deal guys. And we'll be straight with you. If I'm doing all this, just to get my marriage back and I'm insecure or a male motive, why would I expect Holy spirit to be involved? Some of us are so insecure. We're like just trying to get our spouse to change their mind. And the more insecure you get, the more you solidify, they don't want to change them. Other people come to me as busy. You got to pray for me. You're going to pray for my spouse to come home. And I'm like, maybe that's not our priority prayer right now. What do you mean? They need to be with me. We're supposed to be married. How about if we pray, Christ gets formed in you. And how about we just start praying that you grow up into him and live securing Christ and get this first. And then as God sees who he is in your life, he can in trust who he is in you. And he has some to bring them back to. So he ain't just bringing them back to you. That would be a bummer. Just bringing them back to you. She's standing outside the door. She had her little arms crossed. Now listen to the analogy, listen to analytical thinking. You make me so angry. You stand in there and you pray like you're some Holy man. I don't think so. You live like the devil for 13 years and put me in those kids through hell and now you're in there. Like, you know, God and unlike what do I say? I guess you could say welcome. You know, if you'd really guard your heart and protect your heart and not, let me decide your life. But you really be in relationship with God. You'd probably be praying and seeking to be able to see that I am really transformed. And I am the man of your dreams in the spirit. And you probably

Speaker 4: 1:04:25

[inaudible].

Speaker 3: 1:04:26

So you don't say a word to her, you lived so messed up. You're not trying to change her. You're being changed. And you're gonna let your change begin to speak into her without you even realizing it or trying it. Cause my goal is in her changing. I want to become the Manny paid for period.

Speaker 4: 1:04:48

[inaudible]

Speaker 3: 1:04:49

It's not what I can get out of God. It's how I can be more like Kim. That's the goal. So seven weeks went by, she fought me tooth and nail. She went out of her way. You can just stretch your mind. She went out of her way to make me angry, break my heart and get me to prove to her conscience that I was a hypocrite. She just was looking for a reaction out of me. She could go aha. And then relieve her conscience, which was screaming. Cause she knew the Lord. I didn't. When I met her, she was six months safe looking for change in her life. Sadly enough. At that time she met me wrong person at the time shouldn't even blend together. Really? Honestly, if we get right down to it, God's just merciful and he makes things work together for the good, but we had no business being together. I told her I was a Christian. The whole nine months we were engaged while he had to do was take one. Look at me for one day and know I wasn't a Christian. I tried to sleep with her constantly. I violated her conscience, made her cry over and over and over and just kept telling her I love her. Yeah, but now I do love her and she can't see it because she's hurt and pain manipulates you and unforgiveness manipulate you. You're not made to carry that stuff. It's not normal to heaven. Unforgiveness will mold you and shape you into something. You're not unresolved conflicts hurt and pain. We'll we'll, we'll mold you and shape you into something you're not it'll cause you to do things you would never do. If you were free and living in the spirit, it'll generate desires of survival instinct and there'll be real to you. And you'll live for the moment. Instead of live for him, she fought me for seven weeks to break my heart, but I didn't have a heart to break. Nobody was counseling me. I didn't have one counselor in my life. I had nobody in my life. Nobody. I would just spend time in my bedroom and my Bible and Jesus was showing me if I didn't have love, I had nothing. And he was showing me what it looked like. And you know, we always say about Jesus healing, the broken hearted. And somehow we get the idea that we're all supposed to have broken hearts all the time. And then he heals him. Come on. He's not super glue. He doesn't piece it back together. And then you break it into pieces and break it. No, no, no. He heals the brokenhearted. He gives you a perspective to where your heart's not vulnerable anymore. I wonder if we teach people, they don't have to be broken. Look in seven weeks. I probably had a basis in marriage to say I was broken. If somebody is going out of their way to hurt you, you probably think you have a reason to be hurt. But Jesus taught me. I never have a reason that, so I couldn't even see her. And I couldn't even see pain. I'm seven weeks old in the Lord. And my heart was that protected in the truth that all I could do was wait for her. Cause I knew I heard her and all I could do was wait for her. Cause I knew it wasn't who she was. She was deceived because she was hurt. And I just wanted the honor of loving her for the first time in my life. Come on. If this isn't legit, you could just say, Oh well I'll love somebody else. Nope. I'm married to her. I want to love her for the first time in my life. I finally see her value. I would love, I would love to walk that out. Yeah, you say. Yeah, but she yell, but she nothing. God never said your name yell, but he or yell. But whoever came to the Otter, sincere came for repentance and God just showed up on a throne sitting there. Oh it's you I'll tell you you've been bugging me for a long time friend. I always thought I'd be happy on the day. You finally came to this order, but I'll tell you what. I'm not so sure anymore. It's good. I don't slumber. Cause you'd have kept me up many a night. Remember six months ago, I really moved your heart. You had the greatest opportunity to be saved at night and you pushed it off. You shun me. You kicked against the bricks. You went out and caused six more months of hell in pain. And now your back's against the wall. And you want to come here and cry and say, you're sorry. I don't even know if I believe you. In fact, I don't even know if we have a future.

Speaker 4: 1:09:20

Wow.

Speaker 3: 1:09:21

You say God would never do that. Why? Because he's God. No. Cause he's love. And he made you for his image and Christ is the wisdom of God for men now. And Jesus said, follow me, follow my example. So I guess if God would never say that, we should never say that. I guess if he can't see it in him, you shouldn't see it in us. You know how you hurt and pain and things. We've justified in our lives. Cause we haven't known him. Like we sing, come on this, grow up into him in all things. Not just provision and protection, character and heart and the manifestation of love. Yeah. My wife snuck in the back door one day. She wanted to catch me in an improper situation. She was looking for justification. So she left for a whole weekend. She left for the whole weekend, left me there with the kids. I was honored. My kids were clinging to me. I'm not joking, man. My boy was five. I would walk through the living room father. I just thank you. I just said, he'd just be following me going. And I'd just be in God. I thank you for my family. I thank you for my children. I laid my hand on his head five years old, totally into the carpet. And I just keep walking. Just keep praying. He'd get back up after a while and he just followed daddy. God, I just think of, I'm not kidding you for one whole year. I lined my 10, my five year old and my wife up in front of the bed before I left for work and just worship God laid hands on me. They just laying over top of each other and Jesus just in the room. And I that's how I left for work for a whole year. My boy, four days, three days into this whole thing. He's just sitting in his toy box[inaudible] and I'm like, he ain't even say nothing. I say when I'm praying in tongues, like he was, it was a cut bubbling over he's five years old. He's just sitting there praying in tongues, playing with his toys. He said, well now brother, that's theologically flawed. I woke up Monday morning, 10 hours. No I woke up yeah. Eight, nine hours saved, praying in tongues, sobbing and crying and praying in tongues. Nobody laid hands on me. Nobody taught me anything. I just woke up praying in tongues. What do you do with that? Say I had an encounter with a lying spirit and all these 23 years I've been living in a deception. No I'm going to go with the fruit that's before the Lord, I'm going to go with lives that are changed. I'm going to go with things that I've seen in her in here. My wife walks in six hours after she left. She waited six hours and she tiptoed in the back door. She's trying to catch me sprawl on the couch, screaming at the kids, Watson, some trash, anything she could find to relieve her constantly to go ha and guess what? She caught me doing. I sitting Indian style in my living room. I had the book of Psalms open and I was teaching my 10 and five year old. The beauty of worshiping God. Yeah. She's peeking around the corner and I saw movement and I looked and there was her face and I said, Hey, did you forget something? She said, I'm fine. And she stormed upstairs. And then she came back down and took off. She said, she yelled at God the whole way to her sister's house. Why would you do this now? All the time I prayed. She was just freaking out. How could you? Cause she couldn't get away from it. She knew I was changed. So she said, well, even if he's changed, it's too late. Now We learned a lot of language on the earth. Didn't we? We sure learned how to be selfish. Jesus said, if anyone come after me, let him first deny himself. He didn't say prepare to go to heaven. He said, deny yourself. It's the biggest problem in our lives. I'm not a politician and I'm not a philosopher. And I'm certainly not the sharpest man on the planet. But I believe I got this one, right? Precedent. Isn't the problem. It's not ISIS. It's not racial conflict. It's every day, every day, men wake up and live for themselves. When they're made for God's image. It's where every argument comes from. It's where all the hatred exists. It's where all the tit for tat it's where everything that doesn't produce life and focus on the kingdom. Liz man, living for herself. Paul said, don't be wise in your own opinion. And we have opinions, a diamond. It, James says slow to anger. Quick to listen, slow to anger, quick to listen and slow to speak. What are we don't want to hear? It got a whole lot to say. And I'm really ticked off. Slow to speak. Slow to anger. Quick to listen. That's Jane. That's the Christian. What if all of us, most, all of us spent our whole lives ticked off. Don't want to hear it. Got a whole lot to say, guess what love does lays down its life for another. Guess what? We've all grown up doing live in at the expense of each other. We say how bad attitudes, putting pressure on each other. You're in a family of three, four, and you cop an attitude that puts pressure on your other three and they have to respond to you. You're living at their expense. You're not adding life. You're drawing from it. You're taking from it. You be careful young people just copping that too. Whatever. And just shutting your door and avoidant and putting people under pressure. Parents getting ticked off and scolding your children. Cause they've crossed your line. You're not supposed to have a line. You don't say Billy, get to your room. I told you once I told you a hundred, but mom, but dad just gets your room. Don't do that to Billy. You walk Billy in his room and you sit down and you weep with Billy and you tell him why you're pulling some things and discipline and some things because his life is a whole lot more than what he's given himself to. And you make sure Billy knows when you're done with him, that you did it for Billy. And that if he continues to live this way, these kinds of things are going to cause pain and limitations in his life. And you're trying to teach him at a young age. Cause I love you boy. And then you wrap your arms around him and you pray with him. Why you disciplining him and you walk out of his room. So Billy knows you're not mad at him even a little bit that you actually don't believe higher ability than he's given himself. Yeah. You got great opportunity. Some you got homemakers here. Some of you women, how many women would say you're a homemaker. You're like you just keeping down the Fort man. You're holding down the Fort. Karen for the kids washing up them clothes. Yeah. Todd said, you're waving your hand for Jackie. Listen. How do you do all things to the glory of God? Whether you eat, whether you drink, do it all under the glory of God. How is that possible? How does the guy in Dallas in the summer? And he's a roofer go to work everyday and do his work to the glory of God when it's a hundred degrees plus on that roof. And you already know what it was like the last two days. And now you're on hump day and you got two more days before you even have two days of break. You recognize that your life is for the kingdom and you stay thankful. So you receive grace in all things and you don't go to work with an attitude. You don't grumble. You don't complain. You stay in fellowship with God and you do what you do. And even if you see it as a season and you're looking for a transition of jobs while you're in that transition, do what you're doing with all your heart to the Lord. Yeah. So you set an example to men. If you're a homemaker and you're at home, please don't get caught doing this. Like guys don't be driving to work, man. I can't believe I got to go to the grindstone again. God, you got to get me out of this crazy job. I don't know if I can take a much more. I can't stand the language of, I hear one more F bomb today. Come on, stop it. You're just, you're just getting in a weird place, man. You come home and you're burned out and you're expecting your spouse to understand. Well, they're just cursing all day and they're tearing each other up and they're cynical. How much can I take? Like I wouldn't even know how to be like, Oh, I'd be like, so where's Jesus in anything you're saying like, why did you go to work for them to treat you the way you were hoping? Like since when did your preference become Lord? I thought she went to work to shine. What's the matter what they were saying. This should make your heart more merciful towards them. Your homemaker, please don't get caught doing this. You're at the wash and you look down and there's this big load of wash. And you just did three loads yesterday and you're like, you would think I'm married to this washing machine. I just seems like, Oh, I do is wash, wash, wash, wash, wash. And you pull it out and you say, I think that man would this shirt for 25 minutes. I don't even think to Johnny did not tell you a hundred times. It never to your stuff inside out. That's it. I'm just watching it inside out. You can do it yourself.

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But you just left from your little tea time with your little prayer group girls and you just pray blessings over your family. Last things over the children last, my husband, Lord. And now you're out the washer, Kirsten. Everybody. You say Johnny, if I told you once, I've told you a thousand times that boy I'll just never get it. He'll just never get it. Well, what am I supposed to do? Dan? You pick up that little inside out shirt. You can't chuckle because it's inside out for sure. And you say, Oh, that boy, I know you go and turn things for such an amazing way. Like this boy, sometimes Lord you've been growing me. I used to let simple things frustrate me like this, but now I just feel like, Oh, I can do is prophesied over his life. God, just like I'm turning this shirt inside, out and around. You're turning little Johnny inside out and you just,

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Then you get your husband's shirt.

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Woo ha ha. Next thing you know, you're done all the washing. You're looking for Mo wash coming on. You, you just ready to speak over your family, you up there in the kitchen, cook cook, cook on dues. We see just ordered out. I didn't even want to cook tonight. Some of your women's like Amy, go ahead and cook and eat out. But what I'm saying is watch your attitude. Make sure you don't get tricked into self centered things and do what you do to the glory of God. I'm telling you find so much grace, you get it. That washer you get in your car and go to work and you start blessing your family and thanking God that you're in the position you're in. It's called laying down your life. Not living for yourself. Come on. I'm telling you, it'll just grace will flood your heart. You will have a view of your family. That is second to none. And you will value little Johnny. Even when his shirts inside out, you'll find your daughter. She changed like three times and you'll be like, I don't even know she had this on you. Like, cause he just changed three times looking into me. She threw it in the wall. Man. If, if something like that is going to mess up your day, you are a sitting duck, Satan sitting back on and then you're a church. Holy Holy. And he's sitting there going to yell, right? I turned you to Romans three and Todd read it this morning in his bedroom. We probably ought to just check it out. Verse 21. No we're going there. I feel the doubt and unbelief. We're pressing through the unbelief. We're pressing through it. I've created the unbelief. So I got to press through it. Hey, you know, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We're going to read this Romans three verse 21, but now, but now man, but now the righteousness of God, apart from the law is revealed being witnessed by the law and the prophets. See it's amazing. The strength of the gospel is the righteous judgment of God through the blood of Jesus Christ. He made us right in his sight. The word actually carries the definition of innocent and Holy he who knew no sin was made to be sin. That we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. Jesus. That means the righteous judgment and expression of being judged

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Right by God through Jesus Christ. It carries the word innocent and Holy

Speaker 4: 1:23:11

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 1:23:14

First Peter two, let me quote it for you. He bore your sin and my sin in his body on a tree and we, yeah, that's exactly right. We're like, yeah, but watch is that we having died to sin. That means it's identity. It's consciousness, it's memory, it's desires. It's identity. See, there's a response of faith in the believer. Jesus did something amazing. You can scream about it for the rest of your life, but he's saying, Hey, you better put it on. You better open it up. You better unwrap that thing. If you're a fractious, this is a gift. You better open it up. And then don't just say, Oh, well that didn't quite my size. That didn't quite my color. I don't know if that's going to fit. Put the thing on it's made for you.

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Yeah. And don't look at the gift as y'all you shouldn't have, cause they'll say, Oh yes I should have. Because I've known you from the beginning and the one I know ain't the one I've been seeing all these years. It's time to die to the old. She can live to the nail. You put it on. It's called righteousness. Righteousness of God. Apart from the laws is revealed. See it's apart from the law. So, so, so it's witnessed by the law and the prophets in the, in the, in the, in the days of the law, animals had to die, innocent, little spotless lambs. They would sell them at markets. I mean, these people had to like kill stuff. They would split the little doves open and like Catone for sins. Come on. We're right. Apart from our works, we found rash through God, right? Or through Jesus with God, I make jokes about it. I'm like, could you aren't you thankful? That's just stopped living by the law. Because if you live by the law, then you need to start doing some with your little cat and your puppy and your parakeet. You get off the computer and little hammies in travel. He's over there in a wheel. And he sees you in the computer and his eyes starts twitching.

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No, no. Then you get off your computer.

Speaker 5: 1:25:26

No, you go down into the base

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Little hammy.

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All of a sudden the parakeet ain't even singing no more. Cause he says all there under the law, come on. If you're going to live under works in the loud, then you probably ought to just start doing something with your pets. You're not under the law you've been named right in the sight of God. So what do you do if you sin first, John two, you have an advocate. Jesus, the righteous and who plead mercy over your sins. So you run him. You don't run from

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Him. You run to him, you don't run from him. And his righteous plea will bring righteousness and keep righteousness over your life. The design isn't to enable you to keep on sin. It's so that you see the goodness of God in that judgment of righteousness and that he believes better about you and knows you have a greater purpose and potential. And he sees you apart from your ability to sin and he sees you for purpose in him. It's the whole goal that the goodness of God will lead you to change that you would actually wake up one day in truth and go, Oh my goodness, I wasn't made for this. I was made for this. And all of a sudden, you step out and step in. And all of a sudden the gospel itself has raised your identity. Not your actions, not your own fruit bearing. The gospel itself has raised your identity and low esteem has become healthy esteem. And all of a sudden you see the value of your life in him. And now you live up to what you see rather than follow that old thing. Are you with me? And that way it's not by works. It's by faith and guess who gets all the glory? And when you see your life changing like that, you know, it's changed. Cause you live with you and all of a sudden your conscience goes free. And all of a sudden you're not living in secrets. And all of a sudden you can preach all this stuff because it's your life and your reality. And you compel people with these truths and you go to bed tonight and your conscience is clear and you actually go to sleep feeling good about yourself in God. So real good

Speaker 4: 1:27:33

Live sure beats secrets when there are none,

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Even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe for there is no difference for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God or fall short of the glory of God being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, the restoration, the bringing back to original value that is in Christ. Jesus whom God set forth as a mercy for our sins. That's what that word propitiation means. Mercy seat by his blood through here's your part. Here's my part. Through what?

Speaker 4: 1:28:13

Through faith

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To demonstrate his righteousness because in his forbearance, God has passed over the sins that were previously.

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It's just

Speaker 2: 1:28:27

So amazing to demonstrate at this present time, his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Come on. That says it all right there. If you and I believe that bam never again, guilt, condemnation, shame. It'll end struggles. You wake up and you're right with him. You present yourself a living sacrifice acceptable unto God. You do a Roman six. You wake up and you present yourself as members to righteousness, working fruit and producing its fruit to holiness. I've done this as a pastor for a long time. When I'd counseled people, I'd ask people what their prayer life looks like. I would ask people how they talk to God when they're alone. And a lot of people look at you funny. They don't have a fellowship time with God. They just have a prayer list. Not saying the prayer list is wrong, but to not have a fellowship with God, you'll never get to know him. You'll just always keep him the hopeful meter of what you need. If you don't get alone with him, you'll never get to know him. If you don't commune with him, how will he ever reveal himself to your heart? If you don't seek him, how will you find him? If you don't draw near you with me, I've learned this lots of Christians as I was growing up in the Lord and pastoring and leading and stuff. I know it's changing rapidly today, but there's still many people. Never talk to the Lord when they're alone and initiate communion with him where they just acknowledge his love for them. Thank you that you see me pure in your sight. I still appreciate you making me clean through the blood. I've talked to countless people that never even thought that way when they were alone, let alone talk that way. That's the giveaway right there. But we're trying harder. We're trying to be better. And that's why we're sure we're failing. I'm telling you guys this gospel is our only answer. It's our only true hope. He's not a way. And he's not a good choice to try. He's the way. Yeah. And there's something about you starting where he finished. There's something about you every day, waking up and not being afraid of being in denial, but actually waking up every morning and saying, you know what, man, you made me Holy blameless and above reproach in your sight, you made me worthy of housing. Your Holy spirit, you passed over all the sins, committed, separating them as far as East new West. And you made me right in your sight. Thank you for making me worthy of your life and ne of your love. I appreciate you, father. That would be an amazing way to live. Yeah. I'm just telling you straight up. If you don't start where he finished, you'll never run well. As he rules his kingdom with a Sceptre of righteousness and the strength of the kingdom, his righteousness, then you probably ought to stand in it if he paid for it. Because as a man think is so he is the way you see yourself as what you'll produce. The Lord wants to fine tune and brighten the lamp of your body. And it's your perspective, even on your own life. Wonder if the blood is enough. Wonder if the work is finished. Wonder if there's nothing I can do to become

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More righteous. Wonder if he did that all. I wonder if my place is to, by faith, put that robe on and never take it off. I wonder if the beauty about understanding what I'm saying, isn't self intended. It's big picture intended. The more you see, God sees you this way, the more your understand. It's how he sees every man. And it will begin to teach your heart how to not give up on people. Get frustrated at people, judge people, or be critical to people because you understand that in your weaknesses, he came and made you strong and that when you were missing it, he treated you as if you made it. And all of a sudden what he did for you and what he did in you begins to translate this way. And all of a sudden, you're not just forgiven. You've become forgiveness. You didn't just obtain mercy. You've become merciful. He didn't just make peace with you. You've become a peacemaker. And all of a sudden the gospel is multiplying in. As many as believe this thing is not a confession. It's an expression. He transforms our lives. I want you to stand your feet. I'm going to pray over you. Are you proud of me, Tom? That I ended so early. Where's he ain't even ready. Is he closing out? Look at that. They told me four 20 it's four 17. I gave him three minutes back. That's amazing. We can live this life guys. It's by simple faith. The first expression of righteousness you'll see in your Bible. The first expression is already in Genesis three. God revealed his righteousness in Genesis three. When he came to Adam and Eve and what did he do? He took off their fig leaves. They were covering their sin, but who knows it wasn't covered. If he left them, fig leaves on them every day they woke up. What are they thinking of? When they see them vaguely, the day they sinned and missed God the day they threw it all away and God doesn't want to leave them sin conscious. Guess what he does. He takes off their fig leaves and he puts on animal skins made with his own hands. Now we understand that you can find the blood covenant Daron without the shedding of blood. There's no remission of sin. I get it. But we miss righteousness there. See, we say, well, animals had to die. It was the first sign of blood, covenant stuff and animal shedding their blood to remit sin and no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. I get it. Not making light of it. It's just not my point right now. Watch. If he leaves the fig leaves on them, all they're aware of their identity is riddled with the day they missed it. But if he prophesies over them and tells them, there's a seed coming through the woman, who's going to crush the head of the enemy. And then he puts animals, skins on them. Every day, they wake up and see them skins. What are they aware of the day? God promised a hope, a future salvation, right? So Jesus didn't even come yet. Jesus didn't even shed his blood. And God's already saying, I don't want you focused on what you did wrong. I want you focused on how I see you and the hope you have right in front of you. So he took off the lie and put on a higher truth. Are you getting this? And it was a way of God saying, I love you. You have a higher creative value than what you performed. I'm going to bring out the best in you. If you don't put that thing on, how will you ever manifest that truth? I'm just telling you as you stand there, humbly waiting to pray. Let your days of guilt, condemnation, shame, be over. Let the days of yell button, be over. Let the days of who me be over. Yes, you and you begin to thank God that he loves you and nothing can change that, but you he'll still love you, but he won't be receiving it. She's one thing. If I look at you man and say, Hey, God really loves you. I'm always right. But it's another thing. If he's being loved by God, that's our highest goal. Don't you lift your hands to heaven with me. Would you father, we just receive you this morning. Would you from your heart, every hand that's raised every person that's participating from your heart. Would you just thank God right now from your heart? You can whisper it out. You can say it out and just say, thank you for loving me. Thank you that truly through this gospel, I'm clean in your sight. You value me. You love me. You've watched me. You came to live inside of me and you came to transform my life. I you to you. You're the great Potter. And I say yes to your love. Yes. To your mercy. Yes. To wholeness. Come on. Just receive it, put it on. Wow. Some of you say this, some of you need to say this. Thank you. That I'm clean no matter where I've been, no matter what was ever done, you have me standing here before you clean. You've changed my heart. You've changed my life and you've took everything away. That was not a view. Thanks for making me brand new. I receive your love. I receive your Holy spirit. I'm going to live in you all the days of my life. Amen. Thank you guys.

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